13 Horrible Life Lessons My Little Pony Tries To Teach Our Kids

The Horrible Life Lesson: If a friend asks for help, disregard what they want and do it your own way.

While many of the horrible lessons in this list appear unintentional on the part of the show's writers, The Saddle Row Review actually says precisely what it means to say. When Rarity waits until the day of her Manehattan boutique's opening to begin preparations, she relies on her friends to help her overcome the numerous last-minute problems standing between her and success. After they fail to do things her way, they decide to take their own approach.

The results? Fluttershy hires feral raccoons to serve soup. Rainbow Dash hires three assistants without knowing if Rarity can afford to pay them all. Pinkie Pie turns the boutique into a dance club. Finally, Applejack unleashes an obnoxious, spoon-obsessed filly on the boutique's customers. Only Twilight Sparkle, whose job is to organize the shop's inventory, does her job correctly.

In the land of fiction, this all works out happily. In the real world, however, failure to do what someone wants does not excuse taking a hard left turn and doing whatever suits your whimsy. Most friends who ask you to help them set up a clothing store will not be happy with an over-staffed, raccoon-infested dance club. Even if they are, it doesn't mean you're a good friend. It just means they lack stability, which often happens to somepony whose friends let them spend a night feasting on rabies soup.