"Slice of Life" and the Zeitgeist

Well, all the fans' dumbest theories are now canon. The show is over. Goodbye everybody. Seriously though, I cringed all the way through this episode. Fanon is perfectly good as fanon, but it doesn't mesh with canon at all. "Steven Magnet"? "The Doctor"? Please, this is My Little Pony, not Crossover Central.

And the Lyra/Bon-Bon stuff. Seriously?--Seriously? I enjoy(ed) this show in part because it didn't have crap like this, thank ya kindly. (Yeah, I know it was just a shout-out and, in-universe, they're not actually lesbians, but referencing that kind of fandom theories is inappropriate in that kind of show.)
Sometimes, it feels like "Everything's Better With Homosexuals" is the Zeitgeist of our age (just like Everything's Better With Monkeys once was), and when freakin' My Little Pony Friendship is Magic gets on that act, it's more and more believable.