Pinkies Pride: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic S04E12 (SPOILERS INBOUND)

Reintroduction/cameo of Appaloosa, nice continuity

The lone ranger/Fallout Lone Wanderer reference

“Cheese, Cheese Sandwich”

Cheesy Sense!? “pinkie sense is real confirmed”

Cutie Mark is of a toaster,cheese sandwich and accordion, referencing Weird al’s Ponysona, Polka music, and cheesiness!

Cutiemark is animated during his sense…and makes presumably audible noise…Hrmmm?

“That Was a Doozy” call back to Pinkie sense…again!

Funny to dramatic in seconds, also rubber chickens name is boneless….yep thats just yes

Intro for season 4 which i didnt mention until now:

Train color changed Rarity gains an accurate reflection Discord Photobomb Easteregg Twi shows off her wings after teleporting…lolwut New Poses for Mane six The Cakes, Big Mac and Granny Smith, Zecora, CMC, Snips and Snails, spike w/ stuff and mayor mare added to photo Photofinish takes photo Luna added to letter reveal scene, photo is glossy polaroid HDR

Starting off with polka theme reminiscent of smile smile smile but with different tones and lyrics, also Major background ponies show up specifically.

CMC doing something

FPS (First Pinkie Sight) upside down in context :D

Cherry’s from over a barrel cameo

Fourth wall break?

The Cakes sing in this episode, referencing the baby shower which took place inbetween “baby cakes”

Diamond Tiara sings well, despite how much of a douche she is about it.

even pinkie’s confused if she should be complimented or insulted

Also silver spoon revenge visual gag

paint “full rainbow” poured into saddle bag, turns brown “THATS SCIENCE!” seriously look it up!

Vector vs. “My” fanart joke.

notice they keep saying only pinkie can do what she does.

Parties are serious buisness…to the extent of literal pinkie promising “stick a cupcake in my eye”

GASP* It’s the Lone Stranger

cheesy sense tinglin’ spiderman is afoot

synonyms for party, now you know

Rainbow uses Epic, to add to the arsenal of, cool, awesome, radical, groovalisious, extreme etc (which are different things)

Birthaversary, it’s a word now, also SO MANY “Not” Coincidences, never ignore a “not” coincidence unless you’re busy.

you think that cheese, is gonna deny pinkie, but nope its the “I dont think, i know trope” also weird al apears and suddenly the lone stranger is gone….weeeird

Classic weird al style polka…but not composed by weird al….NICE JOB DANIEL!

wait, what about pinkie?

Hawaiian Shirts Canon

also derpy is invited to dashies party, because derpy is cool

SERIOUS TIME:

At this point we get another look at Pinkie’s psyche, confirming my earlier theories of her not just wanting to make ponies happy, but needing to, since she possesses a fragile self-esteem, her escape is to make others feel better rather than worse! more on that in a moment

No offense pinkie… “the element of [not loyalty] Authenticity fails to realize that any statement ending in no offense will always cause offense.

obvious tears, and she licks them, and a fake smile….and she lies ITS ALL THERE (pinkie)

slight mane and tail deflate

pinkie sense goes off when she hears twilight, prompting her to go from depressed to faking a mask of perfectly okay, we’ve all done this before

Twilight is legitimately suspicious of pinkie’s response, instead of just shrugging it off, she continues to think about it.

SERIOUS TIME AGAIN!

You probabbly feel bad for pinkie right now, and you should in a way, but also realise that pinkie has taken not only a hit to her heart and spirit, but also as the title would suggest her PRIDE, Pinkie has a bit of doubt that her friends care, but she’s more so hurt that they want somepony else to do "her” job…this isn't to say that pinkie is shallow or unjust in her feelings, as the song she sings shows, she's beginning to doubt her self worth, since as you know, a cutie mark represents not what a pony is supposed to do, but what they want to do, what makes them happy, and what they themselves are good at. so if cheese is better than her at what they both do, then does that mean she isn’t as important? this is the question we are asked

the scene with pinkie’s other jobs all contain the “plot Device” of the “Rainbow” which is actually the representational colors of the mane six, this is the telltale hint that this is pinkie’s episode for the season long narrative, reminicent of Bad Wolf, The Silence, The Time Cracks, The Master, The Doctor’s hand, Jack Harkness and torchwood, in doctor who

the montage shows that pinkie is indeed better at what she already does, yet doesn’t see it

Heart hurt feels when she puts her party canon into a cupboard that must be bigger on the inside.

Reinvigorated pinkie Via Nostalgic memories seasons 1-3, Yes please!

pinkie has a photograph of applebloom and twi’s parents…but why?

call back to party of one via her “disguise”

Derpy <3 Chocolate

Rarity hits on cheese sandwich….sigh rarity.

Creepy Transition reminiscent of Chrysalis’s true form, reveals foreshadowing that pinkie’s plan is not the “right” one

FREEZE CHEESE

GOOF OFF’s are serious business, even though nobody but the two knows what it is, except fluttershy…well no she’s just poking fun at the drama, +1 characterization point, also Aj breaks the fourth wall…slightly

Cheese wears a fez now, fezzes are cool.

Pinkie uses the “Know so” trope as a comeback, stating the stakes REALLY high…well not really but thats the joke

Pinkie: “so are you in CHEESE? or are you…BONELESS…” (ooh burn) Cheese: “Nopony calls me boneless, right Boneless”

That dialogue just makes the scene

also boneless suddenly has a mini fez…YUS

Pinkie tries to make it at high noon, DRAMA…but subversion cus it’s 3 o clock, so 3:10 will have to do

Pinkie taunts cheese again using his signature party blower,

Twilight actually has a rulebook for goof offs, spike isn’t so much cynical about this as he is prideful, but then matilda (past character, yay refrences) shush’s him, to Applejacks amusement.

Official goof off rule book uses every synonym you can think of for laugh. as to be expected.

BOOM SERIOUS TIME:

Holy scnoz, whats this? Rainbow dash is actually slightly disturbed (maybe nervous or even scared) of judging a competition on her birthday, going as far as to point out how it couldnt be better in a tone and look that shows the former. But…why? Bam chicka Bam The Element of “LOYALTY” is actually torn here, by being forced to choose between what she thinks is awesome and one of her longest standing friends, dashie honestly doesn’t want to do it. but of course she has too…

pinkie was born ready for a goof off she wouldnt see for roughly 24 years, and wouldnt even know what one was for 6, cheese was ready before he was born, so he says….somehow I don’t think the “____ Sense” works that well.

no matter how serious pinkie pie “pronks” to the center, it’s a real word look it up

RainbowDash Cupcake…..Writers…OH NO YOU DIDNT

The Rubber Chicken dance is a nod to “The Flop”

Hit it boneless! *Unexpected mindfuck cut to a real life puppet stage with a real life rubber chicken*

Double Mindfuck, with the Gummy Shake {do i need to explain? its the harlem shake, but since gummy never moves…well, basically you get real life footage of a real baby alligator sitting on a log in a swamp

Cheese begins parody/stealing pinkie’s smile song, (weird al does parodies remember…) much to her anger, and his point of saying he has no idea what she’s talking about.

rainbow is crushed by pinkie’s pinata cake and *PLOT DEVICE* streamers fall in front of her, pinkie receives the Harmony spark thing, which I’m going to refer to as *The Awakening* from now on, realises she broke her own pinkie promise, and promptly forfeits. for rainbow dash, not herself.

cheese is delighted…for a few seconds until he realises what it means, which pinkie says tragically out loud with prompt from twilight.

The Mane 6 apologise to pinkie (haha mane six, because spike also apologizes) but instead, pinkie apologises, for letting her pride get in the way of what she was *HEADCANON* truly meant to do, make her friends happy in this case, by almost ruining rainbowdash’s birthaversary…that is a damn good moral, but wait-

Rainbow dash points out that Pinkie is Ponyville’s and their Permanent Party pony, and no party would be the same without her, a thing pinkie let slip past her, because like cheese said at the beginning, he’s a traveling pony planner. PLUS THEIR AINT NO PARTY LIKE A PINKIE PIE PARTY

Then comes cheese, to reinforce rainbow’s point by revealing his true reasoning, through song….are you ready!?

colt cheese resembles me if I were ponified accuratley, a small unpopular, glass wearing geek. with curly fro hair

cheese must have been an orphan given that he leaves (what i think is) “maretropolis” (irpl) without a hitch

he claims to have stumbled into ponyville

annnnd MEET THE FILLIES

Lyra with Bonbon wearing glasses, friends forever canon

Flitter and CloudChaser, with smaller cuter manes

Derpy and Cheerilee

Colgate too! (Minuette for you Whooves fans)

for you Whooves fans) COMIC SPOILERS: SIde note: in the comic’s vinyl is featured as a filly and gets her cutie mark after seeing shining armor and his friends concert to impress cadence…Aw yus

Call back to lyra’s SUPER EXCITE face in season 1

Boneless origin story?

Cutie Mark Origin Story of cheese

And who was it that threw that party?

PINKIE PIE *initiate filly pie fourth wall break*

Initiate greatest birthaversary ever and bowties because they are cool

Cheese gets confirmation that the birthaversary is EPIC, Lone Ranger intiate, complete with calling dash a filly

pinkie thinks of what to write in the “Journal” and the Lone Cheese ranger appears bearing a chest complete with trope gold glow when opened, what is it you ask? why it’s boneless *PLOT DEVICE ACTIVATE*

Pinkie is surprised he’d give her his special rubber chicken, which the “Lone” ranger subverts revealing it’s not the only one, pulling out another with a two emblazoned on it (kinda like thing 1 and 2)

Cheese mosey ons into the sunset, in true western fashion “another town, another party”

my lone stranger joke comes to a close, when pinkie jokes “she never did catch his name”

End Credits are Polka.

So what exactly did I think of this Episode.

I’m just gonna say it was my favorite so far this season!

and yes I know it wasnt much of a review, so much as a text based commentary, but really one has to see the episode to truly enjoy it, Thanks guys, and bryandbjcc special thanks to ya for giving me reason to watch this again :)

~Mjax Majoran