Your My Little Pony Moment of Zen.

[nenena]

So, My Little Pony did a Halloween episode last night. Which in and of itself was pretty awesome.

The episode was all about Luna. Which in and of itself was pretty awesome.

The ponies were all dressed in costume, which gave the animators a million opportunities to add meta-humor to the episode, some of which was incredibly unsubtle (Twilight Sparkle being her usual nerdy self and acting annoyed that nobody recognized her costume of an obscure historical figure; Spike wearing a costume of himself) and some of which was more blink-and-you'll-miss-it (i.e. that egg popping out of Pinkie Pie's butt when Luna scares her).

But the best background joke of all?

THIS PONY, who is wearing a costume of "Steve Zissou being eaten by a shark."

This show, you guys. This show.

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[corinn.livejournal.com]

I dunno if you know anything about Gaia Online, but they have big events for holidays and the NPCs that run the various shops dress up in costume, usually for various popular fandoms. One NPC is a frightening wild elk named Carl who took over an abandoned junk store. His "dialogue" is things like (Carl levels his glassy gaze at you.) and (You get the feeling that if you want to buy something, you should just leave your money on the counter and back out slowly...) and (Carl rubs his hindquarters against a clothing rack and grunts vigorously.) He looks like this:


This Halloween, it seems the devs dressed him up as Pinkie Pie:

If you try to get candy from him too soon after your previous trick-or-treat, you get the message (Carl coughs up a piece of candy still in the wrapper.) You can get more in ## secs.

No words.