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Amy Keating Rogers is my favourite writer ever. The few PPG episodes she's written were some of my favourite episodes too and once again she does not disappoint with a ridiculous outrageous spontaneous episode staring everyone's favourite pink pony, Pinkie Pie. I still haven't stopped praising The Last Roundup yet and in fact, while I enjoyed Pinkie during this episode it did seem quite soon after that absolutely mindblowing best-episode-ever. I'm mostly complaining about their ordering of episodes this season (yet again), two RD episodes in a row? Two AJ episodes in a row? All the Rarity in the first ten episodes of the season? (Unless there's more...I wouldn't be surprised, she's starred/co-starred in four episodes of season one!) You had Baby Cakes full of Pinkie and then right after, Last Roundup which had tons of surprise Pinkie. So yeah I was expecting this episode, anticipating the song and all but they are shoving the character-focused episodes too close together. @_@ I NEED VARIETY.
Luckily next week we have Fluttershy!
So this episode had a whopping FOUR songs. I took a while to warm up to Smile Smile Smile actually. I listened to its leak once, realized the magnitude of what I did (THIS COULD RUIN THE POTENTIAL PINKIE EPISODE IN THE FUTURE NOOOOO!) and never listened to it again until yesterday morning. The song has amazing animation and really does make you smile, but I had a hard time getting its tune stuck in my head and finding it super fun to sing like Balloons in my Basket, but at the moment it IS stuck in my head. Find a Pet is still the record holder for most replayed after I first heard it. I find the verses and the ending parts of the song catchier than the chorus though, which would've been fine if it was shorter but repeating Smile Smile Smile the third time felt kind of jarring...maybe the line before it was too weak to justify singing Smile Smile Smile again. Ah well, it still falls into the Spotto-approved realm of "song I will sing along with the other pony songs either randomly, on the computer, in the shower, etc. and that I can remember parts of if not all the lyrics".
Close your eyes and listen to this. OUTGOING FLUTTERSHY! :D
What song in MLP IS the funnest song to sing, you ask? Either So Many Wonders, Pinkie's Singing Telegram, or Becoming Popular. I find the longer songs are always a little too repetitive and so a little less fun to sing at that point. (Yes this includes WWU and At the Gala) For Find a Pet I sing the beginning and then the end, but always skip the more-dialogue intensive parts in the middle. Smile Smile Smile has a fun beginning and end but the middle drags a bit. I can never remember the lyrics of Art of the Dress. Giggle at the Ghostly is fun to sing as well but I always mess up at Pinkie's super fast speed-speak, so the ending isn't quite as magnificent as that highly catchy beginning. Cupcakes and Hush Now Quiet Now are too short. Any other song I'm not quite as fond of and thus don't sing them if at all.
Anyway the episode again was incredibly entertaining and fun. I know a lot of Pinkie critics always point out her insensitivity but it always makes me laugh anyway. I chuckled quite a bit when she pointed out how astonishingly bald Cranky was. One of my favourite parts (so many favourite parts @_@) was the felt-animation sequence though. I especially liked felt-Pinkie singing with Pinkie noting it as "sing random song out of nowhere" she looked so crazy happy in felt-form singing and I dunno, it resounded in my head soooo well! HER WIGGLING TONGUE! HER FLAPPING ARMS! Then she pulled a felt mark outside of her imagination! That floored me. The other notable complaint might be how high-strung Pinkie is this episode. If people are already annoyed by her they will definitely be annoyed by her in this episode, and those who are borderline annoyed by her normally will also be annoyed by her. I actually thought it was fitting though. The whole beginning sequence and the song pretty much gave you a giant animated musical explaining how much Pinkie loves making others happy and how everyone else also loves Pinkie. This is a huge strength for Pinkie, but then her possibly mind-grating personality comes into play to remind you that while she has great intentions and is the sweetest, cutest thing ever, she isn't perfect. There are flaws! Flaws that can ruin beloved mementos!
THIS EPISODE.
If I have a complaint myself it might be the chase scene. It's very funny and all but I get some sort of uncanny valley vibe when she's dressed as a beaver. She REALLY shouldn't be able to fit in that costume. Even if she can twist the dimensions of space and time itself to do so, it doesn't make it look any less jarring. Imagine if Pinkie shoved herself into a jar of jelly...and you can SEE her scrunched up body, silently SHRIEKING for air, for RELEASE! And no, not the gigantic ones from Hearts and Hooves Day! It's okay if she comes out of a bowl of sponges or out of a tuba or something because you can't tell where her body is supposed to be, it's really exaggerated to the point that you don't even try to imagine how her body looks since it's so cartoony, but the beaver costume was close enough to Pinkie's shape and size to make me extremely uneasy. Her eyes watching Cranky under the bridge were starting to get a bit creepy too and then she STUCK HER EYEBALL THROUGH THE KEY HOLE. I literally squicked! I know you can do these things Pinkie, but AGH EYE SCREAM.
As for other favourite moments besides the song and Pinkie's felt mind? I loved how she exploded into a literal rocket of happiness, donning the sky with a pink shaded rainbow, with inexplicable fireworks shooting all over the place. I also enjoyed her welcome wagon, the bald scene, and I really really really really d'awwed at Pinkie helping Applejack. I mean it's one thing to make people smile but she even helped her relieve some of her work by painting the wall, even if she did put a sun and her face on it, lol. I was hoping for more scenes like that with the other Mane Six but the song would've been crazy long at that point. Truly this was a splendid episode, not entirely flawless obviously but I very much loved it. The beginning scene was great too, totally true that little children enjoy the pain of others. (Baby Cakes' intro is still the best for me!) Also a subtle part of the episode (yes there were subtle moments) was Pinkie going "HEEHEEHEE" ...I was like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA when I heard that.
EQD Post
Amy Keating Rogers is my favourite writer ever. The few PPG episodes she's written were some of my favourite episodes too and once again she does not disappoint with a ridiculous outrageous spontaneous episode staring everyone's favourite pink pony, Pinkie Pie. I still haven't stopped praising The Last Roundup yet and in fact, while I enjoyed Pinkie during this episode it did seem quite soon after that absolutely mindblowing best-episode-ever. I'm mostly complaining about their ordering of episodes this season (yet again), two RD episodes in a row? Two AJ episodes in a row? All the Rarity in the first ten episodes of the season? (Unless there's more...I wouldn't be surprised, she's starred/co-starred in four episodes of season one!) You had Baby Cakes full of Pinkie and then right after, Last Roundup which had tons of surprise Pinkie. So yeah I was expecting this episode, anticipating the song and all but they are shoving the character-focused episodes too close together. @_@ I NEED VARIETY.
Luckily next week we have Fluttershy!
So this episode had a whopping FOUR songs. I took a while to warm up to Smile Smile Smile actually. I listened to its leak once, realized the magnitude of what I did (THIS COULD RUIN THE POTENTIAL PINKIE EPISODE IN THE FUTURE NOOOOO!) and never listened to it again until yesterday morning. The song has amazing animation and really does make you smile, but I had a hard time getting its tune stuck in my head and finding it super fun to sing like Balloons in my Basket, but at the moment it IS stuck in my head. Find a Pet is still the record holder for most replayed after I first heard it. I find the verses and the ending parts of the song catchier than the chorus though, which would've been fine if it was shorter but repeating Smile Smile Smile the third time felt kind of jarring...maybe the line before it was too weak to justify singing Smile Smile Smile again. Ah well, it still falls into the Spotto-approved realm of "song I will sing along with the other pony songs either randomly, on the computer, in the shower, etc. and that I can remember parts of if not all the lyrics".
What song in MLP IS the funnest song to sing, you ask? Either So Many Wonders, Pinkie's Singing Telegram, or Becoming Popular. I find the longer songs are always a little too repetitive and so a little less fun to sing at that point. (Yes this includes WWU and At the Gala) For Find a Pet I sing the beginning and then the end, but always skip the more-dialogue intensive parts in the middle. Smile Smile Smile has a fun beginning and end but the middle drags a bit. I can never remember the lyrics of Art of the Dress. Giggle at the Ghostly is fun to sing as well but I always mess up at Pinkie's super fast speed-speak, so the ending isn't quite as magnificent as that highly catchy beginning. Cupcakes and Hush Now Quiet Now are too short. Any other song I'm not quite as fond of and thus don't sing them if at all.
Anyway the episode again was incredibly entertaining and fun. I know a lot of Pinkie critics always point out her insensitivity but it always makes me laugh anyway. I chuckled quite a bit when she pointed out how astonishingly bald Cranky was. One of my favourite parts (so many favourite parts @_@) was the felt-animation sequence though. I especially liked felt-Pinkie singing with Pinkie noting it as "sing random song out of nowhere" she looked so crazy happy in felt-form singing and I dunno, it resounded in my head soooo well! HER WIGGLING TONGUE! HER FLAPPING ARMS! Then she pulled a felt mark outside of her imagination! That floored me. The other notable complaint might be how high-strung Pinkie is this episode. If people are already annoyed by her they will definitely be annoyed by her in this episode, and those who are borderline annoyed by her normally will also be annoyed by her. I actually thought it was fitting though. The whole beginning sequence and the song pretty much gave you a giant animated musical explaining how much Pinkie loves making others happy and how everyone else also loves Pinkie. This is a huge strength for Pinkie, but then her possibly mind-grating personality comes into play to remind you that while she has great intentions and is the sweetest, cutest thing ever, she isn't perfect. There are flaws! Flaws that can ruin beloved mementos!
THIS EPISODE.
If I have a complaint myself it might be the chase scene. It's very funny and all but I get some sort of uncanny valley vibe when she's dressed as a beaver. She REALLY shouldn't be able to fit in that costume. Even if she can twist the dimensions of space and time itself to do so, it doesn't make it look any less jarring. Imagine if Pinkie shoved herself into a jar of jelly...and you can SEE her scrunched up body, silently SHRIEKING for air, for RELEASE! And no, not the gigantic ones from Hearts and Hooves Day! It's okay if she comes out of a bowl of sponges or out of a tuba or something because you can't tell where her body is supposed to be, it's really exaggerated to the point that you don't even try to imagine how her body looks since it's so cartoony, but the beaver costume was close enough to Pinkie's shape and size to make me extremely uneasy. Her eyes watching Cranky under the bridge were starting to get a bit creepy too and then she STUCK HER EYEBALL THROUGH THE KEY HOLE. I literally squicked! I know you can do these things Pinkie, but AGH EYE SCREAM.
As for other favourite moments besides the song and Pinkie's felt mind? I loved how she exploded into a literal rocket of happiness, donning the sky with a pink shaded rainbow, with inexplicable fireworks shooting all over the place. I also enjoyed her welcome wagon, the bald scene, and I really really really really d'awwed at Pinkie helping Applejack. I mean it's one thing to make people smile but she even helped her relieve some of her work by painting the wall, even if she did put a sun and her face on it, lol. I was hoping for more scenes like that with the other Mane Six but the song would've been crazy long at that point. Truly this was a splendid episode, not entirely flawless obviously but I very much loved it. The beginning scene was great too, totally true that little children enjoy the pain of others. (Baby Cakes' intro is still the best for me!) Also a subtle part of the episode (yes there were subtle moments) was Pinkie going "HEEHEEHEE" ...I was like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA when I heard that.
Smile for Pinkie Pie? 8C SOURCE
The new characters were pretty good as well. I think everyone thought the moral was gonna be like "You can't be friends with everybody" but instead it was "Some friends enjoy super hyper gigantic parties and others like to be left alone with peace and quiet" which I didn't mind either! In fact the first aesop would've been more predictable, so I'm glad it ended like this. (The first lesson still would be a good lesson to teach kids though, particularly Pinkie. I know all those silly and misguided fans who find her annoying probably wouldn't be friends with her and she would only aggravate them more with her antics...unless they also have a LONG LOST LOVE living in Ponyville somehow. On the other hand she did understand she can't be friends with everyone when discussing her woes with Twilight. She's just...very over-the-top about apologizes I suppose)
Good god I pretty much discussed every moment in the episode...the MUSIC during the scene when the donkeys reunited was actually really amusing. It was meant to show that the scene was all cute and heartwarming, but it had kind of a "crazy" vibe with it, like the moment was real awkward with Pinkie standing there seeing these two donkeys. The music was REALLY playing it off well...making it feel more awkward.
So yeah a top-tier episode for me! It's in the same game as Party of One, Luna Eclipsed, May the Best Pet Win, Cutie Mark Chronicles...but it did not surpass The Last Roundup. I think I have The Last Roundup as some sort of untouchable GOD TIER and the series will NEVER REACH THIS LEVEL OF AMAZINGINESS again...unless it does. The biggest reason despite both episodes having tons of Pinkie is Mane Six interaction. I love Mane Six interaction THAT much. I want a group episode more than a Pinkie-solo episode, that I do. I prefer Green Isn't Your Colour and Dragonshy over A Bird in the Hoof and Stare Master for Fluttershy as an example so while I am HIGHLY looking forward for the next episode, being a Fluttershy episode, I'm predicting it will be focused really closely on only Fluttershy which while awesome is not quite as awesome as an ensemble episode.
That is all from Spotto...SMILE! :D
The new characters were pretty good as well. I think everyone thought the moral was gonna be like "You can't be friends with everybody" but instead it was "Some friends enjoy super hyper gigantic parties and others like to be left alone with peace and quiet" which I didn't mind either! In fact the first aesop would've been more predictable, so I'm glad it ended like this. (The first lesson still would be a good lesson to teach kids though, particularly Pinkie. I know all those silly and misguided fans who find her annoying probably wouldn't be friends with her and she would only aggravate them more with her antics...unless they also have a LONG LOST LOVE living in Ponyville somehow. On the other hand she did understand she can't be friends with everyone when discussing her woes with Twilight. She's just...very over-the-top about apologizes I suppose)
Good god I pretty much discussed every moment in the episode...the MUSIC during the scene when the donkeys reunited was actually really amusing. It was meant to show that the scene was all cute and heartwarming, but it had kind of a "crazy" vibe with it, like the moment was real awkward with Pinkie standing there seeing these two donkeys. The music was REALLY playing it off well...making it feel more awkward.
So yeah a top-tier episode for me! It's in the same game as Party of One, Luna Eclipsed, May the Best Pet Win, Cutie Mark Chronicles...but it did not surpass The Last Roundup. I think I have The Last Roundup as some sort of untouchable GOD TIER and the series will NEVER REACH THIS LEVEL OF AMAZINGINESS again...unless it does. The biggest reason despite both episodes having tons of Pinkie is Mane Six interaction. I love Mane Six interaction THAT much. I want a group episode more than a Pinkie-solo episode, that I do. I prefer Green Isn't Your Colour and Dragonshy over A Bird in the Hoof and Stare Master for Fluttershy as an example so while I am HIGHLY looking forward for the next episode, being a Fluttershy episode, I'm predicting it will be focused really closely on only Fluttershy which while awesome is not quite as awesome as an ensemble episode.
