Talk:The Flim Flam Brothers (song)/@comment-97.91.93.134-20120129195432

I was blown away by this song. I feel I learned so many lessons about being a salesman that I'm almost tempted to make my own Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 and go sellling it!

To start with.. the name. That's an awesome alliteration, you can see them picking 6000 because it starts with an S and because it is a big number! Genius.

They establish their "nonpareil" attitude with the very first line of the song. They tell you that they traveled the world, and everybody has the same problem, so they are obviously experts.

Then they proceed explaining the cider shortage as much bigger problem than it really is... oh those parching ponies!

Then they subtly make their audience feel inferior by speaking fast, using unusual words, and never explaining them.

They do not get to the point right away. Instead they talk about things they know are popular, like "opportunity" - that's a super-American word. And "community" of course. By which they mean profit for THEM.

Then the repetition of phrases to stress it. The constant asking of questions, until everyone is dying to know the answers, until they FINALLY deliver the punchline:

Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000!

They dodge Granny Smith's question, just brushing on it, until they get to their opportunities.

They address Ponyville as a unit, 'Come on Ponyville!' simultaneously establishing themselves as friends of the entire town, and on par with it in importance, further diminishing all the Ponyville's ponies and establishing their superiority even stronger.

Oh and the cutie marks. You can see Flam being the hard worker behind the machine, putting the majority of effort into it, while his brother Flim is the faster talking one who does most of the sales pitch.

I cried with joy.