Season 3: Review #4: “MLP: FIM: Season 2: Episode 19: “Putting Your Hoof Down”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO–You get the rest!

-We Now Join Our Regularly Scheduled Review Already in Progress-

…..Oh, okay, I really, really FREAKING hate today’s episode! Please note that this episode is not only terrible, IT IS ONE OF THE WORST “MLP: FIM” EPISODES OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!! IT’S JUST..JUST, MEAN-SPIRITED, UNGODLY, AND OF COURSE: O-U-T-O-F-C-H-A-R-A-C-T-E-R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What does that spell: “OUT OF CHARACTER”!!! IT’S SO HORRENDOUS!!!!!!!!!…..*Sigh*, “Putting Your Hoof Down”, the 19th episode of Season 2 of “MLP: FIM” that aired on March 3, 2012, please note that this episode focuses on one of my favorite characters of the show, Fluttershy, but sadly, I call this episode the winner of “One of the Worst Episodes of a TV Show of All Time” Awards!:

Thank you, Pinkie Pie! So, what makes this episode so cringe-worthy?! What makes you want to have brain surgery to make you forget of what you just witnessed?! So, I’m sure all of you bronies, pegasisters, and other viewers like to know. Let’s dive right into…”Putting Your Hoof Down”.

So, the episode begins in–

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Are you sure you wanna turn back?! THERE’S STILL TIME! I’m sure leokimvideo, arglefumph, or ToonKriticY2K has a good video on Youtube!…..Okay. Continue.

(Nostalgia Critic Reference)

As I was saying, the episode begins in Fluttershy’s cottage, where Fluttershy is feeding her animal/pet friends, as usual, including her bratty (but, somehow, cute) pet bunny rabbit, Angel. Angel’s bratiness continues once again when he refuses to eat ANYTHING that Fluttershy gives to him because she wants a salad with a cherry on top of it. Fluttershy tries to protest, but Angel refuses and forces her to go to market and buy a cherry for his salad. She arrives at Ponyville Market and tries to buy asparagus for Angel’s cherry-topped salad at a stall, but other ponies cut in-front of her, and now can’t assert herself. Just then, Rarity and Pinkie Pie show up and witness Fluttershy’s predicament. They teach Flutter on how to be assertive/stand-up for herself. Rarity sweet talks/flirts with the pony who has the last asparagus named Gizmo AKA Poindexter (as seen in the comics), which manipulates him into giving the asparagus to Rarity, while we see Pinkie Pie make a Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes reference with a tomato salespony and it’s fair to point out that this is a funny scene here.:

Well, at least that scene didn’t go with faces from “Thomas & Friends” and Tines Sensahthe’s “Tobias and the Half-Pariah”, like this.:

Or like this:

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Shining Armor, I’d say YOU’RE EVIL!!!!

SHINING ARMOR: NO, I’M GOOD, YOU’RE EVIL!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: SHINING ARMOR IS EVIL, I’M A HERO!!!!!

SHINING ARMOR: YOU’RE EVIL, DETECTIVE, AND I’M CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD AND THE RULER OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE WITH CADENCE, MEANING THAT I’M A HERO!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: YOU’RE EVIL AND I’M GOOD!!!

SHINING ARMOR: SHINING ARMOR IS A VILLAIN AND EVIL!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN IS EVIL, WHILE YOU’RE GOOD, SHINING!!!!!!!!

SHINING ARMOR: I’M EVIL!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: I’D SAY THAT I’M EVIL AND I SAY, HIT ME!!!!!!!!!! *BANG!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN (DIZZY): Duuuhhahahah! I like babies! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! *Thump!*

Anyways, Fluttershy tries to do what Rarity and Pinkie taught her with the cherry salespony, but it fails, leaving the last cherry being sold to Lemon Hearts, sadly. She even tells the news to Angel, who is so furious that he tosses the salad AND FLUTTERSHY OUT OF THE COTTAGE AND FALLING HEAD-FIRST INTO THE POSTBOX/MAILBOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…Alright, NOW do you believe me on why this episode makes you wanna have a mental breakdown, while being so upset and enraged?! WE JUST SPOTTED THE ONE MAJOR PROBLEM THIS EPISODE HAS, IT’S MEAN-SPIRITED AND THE CHARACTERS TREAT FLUTTERSHY LIKE DIRT FOR NO, ACTUAL, POSSIBLE, REAL, POSSIBLE EXPLANATION, WHAT SOEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY DOES THIS GET ME SO ANGRY?! WELL, IT JUST RAISES THE QUESTION: WHY THE CRAP DO THE CHARACTERS ACT MEAN TOWARDS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS OF THE SHOW IN THIS EPISODE?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!! WHY COULDN’T THEY JUST MAKE THIS EPISODE LESS CRINGE-WORTHY, INSTEAD OF EVEN MORE CRINGE-WORTHY?!

NOW, THIS EPISODE WAS WRITTEN BY CHARLOTTE FULLERTON AND I CAN ASSURE YOU, SHE’S WRITTEN BAD EPISODES BEFORE THIS ONE, SUCH AS “MAY THE BEST PET WIN”!!! EVEN TheMysteriousMrEnter DESPISES CHARLOTTE FULLERTON AND THIS EPISODE!!!!!!! BUT, I DIGRESS!! *Deep Sigh* Back with the story, Fluttershy realizes that she really is a doormat and finds a pamphlet that flies near her. The pamphlet belongs to an assertiveness seminar, run by a minotaur named Iron Will, which is being held at the hedge maze (probably the same one from “The Return of Harmony”). Fluttershy arrives at the seminar and is pushed to the back row, when trying to get to the front row. Talk about being a push-over/being abused by the writers of this episode.

Iron Wills, the host of the seminar, pops up and asks a volunteer from the audience for his newest lesson on how to be assertive. His goat assistants pick (of course) Fluttershy and she takes her first lesson from Iron Will like this.:

Yeah, I have a funny feeling that Flutter was cheated by Iron Will when she decided to partake in this seminar. Anyways, the next morning, Fluttershy looks into the mirror at her cottage, determined to have a new day with a new, confident attitude. More like overconfident, cold-hearted, violent, dark, and brooding because she uses Iron Will’s advice when Mr. Greenhooves (the olden pony from “The Best Night Ever”) over-waters her plants and pushes two garbage/rubbish carts that Bon-Bon and another pony named Cherry Berry were carrying and were blocking her path. She does the same thing when at Sugarcube Corner, she gets cut in line and scares the pony who cut her in line and everybody else. Even though Rarity and Pinkie Pie are impressed, Flutter starts to throw punch at Pinkie when she starts to laugh and take a joke. More violence occurs when she hails a taxi, but another pony called Royal Riff hops on it before her, causing her to beat the living crap out of it and send him flying into the air and having Flutter yell, before leaving with her taxi!!!!!!

“NOO” indeed, it’s even more meaner than Frankie Heck from “The Middle”. Imagine having those two be shown from back-to-back. So, Flutter lets her assertiveness get the better of her once again when the mailpony delivers the wrong mail and when a pony named Globe Trotter asks her directions to the Ponyville Tower, Flutter accidentally drops her mail into a puddle of water and this is probably one of the most heart-breaking scenes every put in the entire series.:

Yep, Fluttershy is now the monster and this is DEFINITELY THE MEANEST EPISODE YET!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR THIS EPISODE IS THE BIGGEST MOMENT WHEN A FAVORITE CHARACTER OF MINE TURNS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Charlotte Fullerton…YOU WROTE A VERY BAD EPISODE TO A REALLY GOOD SHOW THAT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS OF ALL TIME!!!!! YOU DID THAT, CHARLOTTE, YOU DID THAT, THAT’S A NO-NO TO YOU!!!!!!!!!! I’M NOT ANGRY AND I DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ANGER!!!:

SCRIPT PERSON: CALM DOWN, DETECTIVE!! It’s only an episode that many fans did not like!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: SCRIPT PERSON, AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I SWEAR THAT I FEEL LIKE QUITTING TIME!!!!!!:

SCRIPT PERSON: No, it doesn’t. Besides, it’s a reference-mixture of both “Tanks for the Memories” of the same show and from “Spongebob”! You gotta continue this episode for the fans!

FANS: WE WANT YOU TO CONTINUE THIS EPISODE, PLEAAAASE? Pretty, Pretty, PLEEEEEASSSE?????? *Squee*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN:………..Oh, fine.

FANS: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Alright, alright, calm down. *Ahem* Back to the episode.

After feeling let down after realizing that she’s a monster, Flutter crawls with her head down, slowly home, feeling very heartbroken. Poor, poor, Fluttershy. Later, Pinkie and Rarity stop by Flutter’s cottage and discovers that all the windows and doors have been boarded up, along with the environment outside the cottage filled with ruin, bareness, and despair. Inside, Fluttershy is tied up by Angel in a chair (I’m not questioning it, why should you) and wants to NEVER come out of her cottage ever again because if she did, she might cause more misery and violence to her friends. See, I told you this episode was mean-spirited! But, no matter how hard Pinkie and Rarity tried when trying to convince their friend that she can be assertive without being a jerk, until Iron Will shows up to collect payment from Fluttershy, after hearing about her tragic change. We see Rarity and Pinkie using their methods at the market, once again, but it doesn’t work, as you’d expect.

So, it’s now up to Fluttershy to save the day! When Iron Will knocks at her door, Flutter answers it and calmly refuses Iron Will’s payment and reminds the minotaur of his 100% satisfaction guaranteed with the words “no means no”, meaning that she won’t pay at all. Now, Iron Will has been defeated by the shyest and kindest member of the Mane Six and decides to use Flutter’s words as his next lesson, while leaving the cottage with his goat assistant. Good going, Flutter because it works, Rarity and Pinkie are happy to have the “old Fluttershy” back and so is Fluttershy. We end this episode with our usual Friendship Report to Princess Celestia of what we learned today. We learned that when standing up for yourself, just be who you really are. Also, we see Flutter finally stand up against Angel with what she uses to get her animals to behave, “The STARE”, which forces Angel to FINALLY EAT a regular salad.

*Phew* And we did it, we MADE IT THROUGH “PUTTING YOUR HOOF DOWN”! ONE OF THE WORST “MLP: FIM” EPISODES OF ALL TIME!!!!! AND I CAN THINK OF A MILLION REASONS WHY!!! As I stated earlier, this episode is one of my most despised episodes yet because it’s traumatizing, mean-spirited, AND OF COURSE, EVERYONE PUSHES FLUTTERSHY AROUND FOR NO REAL REASON, WHY!!!! THERE’S MILLIONS OF OTHER THINGS YOU COULD’VE DONE TO THIS EPISODE LIKE, HOW ABOUT HAVE A BUNCH OF BULLY PONIES OR PEGASUS BULLY FLUTTERSHY OR MAYBE HAVE IT FOCUSED ON A DIFFERENT CHARACTER?!?!?!?!

But I digress, IT’S ONE OF THE WORST EPISODES OF ALL TIME AND FOR MANY GOOD, FREAKING REASONS! EVEN IF IT DID HAVE THAT ONE JOKE OR REFERENCE THAT ACTUALLY WORKED AND MADE IT FEEL LIKE A LOONEY TUNES CARTOON!!!! AND Y’KNOW, THE ONLY THING THAT THIS EPISODE DOES IS MAKE US FEEL HEARTBROKEN OVER EVERYONE’S FAVORITE, SHY, AND KINDEST MEMBER OF THE MANE SIX, FLUTTERSHY!!! Overall, I’ll be giving this episode, which was a complete disappointment, 1.5/10, it was just that bad, there’s really no worth watching it twice! I’m The Detective Librarian and if you’ll excuse me……I have some crying to do, in private. *Starting to Cry*

-THE END-

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: *Sobbing!*