S04E18: Maud Pie

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S04E18: Maud Pie

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:57 pm

After finding out that her sister, Maud, is planning a visit to Ponyville, Pinkie Pie is ecstatic and looks forward to her sister meeting her best friends, but the other ponies having trouble making friends with Maud after meeting her in person.


This thread is for discussion of this episode. The episode airs at 10:30 AM Eastern / 7:30 AM Pacific on Saturday, March 15!

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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:09 pm

So, think she's be mini-Harshwhinny, or directly rude and insulting without knowing it?

e: Maybe she's super ugly and they get Bobcat Goldthwait to voice her.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:24 pm

Wow, I wasn't expecting another Pinkie episode so soon! I can't wait to see how her sister is portrayed... :allears:
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Postby Applepie (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:31 pm

My most hyped episode after Pinkie Pride.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:32 pm

Maud to be voiced by old recordings of Bea Arthur. :gotcha:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:44 pm

Personally, I think Maud will act a little bit like Pinkie but won't know when enough is enough. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Kronos (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:55 pm

Will Maud be the anti-Pinkie? :sbahj:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:22 pm

Considering we technically saw the anti-Pinkie when she was discorded, I hope they do something different with the character of Maud.
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:23 pm

Prediction: She's either a total jerk or calm and down to earth, possibly even shy. So, let's see which one it is.
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:30 pm

[...]having trouble making friends with Maud after meeting her in person.

^ I don't expect her to be a mean pony, but to have an anti-social personality, in opposition to Pinkie's super-social attitude.
Like, she's so cynical/nihilistic she's unbearable, or something. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:32 pm

I kind of want a Sven Hoek reveal where Maud is nothing at all like Pinkie but weirdly identical to, say, Applejack.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:51 pm

Maud will be an emo or goth pony. :gotcha:
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Postby Star Platinum (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:53 pm

Was Maud confirmed to be a new character and not one of the sisters shown in Cutie Mark Chronicles? I heard something along those lines, that would be kind of lame.
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:54 pm

ilcane87 wrote:^ I don't expect her to be a mean pony, but to have an anti-social personality, in opposition to Pinkie's super-social attitude.
Like, she's so cynical/nihilistic she's unbearable, or something. :pinkieshrug:


The Doctor wrote:Maud will be an emo or goth pony. :gotcha:


I'm hoping they don't go for either of those becuase that's kinda lazy/obvious and really isn't as funny or interesting as cartoons think it is.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:17 pm

Tailspin wrote:I'm hoping they don't go for either of those becuase that's kinda lazy/obvious and really isn't as funny or interesting as cartoons think it is.
I think those are both very funny ideas, and I'll be happy if it is one of those. :v:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:17 pm

Star Platinum wrote:Was Maud confirmed to be a new character and not one of the sisters shown in Cutie Mark Chronicles? I heard something along those lines, that would be kind of lame.

They tossed out quasi-official names for the other two already, and they added a mysterious third sister to Pinkie Pride. We'll know soon enough, but it kinda seems like it'll be Sister #3.

So they have trouble making friends with her? Maybe she's a ROBOT! Image

:sweetiebot: WHAT. IS THIS. EMOTION. YOU CALL. "FRIEEEENDS."
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:21 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:So they have trouble making friends with her? Maybe she's a ROBOT! Image


In order to prove a robot, the Mane Six will have to interrogate her blender and other kitchen appliances.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:32 pm

Right now I just hope there'll be an actual explanation for Maud. While I wouldn't expect the other five to know about her or Pinkie's other sisters, we, the viewers, do know. It'd be lame if the show just wants us to pretend she existed forever.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:43 pm

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The bottom right pony should be Maud. I get the feeling that New Writer McGee just tacked her on w/o any regard for past canon, and here we see Jayson/Wootie/whoever trying to add it in when they could, like when silently writing Pee Wee off the show.

Basically, yes I am expecting the lame result and it's a bit sad since either Marble or Limestone Pie would have been fine
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:45 pm

Yup, just as expected.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:47 pm

Eh, I think you guys are being a little too pessamistic. I'm sure we'll get some good moments out of this and it could create some more characterisation for Pinkie and her family.
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Postby reidransom (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:47 pm

Aramek wrote:
e: Maybe she's super ugly and they get Bobcat Goldthwait to voice her.


Now I feel like this needs to happen anyhow.
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:58 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Eh, I think you guys are being a little too pessamistic. I'm sure we'll get some good moments out of this and it could create some more characterisation for Pinkie and her family.


Well, we're already off to a "good" start with new friend GEROMY new sister Maud. Now it's left to who guessed her character (jerk, shy or cyncial moody goth/emo).
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Postby Discord (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:07 pm

Wayoshi wrote:Basically, yes I am expecting the lame result and it's a bit sad since either Marble or Limestone Pie would have been fine


They would have been fine, but I don't think it matters that they're introducing a new sister, when we've only seen her family in flashback once before. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Star Platinum (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:21 pm

It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but it feels kind of pointless to introduce a new sister when we didn't know anything about the first two to begin with. Giving the role to one of them would have been fine. It would have also given the illusion of continuity even though they obviously had no idea they would be doing this episode back in whenever Chronicles was made. As minor as it is, it still feels like a retcon to us ultranerds who literally care about MLP canon. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:24 pm

It's also pretty dumb that a joke character like Bulk Biceps gets brought back for no reason, but when they do an episode about Pinkie's family, they just make a new character instead of using one of the sisters from the flashback.
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Postby Discord (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:27 pm

But it doesn't technically even contradict canon. :rariwhat: There is so little canon about Pinkie's family that it is very plausible Maud just popped into the party late.

I really don't see why it's worth being particularly concerned about.
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:27 pm

I'm not concerned, I just think it's dumb. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:30 pm

Maybe there's a reason why this character has never been mentioned? Perhaps she may be the outcast of the Pie family?

All I'm saying is, don't judge an episode just on its title and synopsis. Wait until we actually get some material to work on, otherwise we're just making wild guesses and dissing something that we don't even know is good or not. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:43 pm

Pinkie Pie went and lived at a bakery, making those cakes and baby sitting them too!


...AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE!
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:45 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Maybe there's a reason why this character has never been mentioned? Perhaps she may be the outcast of the Pie family?


That picture Wayoshi posted is all the explenation you're going to get. It's from Pinkie Pride, I think. So it's a situation like with Pee Wee, where the writers forgot he existed, so the storyboarders wrote him out of the show.

ROBOT B9 wrote:All I'm saying is, don't judge an episode just on its title and synopsis. Wait until we actually get some material to work on, otherwise we're just making wild guesses and dissing something that we don't even know is good or not. :pinkieshrug:


No one is saying the episode will be bad, they're just pointing out a pretty obvious mistake.

It will probably be at least decent, provided they don't fuck up Pinkie's characterization (as they're prone to do) or make Maud annoying.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:48 pm

...I personally have never seen Pinkie's characterisation as being "fucked up" but I guess it's how you look at it. Some people find her annoying and out of character in some episodes, I don't. I feel that each appearance serves to give us a little more insight into the complicated character.

But, hey, it'd be boring if we all thought the same. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:50 pm

Her behavior in Filly Vanili borders on cruelty and is terrible. That's the most recent example of the writers fucking up Pinkie Pie's characterization.
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Postby Veradox (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:51 pm

OhmygoshOhmygoshOhmygoshOhmygosh

I CAN'T WAIT!!! :ponydrugs: :ponydrugs:
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Postby Star Platinum (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:54 pm

ROBOT B9 wrote:Maybe there's a reason why this character has never been mentioned? Perhaps she may be the outcast of the Pie family?

All I'm saying is, don't judge an episode just on its title and synopsis. Wait until we actually get some material to work on, otherwise we're just making wild guesses and dissing something that we don't even know is good or not. :pinkieshrug:


If she was an outcast, why would she be present in the party picture and why would Pinkie be looking forward to her visit? :ponder:

Also, there isn't much of a point in making these threads before the episode airs if we can't speculate and criticize the episode, whether it's positive or negative! :party: No one has acrually said this episode is going to be bad. But yeah, I'm out until the episode airs, no point bickering about this any further
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:54 pm

Tailspin wrote:Her behavior in Filly Vanili borders on cruelty and is terrible. That's the most current example of the writers fucking up Pinkie Pie's characterization.


In a way, yes, she went too far. But that's one of the features of Pinkie. Sometimes she could be a little too cloying and insensitive but that's because she sometimes doesn't know any better. You have to think from her perspective.
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Postby Star Platinum (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:17 pm

From Pinkie's perspective Fluttershy was too sensitive to play a harmless water-squirting prank on her, but feeding her obvious stage fright was A-OK? Being brutally honest to the point of accidental insensitivity used to be Rainbow Dash's gimmick. Pinkie can be silly and random at times, but she's not stupid or clueless about her friends' feelings.

But this isn't really the place for this discussion, maybe we can take it to the old episode thread if there is more to say.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:28 pm

Sorry...I didn't really think my words through there...oh, I'm no good at analysing characters anyway. As long as it has cartoon horsies, particularly pink party horsie and entertains me for 25 minutes every week, I'm going to like it.

I don't care about any of that stuff as long as it's fun and entertaining.


That's all I'm going to say about that.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:30 pm

Aramek wrote:...AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE!


If they do this I will literally choke to death with joy.
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:17 pm

This season has been full of "(Blank) Pie" episode titles and it's irritating me a bit.
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