Talk:Apple family/@comment-4899875-20121222155421/@comment-5870562-20130102034518

I don't think Granny Smith just means generically a really long time. She very succinctly says 100 moons two different times. If she was just making colorful exaggerations, she would just as likely have said some other colloquialism the second time. I still think she means 8.3 years. In addition to timewarping the laws of physics, another possible explanation is that the episodes don't necessarily occur in chronological order for the ponies the same way they do for us. What we saw in S3Ep8 might have actually occurred before S3Ep6. Some of them clearly come after others, like Apple Family Reunion must occur after One Bad Apple, but for Read it and Weep, that one could occur pretty much anytime after Twilight arrived in Ponyville and met Rainbow Dash. This is why I personally don't see a problem with reunions occurring once every 8.3 human years, because it works for AJ's age (it would make her about 18-19) and Granny Smiths age (making her about 70-72), it works according to what Granny Smith actually says twice (100 moons=8.3 years), and it works just as well if the eps occur in chronological order or out of chronological order. We don't have to see EVERY reunion to be sure that it occurs, but we can be sure every reunion we see DOES actually occur, if you follow me. I mean, we have to assume the ponies DO other things when we aren't watching them don't we? Pinkie obviously pees, you can see her run to the bathroom in the Last Roundup. But she is never shown going to the bathroom any other time. Therefore you could say well the laws of physics don't apply, but then Salvador Dali is just as likely to melt out of the TV screen and shoot you with a water gun as anything else, so I prefer to believe the ponies DO in fact use the bathroom and have other reunions. We just rarely SEE them doing it since we only have a window onto their world 22 minutes a week. Therefore they also sleep, breath, have reunions, have birthdays, etc. without us seeing it. It doesn't mean just because we have only seen Twilight, Spike and Gummy have birthdays that none of the ponies ever do. In fact, this creates a great likelihood that they ALL do. Fluttershy explicitly states that she is a year older than Pinkie in Griffon the Brush Off, so it is absolutely true the ponies age and have birthdays. I suppose you could also believe that Granny Smith was just zapped out of a pencil at age 70 by a time demon, if you believe the ponyworld has no laws of physics, but if it makes it more entertaining for you to find a pattern that works, thats fine by me too.