You know, Lauren Faust designed the show so that parents could watch it with their kids and also enjoy it--including Dads. I'd say she's been smashingly successful. The creator's track record (PowerPuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) really bears that out. No more Animation Age Ghetto.

It's a great show, with talented writers, voice actors, and animators. If you don't like it, then that's fine.

JonBuck: You know, Lauren Faust designed the show so that parents could watch it with their kids and also enjoy it--including Dads. I'd say she's been smashingly successful. The creator's track record (PowerPuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) really bears that out. No more Animation Age Ghetto.

It's a great show, with talented writers, voice actors, and animators. If you don't like it, then that's fine.

Completely agree with you.

I'd say that the cartoon is about pastel colored marshmallow ponies is completely secondary. It's the quality upon it's built what makes it good. Oh, and don't forget the music, the music is amazing!

Some people are just too concerned about the wrapping to see what's inside the box.

Mara See Mara Do: "When I became a man, I put away childish things. Including the fear of being thought childish." -CS Lewis.

If the show is funny and you like it, then watch it. Bronies aren't pedophiles any more than Family Guy fans are necessarily retarded.

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Skyfrog: CapnPlaty: My daughter has been watching this on Netflix. I caught a few episodes and the show is very entertaining. Good balance of quirky characters, quiet shy one, rich snooty one, sporty one, country one, and a book smart one. Pinkie Pie is quite manic and funny, reminds me of my youngest daughter

I don't think Rarity is supposed to be rich and she isn't really snooty (her role is actually the element of generosity). She is however a drama queen, somewhat vain and a germaphobe. Diamond Tiara is the rich snob of the show.

Her 'Summon Fainting Couch' spell had me laughing like a madman. Mostly because I know girls who do that if they could.

/Big Macintosh is my favorite
//Eeyup.

Came for FirstNationalBastard posts

He's the Brony King

Kaybeck: jaylectricity: Can somebody please explain what a brony is? I keep associating it with a jabroni like they talk about in Always Sunny.

They're a bunch of incredibly socially inept people that used the My Little Pony cartoon reboot as a rallying point. You know the weirdos that wear the furry costumes? Think that but with a kid's cartoon instead of mascot suits.

casual disregard: jaylectricity: Can somebody please explain what a brony is? I keep associating it with a jabroni like they talk about in Always Sunny.

A brony is a man who likes the My Little Pony cartoon show. They are in fact as creepy as that sounds.

Also, flash animation game? Download? ...?

I love how people on Fark think they're mainstream enough to harshly judge their fellow nerds.

Its like the idiots on 4chan whining incessantly about furry porn and then posting 200-picture threads of shiatting dick nipples.

Skyfrog:

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I'm not wrong. Like furries, the MLP crowd, in the era where being a geek became mainstream and acceptable, were still social outcasts.

This is why the bronies always go on about the show teaching tolerance, because every other social group rejected them. You see the same thing with gay kids and Lady Gaga with the Little Monsters branding.

And that's all well and good. It's nice that people have a place where they can fit in. However let's call a spade a spade, and stop pretending the primary appeal has anything to do with content for adults, or voice acting or what have you.

Dhusk: I love how people on Fark think they're mainstream enough to harshly judge their fellow nerds.

Alright, I avoided the urge to respond for like a kazillion posts now.

You now what? I watched the Pony cartoon. Two or three episodes. It's not bad! It's not that great, but it's not bad. I planted my face on any number of shows which are just not bad, but not great, so I'm not arguing against that.

I don't know how in the nine hecks the people in this thread instantly leapt from creepy to pedo. I've seen some damn creepy shiat in my little time on the webs (and sadly in the RL), and only very rarely does creepy stray into the pedo territory. In fact, I would go so far as to say that creepy is almost never pedo.

My complaint against the "brony" is the 20-something dude who loudly and proudly proclaims his aficionado status with a cartoon aimed at tweens. You like a show, you watch a show, you do it in private? Cool. You project your inner brony into the public square? I'm going to be necessarily a bit squicked out by your noise.

Why is this game for 8 year olds so f***ing hard? It's impossible to get through the stupid caves.

Skyfrog: CapnPlaty: My daughter has been watching this on Netflix. I caught a few episodes and the show is very entertaining. Good balance of quirky characters, quiet shy one, rich snooty one, sporty one, country one, and a book smart one. Pinkie Pie is quite manic and funny, reminds me of my youngest daughter

I don't think Rarity is supposed to be rich and she isn't really snooty (her role is actually the element of generosity). She is however a drama queen, somewhat vain and a germaphobe. Diamond Tiara is the rich snob of the show.

Admittedly I haven't watched many episodes, Rarity is a clean freak fashionista, probably a more fair descriptor.

Just watched an episode where the dragon (Spike) feel asleep in the punch bowl and Pinkie Pie said "the punch had been spiked!" Everyone but my eight year old laughed at that.

The show is cute and entertaining, plus it keeps her from watching those insipid Bratz movies on Netflix. Those have none of the humor or entertainment value of MLP.

Before the whole brony thing started, some male adults were big into MSLN (Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha).

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Before the whole brony thing started, some male adults were big into MSLN (Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha).

And to a lesser degree, Princess Tutu.


Sadly, this is the best picture I could find of Princess Tutu.

Felgraf: And, though I have not watched it, I seem to absorb knowledge of things I haven't experienced (curse you, physics degree), and it seems there are, among other things, The Big Lebowski and Dr. Who references in My Little Pony.

I've never seen MLP, but I've see gifs of the ponified Big Lewbowski characters, and I have trouble believing that any show that has a pony version of The Dude is "aimed at six year old girls." I'm pretty sure the intersection on a venn diagram of "six year old girls" and "people who have seen Cohen brothers movies" is pretty damn small. Certainly too small to qualify as a "target audience."

I certainly wouldn't draw comparisons between bronies and furries. But hey, you know what they say. Haters gonna hate.

brigid_fitch: brigid_fitch: casual disregard: jaylectricity: Can somebody please explain what a brony is? I keep associating it with a jabroni like they talk about in Always Sunny.

A brony is a man who likes the My Little Pony cartoon show. They are in fact as creepy as that sounds.

Also, flash animation game? Download? ...?

Y'know, Stephen Colbert & Bill Clinton are Bronies

/it's a good cartoon, made by the same people who did Powerful Girls and Poster's home
//Might as well call Animaniac & Pinky and the Brain fans creepy.

FTFM. Damn autocorrect

Gonna assume you also meant "Powerpuff Girls" and "Foster's Home".

Kaybeck: Skyfrog:

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I'm not wrong. Like furries, the MLP crowd, in the era where being a geek became mainstream and acceptable, were still social outcasts.

This is why the bronies always go on about the show teaching tolerance, because every other social group rejected them. You see the same thing with gay kids and Lady Gaga with the Little Monsters branding.

And that's all well and good. It's nice that people have a place where they can fit in. However let's call a spade a spade, and stop pretending the primary appeal has anything to do with content for adults, or voice acting or what have you.

Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe, people genuinely like things that you don't because they have different tastes than you do?

Kaybeck: Skyfrog:

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I'm not wrong. Like furries, the MLP crowd, in the era where being a geek became mainstream and acceptable, were still social outcasts.

This is why the bronies always go on about the show teaching tolerance, because every other social group rejected them. You see the same thing with gay kids and Lady Gaga with the Little Monsters branding.

And that's all well and good. It's nice that people have a place where they can fit in. However let's call a spade a spade, and stop pretending the primary appeal has anything to do with content for adults, or voice acting or what have you.

You're welcome to your opinion of course, but when it comes to why I like the show I must say you are wrong. I enjoy it for the same reasons I enjoy any show. The characters are well written and entertaining, I like the animation style, great music and yes the voice acting is all very good. I realize that not everyone has the same taste in entertainment but I don't judge people for not liking the same shows or music that I do. You really shouldn't either.

divx88: A much better 2012 freebie flash game ... Adobo's Big Adventure

That is the most awsome thing i think i have ever played, Thanks a lot!

casual disregard: Dhusk: I love how people on Fark think they're mainstream enough to harshly judge their fellow nerds.

Alright, I avoided the urge to respond for like a kazillion posts now.

You now what? I watched the Pony cartoon. Two or three episodes. It's not bad! It's not that great, but it's not bad. I planted my face on any number of shows which are just not bad, but not great, so I'm not arguing against that.

I don't know how in the nine hecks the people in this thread instantly leapt from creepy to pedo. I've seen some damn creepy shiat in my little time on the webs (and sadly in the RL), and only very rarely does creepy stray into the pedo territory. In fact, I would go so far as to say that creepy is almost never pedo.

My complaint against the "brony" is the 20-something dude who loudly and proudly proclaims his aficionado status with a cartoon aimed at tweens. You like a show, you watch a show, you do it in private? Cool. You project your inner brony into the public square? I'm going to be necessarily a bit squicked out by your noise.

No, the problem is that you think what's happening with My Little Pony is unique.

Let's recount other pop culture fads and their various initial detractors throughout the decades, shall we?

--Anyone who like Rock and Roll was a communist or a delinquent.(50s)

--Anyone who likes Star Trek/Star Wars is a nerd and a forever virgin (70s)

--Anyone who played a role-playing game was a satanist(80s)

--Anyone one good with computers is an asocial nerd (80s)

--Anyone who watches anime is an ultraviolent rapist.(early 90s)

--Video games cause ultraviolent behavior (90s)

--Gamers are slackers and losers (2000s)

--Anyone over 10 who likes the Muppets/Spongebob/Animal Crossing/Comic Books/Anything but approved sweaty machio bullshiat is a Pedo. (2000s)

I'm sorry, are you detecting a pattern of complete and total horseshiat yet?

Do you understand exactly where you stand with your idiot accusation of claiming that someone who likes a cartoon automatically makes them a 'Pedo', which suspiciously seems to be your favorite word?

Spongebob Squarepants started out exactly like My Little Pony is--a well-done kid's show that garnered a huge following among adults, especially college students. Are all adult fans of Spongebob--millions of them over the past 10 years--pedos too?

Another thing about the show is that there are positive male role models. Shining Armor is the most recent and probably the best example, with Big Macintosh a close second.

Yes, all the main characters are female, but at the same time it doesn't lapse into the "men are stupid" thing that so many shows do. What a concept!

Hand Banana: Yes, lets all stop pretending that people can like a show that Kaybeck doesn't. Kaybeck is the authority on what and what isn't suitable for adults to watch, and if they don't watch something that Kaybeck approves of they are clearly deviants.

Or...if could be that people truly do like the show because it is well written and entertaining and Kaybeck is just a pretentious douche who's manhood feels threatened by something he doesn't understand.

Never said you were deviants. I said you were socially inept. Look at Lady Gaga's fanbase, how rabidly devoted they are. A lot of them are ostracized gay kids that don't fit in. Now they're part of their little fan club where they do fit in. You're no different.

Like I already said, if you pony boys want to hang out and enjoy your pretty pony show, do whatever makes you happy. Just don't fool yourself into thinking that because a bunch of you think it's not weird that you're watching a little girl's show, (and yes I've watched the show to see what the deal was) that it's not actually weird that you're watching a little girl's show.

How dare people enjoy something not officially sanctioned by the Nerd Gestapo?!? That's like watching Battlestar Galactica more than Firefly! It's enough to make a REAL man want to burn his $10k Anime collection and stop pretending to be expert on all things Japanese.

Kaybeck: Hand Banana: Yes, lets all stop pretending that people can like a show that Kaybeck doesn't. Kaybeck is the authority on what and what isn't suitable for adults to watch, and if they don't watch something that Kaybeck approves of they are clearly deviants.

Or...if could be that people truly do like the show because it is well written and entertaining and Kaybeck is just a pretentious douche who's manhood feels threatened by something he doesn't understand.

Never said you were deviants. I said you were socially inept. Look at Lady Gaga's fanbase, how rabidly devoted they are. A lot of them are ostracized gay kids that don't fit in. Now they're part of their little fan club where they do fit in. You're no different.

Like I already said, if you pony boys want to hang out and enjoy your pretty pony show, do whatever makes you happy. Just don't fool yourself into thinking that because a bunch of you think it's not weird that you're watching a little girl's show, (and yes I've watched the show to
see what the deal was) that it's not actually weird that you're watching a little girl's show.

Lol, christ, what are you, 15?

You sound like some spineless bully's toady trying to prove how manly he is by calling other people gay or something.

The world isn't high school, junior. No one in the real world actually cares who watches what. We have rent to pay, we have jobs to work at, we have real problems with real people to deal with. If you don't like us taking a half hour out to watching a show you don't like, well, that's really a lot more your farking problem than ours, isn't it?

If you think 'bronies' are pathetic, how much more pathetic are you, wasting all your time and effort hating on them? You didn't have to come into this thread, you didn't have to respond to any comment. You could have been off doing your own thing completely unrelated to bronies or ponies or anything. How much of your life have you just wasting biatching at something you supposedly hate when you could have been doing something you enjoy?

Its not the bronies who are the pathetic ones here, junior.