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It is now T-7 days until we watch the season 3 finale, season 4 premiere, and the spinoff film Equestria Girls, and I've gotta say that I'm hyped for that, too. But right now, we still have six more episodes of season 3 to get through, including a few status quo changing episodes!
What's the chef cookin' tonight?
"Wonderbolts Academy" represents a major turning point in Rainbow Dash's Wonderbolts arc as she begins, well, training to be a Wonderbolt. This arc will reach its conclusion (or perhaps negation-of-negation) in season 6. This episode also features Bulk Biceps, Spitfire says a meme line, and I believe this is the first episode to actually feature a fan-made character design! Specifically a pony OC created by the daughter of show staff member Ridd Sorensen.
"Apple Family Reunion" is an episode that to me doesn't seem particularly memorable, aside from the musical number — and of course the meme misheard lyric of it — but for those of us who like Babs "Bronx Accent, Blank Sides" Seed... Hay, she is in this episode, if only briefly, so there's that.
"Spike At Your Service" is an episode in which Spike insists on becoming somepony else's servant, namely somepony who doesn't even want a servant. And I know you all just love Spike's somewhat questionable relationship to Twilight Sparkle, so we're in for a good time with this one, for sure!
"Keep Calm and Flutter On" sees the return of John de Lancie's character Discord, who we last saw all the way back during the season 2 premiere. This episode more specifically is about Discord's acceptance of the Magic of Friendship, and also (cutie) marks the beginning of his implied crush on Fluttershy — a ship which the fandom certainly expanded upon! This episode also includes a "writers forgetting the characters are horses" moment, and unrelated to that, the original story outline was literally written by a 15-year-old, which I can only assume makes Teddy Antonio the youngest writer MLP:FiM ever had.
"Just for Sidekicks" is another episode that's kinda forgettable for me, it has a brief background appearance of Peewee the Phoenix that ties up that loose end, but otherwise... Yeah, Spike goes petsitting for the Mane Six. The mane thing that's kind of interesting about this episode is that it's an alternate perspective of the following episode:
"Games Ponies Play" is a fairly typical mistaken identities plot involving the Equestria Games, which is basically MLP's not-Olympics, except with cities instead of countries... Which I guess is still just the Olympics, just the ancient rather than modern kind. In any case this is kind of an interesting episode in hindsight, because the season 3 finale, which we'll watch next week, many bronies thought was likely the series finale (see: 65 episode cartoon) — yet "Games Ponies Play", the penultimate episode of season 3, released one whole year before Sochi 2014, actually sets up season 4's recurring plotline cashing in on it.
...I dunno, I just think that would've been a very strange move if they actually intended to end the show after season 3, but I'm rambling.
Content warnings
- Endangerment (Wonderbolts Academy)
- Uncovered sneeze near another character (Apple Family Reunion)
- Bully-turned-friend appears (Apple Family Reunion)
- Child in peril (Spike At Your Service)
- Stinky feet (Spike At Your Service)
- Murder of a wild animal by asphyxiation (Spike At Your Service)
- Wild animals possessed or made grotesque (Keep Calm and Flutter On)
- Flooding (Keep Calm and Flutter On)
- African witch doctor zebra (Just for Sidekicks)
- Mistreatment of pets (Just for Sidekicks)
If there's anything you feel I should add to or change about this list, please tell me!
♫ Uniting nations at the speeeed of liiiiight ♫
[epic sax solo]
♫ Station of the '20s — TV☆3SIS! ♫
