Children are horrible. I'm totally on Blueblood's side.

edited 9th Dec '11 11:13:11 AM by Badwolfwho

Awesomely Amazing Assholes.

THEY throw bricks at children

edited 9th Dec '11 11:13:30 AM by gingerninja666

Who knows. Maybe he is not the one who learns the moral for the episode.

Also the synopsis states that he is the one who has to come up with the solution to his problem. Not sure how (or if) he is going to do that.

edited 9th Dec '11 11:14:16 AM by Mio

The Magic of Friendship, a handy plot device, and threatening to eat the scriptwriter.

huh?

edited 9th Dec '11 11:17:26 AM by gingerninja666

I'm not too fond of the "growing gigantic from greed, and going Godzilla" plot that it may have, but this is Fi M, where there are great characters that carry any episode with ease.

There's a road sign across the street from me that says "CHILDREN." Someone took a marker to this sign, and turned it into "KENTUCKY FRIED CHILDREN, 1 MILE."

Am I a terrible person for laughing at this?

No.

No.

I LOVE Spike. I adore his innocence and I would totally get a plushie if I could find one (...I'm a male, too.) That's why I'm apprehensive on the fact that dragons in Equestria have a "greed instinct". Seems a bit too artificial to me.

edited 9th Dec '11 11:21:11 AM by kyun

No. You're only horrible if you drive around for an hour trying to find the diner.

edited 9th Dec '11 11:21:14 AM by CDRW

Well I didn't find it funny.

@kyun But it would fit with what we've seen of the dragons so far. Both of them have been gem hoarders who were violently protective of their property.

Plus, If Spike could somehow overcome these instincts, then he'll have proven himself a stronger person

edited 9th Dec '11 11:24:36 AM by gingerninja666

I want to see a picture collection with the Mane Six dressed Perky Goth.

No. You're only horrible if you drive around for an hour trying to find the diner.

Never did find the damn thing. Er, I mean... I agree.

Saddest story.

Don't western dragons have greed instincts in everything they've ever been in?

edited 9th Dec '11 11:31:03 AM by Badwolfwho

It also makes me wonder if he'll actually be getting OLDER, or if he'll just be getting FATTER.

Is this gonna end like that one episode of Ed Edd And Eddy where Ed starts eating everything in his sleep and they resolve the issue by trapping him in a window then selling all the stuff inside his stomach? (by reaching down his throat and grabbing it)

edited 9th Dec '11 11:35:52 AM by gingerninja666

Given the breadth of Our Dragons Are Different, no.

edited 9th Dec '11 11:35:24 AM by CountDorku

The hoard aspect seems to be pretty traditional, but the reasons are varied. Some of them are instinctive, some greedy, some of them just like shiny stuff. Some of them are just protecting somebody else's treasure as a favour.

Wow, Equestria Daily referenced TV Tropes in their Editor's Omnibus.

Well in this case he seems to be Instinctively Greedy

edited 9th Dec '11 11:39:42 AM by gingerninja666

I like it when this thread isn't busy. I can actually read posts added since I last went here.

What KIND of reference?

They told fanfiction writers to come here to learn more about tropes and how to use them. They also warned them that Tv Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.

That last statement is a requirement though.

Well, by "instinctively greedy" it sounds like hoarding is just some thing dragons do.

And it makes sense. In this show, dragons eat precious gems and (presumably) metals. Having an instinct to hoard these (imperishable) foodstuffs makes a lot of sense when you live extremely long and are huge. After all, the older dragons are huge, and that means they have huge guts, which need to be filled with a lot of treasure.

It's more of a justified hoard than some other works. Best explanation since "I lie on the treasure to protect my underbelly"

On a completely different, yet still dragon-related note: I don't want to open the discussion, since I think we've all had enough of it, but I just want to say that Basil being a Draco in Leather Pants is hilarious to me, just because of the trope's name.

edited 9th Dec '11 11:50:47 AM by Enlong