They gave Spike a chance to speak in front of a crowd. With his long history of being Spike, I can't imagine why anyone in the land of Equestria might have thought that was a good idea. He deserves his chance in the spotlight, yeah, but not all of history's deserving heroes have been for their finesse, oratory abilities, or sense of restraint.

This short video is based on a promotional commercial involving Go-Gurt, ponies, and Happy. I'm told that horses are incredibly skittish animals, so I don't quite know how they'd handle it if the McDonalds mascot were a living creature that wanted to be their friends, but I imagine it would be a lot like this.

In the official My Little Pony episode, "Tanks for All the Memories", Rainbow Dash resorts to domestic terrorism to prevent winter and therefore make it so her turtle doesn't need to hibernate. No really, that's the plot. I'm told that if a turtle doesn't hibernate it's actually really bad for them. If you were here early and wondering about the re-upload, somewhere along the way all the colors got white-washed.

Starlight Glimmer was a pony that ran her own cult. The tenets were simple: everyone has to suffer in the lowest common denominator in a Harrison Bergeron dystopia where the baked goods taste like dirt. Then the Elements of Harmony came chased her off. In finale of the season she debuted, Glimmer revealed the stunning motivation for her control-hungry behavior! A totally routine and normal thing happened once and it drove her to evil. CHARACTER REDEEMED.

It's been many years since our pony heroes have started their careers as professional friends. They've reached the apex of their personal journeys and then sort of... well, life carries on doesn't it? A lot of things can happen in the span of ten years. Injuries, new relationships, kids, pacts with evil forces.

Full time parenting is an incredibly thankless job, mainly because your boss, a child, never has a kind word to say about any of the work you do, no matter how well you do it. Of course, this can also be true of some adults, as they don't always grow out of taking things for granted, nor into the confidence, nor into the ability to articulate clearly what they want. It's not always our fault, though. Sometimes it can be hard to get the kind of healthy variety we need.

There's a funny thing about power, and it's that it comes from collateral. While Twilight focused on friendship and oddball methods of improving other countries, Rarity amassed a vast clothing fortune by hiring children in those foreign countries to do all the sewing. Can you blame a regime for being too fabulous?