Embarrassing family members.

rainbow dash’s mother, sweetie belle’s secret mother, and maud pie’s crazy time-travelling mother.

Saw all those episodes finally.
 
I’d say it’s been a good season so far. “Obsessive ponies” seems to be a recurring theme.

@Background Pony #3645  
My God, this could be the dumbest retcon since Derpygate.

@BigBadSeed  
There was a mention that we’d get to see them. It could be a flashback, but I didn’t get that impression.
 
@Wiimeiser  
I can hardly be the judge of that, but I’m also used to less language policing on the telly anyway. I do understand that the showrunners can’t just keep using her name for mixed reasons, my point was that much like Derpy there may be valid reasons to never address the status of scootaloo’s parents. Such as the question of pony afterlife. Or whether they want to drive home the idea that sometimes people die frightfully young, and for no real reason either. Any position they’ll take on that will get someone’s knickers in a twist across the pond.

@Zharkaer  
Idiots

@Wiimeiser  

 
To who, exactly?

@Wiimeiser  
You could have a point. Still, I’m starting to get the feeling MLP could turn into Disovery’s version of SpongeBob. Isn’t it the only show that premiered on the first day of the Hub that’s still on the air?

@Background Pony #3645  
“Derpy” is actually an offensive word in some areas. That’s why I use the “Drpi = muffin” workaround sometimes.
 
@BigBadSeed  
@Background Pony #3645  
Scootaloo’s not Mane 6 or Glim-Glam, so I doubt anything will ever be said about her parents unless the show somehow lasts 28 seasons…

@Background Pony #3645  
You never know. We always suspected she couldn’t fly, but never thought the show would say it outright, but they did. You never know what they’ll do next.  
Also, WHAT?! NO!!! Are you sure it won’t just be a flashback, though?

@BigBadSeed  
I generally agree, but I will say I do see FCF9’s point, this could’ve gone over much better had Rainbow been more considerate. Which is an entirely different can of worms.  
On Scootaloo, I’m not convinced she’s an orphan just yet - much like we for the longest time got bits and pieces that seemed to point to the Apple parents being dead, with apparently an episode coming up that puts the kibosh on that thesis. They might as well present us with scootaloo’s parents some other episode, or just never address it (not unlike a certain pegasus’ name the show won’t acknowledge again).

@Background Pony #FCF9  
Rainbow doesn’t need to feel a certain way about her parents. If she doesn’t like their over-the-top support, that’s her prerogative. Also, we never knew that Scootaloo didn’t have supportive parents, and neither did Rainbow Dash.  
I will concede, though, she probably should have told them something a long time ago instead of avoiding the issue for years.  
Speaking of Scootaloo’s parents, is it just slowly becoming canon that she’s an orphan?

@Background Pony #3645
 
More like, as Scootaloo pointed out, that Dash took for granted that kind of support. Yes, they’re overzealous, but unlike Rarity and Pinkie, who were out of touch AND overzealous, RD’s parents were just overzealous. All of this could have been avoided if Dash had just talk to her parents. Instead, she intentionally shut her parents out of her life. Maud could tell Pinkie was more or less thinking about herself rather than herself, so she left. Rarity had been so busy, she barely made time for her little sister she supposed to be caring for, so Sweetie outgrew her. Yes, Dash’s parents were embarrassing, and because they embarrassed her, and she never talked to them about it, she literally cut them out of her life when she moved to Ponyville. Rainbow Dash did indeed take her parents for granted, her snapping at them was a slap in the face to Scootaloo, whom we now know has never known that kind of support and devotion. Bow and Windy weren’t in the right, but their hearts were in the right place. RD was wrong. She knew she was wrong, and then she made it right.

@Beau Skunky  
You might be able to find a torrent for the episodes.  
Or maybe type in the Dailymotion url into a downloader

@northern haste  
I don’t think it works on my browser, but I’ll try.

@Beau Skunky  
Try Dailymotion

@northern haste  
Ah, interesting. No wonder it’s hard to find the newer episodes… (On Youtube, I’m getting annoyed by the amount of “so-and-so reacts,” or “Watch as I talk through the whole episode, and try to be funny” videos… It’s making it impossible to find them.)

@Beau Skunky  
Canada is airing two episodes a week easy bit of news to miss

Good God, I didn’t know we were up to episode 7 already! I missed the past 3 episodes! (Though I just watched “Forever Filly” which was cute.)

Team Stalker

lol cute

@Background Pony #3645  
I kind of agree.

@Wiimeiser  
Oh God…

@BigBadSeed  
Awaiting the inevitable Appleparents are alive after all scenario.