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I absolutely loved this episode.  It was the first episode that I watched, and it immediately made me like Rarity who comes across as an absolute bro when she rescues (and accidentally dooms) her best friend on stage despite her own jealousy.  In a show about friendship, that was peak.  

I also enjoyed Anna Wintour with Arnold Schwartzenegger's Austrian-Californian accent.  Whenever the subject of fashion came up in the show, the writers, animators, and voice actresses would regularly insert their own caricatures of industry figures, and this episode was full of them.  The were in-jokes that flew over the heads of 90+% of the audience.
> From there, we get into just… All the part of the episode where Fluttershy’s doing it because Rarity urged her to, hating it all the while, and Rarity getting jealous in spite of causing it, thinking she only urged Fluttershy to do the star stuff out of generosity and not comprehending the idea that Fluttershy might hate it. This type of dragged-out-misunderstanding stuff is something I really just can’t stand wherever it pops up
Yeah, one thing that I did dislike about the episode--and it was a complaint that I had about several Season 1 episodes--was how utterly frustrating Fluttershy often was.  Just say something instead of dragging the story on by being a wimp until the last possible second!  Why did she even think that Rarity was goading her on?  Of course it's because she wants her friend to succeed.  I get that Fluttershy is a push-over, but how could she miss that?