Talk:Feeling Pinkie Keen/@comment-69.153.168.117-20120417033326

This is the only MLP episode I've never watched twice. Seeing all that stuff happen to Twilight just because she doubts a superstition was painful. And not funny. What did she do to deserve it? It was a bunch of Looney Tunes humor without the Looney Tunes premise: the BAD GUY gets anvils dropped on his head, not an innocent character. The fun of Looney Tunes slapstick was watching the BAD GUY get his comeuppance. I get the feeling that the people who wrote this episode were trying to "man up" the series, in effect saying "See? Just because they're cute ponies doesn't mean we can't drop anvils on them!" Which would have been fine had the anvil gag happened to, say, Discord, or even Trixie. But Twilight? It smacked of the "dumb character always confounds the smart character because kids identify with the dumb character" formula that made toons like Fairly Odd Parents pretty much unwatchable. Fortunately this dumb idea hasn't been repeated in MLP. Hopefully it never will.