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After Spike being tortured and used as a punching bag, the fans wanted to give him a “new” character development by begging the writers to do so because they couldn’t stand any of that, and caused a massive show derailment.
 
Spike got all credit for no reason in “The Crystal Empire” despite all the hard work and roles the other characters had played. Like Twilight, she did most of it.
 
In “Gauntlet of Fire,” I was wondering where Garble’s hatred of ponies came from and why anyone would invade an entire land to get something more comfortable to sleep on instead of rocks. And dragons aren’t able to use magic, so they are without a doubt weak and harmless enough.

But Spike IS the butt monkey. But he’s a smart and capable and beloved and teen boyish butt monkey.

@dreaper  
What are you talking about? He has many redeeming qualities.
 
He’s loyal to his friends, no matter how mean they are to him.  
He’s has many funny lines, and can still find some way to make humor in a scary situation.  
He’s learned to not be greedy, and to be generous to others.  
And also looks out for his friends, especially twilight, when she starts losing it.

Butt-monkey Spike is not funny because he is a complete loser. He doesn’t have any redeeming quality (the only one he had got completely butchered in “Spike at your service”), so seeing him getting the short end of the stick becomes mean spirited after a while.

That’s difficult to read. OP needs to learn about contrast.

@Trickquestion  
>The “humor” of the episodes is more in line with Invader Zim or Ed Edd and Eddy.  
>implying that that’s a bad thing.

@Trickquestion  
I agree about the mean-spiritedness of it. But out of all the of spike episodes, it is one of the least-awful (Secret of my Excess, is good).
 
I think Spike at your service is reserved for worst spike episode.

Too late.

Too late.

@Background Pony  
I didn’t think “Sidekicks” was that good. It feel entirely too mean spirited to be an episode of FiM. The “humor” of the episodes is more in line with Invader Zim or Ed Edd and Eddy. Plus it expected us to sympathize with Angel Bunny. I never want to see Angel Bunny in this cartoon again unless he spends every second of his screen time being punished.

@Background Pony
 
Not to you anyway. I love slapstick.

@Princess♠Molestia  
It was never funny

I agree about the whole butt monkey thing (though season 3 downplayed it a bit, after crystal empire part 1)
 
But Cory Powell’s just for sidekicks was one of the two GOOD spike episodes out there.
 
I agree, don’t let Cindy morrow write his episodes, and please let M. Williams stay away from him.

Bring on the Spikeabuse, bring on the funny!

 
TOO LATE! HAHA!