I love that for Fluttershy’s POV, the bats are cute, and for Applejack’s POV, they are ugly.


21:06 "I thought the stare was voluntary."
At first, it wasn't.  In the season 1 episode it was introduced in, Stare Master, Fluttershy told Rarity, "I don't really have any control over when it happens; it just happens."

Fluttershy must have had to work at controlling that ability.  And then, in reverting to a more feral state, she probably lost her more cerebral mental functions.

21:06 "I thought the stare was _voluntary."_
At first, it wasn't.  In the season 1 episode it was introduced in, Stare Master, Fluttershy told Rarity, "I don't really have any control over when it happens; it just happens."

Fluttershy must have had to work at controlling that ability.  And then, in reverting to a more feral state, she probably lost her more cerebral mental functions.


Funny enough i find flutterbat to be more cute than scary.

It probably doesn’t hurt that 1) it’s fluttershy, and 2) she doesn’t desire animal blood

@@rougedragonwhiteflame3990 Which means that Flutterbat is mostly harmless.   :)

@@rougedragonwhiteflame3990 If you have a big supply of apples, you could keep her like a pet lol


In season 1 Fluttershy couldn't control the stare. But after putting your hoof down she was able to control it.


Never call an animal icky in front of Fluttershy. She has a strong love for animals. She loves them


19:14 "Guys, I don't know what to think about this form of her."
Meanwhile, dozens of fan artists had already made up their mind about what they thought about it.

19:14 "Guys, I don't know what to think about this form of her."
Meanwhile, dozens of fan artists had already made up their mind about what _they_ thought about it.

@Maria Ximena Otalora Cordoba Oh wow, I didn't even know that!  I bet he did it for Halloween.


Great shirt dude, cutiemark merch is actually my favorite because only "people in the know" can recognize it, almost like a brony code. As for the episode, I remember it being a very good one and the song is legendary as well.

I bought Discord T-shirt cause people who don't watch show also don't know him.


whenever it’s past midnight and i’m working on a project or something, your reactions are really comforting to play in the background. Like watching mlp with an older brother or something it’s comforting


Ah, yes the episode that got me into the show 😌


This is my 6th best episode in the series. The conflict is well presented. The atmosphere is well presented. Also Flutterbat is fantastic.


Something I'm surprised you didn't notice; Fluttershy's cutiemark had three bats instead of three butterflies.

I never noticed this and I’ve seen this episode soooo many times haha

@@katnippy same, I only noticed it when people in the comments mentioned it


FlutterBat is quite the character. Though getting bitten by her is terrifying. 😨


9:45-Rainbow dash needs a SERIOUS intervention. This addiction is growing dangerous!


The moral of this episode: Fluttershy knows best.

Twilight was pretty violent like for a princess of friendship.


That was the best episode to introduce this shirt in =D


0:40 "I just got back from field training, and something decimated my back side."
What a coincidence, getting a wound like that just before watching Flutterbat's episode...

0:40 "I just got back from field training, and _something_ decimated my back side."
What a coincidence, getting a wound like that just before watching Flutterbat's episode...


When it comes to the vampire Fruit Bats anybody else get a gremlins kind of vibe from them. I mean one of them even looks like “Mohawk” The lead gremlin in the first one and I think it was even a mohawk one who is becoming a giant spider gremlin.


00:45 Lol, for a moment I thought you got your cutie mark :D
01:31 Oh really? How about those fruit bats from "Apple Family Reunion"? ;)
02:10 Speaking of... have you seen APPLE¸MOV yet? ;)
05:06 This song sounds oddly Danny Elfman-esque :J
05:45 That's how every animal looks like from Fluttershy's perspective :)  (well, maybe except humongous fire-breathing Dragons ;J )
07:04 Uga Uga Uga Chaka! :>
11:05 Gremlins attack ]:>
12:36 And then they all died from starvation. The end. :q
17:07 And the award for the most metamorphoses in this season goes to..... Fluttershy! :q
21:41 Huh?.... :g   .... oh, "orchard" ;D  Nevermind... :q
23:15 Once a vampire, always a vampire ;>=


Flutterbat was a bit of a nod to the fandom's obsession with the "Bat Ponies", seen in Luna Eclipsed and never again.  As for the bit with the fang at the end, well . . . no.  Flutterbat is not really a thing, in the future.


3:55 Rarity: "Applejack, when you go big you really go big!"
Why do I feel like Rarity should have been directing that comment at AJ's brother instead?

3:55 Rarity: "Applejack, when you go big you _really_ go big!"
Why do I feel like Rarity should have been directing that comment at AJ's brother instead?


I really love the bats episode, the bats song, vampire bat Fluttershy also I love your butterfly shirt it's so pretty.


The birth of batponies, and holy crap I know its been a while since I've last seen this episode but I forgot how awesome the stop the bats song was.


the mystery about this tooth will never be solved

@Coc0a Can3 well we got this limited time story with night of the living apple in Wich they all turned into batponys in the mobile game

Flutterbat
Nosfurarity
Drinkie pie
Appledrac
Rainbow bite
And twilight sparkling

@MaCane Flutterbat returned in the season 5 episode Scare Master (though only as a costume).

@MaCane there is but If your not extremely patient you can't resist buying micro transaction's I am now Playing for 4 years and got about a third of everything you can collect


Lol you predicted the episode perfectly! Also, there were fruit bats in Apple Family Reunion.

There are a lot of mixed feelings about this episode. Many hated the unecessarily harsh tone and ganging up on and towards Fluttershy. Especially Twilight who is meant to be the bigger pony. Plus, Rainbow clearly had other priorities clogging her judgement.

But what most hated the episode for was introducing the concept of Bat Ponies. Not entirely a fault on the show's end, but the fandom's OC creators took to the idea like moths to a flame. The amount of Bat Pony OCs that came into existence was annoyingly overboard.

Bat ponies have existed since season 2 (Luna’s Royal guards from episode 4)

Eq_NightGlider_ True, but they were Stallions and didn't really showcase the more adorable look of Bat Pony OCs. Seeing Fluttershy as a Bat Pony is what made people realise that Bat Ponies could be so cute. They are, but there is a thing as too much.


Bats is one of my top 5 songs of the series.


Vampire ponies. When this became a thing with Flutterbat’s debut, the Internet exploded with countless fan art creations based on this one thing (Mane 6 as vampire ponies, OC’s, you name it). I eventually created a vampire ponysona based on my OC long after this happened because they are very interesting in terms of design.

The fandom has really had a history  of catching on to art trends fast. More recently  remember the explosion of fanart and OCs after that one episode in season 8. Pretty sure you know which one.

FusionOmni Yep, I sure do and I was on that bandwagon as well, once upon a time.


This episode miscredits Meghan McCarthy as the writer - even though it was Merriwether Williams (though she is correctly credited for the lyrics of the song). If I’m not mistaken, it was her last piece of media that she wrote for FiM.

Also, I remember staying up until 8:30 in the morning to watch this episode live on the Hub Network - and I watched it through my TV provider’s app so I could be in my room. This was the only episode I did that for, as I mostly just relied on my DVR to record it so I could watch it at my convenience. I really liked the back-and-forth nature of the song, as well as the contrasting visuals.


10:56 "What are you wearing?!"
Hazmat suit.  In our world, it's actually standard operating procedure for wildlife researchers to wear those, because bats and their droppings can carry exotic diseases.

But Rainbow Dash has always been:<br>A) a daredevil, and B) not very smart.

But Rainbow Dash has always been:
A) a daredevil, and B) not very smart.

@@unripetheberrby6283 Wow, it you over two months to respond to that?  You been in a coma or something?  :)

@@Narrator007 Haha More like my phone's been, just got a new one today! Along with being real busy<br>Hope you're well lol ^^

@@Narrator007 Haha More like my phone's been, just got a new one today! Along with being real busy
Hope you're well lol ^^


The Season of Unresolved Cliffhangers strikes again!


It's funny how they never guano. Which is bat droppings I know it sounds gross but it's actually the best fertilizer in the world Farmers actually collect guano from caves when bats leave.


Plot twist: Flutterbat was Fluttershy's true form all along!


Does anybody notice the similarities between this episode and "Wallace And Gromit: Curse Of The Wererabbit."


Theory time fluttershy has the power of thoughtopraphy like samara form the ring the stare 👀


Flutterbat will be never used again.. except in a Issue of MLP(comics FIM): The Night of The Living Apples...

Does “Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep?” not count?

She just had a cameo in this episode. I only count the episodes or issues in which Flutterbat is part of the main plot.

@@unripetheberrby6283 Doesn't count ot because it is not plot relevant in the episode. Plus, like you said,  she dressed up as Flutterbat, But was not really Flutterbat. This episode and Night of the living apples are the only stories with Flutterbat as the main plot.


Must have gotten bit by a flutterbat during field training. Glad I'm just a civvy working for the USAF and don't have to deal with all that. Though it might be worth it for flutters


Oh, of course. I forgot you are already at the fourth season. Just a little Pinkie warning though. You might have noticed how Pinkie shouts her every line. This happens throughout the half of this season and can really annoy people. Just try yo ignore it until it goes away.

And of course mentioning that it happens increases the chance of noticing it by people who were previously unaware of it, and might have staid that way :q  so it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy :q


Messing with the Bats like that they are going to hurt the ecosystems. and forcing them not to eat at all is like forcing them to starve themselves. And forcing Fluttershy to do that was just plain out wrong.


First the shirts... then a figurine or two... maybe a poster or other bit of lovely artwork print.... then the plushes.  All terribly smile-inducing.

@@bonbonpony Whatever brings smiles.  Fewer cranky ponies makes the world more tolerable I say.


with that speed you're gonna end mlp really quickly LOL

There is no end.  There is only how one will continue. ;)

If he expanded to include comics and fanfiction readings, he'd <i>never</i> run out of material!

If he expanded to include comics and fanfiction readings, he'd _never_ run out of material!

@@Narrator007  It would be hard to react to comics on YouTube though :J
That's one of the problems with TV show reacters: their fame usually ends with the show they're reacting to :q
Unless they start reacting to other shows too, but then there's that risk of the channel becoming about "everything and nothing" at the same time, or converts to another boring gaming channel.

Who says he's in it for the fame, though?  Not everything has to be about getting those views.

Remember when people made Youtube videos for fun?

@@Narrator007 I didn't say he's on YouTube for the fame. And of course I remember good old days when YouTube was not all about views and monetization. What I meant was that fame is often a "side effect" of being on YouTube, whether you want it or not, and there are people who became "horse famous" that way, but now when the show ends, their fame kinda got endangered by it, because doing MLP reactions or commentaries is all that they were doing for all that time, and... you know, it's hard to do MLP reactions when there's no more MLP episodes to react to :q  So they're facing a hard time right now: either they expand to other types of content & activities or disappear into oblivion again. I've seen this happening with people who reacted to other TV shows as well. And judging by how fast PonyBro rushes through those seasons, I just don't want that happen to him as well.

@@bonbonpony it's ok bon bon there will be g5 i hope you're gonna be in it


12:50 - ....you didn't do a fuckin' thing, Spike. This is all the proof you need that even HE'S aware that he feels so useless that he has to take credit for something he had absolutely NO part in. That's pretty damn sad. :/

12:50 - ....you didn't do a fuckin' thing, Spike. This is all the proof you need that even *HE'S* aware that he feels so useless that he has to take credit for something he had _absolutely NO part in._ That's pretty damn sad. :/


I have the Pinkie pie version of your shirt.


16:12

Can’t wait for people to take that out of context!

Yeah Sucking a Apple dry is not a sins its just a different way of saying  drinking the juice from the apple  I'm the expert on a slang


Hey I'm a big fan and have been waiting for this video and I have am really happy that you make these videos you are awesome

Alright, who are the numbnuts who had to come along and ruin this?


Hey, you got your own cutie mark now. Sorry.


Fluttershy kinda pissed me off in this episode<br>Honestly everyone did

Fluttershy kinda pissed me off in this episode
Honestly everyone did


Dude. Soon you'll have to change the channel name to PonyBro. Because the "I guess" is long past now 😅


Don't D!e I will take this loss to preserve this legendary number lol


That looks like some chigger bites. Spent 6 months in NJ in the woods, and had similar reactions all over my waistline, mid-arms, and ankles. Red-mites will burrow into your skin and your immune system will kill them, causing a localized swelling/itching reaction.