Hello everyone! This is the beginning of a project that I’ve wanted to do a long time now. I just had to wait for the exact moment I wanted to start planning that. What is that moment? That is when the show reached over 100 episodes. Welcome to my personal Top 100 FiM list. This show has been and still is my favorite currently running show. And I am so glad it made it over 100 that I thought the best way to celebrate them is to reflect on every single one. And I’d like to share where I think each episode stand with one another. Show what episodes I feel are among the greats as well as those that I feel kinda fall off the wayside at times.
Each part for the exception of the first one (Which I will explain soon) will cover 5 episodes. Counting down from 100-96, 95-91, etc. all the way down to 10-6, and 5-1. I have even gone the extra mile to go a little fancy with short intro videos that contain a piece of music I like that goes along with Screenshots of at least one of the episodes contained in the part (Note: In these videos they don’t necessarily had to have screenshots for each of the 5 episodes. They could have only screenshots from one particular screenshots, just a few, or they could have something from all 5 after all). There will be 21 Parts in all. Most weeks will have 3 put up but for the first week I’m putting up just this one. And maybe I may have to do two instead sometimes.
By the way, I did not rewatch the series for this. And I understand that may make it sound like I have preconceived notions at times. But I assure you I have watched every episode at least twice and can give enough of a familiarity that I can remember what I liked and/or didn’t like in each episode. Rewatching the series would take a while (We’re at the point where if you marathoned the entire series nonstop including the trilogy of Equestria Girls movies it would take nearly 2 days to watch it all). And I might actually be ponied out if I tried marathoning even if I paced it around at a few episodes a day. With a combination of this and with so many episodes to cover you can say there’s a bit of a margin of error. And also some placements may not be permanent cause if Season 6 follows up on any previous episodes it is possible for Season 6 to improve a previous episode placement cause I do like to factor a bit of impact into the ranks. For the most part important episodes that introduce things for the future have an advantage over episodes that never got followed up on anything.
As a side note, Two-Parters are going to count as One episode. I feel it would be complicated to have the Part 1’s and Part 2’s separate. Another thing is the Equestria Girls films are eligible to be on the list as well. This brings the total amount of episodes/movies to 112. Now I’m sure your first question is what to do with the 12 that don’t make the Top 100. Do I simply just not mention them at all? Nope, the Bottom and/or Unranked 12 is actually what I’m covering first. So we can get the weakest out of the way before gradually getting stronger and stronger (In my opinion at least, I don’t expect nor do I think everyone will agree with me. I will try my best to be at least a little objective. But all-in-all this is still a personal list, you may still see a lot of Bias from my side. If you disagree with me on anything at all, I’m willing to talk it out but I’d like it if you do not flame me for putting a favorite episode of yours too low or a least favorite too high. Respect my opinions, and I’ll respect yours.). So how about we get started shall we? Bad news first, then nothing to go but up from there.
*I hope the video editor watermark isn’t too annoying as it will be on every video in this project. The point is just the audio and the images that pop up. Also this is not on Youtube because I don’t trust the site’s copyright system enough for this to stay there for very long, especially recently
As much as Friendship is Magic is a a great show. It’s far from perfect, there are quite a bit of times they mess-up on, whether it’s characterization, writing, and/or bad ideas to begin with. The episode has had it’s fair share of controversy as many episodes have a love it or hate it tag to them where it’s hard to find middle ground. It’s quite possible one of my Bottom 12 could be in someone else’s Top 10. Or one or even multiple episodes of my Top 10 would be in someone else’s Bottom 12 if they were ranking the episodes.
I do want to put a bit of a disclaimer. I’m one of the most positive Bronies you’ll ever meet. Most of the Bottom 12 I don’t even dislike personally besides maybe 1 or 2 of them. There’s usually one thing to like about every episode. And some of these Bottom 12 would be average or even good episodes in other shows. As Friendship is Magic sets a pretty high bar. These 12 are just those I don’t feel quite qualify for a spot in the Top 100. If you love any of the 12 mentioned to pieces, I do apologize in advance. But I promise you, even the worst episode of FiM would not be anywhere near one of the worst animation episodes in all of history. But speaking of which we’re starting at the very bottom of my barrel. The only episode I have a hard time thinking of a legit thing to like about it.
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