Rainbow Dash = Me  
The others = random people  
the thing I like that they don’t like = Bootleg Sun Shroom Plush

@DBZFan12  
Well, you’re clearly winning this Argument That Was Over About Ten Months Ago.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
Well, screw you, too.

@TexasUberAlles  
Incidentially, the last page I commented on is under 10000. XD

@DBZFan12  

@Alel  
Well warm hugs and kisses to you, too.

@DBZFan12  

 
No, it wasn’t. You just didn’t like it.
 

 
How mature.

@Mayojar77  
One of the many reasons I hate this episode.

This entire episode was a middle-finger from the writer. So I’m just gonna give him one right back(flips him off)

@Mayojar77  
wasn’t their whole thing about deliberately showing her up  
Well, no, since that never actually happened outside the fevered imaginations of RD fanboys who had their headcanons damaged when Skittlehorse turned out not to be perfect.
 
conspire to make one of their closest friends look like a total tool  
They never did that, either; MDW showed up and saved Ponies only after Dash farted around and let their situation get dangerously worse, then MDW took off without trying to hog any glory.
 
@Background Pony #74B3  
The Dam busting, the Construction work literally almost killing everyone including Dash, and the bus/cart filled with people that she couldn’t stop on her own.  
Nnnope, nnnope, aaannnd nope. The dam only burst after Dash let go of it to literally pat herself on the back; the construction site fell apart because a crane malfunction knocked everything down; and Dash clearly could have stopped the tourist bus if she had done so earlier instead of wasting time hamming it up. None of those things were made worse by MDW, they escalated from controllable to EVERYPONY RUN FOR YOUR LIVES because Dash screwed around instead of getting the job done.
 
@PonyPon  
She could easily have gotten Cherry Berry out of the balloon, she was just too busy signing autographs, the same way she let the bus get too close to the bottom of the hill because she was fishing for praise. She had the dam break stopped until she let go of it to literally pat herself on the back, and if she hadn’t been so focused on being congratulated for saving one construction worker, she might have noticed the rest of the building collapsing.
 
@Background Pony #AF60  
There are several around, but they don’t have their own sparate tags.

Can someone do a “role reversal” of this? Say, “Stop NOT liking things we like!”

@Background Pony #74B3  
I meant a situation that worsened by Mare-Do-Well’s actions!

@Alel  
I think her inability got in the way more than her ego did.

See, “just because she talked big”,”conspire”, “make her look like a total tool”, “violates at least three elements”, “just to teach a lesson”, an many others, you expect these notions to dictate how I watch the episode when I watch it, you give them for granted and expect the episode to be unanimously seen in a separate light to that of the rest of the show, but it doesn’t work like that, it’s just a twisted interpretation of the episode that some people insist on and try to perpetuate, and that gets denied when I watch the actual episode, the real thing.  
You only care about Rainbow Dash, yours and many others is a Rainbow-Dash-serving logic. You say for example that “it only got really bad with the third one”, as if it was worth risking that Rainbow Dash may not save the balloon pony (she waited to the ast second) or the carriange (wich is a strech to think she would), in other words to risk the lives of others, in favour of the chance Rainbow Dash may feel better about herself in a (at that point) pittyful way… priorities.
 
@Background Pony #74B3  
The tourist carriage mirrored the baby carriage, the construction mirrored the balcony, and the dam mirrored the well; they were all meant to be more difficult and more dangerous versions of Rainbow Dash’s previous heroic acts, wich she wasn’t ready for because her ego got in the way.  
The episode is rich in visual storytelling.

@nicktoonhero  
The Dam busting, the Construction work literally almost killing everyone including Dash, and the bus/cart filled with people that she couldn’t stop on her own.
 
In comparison to baby carriages, and old people falling… yeah it got way worse for no reason.

@Mayojar77  
Really. Name one situation that became worse when Mare-Do-Well showed up.

@Alel  
Also, wasn’t their whole thing about deliberately showing her up just because she talked big? That rather than to show her how to be a hero, they specifically went out of their way to conspire to make one of their closest friends look like a total tool. Nobody’s doubting that Rainbow’s head got so bog she could wear town hall like a hat. What we are doubting is how some people seem to ignore that the whole mess violates at least three of the Elements just to teach a lesson none of them are really qualified to give, except for maybe Fluttershy.  
It should be noted that the disasters didn’t get too big for Rainbow to handle on her own until after Mare-Do-Well showed up, and it wasn’t until the third time she appeared (Pinkie) that they actually did get serious.

@Alel  
They didn’t have to act like such pricks though.

@Mayojar77  
@Evowizard25  
@Mayojar77  
It’s annoying how people conveniently forget that MDW saved ponies Rainbow Dash wasn’t going to save, including Rainbow Dash herself and all Ponivile; that her ego that ended up stopping her from saving others properly; and it’s downright psychotic how people refer to saving others as if it was just Rainbow Dash’s hobby, something only she can do to feel better about herself… ’It’s wrong to take credit for being a hero if it messes with someone else’s ego’ descrives RD’s attitude towards MDW perfectly.  
If those ponies weren’t saved, everybody loses, even Rainbow Dash; if the others saved the ponies as themselves, Poniville would adore them just as they adored RD, it would be on a more personal level. MDW was meant to show RD how to be a proper hero, because they wanted her to be a hero, but she had to do it right; they never tried to humilliate her, it was RD who took humilliation wich she didn’t have any right to considering what they were doing.

@TexasUberAlles  
Pretty much.

This is relevant to pretty much every conversation I have about this (awesome) episode.
 
@Mayojar77  
Sure, except for the part where her gloating nearly got Cherry Berry and a busload of tourists killed, she’d already demonstrated that she was capable of being heroic without being an ass about it, “spotlight” was absolutely never– no, not even a little bit, sorry– an issue, she only ever made herself look like a fool, and there was never any “social outcast” nonsense going on at all other than the 100% standard Ponyvillian herdmind fickleness that has been well-established all along.

PC gamers vs. console gamers in a nutshell

@Evowizard25  
“Even if they aren’t hurting anyone with their gloating, and they are really only gloating about the things they know they can do, unless they are sharing 100% of their spotlight, you have every right to make them look like a fool and turn them into a social outcast.”

That’s pretty much what they said. The message the episode conveyed is ‘If someone is gloating, knock them down a few pegs’.

That’s essentially the message we got from this episode. That and ‘It’s wrong to take credit for being a hero if it messes with someone else’s ego’.