Talk:Friendship is Magic animated media/@comment-26921356-20180707004023/@comment-27578467-20180708180132

I've been doing this with the episodes I've been transcribing and I'm sometimes tempted to do this for all episodes just to have some data to illustrate my point. If you watch episodes (at least from the first five seasons) and mark every action and line of dialogue as contributing primarily to either a comedic/temporary or a continuous/overarching narrative end, the vast majority (so far as I've been counting, and obviously less so with premiers and finales) are in the former category. I mean compared to SpongeBob (at least as far as I can tell, admittedly I haven't seen too much of it) it's not as purely whacky, but in terms of sheer screen time and moment-to-moment content it was, at least for me, clearly a comedy.