Baby Cakes

Dear Princess Luna..

Episode starts off in the maternity ward of the Ponyville? hospital. Mr. Cake shows them his new children, Pound Cake, a male pegasus, and Pumpkin Cake, a female unicorn. He appears to be an Earth pony, and I think I remember his wife being one too from that Spike birthday episode, so I'm not sure how his kids are unicorn/pegasus. Pinkie uses her Bugs Bunny-esque powers to walk through the wall and tries to start singing a happy birthday song to them. The nurse has to throw her out.

Applejack has the same question, and gets a Dark Helmet-esque response from Mr. Cake about his wife vaguely, maybe, probably, being descended from a pegasus ancestor.

Pinkie can't resist walking through the wall again, and gets shushed, again.

A month has passed, and Pinkie arrives at the Cake's to sing a Happy Monthiversary song from the babies. Pinkie is playing with the babies, their mother seems concerned and asks who needs a diaper change. Mr. Cake volunteers to do it. Ugh. Score more points for unicorns, as I would hope they would use magic for this task and not their mouth like the non-gifted ponies seem to do.

Pinkie seems to be clueless about pretty much anything involving caring for babies. The Cakes suddenly realize they managed to forget about some big catering job they were hired for. They run off to find a foalsitter as Pinkie screams that she wants to do it.

Fluttershy declines because she promised her pet rabbit that she would take it on a picnic.

Twilight is too busy writing a report summarizing all her other reports to Princess Celestia.

Applejack is too busy harvesting apples before a caterpillar swarm devours them all.

Rainbow Dash has tickets to the Wonderbolts airshow and can't do it.

Rarity just completely declines, not because she has anything to do, but because she's Rarity.

All this time, Pinkie has been hounding them and yelling about how she wants to foalsit for them. The Cakes must not be very well-liked since the only people they appear to have tried were the 'Mane 6.' With great reluctance and fear, they ask Pinkie Pie if she will foalsit for them.

They're only a month old, you probably aren't even all that attached to them.

The Cakes seem really hesitant about the whole thing, repeatedly asking Pinkie if she knows about responsibility. They finally leave and Pinkie looks thrilled. The babies immediately burst into tears.

Pinkie tries to quiet them with the games they were playing earlier to no avail. She gets an idea, which turns out to be to set up a night club and perform on 'stage.' Yeah... I wonder why the Cakes were acting so nervous about this whole arrangement..

"I was in such a hurry to get down here to the club, that a fellow stepped out in front of me and I ran over him before I could stop. I looked back and yelled, "Hey you! Look out!" He raised up and yelled, 'Why are you a'comin' back?'"

 Her stand-up comedy fails. Her dernier cri, a musical performance about a pig wiggling it's snout, tail, and rump, likewise fails.

Oink, oink, oink!

She finally trips and a bag of flour falls and bursts onto her. This gets the babies to laugh. She goes back to the massive list of responsibilities she was left with.

Snack time fails, as Pumpkin eats the tablecloth instead, and Pound smashes his bowl into the air, which lands on his head. Both babies erupt into tears and another bag of flour is sacrificed to quiet them.

Better hope the Cakes have a ton of sacks of flour to make it through the rest of the day, and that you aren't going to destroy their business by wasting it like this..

Bath time also fails, as the babies run amok. Pinkie finally gets them in tub, and they start crying. She tries to dazzle them with bubbles. It works for a bit, then fails as one pops on Pumpkin's horn and they both start crying. Pinkie puts a rubber ducky into the tub and the crying stops. In Pinkie Pie fashion, she then starts filling the tub with all manner of floating objects.

Remember, there were babies in that tub. Pinkie will probably get the chair for this.

The babies are not pleased with this, and throw all the items out of the tub. Pound then destroys the faucet, the water pressure sends Pinkie flying through a door.

"You'll have to do better than that if you want to kill me!"

Another sack of flour is sacrificed to these demon babies to silence their hell screams.

While trying to change their diapers, as usual all hell breaks loose, Pinkie manages to not only properly apply one to herself, but to put it on her head as well.

How did this even happen? Did the babies do this, or Pinkie somehow did it herself?

Twilight arrives to help, and Pinkie immediately complains that the babies don't listen to reason and have bad taste in stand up comedy.Twilight makes some vaguely condescending remarks about babies taking a lot of responsibility and Pinkie flips and throws her out.

"Pinkie Pie dies at midnight."

Pinkie returns to her duties and implements nap time, quickly reigning in the chaos. Her stricter approach seems to have worked as the babies are in their crib and asleep.

As soon as she leaves the room, things go to hell again. Both have escaped the crib. Pumpkin possibly teleported into the closet to resume 'eating' a rubber chicken.

For some reason the atmosphere of the Cake's house goes super creepy, as the laughter of the babies echoes off the walls.

"Umm, think Pinkie, think! Where's the nearest sack of flour?"

Pound is not only able to fly, but able to walk on the ceiling as well. Pinkie drops him as her jaw goes wide at seeing Pumpkin use magic to bring their toys to her.

Somehow, the little baby Pound is able to not only fly around himself, but is able to drag Pinkie around too. He immediately drags her to the stairs.

The pain must be excruciating.

He then drags her across the counter, destroying a bunch of his parent's goods. Back and forth in the kitchen's swinging doors a few times, then he drags her up the stairs.

Uh, ouch.

Her tail catches on their bedroom door and she slams backwards into it. Pound flies over the crib and - holy spades. Use for magic: flight.

Unicorns. Nuff said.

Pinkie tries to trap them in a 'cage'. Man, Unicorns/magic prevail once again as Pumpkin just makes a magical portal to walk through the cage 'wall.'

Awesome.

Pound uses his wings and super strength to just lift up the cage, despite it being strapped to the floor. All hell breaks loose, again, as Pound flies around, Pumpkin uses magic to break the lock and chains Pinkie had wrapped the toy chest in.

Unicorns are probably stereotyped as the 'thieves' of the Ponyverse since they like gems so much and can use magic for breaking and entering.

Pinkie bursts into tears at her failure to control month-old babies, and Pound and Pumpkin seem to realize their actions have some consequence.

Realizing that they were probably being jerks, especially Pound who was trying to kill her, Pumpkin uses her magic to dump a sack of flour onto themselves.

The babies finally go to sleep, and Pinkie cleans up the house. She writes to Princess Celestia that being a caregiver takes more responsibility than just a playmate, and that just because you want responsibility doesn't mean you're ready to handle it. The Cakes return and are surprised that Pinkie was so responsible. They offer Pinkie to be their foalsitter on a permanent basis, and she immediately declines. Pound says 'Pinkie' and Pumpkin says 'Pie' and she has a change of heart.

What I learned from this episode:

• Pinkie, despite having her own reality warping abilities, gets outclassed by babies.
• Unicorns prove once more just how awesome magic is.