S01E12: Call of the Cutie

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S01E12: Call of the Cutie

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sat Dec 02, 2017 3:39 pm

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Call of the Cutie
Airdate: January 7, 2011
Writer: Meghan McCarthy

Apple Bloom becomes concerned about her lack of a cutie mark and tries to earn it before an upcoming party.
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Re: Call of the Cutie - Season 1:Episode 12

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Dec 02, 2017 4:58 pm

That whole thing with Apple Bloom and Rainbow Dash doing extreme sports stuff, while not too unreasonable for Rainbow's ideas of things to do for a cutie mark, might've also come out of the early pitch bible. The pitch bible describes a story outline in which "Appleseed" is trying to do this sort of thing and eventually shoots herself out of a cannon, something I'll have to talk more about once we get to Sonic Rainboom. Still, it's interesting how that's a thing that eventually got ascribed more to Scootaloo.
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Re: Call of the Cutie - Season 1:Episode 12

Post by Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:23 pm

I haven't seen these early episodes in years and wow, Sweetie Belle's younger voice! :ohboy:
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Re: Call of the Cutie - Season 1:Episode 12

Post by Adiwan (?) » Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:33 pm

When I discovered the show this was the newest episode.
For me this was a little turn-off because suddenly there was "that little annoying child" that took over the show.
In hindsight I have a vastly different opinion and shifted towards the positive but at the time i had mixed feelings about this episode and the other Crusader episodes of season one.
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Re: Call of the Cutie - Season 1:Episode 12

Post by The Doctor (?) » Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:51 pm

Strange watching this one given the big 180 they did with the Cutie Mark Crusaders story.

This episode played up the idea of having kids run a gambit of tasks to try and get a cutie mark off as a laugh. Now it's what the CMC do.

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Re: Call of the Cutie - Season 1:Episode 12

Post by Applepie2017 (?) » Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:04 pm

And then CMC Goes Crusading was reused in Party of One
But...
This one's too young

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