Talk:Party of One/@comment-10390252-20141002150100

I think the thing that I get from this episode is that Pinkie, like Twilight and Fluttershy, has a whole host of issues that could pay for a psychoanalyst's kids to go through the best schools and colleges on Earth.

We see that Pinkie has almost a compulsion to party and to be making her friends have what she regards as a good time (not necessarily what they regard as a good time). Deprived of that, she almost immediately goes into downward spiral into a paranoid psychotic episode. Oddly enough, though, we see some of the same symptoms and the same key character flaw in Pinkie Pride. Arguably, therefore, this episode could be considered the starting point of a characterisation arc that includes A Friend in Deed to Pinkie realising that it isn't always about what she thinks is fun and the subsequent discovery of the Key of Laughter and the Pink Light of Laughter in Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2.