@Background Pony #D3BF
 
What ya mean?  
When it was a friendship problem it was usually Twi herself who solved her messes or who did so after getting help from her friends.  
And the chores are done by Spike as usual business.  
In no episode did Twi force Spike to clean up her messes, neither with orders nor threats nor anything else.  
When Spike helped Twi to clean her messes he always did so willingly and on his own choice.

@Background Pony #94BE  
“Pandering”

@Background Pony #94BE  
It reminded me of Dungeons and Dragons more than anything. The dangers of intelligent magic items, for one thing.

I can’t be the only one that was thinking through this whole episode:
 
This is ‘Lesson Zero 2.0’. ‘Who writes this episode? Corey Powell and..MEGHAN MCCARTHY! Would you look at that…(then Twilight walks in with her mane being exactly as messy as it was with Lesson Zero) Welp, I’m done. God dang it xD
 
Yup, I freakin love this episode. Maybe a bit of fanpandering but I didn’t care much about it

@ArrJaySketch
 
The same could be said of characters like Shining Armor and Cadance. They’re supporting characters, which means they don’t get as much screen time, but they do plenty of things off-screen. In fact, Twilight said something during this scene that implied that Cadance came all the way from the Crystal Empire to help fix this mess (can’t understand why, but it was funny).

@ArrJaySketch  
Yeah, lets not assume that she’s useless because we see so little of her. Equestria didn’t become the way it is from Celestia doing nothing all day.

I loved this scene so freaking much.
 
 
@CardStock  
Since the start of the show, we’ve seen about 30.8 hours total of all the ponies’ lives. Celestia is a supporting character, really, required only when the story needs her. I’m sure if she were part of the main cast (The Mane Six, CMCs, and Spike) we’d get more stories about what she does.
 
Absence of proof isn’t proof of absence, in this case. I agree that it would be nice to see how exactly Celestia spends her day in the actual cartoon. For now, we just have to take it for what it is: undefined.

@CardStock  
An official comic would be closer to canon then a fanfic.

@cheezedoodle  
How can it do that if it’s not canon? I mean that’d be like saying that Rainbow Factory should give you perspective even if you don’t consider it canon.

@CardStock
 
You should read the Luna micro comic. Also the Spike & Celestia Friends Forever comic. It might give you some perspective, even if you don’t consider them canon.

@CardStock  
Sun-butt* I mean.

@Background Pony #0EDF  
So how do you know she wasn’t just sitting on her fat moon butt gorging herself in cake?

@Serris  
He wasn’t kicked in the balls this time. He just had to grow a pair. :3. I liked how he was given pressure to man up.

@CardStock  
I was pointing out Spike has to do with it.

I didn’t quite catch the full line Twilight said after she mentioned Cadance and Luna (or even the full line regarding Cadance and Luna).

@CardStock
 
Sorry I misclicked, meant to reply to @Evowizard25

@Prof.NightJack  
As if Celestia believes in letting ponies fix their own problems, she’s been making Twilight fix hers since day one.

@CardStock  
No. Because seeing a ruler running a country would be boring for a kids show.

I’ll admit it,this is a good Spike’s episode that Corey has written.

@CardStock  
Clean up the mess he had a hand in making…

@Serris  
Wow, someone has a problem with seeing realty.

@cheezedoodle  
What does Spike have to do with it?

@Prof.NightJack  
Have we ever seen her actually run this country? Any time she shows up it’s most often because she’s gonna dump something for Twilight to fix. I mean shit, where was she in running the country during the Canterlot Wedding?

@Evowizard25  
What pissed me off, did they really need to kick Spike in the balls again?  
It could been anyone else bring that book.  
He has been made into comic relief and the common scapegoat.

@CardStock
 
How is Spike going to dispel magic?