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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
File:My Little Pony Friendship is Magic logo.svg
GenreAdventure
Comedy
Fantasy
Developed byLauren Faust
Directed byJayson Thiessen
James Wootton
Voices ofTara Strong
Ashleigh Ball
Andrea Libman
Tabitha St. Germain
Cathy Weseluck
Nicole Oliver
Michelle Creber
Madeleine Peters
Claire Corlett
Theme music composerDaniel Ingram
ComposersDaniel Ingram
William Kevin Anderson
Country of originUnited States
Canada
No. of seasons1 (season 2 in production)
No. of episodes52 (26 aired) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersLauren Faust
Chris Bartleman
Blair Peters
Kirsten Newlands
Beth Stevenson
Stephen Davis
ProducerSarah Wall
Running time22-23 minutes
Production companiesStudio B Productions
Hasbro Studios
Original release
NetworkThe Hub
ReleaseOctober 10, 2010 (2010-10-10) - present

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated television series that first premiered in 2010 on the United States cable network The Hub, and is based on Hasbro's My Little Pony line of toys and animated works. The series is produced by Hasbro Studios and Studio B Productions. Animator Lauren Faust served as the show's creative director for the inception of the retooled series and through the first season, later stepping down to become a creative consultant for the second season onwards. The show follows a studious unicorn pony named Twilight Sparkle as she is tasked by her mentor Princess Celestia to learn about friendship in the town of Ponyville. Twilight becomes close friends with five other ponies; Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. Each represents a different facet of friendship, and discover themselves to be key parts in the "Elements of Harmony." In the series, they can be seen sharing adventures and helping out other residents of Ponyville, as well as working out the kinks in their own friendships.

The show has been critically praised for its humor and moral outlook. Despite the target demographic of young girls, the show has gained a large following of predominately male teenagers and adults, calling themselves "Bronies". The appreciation of this unlikely audience is due to a combination of Faust's direction and characterization, the expressive Flash based animation style, themes older audiences can appreciate, and a reciprocal relationship between the creators and fans. Elements of the show have become part of the remix culture and have formed the basis for a variety of Internet memes.

Origin

Hasbro, Inc. has produced several iterations of toys and entertainment related to the My Little Pony franchise in the past, often labeled Generations 1 through 3. The latest television show prior to Frienship is Magic was produced in 1992, titled My Little Pony Tales, featuring the pony designs of the first generation, or G1.[1] It was followed by various direct-to-video releases since, which featured G3 and later designs.[2] As with previous generations, Hasbro wanted to retool the franchise updating them to meet with the current generation of young girls.

Lauren Faust, developer and showrunner of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

At the same time, animator Lauren Faust sought to develop her girls' toys property "Galaxy Girls" into an animated series.[3] Faust, who had worked on The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, had been pitching original animation for girls for years, but was always rejected under the belief from studios and networks that cartoons for girls are unsuccessful.[4] During her pitch to Lisa Licht of Hasbro Studios, Licht pulled one of their recent My Little Pony animated works, "completely on the fly" according to Faust, with Licht considering that Faust's style was well suited to that line and offered her the opportunity to be the creative developer of the Generation 4 series.[3]

Faust said she was "extremely skeptical" about taking the job at first, finding shows based on girls' toys to be boring and unrelatable even as a child.[4] My Little Pony was one of her favorite toys from her childhood,[3] but she was disappointed that the adventures that her own childhood imagination conjured up while she played with the toys were nothing like the animated shows, in which the ponies had "endless tea parties, giggled over nothing and defeated villains by either sharing with them or crying".[4] With the chance to work on My Little Pony, she hoped to prove that "cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness."[4] To do this, she incorporated several elements into the design of the characters and the show that reflected real life instead of an idealized image of girls, including a diverse array of personalities, that friends can be be diverse and get into arguments but still be friends, and that girls should not limited by what others say they can or can't do.[4]

Faust began to work out concept sketches, several which appeared on her deviantArt page, including ponies from Generation 1 (Twilight, Applejack, Firefly, Surprise, Posey and Sparkler) which would later serve as the core for the main cast of the show.[5] Hasbro picked her up as the Creative Steward for the Generation 4 Line and green-lit the show.[6] Due to intellectual property issues, Hasbro had lost some of the rights on the original pony names, and as such, Faust's show includes a mix of original characters from the toy line and new characters developed for the show.[3] Though Faust retained creative direction of the show, some concepts were set by Hasbro, which Faust has attempted to incorporate into her vision for the show; this included making Celestia a princess rather than a queen, incorporating a fashion element into the show by making Rarity a fashion designer instead of a "shopaholic", and portraying toy sets in places within the story where their inclusion makes sense.[4]

Production

The series is produced by Hasbro Studios, Studio B Productions in Canada and Top Draw Animation in the Philippines.[7] Notable staff members working on the series alongside Faust herself are story editor Rob Renzetti, directors Jayson Thiessen and James Wootton, producer Sarah Wall and writers Amy Keating Rogers, Cindy Morrow, Meghan McCarthy, Chris Savino, Charlotte Fullerton, M. A. Larson and Dave Polsky. The voice casting and production is handled by Voicebox Productions,[8] with Terry Klassen serving as the series' voice director. The series' background music is composed by William Kevin Anderson, while Daniel Ingram composes the songs.[9]

The show is created using Adobe Flash.[3] Though the final work is presented as two-dimensional with flat coloring, elements of 3D animation and design are used to provide visual effects without extensive effort; for example, the ponies' hair and tails are generally fixed shapes, animated by bending and stretching them in curves in three dimensions and giving them a sense of movement without the expensive cost of animated individual hairs.[3]

Near the end of the first season, Faust announced that she would be stepping down as Executive Producer to become Consulting Producer after that season. Her involvement will involve only story conception and scripts. She also has high hopes for the staff members, stating that "the gaps I have left are being filled by the same amazing artists, writers, and directors who brought you Season 1. I’m certain the show will be as entertaining as ever".[10]

Premise

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic takes place in the land of Equestria, populated by numerous anthropomorphic ponies (including unicorns and pegasus variants) and other sentient and non-sentient creatures. Within the show's opening episodes, Twilight Sparkle is introduced as a gifted pupil of Equestia's ruler, Princess Celestia, but spends much of her time reading books rather than socializing with other ponies. Twilight discovers a book purporting the imminent return of Nightmare Moon, Celestia's sister Luna, who was banished to the moon a thousand years ago and can only be stopped by collecting the six Elements of Harmony. When informed of this, much to Twilight's resentment, Celestia sends her to the nearby town of Ponyville to make some friends. There, Twilight meets five other ponies; tomboyish Rainbow Dash, glamorous Rarity, hard-working Applejack, timid Fluttershy, and hyperactive Pinkie Pie. The following day, Nightmare Moon appears and vows to bring endless night to Equestria, meanwhile Princess Celestia goes missing. From a book, Twilight discovers the location of the Elements of Harmony. With the help of her new friends, they successfully find five of the six Elements. Nightmare Moon appears and shatters the Elements, but in a sudden revelation Twilight comes to realize that each of the other ponies represent each of the five Elements of Harmony, while she herself represents the sixth Element, Magic. Together, the power of their friendship defeats Nightmare Moon, reverting her to a repentant Luna. Celestia reappears and after reuniting with her sister, allows Twilight to stay in Ponyville to continue studying friendship.[11]

Later episodes of the show feature individual episodes that follow Twilight and her friends dealing with various problems around Ponyville. At the end of each episode, Twilight sends a report back to Celestia explaining what she learned about friendship from these adventures. There is a loose continuity in these episodes; a theme throughout the first season, for example, shows the ponies' preparing for the Grand Galloping Gala that occurs in the final episode of the first season.

One central theme of the show involves "cutie marks", iconic symbols that magically appear on a pony's flank once it has discovered its special talent in life.[12] The six main characters are written as young adults with a maturity level in the 12-18 year old range,[13] later shown in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", to have received their respective cutie marks near simultaneously.[12] Several episodes focus on the exploits of a much younger trio of pony characters that call themselves the "Cutie Mark Crusaders." The "C.M.C." try to avoid being labeled by other young ones as "blank flanks." To avoid this, they desperately try to hurry and discover their talents to receive their own cutie marks, often doing so in comical fashions.[12]

Characters

Main articles: List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters and List of My Little Pony characters
The full cast of Friendship Is Magic, presented as a poster at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con. Major characters include (mid-front row, left to right) Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Spike and Rarity. The poster also include minor characters and those named by the "brony" community, including "Derpy Hooves".

The main protagonist of Friendship Is Magic is Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn pony, gifted with powerful magic and representing the Element of Magic. Prior to the first episode, she rigorously studies through a vast library as Celestia's pupil, shunning socialization, until she discovers the joys of friendship after being sent to Ponyville. She is voiced by Tara Strong, and Rebecca Shoichet provides Twilight's singing voice. Spike, a young dragon that Twilight hatched, accompanies her, and acts as her assistant. Spike often writes down Twilight's messages to Celestia and sends them to the Princess through his magical fire breath. He comes to hold a not-so-private crush on Rarity, willing to do anything to help her. He is voiced by Cathy Weseluck.

Twilight becomes close friends with five other ponies.[11] Applejack (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) is a dependable and hard-working earth pony that runs Sweet Apple Acres (a large apple orchard near Ponyville) and represents the Element of Honesty. She is part of a large family of ponies who run apple-related businesses across Equestria. Rainbow Dash (voiced by Ashleigh Ball) claims herself to be one of the fastest pegasus ponies in Equestria. She helps to control the weather at the Cloudsdale weather factory, and dreams of one day becoming a member of Equestria's aerial flight team, the Wonderbolts. As the embodiment of the Element of Loyalty, she is brave and bold, but is often too proud of herself and takes head-strong actions. Pinkie Pie (voiced by Andrea Libman, singing voice by Shannon Chan-Kent) is a hyper-active earth pony that loves to throw parties. She will find a reason to sing on nearly any occasion to cheer on her friends, and represents the Element of Laughter. Despite her talkativeness and air-headedness at times, Pinkie is also very resourceful. Fluttershy (voiced by Andrea Libman) is a overly shy pegasus pony with numerous fears, but can overcome them and become assertive when she or her friends are in trouble. She has come to live close to the ground to tend to the animals around Ponyville, and represents the Element of Kindness. Rarity (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain, singing voice by Kazumi Evans) is a unicorn pony that takes great pride in her appearance, her manners, and her fashion skills. She also runs a boutique in Ponyville. She represents the Element of Generosity, willing to help out her friends and others, though still tries to be the center of attention.

Other recurring characters of note include the three Cutie Mark Crusaders; Apple Bloom (voiced by Michelle Creber), Scootaloo (voiced by Madeleine Peters), and Sweetie Belle (voiced by Claire Corlett). Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are the younger sisters of Applejack and Rarity, respectively. Scootaloo is a Pegasus pony who is obsessed with how "cool" Rainbow Dash is. Princess Celestia (voiced by Nicole Oliver) herself appears with some frequency, but usually only as a cameo at the end of an episode to receive a report from Twilight Sparkle on what she has learned so far about friendship. Celestia's younger sister Luna (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) has so far only appeared in the initial two-part pilot episode, but is set to appear in the second season.

Broadcast

Main article: List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episodes

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is one of several animated shows used to premiere The Hub, a retooling of the Discovery Kids channel of Discovery Communications in United States markets. The block of programming is a joint development of both Hasbro and Discovery, designed to compete with similar family-friendly programming blocks on other networks such as the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.[14] The first episode of Friendship Is Magic premiered on the first Hub broadcast, October 10, 2010.[14] The show was renewed for a second season in March, 2011.[15]

International broadcast

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has been distributed to international markets, including on Treehouse TV for the English-speaking audience in Canada, and on Boomerang in the United Kingdom. Some of these international broadcasts, including language translations, were arranged with association from the Turner Broadcasting System Europe to distribute Friendship Is Magic, as well as other shows based on Hasbro's intellectual properties, throughout various channels they own in those regions.[16]

Reception

Critical reception

The series received positive reviews from critics. Todd VanDerWerff of the A.V. Club favorably notes the show's "sheer and utter joyfulness" and lack of cynicism, which are unlike other shows that garnered a cult following of parents and twenty-somethings. He compliments the characters' stylized appearance, the stories' relative complexity for kids TV, and the solid jokes which make the show enjoyable to parents as well as their kids, and gives the series a B+.[12] Genevieve Koski of the A.V. Club later commented that Friendship Is Magic is an example of a show that, while considered "'girly' entertainment" like boy bands, has been able to tap into the nerd culture to allow it to gain wider acceptance than other comparable forms.[17] Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media, an organization focusing on the parenting aspect of children's media, has given the show a rating of four out of five stars, emphasizing the show's messages of friendship, tolerance and respect, but advises parents to be wary of the "influence the characters might have on their kids' desires, since it's rooted in a well-known product line of books, toys, and just about everything in between."[18]

Kathleen Richter of Ms. believed that Friendship Is Magic did little to change the nature of older animation for girls which she considered were "so sexist and racist and heteronormative".[19] As one example, she considered that, through the character of Rainbow Dash, the show was promoting the stereotype that "all feminists are angry, tomboyish lesbians".[19] She also considered that the only darker-colored ponies shown to date were in positions of servitude for the "white pony overlord".[19] Lauren Faust responded to these claims, stating that while Rainbow Dash was a tomboy, "nowhere in the show is her sexual orientation ever referenced" and "assuming [tomboys] are lesbians is extremely unfair to both straight and lesbian tomboys", and further stating that "Color has never, ever been depicted as a race indicator for the ponies."[4] Amid Amidi, writing for the animation website Cartoon Brew, was more critical of the concept of the show, calling it a sign of "the end of the creator-driven era in TV animation".[20] Amidi's essay expressed concern that assigning talent like Faust to a toy-centric show was part of a trend to focus on profitable genres of animation, such as toy tie-ins, to deal with a fragmented viewing audience, and overall "an admission of defeat for the entire movement, a white flag-waving moment for the TV animation industry".[20]

Internet following

Despite the target demographic of young girls, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has become an Internet phenomenon with many fans of the show being males from 12 to 35.[21] The adult interest in the show is comparable to similar shows such as Yo Gabba Gabba! and SpongeBob SquarePants, a combination of jokes aimed at adult viewers and a sense of nostalgia for older cartoons.[22] The response from the Internet is traced to cartoon and animation fans on the Internet board 4chan, responding to Cartoon Brew's Amidi's negative essay on the show and state of current animation trends.[23][20] The members of the cartoon "/co/" board of 4chan, having not yet seen the show, considered the alarmist nature of the essay and began watching the show, and quickly warmed up to the series for plot, characters, and animation style[23] Older fans took to heart jokes aimed at the adult viewers, such as references to X-Men, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Diamond Dogs.[3] This reaction soon spread to the random forum, /b/ of 4chan, where elements of the show quickly caught on as recurring jokes and memes on the site, and themselves spread as memes to other forums around the Internet.[23] During the 2011 South by Southwest festival, Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, revealed the first instance of acknowledging the growing My Little Pony following on his community.[24]

Since then, the fandom for the show has grown among a large number of forums and message boards. Fans of the shows have taken the name of "brony", a portmanteau of the vernacular term "bro" and "pony".[25] In a promotional ad prepared by the Hub for the show, using a parody of Katy Perry's "California Gurls" entitled "Equestria Girls", the lyrics acknowledge the word "brony" as part of its lexicon (as well as referencing a popular fan-made name for a background character).[21] Sites like "Equestria Daily" and "Ponychan" have been created to share artwork, stories, and news about the show, receiving more than 100,000 visits a day,[26] and many artists use art sites like DeviantArt to display fanart based on the existing and new characters.[21] Numerous videos that incorporate footage from the show, including music videos, parodies and remakes of movie and video game trailers, and other mashups, are posted on a daily basis to YouTube.[21][27][28][29] In one case, a video made by a high school student named Stephen, using science to dissect some of the physical impossibilities on My Little Pony as part of a class presentation, was highlighted by several news outlets[30][31] and featured on Tosh.0.[21][32] Most of these fans are themselves surprised by their fondness for the show. Shaun, the operator of "Equestria Daily", stated that "Honestly, if someone were to have told me I’d be writing a pony blog seven months ago, I would have called them insane."[21] During a phone interview on NPR's comedy radio show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! in June 2011, former President Bill Clinton successfully answered three questions about Friendship Is Magic, leading at least one journalist to jokingly refer to him as a brony.[33][34]

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic was heavily promoted by Hasbro at their booth at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con.

Lauren Faust, the creator and executive producer for the show, has shown appreciation for the older fans of the show through her DeviantArt page.[10] Faust early in the show's first season had stated, in response to Richter's criticism, that she had expected people "to instantly label it girly, stupid, cheap, for babies or an evil corporate commercial", and instead encouraged people to watch the show with "an open mind".[4] She had not expected older people without children to watch the show, but stated that "The fact that they did and that they were open-minded and cool enough and secure in their masculinity enough to embrace it and love it and go online and talk about how much they love it — I’m kind of proud."[21] Faust and the creators have acknowledged some of the fan-created elements of the show and reflected it back into the show's animation. In the first episode, a background pegasus pony is shown in one scene with a cross-eyed stare, a result of an overlooked animator error.[3] The 4chan boards quickly dubbed the character "Derpy Hooves", creating a more detailed personality for her despite having minimal on-screen time. Faust responded to the fans, and has since kept the Derpy character with the cross-eyed look, and incorporated her into a slapstick sight-gag during one episode.[3] According to supervising director Jayson Thiessen, they consider Derpy "like a little Easter Egg for people to catch".[3] As part of a relief effort for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, Faust auctioned several original drawings from the show along with a new sketch of Derpy Hooves, which sold for more than $2000 on eBay.[3][35] At the conclusion of Season 1, one of the show's animators affirmed that Derpy would be a scripted background character within Season 2. Another pony character, sporting neon colors, wearing sunglasses and manning a DJ mixer for one episode, was given the stage name of "DJ P0N-3" by the fans,[36] which later was reused in the aforementioned "Equestria Girls" Hub ad.[37] Similarly, fans of the show have named a male character with spiked, ruffled hair and an hourglass cutie mark as "Doctor Whooves", in reference to David Tennant's version of the science fiction icon Doctor Who.[3]

Hasbro and the Hub have also sought to market to this older demographic. Hasbro will be introducing new My Little Pony toys at the 2011 Comic-Con International, including a collectible one available only at the convention.[38][39] Hub promoted the show through a billboard near the Valhalla Motion Pictures Building in Los Angeles, using an image of the pony characters spoofing the film Bridesmaids.[40] In addition to the "Equestria Girls" ad, the Hub made a parody of the Technorati-centric Apple App Store, including a play on the motto, "there's a pony for that".[41] Though many of the fan-created elements of the show use copyrighted footage of the show and combine them with mature-themed elements such as from R-rated films like Inglourious Basterds or foul language from artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Hasbro has not taken a stance against these and has allowed them to continue to be hosted at various outlets, recognizing that the parodies and remixes form a "participatory culture" that has helped to draw larger attention to the show.[42]

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