My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E12 Baby Cakes: Difference between revisions

* [[Call Back]]:

** The rubber chicken from "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E7 Dragon Shy|Dragonshy]]" makes a return.

** During the [[Cold Open]], Pinkie Pie accidentally ends up with chocolate cake smeared all over her face, much like her comment in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E8 The Mysterious Mare Do Well|The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]" and what she ended up doing in "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E9 Sweet and Elite|Sweet and Elite]]".

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: A Pegasus and Unicorn giving advice on baby Pegasi and Unicorns, [[Sarcasm Mode|not a hint or anything.]]

* [[Ironic Echo]]: When the Cakes finally ask Pinkie to watch the babies (as she'd been begging them), she sarcastically remarks "I'll have to check my schedule.", somewhat offended by the implication that she can't handle the responsibility. At the end of the episode, when the Cakes ask her to be their regular babysitter, Pinkie (slightly traumatized from the experience) panics a little and says the same line (before finally relenting due to how fond she is of the babies).

* [[Jaw Drop]]: When Pinkie finds out Pumpkin Cake can levitate toys with Unicorn magic.

** Also, Pinkie's "pig song" bears more than a small resemblance to the Chicken Dance.

* [[Jumping Out of a Cake]]: The cake for the babies' zeroth birthday gets smushed in Pinkie's face when Nurse Redheart scolds her to keep quiet. But the cake for the babies' one month anniversary? Pinkie goes all out, with party hats, horns, and jumping out of the twins' cake, destroying it.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Twilight doesn't appear to even ''notice'' how much she offended Pinkie Pie, even as Pinkie is kicking her out of the bakery.

** [[Justified Trope|Makes sense]], as Twilight is still learning about sociability.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: There's nothing in the brief "horror" sequence, except for a moving shadow that's very obviously Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake ostensibly not disappearing. Try not to be spooked by it.

* [[Ocular Gushers]]: Pinkie Pie and the twins.

** Even earlier than that, when the twins started to cry when their parents left. Pinkie may said [[Oh Crap|"Uh-oh"]], but her expression ''definitely'' pointed to this trope.

* [[Time Skip]]: The [[Cold Open]] takes place a month before the main events of the episode.

* [[Wall Crawl]]: Pound Cake seems to be doing this on the ceiling until Pinkie spots his wings. Pinkie has to use suction cups to try and catch him.

* [[Weirdness Coupon]]: While a well known Pinkie Pie trait, an instance specific to this episode is Twilight's complete non-reaction to Pinkie wearing diapers on her hip and head.

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