I wonder if the clones were made with a different intent than to have fun they'd turn out different.

If she didn't obliterate them, why did they inflate?!?!

I gotta say, this episode had some amazing sight gags. The clock thing, Pinkie growing fingers, swimming into the land, stopping before falling into the water...the animators must have loved this one.

Also, that commercial lied. Turns out that it was a clone showing of the G3 face to another clone. and then getting immediately zapped for it.

If she obliterated them, what was the point of the wisps plunging back into the pool?

edited 17th Nov '12 8:09:35 AM by Enlong

I liked this ep. Funny jokes and premise, but the clones could've been disposed of a bit more humanely, and Pinkie forgetting that she was the real one seems weird to me.

6/7 asses plots.

Has anyone tried doing a Pinkie sockpuppet yet? It'd be really tempted if I'd watched the episode, but unfortunately, I won't be able to watch it until later today.

Leaps and bounds better than the premiere!

I'm not too broken up about the clones getting zapped to oblivion or whatever, because it's pretty clear they didn't actually have any personality to speak of. They were like robots with a single goal, in this case acquiring fun.

Pinkie's thing with the clock neck should be the next pony time gif.

Obviously the one with anxiety is always the real deal :V

Only the original would really worry if the dupes are all shallow reflections.

@Story: Pinkie has jumped here from time to time. Don't know what she would say in regards of her episode though.

I guess it all depends on whether you equate the blank slate personalities with robots or with infants.

OG Pinkie was actually really subdued this episode.

Yeah I think Twilight would be wise enough to sense that SHE was the original one from the moment she saw her sulking.

.....GASP! SHE;S NOT THE REAL TWILIGHT!

I honestly found the whole "What If I'm not the real me?" thing interesting for two reasons:

1. It's dead obvious that she's the real Pinkie, which gives the whole thing some great irony.

2. It shows that Pinkie's friends aren't the only one's who were affected negatively by her antics. It gave her an identity crisis. Which is really totally in character for her. She wanted to have fun with her friends and ended up accomplishing entirely the opposite, so she starts doubting herself.

@Enlong: I sort of interpreted it as if someone created a computer program to imitate someone's voice. It's not quite perfect, and it doesn't really have any personality, it's just a construct meant to look like something else. Only it's magic rather than a computer program.

edited 17th Nov '12 8:12:33 AM by JapaneseTeeth

Do you think that for this episode's recap page "Fun" could go under Madness Mantra?

Also she totally wanted to "punish" the real Pinkie by making her join the clones in watching paint dry.

@Ace: That actually makes a lot of sense. "I know which one is real, but dangit you are going to pay in boredom for all the trouble you caused."

edited 17th Nov '12 8:13:38 AM by JapaneseTeeth

For some reason I'm now shipping Blues/Noteworthy with Carrot Top after seeing that clip of them waving to each other out their respective houses' windows.

Oh gosh, now it's getting to me! XD

Instead of watching paint dry, would you think the test should've been something more direct toward her friends? Like, fighting them and seeing which ones resisted?

Welp, that rules out the Reflection Pond as a way to get cheap r34 clones. Maybe it'd be safer to hire Changelings

No, I don't think so. Considering how hyperactive Pinkie is, doing something that requires them to sit and watch without doing anything else is more the right thing to do.

As soon as I noiced that the copy didn't know anything off the bat, I immediately started equating them with Replicas. That made the test scene a good deal more disturbing, to me.

Anyway, like I did last time, let's write down the obvious Fanfic ideas from this episode.

• More cloning, with the other ponies. (Including the inevitable Rule 34 variants...)

• History of the mirror. (Possibly including Granny pie finding it.)

• The last Pinkie realising she was in fact a fake.

Hmm, anything else?

I guess one of the things that made the whole thing odd was that the way the Clones/Constructs/Facsimiles/whatever were behaving is pretty much how Pinkie would behave in any other episode. That's why I found the scene unnerving, since to me it seemed like they could have quite easily banished the real one without them noticing. Oh, well. At least it did leave the best one at the end.

I wonder if the dark fics are being written now?

edited 17th Nov '12 8:16:51 AM by Mio