It actually makes reference to the group Milli Vanilli who played one of their song on playback on scene and the song bugged and started to repeat the same sentence over and over again and they got exposed like that, it was very controversial back then and it became a classic.

Not only that, but their entire prior catalogue was all faux vocals. They weren't the ones singing any of their songs.


I relate to Fluttershy SO MUCH in this episode, cuz I have severe anxiety, so I know exactly how she feels


Zecora has a lot of cures and medicines. Maybe she can give Pinkie Pie a chill pill.

Zecora knows a lot of ways to cure an a ill. But there is no pill that can give Pinkie Pie chill.

@@magicmon At least not one strong enough, to be effective.


16:11 "She just flashed Big Mac!"
Thank goodness he wasn't the one doing the singing, or I'm sure there would have been a voice crack there.


4:27 "Pinkie, is your IQ lowered this episode?"
Short answer: Yes.


0:54 "Fluttershy, hell yeah!"
Best way to start an episode.


Fluttershy has a wonderful gift in her singing, especially as Flutterguy. I can relate with her with stage frightening in front of everybody. It's important to not think about the pressure and anxiety <br>🎵🎵🎵💗💗💗

Fluttershy has a wonderful gift in her singing, especially as Flutterguy. I can relate with her with stage frightening in front of everybody. It's important to not think about the pressure and anxiety
🎵🎵🎵💗💗💗


2:11 "Is this another episode dealing with her insecurities?  Guys, there's about a 70% chance I'm gonna cry this episode."
And a 99% chance that Flutters will.


I love the fact that Fluttershy's guy voice gets amplified in excellence when she's in the barrel as an echoing effect. Little details like that make me happy.


Did you realize Pinkie was the main antagonist of the episode? XD

That was perfect! 👌


Fluttershy tried to kill you this episode :P  Also, pinkie was really out of control here, although the way bigmac lost his voice is hilarious.  Awesome reaction!


Great Reaction.

Fun fact. The La la la at the end that Fluttershy does in something that Andrea Libman does for warm up berfore recording much like Thabitha and Rarity's beatbox sound bites


Another Fluttershy episode that I really like. Not only does it have great songs, but we have a blast from the past with the return of Flutterguy, which was very cool. I do have one minor annoyance from this episode and that dishonor goes to Pinkie. It’s the fact that she was oblivious of the way she was making Fluttershy feel. She thought she was being helpful with her words of encouragement, but really she was making Fluttershy scared out of her mind and I didn’t like that very much. Still, this episode is still enjoyable in my opinion.


Watching you tearing up by joy of this fantastic episode/song just made it too hard, not to cry myself :"3<br>You just seemed to be the worlds proudest dad watching his beloved daughter taking a big step facing her own fears :"")

Watching you tearing up by joy of this fantastic episode/song just made it too hard, not to cry myself :"3
You just seemed to be the worlds proudest dad watching his beloved daughter taking a big step facing her own fears :"")


fantastic commentary. Strangely enough no matter how hard i try, its always this song i end up singing. XD

Also i think Pinky forgot her meds this episode. lol


"That's beautiful!"

And that right here is a real man!


As a person with social anxiety, I'm not a big fan of this episode. I like the lesson, though. As well as I relate to Fluttershy in this episode the most. <br>I just didn't like how everyone was a bit ruthless and out of character and that bothered me a lot. And towards the ending where they asked what was so scary about being on stage. It's the fact that it's so overwhelming when so many people are looking at you. Your mind translates cheer and happiness to pity and laughter at you. Your mind is frozen and that makes it hard to explain why it is scary.  You can be very insecure when you have social anxiety.

As a person with social anxiety, I'm not a big fan of this episode. I like the lesson, though. As well as I relate to Fluttershy in this episode the most.
I just didn't like how everyone was a bit ruthless and out of character and that bothered me a lot. And towards the ending where they asked what was so scary about being on stage. It's the fact that it's so overwhelming when so many people are looking at you. Your mind translates cheer and happiness to pity and laughter at you. Your mind is frozen and that makes it hard to explain why it is scary.  You can be very insecure when you have social anxiety.


Just found this channel and this is a seriously positive and happy commentary!  <i>Good Job!</i>

Just found this channel and this is a seriously positive and happy commentary!  _Good Job!_

Yeah man, you’ll be hard pressed to find any negative opinions of mine about the show at all lol. Though I do make a lot of 18+ jokes so if you don’t like those I apologize haha


My Little Pony: The Return of Flutterguy


12:40 "Big Mac, you're in!  Cheerilee better be at your house tonight."
Say goodbye to the friend zone, baby!


Considering this episode aired 2 episodes after Pinkie’s best portrayal ever in FiM, having her portrayed like this was <i>incredibly</i> jarring. Especially since it was by the same writer! I remember this being a really great episode otherwise.

Considering this episode aired 2 episodes after Pinkie’s best portrayal ever in FiM, having her portrayed like this was _incredibly_ jarring. Especially since it was by the same writer! I remember this being a really great episode otherwise.


I never noticed the jackalope near the beginning


Yes! been waiting for this one. One of the best Fluttershy eps in the series :)<br>Oh and the Cutsinera (sorry if I misspelled that) is celebrating when a pony gets their cutie mark like Diamond Tiara's back in season 1. Its a spoof on a quinesnerea (again sorry for misspellings) when a girl turns 15 in a lot of Mexican and Latino areas of the world.

Yes! been waiting for this one. One of the best Fluttershy eps in the series :)
Oh and the Cutsinera (sorry if I misspelled that) is celebrating when a pony gets their cutie mark like Diamond Tiara's back in season 1. Its a spoof on a quinesnerea (again sorry for misspellings) when a girl turns 15 in a lot of Mexican and Latino areas of the world.


18:42 - 18:59 I literally cried at that part after I performed my first-time solo at my school play thinking If I did badly at my song and if I should stop singing


One of the best Season 4 episodes that I liked. The return of Flutterguy! Castle Sweet Castle and Pinkie Pride are also the best alongside it too!


Rarity:(to big Mac):you lost your voice in a turkey cought?! (pinkie pie):he lost his voice AND his tiltle!!!! lol!!


18:08 Never challenge AJ to a game of 20 questions.


11:34 "Gummy, gettin' some action."
Looks like Thanksgiving's come early this year!  :)


I can relate to shy here for a long time I wasn’t comfortable with singing in front of people heck I had to overcome it when my drama class reunion were singing but now I’ve sang at cons (nothing big) I’ve covered songs in spare time and I’m loving it


It's nice to know a military guy can enjoy this series and had the same insecurities I've dealt with.  It's why Fluttershy, Pinkie and Twilight are my favorite ponies


16:12 - uh, yeah... THAT'S not gonna be taken out of context in fan art...not at all. lol

16:12 - uh, yeah... *THAT'S* not gonna be taken out of context in fan art...not at all. lol


Spike to rarity: you was Awesome!!!(spike to the others members): bah.. the rest of you are pretty good... Really,spike?

Really wants under her tail, you mean!  :)


Fluttershy never stop to surprising me...


Absolutely hate what they did to pinkie in this episode. Pinkie is my fave pony and they just ruined her in this episode. Only bright side is the pony butts ;)

I feel you. Rainbow and AJ are my favorites, so you can guess how I felt when watching Non-Compete Clause...


5:38 I figured you’d like that plotshot of Fluttershy XD


She might be stupid sometimes but her voice is angelic.


Weirdly enough Im not bothered by Pinkie in this episode at all. Actually i can't really think of anything from the show that has annoyed me off the top of my head.

That's because you are a Pinkie fan so you are being bias.

@@vindico8231 She may be my favorite character (Rainbow dash is also my fav) but i have no problem admitting when a character is in the wrong regardless of how much i like them as a character.

After all the only thing i said was im not bothered by it but that doesn't mean pinkie stressing out fluttershy accidently was ok.

@@joshblackwell8632 What bothered me is that Pinkie was suppose to help Fluttershy because supposedly she is her close friend but instead Pinkie made things worse by terrorising her.

@@vindico8231 To be fair this wouldn't be the first time she had good intentions but ended up making things worse because she can't read the situation (Every character has these moments but some have them more than others). Good examples of this are "Over the Barrel", "Super speedy cider squeezy 6000", "Friend in deed" & "MMMystery on the friendship express". Plus she does run her mouth a mile a minute.

So Its understandable that fans would be a little miffed at how she was being.

@@joshblackwell8632 It didn't seem that Pinkie had good intentions to me because she nuked Fluttershy, making her cry more than once but I guess Pinkie didn't mean any harm.

She did not have bad intentions, but Pinkie has no filter.  If it pops into her head, it pops out of her mouth, which can unfortunately make her seem crass or uncaring to others on the surface.  She doesn't MEAN for things to go that way, but she honestly has no control over it.

If I recall correctly, Hasbro wanted Amy to wrote Pinkie like this for some weird and odd reason, whatever it was it sure is dumb for me seeing Pinkie acting a bit OOC.


This is my 4th best episode in the series. Pinkie Pie is not at her best. Fluttershy is fantastic. The return of flutterguy is great.

rarity is awesome too!! the first time i watched i totally thought it would be her who insisted fluttershy enter the spotlight immediately. but she’s a super respectful & supportive friend


That’s like me. I’m also super shy that it scares me to perform. It scares the crap out of me


It’s not that this episode as a whole is bad. But it’s easily one of my least favorites for several reasons.
1. Fluttershy’s development is reversed for the sake of the plot and the way they handled her anxiety is just far inferior to Hurricane Fluttershy for me. Green Isn’t Your Color also did the plot of Fluttershy being really popular and in demand despite her being nervous about performing and again, did it much better.
2. The song is repetitive and kind of annoying. I know that’s personal opinion but I really don’t enjoy it.
3. Also Pinkie Pie is completely out of character and it’s just inexcusable. This particular aspect really pisses me off because of how much I love Pinkie Pie as a character.


Fun fact: Blu Mankuma did not reprise his role as Flutterguy. Rather, the speaking role was done by Alvin Sanders and the singer was Marcus Mosely.


Fluttershy is like the Snow White of MLP.


This episode shows Fluttershy (Andrea Libmen),  because I think she did her singing as well as speaking parts, has a very  beautiful singing voice, far better than feather bangs does in season7 his singing sounded like annoying sex sounds.


5:38 Would you like me to put that rump sway on a 10-hour loop for you?  :)

"Let me just, ahhh, clip that for later..."
Never mind.  It sounds like you've got it taken care of.


Pinkies IQ droped by 79 percent thks episode


also.. the Pony Tones have only one song! only one...

I guess they're one trick ponies

[Pinkie Pie: rimshot]


21:07 What your OC saw the moment before that picture  ;)


18:25 Didn't need to watch the rest of the episode? And miss out on all that FlutterPlot?


Pinkie pie literally scared fluttershy a lot she needs to stop talking 😤😤😤


9:27/ 9:44-10:02 😅😅😅YEP love that reaction


With this episode my favorite song of my favorite fandom musician is spoiler free: Shining Star by Woodlore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_UAQKFmzGY
I highly recommend giving it a listen some day. His songs really add a lot of depth to some characters imo. (Quick warning: Learner's Paradox and Timberline Akimbo still contain spoilers if you want to listen to his other songs. The rest is spoiler free.).

Also since I haven't said it before: I usually don't comment on videos because I can't think of anything to say, but I want you to know that I greatly appreciate you putting the effort in to make these videos. It's been a while since I rewatched everything and with the show ending, this is a perfect time to do it again. And you're a great reactor to do it with. My favorite episodes are yet to come, so I'm really looking forward to your future reactions. :)


This is one of the few episodes of the series that I absolutely do not like, and only watch it when I watch other people react to it. The reason why I don't like it, is because I think it is boring, and a lot of the episode is repeating the same song over and over again, and I don't like the song in this episode either, because I think that is boring as well. I like the idea of Fluttershy taking Baby steps to perform on stage, and become more confident and stuff, but not the execution.

@@nsk999 I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion. A lot of people don’t like this episode. I personally have it among my top 5 least favorites in this series. I don’t think it’s a totally bad episode, but there’s really nothing that I like about it. It combines plot points from Green Isn’t Your Color and Hurricane Fluttershy both of which I think are much better episodes. The song is one I personally find annoying and it takes up like 1/3rd of the episode. And Pinkie Pie is completely awful and out of character. <br>I don’t expect everyone to agree with me but I personally really don’t enjoy this one.

@@nsk999 I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion. A lot of people don’t like this episode. I personally have it among my top 5 least favorites in this series. I don’t think it’s a totally bad episode, but there’s really nothing that I like about it. It combines plot points from Green Isn’t Your Color and Hurricane Fluttershy both of which I think are much better episodes. The song is one I personally find annoying and it takes up like 1/3rd of the episode. And Pinkie Pie is completely awful and out of character.
I don’t expect everyone to agree with me but I personally really don’t enjoy this one.


This is the first truly trash episode of the series. I don't like it. It's bad.

It's everything wrong with Hurricane Fluttershy with none of the saving graces. It's bad. Very bad.


Vindico what can I say, I’m a simple man


5:39 YO TELL ME HE DIDN'T REMIND YOU OF THIS SHIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKJQi-_W00I


Sugar High doesn't exist. It's all placebo brought on by parents.