
| Anonymous #150439 1 year ago |
I wouldn't be surprised if he couldn't read. |
| Wrongness #150443 1 year ago |
But he is good at fancy math-a-matics. Also CUTE!! |
| Anonymous #150446 1 year ago |
Okay, what your doing there is jumping. |
| Wrongness #150448 1 year ago |
lol nice P2 reference anon. |
| Jackarunda #150450 1 year ago |
Oh, I like this. Never imagined that BicMac was illiterate, but Twilight Teaching him is too cute. |
| Anonymous #150492 1 year ago |
D'awwww... |
| Anonymous #150552 1 year ago |
Actually, I would have thought AJ to be the illiterate one... I think I've read somewhere that in canon she has trouble counting to SIX. |
| Rogue-kun #150569 1 year ago |
Would that make Apple Bloom the 'Jethro' of the family being hte one still in school? ;) |
| TimmyTheWiz #150570 1 year ago |
"Whose a silly pony....." |
| TimmyTheWiz #150573 1 year ago |
^Who's |
| Anonymous #150576 1 year ago |
So Big Mac's dyslexic and Applejack's mathlexic.
Goddamn, Apple Bloom's the brain of the family? |
| Rogue-kun #150605 1 year ago |
@Anon #150576, that would dysnumic not, mathlexic
Apple Bloom could round out the set and have what I have, Dysgraphia. |
| Anonymous #150609 1 year ago |
And then they fucked |
| Anonymous #150899 1 year ago |
Boo for insulting stereotypes. Having a Southern accent doesn't automagically make you retarded. |
| Anonymous #150920 1 year ago |
Being illiterate doesn't make you retarded either. |
| Roboshi #150989 1 year ago |
seeing as it looks like applejack and Bic Mac never went to school (remember AJ left ponyville without needing to leave school) it's reasonable to assume they spent their lives helping on the farm.
Applebloom could be the first o get schooling which actually makes AJ kinda sweet as she wants her sister to get schooling she missed out on |
| Anonymous #151184 1 year ago |
^But in Call of the Cutie, Applejack says that her, Granny Smith and Big Mac all were the last in their class to get their marks. AJ probably left the farm during summer break or something. Or it could be like in the old days when farm kids were let out of school during harvest and planting seasons. |
| Anonymous #151507 1 year ago |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gp1kVAEFAI |
| Anonymous #151585 1 year ago |
I suspect Big Mac is a lot smarter than folks give him credit for. That "hayseed" look may be just an act, you know. |
| Anonymous #151637 1 year ago |
He's only pretending that he can't read. |
| Beatlepony #151823 1 year ago |
In return, Big Mac will dig more holes for Twilight. |
| Anonymous #152082 1 year ago |
Maybe he's making mistakes on purpose. I mean, he's being tutored by Twilight Sparkle! Wouldn't you lengthen the whole thing too if you were in his place? |
| Anonycat #152586 1 year ago |
This is cute, yet incredibly off character. |
| -Eli- #152595 1 year ago |
Yea being retarded is the only way to beez retarded like me!
Just kidding… yea I know it's not funny, don't hate. |
| Sound_Mind #152709 1 year ago |
Being Dyslexic does not make you stupid. It just means you hae a problem with reading. Hell, I know a guy who's dyslexic who can do complex math in his head. |
| Anonymous #153995 1 year ago |
A... P... P... L... Eeeeyup. |
| Anonymous #154108 1 year ago |
Pretty sure Big Mac is actually the brains behind the Apple family. I mean, AJ has a rough time counting to six... |
| Anonymous #154119 1 year ago |
Someone has to do the bookkeeping. Big Mac is a lot smarter than people give him credit for, I think. He just...talks slowly. |
| Rogue-kun #154306 1 year ago |
Still waters run deep. He's a stallion of little word be his thoughts are too deep the wast time nattering. |
| Rogue-kun #154310 1 year ago |
Kosh: Understanding is a three-edged sword
Big Mac: Eeeeyup |
| Anonymous #157179 1 year ago |
Everyone knows Big Mac has eleven PhDs! |
| relias #167727 1 year ago |
I don't see why so many people seem to think this is off-character. Big Mac may not be that stupid but he may have issues with things like spelling, we have absolutely no proof one way or the other in the show, and it doesn't seem unfitting. The idea of this whole scene is adorable and is so spot-on in my eyes that it's something I could see happening in the show. |
| Anonymous #180406 1 year ago |
Where has it ever been mentioned or implied in any part of the show that Applejack has trouble counting to 6? |
| Lancer #241512 1 year ago |
The show canon seems to follow the "strong stupid southern redneck farmer" cliche that continues on while all other forms of derogatory humor slowly die.
Nobody's perfect, not even the MLP writers. I personally hold that it would be impossible to operate a farm without a fairly good education. The dummies might be able to buck bales of hay and pick apples, but once you start marketing produce or writing paychecks you need to pick up on some learning. |
| derpyderp553 #338639 11 months ago |
dupe? |
| Anonymous #338640 11 months ago |
i swear this is from a movie |
| Wrongness #338644 11 months ago |
really really really old dupe. |
| Anonymous #338645 11 months ago |
A-P-U-L. Apple. Why's Twilight trying to teach it wrong? |
| Anonymous #338646 11 months ago |
^ Akeelah and the Bee?
:D |
| DeeperMadness #338647 11 months ago |
Big Mac must have a blast when it comes to doing his sisters' birthday cards... |
| Jackarunda #338648 11 months ago |
@Wrongness
Beauty and the Beast, perhaps? |
| Wrongness #338654 11 months ago |
Bam! >>20480 |
| derpyderp553 #338661 11 months ago |
@wrongness Thanks Emeril! |
| Bongo #338683 11 months ago |
inb4 Portal 2 joke...I huess I will do it.
Okay, what you're doing there is jumping... |
| Wrongness #338691 11 months ago |
Your welcome. |
| GreyAcumane #338814 11 months ago |
big mac doesn't come across dumb at all. AJ comes across a little stubborn and slow to accept new ideas in, but she's not dumb either (she was reading a book to bloomberg, so that's canon that she's not illiterate) |
| Anonymous #338822 11 months ago |
Actually, this does bring up a question of how smart Applejack is. I mean, she's a great cook and knows how to take care of plants, but she did mention that the farm was in need of repair and her best outfits seem to be work duds. Their surprising lack of money for basic farm equipment seems odd seeing as they run the only apple farm in Ponyville (probably holding a monopoly on said product there). Selling one of the most popular fruit product in a town of ponies, and yet they're strapped for cash? Something doesn't add up...
Anyways, I would say the Apple family (specifically AJ, AB, BM, and GS) is smart regarding people affairs and apple products (such as apple recipes, PR and farm maintenance), but lack book smarts. Braeburn doesn't seem to suffer from this though. |
| Anonymous #338923 11 months ago |
Is...
Is this a ship? |
| Anonymous #339277 11 months ago |
I believe shipping is being implied here... |
| Anonymous #954815 5 months ago |
@anon882 It's a well known fact that farmin' folk were always poor. My American History teacher's parents were farmers before, during, and after the great depression. He said that the depression didn't make any difference to them. They "were poor before the depression, and [they] were poor during the depression."
Because, seriously, if you're a farmer, the only way to make more money is to grow more. Now, that said, prices drop if there's more of that product around. Supply and Demand, 'n all. So, if you grow more, you end up selling for less, and then you may not even sell them all before they go bad, meaning lost profit from 1) Lower prices -and- 2) More products going to waste. But, if you grow less products you, obviously, aren't going to earn any more than you have been. TL;DR. Farmers are stereotypically, and in practice, poor. |