@TexasUberAlles Ay dawg, if there is anything I am down wit Tommy Oliver on, it’s that one point.  
I ate 16 permas on ponychan in the week after it aired, I am a dedicated mofo!  
But hey, score one for anon boards, it’s not like they’ll ever know I’m still evading now that I’ve come back after mlp went down the shitter during the scruffening.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
one of the worst episodes  
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

@TexasUberAlles uh, it may help not to use one of the worst episodes as an example, especially when the previews were leaning towards a smarter, if previously done (even in the show considering the previous season finale also went that route) ‘madcap magical celebration hijinks’ schtick.  
 
 
Twas expecting this with clones and Gala/Lesson Zero callbacks
 
 
Instead  
Got this with the entire cast played by

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
shame they don’t fight with them in clever ways anymore  
I’ve never seen an executive mandate to have something as schmaltzy and by-the-numbers as a two-part royal wedding season finale special event carried out with one tenth of one percent of the terrifying bug horse invasion badassery of A Canterlot Wedding.
 
…Also “emergency edible boots” is never going to stop being one of the funniest gorram toyetic mandates ever animated.

@TexasUberAlles Ha haaah, shame they don’t fight with them in clever ways anymore.  
It’d be funny to hear ponies complaining about how ‘all this cheap barely usable crap only ever seems to come out of griffonstone’ or some such. Or maybe post-S1 they started trading gems to the diamond dogs for household items, but diamond dogs never seem to get that no fingers part.

@Haagel  
It’s apparently something Faust Herself argued with Hasbro about a lot; she wanted the place to be completely horse-centric, with as little Human ephemera as possible. The train in Over A Barrel (and the OP) was originally just cars being pulled by engineer stallions, for example, but Hasbro wanted something identifiably locomotive-like to sell toys of, so the designers just stuck a dadgum steam locomotive on the front and had that being pulled by engineer stallions.
 
I just fall back on my default headcanon position of this being a cartoon about Equestria told from a Human point of view, not an accurate portrayal of actual Equestria; like the way the old Warner Bros. cartoons weren’t exactly a realistic portrayal of Wartime and Post-War America.

@TexasUberAlles  
That really is a thing that has bothered me in this show. So many items that are clearly to be used with hands and not with hooves. Of course we already know that ponies in Equestria have super adhesive hooves that can hold pretty much anything like that but even then it doesn’t make sense to have things where you are supposed to put your finger through something or like that.
 
Damn you animators. I know it’s extra work but create some more pony items instead of just putting human items in. This is serious business after all.

Setting aside the headcanon that they have frogs that can act like thumbs– or just have magic magnetic hooves– the handles on stuff like the cider mugs seem to be large enough that they can stick the whole front end of a hoof in there and get a decent purchase.
 
…They still have an awful lot of household stuff that doesn’t really make sense for people with hooves, though. Like, shouldn’t hammers just be solid-soled iron shoes? Shouldn’t doorknobs all be handles isntead?

@OneOverTwo  
you’ve just inspired my next piece cx

That’s not true! You can also use your mouth!
 
_{I know it’s not helpful in this situation, but still…}