MY LITTLE PONY Cartoon Debuts Same-Sex Couple
After nearly a decade, the widely popular My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic animated series is coming to an end. There’s no denying the cultural phenomenon that is My Little Pony. A reboot of Hasbro’s popular 80’s brand developed by acclaimed animator Lauren Faust, MLP has completely changed the landscape of not only cartoons targeted for girls but children’s entertainment as a whole. What could have been a run-of-the-mill toyetic series has since blossomed into a critical darling praised for its offbeat humor and imagination coupled with complex life lessons. It’s even broken gender barriers garnering adult male viewers affectionately known as “bronies.” In the upcoming episode “The Last Crusade” written by Nicole Dubuc, set to debut on Discovery Family but has already aired overseas, the long-absent parents of the young pegasus Scootaloo (Madeleine Peters) are at last introduced, finally answering a longstanding plot point many have been wondering. But that’s not the only