I like how Pinkie mentions time travel, and mere seconds later Starlight appears in the background.

Guess thats what gave her the idea in the cutie re mark

@@juststeven5001 Exactly 💯. In fact, there is evidence that proves that Starlight was keeping a close eye on the Mane 6 in order to get revenge on them, especially considering her brief appearances in this episode and Amending Fences plus the theory that she might be the shadow silhouette with the mysterious voice in Apple Bloom's dream from the Bloom and Gloom episode.

If this is true, then this is how the events happened:

Starlight runs away swearing revenge on Twilight and her friends after they managed to help the ponies from the village get back their cutie marks.

From there, Starlight decides to investigate the Mane 6 more closely, which includes knowing where they go, who surrounds them and why they are so important in Equestria. In her attempt to get revenge on them, she begins tormenting those ponies that are very close to the Mane 6 and her first victim turns out to be Apple Bloom, whom she manages to torment by getting into her dream and making her not want to have her cutie mark.

When Twilight goes to Canterlot to apologize to her old friends, Starlight is seen at the donut restaurant keeping an eye on Twilight, and considering that Twilight was in the Canterlot library, perhaps Starlight managed to find out where the library was in case if she needed to go to get information that could help her with her revenge plan. Then, she continues spying on the Mane 6 and when they are all together with Discord recreating the scene of how they spent the day with him, Pinkie mentions time traveling and because she was spying so close to them, Starlight hears about the time traveling thing, which gives her the idea of how she can get revenge on Twilight and her friends. Then, Starlight decides to go to the Canterlot library to do some research on time traveling and discovers Star Swirl's time travel spell and manages to get a copy of it.

After getting this information, Starlight thinks that she needs to discover one more detail in order to make sure that her revenge against the Mane 6 works out perfectly and that is discovering why they are so important in Equestria. Now in the Cutie Re-Mark episode, Twilight makes a presentation at Celestia's school about the meaning of cutie marks and it is seen that in the audience Starlight is present and when Twilight mentions how she and her friends managed to get their cutie marks at the same time without even knowing each other thanks to Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom, implying that they were destined to be friends in order to spread the magic of friendship throughout Equestria, Starlight discovers the reason why the Mane 6 are so important in Equestria, which becomes the last puzzle piece of her plan: To travel back in time in order to change it by preventing Rainbow Dash from performing her first Sonic Rainboom as well as to avoid the Mane 6 from getting their cutie marks so they don't get to know each other and by doing that, she will also be able to change the present and future.

@@kidanygascot1410the shadow specifically was Apple bloom's, Luna even said. Plus I doubt she had the magic of a princess whose cutie mark entirely revolves around night


Without knowing you manage to predict plots several seasons ahead in your jokes.


By the way, it's actually getting kind of scary how often you say what someone in the show is about to say right before they say it.


Discord is a character who's personality really depends on who writes him.
Almost every Discord-episode is written by someone else. The only episodes which are written by the same person are two later episodes in Season 6 and Season 8 respectivly (written by Nick Confalone) and two Season 9 episodes (non of which are really "Discord-episodes" as while they give Discord a lot of screentime, its always with someone else) written by Michael Vogel.
This gives his character quite the amount on inconsistency which, considering he's the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, actually makes sense as "inconsistency" is a part of chaos.
In some episodes, he is the teacher with good intentions but a quetionable approach to teaching lessons. In others, he's a jerk but with a heart of gold. And in his worst episode, which comes later on, he's an entitled, selfish, childish asshole you just want to punsh.
The only real consistency is that if he wouldn't be the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, he'd be the Spirit of Overconfidence and Narcissism for sure.
However, this also means that his reception by fans changes from episode to episode.

“And in his worst episode, which comes later on”

I assume you’re talking about "A Matter of Principals?" Yeah, that episode is downright awful. Nicole Dubuc ruins everything that she touches.


Holy crap, you actually noticed Starlight... good on you, I guess

@@tessasense2584 in the bottom left corner in the Bush at 10:57


01:27 Which may seem a little, but if you multiply it by the number of books she reads every day, it quickly can add up to hours :J
05:55 Yeah, a universe of bad puns and puppet friends ;)
06:10 Two things I could watch for hours non stop: ponies, and Bob Ross painting :)
06:30 The fans: "Why don't the mane six treat Discord like their friend?!"  Hasbro: this episode. Fans: " :G "  :)  Yeah, be careful what you wish for ;J
08:50 Excellent point!  I would add that it may also be a matter of honour for her: being a Princess of Friendship, and missing on bonding with her own best friends :J  Kinda like "Amending Fences" 2.0 :)
10:57 Good catch!  /)*(\
11:50 Another excellent point. It's scientifically impossible to recreate a situation, because even if you did that down to the level of atoms, you would still miss on everything that happened in the rest of the Universe that might have had influence on that situation. There's also the No Cloning Principle in quantum physics that would most likely be violated by that ;>  But that's the point; that's why Discord is trolling her into recreating that situation in the first place: because he knows all well that it is an impossible task, and he's deliberately flooding Twilight with all the unimportant details to overload her study :)
13:45 Hahah yeah, Twilight, like with the Schrödinger's Cat: you're affecting the outcome of the experiment by the mere fact of observing it :J
15:08 Well, as much as she's loco in her coco right now, she made a valid assumption: there is a possibility that they're under Discord's spell. It even was my first thought when I first saw Discord and Rainbow Dash in this episode. And even if it later turns out that they wasn't under any actual spell, one could still say that they're under the "spell" of the Magic of Friendship ;)
17:53 Interestingly, what Pinkie did was the most logical thing to do if one wants to win the debate and cut any ungrounded accusations: don't play a victim, just drink the damn potion and prove that there was no spell to begin with, and all the accusations will suddenly have no leg to stand on :J
(BTW I would laugh my pony ass off if it turned out that the potion was just Zecora's piss ;D )
18:48 And you all act like dicks rubbing that all over her face and making snarky remarks :q
22:59 Maybe checking out some thicc plots? :D

01:27 Which may seem a little, but if you multiply it by the number of books she reads every day, it quickly can add up to hours :J
05:55 Yeah, a universe of bad puns and puppet friends ;)
06:10 Two things I could watch for hours non stop: ponies, and Bob Ross painting :)
06:30 The fans: "Why don't the mane six treat Discord like their friend?!"  Hasbro: this episode. Fans: " :G "  :)  Yeah, be careful what you wish for ;J
08:50 Excellent point!  I would add that it may also be a matter of honour for her: being a Princess of Friendship, and missing on bonding with her own best friends :J  Kinda like "Amending Fences" 2.0 :)
10:57 Good catch!  /)*(\
11:50 Another excellent point. It's scientifically impossible to recreate a situation, because even if you did that down to the level of atoms, you would still miss on everything that happened in the rest of the Universe that might have had influence on that situation. There's also the No Cloning Principle in quantum physics that would most likely be violated by that ;>  But that's the point; that's why Discord is trolling her into recreating that situation in the first place: because he _knows all well_ that it is an impossible task, and he's deliberately flooding Twilight with all the unimportant details to overload her study :)
13:45 Hahah yeah, Twilight, like with the Schrödinger's Cat: you're affecting the outcome of the experiment by the mere fact of observing it :J
15:08 Well, as much as she's loco in her coco right now, she made a valid assumption: there _is_ a possibility that they're under Discord's spell. It even was my first thought when I first saw Discord and Rainbow Dash in this episode. And even if it later turns out that they wasn't under any actual spell, one could still say that they're under the "spell" of the Magic of Friendship ;)
17:53 Interestingly, what Pinkie did was the most logical thing to do if one wants to win the debate and cut any ungrounded accusations: don't play a victim, just drink the damn potion and prove that there was no spell to begin with, and all the accusations will suddenly have no leg to stand on :J
(BTW I would laugh my pony ass off if it turned out that the potion was just Zecora's piss ;D )
18:48 And you all act like dicks rubbing that all over her face and making snarky remarks :q
22:59 Maybe checking out some thicc plots? :D


9:05 "Now you got Twilight riled up, Discord."
It's what he does best.  :)


Come on, like you wouldn't ever be caught staring at ponies through binoculars, Ponybro!


Back to the future is one of the best series of all time.

Yeah, it's a true classic :>  I love it too. (To the point that when I was a kid, I went to the local public library and borrowed all books they got on Relativity and time, planning to build a time machine :D  Obviously I didn't build it, but I learnt a lot about Relativity at that time, which was a pretty solid achievement as for a 10-years-old :J )<br>If you like that kind of stuff, though, there's one great anime about time travel: "Steins;Gate". I consider it to be the best time travel story after "Back To The Future". In case you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you to watch it ;)

Yeah, it's a true classic :>  I love it too. (To the point that when I was a kid, I went to the local public library and borrowed all books they got on Relativity and time, planning to build a time machine :D  Obviously I didn't build it, but I learnt a lot about Relativity at that time, which was a pretty solid achievement as for a 10-years-old :J )
If you like that kind of stuff, though, there's one great anime about time travel: "Steins;Gate". I consider it to be the best time travel story after "Back To The Future". In case you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you to watch it ;)


10:57 "Heeey whoa, Starlight!  That was Starlight right there!  She had binoculars!"
And she was there for Pinkie Pie's suggestion of "Time travel?"  (BTTF reference)
Could that have given her an idea?

Thanks i was spending 30mins trying to find her

@@thanushan3981I still can't see her where is she


In all honesty, this episode is my least favorite of the season. All the while, I pretty much felt the same way as Twilight did about feeling left out on what her friends and Discord took part in while she was organizing her books and it kinda rubbed me the wrong way. Sure there were a few chuckle worthy moments here and there, but that still didn’t change the way how I felt about the episode as a whole.

Well, that kinda means that the writers did a good job in reproducing that feeling, didn't they? ;J
It isn't my favourite episode too, but definitely not the worst either, since it tackles with some interesting philosophical questions.
(In case you wondering, there's only two episodes in this season that I consider terrible: the Yaks episode, and the one in which Pinkie knows. The rest of them are great episodes, so season 5 is definitely one of my favourites.)

SpacialRend7 This episode is one of my least favorites of the entire series. It felt like a cruel joke against Twilight. She was not feeling jealousy. She felt left out because her friends kept bringing up jokes that she didn’t understand because she wasn’t there. Instead of realizing that her feelings were being hurt by this, they kept laughing and saying, “it was funny if you were there”. This was rude and insensitive for ponies that are supposed to be her friends. To top it off, they never apologized to her or got mad at Discord for manipulating them. The mane 5 felt out of character in this episode.

Twilight is so annoying in this episode.

@@amead78 Yeah I totally agree. I really don't know how people can blame Twilight's every action in this episode. She so had full right to feel left out and a bit jealous, I mean who wouldn't??


9:22 I swear to god he's doing this shit on purpose


what is worse?: DIscord bad puns or the fact he got trolled at the end of the episode?

Also, i love fluttorange and the reaction you had


The fact hasbro put a Bob Ross reference


Fluttorange is the cutest best thing ever


I cant believe you saw starlight there on your first try... impressive


6:04 😂😂😂10:58 Finally a reactor who noticed


I never noticed Starlight in this episode until he pointed her out in this video


-Pinky talked about travel time in this moment we also can see starlight on the background, so is it the reason takes Starlight to do five season finale time travel?


I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved Discord’s plaid “contrail” in that scene.


This was a good episode. Really good character development of twilight and we also can see that discord is better friends with the rest of the mane 6 and not only fluttershy.

<i>Thank</i> you! All the hate for this episode is really f*cking annoying.

_Thank_ you! All the hate for this episode is really f*cking annoying.

@@winter2716 yeah, I kinda appreciate it more with time

I feel like this episode gaslights the viewer which is pretty funny


This episode is rated 3rd worst in the series and, to be honest, I don't really see why: everybody seemed in character, the moral was pretty good and the references were great too. I guess the inside jokes were bad but that's kinda the whole point, sometimes they can be this bad and here Twilight is the one we can relate to. I just feel like this episode doesn't deserve the hate it got.

I just find little to no enjoyment from watching it. I can only say that about a very small number of episodes. It doesn’t do anything in particular that makes me hate it, I just think that Discord comes off more annoying than funny, and the general concept of the episode just feels really bland to me. I enjoy discord when he’s being funny, but when he’s just being a nuisance and nothing else I really wish he wasn’t there.

I agree 100%. Haters gonna hate, I suppose.

Well I don't like this episode because it reflects the feeling of being left out so well. I felt just so sad about Twilight and through the whole episode I was just so annoyed by the rest of the mane six behaving so rude towards her


It's nearly impossible to fuck up a Discord episode.

This episode somehow achieved it.


Contrary to popular opinion, I liked this episode lol

Peopke dont like this episode? Is the  first time i see this. For me is a good episode.

@@MVivar-dj8cp same, ik some people don't like the episode but I think it does a REALLY good job in making you feel like Twilight and I think the lessons are kinda mature

@@cripwalker665 i agree with you. For your name i think you speak spanish dont you?

@@MVivar-dj8cp I've been taking a lot of Spanish classes, but I'm not a native speaker. I'm decent at best lmao

@@cripwalker665 ou ok haha. I was gonna speak you in spanisk because y thought it was your first lenguage.


I have a strong dislike for this episode. Twilight’s friends were absolute jerks to her by making her feel left out and rubbing her face in it by saying “You had to be there” all the time. Twilight had every right to be suspicious because she knew that none of them, except Fluttershy, would have normally had nothing to do with Discord. Plus, she was not jealous that she didn’t get to spend the weekend with her friends. The writers didn’t understand was jealousy was. How would you feel if your friends all of a sudden had an inside joke that they refused to tell you what it was about and why it was so funny and they talked about it 24/7? You’d feel left out and miserable. This came across as a slap in the face to Twilight fans. Let’s not forget that her friends never apologized to her or got mad at Discord for manipulating them. They just a good laugh about it at the end. WTF.


With the predictions you make that come true, you should go buy a lottery ticket!!


This is my least favorite discord episode because all the other discord episodes were far imo.


I honestly have no idea why this episode gets so much hate. It certainly doesn’t deserve to be the 2nd-lowest-rated episode of the entire series on IMDb, that’s for sure. That “honor” should go to a certain <i>other</i> Discord episode in season 8…

I honestly have no idea why this episode gets so much hate. It certainly doesn’t deserve to be the 2nd-lowest-rated episode of the entire series on IMDb, that’s for sure. That “honor” should go to a certain _other_ Discord episode in season 8…


16:37 Pinkie sits on Fluttershy's throne


Honestly this episode is the only episode I don't like in the series as a whole


This is by far the worst Discord episode. I honestly don't like it.

Really? You think this episode is worse than A Matter of Principals?

@@skittybug6937 I respect your opinion, even if it’s wrong 😉

@@winter2716 At least in A Matter of Principals, Discord wasn't the one objectively in the wrong. Sure he was an ass, and I very much dislike how he's characterized, but making a point on inclusivity and assumptions is a whole lot tamer than actively excluding someone to then gloat about it to their face.

@@skittybug6937 Fair enough. I just can’t get over the fact that Discord literally puts the Young Six (particularly Yona, as usual 😔) in mortal danger in A Matter of Principals.


I didn't like this episode. Discord comes off as a jerk. Twilight comes off as kind of stupid. Also the puns just get really annoying.