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Seraphem

And we get to here, the first BIG cluster-fuck of the fandom, not because of the ep itself, but because of what happened. So, I see you used the unedited version, WHOOO! Because the edited version..... really it's just the scene with Derpy that got edited but wow did that start a shit storm. So background... Derpy was huge, she was pretty much the mascot of the fandom,and the writers knew this and so for season two had been adding her into little events on purpose as a kind of "Hey we see you guys, thanks for loving what we do so much!" to the fans. Then we get to this big, placing her front and center event and.... well..... true to the concept of her being a vehicle for massive destruction and chaos while just trying to help... things went wrong. Short-ish version, a bunch of Karens bitched about how offensive Derpy was, both due to the name, which while the fandom always meant it in an affectionate way towards Best Pony, could be used as an insult as well admittedly, and just acting kind of slow and oblivious while having such a slow, deep voice that they thought was making fun of mentally ill people. Which the voice being odd is another case of, well, everything around Derpy being summed up by "I just don't know what went wrong." Tabitha recorded the voice thinking that Derpy was a colt, not a mare, and so gave her a deeper voice, which they then tried to correct into a higher pitched, more feminine voice in post only to get what we got. So the Karen's threw a bitch fit, the episode got pulled from the internet less then a week after being aired, and eventually replaced with another version that edited out the word 'Derpy', redubbed her voice, and 'fixed' her eyes. It did not go over well, between fans in general feeling slighted by this, and people seeing this as trying to erase representation of people with mental handicaps, or just people who hated the idea of this sort of censorship in general... things got a bit complicated. And while people like to call this issue Derpygate, I hate just sticking '-gate' to the end of every scandal, it's lazy. Plus this is Derpy, she deserves a much more epic name for her big scandal, thus I refer to this.... as Derpnarock! There was a whole Save Derpy campaign and well..... you'll see how things play out over time as you keep watching. But, you now know exactly what to look for when Best Pony spoting!

Seraphem

Oh right there was more to this ep then just Derpnarock! See, this also hepped solidify a meme that Applejack, is always the least interesting and/or memorable part of her episodes, always being over shadowed by something or somepony else. in this case, Best Pony.... though also Pinkie in a way, but that's kind of a given since this is an Amy Keating Rogers episode and as established, she is held up as THE Pinkie Pie writer. So beyond Best Pony we have... Best Pony showing off that her plot is the mot destructive weapon in all of Equestria. But seriously onto lesser pony stuff. So, Rarity is not a 'fake friend'... massive drama queen sure, but when it really matters, she's there for her friends just as much as any of the others. The whole cherry sorting scene was a wonderful homage to a classic bit from I Love Lucy. Everyone loved that the other Mane 6 just know they can weaponize Pinkie's Pinkieness at need. The Chimicherrichanga pretty much solidified the fandom idea that if the Mane 6 were super heroes, Pinkie would be Deadpool, and/or she is good friends with the actual Deadpool (Chimichangas are his favorite food) And we learn... as if you needed more proof, that one does NOT anger The Pink One! Not even Fausticorn herself could save you.... On the 'this is basically slavery' thing..... not really, it's no different then a rickshaw cab for us, they get paid for this. On the whole using the reins, and why do they even have those in the first place? So.. so many theories but really, hey, maybe they are just into that sort of thing... you don't get to judge them. :P Finally, the fact AJ won SO many medals, more then some ponies have ever seen one pony win at an event, kind of points to the issues she had. She seems to have entered pretty much every event, and been really good at all of them, but not the best, likely because the ones who beat her only entered a small number of them and thus had the edge in training just for that event versus her more general training. She pretty much became an Applejack-of-all-trades master-of-none. Overall a solid AJ ep that got overshadowed by a massive controversy. Praise be to the Muffin Mare!

Jeff Spencer

I remember the day this episode came out I was on derpibooru checking out the new art as it came out (MLP fans are fast) and then she spoke, the comment sections in the clips of her speaking lit up like fire and everyone was losing their shit because she was our mascot the name Derpy was one WE gave her and to have that added to the show for her to official be named by the fans yeah it was hitting the lottery and marring the one you love the most all at the same time. sadly tho as Seraphem said the karens ruined it all and we lost derpy some think if not for the editing and time constraints hasbro would of removed her completly but that was always just gossip and fear and nothing solidified. still even after this the writers and animators and storboard artists loved the fans because we had supported their work and knew our anger at derpy being censored wasn't on them. can't recall if she ever made an appearance after this given the season had already been made but at least now you know who she is and what she looks like so when you go back to old episodes you can spot her