MLP:FIM Friendship University S8 Ep17

Today's episode was written by the team of Chris "Doc'' Wyatt and Kevin Burke. This team has previously worked on the episodes The Times They Are A Changeling, Viva Las Pegasus and P.P.O.V. This episode was storyboarded by Krista Porter and Cat Tang (who has been working on the show since season 6). In this episode Flim and Flam open their own school of friendship and Star Swirl the Bearded is attending.

This is a fun and enjoyable episode, even if it is not one of the show's best. The best part of this episode is the humor. I love Rarity going undercover and quickly become the star pupil (slight spoiler: Flim and Flam not recognizing her when she takes off the disguise was my favorite joke). Her disguise for Twilight is also down right hilarious. The song is great and measures up to the song from Flim and Flam's first appearance. The story though doesn't completely work. It is much too predictable and feels like we have seen it before. This is an extremely safe episode and one feels if certain parts had a different outcome it would have been more interesting. Still this plot worked before and it works again now, but because of this safeness, this is not an especially memorable episode (except for a few really good jokes).


-Michael J. Ruhland