WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:12.100 --> 00:00:15.460 *typing sounds* 00:00:16.420 --> 00:00:17.560 Dear Hasbro. 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:26.300 My name is Alicia Garcia, a single mother of a ten-year-old daughter named Jennifer Garcia who is a huge fan of your show. 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:32.940 Non-stop, all she ever does is talk about that My Little Pony show and how it's the greatest thing on Earth. 00:00:33.140 --> 00:00:39.120 I've watched a few episodes with her, and I have to admit that I've gotten hooked on it as well, 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.460 or at least I used to. I don't see the show the same way nowadays. 00:00:44.800 --> 00:00:51.680 Ever since she started watching it, all she would ever ask for is a Rainbow Dash doll. Her favorite Pony by the way. 00:00:51.969 --> 00:00:57.269 I've tried numerous times to try and find her one to buy at the store, but so far, 00:00:57.269 --> 00:00:59.720 I haven't found one or for that manner, 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:06.080 any My Little Pony dolls or figures. I asked one of the clerks if whenever they would ever have some in stock 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.040 but she had no idea what I was even talking about. 00:01:10.360 --> 00:01:14.960 Like, as if she had never heard of the show or My Little Pony for that matter. 00:01:15.220 --> 00:01:21.660 I've also looked online on eBay and Etsy and still haven't found any toys from your show. 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:27.000 A few weeks ago, my daughter, Jennifer, brought home a Twilight Sparkle vinyl figure 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.980 that she said she found in the playground under a swing set. 00:01:31.160 --> 00:01:35.060 It was filthy with one of the wings ripped off. 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:38.420 Someone had colored its eyes black with a pen or marker 00:01:38.900 --> 00:01:42.820 and it had the strangest smile that I had ever seen on a doll. 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:47.840 It's silly, and I don't even know why I'm writing this but, 00:01:48.140 --> 00:01:50.480 I get uneasy around that doll. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:58.140 It's almost like this hatred that seems to be burning inside of it, but even with my own reservations, 00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:04.060 Jennifer loves it and takes it everywhere with her. I can't imagine why she loves it so much. 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:12.280 It's a broken toy, but it's her favorite. I tried cleaning it up, but I haven't been able to remove the black ink. 00:02:13.020 --> 00:02:17.220 She took it with her for a sleepover over at her friend Amelia's house a few weeks ago. 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:23.480 I'm not sure what happened, but my daughter isn't allowed to go over there anymore. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.020 I didn't get any details from Amelia's parents 00:02:27.620 --> 00:02:34.620 but from the little that I do know, it has something to do with Jennifer loaning that Twilight Sparkle doll to her friend and 00:02:34.620 --> 00:02:36.860 something happened to her in the toy during the night. 00:02:37.300 --> 00:02:39.300 Again, it's Silly. I know but 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:44.400 the thing is Jennifer has told me that she hasn't been to school since the sleepover. 00:02:44.880 --> 00:02:50.060 Something about that all she does is scream now and has been placed into a hospital. 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:55.200 I don't understand what all happened, but it's a bit unnerving again. 00:02:55.800 --> 00:02:59.040 I caught my daughter on more than one occasion talking to it 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.920 and to say the least, I was a bit freaked out. 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:10.480 Sometimes it seems like the doll is listening and talking back to her. I know, I know i-it could be attributed to, 00:03:10.720 --> 00:03:13.860 you know, imaginary friends. I mean, we all had those as a kid, 00:03:13.860 --> 00:03:19.800 and it's silly of me for even to be bringing this up with you, but I just can't shake this feeling, 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:23.480 but that's not really what I want to write to you about. 00:03:24.060 --> 00:03:29.220 The reason why I'm writing to you is because I don't like how the newer episodes are going. 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:33.420 They're neither good or wholesome like the ones we first started watching. 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.400 And to tell you the truth, it's more than a little sick. 00:03:38.139 --> 00:03:41.309 I don't know how you can even dare call that a children's show 00:03:41.440 --> 00:03:47.080 and if I ever figure out the schedule that it's on, I will make sure that my daughter never watched it again. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.120 When we started watching My Little Pony, it was on Saturday mornings, 00:03:51.620 --> 00:03:54.680 now it seems to be on like almost all the time. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:56.760 Whenever I bring her home from school 00:03:56.760 --> 00:04:03.060 and when she wakes up in the morning, and almost all the day I find it on. I'm not sure how they do it 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:08.040 but for almost half a year now, My Little Pony is on almost all hours of the day and night. 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:15.200 It's gotten so bad that I've started to unhook the cable from the TV and now only watches DVDs and shows on Netflix. 00:04:15.540 --> 00:04:20.640 But what's really upsetting is how the new episodes are going. 00:04:21.280 --> 00:04:26.300 Whoever is in charge there at Hasbro, like you reading this or the company as a whole, 00:04:26.300 --> 00:04:29.460 I don't know what makes these shows or who makes them. 00:04:29.940 --> 00:04:36.020 But they're downright evil. Only a twisted person would make something like this and... and like it. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.760 I thought it was strange that it was on all the time, but I didn't mind. 00:04:41.640 --> 00:04:44.280 That all changed with the season 3, episode 14. 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:50.580 Flutterpet, the one where Fluttershy's pet rabbit, Angel, gets sick and has to be put down. 00:04:51.140 --> 00:04:53.320 I mean, it was such a horrible episode! 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:59.420 I-I didn't like how the other ponies laughed at Fluttershy and called her names for letting Angel get sick. 00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:03.280 They kept on until Fluttershy broke down 00:05:03.740 --> 00:05:10.340 and started crying while the other ponies gleefully ripped the poor bunny Angel apart, like... physically! 00:05:10.860 --> 00:05:11.740 *sigh* 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:20.980 I-I can't unshake that episode, like I was watching it with my daughter and what was even more shocking was my daughter's reaction. 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:24.980 She was just laughing and carrying on as if it was just another episode! 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:32.000 This is the type of show that you want to put on air? The next episode with season 3's episode 15. 00:05:32.460 --> 00:05:37.600 Pinkie Party Pinkie. I remember the name of this one and that it was even worse than the other one. 00:05:37.980 --> 00:05:42.940 Basically it was about how Pinkie threw a party for all of her friends, and how they all hated it, 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:49.680 telling her that she was a failure and her parties were terrible, and then nobody liked her and wished she was dead. 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:54.580 The other ponies tormented Pinkie until she literally flipped out. 00:05:55.180 --> 00:05:57.740 She started biting herself, pulling her hair out 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.060 while she was laughing and crying at the same time. 00:06:01.780 --> 00:06:02.600 *sigh* 00:06:03.400 --> 00:06:10.100 God, it was awful. It was so bad, I turned it off and told my daughter that she was never allowed to watch it ever again. 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:15.600 It was more disturbing how it didn't seem to bother my daughter at all though. 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:18.320 I talked to her about it later on and 00:06:18.820 --> 00:06:23.120 she told me that Twilight Sparkle doll had said that Pinkie Pie deserved it. 00:06:23.760 --> 00:06:29.100 Her parties were stupid and no one likes her and they all wish that she was dead. 00:06:29.960 --> 00:06:32.180 I was... *sigh* I was... 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:33.540 shocked... 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:35.000 stunned... 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.540 I took that damn doll away from her and I wanted nothing to do with your show. 00:06:39.840 --> 00:06:44.420 I thought this matter was closed. I threw the doll away, and thought that it was the end of it. 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:50.720 *sigh* But it wasn't. The next day after dinner, a new episode came on 00:06:50.740 --> 00:06:54.200 as Jennifer and I watched a cartoon on Nickelodeon. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:01.540 What threw me off was that I thought My Little Pony never aired on Nickelodeon. It's not one of their shows. 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:03.340 And, *sigh* 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:05.600 it was just as horrible as the others. 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:09.200 This one was called "First Flight Twilight." 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:15.660 It was an episode where Twilight Sparkle was trying to learn how to fly with her wings when she couldn't get it right. 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:20.800 After like her third try, the others got so mad that they ripped one of her wings off, 00:07:21.260 --> 00:07:25.060 just like the doll that my daughter had, now that I come to think of it. 00:07:25.640 --> 00:07:33.900 And... they threw her off a cliff. I mean you can clearly see her hit the ground. There was blood everywhere 00:07:34.100 --> 00:07:36.980 along with a sickening sound of Twilight breaking her neck! 00:07:37.220 --> 00:07:43.180 Every other episode after that, Twilight had one of her wings missing and her head hangs at this weird angle. 00:07:43.820 --> 00:07:48.200 I don't get you people... Are your creators mentally sick? 00:07:48.780 --> 00:07:53.640 Like I said before, as much as I try to stop my daughter from watching the show but it comes on from time to time, 00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:56.480 and all the other episodes are just as mean. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.500 Applejerk, when they set 00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:03.840 Applejack's house on fire and call her names as her and her family are trapped inside and they burn to death. 00:08:04.260 --> 00:08:10.040 Colors of the Rainbow, that one episode where they tramp Rainbow Dash in a well and fill it up with water 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:14.880 and then they just watch her drown all their laughing as she's screaming her head off. 00:08:15.640 --> 00:08:19.760 How can you call yourself a kid-friendly company when you put trash like this on? 00:08:20.640 --> 00:08:21.400 *sigh* 00:08:21.980 --> 00:08:28.660 There are more episodes like this, but I don't really want to get into it. I have forbidden my daughter 00:08:29.260 --> 00:08:32.300 who didn't really seem to have mind it at all. 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.740 from watching your My Little Pony show anymore, 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.940 somehow got that damn doll back. 00:08:39.700 --> 00:08:42.100 *quiet sigh* Don't ask me how, but 00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:49.300 all she told me was that I shouldn't have done that. I made Twilight angry. What this means is beyond me. 00:08:50.180 --> 00:08:53.120 She is my child and... I will... 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:55.360 handle this on my own. 00:08:55.500 --> 00:09:01.700 As you know that this is my second letter to you about your show. I've attached your response to my first letter. 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:15.480 Dear Miss Garcia, 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:20.820 We thank you for your time to write to us about this, but Hasbro has never nor will at this point in time 00:09:20.820 --> 00:09:26.100 have any plans for the creation of a My Little Pony show and from what you have described in some of the episodes, 00:09:26.280 --> 00:09:30.040 I'm not sure if this is some sort of joke from you or another person. 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:33.280 Hasbro is committed to children entertainment and merchandise 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:36.680 and we would never create horrific shows that would torment our viewers. 00:09:36.980 --> 00:09:40.420 If you can give us more information about this, we will look into this 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:42.090 sincerely 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:44.080 Hasbro Legal. 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:50.340 *typing sounds* 00:09:50.580 --> 00:09:56.360 This IS your show. It has to be. I see your logo on every single episode. 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:04.000 Attached or the photos I took with my cell phone of the screen of the episode, so don't give me this that it's not your- 00:10:05.900 --> 00:10:07.900 Wait, 00:10:08.060 --> 00:10:10.060 What's that sound? 00:10:11.420 --> 00:10:15.460 I can hear the sh-show coming on in the back...