But interperting things in the worst possible light for her is fun!

Actually they're Timberwolves.

hey everyone there's a new brony census this year! We needs more dataz!

Unless he was MIA, I don't think it'd warrant that level of emotional reaction from the rest of the ponies present. I mean, even Cherilee's tearing up. If he were just coming back from overseas deployment I don't think it'd warrant interrupting class.

Aw.

Clearly a drunk text.

>Best Pinkie Episode

>A Friend in Deed

But seriously, my personal issues with that episode aside, I'd put at "good" at best. I found "Party of One", TMPP, and "Baby Cakes" way more interesting.

edited 7th Jan '13 5:39:29 PM by JapaneseTeeth

That was the episode that finally made me okay with Pinkie. And she was at her absolute funniest.

Look big sister! This is a picture I drew of us as ponies! And this is me turning evil, defeating you in battle and taking over the world!

edited 7th Jan '13 5:39:40 PM by Crowfall

I personally hold Party of One and A Friend in Deed as equal, so yeah. I agree.

She did more things than everypony else put together.

AFID Pinkie was at her funniest? I thought she was loathsome in that episode.

Party of One was good, it made Pinkie out to be an actual character instead of a caricature.

Baby Cakes was surprisingly fun, but not especially memorable.

Too Many Pinkie Pies was a slightly below average episode.

EDIT: Okay, really, am I the only one who can find characters funny when they're being bad people? Pinkie is best when she's irritating the hell out of others, cause c'mon, she's irritating.

edited 7th Jan '13 5:45:03 PM by Bluespade

I found AFID to be a wonderful character study of Pinkie and the way her mind works when it comes to other people. Pinkie having flaws is a good thing, people.

edited 7th Jan '13 5:46:33 PM by PerpetualLurker

Hey I like people being awful as much as the next guy. Blueblood is one of my favourite ponies after all. But for me AFID Pinkie wasn't entertaining awful. She was just awful.

edited 7th Jan '13 5:48:18 PM by Badwolfwho

I'm with Lurker. I especially appreciate the lesson of the episode: that sometimes the best way to be a friend is to leave someone alone.

I'm with badwolf on this one. Pinkie had her moments, but on the whole I found her more aggravating than anything else. And as I've said before, I'm fine with her having flaws; my issue with that episode is that I never felt like she actually understood the lesson because she got what she wanted without ever actually giving Cranky his space.

I agree that the lesson was great, but I didn't at all get the feeling that Pinkie ever demonstrated that she learned it because she never actually left Cranky alone until after he agreed to be her friend. I thought it had a great message, but kinda shot itself in the foot because in function Pinkie didn't actually do it. If the episode had ended with Pinkie leaving him alone, and him giving her a second chance because of it, it would probably be one of my favorite episodes.

edited 7th Jan '13 5:54:51 PM by JapaneseTeeth

The best lessons are the ones the characters figure out on their own. It falls a little flat when they basically need to be told what they should learn from the episode. That's one of Rarity's better features actually.

She didn't leave him alone because she was kind of busy reuniting him with his lost love. I think that's understandable.

But anyway, of course Pinkie was aggravating. It was Cranky's reactions to her that was funny. That's basically what the entire episode was based around. That's what we were supposed to find funny, at the least.

On a completely different note, I have discovered the epic wife tossing tag on derpibooru.

It's the official sport of Equestria.

Why am I not surprised that someone made a Cadance wife toss game.

@Blue: Yeah, I didn't find that funny at all because if I were in his place, I would have probably called the cops on her after she broke into my house.

Also, yes, she reunited him with his lost love, but it doesn't change the fact that she didn't actually act on the lesson, ever. Basically, here's my problem with the episode:

The intended message is "some people need to be given they're personal space". That's great; I like that message. The episode attempts to demonstrate this message by showing Pinkie meddling in Cranky's life, and basically making him hate her because she never respects his privacy. That's fine, too. Here's the problem:

The message of the episode is that you can't force someone to be your friend by inserting yourself into their life all the time. But Pinkie becomes Cranky's friend by doing exactly that. She never, at any point in the episode, stops meddling in his personal affairs. She says she will (only because Twilight tells her too)... and promptly goes right back to bothering him. The conflict isn't resolved through her leaving him alone, it's resolved by her finding a way to continue to meddle in a way that's beneficial for him.

What really irks me about it that up until that point, I loved how it was handling things. But then when she basically got away with bothering him into a friendship, and I basically did this:

edited 7th Jan '13 6:05:13 PM by JapaneseTeeth

She was literally seconds away from leaving him alone forever, though. Unless you think Pinkie is lying, she doesn't need to directly act on the lesson to demonstrate that she had learned it. She got lucky in the end, but it doesn't diminish the rest of it.

edited 7th Jan '13 6:04:50 PM by PerpetualLurker

She was seconds away from leaving him forever and didn't. She successfully completed what she was attempting the entire episode, even though the entire point of the episode was to show that she shouldn't be doing that. That's what bugs me; that the episode basically admitted that yeah, her method works; you don't have to leave somebody alone if you can win them over otherwise.

I prefer Baby Cakes, myself.