#mylittlepony - #By the time this show ends it will have given us . . .

By the time this show ends it will have given us . . .

297,00 seconds of pony animation lasting over 82.5 hours; a total of 4,950 minutes that could marathon 3.43 days. Not including all the shorts or Equestria Girls content.

209 stories in 221 episodes (several of them two-parters)

More than 209 friendship lessons to keep with us.

Almost 200 songs. From the show itself, to all Equestria Girls content, including shorts, to the Christmas album, the full movie soundtrack. Count 'em all. Do you remember the original Equestria Girls song? How about the other promotional songs like Giddy Up? Fresh Princess of Bel-Air he songs from the comics like Laugh, Ponyacci, Laugh and Windy the Wendigo? While going through this page I realized I haven't even heard all the professionally produced MLP music. Have you?

And that's not even touching on the fandom, which has produced a steady stream of about 200 songs per month for much of its life (that youtube page being a sliver of just 2016 & 2017).

The fandom had produced over a million pieces of art and about 2 billion words of fanfiction last time I checked (and that was a long time ago).

And there is no proper way to truly count the number of animations and videos, or comics. Or cross-media alternate character interpretations and fan-made characters and sub-fandoms (the largest being Fallout: Equestria), or memorable fandom events.

Other things that have been countless for every year of this decade . . .

Hundreds, probably thousands of jokes just from the show alone. Pop culture references. Pinkie Pie randomity. Funny lines. Slapstick. And more.

Countless pieces of lore. Changelings. Cutie marks. Winter Wrap-up. Hearth's Warming Eve. Pony tribes. Kingdoms of griffons and other creatures.

Then there's the characters.

Hundreds of characters. The mane 6, the princesses, Spike and Starlight, Zecora, Trixie, mane 6 family members, one-shots, main background characters, background background characters that nonetheless also have fanfics and music about them. So on and so forth.

And lastly, the least quantifiable metric of all.

The feelings.

The flavors.

The momentary ones that tug on the heart, the omnipresent ones that feel like getting into a warm shower whenever you see that animation and hear the music.

All of these things are with us, and will go on indefinitely. The completed story of this series will be preserved online, the stories born of it forever growing, and the feelings it brought will last so long as we can feel them.

And none of these numbers are set.

Many of us have learned something from this show. Learned to re-think "girl's shows", re-think expectations of what a cartoon could be.

But I think the people behind this 40 year old franchise have learned something to.

And for better or worse, two years from now every last quantifiable number I've given here will have a two word caveat.

"And counting."

Submitted February 18, 2019 at 03:12AM by Crocoshark
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