Talk:A Flurry of Emotions/@comment-27578467-20170503061903/@comment-24245960-20170504135646

@Fluffbrain

You make good points on the fact that Cheerilee is a teacher and therefore should exhibit more patience and understanding when it comes to the foals and also in regard to the fact that her reaction of apparent fear was rather over-the-top, even for a cartoon (in my previous comment I alluded to this with my Abbott & Costello monster movie reference). And yes, one would think that Earth Ponies would be accustomed to doing things orally. So I can concede that this scene was a bit unusual where Cheerilee is concerned.

Looking at the episode overall, I think the main point was that Flurry Heart was misbehaving the whole day and that Twilight, while trying to keep up with her schedule and be the Best Aunt Ever, eventually lost her temper with the child. So maybe your feeling that the writers are operating in a different mode comes from the fact that the scene in the school was written as a device to illustrate the escalation of the overall plot without taking into account that the established character Cheerilee might actually have dealt with the situation in a less exaggerated manner. I can definitely see your point now that you've explained it so clearly.