Talk:Castle Mane-ia/@comment-8038217-20131201022325/@comment-4531340-20131201023437

Well, sure, they're setting up a new system for the morals, and I suppose one could compare this to Lesson Zero and say that both are the same; they're just vehicles for setting up a new moral system. However, in both cases, I would argue that what makes both episodes so damn great is their humor; Lesson Zero is more character based (Twilight Sparkle going insane? No doubt!) while this is more slapsticky, fragmented stories, but I love both approaches. In fact, I don't think this episode would've been half as funny if the characters had consciously traveled to the castle together, rather than ending up there for various reasons.

Especially Pinkie Pie. Oh my goodness, was she funny in this one. I mean, I had called the ending (where it's revealed she was the one playing the organ; I figured it was her because of the skill she displayed with musical instruments before), but her revealing that even she didn't know she could play it? Her revealing that she traveled to the castle because they only needed her to ring the bell for five minutes (hell, the part where she bragged about how she was the only one to volunteer, too), accompanied by a visual of just how she was ringing the bell? I was absolutely dying of laughter. Not to take anything away from the other ponies and scenes, but I felt, without a doubt, Pinkie stole the show in this episode. Honorable mention, I feel, goes to Spike and Twilight's interactions in this one (and hell, Angel's too), plus the way the different fragments of the story flowed along until they eventually flowed together. I'd say this is easily my favorite episode since season two (not to take anything away from season three)