My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E25 Party of One: Difference between revisions

Pinkie Pie holds a birthday party for her pet alligator, Gummy, inviting all her friends. Afterwards, all the guests compliment Pinkie on the great party, with Twilight saying "We should do this again soon!". Pinkie, being Pinkie, interprets this a little ''too'' literally...

The very next day, Pinkie shows up at each of her friends' houses, eagerly offering invitations to Gummy's "''after''-birthday party" that afternoon. Her friends, however, aren't as enthusiastic...

All of them offer excuses for why they can't come, but it isn't until Pinkie gives herself time to think about it that she realizes this.

Once she notices Twilight picking up a package from Sugarcube Corner (instead of studying, like she said she would be), Pinkie decides to investigate. After sneaking around Ponyville in disguise, overhearing several secret conversations between her friends, angrily chasing Rainbow Dash around town, and a tense exchange with Applejack, Pinkie suspects that her friends don't like her or her parties anymore. To get some confirmation on her suspicions, she interrogates Spike into giving her information, but gets frustrated when he doesn't know what she's talking about.

'''[[Literal Minded|Spike]]:''' [[Exact Words|"Your friends are all lying to you and avoiding you because they don't like your parties and they don't want to be your friends anymore."]] }}

* [[Brick Joke]]: Written invitations.

* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Best summed up by this Youtube comment:

** ([[Don't Explain the Joke|Madame LeFlour is a flour sack, by the way.]])

* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: Spike is oblivious to Pinkie's angst during and after the interrogation, even though it should be perfectly obvious to any observer, and this ends up making things worse. Granted, he's got a pretty bad record of reading people from before too<ref>not noticing that the audience hated Pinkie Pie's performance in "Over a Barrel" and Rarity's fashion show in "Suited for Success", thinking his crush on Rarity is a secret in "Green Is not Your Color", almost all of "Owl's Well That Ends Well"...</ref>, but this is the most extreme example.

* [[Funny Schizophrenia]]: Pinkie Pie talking to her imaginary friends during her [[Sanity Slippage]].

* [[Got Me Doing It]]: Rainbow Dash briefly talks back to "Rocky" as if she's actually mad at "him", before she realizes what she is doing.

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Who're you callin' a chump, ''chump''?! *''[[beat]]''* Ugh... That's it: party's over. }}

* [[Hidden Depths]]: You wouldn't have believed that an episode of ''My Little Pony'' starring the silly party-crazy member could be so profound… [[Surreal Humor|and creepy]].

* [[Minimalist Cast]]:Only the mane 6, Gummy, Spike and Mrs.Cake show up in this episode, with the last two only in one scene each. The first shot is the only time that background ponies appear.

* [[Nice Hat]]: In-universe, anyway; Pinkie's invitation basket hat.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: If Spike had told Pinkie Pie pretty much anything else, then we probably wouldn't have seen Pinkie Pie suffer [[Sanity Slippage]].

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]. Pinkie's sneaking disguise is anything but paper-thin, using wacky glasses, a hay bale, a trenchcoat, and a beanie, but Rainbow Dash is still able to recognize her instantly, without even reacting as if it's odd.

* [[There Are No Therapists]]

* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: When the episode airs on Treehouse TV in Canada, all instances of the word {{spoiler|"loser"}} are silenced.

'''"Sir Lints-a-Lot:"''' After the way they treated you, I'd say {{spoiler|"loser"}} isn't strong enough! }}

* [[Tin Can Telephone]]: How Pinkie tries to listen on Twilight and Mrs. Cake's conversation. Hilariously, she seems to be trying to peer at it too. Through the string.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Spike "confesses" (with much dismay and shame) to spilling juice on one of Twilight's books, using up all the hot water, and doing muscle-man poses in front of a mirror when no one is watching.

* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]

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