This is actually pretty true to life, soldiers rarely get accolades.

@Background Pony #A2D9  
Meh, I was tired and I didn’t look over it to make sense. Deserving to be treated as a VIP does not mean that one has to take the VIP status if it doesn’t matter that highly to them. Twilight gets no choice in the matter.

@Ferrotter  
Holy shit…

@Dashu  
As we all know, blessed are the cheese-makers.
 
@Beau Skunky  
I think this is my favorite comment in the thread.
 
@Background Pony #A2D9  
Y’all are seriously overthinking this. The animators didn’t want the Mane 6 in the VIP section (save Princess Twilight), and wanted to re-use some popular ponies in that section. Why not complain about the mayor of a podunk town being in the box, or the companion of a Canterlot society scion? (For that matter, is a Canterlot society scion really any more “deserving” of VIP status than a cherry farmer?)

I guess Cherry Jubilee owns the right plots, picked the right cherries.
 
She’s a madam, get it yet?

Cherries are poisonous to horses. Cherry Jubilee has made Dodge Junction practically a WMD superpower in its own right, plus the cherry trade has made her one of the richest arms merchants in all of Equestria.
 
In smaller doses, cherries also cause mares to lose their unborn foals. Many a respectable Canterlot family has sent a daughter off on a short (but expensive) ‘business internship’ with Ms. Jubilee. After all, cherries used wrong can be deadly, and a good family wants to know their daughter ‘learns economics’ from somepony who unquestionably knows more about cherries than there is to know about cherries, not some guy with a fake name, a couple of McD’s pies, and a coathanger, in a seedy Manehattan alleyway.

I didn’t see the Mane 6 complaining about not getting VIP seats, so what’s the issue?

@Zeyon  
Applejack doesn’t mind not being a VIP, but that doesn’t mean and doesn’t deserve to be one. And “Twilight doesn’t like being treated as a figurehead”, but she was put in the VIP section, so your argument is invalid.
 
@Zeyon  
And being rewarded for saving Equestria is somehow not being recognized through their own merits?

@DanielTepesKraus  
Ah yes, Animal Crossing. If only making money IRL was as easy as in that game. (Seriously, my bank is LOADED in “New Leaf.” To the point where I got the “safe” item.)

Hey man, if Animal Crossing has taught me anything, it’s that showing up in the store with cherries when the whole town has nothing but apples is a huge deal. I’m talking a 400 more bells kind of a big deal deal.
 
“That’s the smallest apple I’ve ever seen.”  
“It’s a cherry.”  
“A chair…eee?”  
*munch munch munch*=  
“This is delicious! Did you make it yourself?”  
“No, I grew it.”  
“You mean there is another kind of fruit than apple?”  
“There are many different kinds of fruit!”  
“LUNA! WHY WAS I NOT TOLD OF THIS?!”

Who says she didn’t save the world before?

Hey let’s be honest… they could have really good cherries at that ranch.

@Aharon L’anglais  
That would be a little difficult being that she’s an athlete herself. And who’s to say that Cherry Jubilee doesn’t own ALL of Dodge Junction?

They don’t really want to use the VIP card. Applejack doesn’t care for the high life. Fluttershy doesn’t like to be in the spotlight. Rarity and Dash want to be an important pony through their own merits. Pinkie probably doesn’t care. Twilight doesn’t like being treated as a figurehead.

They all would be happy: Rarity is not next to Prick Blueblood, Pinkie wouldn’t care as long as she saw her friends, and Applejack wouldn’t either.

@Aharon L’anglais  
Deliberately knocking over another pony in order to “save” their dessert is part of Rainbow Dash’s best behavior? And I thought I had a low opinion of her manners…
 
More seriously, though, RD was one of the competing athletes; she didn’t get a seat in the stands regardless, VIP or not.

If she were a cheese-maker, I could actually understand that.

@anonymous-pony  
Still Rainbow Should get VIP status. Aside from Twilight she was the only one on her best behavior.

Duh

@redactedpony
 
My headcannon is that she recently ran for Mayor of Dodge Junction and won, on a “run government like a business” platform.

@redactedpony  
That’s what I’m thinking.

Well, Mayor Mare is there, too. Cherry’s probably seated there as the representative from Dodge Junction.

No, owning one of the most frequented brothels in Equestria and attaching a bomb to one of the Element holders gets you a VIP seat. XD

@anonymous-pony  
good point but cherry J still has no real right to be in the vip unless she won it in a contest, is banging someone in vip or she is secretly rich as balls.

She could be related to Fancy Pants.