"Yeah. This guy sucks." Couldn't have said it better myself.

I love how Twilight treats Spike as her actual son and it was hurtful when Spike told her she wasnt his real parent. I also like how supportive Twilight was to Spike finding his father even though that must've hurt her.

You can tell that Starlight has come a VEEEEERRRRYYY long way in learning to control her anger, when a random, free-loading dragon can barge in on her while she's in the bathtub and toss her out to her death like garbage during a musical number while Spike lets him do it, but she does nothing violent in response to either of them.

Sludge.... You're NOT THE FATHER

1:40 To be clear, Gallus only stated that he didn't have a family, not that griffins in general don't.

My feelings: This episode was pretty good. Still, I'm adding Sludge to my kill list on this show. No one, I mean no one, makes TWILIGHT CRY!

"you're making him work?" AJ had first pick for rehab, Pinkie's methods proved more effective

"No, that doesn't get thrown out!" I'm with ya, RarityDash! No one throws Starlight out the window!

Sludge throws a bathing Starlight out the window, pretty much attempting to kill her. 0/10

The breaking heart scene really struck me. Pegasus wing anatomy is completely different from what I expected.

I admit, Sludge kinda fooled me about the whole father to Spike thing. I’m glad that Spike has Smolder to look up to for dragon knowledge, aside from Ember of course. It’s nice to see that the bond between Spike and Twilight grow stronger with each of these family type episodes they share.

Slude was completely wrong about what a real dragon would do in thatcastle. Everyone knows that a real dragon would eat the walls in that castle.

The only thing I hate about this episode, is that I feel like we now have even less of a chance of ever knowing about Spike's actual parents.

The suite castle life of Spike and Smolder.

Manipulating a kid who never knew his father into thinking he could finaly fill the void that his absent parent left in order to fulfill his own selfish shitty desires? Yeah, worst dragon.

@16:23 It's official: Starlight Sparkle is canon.

This whole thing killed my heart

Good thing Smolder was around to help spike. :)

I would like to think that the trick that Sludge tried to pull by pretending to be the father of a dragon child, and taking advantage of them is a massive taboo in dragon culture and would have most likely gotten him eaten by Dragon Lord Torch. Heck I don’t even think Garble would sink so low.

We went from Bad Spike episodes to Great Spike episodes! What a time to live!

Spike hurt his mom's feelings

Poor Spike, I honestly feel bad for him.

12:31 now, while WE know Sludge's story is bull, the characters don't... so that Last question from Dash is actually pretty heartless. "Hey, even though you'd been imprisoned, explain how the baby you had to give up to save its life ended up somewhere else after you were imprisoned, even though your being imprisoned means you never could've seen what happened to your baby". When you think about it, that's kinda callous of Dash, even for her

My updated guide on "How to be a (lazy) Dragon" according to Sludge, Equestria's worst fake dad of the year Step 1: find a very friendly, kind-hearted Alicorn Princess that's prone to being pushed around, and has a castle. Step 2: move into her castle Step 3: go around the castle while singing, and if you see a Unicorn mare taking a bath, throw her out the castle's window, and PRAY that she doesn't get pissed to come back to kick your ass. Step 4: lay down Step 5: eat Step 6: sleep Step 7: wake up Step 8: repeat steps 5-7

I don't know why but Sludge voice sounds like Big Smoke from GTA.

When I read the synopsis on this episode I don't think this dragon was going to be Spikes Father, that feels too GOTG2, "he was your father but not your daddy". This is an American Children's show, and making him spikes real father and forcing him to choose between his dragon and pony family is something too adult an an American Children's show. We are probably gong to find out how Celestia got his egg, but not what happen to his family, we still don't know what happen to the apple parents and this is probably the same thing.

22:54 SMULDUR: "No, it isn't." Uh, yeah you do, actually, Smolder. Your entire society is based on the examples of a shitbag dragon who took advantage of the kindness of a Dragon Lord and overthrew him.

"Father Knows Beast," i think is a play off of "Mother knows best" The song from rapunzel and the episode is Kinda like what rapunzel's fake mom does . let me know what you think

My half headcanon/hope, half theory is that Sludge was indeed a prisoner in the lands he was talking about, and met Spike's parents there, who he heard the story from. But after putting two and two together and connecting Spike to them, he just inserted himself as Spike's father in the story. The theory is probably not true whatsoever, but kind of an interesting thought and would make for a great story if Spike's parents all this time were trapped in some awful land like that and were eventually rescued by their son. It would complete Spike's arc in such a satisfying way.

Dave Pettitt also voiced a few Dragon Ball characters, like Ox King and Shenron. So interestingly, this actually isn't the first dragon he played.

I hope Spike’s real dad is actually cool if we ever meet him.

I can't wait for you to react to the finale, is going to be amazing, and i don't have any other word i would rather use. i hope the strike goes away really fast, you are awesome.

I legit shed a tear at Twilight's heart breaking.

Sludge, do want some eggs with that ham?

Been waiting for this

1:00-1:12 Actually, we saw in Hearth Warming Club that Ocellus does have a family with a father, mother and younger siblings. 19:14 I wonder, too. 20:14-20:20 Your reaction to Twilight's heart breaking (literally). 32:39 Oh, a new closing. It looks good.

I am noticing a pattern in names for other creatures. Dragons have names commonly to do with their personality and is dragon like. Griffons have names that begin with G (because griffons are too proud, I guess.) Hippogriffs have names from the "Warriors" series, and if not, combine words that describe their character, or pick a random name that relate to the ocean or the sky. And changelings have names that relate to bugs in some way. All creatures other than ponies seem to use one word names.

4:46 I’m getting “Spike at your service” flashbacks here.

17:25 who doesn't lock their restroom door when they live in a castle with other organisms of the same species? And like Silver Stream I don't know much about plumbing but I dont think that's how bath tubs work

love all the sex jokes in this episode

Once Sludge started scheming, I got Martin Mertens vibes from him.

If he was Spike's father he should have talked to him about his "crush" on a non-dragon!

I love the S4 premiere callback

20:15 this just in! Twilights heart is made of bones

Oh how I wish I had the same hopes you do when it comes to Spike's hypothetical closure in season 9.

I don’t think Sludge was voiced by a celebrity guest, because his voice sounded like the dragon King.

32:55 Twilight sounds like a mom

17:25 Don't throw out the pony with the bathwater!

18:15 I love how her eyes never left the crotch area even as she backed out

19:08 ooh sludge is ads and spike is kids ooooh

The fan animation of the Pony version is out with DOOR 3 finale it’s a 24 minutes video so I just wanted to let you know about it

Sludge actually DID act like normal dragons. He took advantage of weaker creatures, he was possessive, and those are qualities that have been shown to be dominant traits in dragons.

Beyond the lands, there be Berk... and dragon hunters. ;) Also, this would be the first time they used the word "orphan". Did a subtitle/transcript search, and it wasn't used in Dragon Quest, nor was it used with Gallus.

Sluge was a big fat liar, but have we seen the last of him? And are we going ti find out more about Spike's backstory? Maybe next season.

Finale INCOMING

I really hope we get to meet Spike's actual parents next season. We only have one more season to do that.

What a vile, disgusting villain Sludge was. (no sarcasm)

#SludgeisWorstDragon

I think this was the first time you cuss in a reaction... XD

I can see why this isn't a favorite for most people. Yes, Sludge was a big jerk, and yes, we were teased with Spike's backstory and still have the ponies as his family trope. However, despite that, I did like the episode because the overall plot was good. Oddly enough, I saw some similarities between this and GotG Vol. 2.

*It really do fraud like a father sometimes.*

Fan art writers to your key bord of starlight in the bath

This is like Guardians of the Galaxy 2!

MR. KRABS IS THAT YOU?!

I'm really surprised but happy that they did an episode like this. Yeah the whole the parent isn't really their parent is a big fat cliche, but it worked. I love Spike's character and love how he's been developing, he really needed something like this for his character. Seeing Twilight's actual heart breaking was just, it was a punch to the gut. Even though I'm not adopted I can totally understand where Spike is coming from though; I mean he was defending the guy because he thought he was his dad, someone that he never thought he'd get to meet. I see this as an episode that it doesn't matter who or where Spike's parents are, but that Twilight is his true family and that's all that matters. Would I love to see an episode about Spike's biological parents? Heck yeah. But to me it isn't as important as this message was. I love that MLP still continues to do mature lessons like this; I thought something like this would be a little too mature for little kids to handle, but I think it's good that we have this for the ones who maybe are going through something similar or would like to know their true biological parents, this lesson is there for them.

“Oh that’s right. We don’t have a son.”

I had hope that spike would in a way "snap" on sludge or go to ember lile at the very least use a powerful firebreath on him

just got out of the shower go on my laptop find this...good day

Acting like that, you'd think they'd give Sludge to Vincent Tong.

Yep, Sludge is my 2nd worst character of all time. Cozy Glow takes the top spot.

That was quick

22:37 about time!!!

So my question is what was Sludge doing there in the first place

20:18 carp just got real (perfect time stamp)

22:47 also the wife sludge used is like the x-mas dragon from the dragons...

Obvious scam in dragonish 101 and spike learned it in a hard way. Sometimes being too naive gets me frustrated but I managed this episode

15:52 ...well then spike...GET ME ON THE SHOW!!!

Poor Starlight

24:25 byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

17:17 now thinking of bendy vs sludge...good bendy...

21:45 +1 v-bit for embesmodger and spike -all life force of sludge...

this episode felt very Dragon Quest-y(the FiM episode, not the franchise) to me. Was this episode akin to a kind of remake of Dragon Quest?

16:20 oh god spike is going to become mega greedy spike...oh god...

This is a decent episode

how to get no copyright from my little pony? i wanna know please.

Aren't you going to react to the everything right/wrong with the perfect pear and the friendship rollercoaster ??

I would be interested if Season 9 was all one big episode in 13 parts, kind of like how Star Trek Deep Space Nine ended.

I kind of think they limited Starlight in this episode because she probably would have seen right through Sludge.

12:39 me:still not convinced...

I actually wish the Shining and Flurry thing you mentioned at the beginning of this video was the actual plot of this episode. But, to those of us who actual know about Disney... I am disappointed. Sludge is a lot worse than Mother Gothel.

I like the episode and the idea behind it, while cliché to be honest, but did anyone else feel that the weight of the situation was kind of glossed over? Spike was excited to think he found his dad but when he discovers the truth it doesn't seem to hit very hard, just kind of like Oh, he's not my dad, oh well". The end with Twilight was sweet of course, but a story like this could have been a lot stronger as a 2 part finale or a 2 part season opener, just to really demonstrate the depth of Spike's feelings about his biological family and his relationship with Twilight for some heavy Spike and Twilight character development.

19:08 I seriously wanna know what Twilight was talking about using the map for. Come on! It has to be important

23:36 he was not my dad "your not my dad" (that's a meme)

24:11 is rarity included?just thinking...what don't judge...

23:05 I play that game..

10:08 some one call 911

I was hoping spike would go to someone about his past like ember, past dragonlord, or celestia

4:00

where be the animes bro? not complaining just curious since you have that new schedule that's supposed to help you get them out on time

18:01 weaponize the dragon sneeze tree next time bendy...get ember to help you out as well...