Scrapped Pony Comics 2: Judgement Day!

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In celebration, here are some germs of ideas that didn't quite make the cut into being Pony Comics!  I had already decided against most of these ideas before even beginning scriptwriting.

"The Old, Grey Mare!"
Man, this would have made a terrible comic!  It would have had really unnatural dialogue and a poor set-up, all for a lame pun.  The pun in question is that most of Britain pronounces the word "Mayor" pretty much the same as the word "Mare".  So Mayor Mare would be "Mare Mare".  Okay, fine!  So what would I do to make this happen?  Well, I'd need a British pony.  Okay!  So Britain exists as a place in Equestria?  Well, France does at least.  So, this British pony would come to Ponyville for some reason?  Yeah, it could happen!  And this British pony would end up speaking to the Mayor?  There are less possible things.  So, he would introduce the pun into conversation how?  Ooh, ooh!  I know!  Just like "Who's on first" by Abbot and Costello!  You are a bad idea, comic, and you should feel bad!

"Miracles"
If you just read the word "miracles" without thinking about magnets, you have not yet touched the slippery slope of descent into memetic madness.  (I advise you not to.)  This was a comic written in an attempt to explain why ponies can hold hooves; think for instance of the second episode, where Twilight was dangling off a cliff and Applejack was holding her up by the hooves.  The first idea was to have them hold the conversation on the cliff, but that would be far too lazy for even me.  Plus, as much as I like to mess with canon, I still try not to contradict anything that happens in the show, so changing or expanding their conversation was out.  Then came the idea of Twilight as an interviewee in a "talking heads"-type DVD-bonus-feature-style commentary in which she would explain the whole thing.  It then came to me that this is somehow even less canon than the earlier idea.  I still integrated the idea of tiny invisible horseshoe magnets in my concept art for a Pony action figure.

"My Perfect Cousin!"
This was an idea I'd had bouncing around my head for ages, so much so that I thought I'd already written a script for it!  Only this morning did I find out I hadn't, which is no great loss really.  The idea would be that Applejack's cousin was coming for a visit to Ponyville, so Pinkie had decided that she needed a surprise party!  So Pinkie goes to Rarity and asks if Rarity can help with the decorations.  But of course!  Then Pinkie goes to Dash, and Dash is all "Applejack's Cousin?  Isn't she the horribly deformed one?" and Pinkie would be all "Even horribly deformed ponies deserve parties!"  Then Pinkie would go to all her other friends and ask them to help, etc.  Then, at the surprise party, Applejack's cousin turns out to be G1 Applejack!  Ha ha ha.  Hilarious.  This one was weighed down under the force of multiple punchlines, a lot like "Rarity's old shame".  Oh snap, I thought!  You can't call somepony "horribly deformed" in a comic and then use deformity as a punchline!  So I made the punchline the shocked faces of the mane cast.  Oh snap again, I thought!  What if G1 pony fans don't take kindly to having their ponies being called horribly deformed?  So I was thinking about adding on an extra panel showing that G1 Applejack is a real party animal and fun to be around.  How would I show this?  And I could not think of any way to show ponies having fun without resorting to adding alcohol into the equation or having somepony say "Your cousin is so fun!"  It turned into a mess of politics is what it did.

"Once you go Mac!"
I stole the title for this one from a cool dude called Applejays on RBDN.  It started out when I noticed how absolutely huge Big Macintosh's cutie mark is.  What would have also factored into this comic would be Bon-Bon totally checking him out in the same picture.  After running through this scenario in my head over and over, it kept turning into an innuendo-laden campfest that I would have dubbed "Carry On Equestria".  Yeah.  If I ever die, that's precisely the kind of thing I don't want to be remembered by.

Thanks for stopping by for Scrapped Pony Comics 2!  Maybe if I keep having bad ideas, we'll get Scrapped Pony Comics 3?  I hope not!