History YMMV / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed

* UncannyValley:
** The lighter part of Cranky's muzzle looks like an angry frog. [[BrainBleach Now you can't unsee it.]]
** Matilda's frog looks evil.
** [[http://derpibooru.org/26554 Here, have a look!]]

* UnintentionallySympathetic: We're supposed to side against Cranky throughout the episode because he's grouchy and repeatedly tells Pinkie Pie to buzz off. Pinkie annoys him to no end simply because he's new to Ponyville and wants to fulfill her new friend quota. Her being too Innocently Insensitive and constantly barging in on his life (which includes breaking into his house and destroying his possessions) makes Cranky a sympathetic character who rightly calls her out on such intrusiveness.

* DesignatedVillain: We're supposed to side against Cranky throughout the episode because he's grouchy and repeatedly tells Pinkie Pie to buzz off. Pinkie annoys him to no end simply because he's new to Ponyville and wants to fulfill her new friend quota. Her being too InnocentlyInsensitive and constantly barging in on his life (which includes breaking into his house and destroying his possessions) makes Cranky a sympathetic character who rightly calls her out on such intrusiveness.

* EarWorm: '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas SMILE SMILE SMILE!]]'''''

* BrokenBase: The whole episode (yes, ''another'' one). Putting aside [[AwesomeMusic Pinkie's song,]] you either love this episode because it delves into surprisingly mature (by this show's standards) territory and its hilarious WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes-esque gags, or you hate it because it turns Pinkie into an unlikable [[ManChild MareFilly]] and having an [[DeusExMachina ultra-contrived]] happy ending.

* DesignatedVillain: We're supposed to side against Cranky throughout the episode because he's grouchy and repeatedly tells Pinkie Pie to buzz off. Pinkie annoys him to no end simply because he's new to Ponyville and wants to fulfill her new friend quota. Her being too InnocentlyInsensitive and constantly barging in on his life (which includes breaking into his house and destroying his possessions) makes Cranky a sympathetic character who rightly calls her out on such intrusiveness.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNrXMOSkBas SMILE SMILE SMILE!]]'''''

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The episode opens with Pinkie suiting up in a leotard, leg warmers and headband and doing a ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'' routine for the Cake twins. Aside from having Pinkie in it, it has ''absolutely nothing'' to do with the rest of the episode. YMMV, as it could be seen as an example of the lengths to which she will go to make friends smile, which is the point of the whole episode.

* ShipTease: Rarity's name for the wig she gives Pinkie to give to Cranky is called the Dreamboat Special. That said, put into account that it looks almost exactly like the hairdo worn by Steven Magnet...

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Pinkie's [[InnocentlyInsensitive behavior]] toward Cranky Doodle Donkey. For some is hilarious and funny whereas for others is disturbing and annoying.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: 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. YMMV, as it could be seen as an example of the lengths to which she will go to make friends smile, which is the point of the whole episode.

* AccidentalInnuendo: A cow that drinks milk would be like a grown woman that drinks breast milk.

** [[http://derpiboo.ru/26554 Here, have a look!]]

* BaseBreaker: Pinkie's [[InnocentlyInsensitive behavior]] toward Cranky Doodle Donkey. For some is hilarious and funny whereas for others is disturbing and annoying.

* ItGetsBetter: 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?

* AccidentalAesop: social trial and error can sometimes lead to friendship.

* AccidentalAesop:
** Remember kids, stalking and pestering is Magic!
** [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop Introverts are just in a bad mood. If you pester them long enough, eventually they'll come around.]]
** If someone doesn't want to be your friend, he or she is a {{jerkass}}.
** A fairly more family-friendly one: social trial and error can sometimes lead to friendship.

** The fact that that Cranky is supposed to be an {{expy}} of [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Eeyore]] is much, ''much'' funnier to those who have seen the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}'' episode "The Adjustment Burro".

* GetOnWithItAlready: 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?

* BrokenAesop: The lesson of the episode boils down to "Some people like to be left alone, and and that's okay", which kind of shoots itself in the foot due to the fact that Pinkie only succeeds in making Cranky her friend by pestering him until she finally finds a way to befriend him.

* {{Irony}}: It might just be me, and I'm not one of the people who was mega butthurt over the change, but I found it ironic that the MoralGuardians took such offence at Derpy, when Pinkie Pie spent all of this episode acting like a bit of a caricature of a girl I knew in school who ''was'' mentally disabled (which is not what the irony is; disabilities tend to be slightly exaggerated in media if they're supposed to be there so that's nothing new), and the irony comes in that Cranky uses the word "special" ''twice'' in the same context and tone the word "retarded" is used and treating her as people used to treat the girl I knew. I spent much of the episode when it originally aired wondering if there was going to be the same backlash, but it never came. Then again, I'm also someone who never knew "derpy" has ''ever'' held the same connotation as "retarded".

* {{Irony}}: It might just be me, and I'm not one of the people who was mega butthurt over the change, but I found it ironic that the MoralGuardians took such offence at Derpy, when Pinkie Pie spent all of this episode acting like a bit of a caricature of a girl I knew in school who ''was'' mentally disabled (which is fine; disabilities tend to be slightly exaggerated in media if they're supposed to be there), and the irony comes in that Cranky uses the word "special" ''twice'' in the same context and tone the word "retarded" is used and treating her as people used to treat the girl I knew. I spent much of the episode when it originally aired wondering if there was going to be the same backlash, but it never came. Then again, I'm also someone who never knew "derpy" has ''ever'' held the same connotation as "retarded".

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: 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.

** A fairly more family-friendly one: trial and error can sometimes lead to friendship.