Talk:Bright Mac and Pear Butter/@comment-39571481-20190524114402/@comment-29981995-20190603062737

What exactly would be morbid about it? Death is a natural part of life; everyone is liable to have someone they know die within their lifetime. Sesame Street did a whole special on the subject a few years ago. As for your comment on tense, we have this later statement from the same episode:

Apple Bloom: Now that we're all together, there's somethin' we want to show you. Mom and Dad left us somethin' to remember them by.

That language seems to indicate that their parents are in fact dead. The statement you cited, I would say, is still appropriate in the present tense: it's not like their names stopped being Bright Mac and Pear Butter just because they've passed away. The latest episode, Going to Seed, shows the pair with baby Apple Bloom and young Big Mac and Applejack. This disproves previous theories that Pear Butter died giving birth to Apple Bloom, leaving us with a continued mystery as to how the two of them passed. But all signs point to them being deceased.