Ramble: My Little Pony G5

Jenny's impression of the prince makes me crack up every time

I also have zero commitment to tv shows lol

I'm years late with this comment, but I'm with Jenny when there's an excellent documentary about something and Hollywood immediately decides they need to make a cheesy drama about it. Case in point: Dogtown and Z-Boys.

So what you’re telling me is that one day, Sunny Starscout will inherit the MLP equivalent of the Gilbert Journal? It’s all connected.

I spent the entirety of the video staring right into the beady little eyes of that plush of a slice of brie, knowing I have a big chunk in the fridge, yearning for its creamy goodness, but also its 11 pm and eating night cheese is just not in the cards at my age. I am not a plush person but i would buy that plush no question about it if I encountered it in the wild, its excellent

I just googled boeing 737 max because I definitely remember hearing it in the news recently and immediately see articles today still having safety issues despite this being a known issue since this video drop. If you havent already would like to hear thoughts on secrets of dumbledore. Only seen the first 2 fantastic beasts but would like to hear closing thoughts on the harry potter series as a whole.

Ny little pony collection patreon vid when 👀

this is an old ass video but i actually really enjoyed this movie and i found the discourse surrounding its “nazi stuff” so insipid because yeah, i honestly do believe they were drawing on nazi imagery, but like in the same way they did for Scar in the lion king. They unambiguously depicted the military dictator pony as bad, and then he gets defeated and no one likes him lol. They don’t physically tear him apart like scar, but they don’t have to because 1. the tone, obviously, and 2. the fact that, i’d argue, it’s far more progressive to go for full restorative justice and social consequences over throwing characters in jail or killing them. I feel like this brand of twitter leftists (and really leftists in general) are far too bloodthirsty because violent protest/revolutionary action is so demonized that they think they have to advocate for violence always in response. Like no, the need for revolutionary violence doesn’t necessitate defaulting to violence. People really need to be more abolitionist than they are. Also Izzy has that line “between you and me, i think that badge was creating an unhealthy power dynamic” which may be kinda cringey but really directly critiques the institution of Pony Cops which is more than G4 ever did with its royal guard and Shining Armor and the changeling racism episode (WILD episode btw). Now that the show’s come out and it’s allegedly mid (i haven’t seen it lol) i can’t speak to its potential quality, but I still stand by this movie as being a surprisingly mature example of this trope and having a lot of potential. also the music is still great and i listen to Fit Right In and Danger Danger regularly.

OMG JELLYCAT BRIE

I've seen most of G4 MLP, and I can't believe I never noticed the ponies didn't have eyebrows!

"I've been thinking about rainbow fish" is an understatement.

Is that a Brie plush?!?

Jenny if you can stomach a miniseries based on a real life case, The Dropout is so phenomenal and will give you everything you could hope for on Elizabeth Holmes

also it's very funny that ken jeong has now played two characters that dress up in strongman outfits

I want them to soft reboot minty into g5. her aesthetic was almost painfully adorable.

My daughter, having watched this ramble with me, at Goodwill the other day: "Hey Dad, what G pony is this one?" 😄 I'm still only able to answer G4 or not

Wait I'm curious because you didn't mention it as a project, is the star wars land hotel trip you've been posting videos of to twitter going to be a project? I love your amusement park videos and that whole thing seems like such an odd experience

You HAVE TO watch Prop Culture on Disney+! I guarantee that you will love it, it’s a documentary about movie props! I’ve watched it 3 times 😌

I love how Jenny explains who Vanessa Hudgens is by referencing High School Musical and only later mentioning “the Christmas Prince” in passing. As if anyone on her patreon hasn’t watched her detailed rundown of the drama and deception in the deep universe of A Christmas Prince!

The only two things I like about Vanessa Hugens are: her voice, and the show Powerless- I miss Powerless

Honestly, I am always down for the hot takes on the toys. I really like that you analyze playability aspect from a child's perspective.

I just rewatched the Bronycon video and I literally gasped when I clicked on this one and saw that you got The Pony Hat! Congrats lol

What I got from this is that we need a The End of Ponyvangelion video

The 737-MAX was renamed the 737-8, so you won't ever see the 737-MAX when you book a flight.

I highly recommend the book Bad Blood, which is about the Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes case and went into a lot of fantastic info. It’s written by John Carreyrou who’s the journalist who helped crack the original story which brought down Theranos. It’s a great read.

I am surprised that Jenny has not seen any of the Disney+ Star Wars series. I was under the impression that she is an avid Star Wars fan.

I had also never seen or heard of The Jinx before this vid. I just finished watching it today and it was insane! Seriously, thank you for not spoiling it because that was AN EXPERIENCE

Omg thank you for not spoiling The Jinx! I’d never heard of it before and wow it was fantastic.

The Way Down sounded really promising but I gave up on it pretty early, sadly - felt like another unfocused, poorly paced series misapplying its time. It's not even that that story lacks interesting content apparently, they just seem to have chosen to go really hard on their boring family drama interview footage instead. And from what I've heard even in later episodes it may not serve as the resounding refutation of diet culture I was hoping for either.

So the solution to the Applejack problem was to just bin the character completely. There's 5 of them instead of 6...

Lol as a Peterson I know many Peterson men who have not killed their wives. But I’m also not shocked there are a surprising number who have, because there are just SO MANY Petersons on this planet. It’s like having the last name Smith in Sweden or in most of the American Midwest.

STARZ did An amazing NXVIM documentary but HBO Max's was the bad one it seemed very biased and like didnt hold the high up people accountable

Ah no, I'm Charlie brown and the football of promised new video has once again been cruelly yanked from me at the last minute.

After Jenny mentioned it in the ramble (as well as other people in the comments), I made a point of watching The Jinx over the last couple of days. I'd intended to watch an episode a night, but each part finishes on a bit of a cliffhanger so it only took two lol. What an unsettling and fascinating story. After it ended the way it does, I spent a while reading about the events that happened after the series aired. It seems kind of crazy I'd never heard of any of it before.

The in-depth pony toy segment was amazing, you describe things in such an engaging way. Also, love the lilac ensemble 💜

I never want my host to work on something they can't enjoy but I do want the world to know how, funny, it is that the evermore lawsuit was countered with surprise relevant dwarf song copyright law

I haven't been up to date with the updates. What is Church Play ? Is there still a plan to make the Barbie video ?

shoutout to all my G3 ponies from my childhood not becoming sticky 🙏 didn’t even know that was a possibility

In terms of NXIVM documentaries, I would recommend watching Seduced over watching The Vow. As much as I like Sarah Edmondson, the whistleblower from The Vow, I can’t fucking stand Mark Vicente and how he constantly makes the documentary about himself when honestly NXIVM awarded men near-total power over women and he does no reflection about that and acts like he was victimized on the same level as the women. Besides, Mark Vicente directed a famous pseudoscience documentary that perpetuated and spawned a lot of misinformation that’s still harming people today. He’s honestly just not the brightest dude but he acted so entitled that it colored the whole rest of the series. Plus he spends way too much time hyping up both himself and Keith Raniere. Seduced is centered around women who were in NXIVM and DOS, made by women, and involves a lot of personal reflection. It’s way better at elaborating on the interpersonal manipulation tactics that were in play and includes the perspective of India Oxenberg’s mother, who tells you what it was like to watch her daughter get sucked into NXIVM. The only problem is that Seduced is only available on like Starz+ or some shit while The Vow is on HBO and Amazon prime.

I watched the new MLP with my 2 year old. She loved the "pretty horses" and I found it significantly more enjoyable than Peppa Pig.

Jenny pls finish the Evermore video, I HAVE to know about your actual trip to the park

ALWAYS here for jenny hot takes on toy lines. One of my favorite videos of yours is still you giving those g1 ponies a tyra banks makeover experience

Regarding the mention of nazis in the MLP fandom: That controversy began when Derpibooru--in response to BLM protests following George Floyd's murder--publicly announced that the site would ban images that "promote racism or attempt to downplay the Black Lives Matter movement." The usual "but my free speech" crowd wasn't happy about this. This was first reported on by Kaitlyn Tiffany writing for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/my-little-pony-nazi-4chan-black-lives-matter/613348/ I feel her article does misrepresent the SCALE of the issue a bit by omitting some context. She mentions Derpibooru contained (at the time of writing) 900 images with the "racist" tag, but it's worth noting that there are over 2.5 million images on the site. Of course, NO amount of racism is acceptable, but when the edgy posts represent 0.036% of a site's content, that's hardly indicative of a nazi takeover. That said, Tiffany's article was overall a thoughtful and reasonably accurate accounting of the fandom's problematic elements. Even so, Twitter did its usual thing, and blew the situation wildly out of proportion. For people trying to distance themselves from racism in a very heated political climate, bronies made for an easy scapegoat. There's already a stigma attached to the fandom, meaning that a.) there's not a lot of social clout to be lost by attacking them and b.) very few are going to be in a rush to defend them. So a lot of people latched on to the very oversimplified "bronies are nazis" narrative. Which is sad, because the vast majority of MLP fans haven't done anything to warrant being associated with something so hateful. Some people even criticized Jenny's bronycon video with the claim that she should have "said more about the nazi connection." I suspect the reason she didn't is because there isn't much to say beyond "some people suck."

I want to know what Jenny...and frankly all of you...thinks about "World's Smallest My Little Pony" https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Smallest-Little-Collection-Complete/dp/B07PWYL373

From what you're describing, I feel like making the CGI ponies close their eyes the way they did in the 2D animation suits more a Guillermo Del Toro horror fantasy environment rather than like a friendly kids movie. Like I'm picturing this in my head and it feels a little terrifying. Were people actually upset they gave the ponies eyebrows? Like I'm actually curious to know if people saw this as like a controversial move. (Oh also, one of the shows you mentioned you watched, I also watched and I've had like conflicting feelings about it. And normally I'd just comment and not like send a DM but it had to do with personal stuff and I still wanted to share my experience just not on like a full public scale. Hope it was ok I messaged it instead).

Okay, so I googled "Polly Pocket", and would you believe Architectural Digest had an article about it?

I bet the writers realized they couldn't predict what would be cancelable at release time, so they gave Sunny the only sure-fire acceptable character trait and kept everyone else generic -- and their movie *still* got denounced for perpetuating historical cycles of systemic oppression.

8:58 That pony looks cute in that frog costume!

if one of you is in here paying to get extra videos but also clipping parts to make Jenny look bad then.. what.. stop that. Get some help

I would prefer Pony Magic School [Working Title]

for those unfamiliar with The Jinx, it’s on HBO Max - don’t google it. first article immediately spoiled the ending lol

I'm shocked Jenny hasn't seen any of the Mike Flanagan anthology series' on Netflix (The Haunting of Hill House, Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass) The character writing is so good and I know how much she loves good character writing.

For anyone interested, “Jawline” is on Hulu and is fantastic. One of my favorite docs ever.

wait are Hitch and Sprout actually brothers? how. how did I miss this.

Maybe you've already seen it and didn't mention it in the video, but if you like animated series I highly recommend "Arcane". It uses a blend of 2D and 3D animation like "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse" and does an amazing job with character development. It's on Netflix. Excited to see your new video!

42:50 I love that she thought this would be a relatable analogy

The first episode of the new MLP is out on Netflix now! It's 45 mins long... I think more episodes are coming but not until end of summer/early fall

The Challenger doc was so so good. That one moment when they were all in the room and the engineers were advocating to not launch the next day because of how cold it was and slowly the executive/business people convinced the whole room that they should launch. Really impactful.

Annoying people are always going to be annoying, and most of them don't follow you enough to know what's been going on. Maybe just delete all the unfinished stuff from the last few years and start fresh with the last few months of work. Whatever let's you enjoy your work and cope with the horrible future we live in. Great video and thanks for everything =)

I had never even heard of “The Jinx”, but your throwaway recommendation as like the best true crime doc ever led me to binge it and holy shit… feel very privileged to get to experience a “cultural moment” unspoiled 7 years late

Jenny- if it makes you feel even the slightest bit better, I think I've rewatched your Evermore previews no less than 10 times through and find the topic to be so weird and intriguing. No one would blame you if you just released the video as is with maybe a 10 minute wrap up on how they're doing now in the year of our lord 2022.

On "the staircase"- have you heard of the Owl theory? I definitely think she was killed by an owl. Forensic analysis found microfeathers in the weird wounds on her head!

This video subconsciously influenced me to purchase the G3 pinkie pie i've been watching on mercari for 3 months now

Jenny I'm so excited and happy for you that got your hands on one of those felt pony hats that you wanted in the last bronycon video!

Oh no, so sorry to hear about the Evermore burnout! I know you’ve talked before about the pressures you feel as a creator, so just know that we support you regardless- we’d love to see the Evermore conclusion, but understand the difficulty!

jenny what's your skin care routine

Is a Beanie Babies video still on the horizon? That is the one Ive been so excited for, but haven't heard it mentioned in a while.

I really empathize with the whole "I don't really watch normal TV" thing. When I was younger used to have a whole collection of shows I'd watch and follow religiously, but in the past like 5 years, I just find most TV to be dull or repetitive. Especially after watching the best of the best - like the Sopranos and Breaking Bad. So now just watching a few documentaries, a musical, and one true crime is very relatable!

wait til she find out Pipp is ALSO a hairstylist in the show.

The multi-pack Sunny has bangs! The 2-pack with Twilight does too but Sunny is an alicorn in that set lol, I'm guessing this Sunny doesn't have bangs because they'd need to be thatched in and it would limit hairplay because the thatching would be ruined with brushing

So glad that Jenny finally got a felt pony hat

Tirek turned me into Scorpan when he took over my kingdom

Cop pony??? Cop pony as a part of pony structural racism?? Cop pony amasses tanks?? Idk seems like there's a lot going on there. Maybe I'm out of touch with kid's cartoons

Never heard of The Jinx until this ramble so I spent my Sunday watching it all and all I can say is OMG 😬

IIRC there were two docuseries on NXIVM, not sure which channels/streamers had each. I only watched one but I'm pretty sure it's the one Jenny said wasn't good. A few ex-cultists being a bit too self-congratulatory.

I DID know a kid who had a pikachu build a bear, and had to be talked into getting an Evee build a bear instead of a SECOND pikachu. He was convinced on the basis of being able to give pikachu a friend. Some kids love one specific thing and want it over and over again.

I spent 2 years of my life on this movie and this was the video I was looking forward to the most, thank you :')

that nazi pony sure looks like Homelander...

They should hire Jenny as a writer. She established she can write an ongoing show with WiM. It's beyond clear she understands the mechanics of how narrative interacts with character and also what makes the show appealing for both fans and young girls. I know I'm just an internet stan so obviously I'd say this, but even if I weren't, she'd help make the show great.

for fans of descendants, pipp petals is actually voiced by evie!

is the hat u wearing one of the ones u talked about in the bronycon video? if so very excited for u that u managed 2 find one

Absolutely devastated to learn that none of the new ponies wear a cowboy hat.

i’m really interested to see the evermore video! you’ve probably just been looking at it too long. we are often the worst judges of our own work.

Oh my god, this video made me realise I had a G2 pony as a kid and thought it was a bootleg because it looked nothing like the other ponies I had that were G1.

I watched the part about the toys with my 8yo daughter, and now she wants some G1 ponies :D We're staying at my in-laws' house and this even kicked off a hopeful scavenger hunt that sadly came up empty to see if any of my wife's old ponies were still around. I might be searching for some online now...I think she'd have a lot of fun restoring them. Also don't underestimate the ability of FiM to cultivate an audience of kids today on Netflix! It is both my daughters' favorite show for probably over 2 years now, and they were both excited to see the callbacks to the G4 characters in the G5 trailer. MLP was introduced to us by word-of-mouth maybe 4 years ago when our oldest's preschool friends liked to play pretend as the characters of the show (us googling "princess alistia" to figure out what she was talking about)

Jenny do you know if/when this video will have captions?

Weird.... my only takeaway from this ramble is that Jenny thinks Nazis are good 🤔 /s

Totally agree with G4 toys being kind of crap. The only ones I got were some of the Build-A-Bear ones which were the most cartoon-accurate but really could've used more mane/tail hair. I wasn't previously into MLP toys because I don't really like the "doe-eyed" look that the older series had and I don't love that they have no articulation, but I give those early lines props for creativity in the other aspects. I definitely agree with you that regarding what kids want and collectors want, introducing more ponies into the toy line that aren't established characters is a great idea. Maybe have them as vaguely "separate" categories like "show ponies" and "toy ponies" rather than Hasbro saying that the toys MUST have a relation to the show.

As a low tier patreon I never got to see the evermore preview. If it never goes to main channel I'd really love for it to be made viewable for us!

I thought that having Friendship is Magic be historical was also kind of cool just because I don't see that sort of connection in a lot of kids media. I also like how it was referenced in the movie's story like mythology. Though I would compare it more to ancient history, like the Roman Empire or ancient China where there are very famous historical people, but we don't get their whole story because it's just not all recorded/survived. Plus, royalty often have legendary things, like being the child of a god or their birth being foretold.

Got this notification while standing in the pit at a concert which is like the only time I wouldn't immediately click on the video 😂 Anyways, so glad this topic won. I would still love to see a full production of Jenny's G5 vision: Pony Magic School (name pending)

If you all are looking for a limited series thats concluded satisfyingly, on netflix theres a show called “Midnight Mass”, just recently watched through it and its my favorite thing on that whole site. Just straight up artful as all hell

Fun fact: the voice of Izzy Moonbow is Kimiko Glenn and she voiced another horse in 2021 in Centaurworld (Netflix original 2D animation show / musical). I highly recommend Centaurworld if you like musicals, animation or stories that have a resolution (it’s 2 seasons and it’s done).

If folks try <i>Challenger: The Final Flight</i> and <i>Downfall: The Case Against Boeing</i>, and like those, then I’d definitely recommend <i>Last Breath</i>, also on Netflix 🤿

i still can't believe the love victor series is not on disney plus in the US (it is over here since we don't have hulu, so most of hulu is on d+ instead). but also re:it getting cancelled i think they knew going into the third season that it's the end so hopefully they'll wrap it up well enough?

I got a bit obsessed with the the blind boxes with G5 lol. I had so many and had them all on my desk. Eventually I gave them all to my friends 5 year old and she was so excited to get them. The one I kept though was a Princess Luna with brushable hair and her body is a dark blue snow globe. It's really pretty. I also had the Celestia one but I didn't like it as much, the plastic looked aged already when it was brand new.

I’m really glad this topic won because I love whenever Jenny talks about Ponies. I’d also be fascinated by any numbered list she’d make about the Saw movies. I don’t know them very well, but I’d be really interested to learn about them in a vid.

Its so absurd to me how much people care about dumb things celebrities say. Like wow, yea, they are definitely out of touch. Because they’re rich as fucc. Why do you care to the point of dedicating so much of your life cataloguing their “sins” and then spend the rest if your life pointing at people saying something nice who dont know what youre talking about and screaming hatred at them. Its such a putrid lil slug life, I feel sorry for those who cant just live their lives

I haven't handled one of the new toys yet so I don't know how effective it would be, but you could try pulling the second row of hair plugs forward between the first row to give Sunny bangs without a bald spot.

everytime jenny says "docuseries" i cant help remembering and repeating to myself when she said "thank you disney but my family can't eat docuseries"

ok just on the racism in cartoons point, one of the barbie movies (mariposa) is very clearly set in some kind of colonial state - the royal family and all the aristocrats have spanish accents and then all the american-accented characters we meet are their servants or work in menial jobs, and it's just such a weird dynamic that is never addressed? At the end they form, like, cross-cultural friendships and romances but the whole system is never even acknowledged and i always found it so weird

Lilac is absolutely jennys colour she looks stunning

Man I felt what you said about the Loki series in my soul. I feel like so few media concepts these days actually END that I get really excited when some show or movie or whatever just ends and is finished and that's the end. I'm so thirsty for resolved storylines. I'm also queuing up I love you now die so thanks for the rec!

Got the notification for this ramble while watching Secrets of Dumbledore – definitely more excited for your take on it than I was for the movie itself! 🧙‍♀️

Hearing Jenny say the G4 ponies are dead hits a little harder when it looks like she's wearing Twilight Sparkle's decapitated skull as some kind of war trophy. WHAT DID YOU DO, JENNY?!

Zipp was shown to be really athletic in the movie so I think they are going with a jock vibe for her. Regarding Sunny's character, yeah, she does fall a bit into the "generic main character" trap. (though hardly the worst case I've seen) With modern kid cartoons that have female leads, apparently the studios and networks really push the creators to make them have that positive, eager, happy-go-lucky personality. Though given the nature of My Little Pony, she was probably just planned like that from the start.

Unrelated but that light purple color is stunning on you 10/10 your color

Great video! I prefer the G1 and G3 size too, and those gens have the most interesting cutie marks IMO. Their bodies are just a bigger canvas. With the G5 series they just released that special you saw and I think another batch of episodes will be released in September. There's also a 2D MLP webisode series on Youtube called Tell Your Tale. The webisodes are only 5 minutes long and mostly deal with the characters' hobbies and little slice of life stuff.

I was just thinking "oh they added eyebrows for spirit, didn't they, and that worked weirdly well" and then you said it. delightful. horse eyebrows....who'd have thought.

Ok, you mentioned Hey Arnold and I’d pretty much give anything to hear a ramble discussing your favorite episodes from it

Whatever happened to the Barbie video? Apologies if I missed something

This was exactly what my headspace needed tonight, so thank you. Video reaction: I thought when she said all the G4 ponies were dead it was a bit, yikes; and also I know they didn't go this way but "Izzy Moonbow" sounds like a pony who is also somehow David Bowie. Second... work on what you want to work on, every video in the pipeline sounds fun, but if it helps, the first hour of Evermore was brilliant. I get being burnt out on it after a whole year but it was going great and I feel you deserve to have it seen. Just a thought and hopefully some amount of encouragement. And finally a swift topic change... is that Squishmallow in the bottom right corner a piece of pie or wedge of brie? Either way, amazing, I love it, kept glancing at it the whole time.

Omg Jenny did you know on Discovery + you can stream all fifteen Seasons of the critically acclaimed Cooking series Semi-Homemade With Sandra Lee and it’s very successful three season spinoff, Sandra’s Money Saving Meals!

the video everypony's been waiting for

Jenny should release the vlog of her and her sister from Evermore park like the Star Wars hotel

I'm so intrigued by the MLP metaphysics!! So G5 is in an era when TS is just a legend… but Celestia ruled for at least a millennium and there's no reason to believe that Twilight would rule for less time. If your civilization had a ruler who reigned for a thousand years, I'd think she'd be pretty well established in the history books!! Also, I'm intrigued by the idea that these G5 ponies could be descendants of Twilight or Fluttershy. Do the "big alicorns" (can't think how else to categorize Celestia, Luna, and the final evolution of Twilight, in contrast to Cadance) … have children?? They're almost like too separate from the normal-sized ponies for that to seem doable. Meanwhile Fluttershy ended up with Q from Star Trek!!! There's no way they had kids, right???

I have 2 daughters, one 12 and the other is 6. The older one grew up on the Friendship is Magic show and the younger one has watched this movie about 100 times since it hit Netflix and the follow up “Chapter” a bunch since that released. Both kids like both series, but I think they like the newer one more because of how far into the catering to the adult fans Friendship is Magic got. Got to the point where, as a parent it felt like we were watching an 80’s hard PG sometimes.

Are you still making regular “free” videos on YouTube? Or are these Patreon videos the only ones you’re making now?

This is the review I've been waiting for

You got your pony hat!! On the off-chance you read this: Jenny, would you voice a Pony if they offered? I mean, if they're using YouTubers, they might offer, but I don't know if you'd actually want to work with Hasbro.

Jenny: If horses had eyebrows Me: …. Do they not? TIL / today I realized.

Just wanted to say that even though we’ve only seen the first half or so of the Evermore video, its really intriguing so far and Ive watched it many times.

Jenny omg you posted this mere HOURS before I drive across the country to LA for my summer job; any and every hour of content I have to listen to will help me endure the three days of driving. Thank you for continuing to make lengthy rambles amidst large projects 😊

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Yesssssss Jenny saving my Saturday night!

the way I feel such new joy and excitement every month when the ramble notification pops up 😭

Clicking on this to be met by the big soulless eyes of the twilight sparkle hat brought be unimaginable joy