S05E20: The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows

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Re: S05E20: The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows

Postby Daring Do (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:18 pm

Niels Olof wrote:Favourite odd little part of this episode: Rarity calling Pinkie Pie "Miss Pie" pretty much out of the blue.


I'm sure I've heard her use that somewhere before, though... Is it from G.M. Berrow's chapter books?

Headless Horse wrote:Chances of a "FOREVERRRR" callback are high.



E: ^^ Most surreal use of "maliciously" ever


I reckon that's just a bad fan translation. EQD's translation put that part as Celestia adding "with a smirk", if I remember rightly.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:37 pm

:shock: Fluttershy, do you know where the ant farm went?

:fluttersmith: I felt bad about scaring them, so I let them go.

:-/ Okay...but you let them go outside, right?

:modesty: Well, no...I wanted them to have some sugar, so I set them free in the kitchen.

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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:48 pm

This was a hella sweet and funny episode. Good job, GM Berrow. I enjoyed myself lots, and Pinkie was great. :allears:
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:02 pm

Pinkie needs to be angry more often.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:30 pm

rudecyrus wrote:Pinkie needs to be angry more often.

It is interesting how her mean side generally involves being rather forceful to others. It's like a "we've got to get this done" sort of thing, but not like the determination that Twilight Sparkle and Applejack so often display. It's almost selfish, at least in this episode.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:46 pm

This was a fun episode. They really had a blast with Pinkie here.

Also, something I realized. The Mayor, Featherweight, and that Furniture Pony guy bothering Pinkie with hints about the baby...it's because they knew about the baby as well. The Mayor especially.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:55 pm

Mr. Big wrote:Also, something I realized. The Mayor, Featherweight, and that Furniture Pony guy bothering Pinkie with hints about the baby...it's because they knew about the baby as well. The Mayor especially.

I don't know, I feel like it's possible that Shining Armor didn't tell them. Their lines, especially Mayor Mare talking about secrets, could've just been coincidences played up for the sake of comedy. At least that's the feeling I got.
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:58 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:I don't know, I feel like it's possible that Shining Armor didn't tell them. Their lines, especially Mayor Mare talking about secrets, could've just been coincidences played up for the sake of comedy. At least that's the feeling I got.


Well once they got shown to the town hall's documents, the Mayor was definitely in on it.
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Postby Captain Rufus (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:14 pm

Poor Pinkie. She really needed to hit the Horsie Hash Pipe this episode.

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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:31 pm

That was fun, low-stakes, old school :ponydrugs:

If it weren't for Shining Armor, the Cake twins and other newer stuff, that would have felt right at home in S1.

Fizzbuzz wrote:I don't know, I feel like it's possible that Shining Armor didn't tell them. Their lines, especially Mayor Mare talking about secrets, could've just been coincidences played up for the sake of comedy. At least that's the feeling I got.


Nah, they definitely knew and were in the same bind as Pinkie, just handling it better. They would have been recruited in advance so the scavenger hunt could go smoothly.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:44 pm

I'm not so sure it would've strictly fit into S1. That was back when the show was super serious about having Twilight learn something and dash off a letter to Celestia about it. Although some episodes had to reach a fair bit in order to deliver a lesson (Swarm of the Century and The Cutie Mark Chronicles come to mind), I still feel like they had more of a lesson than today's episode did.

The animation back then wasn't quite nearly as wild, either, even for Pinkie's usual visual gags.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:46 pm

Was super fun and funny and cute, and the pregnancy thing wasn't weird at all!

If I had to pick a single highlight, beyond all the faces, was Shining making all the horsie noises. Hooooly shit.
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Postby PictishBeast (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:49 pm

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I like that they included the freakout guy in the corner.

Looks like Pony Superman is an alicorn?
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:53 pm

So if Twilight's going to be an aunt, does that make Celly and Luna grandmothers? Image :unenthused:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:53 pm

PictishBeast wrote:Looks like Pony Superman is an alicorn?
I guess that makes him the first male alicorn we've ever seen, even if he is only a work of fantasy. :ponder:
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Postby stonecutter (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:09 pm

PictishBeast wrote:
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I like that they included the freakout guy in the corner.

He was just trying to find a parking space for his car, Superman! :unenthused:
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:19 pm

I loved it when Rarity turned the FOREVERRRR thing around on Pinkie. :gotcha:


Cute episode all around. :3:
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Postby Daring Do (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:35 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:So if Twilight's going to be an aunt, does that make Celly and Luna grandmothers? Image :unenthused:


No, because Cadance isn't their daughter. So they'd be (adoptive) great-aunts. Cept they're already great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great aunts, thanks to Blueblood. :P

Fizzbuzz wrote:I guess that makes him the first male alicorn we've ever seen, even if he is only a work of fantasy. :ponder:


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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:35 pm

Considering how old they are, you could say their greatness knows no bounds.
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Postby Discord (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:39 pm

Really funny, enjoyable and yeah, very old-school pony feeling. Probably one of the funniest episodes in the series to me. It kind of does feel a lot like S1, minus the Aesop delivery.
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sat Oct 17, 2015 10:46 pm

I straight-up loved this one, funniest episode in recent memory. Andrea Libman put in a Tabitha St Germain-level performance here, i.e. she basically turns every single line into something funny and interesting.

It's going to take til next week to pore through every hilarious face and every great line from this one. I am well onboard with G.M. Berrow making the jump to the show again in the future.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:03 am



:cheese: It's time to kick this operation into hyper-hoof!

:skeptical: I've been getting liberal with those Pinkie Promises lately.

Fizzbuzz wrote:I don't know, I feel like it's possible that Shining Armor didn't tell them. Their lines, especially Mayor Mare talking about secrets, could've just been coincidences played up for the sake of comedy. At least that's the feeling I got.

Take a look at the Mayor's scene during the scavenger hunt.

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Postby Sailor Yue (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:10 am

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this is a rather bizarre perspective on Cadence :starity:
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:14 am

She's a sphinx. :starity:
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:15 am

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MARE!

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MARE!

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MARE!
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:16 am

SlateSlabrock wrote:A bunch of background ponies
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Looks like Candy Mane has also started shoving candy in her tail.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:18 am

I'm going to say that this one was a real standout in terms of one-liners. G.M. Berrow really has a knack for those, it seems (one of my favorites was Dash's "I know the bar is set pretty high, but...")

In fact there was an awful lot of self-awareness going on, the kind that I remember really endearing the show to me early on. On one hand the episode is moving along nice and slowly, and Twilight and co. are being complete thickheads about the scavenger hunt clues—and then, basically simultaneously, a) Pinkie flips out about how slow they're being and hustles them along in the same way an impatient adult would hustle a recalcitrant kid through a reading lesson, and b) Twilight points out that there's no time limit so what's Pinkie so freaked out about. :v: Really felt like the narrative was operating on two distinct levels.

Other standout bits I loved:

- SA and Mr. Cake high-hoofing :smirk:

- SA's horror reaction upon discovering the burned comic book—right in the middle of that high-speed joyous montage, oh man, that montage was the best, I love how it was timed

- Moustache-and-glasses pony (with moustache-and-glasses cutie mark)

- Tree roots in the castle ceiling; Pinkie even hid among them

- Pinkie had an apple in her mane, and also she tripped backwards over her tail at the :flail: shop

Now, a lot of these are animators' gags rather than writer's gags; but I like that that shows the animators are still as invested in keeping things fresh as they ever were. (The CMCs have their cutie marks now, but their role in the episode didn't hinge on them at all; this episode could have gone anywhere in the viewing order, and all it would have taken was a few seconds of footage re-rendered.) But Berrow's script showed a lot of that two-level energy, like Rarity pointing out (after we all would have noticed the same thing) that Twilight's design choices are, well, a bit juvenile, but presumably she knows what will tickle SA. It lets the show be naïve and shrewd at the same time, in the best tradition of S1 pony.


One other random note: Was this the first time we've heard the name Mayor Mare in-show?
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:21 am



Heh, yeah. :D The music during that scene was actually an homage to whatever the Discord song in this is an homage to, though:



Which I'm sure is a well-known thing that I should recognize but eh
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Postby PaulloDEC (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:34 am

Big Boss wrote:WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MARE!

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MARE!

WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MARE!


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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:35 am

45 seconds in and I spill my popcorn everywhere. I thought for sure they wouldn't go this route yet they did and I am ok with this. :dreamworks:

Derpy Hooves and Dinky Hooves are standing next to each other. Canon confirmed? :allears:

Cadence isn't even showing yet, she looks so thin. I wonder how they confirm pony pregnancy? :ponder:

To answer the question, yes, they did call her Mayor Mare before.
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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:41 am

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 and b) we can't show that kinda thing to children, oh noooo
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Postby Davyinatoga (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:00 am

Headless Horse wrote:- Moustache-and-glasses pony (with moustache-and-glasses cutie mark)

The best part about that gag was how the brown mustache on the glasses is laid over that pony's pink beard so nonchalantly.
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Postby Chaos Sonic (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:01 am

Soft Snow wrote:I wonder how they confirm pony pregnancy? :ponder:

There's probably some pony out there with a pregnancy test cutie mark. :gotcha:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:01 am

I wouldn't be surprised if we never see Cadance visibly pregnant. She's so damn skinny that she'd prob. look weird with a big belly. :-I Besides, considering how the show has had ponies wearing clothes more and more often lately, If we do see her in the late stages of her pregnancy then I imagine the animators won't pass up an opportunity to have her in a horsie maternity dress.

As for showing pregnancy to kids... well, this episode already brought it up. I wonder how many kids used this episode to ask their parents where babies come from.
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Postby SpaceHowitzer (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:02 am

After two rather emotional episodes I like the change of going deep into cartoon land as only pinkie can. Really we should get a "pinkie blows a gasket" episode every year because it's so much fun. Seeing the cake kids doing adorable things is great too.

The safety procedures for giving birth to a kid with a steak knife mounted to there head must be amazing, has to be hard on the doctors to have to catch a kid who will shank you.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:19 am

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 and b) we can't show that kinda thing to children, oh noooo

:v: "Man, Cadance, you're lookin' kinda fat there."
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:25 am

SpaceHowitzer wrote:The safety procedures for giving birth to a kid with a steak knife mounted to there head must be amazing, has to be hard on the doctors to have to catch a kid who will shank you.

At least baby unicorns have very short horns.

Hell, aren't real-life horses born with some sort of soft fleshy covering on their hooves, such that they don't shred their mother's uterus? Maybe unicorns get something similar for their horns.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:33 am

Roomie actually watched this with me during the stream this morning, and we both laughed a lot.

"Pinkie looks like she's spent the whole episode trying not to barf."
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:40 am

Can't stop laughing at Twilight's face here

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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Sun Oct 18, 2015 2:05 am

Interestingly, Fluttershy is the most in control looking of the group there. :allears:
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