Worst My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Episodes

~Maria~ 3/10: It wasn't SUPER bad! I know that Fluttershy was influenced by Iron Will, but, I still felt like Fluttershy was way too obnoxious. This was a mean-spirited episode, and I also realized something. Why didn't Fluttershy just fly over the ponies that were blocking her way? Instead of being mean to them! There are much worse episodes in my opinion, and it's not a 0, 1 or 2, because as I said before, Fluttershy was just influenced by Iron Will, this episode teaches to NOT be a pushover, and yes, Fluttershy was too obnoxious, but she apologized in the end of the episode. Fluttershy even felt remorse before apologizing. So yeah, slightly below average.

I don't really HATE this one. It isn't good, it's a little bad, but it's not AWFUL, like SpongeBob's "One Coarse Meal", Fairly Oddparents'
"Fairly Odd-Pet", Sanjay and Craig's "Fart Baby", or Family Guy's "Screams of Silence".
The humor is pretty good, but a little short on timing, everything else is average, but to put it all on Rainbow Dash is just unfair. This episode got its priorities mixed up. Rainbow Dash should be able to get a little arrogant if she wants to; it's who she is, and she's got every right to do it, considering she's saved a
crud-ton of lives. The other Mane 6 should have sat down, stayed calm, and had a talk, and not upstage her to the point where everyone forgets about her and she gets depressed. Instead, they almost get her KILLED to try and teach her a lesson that she doesn't need, they brag about themselves (which wasn't revealed to be them yet) when Rainbow's clearly upset, and they make HER seem like the bad person here. I don't hate this one, but I definitely thought it was wrong that Rainbow Dash is supposed to be taught a lesson, when everyone else is being a hypocrite, forgetting about her, and sending her into a depression.

Three quotes can show how horrendous this episode is...
"'I don't act like other dragons? '"
"'Oh, not even close.'"
"'But why would you want to, Spike? '"

1) The main six show no respect for Spike and are in the right 2) "All dragons are bad, all ponies are good"
3) Rainbow Dash gets beaten up by Fluttershy 4) Flanderization 5) "One group represents a whole" 6) "Dragons are too rare to study" 7) Cruelty to Spike 8) Filler 9) Predictable Plot 10) "Boys<Girls" "Teenagers<Adults"

Cringe-Inducing Audio: 0
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 0
Lackluster Writing: 6
Annoyance: 6
Disturbing Content (Out of Place): 2
Unnecessary Cruelty: 5
Rancid Morals: 4
Low Production Values: 0
Unfortunate Implications: 10
Character Derailment: 9

Animated Atrocity Points: 42/100

How is this NOT the most hated episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic?!

What was the moral of this episode again? Oh right, encourage someone to do something that makes them happy even if that something is making everyone else miserable. Also, Pinkie has never overreacted to this degree! She's never actually started to lose her color! This is so stupid and makes Pinkie look really selfish. The only saving grace this episode had was the scene where the main 6 minus Pinkie ask Maud where Pinkie went, but even then the episode is still the worst I can think of off the top of my head.

This episode is by far the worst Season 3 episode and in my bottom 3 episodes of the show. Babs Seed is a one-dimensional bully with a personality thinner than a piece of cardboard that feels no remorse.
Oh, but Babs had been bullied in Manehattan for being a blank-flank! We were wrong to try to get back at her for what she did! Explaination does not equal justification. But I'm honestly not surprised with how bad the moral was, as telling a bullying story is nigh impossible to get perfectly. The episode is not very funny or entertaining and the only part that I actually liked was the song, "Bad Seed".

This is by far the worst episode ever. I mean diamond tiara was pretty much unlikeadle before this episode but she isn't the real reason I hate this episode, pretty much the more likeable characters are unlikeable key ones being twilight sparkle, spike, rainbow dash, applejack, and Big Mac. After seeing them punishing the cmc treating them like they killed someone just mad me so mad that seeing fan art with them being brutally beaten was justaflable. With the exception of the cmc, pinkie pie, and Fluttershy everybody was worst pony in this episode. Of and after the cmc apologize to everyone, they don't apologize back to them what the hell is wrong with them, and tiaras punishment wasn't satisfying enough due to the other characters

I really hate this episode because THOSE BABIES is not a pony! They are still 1 year old or newborn but they finally can use their wings and horn! Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are way more OLDER than those babies but they can't use their wings and horn properly. Also, they both also make Pinkie Pie cries which makes this episode even worse! Flurry Heart is way more better than those babies because her mother is an Alicorn (the strongest pony in Equestria) and her father is a Unicorn (but still have some powerful powers too) and also her parents is a ruler in Crystal Empire. But Mrs Cupcake and Mr Carrot Cake is not an alicorn,a unicorn and a pegasus. But why their kids is a unicorn and a pegasus? MLP LOGIC!

This episode has got problems of it's own, first of all, I know Fluttershy has to be kind and care for animals, but even she would know VERY better to ask Celestia if she could borrow Philomena rather than KIDNAPPING HER! Not to forget, Philomena was CRUEL to pretend to be dying AND eventually "die" and suddenly just manifest, revealing that it was just a stupid stunt. Maybe it was to teach Fluttershy a lesson not steal, but it already KILLED the episode for me.

It's not the worst of the show in terms of narrative, moral or characterisation, but let's look at the primary goal of this show: entertainment. How many of you can honestly say you were entertained by watching a sick bird for a good 15 of the 22 minutes?

This episode is just wrong. Seriously seriously wrong. The Mane 6 were acting like jackasses as a pathetic attempt to villify Trixie, not to mention they acted like hypocrites, (Hey, let's 1-up the show-off by being an even BIGGER show-off! :D). Also, Spike's constant fanboying in this episode gets really grating REALLY fast. This episode also introduced Snips and Snails, my most hated characters in the whole show, (Yes, I hate them more than Diamond Tiara, SUE ME! ). Finally, the ending where these two earn mustaches is so insulting it would fit better in a modern SpongeBob episode, not to mention sends out some highly unfortunate implications, (Hey kids, if you send a gigantic monster into town to attempt to destroy it, you get rewarded for it! )

I am honestly baffled how an episode this bad can even exist. BY FAR the show's worst episode.

Honestly if she did so much work for the festival in such a short amount of time that she's exhausted, that's piss poor scheduling.

This episode was just a rehash of Just For Sidekicks, where Spike acts like a greedy idiot.

This should be in the top 20, if not the top 10. Worst Spike episode in the whole series.

Awful. We are just watching spike telling ponies what to do, no real plot here.

This is my least favorite episode for many reasons. The jokes would've made sense if we actually knew what discord and the others did. Sure, we get told about two, but how are they funny? And the peanut butter thing? No explanation because I don't know. Every second discord was on screen, he made me feel hatred for him. He was an annoying, unlikeable in this episode. The ending wasn't funny, made little sense, the joke there wasn't funny either, twilight was being stupid, spike barely even did anything to try and calm her down, and to be honest, the ending would've been much better if discord didn't get a happy ending. This was a train wreck, and the new writer definitely messed up.

I don't like this episode, I didn't think any of the jokes were funny, looks like the rest of the Mane six is trying to make Twilight jealous the entire episode, and the entire idea for the episode was a junction of "A character is jealous" with "A character don't trust in the reformed villain", and I dislike both of them.

Seriously? The Mane 5 almost picked Discord, the villain and trickster, over Twilight. Not only do the others 5 act completely out of character, but Discord pits into question whether he's even reformed, and his punishment is not severe enough. This episode makes me hate Discord.

Bad. Remarkably bad. The worst episode in the history of the show. Discord was portrayed poorly here. He was more tolerable in Three's A Crowd, not here. Starlight episodes get WAY too much undeserved and unnecessary hate. This episode deserves all the hate it gets.

To be honest, I couldn't get through this episode. The only other episode that I stopped watching halfway through was Putting Your Hoof Down, and that's deservingly at number 1. However, I'm frankly surprised this isn't higher on the list. Applejack is supposed to be the practical one in the group, not some freaky stalker! Besides, Applebloom has gotten herself into plenty of situations way worse than simply being left home alone, so Applejack's behavior is irrational and stupid. It was just grating to watch. I could buy Applejack being a little bit apprehensive, but nowhere near this level. NOTHING warranted this behavior. This is paranoia I would expect from Twilight, not Applejack. It wasn't funny at all. In fact, nothing in this episode was funny in the slightest. I'm done. This episode sucks.

I can describe this episode in one word: PAIN! "Somepony to Watch Over Me" was nothing but pain! What would have been an episode where Applebloom has a chance to prove to her sister that she's responsible instead devolves into an Applejack is overprotective of her sister episode. Applejack was unbelievably out of character! The real Applejack would NEVER, AND I MEAN NEVER, baby Applebloom around and check up on her every five seconds! It became so aggravating, I almost punched my laptop in rage! But the worst part of the episode is the moral. The moral is a destructive and toxic message for younger kids! This episode is AWFUL!

In my opinion, this epsisode should be number 1 on this list. Applejack was disgracefully out-of-character, I mean, the way she treats Apple Bloom is unbelievably ridiculous and against her nature! This episode contradicts the other episodes in the past involving the relationship of these sisters. This episode was a horrid portrayal of Applejack and obviously it was not a smart idea for the creators of the show to hire a brand new writer that clearly has no idea about the personalities of the characters. I can't believe his script was even accepted considering the awful out-of-character Applejack he created. "Somepony to Watch Over Me" should be NUMBER ONE. End of story. /:(

Applejack spends the entire episode being over-protective and hovering over Apple Blooms every move, portraying Applejack as the antagonist in way that was not only horrifically out of character but inconsistent with the show- Apple Bloom has been without supervision for the majority of her screen time! Then, when Apple Bloom attempts to show that she can complete something independently, it turns out that of all the events in this episode, the one thing Apple Bloom could have done to prove herself was go through a fire swamp apparently home to a chimera, which is preposterously difficult, and throughout the entire episode I was wondering what anyone could possibly take away from this: it provided no moral to children other than 'being independent gets you eaten' and was so unenjoyable and repetitive that an older viewer will detest it.

Even the chimera, a mythological creature I would normally be excited for, was botched by the fact that it was a three-voiced idiot that spent ...more

I hate everyone in the entire episode, including Twilight's friends, Celestia, Shining Armor, etc. simply because no one listened to Twilight! Well, you're supposed to be her friend, so at least LISTEN to what she has to say, discuss it, talk it over and stuff. So much for 'true friendship' when you can't even listen to a friend and their problems! I mean, those guys were obsessed with becoming bridesmaids that they didn't see Twilight having a hard time, and didn't support her. Not even Celestia suspected Cadence! I mean, even if it sounds stupid- that Cadence is a 'fake' (which she was) then there must be a reason your 'most faithful student' is telling you something! And I've just completely ranted about this entire episode. Still, I do not regret a single word- the episode was- quite frankly- crap.

What's worse than a catastrophic episode about villainous characters pacing around (The Mean 6)? An unneeded spinoff to a catastrophic episode about villainous characters pacing around. Tirek, Chrysalis, & Cozy were all immature and argumentative idiots, the song (Better Way to Be Bad) derails the former two for the worst (since the very latter was already terrible to begin with), and learning a friendship moral like what they learned at the end should NOT be something done on villains who are NOT destined to be reformed!

Boring, unfunny, stupid, and painful. Way to go making the villains lame, writers. Season 9, so far, is just a huge disappointment. This episode, along with Sparkle's Seven and The Point of No Return were the just the worst. The only episodes that I actually found good so far were Uprooted, Common Ground, and She's All Yak.

I don't get why people enjoy this episode. There was literally nothing in there for me to enjoy! The only entertaining thing was watching Tirek shaking Cozy Glow violently (I hate that little abomination).

Can Season 9 just end already? Because I don't see the point in going on after this train wreck. The writers are clearly short of ideas.