YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S2 E18 "A Friend in Deed"

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• Accidental Aesop: Social trial and error can sometimes lead to friendship.
• Accidental Innuendo: A cow who drinks milk would be like a grown woman who drinks breast milk.
• Base-Breaking Character: Pinkie's Innocently Insensitive behavior toward Cranky Doodle Donkey. For some it's hilarious whereas for others it's disturbing and annoying.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The episode opens with Pinkie suiting up in a leotard, leg warmers and headband and doing a Flashdance routine for the Cake twins. Aside from having Pinkie in it, it has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
• Broken Base: The whole episode (yes, another one). Putting aside Pinkie's song, you either love this episode because it delves into surprisingly mature (by this show's standards) territory and its hilarious Looney Tunes-esque gags, or you hate it because it turns Pinkie into an unlikable MareFilly and having an ultra-contrived happy ending.

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The fact that Cranky is supposed to be an expy of Eeyore is much, much funnier to those who have seen the MAD episode "The Adjustment Burro".
  • Pinkie meets her double during the musical number. The following season...
• I Knew It!: Fans guessed that Pinkie Pie's "Smile Song" would be in this episode, and they were right! Granted, a bunch had also guessed the song would appear in "Baby Cakes", which was of course disproved. This episode was just the next Pinkie episode on the list.
• Jerkass Woobie: Cranky Doodle Donkey. Even if his name fits the bill, you can't help but feel sorry for him when he goes through Pinkie constantly, though unintentionally, humiliating him.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The scene where Pinkie sticks her eyeball through the lock... GAAAAH!
  • Also, the dough-Pinkie, with black holes where her eyes should be. Then Pinkie eats Dough!Pinkie.
• Padding: As awesome a song as "Smile Smile Smile" is, did it really need three and a half minutes of screentime just to re-iterate that Pinkie Pie is friendly and nice?
• Paranoia Fuel: Pinkie Pie's mission to get to know everypony in Ponyville. This takes a drastic turn when she obsesses over Cranky.

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