Livre d'Or

MLP in a nutshell: A group of ponies with wildly different interests and personalities have adventures and conflicts and friendships. The basic message is that girls can be anything, and it's all good. You can be shy or smart or flaky or outgoing, you can be interested in business or books or fashion or sports, but everyone is special, everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and everyone needs friends.

The kids who watch MLP are watching the show, not looking at stills. What they take from it is completely different from what an adult who's completely unfamiliar with it takes by glancing at stills and brief clips, and comparing its purely visual elements divorced from context with a show from your own childhood that you watched in entirety.

It's been a while since I watched season one, but I recall enjoying "Sonic Rainboom," "Dragonshy," and "Party of One." The episodes are only 20 minutes long, and watching even one should give you a better sense of the show.