Amber was the very first baby pony/filly in mlp. She never seemed to have a cutiemark. I kinda wish there was a g1 CMC and that the baby ponies/fillies didn’t just exist to sell toys.

@Yet One More Idiot  
And frankly, modern cartoons that are always on-model, or “perfect,” or reuse the same 5 facial expressions honestly look very homogenized, machine-made, and kinda souless really.  
I kinda prefer imperfectness honestly.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!”

@northern haste  
That’s the culture we live in nowadays though - everybody’s looking to get internet-famous by creating the next meme around some tiny off-model mistake in one frame of an animation.
 
If memes had been as big back in the 80s as they are today, then scenes like alicorn!Baby Surprise would’ve been memes probably.
 

@Beau Skunky  
And now when ever the show goes off model people lose their minds and think it’s the show trying to create memes

@Beau Skunky  

 
Yeah, occasionally off-model frames seemed to make their movements and expressions seem somehow more natural and fluid most of the time.
 
Also laughable and cute af. :3

Drat, somebody already made the Spongebob joke. Let me just reference this instead.  

FUCKING MAJESTIC

I just love Ember’s face here, it’s so silly :3

@SaburoDaimando  

 
Possibly, many ’80s & ’90s American cartoons were animated overseas in Japan (including Inspector Gadget, the movie “Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland,” the first season of the original TMNT, many of the “Disney Afternoon” Shows, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, and even the intro sequence to the “Super Mario World” show) which is why they at times look a bit anime-esc, or have anime-like facial expressions (including the “cross popping vein” visual gag) at times.
 
I kinda miss those kinda shows.

It’s the Courage the Cowardly Pony show! Starring Courage, the Cowardly Pony!

Sneezing or @Legioner8 <-this?

Bulk’s ancestor.

A bit inspired by Anime.

Animation seems better to me when for brief frames the characters go off-model.

Watch as she transform into a G4 pony…