Perrydotto wrote:Mrs. Cake never showed visible signs of pregnancy, either. I don't think the show will ever have that, since a) it could interfere with the viewing order

A season, one would hope.
The main thing that struck me about this episode was how nuanced it is. The setup was very basic -- just lay it all out in the cold open, done. But then Pinkie has to brave the gauntlet of BABY/SURPRISE jokes, and after the second one, I was thinking, "Is this really all we're going to do for the whole episode?"
And it was, except for the twist later on that half the town's already in on the secret and all inflicting the same agony on each other.
And we get a tiny bit of characterization for Shining Armor, just slipped into the middle of the madness.
It was also a good choice to make this a Pinkie episode. Princess Babykins is one of those twists that was so obvious that they
had to come clean with it and move on. Honestly, for the royal couple, it reminds me a bit of... maybe a Sarah Vowell monologue about '80s TV shows and pregnancies or orphaned waifs showing up on doorsteps whenever they needed a ratings bump. I know plenty of people here have groused about the need for some real, honest-to-goodness character development for those two, and a baby seems more like they're just going to leapfrog ahead to being Big Adults who're just too busy for having adventures.
So I think they made the right call letting the baby thing just be the catalyst for a lot of crazy antics. We don't really need a rehash of Baby Cakes, so I'm kind of hoping the actual blessed event is pretty low-key.