S04E12: Pinkie Pride

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S04E12: Pinkie Pride

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:55 pm

An elated Pinkie Pie is planning the biggest and best birthday party ever for Rainbow Dash, but when a strange new party planning pony named Cheese Sandwich (Weird Al Yankovic) rides into town, plans change. Soon, everyone is so excited about Cheese Sandwich's party that they forget about Pinkie Pie, causing her to question her own talents and abilities; however, Pinkie Pie's pride won't let her go down without an amazing, daring duel.


This thread is for discussion of this episode. The episode airs at 10:30 AM Eastern / 7:30 AM Pacific on Saturday, February 1!

Official preview clips and images are okay to post, as is speculation about the episode.

Writer: Amy Keating Rogers (returning for first time since S2, last episode: MMMMystery on the Friendship Express)

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Thanks to the biggest special guest since John de Lancie, the hype for this episode has been considerably large, and we just got a minute+ of preview clips fairly early on in the week. So, this thread is going up now. If you usually hang around in the thread until Friday and drop out when clips come, well... time to drop now out, and we'll see you on Saturday. :)

Below is the two preview clips as well as the USA Today clip gotten a couple weeks ago (all three of these just came out from GeekscapeTV), as well as the long TV promo with a bit of new stuff too.



EDIT: How did that link get so malformed? Huh. Well, fixed.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Tue Jan 28, 2014 11:57 pm

To say I'm excited about this episode would be the biggest understatement in history. :-D
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:01 am

They can't possibly pass up the opportunity to have Pinkie Pie's key gift to come from Weird Al, can they?

I hope poor spike finally nets an Invite to a Pinkie Party. :fluttersmith:
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:07 am

The Doctor wrote:I hope poor spike finally nets an Invite to a Pinkie Party. :fluttersmith:

Do you have to make that same joke all the time? :-/
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Postby Sind (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:08 am

As I stated in the spoiler thread, my only wish is that they don't villainize Cheese Sandwich.

Save for that possibility, I'm super stoked for this episode :awesomedash:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:09 am

Mr. Big wrote:Do you have to make that same joke all the time? :-/

Hey man, he's on our side. He actually wants Spike to get some recognition. :rainbert:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:10 am

Mr. Big wrote:Do you have to make that same joke all the time? :-/


I got to put to rest my bad "Cadance Can't Fly" joke last week, I hope I can put this one to rest this week. :twiright:

edit: I know you don't like it, so I won't make it again in this thread. And since he's totally getting an invite, I won't have to.
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Postby Sailor Yue (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:19 am

this is going to be an AWESOME episode :allears:
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:26 am

:applejargh: You think you can out-hootenanny the Apple Family?

Going to be a blast on Saturday. :party:
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Postby Kamek (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 12:44 am

If I were to make a low-effort post in response to this thread, it would be just the words "WEIRD AL" and the Ron Paul "IT'S HAPPENING" image macro.

Seriously though, this is gonna be awesome, I haven't been this hyped for :ponydrugs: in a long time!
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:21 am

So this is it. The day the fandom finally melts down.

Weird Al meets ponies and in their wake nothing will remain.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:38 am

I still can't believe it's happening for realz. This Saturday can't come fast enough
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Postby Throbulator (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:40 am

I can't believe this is actually happening. :starity:
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Postby Sailor Yue (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:43 am

i really really really hope WOEful streaming doesnt crap out last second this weekend.
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:50 am

Well, this is a thing that's happening.
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Postby Discord (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:54 am

The last time we got a musical episode (I don't know if that's still a spoiler), we got the best episode of the series in my opinion

The last time we had a minor-celebrity guest, we got Discord.

And AKR wrote the most Pinkie thing ever with the Smile Song :allears:

So, in short, I have pretty hyped expectations for this episode. I was already jumping up and down on Sunday, and once the school-week blues wear off, I'm sure I will be again.

I have to manage expectations, but I really like where this could go.

Also, we need more Pinkie-tars in preparation for this. I'm passing up a Discord avatar from Three's a Crowd because Pinkie :party:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:54 am

An AWESOME Thing! :party:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:57 am

Mechanical Ape wrote:So this is it. The day the fandom finally melts down.

Weird Al meets ponies and in their wake nothing will remain.

No, the day the fandom melts down is when Twilight kisses Brad. This Saturday will be the day we are united in a level of :ponydrugs: not seen since S1.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:16 am

Does this mean we may get some Cheese Sandwich smilies out of this episode, perhaps? :3:
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:26 am

The Alpocalypse is here. :smirk:
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Postby HuffyTheMagicDragon (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:34 am

I tried to resist watching the new preview clips. I lasted about twenty seconds before giving in. Man, this is gonna be great. :-D

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And if the stars are truly aligned, maybe an episode will show Apple Bloom and Twist are still friends, and that'll be strike three. :smirk:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:40 am

HuffyTheMagicDragon wrote:And if the stars are truly aligned, maybe an episode will show Apple Bloom and Twist are still friends, and that'll be strike three. :smirk:

At that point we'd be out of jokes, wouldn't we? What would we then laugh at? Would we have to dredge up Yellowstar?
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Postby Frosthawk (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 2:58 am

This episode's going to be either terrible or great and I can't know which, so I look forward to this episode with slight apprehension.

I didn't really like the last music-heavy episode Pony did, but this is an obviously different situation anyway.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:09 am

I'm not sure I can handle 2 crazy eps in a row! Discord last week, weird al this week... That's a lot of crazy, hope we don't all overdose and end up in the ponyville hospital!
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Postby haywire (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:28 am

I guess he did get a name after all. Hopefully it's a good episode!
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:46 am

My question is this:

Okay, so Weird Al gets a song. So is it a song that AKR wrote for him? Or did they let Al write his own lyrics?

Because Weird Al's claim to fame is his songs. Like, the ones he writes himself. Sure, he has a goofy persona and stage presence, and he's done some standalone acting that has nothing to do with singing. But if you have Weird Al on your TV show, and you have him singing a song, don't you kind of have to let him do the lyric-writing? Otherwise aren't you being a little presumptuous—writing material for someone according to how you think they in their persona would have written it?

Comedians like David Letterman and Conan O'Brien eventually develop to a point in their careers where they have a team of writers feeding them jokes. But that's to be expected for people in their position, people who are basically just bland conduits for generically funny stuff that fills time between interviews and musical guests. But other performers are larger-than-life, and their entire value as performers is bound up in their being unique creative talents who bring to the table something new and original and all their own. You wouldn't think of George Carlin or Chris Rock or Louis CK as having writers, would you? Who would presume to write for them?

That's what I wonder about this episode. Who writes a song for Weird Al?
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:53 am

Didn't Danial say him and Al worked on it?
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Postby Wonkadoo (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:55 am

Headless Horse wrote: But if you have Weird Al on your TV show, and you have him singing a song, don't you kind of have to let him do the lyric-writing? Otherwise aren't you being a little presumptuous—writing material for someone according to how you think they in their persona would have written it?


Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Weird Al plays Cheese Sandwich, but Cheese Sandwich is not intended to actually be Weird Al.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:01 am

If he's a character who looks like a caricature of Weird Al and he's singing a song that's in any way Weird Al-ish, not to mention the episode being promoted with big WEIRD AL YOU GUYS arrow signs, isn't the distinction kind of moot?



E: Let me be clear—I don't think it's a bad thing either way. I'm fascinated to see how this plays out. It's possible, if they did write something for him to sing as his character/persona, that this is yet another interesting "first", both for Al and for :ponydrugs:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:05 am

They've never done promotion like this before for a guest star, have they? Well then again, we've never really had too many guest stars to begin with.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:09 am

ShieldedDiamond wrote:They've never done promotion like this before for a guest star, have they? Well then again, we've never really had too many guest stars to begin with.

Weird Al is definitely the biggest name they've had on the show, as well as the only one who would be recognizable in general pop culture. Of course, given that he's in the already-ridculous scenario of voicing a cartoon horse, I doubt it'll matter too much if the songs he sings were also written by him.
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Postby Wylie (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:27 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:Weird Al is definitely the biggest name they've had on the show, as well as the only one who would be recognizable in general pop culture. Of course, given that he's in the already-ridculous scenario of voicing a cartoon horse, I doubt it'll matter too much if the songs he sings were also written by him.


Weird Al rarely writes his own songs anyway- his shtick is parody songs. Which happens to tie in fairly nicely with Pony's strength anyway- several of the songs we think highly of as Pony songs, for example, are cribbed straight out of Stephen Sondheim's book. ("Art of the Dress" from Saturday in the Park with George, "At The Gala" from Into the Woods)

I'm betting that Al worked with what he was given by the writers enough to earn a lyrics credit, if for no other reason than Daniel Ingram wanted to be able to put his name next to Al's in the credits. He's a fan too, after all.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:31 am

With a big-name guest star, I wonder if this episode will succeed in drawing a lot of new fans into the show.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 4:35 am

Wylie wrote:
Weird Al rarely writes his own songs anyway- his shtick is parody songs. Which happens to tie in fairly nicely with Pony's strength anyway- several of the songs we think highly of as Pony songs, for example, are cribbed straight out of Stephen Sondheim's book. ("Art of the Dress" from Saturday in the Park with George, "At The Gala" from Into the Woods)


Right, but that's kind of what I mean—he doesn't write his own music a lot of the time, but his lyrics are always original.
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:00 am

Weird Al does do the occasional original song on albums as well, to go with the parodies.

And we see Cheese Sandwich during the previews...in a traditional polka outfit.

Where does Al end and pony begin? It's all melted together...

...like a cheese sandwich.

Gawd help me, it makes me want to ship:

Brad and Cheese Sandwich, OTP!

Verily, I has the hype fever and no amount of cowbell shall cure it, unless the episode has some. If they do this right, you've got the perfect pink storm here, because this is the rare case where a character is going to push her to the limit, the Mickey to her Minnie, the Abbot to her Costello in a way that is only appreciated when two real comedians engage in friendly one-upsmanship.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:01 am

I like how Cheese Sandwich's mane and tail are pretty much brown versions of Pinkie's.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:07 am

I am really looking forward to this Saturday. If the writers have any sense there will be a sing-off between Pinkie and Weird Al.
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Postby BeautifulShy (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:11 am

This has been a long time coming. Anybody remember this PMV? Pony Polka it also helps that if memory serves William Anderson who does the underscore is friends with Weird Al. I remember him mentioning it in one of his journals on DA.

In any case I do enjoy Pinkie episodes and I wonder what it would be like if there was some pony in Equestria that was similar to her at least as far as parties go. While this is billed as a Pinkie episode I think it will have a bit of growth as far as Rainbow Dash goes and her loyalty. Just maybe not wanting to upset whichever gives the lesser party of the two party protagonists. Just a thought.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:29 am

Well, I am officially hyped for this episode and it sounds awesome. It helps that it airs 2 days before my birthday.

In other words...
WEIRD AL AND PINK PONY FUNTIME, I CAN'T WAIT! :party:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Wed Jan 29, 2014 7:48 am

Knuckleshy wrote:it also helps that if memory serves William Anderson who does the underscore is friends with Weird Al.

More specifically, he performed with Weird Al. His official site lists credits for Eat It, Polka Party, and Poodle Hat.
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