We did get around ~2500 fake votes for The Mysterious Mare Do Well from 4chan , so it didn't actually make the cut.
I will fire it off to The Hub and see what they think! The voting for the actual Valentines Day Mare-athon will take place on the 24th of January, so be sure to hit that up, as well as the event on the actual Hub Network channel on the 11th of February!
And the list for all you lazy people out there:
1 Lesson Zero - Votes: 5160
2 Luna Eclipsed - Votes: 3784
3 Party of One - Votes: 2203
4 Sonic Rainboom - Votes: 1629
5 Winter Wrap Up - Votes: 1400
6 May the Best Pet Win - Votes: 1200
7 The Cutie Mark Chronicles - Votes: 1150
8 Secret of My Excess - Votes: 1057
9 Hearth's Warming Eve - Votes: 1038
10 Sweet and Elite - Votes: 1031
11 Dragonshy - Votes: 846
12 Feeling Pinkie Keen - Votes: 826
13 The Return of Harmony Part 2 - Votes: 800
14 Sisterhooves Social - Votes: 771
15 The Return of Harmony Part 1 - Votes: 691
16 The Best Night Ever - Votes: 624
17 Suited for Success - Votes: 622
18 Family Appreciation Day - Votes: 592
19 Green Isn’t Your Color - Votes: 568
20 Bridle Gossip - Votes: 467
I'll be honest, I totally didn't vote for Trixie. Twilight losing her mind was just too good!
222 comments:
Well Luna got up there!
ReplyDeleteAww... Sweet and elite y u so far down
ReplyDeleteahhhhh. I liked Mare do well. And how bored does 4chan have to be to raid a my little pony poll?
ReplyDeleteSo A Dog and Pony Show is 21? okay.jpg
ReplyDeleteTEXT! TEXT EVERYWHERE!
ReplyDelete@PonyStark
ReplyDeleteEqD raids pony polls...
Not surprised that Lesson Zero is at the top. That episode was a win on so many levels. But to be honest, I voted for 'May The Best Pet Win." and it made it up there as well. Yay! Overall, I'm happy with the results.
ReplyDeleteI was wodering if we had been raided when I say MDW up there...
ReplyDeleteHa! this just made our day! Owl's well that ends Well got dead last!
ReplyDeleteYay. I'm so happy Lesson Zero took first place!
ReplyDeleteyay Twilight is best breakdown pony
ReplyDeleteI was worried about how the whole /b/ thing was going to be handled when I saw the threads on 4chan, but I think we should be fine.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of expected as much.
ReplyDeleteShame we couldn't have combined the 2 season starters into 1 option since they're 2-part episodes, though that might stack it a bit. Of course, I'm only saying that 'cause it would've put Discord in the top 5...
>voted for mare-do-well sincerely
ReplyDelete>feels bad man
Woah! Lesson Zero won!?
ReplyDeleteAh didn't see that one commin'
I'm really shocked that Bridle Gossip didn't do better. I've always thought Flutterguy was probably the funniest thing in the show's history.
ReplyDeleteStill, it's not like this stops me from watching my favourite episodes. Good job we have the Internet and home cinemas, eh?
@NinesTempest
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I really liked the episode too. The references were some of the best so far.
"Feeling Pinkie Keen" made the cut? And it's above "The Return of Harmony?" Really? I will never understand you, Bronies.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, the Rarity episodes all made the cut, so all is well in Marshalland.
Honestly, I couldn't vote. Season two's been so awesome that I can't decide on a favorite anymore (definitely not a bad thing!).
ReplyDeleteI would probably agree between Lesson Zero and Luna Eclipsed though.
Replace Sisterhooves Social with Griffon the Brush Off/Swarm of the Century and you pretty much got my top 20 as well!
ReplyDeleteFeeling Pinkie Keen beat out the Return of Harmony series? Seriously?
ReplyDeleteI thought Mare do well was possibly top as a sort of backlash against all the rage previously thrown at it. Then it's 4chan and I'm a little dissapointed.
ReplyDeleteUnless the hits came from /co/.
Btw, Feeling Pinkie Keen is a good and fun episode. Who the hell cares about the controversial message that was mistakenly put out? That's like people's only single gripe with the episode and for that it's the worst ever. I don't understand people who think like that.
ReplyDeleteSpectacular failure on the troll's part
ReplyDeleteAnd all except one of my nine top tier episodes are in (Swarm of the Century)
Wow, there are 10 season 1 and 10 season 2 episodes. Nice balance voters!
ReplyDeleteThough I am surprised "Feeling Pinkie Keen" is up there. I remember the moral of the episode making a lot of people unhappy.
I gotta say I wholeheartedly agree with the list, and about the Mare-do-well matter, I KNEW IT, It was just too suspicious to have that episode with SO many votes, considering I know of a few people that didn't quite like it at all (mainly because RD bragging all the way).
ReplyDeleteAlso, WE GOT EVERY GREAT SONG SO FAR THERE, yay~
It was obvious Mare Do Well was raided after the near wall of hate it received.
ReplyDeleteWhich I would never blame anyone for hating seeing as it was the only episode i honestly didn't even want to finish.
@Whiskra Controversial message? Is it that the writers purposely made it inspired by Cupcakes?
ReplyDeleteAlso, glad best pony got in the top 5, not to mention they took 2nd.
inf4 we start getting hit by DDoS attempts because we didn't rage at the trolling.
ReplyDeleteShame I have most of these episodes already saved into my DVR. XP
ReplyDelete(Speaking of Feeling Pinkie Keen, random thought; how come no fan fiction has brought up Pinkie's paralyzing fear of Hydras? I mean, she's Pinkie! She just froze up when that Hydra attacked. Hm.)
Dealing with trolls by trolling them back, well done Sethisto!
ReplyDeleteaww i really wanted Secret of My Excess to win cause it kind of felt Valentines like at the begin and end of the episode.
ReplyDeleteyay! All of my favourites made the cut!
ReplyDelete...
Even though I'm not from America and won't actually see the Mare-a-thon ..... but yay! :D
Aw... Applebuck Season didn't make it? That was the ep that broke down the last of my foolish resistance before I joined the herd.
ReplyDeleteOh well. I have absolutely no problem with any of the episodes which made the cut. Good choices, all!
@Discord
ReplyDeleteOf course we do, but everyone here likes to think they're so much better than the folks on 4chan.
I DID vote for Trixie, because Crazy Twilight and Luna had enough votes, so I decided to try and help something that I wanted that wasn't already winning. Oh well. :(
ReplyDeleteAw, no Dog and a Pony Show?
ReplyDeleteWow.... Can't Believe Green isn't your color actually made the cut lol
ReplyDeleteMy vote wasn't wasted! *yay*
Aww, I voted for Hearth's Warming Eve, cause it's just about my favorite episode I think. Lesson Zero was good too though. And Luna Eclipsed, which is also probably in my top three favorite episodes.
ReplyDeleteAll three of my favourite episodes AND Return of Harmony 1+2?
ReplyDeleteIf Lesson Zero, Bridle Gossip, Family Appreciation Day and RoH all make it in to the final cut I'd be ecstatic. Even more so if I could actually watch it. Man I really wish I could get the Hub up here in Canada.
@NinesTempest Don't feel bad man. Who wouldn't want to see Rainbow Dash boasting about mowing a lawn as though she had just traveled to Mt. Doom and back, slayed 10 evil warlocks, cured a striga (obscure reference), and made it home in time for dinner. In all seriousness though, I voted for Sisterhooves Social, but MDW is one of my favorite episodes because we get to explore a side of RD that we don't normally get to see (like they tried to do in Sonic Rainboom before they buried it under an epicness sandwich made of epicness between 2 slices of toasted epicness with a side of epicness fries).
ReplyDeleteI voted so long ago I forgot which one I voted for. But Lesson Zero is my favourite so far in S2, that's probably what I chose.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm totally making a playlist of these 20 episodes. <3
ReplyDeleteDid I miss something? Why was Mysterious Mare Do Well hated so much? I liked it...
ReplyDelete@Ysalamiri
ReplyDeletehaving just rewatched it just now, i can say that between the writer literally bashing our skulls in with how Dash was acting and the fact the other mane six were utter dicks about it to Dash before the reveal, i can see why people wouldn't like it.
I still hate it and think the writer should go burn in hell, but eh.
Silly Seth! I was obviously going to vote for Lesson Zero as well, but when I saw it was dominating the poll, I changed my vote ;p
ReplyDeleteGlad to see Lesson Zero won. Kinda surprised by Luna Eclipsed snagging second, though. Yes yes, long-awaiting return of Woona, but ignoring that shock value (pretend we're in Season 3 now, and she's had a half-dozen episodes), I kinda felt it was one of the weaker episodes of Season 2. *shrug*
Fall Weather Friends missed the cut too? AppleDash shippers? Valentine's Day? Your loss I guess :<
Still, overall, I largely agree with this ranking / top 20.
@wackypony wow...
ReplyDelete9 episodes from 2nd season, nice statistics.
ReplyDeleteAnd in my opinion there's nothing especially bad about mysterious mare-do-well.
Oh and one thing i curious about, why sonic rainboom is so high? I thought people don't like it so much...
ReplyDelete@Ikusa GT
ReplyDeletethe entire episode is just... bad. Makes me ponder how it ever got approved by the higher ups.
okay, maybe hate is too strong a word, but it's definitely my least favorite episode.
@Ikusa GT
ReplyDeleteHe's wackypony. He's known for comments like that.
@Predelnik
ReplyDeleteare you kidding? Sonic Rainboom was awesome.
Sonic Rainboom was my first episode, and before it was even over i knew i would never be the same again.
Not a bad top 10, if I do say so myself.
ReplyDelete@wackypony But is it so necessary to be overly dramatic. I admit the episdoe was one of the weakest of the series but to throw the writer. A new one under the bus like that? Chill out. People these days.
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad "Lesson Zero" made the top, it's probably
ReplyDeletemy third favorite episode, right behind "Party of One" and "Luna Eclipsed".
I like how so many people said "Feeling Pinkie
Keen" was such a hated episode and yet it made the cut.
People really need to get over their pointless anger at
the misunderstood moral of the episode. It also seems
so hypocritical to say "love and tolerate... unless there's
a religious undertone" which is just laughable since the
moral had nothing to do with religion. Personally I love the episode as it gave us Pinkie's wacky "Pinkie Sense", and some great physical comedy.
@Ikusa GT
ReplyDeleteI'm still sore over how disappointed with it i was the first time i saw it. I went expecting to give concessions to the new writer, but by the end of the first viewing i was so annoyed the writer could've died, and i wouldn't have cared.
now? i might.
Well, my favorite didn't get in (fall weather friends), but at least Dragonshy did, which is still the definitive MLP episode. All the best aspects of the series crammed into one episode and damn good at all of them.
ReplyDeleteStill think we should've gotten 20 votes, rather than just voting for your "favorite." Would've had a better spread (rather than just comedy ones at the top) and the aforementioned fake votes would've had even less effect.
Yay! Glad Bridle Gossip made it! Love that episode. Flutterguy FTW!
ReplyDeleteIm okay with these results.
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ReplyDeleteI was wondering about Mare Do Well's sudden popularity boost
ReplyDeleteAlso I voted for Feeling Pinkie Keen cause it's one of the funnier episodes with plenty of slapstick to go around. It also happens to be the first episode I randomly viewed and got me into this whole pony thing.
I guess the 'moral' was kinda weird but hey I never give a rat's ass about those anyway
Personally, I think this poll was done improperly. Admittedly, the following method would have taken considerably more time, but...
ReplyDelete...I would have preferred to see an initial round of voting to remove the episodes with the highest percentile of votes. Those episodes would then be given protection status.
After that, another round of voting would begin with only the episodes that didn't make the first cut. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I don't live in the US, so I won't be able to watch this marathon on the HUB. But if I lived in there, and had the HUB, I'll totally watch this. It was a fun ride to see the poll switching back and forth.
ReplyDeleteI will have my own mareathon here this weekend. First episode to watch: Sonic Rainboom. Because that episode is awesome.
I honestly couldn't pick, since I was torn between Lesson Zero, Party of One and Winter Wrap Up.
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ReplyDeleteHold the phone,lemme get this straight you guys encourage people to fake votes/spam in other polls in general on other websites but when you have fake votes/spam happening on your own polls you immediately drop it. Isn't that a bit hypocritical?
ReplyDeleteYa know, you didn't have to take out the votes from Mare Do Well. Even if it was just epic fail attempt of trolling, I wouldn't mind seeing it again on the HUB (even though I don't get HUB in Canada, but I'm sure HaxMega will stream it).
ReplyDeleteNo Dog and Pony show, no love for the Pinkie Pie twitch a twitch :(
ReplyDelete@Tenaris
ReplyDeleteVoting for something you sincerely like and voting for an episode of a show you hate. Yeah that's totally the same thing.
The stuff that made the cut; all very good choices.
ReplyDeleteI think that Swarm of the Century deserved to be in there, only because the only "marathon" that I have ever seen was a Star Trek marathon that included The Trouble With Tribbles, which was in fact the first Star Trek episode I ever saw.
ReplyDeleteAlmost every episode from this season made the cut, even though a majority of them have been well below the standard that last season set. Outstanding.
ReplyDeleteFamily Appreciation Day beat out 18 season one episodes. Are you fucking kidding me.
I can't believe I'm the only one complaining that Lesson Zero got first place. I would have been happy to see literally ANY other episode take first. Yes, even Feeling Pinkie Keen, which I still don't like.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering why Mare Do Well was so high.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Swarm of the Century just because I think it's pretty underrated and wasn't getting enough attention.
@Nameless Regardless whether voting for it was done by people that liked or hated doesn't change the fact that it was the same method.
ReplyDeleteMysterious Mare Do Well wasn't that bad, it had some funny moments with Rainbow Dash in the episode.
ReplyDelete@Roxor
ReplyDeleteNah, Lesson Zero is way overrated, but people love pony mental breakdowns. It's just a shame that Twilight's is nowhere as amusing as Pinkie's was, but it is now far more beloved. Bronies have very short memories apparently.
Mysterious Mare Do Well wasn't that bad, it had some funny moments with Rainbow Dash in the episode.
ReplyDeletePoor Trixie :( I voted for you, but no luck...
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that the poll was dominated by S2 episodes and many good ones from S1 were totally forgotten by us.
I was glad to see that Bridle Gossip cracked the top 20. That was the episode that solidified my status as a brony. I mean, whose jaw didn't drop to the floor when they first heard "Flutterguy" speak?
ReplyDeleteAwesome results! Hopefully this will be streamed.
ReplyDelete@Jake that part had me laughing so hard
ReplyDeleteNo surprise Lesson Zero, Luna Eclipsed, and Party of One practically stole the top three, and I really like seeing Sonic Rainboom in 4th. It was my first episode of MLP that I ever watched, and it was the episode that made me a brony. What was it about Sonic Rainboom that got me to join the herd? The soundtrack. My eyes were seeing Pony, but my ears were hearing Gradius, and my brain automatically went, "Gradius? This is put into the auto-like category. NEXT!" Then I saw, and fell in love with, Pinkie Pie, and I knew I had instantly become a slave to the Element of Laughter. FOREVER!!!
ReplyDeleteTrue Story™!
Also: My vote went STRAIGHT to Party of One. BEST. EPISODE. EVER!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHow is stare master not up there!!! where the heck are my Fluttershy people at. like seriously second to last wtf people.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU! If those Mare Do Well votes counted, We wouldn't have got Bridle Gossip which was what I voted for. Thank goodness. Can't wait to be seeing that episode in the Mare-athon.
ReplyDeleteLesson Zero
ReplyDeleteParty of One
Sonic Rainboom
Suited for Success
Best Night Ever
Is it me, or do we all enjoy pony mental-breakdown episodes way too much?
@wackypony
ReplyDeleteyou realize that the writer of ''mare do well'' is also the writer of ''Hearth's Warming Eve''
inb4 ''i didn't like the Hearth's Warming Eve episode''
I first voted for May the Best Pet Win and then I went reading through the comments for a bit and just noticed some comments about how some people were going to vote for the ones that weren't shoe ins to win so I looked at the poll real quick and switched my vote to Dragonshy. I think it was the episode that really brought me into the herd.
ReplyDelete@Knuckleshy
ReplyDeleteSame! Watching Fluttershy stare down a dragon made me realise how awesome this show is.
It atleast deserves to be higher in the list than The Cutie Mark chronicles...
Normally I'd say let the 4channers have their fun and include "The Mysterious Mare Do Well", but then that would bump out "Bridle Gossip"...
ReplyDeletewhy noone vote for the show stoppers :(
ReplyDeletedon';t care second bets episode of season 2 got 14th in the list woot
ReplyDeleteshould have been higher but i see some rarity haters out there
*stares into your screen*
@wackypony Rather disgusting attitude.
ReplyDeleteVoted for Sonic Rainboom - episode always ALWAYS gives me shivers...
ReplyDeleteTo start with, hey it's ponies an honestly there's not a single episode I wouldn't watch again in a marathon.
ReplyDeleteThe top ten I really don't have an argument against, kind of wish Dragonshy would of made into those, but can't really pick one to replace it with.
Also, very happy Luna Eclipsed got second, my favorite episode of the show so far. I fear, as I did after it's airing, we won't see Luna again until season 3 with the way things are going.
Wow, the only change I would make to this would just be a straight-up position swap for "Party of one" and "Sisterhooves"
ReplyDeleteyay!
Good, good. all my favourites aew up there!
ReplyDeleteI genuinely liked Mare-do-Well =/ , though it's not my favorite episode.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Feeling Pinkie Keen beat Sisterhooves Social is distressing.
ReplyDeleteUgh- Pinkie Keen and the Pet episode? Others more or less fine with me though. And TBH I was expecting the pet episode to win- because it's popular for some reason I can't discern.
ReplyDeleteWell, if there was a new Trixie episode, then it would have topped this list easy. Hint, hint.
ReplyDelete@ultimate_weird0_87
ReplyDeleteYeah, honestly, I liked MMDW better than the pet episode.
Well, if there was a new Trixie episode, then it would have topped this list easy. Hint, hint.
ReplyDelete@Nameless Except there was no voting for something you sincerely like. A recent example would be the "best wiki" poll, where a terribly unprofessional and sloppy wiki got thousands of votes from people who most likely had never even used it, and really didn't care about its quality.
ReplyDelete@Vanishing New season hype is still in effect for some people.
ReplyDeleteSecret of my excess would have been perfect, but Lesson zero is the best!
ReplyDelete@Vanishing
ReplyDeleteObviously, a majority of bronies have a different opinion of Season Two than you. I'm of the opinion that both seasons are amazing; my vote went to a Season Two episode simply to ensure that the absolute best song in the series got onto the next poll. (Though seeing how high May the Best Pet Win placed, it wasn't exactly necessary...)
Bridle Gossip should be much, much higher in my opinion, but I'm still just glad it made the cut!
ReplyDeleteAh, how to put this...
ReplyDeleteSonic RainBOOM!
Sweet and elite should have been top 5. Party of one would never be in my top 25 because I hate all the Pinkamena gags is spawned and the grimdark junk. Still she has alot of comedy and classic lines in that and I do love me some rarity and pinkie.
ReplyDeleteGood List Everypony. Wish parasprites had made it though thats like my third favorite episode behind Sweet and elite, and Luna Eclipsed.
@archiveit
ReplyDeleteSwarm of the century was always one of my favorites. It's ususally the episode I show to people who have never seen MLP. I was sad that it didn't make it.
I was more surprised that The Secret of my Excess did. I love rarity but spike just kinda lays there for me. He's a better sideman than a star.
You know, there's a perfectly legitimate brony community on 4chan. And even aside from them, there are people that enjoyed MMDW. It's pretty disgusting that you'd just discount those votes because of their origin.
ReplyDeletecannot believe Dog and Pony show and Stare Master didn't make it into top 20.
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck is wrong with you people and Mysterious Mare Do Well? It was a great episode.
ReplyDelete@about
ReplyDeleteYeah, except the thread was essentially "hey guys let's go spam this ONE EPISODE with votes."
@DPV111
ReplyDeleteMan how could I forget about dog and pony show thats in my top 5 to. I wish we could have voted more than once.
But /I/ voted for Mysterious Mare-Do-Well... v_v
ReplyDelete@Meganerdbomb
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't even like Mare do well that much and yet it was better than the pet episode IMO.
I have no idea why it's popular. It's not even that funny/has funny scenes like Pinkie Keen had the odd time and I really hate Pinkie Keen as an episode. Because while FPK had a terribly written moral, was awkward and didn't really fit the tone of other episodes surrounding it was still sometimes fun. I mean almost every other episode even the ones I don't care for had something going for it at least. Mare Do Well was also not well thought out in some respects- though that's an easy fix in getting the rest of the mane 6 to try and fail to get RD to listen before pulling their scheme (or alternatively have Ditzy Doo/another character just be awesome Mare-Do-Well like many wanted).
Oddly Mare- Do-Well could be considered unfair to RD since her friends didn't talk to her first and yet the Pet episode far far too nice to her just so she could get her own way and an awesome pet even after her horrible behaviour and abuse.
/rambling thoughts most people will probably hate me for. :P
I was wondering why Mare-do-Well had so many votes, while good, it definitely isn't as good as many other episodes.
ReplyDeleteMy vote was for Dragonshy, its my most watched episode.
How did you sum up the fake votes? IP?
ReplyDeleteHrrmm... i must see this thread before my opinion is settled... anyone have a link for me?
ReplyDeleteO.0
@ultimate_weird0_87
ReplyDeleteI love may the best pet win very much because of the song. And you totally shouldn't be thinking like "hey that is not worst episode, there is some even worse", it's not too encouraging for both lovers and haters of mare-do-well.
The Hub is awesome for letting us do this! :D
ReplyDeleteAh have a feelin" that if this doosy of a list gets used, Elements of harmony part 1 and 2 will get played in ah row
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ReplyDeleteSince that it was taken down because of the 2500 fake/spamming votes pretty much with that makes seth and the others looks like hypocrites. The trolling could of been avoided easily if "Love and Tolerate" was applied.Seriously so what if that episode topped over the majority of episodes. "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" wasn't a bad episode and it's not like it was going over 10k votes..
ReplyDeleteThey will hopefully put The Return of Harmony in the right order and not in a this is how you want it to be way, so to say =P
ReplyDeleteI'm okay with these 20, though honestly Suited for Success wouldn't be in my top 20. Just really didn't like it, didn't strike a chord with me for some reason. Still a solid line up and I hope this is what the mare-a-thon will end up as in reality so I can watch it on the 11th
ReplyDeleteThis is just me but I kinda thought that Hearth's Warming Eve and May the Best Pet Win were sort of boring.I'd honestly rather watch The Mysterious Mare Do Well than those.But that's just my opinion.
ReplyDeleteBut overall this line up looks pretty good.I Love Lesson Zero,I can't wait to see it again.
@Vanishing
ReplyDeleteYour opinion, I think season 2 has been better than season 1 on average. Personally I do agree that there are a few season 1 eps which could have taken Family Appreciation Day's place, but again that's just opinion.
@Vanishing
Or you know, some of them could honestly disagree with you and prefer the Twilight ep.
Now we must wait for the mare-athon :3
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad Discord is gonna get some spotlight.....twice.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say? I'm a fan.
Whoooa, i predicted every single one of these except "Green isn't your color" (I had Boast Busters in it's slot)
ReplyDeleteAm i.....a wizard?
(answer: no obviously cause my ranking list was nothing like this one except for 1 and 7 XD)
Sadly, no Nightmare Moon centric episodes made it in, oh well, my vote got second place, so I'm happy.
ReplyDelete@Dͪ͊ͦḮ̘ͯS̔̐̓C̹̔Ò͓͙̫R̀͠͞D͙̫ what do you expect though? Logical things?
ReplyDeleteAwwww no Trixie. Bummer man
ReplyDeleteTruly...my life JUST got 20% COOLER!@!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete@Sethisto
ReplyDeletelast test
Holy crap!!! Mobile functionality!!!
ReplyDeleteWell Twilight's psychotic behavior is at the top spot of the episode so far!!! ^_^
ReplyDeleteThat's the difference between us and 4chan: we get ~25,000 votes legitimately and they get 2,500 using bots.
ReplyDeletePeople should stop hating mare do well. I liked it. Everypony gets a short straw every once in a while, and it was just Rainbows turn.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe fall weather friends didnt make it. It is my favorite episode from season 1
I rated high! Thank everypony!!!
ReplyDeleteNo "Dog and a Pony Show"? I mean, I'm not sure which one of those would deserve being replaced by it but come on, "But I thought you wanted whining!" alone makes it best episode.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Cutie Mark Chronicles. Why is May The Best Pet Win one place over it? I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteHe totally did vote for Trixie.
ReplyDeleteWish I was able to vote for my top 5
ReplyDeleteAfter all the apparent hate that I've heard about Lesson Zero, I'm glad to see that I'm nowhere near the only person that loved seeing Twilight lose her mind.
ReplyDeleteWell. at least the older Rarity episode I chose is up there.
ReplyDeleteThough WHY did that RD episode have to be up there? I only like Tank. The rest of that episode is crap. B/
Buck yah Lesson Zero. #1
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ReplyDeleteTo everyone saying how unfair it is that MMDW wasn't included: this is the way things go when votes are compromised. Yes, it could have been overlooked and shrugged off but instead /b/ just ended up causing it to be disqualified. This is normally what happens when voting is screwed with. Or a recount is done (but this may be too time-consuming in this case.) This is true in almost any other voting method.
ReplyDeleteAnd I, for one, enjoyed Feeling Pinkie Keen. I didn't even consider the written moral as anything religious until someone online brought it up .. and while I can see where people may get it from, I disagree with that view. I still like the moral of the story and the entire feel of the story (despite the overly cartoony part of Twilight getting things dropped on her.) I thought it had some great comedy, great action, and was overly a nice, fun romp.
And while I didn't exactly enjoy MMWD .. it's still ponies. And it's still only one episode out of twenty. So it isn't too big a deal either way .. right?
Awwwww! Crud muffins! I liked the Mare Do Well episode. I voted for it. You can't really go wrong with pony but still, how in the name of Celestia did Family Appreciation Day get on the list and MDW didn't? Seriously people liked that episode that much? I thought it was solid mid tier at best. *kicks at the dirt* T'ain't fair. T'ain't fair at all. Now if you all will excuse me I have ta go cry into my pillow.
ReplyDeleteAtleast Luna Eclipsed got second...
ReplyDeleteit sucks that MMDW had to be taken out due to the trolls (what a fail attempt at trolling) but its seems fair to say it wouldnt have gotten very many votes if it wasnt for that it wasnt terrible just no that great and as for people saying its no different than us raiding polls HA we are doing that for fun not to piss people off which it seems thats all 4chan is good for rallying all the jerks of the internet to try and pick on people who dont deserve it (sorry bout long winded sentence im to lazy to punctuate) :)
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, MMDW didn't get disqualified per se. It just had the 4chan vote-rigging removed.
ReplyDeleteMMDW had 2881 votes, in second place. Seth & co. determined that about 2500 votes came from a few 4chan trolling threads (I'm not sure the specifics of how). 2881-2500=381, which drops MMDW down to #22, after A Dog and Pony Show and before Boast Busters. So for the somewhere-around 381 ponies who voted for MMDW, your votes still counted; 381 just wasn't high enough.
As for those of you saying that a vote is a vote, and that 4chan's 2500 should have counted, that's a separate issue altogether which I won't get into.
@Tenaris I suppose the major difference is that all of 4chan was trolling, while a great deal of us are supporting ponies. It's a fine line, but that's enough for most people.
ReplyDeleteAs for me... I voted Transformers in the ToyWiz poll, I voted for the MLP wiki in the Wikia yearly (let's face it, every other fanbase probably did what we did in THAT case and I've never visited any other Wikia ever that was memorable) and I haven't participated in any others.
Why noone voted Look Before you Sleep? that's easily the episode where Twilight is most adorable. I guess there's still a lot of moronic Rarihate
ReplyDeleteVotes should be counted if they're fair votes. A fair vote in this instance is someone who's actually a fan of the show voting for their choice. The difference between EqD sending pony fans to polls so they can vote for MLP in them and 4chan sending trolls to jack up a vote because they think it'll be funny is obvious: Intent is everything.
ReplyDeleteWe should hold a secondary vote asking if Mare Do Well should be a top three episode, Y/N? This would drown out any troll vote, because so many fans may only select one of two options, which ensures a fair assessment.
Yee! Party of One! My favourite! BOING BOING!
ReplyDeleteOh right... On topic comment:
ReplyDeleteI voted for Sonic Rainboom, glad to see it crack the top 5. I must admit though Lesson Zero probably deserves that #1 spot. That episode was fantastic, Twilight's breakdown only slightly edges out Pinkie's to me (it was the faces!).
To everypony who is whining over their favorites not being high enough or their least favorite too high, just know that I cast a vote for each episode. We were sent to love and tolerate, not to hate Mysterious Mare Do Well and Feeling Pinkie Keen. Why don't we all calm down and prepare for the Mare-athon? That's why we all voted, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteNow for the tricky part, cutting this list of 20 down into a list of 10 for the actual 5 hour mare-athon. The top 5 should be safe but there will be some hustling in those lower boundaries for the rest of the top 10 spots.
ReplyDeleteNo Boast Busters (the one I voted for) and no Swarm of the Century (the one that I was really close to voting for)? Awww. Oh well. At least good old Party of One made it to number three!
ReplyDeleteREALLY? People liked Sisterhooves Social and Green isn't your color more than Swarm of the Century and A Dog and Pony Show? A Dog and Pony Show is my second favorite one!
ReplyDeleteListen we all have our opinions on which episode is better than what and blah blah blah.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is why was Mysterious Mare Do Well spammed? Haven't we sorta agreed that the original two episodes and Call of the Cutie were the worst? Your opinion is your own on that issue, but as a /b/tard it's weird that trolls would choose an episode that's at least decent.
Oh good, it has most of my favorites.
ReplyDelete@GenericNoun Well for me, it was because the whole episode wasn't written that well. All the characters seem off, the moral was reused, and the plot twist at the end was horrible.
ReplyDeleteThe current top ten would be a fantastic marathon as is. However, if I were in control I'd swap Cutie Mark Chronicles and Sweet and Elite for the Return to Harmony arc. Then it would be perfect!
ReplyDeleteMan, never have I wanted to see a 4chan thread, but now I want to see them raging at being one-upped.
ReplyDeleteThey really underestimate the bronies and seriously don't seem to realise bronies go to that site as well.
And it literally makes me laugh out loud when they hypocritically say MLP is a plague.
Bronies, I am proud.
@GenericNoun
ReplyDeleteI liked the pilot. There are definitely other episodes I prefer as a whole, but I consider the Mane Six's defeat of Nightmare Moon to be the single most epic scene in the entire series.
I actually loved mare do well, it was an awesome tearjerker, removed the subtle mary sue status on rainbowdash by showing her immaturity as a flaw, and had great clips for pmvs.
ReplyDeleteFor feeling pinkie keen, it was also a great episode, along with over a barrel, they both had great climaxes, and things which made me laugh.
The only thing I'm going to say is you aethiests seem to act pompous over people choosing religion over science, let them believe what they want, do you want people to go up to you and tell you science is wrong.
Wait, so Anon raided a MLP poll... and they voted for Mysterious Mare-Do-Well? How did they decide that was the worst? That was an alright episode. They should've done the episode with Owlicious, or maybe the one with the Para-Sprites. Not that those were bad episodes (there has yet to be a bad episode of this show), but those were some of the more annoying episodes, IMO.
ReplyDelete@Peter That's a bit of a mix mix, i know we can pull that of legitly but if you haven't noticed lately all the polls (with the exception of the recent one on facebook) were not legit voting.
ReplyDelete@DruVirus For one, just that many views wasn't dramatically effecting anyone. And two,it was taken down because the votes were compromise. . . Lets look at that for a second and at the other polls previously that EqD has addressed and asked/sent most of us out and tell me they all were (Except for the facebook one) were not compromised with a lot of fake votes.Just by doing what they did with that out right contradicted themselves.
Yeah i can't deny that @White Ink,every fanbase majority of any series has a sections of fans like that.
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ReplyDelete@Tenaris
ReplyDeleteHow is that a contradiction? Equestria Daily only pointed its audience toward pony related polls. Even if you're right about not all of the votes on those polls being legitimate that's not Equestria Daily's responsibility, they never told anyone to cheat (I'm assuming that's what you mean by fakes votes).
@fairy-eater
ReplyDeleteAs an atheist I kind of take offense to that. I found the episode funny with the main fault being the wording of the moral at the end. Lauren Faust herself regrets that aspect of the episode. Is that not a legitimate complaint?
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ReplyDelete@HMorris73 Yeah they pointed out the audience towards the pony related polls and wanted to get ponies on top for "fun" While part of the community was all for getting ponies to the top by any means necessary (while the rest of the community plain simple disliked it) by going to every computer in site and afterwards change there ip and vote again. Now for how they never told anyone to cheat which is true. but they kept on encouraging it by posting more polls on websites.Now after the toywiz they stated that all poll raiding/fake votes/spamming wasn't intended to be a serious action but just for fun. Now granted when the same thing that has been done to the other websites that EqD had sent their audience to had happened to the daily and they took it done and that's why. They encouraged doing that to other websites polls but when it happens to their own website they end up and go taking it down.
ReplyDelete@Butlerdidit
ReplyDeleteTHE POWER OF PINK COMPELS YOU
CAST OUT THESE UNNATURAL DEMONS WHOM DWELL IN MATTER, BUT IN WHOM NO LIFE CAN BE FOUND
@R10t Pol1ce
ReplyDeleteSweet Celestia the cuteness! The Pinkness! The diabetes! HNNNNNGGGGGGGG! *dies of Pinkie Pie overload*
Love and tolerance! Peace out!
@Butlerdidit
ReplyDeleteI apologise sincerely then. I take it back, I was only targeting a very small but vocal minority (a.k.a one friend I know)
Yay Sonic Rainboom made it into the list, and with a good vote number too n.n
ReplyDelete@Tenaris
ReplyDeleteI still don't see how their actions are supposed to have encouraged cheating. It seems to me their expectations were for anyone interested to vote *once* on those polls...
@HMorris75 "There's a poll on ToyWiz going on right now pitching different toy lines against each other, and as you can see, ponies are losing. Can't have that, can we? Let's fix it."
ReplyDeleteYay all my fav episodes made it
ReplyDelete@Tenaris
ReplyDeleteReally? You and I must be on completely different wavelengths because I only see that as encouraging people to vote not "cheat by voting multiple times".
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ReplyDelete@HMorris73 Yeah encouraging people to vote non stop till utterly humiliating other competition. Now lets see that poll ponies were around 2500's losing and then posted on EqD it got over 10k new votes under 7 hours and what encouraged them was that they were losing and should "Fix it.
ReplyDelete@Tenaris
ReplyDeleteWe have pretty large presence on Equestria Daily, once people here are made aware why shouldn't the numbers jump up? And again, even if people did cheat you haven't shown that EQD encouraged it. I don't really see how anyone could take "fix it" in this case as some sort of "do this at any cost" command rather than in the humorous spirit it was intended.
4channers voted for a good episode.
ReplyDeleteAnd... actual participants didn't? I'm calling horseapples-- who would intentionally vote for Lesson Zero over Mare Do-Well? Mare Do Well was good, Lesson Zero was not.
@Unknown
ReplyDelete... Yeah sorry, you're on your own on that one.
Lame... I actually LIKED TMMDW
ReplyDelete@HMorris73
ReplyDeleteIf you honestly cannot see why then on your own time just go back search up all of the EqD posts on polls and go examine the community's reactions to the posts.You don't need to every single one of the comments just look at how many majority people reacted to each of them. Just look at how many from reading each post were willing to jump to the occasion. Odds are we are just going to continue disagree about this up to no end.
@Doctor Wholittle
ReplyDeleteyour not the only one xD
@Tenaris Oh good :P I have a few friends that are always ranting about how it was the worst episode to ever appear in the series and that any bronies that liked it should kill themselves. Needless to say... I was offended. XD
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ReplyDeleteThey reacted like they were going to vote for MLP, not like they were going to place fake votes. Just because they were enthusiastic about helping MLP win the poll doesn't mean they were planning to cheat, why should they when there are so many fans willing to vote fairly? And even if they were that *still* doesn't mean EQD encouraged them to do so. I have to say you're right, I still don't understand your logic...