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True story.
If you caught The Colbert Report last night, you'd have seen that Stephen opened the show with, "A shout out to all my bronies!" I am seizing this opportunity to claim my moment of internet famous.
About a year ago, I joined a World of Tanks clan 'My Little Pwnies' when they formed. I thought the name was pretty stupid, but my only friend had joined and extended me an invite. As time would show, Clan MLP would become the most dominant force on the NA Server for months before going out in a blaze of glory. The idea behind the clan name was to give a sense of shame to anyone that lost to us (haha, you got beaten by Pwines?) and I had no idea that a new MLP cartoon had been launched. However, the WoT forums are overrun with MLP avatars, icons, tank skins, sound packs and so on. A few months ago I used my YouTube-Fu to find some episodes to see what the big fuss was all about.
Predictably, I got suckered in by the great animation and humor of this 'cartoon for little girls.' While I don't sit in front of the TV waiting for new episodes or collect toys, I will watch an episode here or there on YouTube when I have 22 minutes to kill. Then my niece turned three and I started singing the songs from the show to her. That made her crazy happy. Same for my six month old nephew. He would always laugh when I sang the 'Find a Pet' song. Having no other natural child-rearing talents, I stuck to singing, much to my fiancee's chagrin. Not that I can't sing, but she thinks its creepy I know the songs to MLP and they are so damned catchy they get stuck in her head and she starts singing along.
Last night, my fiancee and I had tickets to the Colbert Report. Before the show starts, Stephen does a Q&A for about 15 minutes with the audience. This is out-of-character, so you can ask him anything. About half the questions were about his love of Tolkien. One was a great question about his infamous Correspondent's Dinner monologue. Just to tease my girlfriend, I asked, "You shouted out to Bronies before on your show. Are you a Brony? And if you are, which pony is your favorite."
Stephen responded, "Why don't you tell EVERYONE what a brony is?" Instant regret
How do I say it without sounding like a furry? So I said that a brony was a guy that likes the new MLP cartoon. He then asked me if what my parents think of that? I deflected by saying, "Well my three year old niece LOVES it. I sing the songs to her." Stephen told me, no, he is not a brony and thinks it's a bit creepy. He also gets the question fairly often, which is even creepier. I asked why he did the shout out before earlier if he wasn't a brony. He said because someone had asked him in Q&A and then he was flooded with email, pictures, tweets and all other paraphernalia from Broniedom which just creeped him out yet again. He made me verify that it was not sexual in nature, "No it is not." and that I was positive, "Yes sir."
Ten minutes later the show starts and he announces that there is too much material for the show that they will skip the normal "table of contents" jokes at the top of the show and him running onto stage. Instead he does this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJW6bAKwiew
Well I just about died. All the Bronies in the world are thinking that MLP just got a shout out. But in reality, it was a shout out to my three year old niece! Stephen Colbert is just the man. Seriously. I've been pretty much giggling to myself for the past day now because of this. The best part is that my fiancee ended up being more amused than annoyed so I'm not in the doghouse for bringing it up in public
If you caught The Colbert Report last night, you'd have seen that Stephen opened the show with, "A shout out to all my bronies!" I am seizing this opportunity to claim my moment of internet famous.
About a year ago, I joined a World of Tanks clan 'My Little Pwnies' when they formed. I thought the name was pretty stupid, but my only friend had joined and extended me an invite. As time would show, Clan MLP would become the most dominant force on the NA Server for months before going out in a blaze of glory. The idea behind the clan name was to give a sense of shame to anyone that lost to us (haha, you got beaten by Pwines?) and I had no idea that a new MLP cartoon had been launched. However, the WoT forums are overrun with MLP avatars, icons, tank skins, sound packs and so on. A few months ago I used my YouTube-Fu to find some episodes to see what the big fuss was all about.
Predictably, I got suckered in by the great animation and humor of this 'cartoon for little girls.' While I don't sit in front of the TV waiting for new episodes or collect toys, I will watch an episode here or there on YouTube when I have 22 minutes to kill. Then my niece turned three and I started singing the songs from the show to her. That made her crazy happy. Same for my six month old nephew. He would always laugh when I sang the 'Find a Pet' song. Having no other natural child-rearing talents, I stuck to singing, much to my fiancee's chagrin. Not that I can't sing, but she thinks its creepy I know the songs to MLP and they are so damned catchy they get stuck in her head and she starts singing along.
Last night, my fiancee and I had tickets to the Colbert Report. Before the show starts, Stephen does a Q&A for about 15 minutes with the audience. This is out-of-character, so you can ask him anything. About half the questions were about his love of Tolkien. One was a great question about his infamous Correspondent's Dinner monologue. Just to tease my girlfriend, I asked, "You shouted out to Bronies before on your show. Are you a Brony? And if you are, which pony is your favorite."
Stephen responded, "Why don't you tell EVERYONE what a brony is?" Instant regret
How do I say it without sounding like a furry? So I said that a brony was a guy that likes the new MLP cartoon. He then asked me if what my parents think of that? I deflected by saying, "Well my three year old niece LOVES it. I sing the songs to her." Stephen told me, no, he is not a brony and thinks it's a bit creepy. He also gets the question fairly often, which is even creepier. I asked why he did the shout out before earlier if he wasn't a brony. He said because someone had asked him in Q&A and then he was flooded with email, pictures, tweets and all other paraphernalia from Broniedom which just creeped him out yet again. He made me verify that it was not sexual in nature, "No it is not." and that I was positive, "Yes sir."Ten minutes later the show starts and he announces that there is too much material for the show that they will skip the normal "table of contents" jokes at the top of the show and him running onto stage. Instead he does this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJW6bAKwiew
Well I just about died. All the Bronies in the world are thinking that MLP just got a shout out. But in reality, it was a shout out to my three year old niece! Stephen Colbert is just the man. Seriously. I've been pretty much giggling to myself for the past day now because of this. The best part is that my fiancee ended up being more amused than annoyed so I'm not in the doghouse for bringing it up in public
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