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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season 2 Episode 22

Hurricane Fluttershy

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AIRED: 3/24/12

Rainbow Dash is looking to break the wing power record for the tornado necessary to funnel water into Cloudsdale to make clouds. However, she needs everypony's help to do it, which is a hard requirement to reach when Fluttershy is so nervous about flying to perform.

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A far superior episode than Putting Your Hoof Down

10

By That_TV_Dude, Aug 11, 2012

The last Fluttershy episode we got was rather shallow and while it wasn't God awful it still fell short. Now we get another Fluttershy episode, but is it better than the last one? The story starts off with Rainbow Dash gathering all the pegasi in Ponyville for a meeting and dragging Fluttershy into it. At the meeting, Rainbow tells the other pegasi that it's time for the annual water funnel flight that takes water and sends it to Cloudsdale to make clouds. Fluttershy however isn't looking forward to it and tries to get out of it. When Rainbow though exposes Fluttershy's lies about being sick she finds out that she had a traumatic experience in flight camp for not being able to fly. Rainbow coxes her friend into coming out, and she decides to give it a go. The following day, Twilight Sparkle and Spike set up a speed measure fan to measure wing power. Rainbow wants all the ponies to reach ten wing power before the day of the flight, and tests them all. Fluttershy tries to do flying, but she gets stage fright and only measures 0.5 wing power. She runs off ashamed and is comforted by her animal friends. They talk to her and remind her of all the things she's done and decides to train herself to fly better. The next day Fluttershy tries again but only got to a wing power of 2.3 and feels discouraged. Rainbow and Twilight try to help her, but she's convinced that she'll never fly strongly like the others and decides to not do the flight. On the day of the water transfer, Rainbow discovers 81 pegasi are out sick and pushes the others to go for the minimum flight speed needed to transfer the water, 800. On the first try they fail, but Rainbow gets the pegasi to do it again only to reach 795 wing power. Fluttershy comes in to offer moral support, but Twilight convinces her to go into the funnel to help with the wing power. She reluctantly agrees and decides goes into the funnel. Fluttershy hears the jeers and taunts she got in flight camp, but puts it all aside to go faster until finally the wing power is over 800. The water is transferred to Cloudsdale and Fluttershy is honored as a hero by the others. Fluttershy learns that you have to believe in yourself to do something and that every bit of help counts. The episode ends with Fluttershy being carried by the other pegasi off and celebrating. This was a far superior episode than Putting Your Hoof Down by a long shot. Rainbow Dash was excellent in this episode and acted like her old self in season one, not the jerky one like she's been this season. Fluttershy was awesome in this episode especially with the training segment, and had some character development. Twilight and Spike were also great in this episode with adding support. I also enjoyed the PSA movie at the beginning and the overall moral. The only real issue I have is the fact that this episode was a little too predictable with its outcome. Don't get me wrong it does add some new elements to it, but really it was kind of predictable. I won't deduce points for it thought since it does add some new things to it. All in all, a great Fluttershy episode with some great character development.

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I just don't know what went wrong

5.5

By Watershiprabbit, Mar 26, 2012

Fluttershy is back in this episode where she is creating hurricanes with her friends. But Fluttershy are having bad flashbacks of herself as a filly. She was teased and called Cluttershy. Now it's time for Fluttershy to show herself strong again. A welcome again goes to Spitfire and The Mule. After my epinion FiM had gone downhill after Hearts and Hooves Day, but Dragon Quest was not so bad. I did not shed a tear during this episode and it's not an episode I would watch again and again every week.

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Although it's not my favorite but this Fluttershy episode was better than "Putting Your Hoof Down"

9.0

By tigerdude22, Mar 25, 2012

Rainbow Dash is looking to break the wing power record for the tornado necessary to funnel water into Cloudsdale to make clouds. However, she needs every pony's help to do it, which is a hard requirement to reach when Fluttershy is so nervous about flying to perform. I thought that this was a superb episode of "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic". It's not my favorite episode or anything like that but it's an episode worth watching again if I'm ever bored. I love Fluttershy and I was a little disappointed in "Putting Your Hoof Down". This episode disappointed me just a little as well but yeah, you get the point. Fluttershy is my favorite character so I really hope they make much better Fluttershy episodes in the future. Also, this episode was very very very low on humor. I think it's even lower than that Spike episode "Secret of My Excess" and that episode was MEDIOCRE. But yeah, I only laughed twice and that was when that random muscle white pony screams "Yeeuuuh" and Fluttershy's training montage. That's about the only two things that made me laugh. I also enjoyed the return of the the Mule joke but that part did NOT make me laugh though. We saw the Mule joke in "Applebuck Season" and now the Mule Joke returns in this one which is pretty cool. The story behind Fluttershy about her past was very interesting and it made me feel bad for the sensitive and adorable pony. Even though Fluttershy is a shy pony, I do believe in her and I believe that she has at least some confidence. It was also nice that Fluttershy decided to help make the tornado at the end of the episode even though she was scared. The thing that did make my score a little low, though, were that a few parts have gotten pretty weak and Spike annoyed me a little in this one. Like Spike would point out something about Fluttershy and her wing speed and then Twilight would slap him which makes Fluttershy feel a little worse. That's the reason why Spike annoyed me a little and it wasn't even funny the first time. The episode overall has an interesting plot and it's an improvement over "Putting Your Hoof Down" but it's super low on humor, a few parts have gotten pretty weak, and Spike was a little annoying. Overall, a superb episode of "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic"... I just hope the writers make a better Fluttershy episode in the future. 9/10moreless
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Interesting, and pretty decent at the same time

8.0

By oinkers12, Mar 25, 2012

The story of Fluttershy training to create a hurricane was really original and I respected that. However, there was only one flaw out of an excellent episode: Something felt redundant about it. Sometimes I just felt Fluttershy worrying about the same exact thing over the time. But, the training scene was awesome, the hurricane was interesting to watch, and there was also emotional background to Fluttershy's character. Overall, 8 out of 10moreless
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Tara Strong	Twilight Sparkle
Cathy Weseluck	Spike
Ashleigh Ball	Rainbow Dash
Andrea Libman	Fluttershy

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TRIVIA (3)
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- Spitfire makes her first appearance since The Best Night Ever.
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- The Mule, from "Applebuck Season", makes a return appearance.
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- Derpy cameo: She is seen next to Fluttershy when Rainbow Dash drops her flyers on the ground. She's also seen in the crowd when Rainbow Dash is giving her speech and is also seen flying in the background many times during the training scenes.
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QUOTES (4)
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- Pegasus Ponies: (cheering) Fluttershy can really fly!
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- Pony Voices: (taunting) Fluttershy can hardly fly!
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- Rainbow Dash: Calling all pegasus ponies! Meeting tonight!
  Flitter: (reads flier) Mandatory meeting for all Ponyville pegasi.
  Rainbow Dash: Library, tonight. Be cool, or be mule. No offense.
  Mule: None taken.
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- Cloudchaser: What exactly does this machine do?
  Twilight Sparkle: This is an anemometer. It measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential. Any other questions?
  Flitter: Yeah. (to Spike) What exactly does this machine do?
  Spike: It tells you how fast you're flying and how strong your wings are.
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- "Wingpower" may be the Pony equivalent of horsepower, a unit of measurement commonly used to gauge the power of vehicle engines. Supposing horsepower and wingpower are equivalent, 10 wingpower would be similar to the power output of a Vespa motor scooter. Fluttershy's 2.3 wingpower is about that of an Olympic-calibre human athlete going on foot.
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- Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rarity are all absent in this episode.
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- Friendship Report: Fluttershy learned that everyone's contribution is important, no matter how small it is, and that anything can happen if you believe in yourself.
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- This episode revolves around Fluttershy.
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- Twilight Sparkle: Do I look like I speak Squirrel?"
  
  This is a reference to The Powerpuff Girls, where Bubbles (voiced by Twilight's VA, Tara Strong) regularly conversed with squirrels.
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