S04E12: Pinkie Pride

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Re: S04E12: Pinkie Pride

Postby WandereringPony (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:27 pm

Perpetual Lurker wrote:Time Turner's not doing his job. :rainbert:


Sure he is. It's telling Pinkie Time perfectly. :-P
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 2:37 pm

Pinkie Time: The complete opposite of VALVe Time.
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Postby MasterOfKnees (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:37 pm

I'm still a bit butthurt Pinkie stopped the Goof Off when she did, I'd really have loved to see the outcome of this little experiment:

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Postby drunkill (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:16 pm

The Round Table is now up on the front page.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:52 pm

The Doctor wrote:Image Is it not time turning?

It's not supposed to be that wibbly-wobbly...
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Postby Grue (?) » Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:24 pm

For some reason I never got time to finish this thread, and therefore didn't get to post my impressions. But by now everything's been said already?

I'm going to say right away that this was one of the best season 4 episodes, up with Castle Mania and Rarity Takes Manehattan. The use of musical format is heavily improved in comparison with Magical Mystery Cure. MMC tried to jam a relatively complicated story into 22 minutes with lots of songs, which as you know aren't the best medium to quickly move the plot. PP on the other hand takes a story that could fit in a tweet (literally), and fattens it up with some catchy songs and a bunch of random gags. DHX had an opportunity to go all out with this episode, and so did Daniel Ingram. This resulted in a visual/aural assault that is sure to entertain.

The inclusion of filly Flitter and Cloudchaser gets an extra thumbs up from me.

One complaint I have is the overuse of human poses, for Cheese in particular. They could've used less of them. I mean, I don't know how he would play an accordion in a pony pose, but there must be a way.
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Postby Rainbow Crash (?) » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:51 pm

Grue wrote:The use of musical format is heavily improved in comparison with Magical Mystery Cure. MMC tried to jam a relatively complicated story into 22 minutes with lots of songs, which as you know aren't the best medium to quickly move the plot.

What? :rariwhat: Songs are an excellent way to speed up a story. It allows them to skip over minor details while advancing the plot as a whole. They never would have been able to get through 5 ponies losing and gaining back their cutie marks in the time they had otherwise. Just getting Fluttershy's cutie mark back took almost as much time as the other four took through song.
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Postby Grue (?) » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:10 pm

I would argue that True True Friend is not moving the plot forward itself, but the underlying montage does (compare undiscordifying scenes in Return of Harmony 2). The song's lyrics basically repeat the same thing for each pony and don't particularly add to our understanding of what's happening.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:17 pm

True True Friends works for me because its the one thing in the episode that shows why Twilight should be a Princess. Namely she hardly does a thing. All she does it recommend to Fluttershy that she go and help Rainbow Dash. That's it. From that tiny nudge, much like what Celestia did to her when she came to Ponyville, she put into motion a series of events where everyone figures it out and solves the problem without her.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:38 pm

The Doctor wrote:True True Friends works for me because its the one thing in the episode that shows why Twilight should be a Princess. Namely she hardly does a thing. All she does it recommend to Fluttershy that she go and help Rainbow Dash. That's it. From that tiny nudge, much like what Celestia did to her when she came to Ponyville, she put into motion a series of events where everyone figures it out and solves the problem without her.


So she should be a princess because she doesn't do any real work? :gotcha:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:13 am

Highbrow Dash wrote:
So she should be a princess because she doesn't do any real work? :gotcha:

:-/ Because she brought out the best in others by letting them discover their own worth.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:26 am

Highbrow Dash wrote:So she should be a princess because she doesn't do any real work? :gotcha:

:gotcha: Hey kids, make Discord a good guy, would you? I believe in you all! Ta-ta!
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:23 am

AKRogers sure does seem to have a penchant for the "episode that turns into a rollicking extravaganza of sound and fury" sort of script, doesn't she? This reminded me a bit of Cutie Pox in that sense. There, we had that whole protracted scene of Apple Bloom dancing through town showing off her new talents. And here the Goof-Off gets bigger and bigger, not advancing the plot, but just playing and larking about in its allotted time slot, in much the same way. I think you could say Best Night Ever sort of does the same thing too. Or maybe I'm just looking for patterns where there are none?

Either way, what a return outing. :awesomedash:
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Postby acksed (?) » Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:06 am

Someone needs to do an updated "What people think we're watching vs. What we're actually watching" picture - with nothing but Pinkie faces from P.P. :q: :amazing: :deflated: :shenanigans: :sbahj:

Edit: I swear I've seen :q: before, either on Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends or Ed, Edd and Eddy.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:20 am

acksed wrote:Someone needs to do an updated "What people think we're watching vs. What we're actually watching" picture - with nothing but Pinkie faces from P.P. :q: :amazing: :deflated: :shenanigans: :sbahj:

Edit: I swear I've seen :q: before, either on Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends or Ed, Edd and Eddy.


Nah, this is the perfect "What I watched" picture for the show.

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Postby Perrydotto (?) » Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:24 pm

Might have been linked already, but this is what Pinkie Pie sings in Spanish during the goof-off. Apparently is a traditional pinata song. :shenanigans:

Spanish:
Dale, dale, dale,
No pierdas el tino;
Porque si lo pierdes
Pierdes el camino.


English:
Go, go, go,
Don't lose your aim;
Because if you lose it
You will lose the path.
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:45 pm

Pinkie Pie and Big Mac--the Zen ponies. :-) :eeyup:
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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:14 pm

Throbulator wrote:Guys, what on earth is Derpy doing?
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It looks like Derpy has a stuffed animal of her own on her back. Key foreshadowing? Maybe for Alicorn Derpy? :gotcha:


This was a good episode. Nothing bad about it, but not bringing it up to the level of "the best" in my opinion. However, I'm glad you all are so excited about it. :flutterunsmith:
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Postby Strangepony (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:58 am

Homeswirl wrote:
It looks like Derpy has a stuffed animal of her own on her back. Key foreshadowing? Maybe for Alicorn Derpy? :gotcha:


I thought those were saddlebags with a mark on the side. :pinkieshrug: It looks like she's lying on the ground, stalking a rubber chicken.
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Postby Perpetual Lurker (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:00 am

Strangepony wrote:
I thought those were saddlebags with a mark on the side. :pinkieshrug: It looks like she's lying on the ground, stalking a rubber chicken.


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No, that's definitely a stuffed bear. She's just letting the two of them hang out. :allears:
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:47 pm

Oh man, she totally is just dropping the bear off for a playdate. Aaaaa the adorbs :3:
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Postby Grue (?) » Wed Feb 12, 2014 7:35 pm

Perrydotto wrote:Might have been linked already, but this is what Pinkie Pie sings in Spanish during the goof-off. Apparently is a traditional pinata song. :shenanigans:


Well, shit, with my pitiful knowledge of spanish I translated "No pierdas el tino" as "Don't lose your sanity". Does "el tino" really translate as aim?
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Postby Angel Beat (?) » Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:17 am

Perrydotto wrote:Might have been linked already, but this is what Pinkie Pie sings in Spanish during the goof-off. Apparently is a traditional pinata song. :shenanigans:

Spanish:


English:

Well, she lost both her aim and her path, so... mission accomplished? :cheese:
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Postby The great M (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:37 am

I just watched this episode and it was fucking fantastic.

That's all I have to say, thank you for your attention.
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:45 am

I'll just eat this pink pie now in celebration.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:33 am

great M returns to chime in on an A+ episode! :allears:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sun Apr 20, 2014 4:03 am

From Babscon (EqD Writeup)

How was it to work with Weird Al? And the general Weird Al Story:

When the PMV popped up covering Weird Al's song, and he responded to it, Jayson sent him a message for fun asking if he'd like to voice a character on the show. After an entire year of, Al finally sent him a direct message apologizing for taking so long to get back to him, and saying he'd be up for it.

Jayson got to fly down to L.A. to work with Weird Al. He was extremely friendly and easygoing about the entire thing. He really cared about making it good, including hours to almost a day of music recording. He wanted it to be absolutely perfect and commited fully. The coolest guy ever essentially.

When the episode aired, Jayson got an email from Al saying it was the best episode he had ever seen and that he and his daughter were over the moon with how well it turned out.
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Postby Ransom (?) » Sun Apr 20, 2014 4:59 am

Wayoshi wrote:From Babscon (EqD Writeup)



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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:40 pm

Man, what would it be like to have Weird Al as a dad. :v:

And for him to be in :ponydrugs: to boot
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:33 pm

It would be absolutely fantastic. There are few joys in this world that can match Weird Dad. :D
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Postby Momo (?) » Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:52 pm

Weird Al is legitimately one of the kindest and most hardworking people around, and nothing in that response surprises me. :allears:
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:28 pm

Welcome to Week Thirty of Let's Re-Watch, where a random episode from the pony pantheon is chosen to be the episode of the week!

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1. Threads will go up on Thursdays! Re-watch day is Saturday. You can obviously join in sooner or later, but the first two days are more for reminiscing, while Saturday-Wednesday is for fresh eyes! Sometimes I put this up early on Friday cause it's still Thursday as far as I'm concerned.
2. Each week is a random episode. All episodes are now fair game, except repeats!
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In this episode, Ponyville is nearly destroyed by weapons of mass excitement.

Week Thirty is

Pinkie Pride!

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Pinkie Pride is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and the seventy-seventh episode overall. In this episode, Pinkie Pie's plans for Rainbow Dash's "birth-iversary", as well as her reputation as a super duper party pony, are put in jeopardy when another party thrower comes to town. .
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:52 pm

AW YEAH! :party: :amazing: :plonk:

This is probably my favourite Pinkie episode, right next to all the other ones. :-P

But seriously, this is probably one of the best episodes ever...everything with it fits perfectly, the songs, the characterisatons, the storyline...I dare say it may be perfect. :-D
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:54 pm

Nah, it ain't perfect, seeing as how it didn't have the full version of the best song in the series.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:02 pm

Well this is convenient. I was just planning on rewatching Pinkie Pride and I wanted to check out the full version of that song after reading about it on Wikipedia. :-P
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Postby PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:16 pm

I'm a big Weird Al fan, so I knew Cheese Sandwich was going to be a memorable character, and I wasn't let down. I also liked Pinkie's Lament, a great song. The live action clips were perfect for the wacky Goof-Off. :shenanigans:
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:16 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Nah, it ain't perfect, seeing as how it didn't have the full version of the best song in the series.


Time constraints. It's the fault of the network, not the episode. :amazing:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Dec 04, 2014 11:45 pm

Such a good episode. S4 did a whole lot to make me appreciate Pinkie Pie more. This episode had a great guest star, great music, called back to Pinkie's abandonment issues from Party of One without going so over the top with it.
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Postby Marioland1 (?) » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:08 am

Cheese Sandwich and Pinkie Pie are so similar to each other that it feels like their both dueling against themselves. If you can manage that, you know you've got good writing, and given Pinkie is a factor, some pretty serious comedy to go along with it. An absolute bash was had, although I do have to say that it escalated probably a bit too quickly. Then again, Pinkie Pie and Weird Al. Escalating quickly just seems right with those two goofballs.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:24 am

:awesomedash: Episode also revealed that Dash is loaded.
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