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- Jun 15, 2014
When I was watching Dr. Seuss with my little cousins I was shocked to see that his cartoons had political messages in them (i.e - Snitch/Segregation, Zax/Korea & Vietnam, Horton/Hiroshima, etc). It was pretty fun going through my old Seuss books, that I got when I was 4, and try find the references to real life.
Hahahaha oh man, for years after reading "The Butter Battle Book" in 4th grade, I was convinced the book had been printed without the last few pages and ended on a cliffhanger.
I was almost disappointed to learn that wasn't the case and the whole book had been an allegory for Mutually Assured Destruction by Nuclear Bombing during the cold war between the US and the USSR, with the book beginning at an expy for the Berlin Wall.
Not exactly, he was well into ponies before Friendship is Magic came along, even going so far as to make a bunch of custom-painted ones (that looked exactly like you would expect given OPL's level of craftmanship). And I think he made his imaginary daughter; Crystal, into a pony who came back in time to make she Chris would father her or something in Sonichu.No wonder Chris is obsessed with it. He can understand the themes and the way the morals pan out ( -> be nice and good things happen to you) is also in accordance with how he wishes the world in general would work.
It seems he's fond of Derpy pony cause she's a lovableretardedchallengedspecial individual (the way he'd love to be seen as) and he seems to adore ...uh... that flying pony with the rainbow hair (since that's the way he'd like to be)... come to think about it, maybe he had a slinky on his head at the LGBT picnic cause that was his cargo-cult rainbow mane.
Either way, his attraction to the show most likely originates from the ponies being easily discernable in design and personality and they offer a pleasant way to kill some time...