The problem is that everybody misses the broader element that make Over a Barrel hilarious: It completely and totally subverts standard modern Wild West stories by making the settler ponies more sympathetic than the natives (food vs. stampede land?). Also, the settlers are allowed to stay because they're the only ones who know how to make an exceptionally delicious food item (alcohol, anybody?). It also has Pinkie sing a bad song while dressed in fishnets that everybody calls out on being terrible.
Man, and then you people go and love completely mediocre episodes like Sonic Rainboom.
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SubDeity wants to vote for Calvin Coolidge. [Evil Republican]
Play Der Langrisser.