Feeling Pinkie Keen

Dear Princess Luna...

Oh, yeah, that's what I like! Episode starts with Twilight showing us a mostly new, badass use for magic. Transforming objects into something else.

The string of leaves becomes a tuxedo, the stick becomes a badass walking stick, and the rock becomes a top hat. Spike gets distracted by Pinkie Pie being at large and the magic falls apart, braining him with the rock.

So in theory, Twilight could turn trash into fancy clothing and put Rarity out of business, if she wanted to.

 Twilight and Spike go ask Pinkie Pie what is going on, she explains her tail is twitching which means her Pinkie Sense is activating, meaning objects will start falling soon.

"Look at my tail! Look at it!

Twilight doesn't believe her because there's barely a cloud in the sky, then gets hit in the face by a frog.

"Oh, what the hell!"

It turns out Fluttershy was transporting frogs from a pond to a bog. Twilight is not amused.

"Oh my, sorry Twilight... I was just moving frogs around."

Fluttershy flies off, leaving the frog on Twilight. Pinkie says Twilight has something on her face. Twilight snaps at her.

"There's going to be something on your face, Pinkie, and it's going to be blood!"

Spike was impressed that Pinkie's Pinkie Sense predicted the falling frog. Twilight dismisses it as coincidence. Pinkie runs up with her tail twitching again, Twilight scoffs, saying nothing shall fall, then she falls into a ditch.

Twilight Sparkle looks like she's been hit by a truck, but Spike can't seem to give a ...

Applejack shows up and asks what Twilight is doing in a ditch. Twilight still doesn't believe in Pinkie Sense and mocks it. Applejack gets freaked out.

"Duck and cover!"

Applejack explains that longtime Ponyvillians have learned that, 'If Pinkie's a twitchin', you better listen.' Pinkie runs up with her ears flopping. Pinkie says she'll start a bath for Twilight. Twilight laughs, then a passing cart covers her in mud.

"Of course you know, this means war."

Twilight finally seems to start believing in Pinkie Sense.

"This is so embarrassing."

Pinkie explains some more Pinkie Sense signs, some of the things are really specific. If Pinkie's back itches, it's her lucky day. If her knee gets pinchy, something scary is about to happen. If her shoulder gets achy, there's an alligator in the tub.

"What the HELL, Pinkie!"

This might be the first time Gummy is introduced. Twilight asks why her knee wasn't pinchy, since an alligator in the tub isn't just scary, it's downright dangerous. Pinkie explains its her pet alligator which has no teeth, hence Gummy.

Twilight, the personal magical protege to Princess Celestia, an immortal demi-goddess, says she still doesn't believe in Pinkie Sense, and dismisses it as mumbo jumbo.

"Hey! I just bathed you! Show some respect!"

Pinkie says it's not different from magic. Twilight is upset and literally stands on a soapbox to preach about magic. "Magic is something you study and practice. It only happens when you decide to do it, and it's meant to make something specific that you choose to happen, happen. With you, it makes no sense at all!"

Pinkie defends her Pinkie Sense, saying sometimes a bunch of things happen that predict the future, which she calls combos. Like an ear flop, knee twitch, eye flutter means a rainbow will be in the sky. Twilight scoffs. She then has an ear flop, eye flutter, knee twitch, and Spike exits the library, smashing Twilight with the door.

"Is there a doctor in the house..."

 Twilight is upset, claiming Pinkie had just said that meant a rainbow. Pinkie reiterates the order they occured in, and that that meant 'watch out for opening doors.' Twilight still doesn't believe, and Pinkie says she doesn't believe because she doesn't understand. Twilight gets an idea.

"Hmm, candle equals fire, fire equals pain... Eureka! Pain plus Pinkie equals no more having to listen to her mumbo jumbo!"

Twilight has her own private mad scientist lab, and hooks Pinkie up to a machine.

"Do you expect me to talk?" "Haha, no, Miss Pie. I expect you to die."

Pinkie has been hooked up for less than a minute and hasn't gotten a Pinkie Sense trigger yet. Twilight is raging about it, and gets even more upset when Pinkie says the Pinkie Senses are random.

"I've had you hooked up for 35.6 seconds and no twitches yet?!?!?"

Twilight says she will not believe in anything she can't explain. Pinkie says she's feeling something, but it's just her stomach rumbling, and she asks when they are going to eat. Twilight is pissed, rips out some wires and says she doesn't even care if she can't understand it. As they leave, Pinkie's ear flops, eyes flutter, and knees twitch, and Twilight gets smashed by another door.

"Where's Twilight!?"

Twilight accuses Spike of conspiring with Pinkie and planning that. She then rages, saying she has to figure out what is going on. We are shown a scene of Fluttershy arriving at the bog, then see Twilight starting to stalk Pinkie.

Awesome, Twilight kind of rockin' the Daring Do look.

Spike scares Twilight and she explains that she is scientifically observing Pinkieus Pieicus in its natural habitat. Pinkie's nose itches, and she hides under a big horseshoe plaything (she was at a playground). Twilight scoffs, asking why she is hiding since tail twitch means falling objects. A swarm of bees appears and attacks Twilight.

I wonder if Twilight has an actual Daring Do hat/helmet, since she's a fan of the books.

They see Pinkie sniff a flower, which Twilight says probably just means the flower smells good, then see the signs for an opening door. Spike is scared and hides. Twilight laughs at him, then tempts fate by standng in front of that door behind her. Nothing happens, so she starts walking and a door opens up in the ground and she falls in. Applejack had just built a new apple cellar.

Well, say what you will about Twilight, but she's got moxie. Two broken/injured legs and she's still hunting Pinkie.

Twilight, now in a wheelchair, continues observing. Pinkie has a twitchy tail, Spike freaks out and runs. Twilight continues to not believe, and for her insolence is smashed by a flower pot, an anvil, a art full of haybales, and a piano. They are shown to have fallen from a moving 'van.'

Uh... ouch.

Pinkie and Applejack chat, and Pinkie says she knows Twilight was secretly following her all day. Twilight is pissed. Pinkie gets a shudder and says she doesn't know what it means, but figures it means something unexpected will happen, and knows it will be at the bog Fluttershy is at.

"Oh, Twilight, you're so silly! Why would I spoil the secret?"

Twilight activates Mary Worth mode to try and talk some sense into them, but they've already ran off. Twilight runs after them and says she's just going to see the look on Pinkie's face when nothing is wrong. Really, Twilight? You should be getting the hell away from Pinkie, as you have been getting upset and hurt all day just by being in proximity to her.

"I can't wait to see that smile wiped off her face! Maybe I'll use magic to toss her in the bog, too!"

Something big is shown moving around the bog. As they near, Spike and Pinkie start imagining that Fluttershy exploded, double exploded, etc. until Twilight tells them to knock it off. At the bog, they find Fluttershy is okay. Twilight starts gloating, when whatever is in the bog rises up, filling the air with swamp gas. Her friends are terrified as she continues to gloat, oblivious, Spike finally tells her to look behind her.

"It's time to kick ass and eat ponies!"

It turns out to be a hydra, and it's hungry for ponies. Pinkie is frozen with fear, Twilight has to save her, and they all are running the hell out of there.

"I hate it when they run, gets them all sweaty." "Indeed." "Quite." "Indubitably."

They climb up a hill, hoping to escape. The hydra starts to come up after them. Their only escape is to jump across a series of 'pedestals' made of rock. Aww, Twilight volunteers to distract it so they can all get across. She asks herself, 'What would a brave pony like Rainbow Dash do?' and the answer is apparently, CHARGE!

WWRDD? Oh, she would probably just fly across the gap. She should have asked herself what would Starswirl the Bearded do, which would be: use your magic.

She runs under the hydra and it trips itself as the heads snake under its body. It regains its footing and ends up knocking down those stone pedestal things. Pinkie tells her to jump, Twilight knows she won't make it, Pinkie says she needs to take a leap of faith. Twilight prepares to jump, the hydra breaks off part of the rock she was standing on, she is short of the pedestal, falls on a bubble of swamp gas, it bursts, launches her onto the pedestal, she bounces and slams into the wall next to her friends.

Does Twilight not have her Nightcrawler teleport yet? What the hell.

Twilight has a nice moment with Pinkie, saying she doesn't know how Pinkie knew, but she did know about the 'doozy' aka hydra. Pinkie says that that wasn't what her Pinkie Sense was warning about.

"If I kill you, will this insanity end!"

Twilight is furious, asking how the hell there can be a doozy doozier than a god damn hydra. Pinkie says she doesn't know, but the hydra wasn't it. I've really been having to restrain myself from taking Twilight rage shots this episode, because there are just so many and I don't want to end up with like 100 screenshots for this, but man, this episode is perfect for those. =]

We see Twilight's superpower, she becomes consumed with rage and becomes a fiery terror.

She burns out and says she gives up the fight, and says Pinkie Sense makes sense. She doesn't know how it works or why, but it just does, and just because she doesn't understand it doesn't mean it's not true. Pinkie's body goes berserk then suddenly calm, and Pinkie says that that was the doozy, something she never expected to happen was that Twilight would believe her.

Back at Twilight's home, she and Pinkie are laughing together. Spike enters and Twilight tells him to prepare to write a letter to Princess Celestia. Spike has trouble focusing, because Twilight is wearing an umbrella hat like Pinkie. Twilight explains Pinkie's tail is twitching, "What else can I do?" In her letter, Twilight says she learned that there are wonderful things in the world that you can't explain, but that doesn't always mean they aren't true. You need to choose to believe, and sometimes need a friend to show you the way.

Twilight and Pinkie walk outside, her tail is still twitching. They wonder what is going to fall this time. Spike opens a window and prepares to send the letter, and Princess Celestia falls onto the balcony. She takes the letter into her mouth and flies off without a word. Spike says, "Twitchy tail? Holy guacamole!" and the episode ends.

What I learned from this episode:

• Remember how in Family Appreciation Day, it is revealed that Celestia personally gave the land to the Apples to farm? And remember how we've deduced that she enjoys messing with her subjects for entertainment? Ponyville is flanked by the Everfree Forest, full of evil creatures, a lake with evil squid, and a bog with a damned Hydra. Gee, I wonder why Celestia gave them that land..
• This episode was kind of odd for Twilight's character. On one hand, we see her doing crazy things with magic, espousing the virtues of magic, etc. Then we see she's all about science, even having her own laboratory, and needs to know the scientific basis of things before she believes. And then, she nearly dies to a hydra because she refuses to use magic to escape.
• Being around Pinkie Pie is like a death wish, she detects all these things but they always seem to effect those around her only.
• It almost seems like the 'mane 6' may all have super powers. Twilight: Rage makes her a flaming nightmare. Pinkie: Pinkie Sense and Bugs Bunny powers. Rainbow: Ability to make Sonic Rainbooms. Fluttershy: Talking with animals and the stare. Not sure what Applejack and Rarity have. I guess Applejack's might be her physical prowess and athletic abilities, but that seems pretty mundane comparatively.