I honestly thought the whole episode was about how nature created different species for a reason. Like Fluttershy said, The bats spit out the seeds and only drank their juice. This acts as a way to spread the seeds and to feed the seeds nutrients they need. The apple's skin decomposes and burries the seeds, and let it grow, and the spit the bats use also help. I feel like that is more of a second moral to the story, and the the geneticly modified fruit is more of a third one.

@Vexent Gaming Technically, in the episode, the bats spit the apple core. Or are you talking abt real fruit bats?

Sorry to say but they don't spit out the seed they go through the digestive system


Am I the only one who actually likes the episode. I've heard alot of people say that they don't like it. Maybe it's because I was too focused on the plot of the story and not the characters.

Sooooo encredibly late. But I liked it as well. Btw is it just me, or are the songs in canterlot high better than the songs in the actual mlp

Late to the party, but I liked it too 😄💕


I think the moral was far more general. That nature and technology can work together and they don't have to go against each other. It seems to mirror our situation with flying foxes here in Australia, and probably similar situations with animals supposedly getting in the way of technology in other places. If we learn to work with nature, not against it, we will achieve far more.

@MlpPlaysGames<br>If we build technology that works with nature, then it will work better than if it destroys the environment.

@MlpPlaysGames
If we build technology that works with nature, then it will work better than if it destroys the environment.


Must admit, I was quite shocked from this episode. I don't know if anyone else spotted this but I got some racist and prejudice vibes from the episode. Think about it. Bats invade an apple orchid for food. Instantly, all but one of the main six prejudge the bats to be parasitic vermin out to destroy work just because they want to (which they don't- they're bats). The five ponies are disliking the bats for what they are and turning against anyone (Fluttershy) who supports the bats. I don't know about anyone else but that just screams racism at me.<br>P.S. I heard a fact (not sure if true) that, in 1940's America, averagely one in six white Americans were considered not to be racist. Coincidence?

Must admit, I was quite shocked from this episode. I don't know if anyone else spotted this but I got some racist and prejudice vibes from the episode. Think about it. Bats invade an apple orchid for food. Instantly, all but one of the main six prejudge the bats to be parasitic vermin out to destroy work just because they want to (which they don't- they're bats). The five ponies are disliking the bats for what they are and turning against anyone (Fluttershy) who supports the bats. I don't know about anyone else but that just screams racism at me.
P.S. I heard a fact (not sure if true) that, in 1940's America, averagely one in six white Americans were considered not to be racist. Coincidence?

@man. ponies being the dominant species just like we are animals ourselves but we are the dominant species, just saying like we behave and look differently too.

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Well I see that they really are vermin in the real world. Key words there: Real world.
It's more like racism and discrimination as they are two species of animal. They're both animals that simply look and behave differently.

Yeah. It's just the fact of all the animals show a degree of sentience; just feels more like discrimination.

Or maybe because they're are pests... Like in the real world... They would get killed... Like in the REAL WORLD.

But yeah, not racism just pure farmer hatred to 'darn pesky pests'

I suppose they wanted to highlight discrimination in general but racism comes from discrimination.


Does anyone else think that if the ponies just killed the bats with a lazer beam or something it would be over quicker? for the bats that is. Since twilight wanted to starve the bats to death instead of relocating them, or something. But no they wanted the bats to suffer for trying to live along side with the ponies.All because AJ didn't want to give up a few trees...


I believe TLC stands for Tender Love and Care.

tender loving care is what TLC stand for and battle for dream island

Thats what it means<br>It was confirmed in the show

Thats what it means
It was confirmed in the show

Tiny Loser Chamber<br>(look up BFDI if you dont understand this)

Tiny Loser Chamber
(look up BFDI if you dont understand this)


if it weren't for one line in this episode, I'd have an interesting headcanon.

Aj's parents were killed by vampire bats! I think it explains her hatred of the bats. that's just me tho.

No no no no because the bats eat a j Apple ok but that’s still a good line on Apple Jacks history ok🎄😇

I searched it up and they died but not by bats. Because bright mac died after his wife did because he was so sad

Their called vampire <b>fruit</b> bats not vampire bats so they wouldn’t kill ponies now would they?

Their called vampire *fruit* bats not vampire bats so they wouldn’t kill ponies now would they?

Hackfresse Ahoi that would make it even more likely that they were killed by timberwolves

Maybe she hates them bats, but I don't think that they are so dangerous to ponies that one could die from a bat attack. Aren't they more interested in fruit?

@Heyhey 207 Applejack actually likes Timber Wolves, because they are a sign of the Zap Apple Season. At least, I assume so.


At the end of stop the bats the mane six are not not talking in aggressive voices and they don't have angry expressions. The whole song was Flutter Shy over reacting over the mane six explaining how stopping the bats might not be so bad. In reality the mane six were probably talking in normal voices. I fact, the only reason there was that song in the first place is so that we didn't have to listen to the mane six discuss bats for hours on end. Also this was my favorite song in mlp.

same! THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THAT


no nitpicking but it was hard when he said fluttershy was a bat a "stupid bat" .... bats are very interesting being an animal I've studied for years... no more nitpick for this video


In the song 3 ponies where in character applejack (because her entire life was being ruin.) wait no scratch that they ALL where in character, the main six all saw how Applejack's life was being ruined. Only Fluttershy was looking at the bats perspective. Makes sense why they would support AJ instead of Flutters in this situation.


I loved Bats!!! Also, I loved Flutterbat. LOVED IT. It was awesome, the design was awesome, it brought up AMAZING designs for the other characters as Bat ponies! Also, the only one I thought off was Pinkie. I mean, I might be able to understand the others taking AJ's side, but Pinkie? Really? Well, actually, to be honest, I think a few might have been off ... Like, in Green Isn't Your Colour, we see Rarity has a close relationship with Fluttershy. Wouldn't she take her side? But, I think the rest were fine. Twilight's being logical (Ughhh), Rainbow's being headstrong, not to mention, thinking about her cider ... Anyway, and AJ was staying loyal (Ummmmm ...) to her family and, let's say, business. Though she's being a bit harsh on Flutters, she's just doing what's good for her trees and such. She's heard about what happened last time the bats came, and she's trying to protect her trees, still kinda being stubborn about it, probably because she doesn't want her family and Ponyville to be let down. Therefore, she's ignoring Fluttershy because of her fear.


Or, like Ink Rose mentioned, the reason the apple is huge, because there was more Earth Pony magic was going into it...


I realize it's been almost two years since this video was posted, but on the off-chance that you have the time to look back at this, I wanted to present an argument that engages one of your frustrations with the episode: the song. <br>1) Fluttershy's social anxiety is the reason for the dark tone in the Bats song. It's not reality--it's Fluttershy's perspective. You pointed out that the other five (except Pinkie for that one giggle moment) seem like they're bullying Fluttershy into abandoning her objections to Applejack's insistence that they need to drive the bats away. But as soon as the music is finished, Fluttershy is lying on the ground, covering her head with her hooves and shaking like she does when she's scared. Twilight helps her up and is her normal, considerate self, saying she's sorry but that she has to side with Applejack on this particular issue. The song isn't an accurate portrayal of the reality of the argument the Mane Six are having--it's Fluttershy's perspective, showing how she FEELS about the argument. She just didn't have the personal strength to stand up to her friends yet. Thankfully, she grows through this experience and does have that strength in Filli Vanilli.

I realize it's been almost two years since this video was posted, but on the off-chance that you have the time to look back at this, I wanted to present an argument that engages one of your frustrations with the episode: the song.
1) Fluttershy's social anxiety is the reason for the dark tone in the Bats song. It's not reality--it's Fluttershy's perspective. You pointed out that the other five (except Pinkie for that one giggle moment) seem like they're bullying Fluttershy into abandoning her objections to Applejack's insistence that they need to drive the bats away. But as soon as the music is finished, Fluttershy is lying on the ground, covering her head with her hooves and shaking like she does when she's scared. Twilight helps her up and is her normal, considerate self, saying she's sorry but that she has to side with Applejack on this particular issue. The song isn't an accurate portrayal of the reality of the argument the Mane Six are having--it's Fluttershy's perspective, showing how she FEELS about the argument. She just didn't have the personal strength to stand up to her friends yet. Thankfully, she grows through this experience and does have that strength in Filli Vanilli.


@The Brony Notion Okay, seriously, am I the ONLY one who drew parallels between the "Bats!" song and the atrocities committed against the Native Americans... Some of the lyrics sounded like excuses that the Settlers would've used...

Marion Ette OMG I not the only one! I thought that too!


I liked the episode Bats! for a few reasons. One would be the design for "Flutterbat". We've only seen bat-like ponies once before, in Luna Eclipsed and it's been revealed by Lauren Faust that the bat ponies we saw during Luna Eclipsed were an actual race of ponies, native to deep caves and other dark places, aswell as serving in Luna's division of the Royal Guard. They just look different from the vampire fruit bat pony that we saw Fluttershy turn into.

Another thing, I've noticed that you mentioned in a later episode that you'd love to see the return of the Changelings with one of the beloved ponies actually being a Changeling in disguise. We've noticd that Changelings have sharp fangs, similar to the fang Fluttershy had at the end of the episode. Maybe it's a hint to the return of the Changelings, or maybe it's just a pointless cliffhanger the writers will just simply forget about.

Keva the Half-Kestora DUDE JUST SAY U LOVE IT

Keva the Half-Kestora, SAME! I love the episode "bats"

They didn't forget about ceberus in its about time so I hope they do something with this and is it true that the luna guards are a race?


I like Fluttershy as a bat. It gives more about how Fluttershy does have extra magic...
The stare, talking to non equines. Fluttershy transformation.., makes sense in a way. Btw
It’s discord’s fault


I'm surprised by your analysis on what is probably the worst episode in all 9 seasons. Also, that you say there's a problem with GMOs. I have only ever heard fear mongering brought on by people saying "There's no telling what that stuff will do to you!". Which cleverly hints at it being bad, whilst actually admitting that "I don't know what the outcome will be". But in all those years since the fearmongering began, nothing has ever been found to link GMOs with any kind of negative problem at all. We are living in an age of overpopulation, and yet starvation is known by few. This sounds like it was a long term solution that panned out well.

And it kinda means your review falls apart... Or means that if this is the message of the episode afterall, then the episode's message falls apart... Which sadly was the case with their first morale too. Everyone was OOC and it was bad. But the end result where Fluttershy makes the wrong decision and encourages a problem (overpopulation) whilst allowing the initial problem (reduced food producton) to continue. A bad combination. She does this whilst supposedly being an animal expert, but if anyone were to point out the problem of her plan, I'd expect it to be Fluttershy. This feels like something Applebloom shoulda been used for, wanting to protect the cute bats. And for Fluttershy to come in and tell her that it's not good for anyone to do that.

Instead Fluttershy has caused the bats to go into a situation where they will begin to starve. The more they eat, the more the breed, the more will die when the farm fails. But dont worry! When the bats die they'll land on the ground and decay and fertalise it and make the trees grow stronger! Yes that's the moral! Disasters are all okay because it always leads to the next generation doing better!.. Which is true but god damn twisted. There is no way to see this episode any other way through, childish, or dark, it was bad with bad morals. Worst episode.


Wow, I never thought of that. I just chalked that huge apple up to Earth pony magic. That's really clever, what the writers did now that I think about it. They did the peer pressure thing for the young audience , while leaving the Man vs Nature moral for the older, more analytical viewers.


That's not a great theory if you ask me. People have been growing prize-winning produce for generations. If AJ had had a field of giant apples, then maybe we could talk.


i loved the "bats!" episode and also who thought flutterbat was one of the cutest things in the show... along with the breezeys


The biohazard thing reminded me of that "Fallout: Equestria" story. Hopefully such a grim future won't happen, be it in the pony world or the real world. :)<br>I thought it was kinda too bad that the power ponies episode happened just before the bat one. If Fluttershy's powers had been her bat powers (or at least her attunement to the animals; calling them to come help her save the day and such, kind of like a mix between Pocahantas, Cinderella and Snow White) that would have been cool!

The biohazard thing reminded me of that "Fallout: Equestria" story. Hopefully such a grim future won't happen, be it in the pony world or the real world. :)
I thought it was kinda too bad that the power ponies episode happened just before the bat one. If Fluttershy's powers had been her bat powers (or at least her attunement to the animals; calling them to come help her save the day and such, kind of like a mix between Pocahantas, Cinderella and Snow White) that would have been cool!


"Bats!" Is one of my favorite episodes. I love everything about it. And if Applejack is using GMO's then how come actual people have  grown crops up to that big without using GMO's? This video frankly made no sense to me.

The animation for the mane 5(other then Fluttershy) was just showing how they feel. The animation showed how they are true friends with Applejack. And I know that you and I and a whole bunch of other bronies  would feel that way too if your apples or a friends apples were being eaten by a bunch of bats.

Fluttershy's- excuse me- Flutterbat's animation is amazing. Only because that would really happen if someone casted a magic spell on a living thing and it backfired onto something else. So, Flutterbat is a thing. And it has a reason.

Also, not to be rude but why is your pony OC shaped like a female pony?

Just asking.... Don't get mad. -.-

"Bats!" Is one of my favorite episodes. I love everything about it. And if Applejack is using GMO's then how come actual people have  grown crops up to that big without using GMO's? This video frankly made no sense to me.

The animation for the mane 5(other then Fluttershy) was just showing how they feel. The animation showed how they are true friends with Applejack. And I know that you and I and a whole bunch of other bronies  would feel that way too if your apples or a friends apples were being eaten by a bunch of bats.

Fluttershy's- excuse me- Flutterbat's animation is amazing. Only because that would really happen if someone casted a magic spell on a living thing and it backfired onto something else. So, Flutterbat is a thing. And it has a reason.

Also, -not to be rude- but why is your pony OC shaped like a female pony?

Just asking.... Don't get mad. -.-


Your videos make me think twice about EVERYTHING in my little pony<br>I'm saying that's a bad thing I LOVE knowing more about the subject

Your videos make me think twice about EVERYTHING in my little pony
I'm saying that's a bad thing I LOVE knowing more about the subject

+La Pate it may have been a spelling mistake so calm down


Actually I very liked that episode, but in some extend, you're right. The moral should rather be, that Applejack should also respect nature and the bats instead of Fluttershy standing up. In my opinion, she stood up enough in that episode.


Generally, I think it would have made more sense if they had made AJ talk about how bad the bats were a bit more before launching into the song. Let her win over Twilight before the song. It would make twilight's participation less jarring.


Bats was probably the best song of the whole season. It was a brilliant duet between Applejack and Fluttershy, because the tone of the music and even the scenery style change when it switches between them.


I like that the episode showed a compromise instead of just straight up vilifying one side or the other. These days a quasi endangered in your particular area species, can shut down an entire farm. That's right, a species of bat that is actually not endangered at all, only rare in a certain area, can have a farm shut down in our society that is already facing a problem with food production without government intervention (yes, I'm sure that's intentional too, but that's beside the point). Can't there be a way to work with farmers instead of just destroying their lively hoods? Like making shelters or helping them reserve small areas for the animals? Would that be such a horrible idea? Hey Peta you gonna give up your homes for a species of rat that probably isn't even in trouble and just doesn't like living in your area? No? Really? I wonder why no one else wants to either.


GMO... You know... Animal husbandry, cross pollination. You don't have to have technology to "tamper with genes" via science to make plants and animals genetically modified. We've been doing it a long, long time. Dogs are the perfect example. We take traits we want and breed it out or in. For example, the English bulldog looked an awful like the American bulldog before it was bred for certain physical attributes.


flutterbat is far best the cutest to me,i love her design,and how much her personality has changed in the bats.<br>bats are rude and mean as you see in the episode,compare it to fluttershy,she's mean and rude and hisses at them,but she's still is cute.look  at all the fanart of her,she's quite popular

flutterbat is far best the cutest to me,i love her design,and how much her personality has changed in the bats.
bats are rude and mean as you see in the episode,compare it to fluttershy,she's mean and rude and hisses at them,but she's still is cute.look  at all the fanart of her,she's quite popular


what if earth ponies have their own magic manifested by in skills. Seeing that every pony possess magic(being they all have cutiemarks that in effect relates to magic abbiltity), but not all posses a horn so in some form, it still must exist and still somehow manifest itself. And in case of Applejack, what if TLC means Tender love and care, means the more potent her power becomes? Like the father, Money Banks(dont know his name, so I will leave it at that), skill is in direct correlation with his magic as he also become wealthy(or atleast mainteined his wealth). What if humans in MLP possess magic, but are not limited in with skill they use to enact that magic. So in other words when they play music, they draw on skill and as such, magic. That must be why using this skill together, they desplay their freingship(being that freindship is magic) magic is also produced. The greater the bond(by quaility or quantity), the greater the magic?


The main method for getting larger fruit is by getting plants that have a larger number of genes, usually being 4n or 6n instead of the usual 2n.  Though uncommon plants with extra copies of genes occur a fair amount in nature and by breeding them against each other you can get any entire crop of such plants.  Genetic engineering is just a way of accelerating the introduction of such traits that do or could occur naturally and don't usually change the plant in any significant way.


I do think that the song may not have been so much as how the mane 6 actually were reacting to the situation towards the end so much as how how Fluttershy interpreted  there wanting to get rid of the bats. I simply saw it personally as an over exaggeration  that Fluttershy saw from her own point of view, aside from maybe Apple Jack who clearly wanted them gone. However, I have to agree it's not my favorite song. Mine is still True True Friend and probably always will be!


I love this episode because Fluttershy literally morbs in it.


There's also that later episode where Applebloom uses potions to grow apple trees


Oh,this was actually one of my favorite episodes,but I respect u r oppinion,I thought it was perfectly fine for AJ to be overprotective of her farm,it's Kinda in her nature. Plus flutterbat was cool, and a great subject for fan art (srry,I'm not hating or anything,this is just my opinion on the subject)<br>P.s, I'm a huge fan of ur vids!

Oh,this was actually one of my favorite episodes,but I respect u r oppinion,I thought it was perfectly fine for AJ to be overprotective of her farm,it's Kinda in her nature. Plus flutterbat was cool, and a great subject for fan art (srry,I'm not hating or anything,this is just my opinion on the subject)
P.s, I'm a huge fan of ur vids!


Wow,  a hidden theme in an MLP episode?<br>Exciting. Perhaps, we should be looking much closer at the episodes' meanings, motifs.

Wow,  a hidden theme in an MLP episode?
Exciting. Perhaps, we should be looking much closer at the episodes' meanings, motifs.


See I see the episode on a smaller level. In Australia we see rabbits and kangaroos as pests in regards to farming. We kill them as it is the only way we can save our crops due to most farms being in places that don't get much rain. Either keep the pests alive or keep the crops, plants and therefore cattle alive.


The orange frog mix was a mistake by twilight sparkle if I remember correctly.

She got distracted while trying to turn an apple into an orange and it hit the frog.


Thanks for this one, quite an in-depth analysis and sure made good points.


I’m actually surprised twilight didn’t agree with what flutter shy said, Fluttershy was correct about the bats spitting out the seeds and then they grow back. Twilight is a lot dumber than I thought


First of all did i just come to love this dude even more basically what i don't like about the the human society that we are too blinded by what fixes problems now and not considering what the future might be like for us . Secondly well when u put it like that well yh i agree this interpretation is really good i like it idk what else to say so... I like your channel im a new fan


I feel liken in this ep it was kinda stressing for fluttershy because she loves both nature and animals so she couldn’t just let the bats ruin all the trees like that. In the same time tho she couldn’t let her friends “ stop the bats “ because ofc she wants them to eat. seriously tho I thought I was the only one who thought they were out of character or they were acting weird


the song was awesome, I don't care it doesn't fit the characters, the song is great and shows the plot perfectly, and the whole reason for them being rude to fluttershy is because they want to show her she is wrong, and apples are applejack's life!she would defend them from any potential danger!


I've never even seen this episode, but that bat Fluttershy is so cool. Did they ever make her an official toy?


How else would their "magic the bat problem solved" plan backfire? If the writers tried something mundane, fans would have asked "Why didn't they just 'magic' the solution?" Were you really expecting a bat extermination episode back then?


Flutter bat looks cool! I like her look but at the end she still kinda has fangs so maybe she has a bit of bat in her and I liked bats


Yeah they were being really rude to fluttershy I mean she is the one in the group that knows about animals they should’ve listened to her (I know if they did listen to her it would’ve been the shortest mlp: fim episode ever but still)


i know its opinions but I LOVED THE Bats Episode

The only thing i hated was stop the bats

Me too! I don't see why everyone hates the episode


The whole episode was created because of the fanart flutterbitch haven't you noticed other hint toward fanart like fluttershy and rainbow dash scene that feed the ship. The writers of mlp Pay attention to the fansart and shipping. The writers even have a flipping diviantart page.


I think that TLC is time,love and care<br>Like how rarity uses TLC for dresses AJ uses it for apples

I think that TLC is time,love and care
Like how rarity uses TLC for dresses AJ uses it for apples


Truthfully I think you were WAYYYYYY over thinking this. Plus this episode was amazing!! It showed the dark side of applejack. I mean... Pardon my language but ... THE BATS RUINED HER LIFES WORK I WOULD BE PISSED TOO!!!!!!!! And GMO really? Just just no okay...<br>I'm sorry but the writers would never bring that in to an episode. And bro... bro this is a cartoon about colored horses.... Get your panties out of a knot about the whole GMO thing. Also I know you were ticked about the flutterbat thing I thought it was interesting! For one that is the only other bat pony thing we saw since Luna's guards. What if they are an entire civilization?!?! This could give you more info on them. Okay and still that cartoon was not real if you are implying that applejack genetically modifies her apples than sorry but you are very wrong. IT IS A CARTOON!!!!!!!!! It was supposed to be big for effect!!!!!!!! They just wanted to imply that it was big and im

Truthfully I think you were WAYYYYYY over thinking this. Plus this episode was amazing!! It showed the dark side of applejack. I mean... Pardon my language but ... THE BATS RUINED HER LIFES WORK I WOULD BE PISSED TOO!!!!!!!! And GMO really? Just just no okay...
I'm sorry but the writers would never bring that in to an episode. And bro... bro this is a cartoon about colored horses.... Get your panties out of a knot about the whole GMO thing. Also I know you were ticked about the flutterbat thing I thought it was interesting! For one that is the only other bat pony thing we saw since Luna's guards. What if they are an entire civilization?!?! This could give you more info on them. Okay and still that cartoon was not real if you are implying that applejack genetically modifies her apples than sorry but you are very wrong. IT IS A CARTOON!!!!!!!!! It was supposed to be big for effect!!!!!!!! They just wanted to imply that it was big and im

Lol pressed post but the rest is that it was big and important to her and the mirrors were just to keep her there oh the hazmat suit... What did you expect a flower? Maybe you didn't know this but hazmat suits are know to be used when dealing with something toxic or dangerous and i thought maybe you could have picked up that rarity is a drama queen and that suit was used to be FUNNY. So ya that's my little rant<br>


But I mean, GMOs can be plants are just bred together to get desirable traits, which humans have been doing for thousands of years. It's how we got any vegetable/grain that's derived from grass, i.e. corn, wheat, broccoli, lettuce, etc. They're all GMOs.


I totally got the same vibe in this episode with mankind vs. nature.


I honestly didnt like how aggressive AJ was. She isnt one to be this blunt and crude. At least, not in my opinion. Blunt, sure, but not Rude and Crude.


I saw a mistake! At 0:16, Rarity is walking in front of RD. And at 0:16, RD walking in front of Rarity.

YOU JUST DESTROYED MY BRAIN bc RD and rarity where never near each other


I disagree with what you are saying about GMOs there have been no proven issues caused by GMOs. In fact they have some very good benefits, GMOs can save lives. In countries where children are dying of vitamin deficiency and starvation genetically modified foods can be used to get them the vitamins they need. The only reason people think they are bad is because they don’t understand them. Remember that every thing is natural and made of chemicals that come from nature.


Brainstorm! Here's another episode idea. One day Applejack is walking threw the Ever Free Forest, and she runs into a pack of Timber Wolves. She fights with all her might. One bites her. She feels a sharp pain in her hoof. She quickly flee's back to the farm. The next day her mane has grown a whole lot, her tail to. She had fangs, and her ears where different. She panicked and ran to Twilight's castle. When she gets there her eyes have changed to a blood red color instead of her natural eye color. Twilight examines her and says she is becoming a Timber Pony. Well something like that. She goes to visit Zecora.<br>That's as far as I have gotten. Feel free to make up a ending. You can make up a fan made episode. Enjoy!!!

Brainstorm! Here's another episode idea. One day Applejack is walking threw the Ever Free Forest, and she runs into a pack of Timber Wolves. She fights with all her might. One bites her. She feels a sharp pain in her hoof. She quickly flee's back to the farm. The next day her mane has grown a whole lot, her tail to. She had fangs, and her ears where different. She panicked and ran to Twilight's castle. When she gets there her eyes have changed to a blood red color instead of her natural eye color. Twilight examines her and says she is becoming a Timber Pony. Well something like that. She goes to visit Zecora.
That's as far as I have gotten. Feel free to make up a ending. You can make up a fan made episode. Enjoy!!!


They were kind of harsh in the song, but Applejack is known to be headstrong. otherwise I agree


The bat song was AWESOME the graphics and the music were amazing


So now please tell me, why is GMO so bad, with good arguments and not only saying it will have negative effects without telling what those effects are.


Uhhhhhhh... I disagree, this is my favorite episode. I found it so interesting.


Just not the 'Fillie Vanille' episode, where Flutter Shy reverted into the bat, hanging upside down?
it is after all a typical thing for a bat to do?
As to that episode and continuity, she apparently got back to Flutter Guy as well?


THEORY TIME!!! Alright so in the episode, secret of my access, spike gives rarity a gem and then she screams " IT MUST BE AT LEATS 20 CARROTS! "( probably the wrong type of carrots but you get what I mean ) If it were 20 carrots that would mean that a pony is the size of a human Palm, meaning that applejack's prized Apple, is a normal sized Apple in our world and that in the pony world their regular sized apples would be like the size of a 20 carrot gem, if you do not know how big that is, it's like the gem on a wedding ring.

My point is that the " GMO Apple " might not be a GMO


This is why I watch your vids, you think of stuff that would never occur to me.


thank you! i knew i wasnt the only one that hated the musical number and the character interactions!


This hurts, bats was my favorite episode and I watched it like 7 times a day for months how could you do this to me


When he said man vs nature, I honestly was expecting to hear man vs wild for some reason.


I gotta admit im gonna disagree here i actualy love this episode! And i think its Nice to see other sides og Fluttershy. <br>(this may sound rude but im really isent)

I gotta admit im gonna disagree here i actualy love this episode! And i think its Nice to see other sides og Fluttershy.
(this may sound rude but im really isent)


I agree completely, this episode was very flawed.


Fluthershy is a animal expert she do the stare but not all the animal's


I love Flutterbat how can u not like her!!!!!😭😡


Gmo s are not even bad. It is just that there is a social stigma on them. He never even explains the negative consequences,he just says there are


Actually I'm pretty sure  TLC stands for tender love and care.


"Bats!" Does have a pretty good moral... Just not a good plot. 🦇


I liked the episode, apart from the song. But I can see all of these points.


I liked your video, but I disagree with a few things. I don't necessarily agree with the "TLC" comment but that may just be a personal thing. Keep the good videos going! 👍👍


Bats is my favorite episode! LOL! Love AppleJacks and Fluttershy's voices!


i wouldn't mind if they said "kill the bats".. it makes sense either way


Am I the only one who thinks Bats! is the best S4 ep


COME ON!!!<br>The musical number wasn't bad!

COME ON!!!
The musical number wasn't bad!


i think vampire fruit bats are cool so i think your right


I liked the episode and Applejack doesn't use GMO Flim and Flam do!


Sadly flutter bat trend is something no one thought of -_- I did flutterbat needs to become more popular I loved bats


The GMO thing really didn't get into my head :/


In the song stop the bats AJ and Fluttershy were talking about different  kind of bats

It doesn’t seem like they were taking about different bats to me

no, we just see the point of view each of them have of the bats, cute innocent creatures or mean bad scary pests


Gmo+ajs apple=giant apple...<br>No I feel she used a lot of miracle grow

Gmo+ajs apple=giant apple...
No I feel she used a lot of miracle grow


Okay you're reeeeealy reaching on the GMO thing. I see no reason to see any of that in the episode. I'm also whole-heartedly opposed to synthophobia. It is irrational to assume that if something isn't 'all natural' that it automatically becomes toxic or dangerous, people act like eating GMO foods will mutate us into horrible monsters or give us all cancer or cause horrid birth defects or whatever, when the truth is GMO foods were on the market decades before anyone knew about them. All those people who freak out about GMO and obsess over giving their kids 'organic' everything grew up eating the GMO foods they baselessly assume to be so harmful. What really gets me is the pesticide part of the issue, people ranting about how synthetic pesticides are so dangerous and if we are going to be healthy we have to use only organic ones. You know what was organic? DDT. All the most devastatingly ecocidal pesticides ever used were organic, the synthetic ones were invented specifically because they are SAFER. Here's a little theory I came up with too: There's a big issue in North America with infertility in men happening at a much higher rate than anywhere else. This has been happening over the last decade or so. Synthophobia and the whole 'organic food' movement has been going on in our culture for about the same length of time. You know why organic pesticides like DDT are so damaging? Among other things like softening falcon eggs, they cause infertility in males who consume it. Now this may just be an illusory correlation, but I think it's at least plausible.
<end rant>

I do want to say one thing about the episode- when I was watching it my friend's children were in my house, his 5 year old daughter was watching it with me- and it scared the shit out of her. She was nervous enough during the midnight stakeout, and when Flutterbat appeared she hid behind my chair and whimpered.

excuse me there has been plenty of long-term effects. Have noticed how common cancer is spreading. I researched the matter and found plenty of evidence. If you truly want to know more there is a video on Netflix called GMO OMG you should really watch it.

@Hannah the Musician<br>To say "GMO is dangerous" like that is not really helpful either, as not all GMO has to have the noted problems, we just don't currently know what has the effects and why .... except for the cross-pollination and suing people with cross-pollinated crops, because there we know very well that the problem is horrendous business practices.

@Hannah the Musician
To say "GMO is dangerous" like that is not really helpful either, as not all GMO has to have the noted problems, we just don't currently know what has the effects and why .... except for the cross-pollination and suing people with cross-pollinated crops, because there we know very well that the problem is horrendous business practices.

Brony Notion is right. GMO is dangerous if you keep eating it. It can cause health problems and such.

SO MUCH INTELLIGENCE MY BRAIN CAN NOT HOLDZ IT ALL!

@FurryAtheist
You don't seem to realize the extent of our criticism.
How common were allergies back in the 80's?
Also look at how it is used.
And as for comparing it to breeding dogs:
Are you aware that almost all breeding dogs are sick or has deformities that makes them sick?

@DazeDream @RubberyCat Corn is a GMO. If you are able to eat an ear of corn, it's been genetically modified. Some people just don't understand that. Genetically modified doesn't mean chemicals were put in it. It means the genes have changed. Much like breeding dogs. Most apple trees are genetically modified because being able to make a nice red apple is extremely rare when it comes to apple tree populations. Also, if they do put "chemicals" in organisms to change them genetically, "chemicals" aren't bad. Water is a chemical. Everything on Earth and in space is a chemical. If you take vitamins, you are putting chemicals in your body. If you eat, you are putting chemicals in your body. Somehow the word "chemical" has been changed to mean something bad when it isn't. Also, I'd like to point out that the biohazard symbol on Rarity's hazmat suit is there because... well it's a hazmat suit. Hazmat means hazardous material such as a biohazard.

@DazeDream<br>Yes, and how common were allergies back in the 80's?

@DazeDream
Yes, and how common were allergies back in the 80's?

@DazeDream look at cancer due to asbestos it takes 30 years or more to effect you who is to say GMO's won't effect you in the far future like 30, 40 or 50 years i mean who's to say there is non life treating side affects like a cold of a slight allergic reaction to said chemical or we could be getting hyped up from something will not happen but only time will tell..

Well it's true that long term effects might take too long to see in testing, but again many of them have been on the market since the 80s.

You defiantly know your stuff on the matter.  I only know as much as I need to know to explain it in a video.  GMO's are doing wonders for industry and such, but some health problems might take more than 20 years to be exposed, I think it's a risk we jumped to fast to take.  The FDA may not have foreseen longer term affects or non health related problems like famine.  Let's just agree to disagree for now :)

@The Brony Notion It is thoroughly tested though. The whole job of the FDA is to ensure that everything sold is as safe as possible. People act like companies have free reign to make whatever they want and throw it at us untested and unproven, consequences be damned and that simply isn't true. Now the argument about insufficient genetic diversity in crops making them susceptible to plague, that is a reasonable possibility. There is also the issue with dick companies suing the neighbours of their farms because the crops cross pollinated so the other farmer unintentionally has partially GMO crops and the company says the other guy is now producing their product. That's just an attitude problem really, suing someone for something completely out of their control. If you don't want your crops cross-pollinating, maybe you could build massive greenhouses around them to keep them contained. Not that that's feasible, the cost would be immense and it would probably be an engineering nightmare.

It's a controversial topic, GMO's. Even besides the health problems other issues rise up, like genetic similarities, making vast regions of crops in danger of a single famine. Many think the new allergies such as gluten and soy are due to GMO's as well.  I love hearing all sides of any argument, but I still think all products should be thoroughly tested before being consumed by humans. /)


I’m not really sure what’s the issue with GMOs, like how are they hurting anything?


you do know GMO exist as long as agriculture?
only different is that now its more control and lab envirement

just look how corn oryginaly looked like....


“it will have long-term effects on nature and humanity — negative effects” ... Like what? ... Any horse can make a claim and any pony can do the same... :)


I might be 6 years late but this is my least favorited episode, there's soemehing wrong that makes it, bad, but i honestly can't pin point what's wrong


I love how you said two bits instead of two sh*ts.

Lol I think it was a spin on two cents cuz they have bits as currency


You gave a lot of good points in this video


This remind me of the Shadowbolts forcing Twilight to unlish the magic


lol my sister LOVES this episode XD she will be so mad if she saw this lol


The song didn't mean much but it was pretty damn catchy


This was one of my favourite episodes :(


A while back I was on Netflix and I clicked on Bats! to watch it. After about 5 minuets I left


and the snaggle tooth means "we'll just gmo stuff on the DL"


Kill the bats??? Then the song would be called "Kill the Bats." SCREW LOGIC


You are that kind of YouTuber. You're that kind of YouTuber that shows what humanity is doing to Itself by destroying nature and spreading it out all over the world thank you


My sister works for Missouri Scincetific. She's really for it. My dad and I are agents it, my mom couldn't give two Craps.


rainbow probably has a thirst for apple cider because she never has had any apple cider until super cider squeezie whatever, she was always last


3:21 Well, it could have been selective breeding...


I can't believe apple jack would do that to fluttershy


if you dont believe me, watch the episode again but OBSERVE IT<br>lol

if you dont believe me, watch the episode again but OBSERVE IT
lol


"If flutter-hulk wasn't bad enough, now she's a bat. A stupid bat." Me: Bro, how are you saying that so nonchalant like if fluttershy was watching sh would of been bawling.


I like flutter shy's bat look it is cool


3:16 earth pony connection to earth so she probably used earth pony magic


Hey! Bats are not stupid, they are awesome! There my favorite animal!


youre talking about if Equestria can do genetically modified fruit and then just gloss over the fact Rarity was wearing a bucking Hazmat suit with an air purifier on it! WHAT??? <_>


Bats was my favorite episode in season 4...


I KNOW I thought it would have made sense if they said kill the bats


Can you tell us what your favorite episode was?


this is one of my favourite episodes!!!!!!! :D


I still opine that Applejack´s gigantic apple was a remain from Discord´s first escape


But you said you love fluttershy cuz she's adorable


Sorry to say this but rainbow dash did not mention cider after super easy cider squeasy episode because that was not the cider season


"bats!" is my favorite episode! why must you pick on it?


This is how the rainbow apples came to be they were altered to be rainbow and zap


You should do a remake of this but better quality


Well if the bats ate all the apples then the apple family wouldn’t make enough money and die....


Bats is my favourite episode :( sorry if u disagree <3


Killed the bats killed the fact to make them die that's killed the back to make them die


It is not bad if the bats eat the 🍎 and we saw a baby bat and we can’t kill a baby 🦇 so that means bats might not be so bad


yeah they would say kill them if this wasn't a child friendly show


all of the apples are too juicy in this show and they dont get brown


Mind you the bat fluttershy is much better than the pony one


Sorry i must say it
* Breaths In *
"Fruit bat roundup! FRUIT BAT ROUNDUP!"


GMOs are B. O. B from Monsters vs. Aliens, only they aren't mistakes.


But... I liked the episode, and I like Flutterbat :/


i hated flutterhulk ( SADELRAGER). However flutterbat wasn't bad.


I don't know  that bats are bad or not I am just sooooo scared of them


I love Bats the song is the best mlp song every!!!


LTC stands for LOVING TENDER CARE not saying I don't like your video, I just had to point that out


Before his Episode I couldnt decide If I like Fluttershy or ApplEjACk better  now AppleJAck has been Kicked out of my top 10 ponies


Tender loving care that's what it meant Delcy is tender loving care


we saw twilight accidently make the frog/orange


wow i was looking at a ad and pinkie pie said "no glowing tushies here!" wow mlp wow....


you forgot the intro with you turning from changeling to your pony form


What about Rouge the Bat. It has to be installing for her.


Says the person who supports the pony who wanted to get rid of bats


STOP THE BATS more like STOP US WHY ARE WE BEING MEAN TO YOU


A stupid bat? A STUPID BAT?!?! HOW DARE YOU BRONY NOTION!!!! IF IT WERENT FOR BATS, YOU WOULD BE LIVING IN A WORLD OF BUGS!!!!! AND YOU WOULDNT HAVE AS MANY FRUIT EITHER.


2:31 that Apple looks like the pun from Snow White


I love stop the bats. Even Disney stole that song for the lion guard.

+Silver W0lf Shards disney wouldn't be aloud to steal a mlp song for the lion gaurd


no offense to fluttershy lovers but i don't really care if she stayed a bat


And thos aren't bats you get bats, fruit bats, vamire fruit bats, flutter bat which is a vampire fruit bat pony, ther is also luna's gards bat ponies which have vlat teeth so the aren't like flutter bat


Hey Chernobyl was a...oh fuck it they built that thing out of twigs and paper I'm not even an engineer and it looked bad :3


You are so non fiction because you give me lots of information


Im watching this and the episode at the same time


I like this theory ,but I enjoyed the episode not wat gmo does but yah


can you talk about the flim flam brothers?


i saw a edit mistake! when flutterbat's ear form, before that it already formed!


all the super ponys were based on super hero's  take  rainbow dash= storm


Well bats wasnt doing bad they were just eating their food cause u dont think they can do farming to eat?😕😐😑😑😑


Bats weren’t bad because fluttershy said it’s good for the apples


I watched this on a mac. when it showed babs seed i got an email and it made that notification sound. lol


But if I had to choose any animal to life the rest of my life except human I'd choose Apple eating werewolf #CUS WEREWOLFES ARE AWSOME AND APPLES ARE DELICIOUS #


Tlc is TENDER LOVING CARE!!!! Don't u remember?!?!?!they said it in season 1 or something like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I actually thing that GMOs are a good thing. Genetically modifying crops to kill the insects but be harmless to humans seems like a better solution than spraying insecticide on the plant. Also, if the plants are genetically modified to have better and more crops than the normal food, then we would clear less forests for agriculture.

GMOs (If my facts are straight) don't protect crops from insects, insecticides are still sprayed unto the GMOs, the purpose of GMO is to increase the food, not save the food.
Worse yet, is today's insecticide kills none-GMO plants...that means no more original plants.
I forgot the name of the insecticide, but it's out there.
There are even signs out there for farmers to mark which farm is GMO and which is none-GMO for this reason.

If used correctly like using it for the better of humankind and nature it can be and would be good but humans are greedy and would not care for the greater good

Samika They are not harmless! They can cause birth defects and Autism in an unborn child, and can cause many other problems to our health!

Selective breeding is different from direct modification because the bacteria and parasites have time to change with them, the destruction  of bacteria in food weakens bacterial diversity of the human body.

Samika Don't forget we've been genetically modifying for centuries! just look up 'bananas pre GMO' and see if you want to eat it

GMOs destroy agricultural communities, the seeds cost far more, and the lack of biodiversity is dangerous, I don't agree with genetic modifications and testing personally, but more importantly Monsanto is a dangerous and vile monopoly.

My family had a garden and we sprayed nothing on the plant but the plant fared fine.<br>Maybe it's just me?

My family had a garden and we sprayed nothing on the plant but the plant fared fine.
Maybe it's just me?


i think TLC means tender loving care....just saying......


<b>vampire bats'll give you a fright</b>


@Spoods necropost, but all things are made of chemicals, it's science.


First of all I hope you know that this episode was about New Jersey bat attack show how we could deal with this problem in NJ


1:36 is why i wish i was a wolf.. because im the breed of the selfish mamles... HUMANS! DOES NO ONE GIVE A COOKIE THAT NATURE IS IMPORTANT. IF NATURE GOES WE GO TO!


wait.. jow in the world can applejack use her tail toclean an apple. JUST HOW!!!!!!!!!!!


i feel offended ):0

i loved the musical number, i LOVE that episode :(


everyone has there bad choses (briny notion...)


i think futtershy is can talk to animals and she gots new powers i mean futtershy is conktet to animals 🐈frist time she got a new power with bats 🦇


I don't eat GMO it gluten or dairy if you look into it you will fine a lot of surprising stuff


Rainbow dash caring only  about apple cider? Apple jack not care about fluttershy??? Wow some friendship...


Il like flutterbat but I'm not going to hate you it is his choice what he's think about flutterbat


And while loving my house I also hate houses all of them including my own because it is destroying animals habitats it even makes some animals go extinct


Mlp is for kids so thats why hasbro didin't use words like "kill" and "stupid" and any other words that are for teens and adults hasbro does'nt wanna teach little kids those words right?


ok, dude, i love your channel, but you are probably the only one who hates that episode

I didn't hate it, but I didn't really like it either.


the brony notion: nowshes just a bat, a stupid bat. <br>ok ok i understand you may not like bats but WE ARE ANIMALS EVERYBODY!!!!!! BATS ARE CREATURES HOW COME THEY DONT GET LOVED AS MUCH AS OTHERS!?!?!?!?!?!? though i admit i dont like spiders but thats my arachnophobia talking i dont want to dislike them. anyways back to the bat, hey guess what i have to see everytime i go to my dads house? A DEAD BAT! IT MADE ME FREAKING CRY YOU JERK! (sorry if this offended u most likely has but i love bats and no im not unsubsribing)

the brony notion: nowshes just a bat, a stupid bat.
ok ok i understand you may not like bats but WE ARE ANIMALS EVERYBODY!!!!!! BATS ARE CREATURES HOW COME THEY DONT GET LOVED AS MUCH AS OTHERS!?!?!?!?!?!? though i admit i dont like spiders but thats my arachnophobia talking i dont want to dislike them. anyways back to the bat, hey guess what i have to see everytime i go to my dads house? A DEAD BAT! IT MADE ME FREAKING CRY YOU JERK! (sorry if this offended u most likely has but i love bats and no im not unsubsribing)


Maybe cider season was right around the corner and Rainbow Dash noticed.


Awkward background noise from his old videos. Really disturbing.


LOL! thats so true, 4:16
I think that its on perpose


Dude.  Actually read scientific studies before you say stuff about science.


What’s this? https://youtu.be/4XJ01c9Qw8A Is it just a gag that doesn’t mean anything (no teeth in future episodes)? Did the teeth stay there because enamel is harder than other parts and took longer to shrink back, or does she still have fangs and light just hits it in a way so it doesn’t show in future episodes (unlikely)?


I dont think the wrters know bat ponies are a diferent race of pony not a parisit. : (


bats wasent too bad untill my little sister made me wach it over and over agen


STOP BEING MEAN TO THE BATS!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡😠😬😡😠😬😡😠😬😡😠😬😡😠😬😡😠😬😡😠😬


what the heck the whole episode makes since<br>Because

what the heck the whole episode makes since
Because


I dislike that epsiode too. I love animals just like Fluttershy :)


2019 u were wrong TLC is short for tender loving care

In showstoppers scootloo say TLC as in tender loving care or totally lost cause

saying it with those initials makes it sound bad and ponies don't usually use acronyms like that


A stupid bat A STUPID BAT! well someone's giting a visit from batman  tonight


wow only cuz brony likes fluttershy and he says it's rude


My sister is always herself (Pinkie pie)


Y SO MUCH HARE ON THIS EPISODE?! IT WAS MY FAVE!


the loading sign at 1:37 is from one of nickjr.'s games XD i used to play it when i was like in3rd?


ok I agree bats was horrible it might have been better if they all became bat ponies and that song was horrible I hate it and yet I don't know why I memorized it was just one day I started singing it then looked up the lyrics and found I got all the words right and I only heard the song once


There's a Katy Perry song called birthday on the list of videos YouTube's giving me on the right here, the thumbnail looks Kinda... familiar. Like Magical Mystery Cure familiar...

Yes that was a... weird video to say the least.  Nothing like MMC. haha

I just watched some of it... it's kinda racist. Well, one of her personas was anyway. The others were just... generally offensive.

Yeah... from the "What my Cutie Mark is Telling Me" song. haha /)


maybe because the cider was in jepeardy she was worried


i think.... you may be grasping at straws here


Thought u were a theory channel, not a judgment video


Flutershyis very scared and scared of Halloween and she life near the forest


Do you think spike lothers sunset<br> shimmer

Do you think spike lothers sunset
 shimmer


why did u say man!? were human, not all of us are man you know :\


I love nature But that Apple is allso from do you princess sheep blah blah blah in A.j's Nightmare dream thingy


why are the subtitles in those little video boxes in russian?


W̶o̶w̶ d̶e̶e̶p̶

W̶o̶w̶ d̶e̶e̶p̶


Look ad the episode the showstoppers Scootalo say TLC TIME LOVE AND ....


Anyone watching all sawtooth waves videos cause there bored ? No Just me?


);46 you call bats stupid? wait fluttershy is a bat now........... <b>BRONIES TRIGGERED</b>

);46 you call bats stupid? wait fluttershy is a bat now........... *BRONIES TRIGGERED*


That's your apinion on. My little pony I love all of them


Actually it's only been one year, but yeah. :P

@Denver Poore No, Bats aired on December 28, 2013.


Yes, I love nature!!! 🌱🌲🌳🌴🌵🌷🌸🌹🍀🍁🍂🍃🌺🌻🌼🌽🌾🌿


But if they  said kil the bats  what wold hasbrow put in make them go and not com back part of the song that wold be a problem because<br>there isant eny wirds you cod put

But if they  said kil the bats  what wold hasbrow put in make them go and not com back part of the song that wold be a problem because
there isant eny wirds you cod put


i think the song was terrible it had no life in it at all


well uh whay Applejack's family never from that Bat song thing well are there Doing some thing or still Apple Bucket while the Bats is eating? idk


There are beaing mean but I don’t think that would work


I am the princess of animals myself I’m using my dad‘s YouTube account old YouTube account because he has a YouTube channel but it’s not even close to being about Ponies


where you se all episodes after season 3?


do you have to show a picture every time you speek


my oc is changling too refrance to you and I once said wat in the name of King thorax like u


Because it's a little kids show duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh😒


i liked that ep!!  >:(  ur still cool tho ._.


AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH APPLE JACK HATER


I'm only 10!! I have no idea what your talking about. English man!!! English!!!


Oh yeah and if it was kill the bats it would make children think they can kill whatever they want


Disliked for bringing in a political viewpoint on GMOs to your video. No offense, but I dont come here to hear your political views or see an ethics discussion in the comments.

@blackkittyfreak The comments are not 100% made from The Brony Notion, your statement is invalid.


OY FLUTTER SHY IS CUTE AND MY FAVE U DONT CALL HEAR STUPID I


I HATE APPLEJACK AND THE EPOSOD BATS!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡