Sober Thal said:
You are correct. It does, however, involve humor of some sort!
People find all sorts of things humorous. It's more of a "reference" than a "joke", though. A reference to an adult comedy.
I think that if you want humor that anyone can enjoy, the show is littered with it. For instance, Fluttershy's continued frustration at getting rejected by animals is comical because of the lengths at which she is going to and how it obviously comes off as creepy for obvious reasons of intrusiveness and a lot of the general aspects applied to the "creepy stalker". That if you try to hard to make someone like you who doesn't, and forcefully so, or even putting them into a compromising situation purposely, it only makes things worse. Furthermore, seeing someone so innocent typically, given those traits is a contrast which creates humor.
As a sort of simpler humor, Pinkie Pie often invoked the sort of "inappropriate hedonism" humor. When everyone else cares that everything is out of whack, Pinkie Pie can be seen lapping up chocolate milk.
I don't know what you consider adult, but I'm not going or caring for any definition with these. Just bonafide humor. In "Lesson Zero", an entire town fights over an ugly doll. The irony supposed to be being, that it's just an ugly doll, but people are going nuts. And the real added humor, is that after it's all over, Big Mac decided to take the doll because he was actually nuts over it somewhat to begin with.
Space Spoons said:
But if that's true, I have to wonder why you feel there needs to be a rebuttal to the presumption that MLP doesn't contain adult references. If it doesn't matter to you, why entertain the argument at all?
I don't have to agree with the logic behind it to want to correct people. It's an interesting truth.
People are just argumentative. Instead of saying "marriage isn't a religious thing", they have to say "marriage isn't religious, but even if it was that doesn't mean that homosexuals shouldn't get married." and give multiple reasons why.
But we're on the same page, it would at least appear, that people care far too much about whether something has an "adult" aspect to it, like that's some sort of requirement. Though it's a bit unsettling that I can't really seem to bring it up without someone suspecting my motivations.
I'm on whatever side of the argument says good things about MLP. Whether it be on an entirely logical basis or not.
And any excuse to talk about the new episode and highlights from it is a good one. And this certainly seemed like a bursting thread opener. I totally worded this sentence when editing my post the first time. But the forum is having errors again and the text was lost.:/
