History Recap / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed

* JustForPun: Pinkie has a ''wagon'' she uses to ''welcome'' people. [[LampshadeHanging Imagine that.]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

** Cranky Doodle is a sarcastic donkey? I suppose you could say he's a real smart-ass.

The episode ends with Pinkie mentally preparing a letter to Princess Celestia, courtesy of voice over. In it she mentions that while some folks are as social and outgoing as her, others prefer to have some space to themselves now and then. Either way, she can be friends and make them smile.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Pinkie likes being friends with everypony and can't deal with having someone in Ponyville who ''isn't'' her friend.

** Though played with later on when Cranky's mention of a 'special friend' appears to go straight over Pinkie's head. At the conclusion however she simply laughs and states she wasn’t ‘born yesterday' when Cranky expresses surprise that she worked out he was looking for a romantic partner.

* StockEpisodeTitles: A number of other shows have used this as an episode title, as diverse as ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' and ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''.

* StockEpisodeTitles: A number of other shows have used this as an episode title, as diverse as ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' and ''Series/TheFactsOfLife''.

* ToonPhysics: Bordering on MindScrew but it's a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie]] episode, so it's to be expected.

* TruckDriversGearChange: In The Smile Song.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Pinkie likes being friends with everypony and can't deal with having someone in Ponyville who ''isn't'' her friend

* AnAesop: There are some people who like to have fun and some that just want to be alone, and that's fine.

---> '''Pinkie Pie [through a megaphone]:''' Does anypony have a toupee? This donkey is ''really, really bald!!''

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Cranky makes a snide comment about Pinkie being ''extra'' special.
** What one can expect the newly-refound couple to be doing with their "privacy" at the end of the episode. In the same vein, what they did during what Cranky calls "the most magical night of [his] life"...

* WhenSheSmiles: This is Pinkie's Pie; to make Crank smile. It, in turns, makes her so happy she blasts off like a rocket.

** Pinkie putting on her exercise clothes is a likely nod to {{Flashdance}}.

* {{Headdesk}}: Twilight Sparkle does this into a book after Pinkie Pie agreed to leave Cranky alone... then insisting on apologizing first.

* GrumpyOldMan: Cranky is an old jack ass that refuses to smile.

* EpicFail: Pinkie Pie put the confetti in the oven and the cake batter in the confetti cannon, [[NoodleIncident and it apparently wasn't the first time.]] Given that this ''is'' Pinkie Pie, it could also be [[ThePlan really weird plan]]...
* ExpressiveEars: The ears in Friendship is Magic have always been somewhat expressive. In the case of Cranky, they're used to illustrate his dismay at missing the girl of his dreams, and becoming increasingly more miserable until Pinkie finding Matilda makes him happy again.

** Manehattan is mentioned again, as is Fillydelphia.

** Rose, was also named in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E9BridleGossip Bridle Gossip]]". This makes her the first background pony to be named in multiple episodes.

* ChekhovsGunman: Matilda, the donkey that appears in the beginning, turns out to be Cranky Doodle's lost love.
* ChekhovsSkill: Pinkie's photographic memory of everypony she meets. She not only knew that it was Cheerilee's birthday and the day following Zecora's, but that Matilda's birthday was in 132 days. Near the end of the episode, Pinkie uses her photographic memory to make the connection between Cranky's album she had accidentally destroyed after seeing ONCE and an identical page that Matilda had in an album of her own.

* CallBack: In the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon first episode]], Pinkie Pie claimed to know ''every pony'' in Ponyville, this episode PROVED it.

** When Cranky accepts her apology, Pinkie rockets into the air, exactly like Scooby does in APupNamedScoobyDoo when he's given Scooby Snacks.

* AbsenteeActor: Out of the mane cast, Spike is completely absent and only Pinkie, Twilight, and Rainbow receive speaking parts.

* EyeRecall: Occurs when Pinkie is remembering her friend-making checklist. It provides the page image.