Hey guys, just got back from my second day of MLP MSP. There’s a lot of posts about episode 100, and I don’t know if anyone has done this yet, but since I was there for the panel and Larson got to talk about it afterwards, we got some inside info that I wanted to share. This is based off what I can remember, it was a few hours ago and I wish I had made this post sooner cause there’s SO MUCH I wanted to share.
1. First off and foremost, yes Derpy’s official name is now
Muffins. It’s so official that even though her name is never said,
Hasbro had Larson go back and rewrite every instance of her name2. Amy Keating Rogers was the first writer for the script, but she ended up getting switched with Larson for this one and she wrote the one about the Griffins instead.
3. Larson didn’t actually want to be the one to write this episode but he did amazing with it.
4.
Apparently Vinyl doesn’t talk on the show. In early versions of the
script, she had lines but they were removed because… she doesn’t talk
(we weren’t given a reason for this)5. The episode was originally just a few brony shoutouts and then they just decided to go big with it.
6.
The info that really floored me was that HASBRO was the one pushing the
episode and telling DHX to add more brony stuff (so if anyone out there
is complaining about too much fan service, it’s actually Hasbro’s
fault)7. Early scripts didn’t center around the wedding and the
Vinyl and Octavia story was about Vinyl crashing at Octavia’s and
wrecking her couch, and going to buy a new couch for her (riveting!)8. Bonbon being a secret agent is an allusion to her various voices and appearances.
9. The Bugbear was just a simple bear at first, until someone suggested it be a panda as a reference to “they’re throwing pandas at us”
edit:
10. Good no reblogs yet, I forgot something. Gummy was scripted to have a French accent, dunno why they didn’t go with it.11. Many scenes were cut including (but not limited to because I don’t remember them all)
- When
Derpy said, “I feel just awful, doc!” the scene was going to pan out
and instead of Doctor Whooves it was going to be Doc… someone else I
can’t remember the name >_< I suck… but Derpy would have said, “Oh sorry wrong table” and moved to Doctor Whooves- Doctor Whooves traumatic childhood event was going to be that he could never figure out how bowling worked
- When
Doctor Whooves was running up to Rarity’s, Opal was going to be sitting
on Tom and he was going to say, “Looking good Opal and Tom!” (or
something to that effect)- A scene where a group of background
ponies walk by, then recolors of the same group walk by them and then they’d
stand there for a moment and one would eventually say, “Well, this is awkward”- At one point
Flash Sentry would be walking behind Cranky saying something along the
lines of, “I did this for you and that for you and washed your car and
you still don’t like me… why doesn’t anyone like me?”- After
Luna and Celestia began fighting it was going to pan to outside where
some of Celesitia’s guards and Luna’s bat guards would be doing
impressions of them (this was Larson’s favorite scene that got removed)- The
original ending had a changling swarm heading for ponyvillie as the
ending after the gang hugged, but they opted to go with one changling in the audience at the
wedding insteadand along that note, Steven Magnet was also originally planned to be in the Season 3 finale with even a song, but it was cut
That’s…
all I can remember, I’ll add more if I can, but I need to go back and
rewatch since I missed some dialogue cause everyone in the room was too
busy pissing themselves with laughterMy personal favorite scene was the one with Gummy XD
EDIT II:
I just caught on now… I JUST REALIZED!
When talking about Bonbon’s expensive oats Lyra says, “I cooked them up and ate them!”I COOKED THEM UP AND ATE THEM! DO YOU GET THE REFERENCE? DO YOU GET IT? Larson is a fucking genius!
This entire list is glorious