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Alternative hypothesis: Your friends assume this is one of those cartoons-not-just-for-children that you talk about, and find it completely unfunny because it's a parody of something they haven't seen and don't care about.
I've been in the situation before of having a friend show me a "hilarious" parody of some computer game or whatever, and finding it completely pointless and unfunny, despite the friend loving it. And I'm pretty sure it's not because of some creationist-level bias, because I'm fine with good parodies of computer games I'm familiar with.
I've created this issue when attempting to show Excel Saga to non-anime-fans. It doesn't work if you're not familiar with the tropes it's laughing at.
The humor is less to someone who doesn't know the show. But they should realize that it's a parody, and they don't.
Do they think, "oh, an unfunny show for little girls" or "oh, an unfunny show for nerdy men?" The latter is both consistent with everything I have heard about the pony show and with a cartoon about Cthulhu jokes.