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Pinkie Pride (February 1st 2014, 22 minutes)

Summary: A stranger blows into town, and Pinkie Pie's position as premier party pony is put into peril!

Ah, Appleloosa. Complete with the buffalo, which is good.

Cheese Sandwich, done up as Clint Eastwood's portrayal of the 'Man With No Name' (a stock western character) in the Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the most famous The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly). Like a lot of westerns, this trilogy is adapted from a Jidaigeki, a Japanese period drama, by the name of Yojimbo.

Pinkie apparently keeps several businesses afloat, as some of these vendors likely only get a little traffic outside of Pinkie. Mind you, I'm not seeing any bits changing hands... likely Pinkie has credit accounts with these ponies given the amount of buying she must do.

Also interesting that the vendors tend to dress in 1920's outfits just like Flim and Flam did. Specifically boater's straw hats and jackets.

You know, I wonder if Weird Al picked his character's name? Because it somehow sounds like a regular pony name, and yet not at the exact same time.

But... wouldn't her birthday *always* be on the same day she moved to Ponyville then? Unless pony calendars work is a really strange .... actually, that makes sense that they might have a far more complex calendar system than what we're used to, given they are in effective control of the seasons and day/night cycles. As such, birthdays may be on a different cycle as that's driven by physiology, where other celebrations may be on the manually determined calendar of seasons.

In the operating theatre, the lights are all firefly-driven, not the electric lights we know exist.

Are they still trying to build that highrise? That's the same building that kept getting busted apart in the Mare-do-Well episode.

Pinkie's room is round, matching the cupcake on top of Sugarcube Corners.

And here we have the shocker. There seem to be four Pie sisters. This picture shows a filly that seems slightly older than the other three that did not appear in the Cutie Mark Chronicles episode. This matches the Pinkie Pie novel 'Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party'. There's a good chance this is the 'Maud Pie' that is mentioned as a future episode title.

I just noticed, the clocks aren't ticked the same way our clocks are. There should be 12 ticks all the way around a clock face, but these only have eight. And with some spot checking, that seems to be normal in the pony world. And each tick is for 10 minutes. So they have 80 minutes in an hour, rather than our 60. Yet, 3 of the clock has the hour hand still showing at the quarter mark. So there isn't a tick for 1 or 2 o'clock? That's odd. We'll have to write this one off as artistic license. As a note, our dividing an hour up into 60 minutes goes *way* back, to the Sumerians of 2,000 B.C. at least. Measuring time by divisions based on multiple of 12 may be due originally to the lunar cycles, but nobody knows for sure because the practice started far before translatable documentation.

Again with the argyle socks, but with the argyle pattern like a symbol instead of a complete patter over the entire sock.

And they know about elephants, given Cheese Sandwich's slippers.

The animators seem to have reached the 'Give no Bucks' stage, live action and puppetry? What?

Party Howitzer! I want one.

And Pinkie speaks Spanish. Why does that not surprise me? What she's singing is a traditional song for the piñata game.

Why is the bread gray? They've done that several times in the past in that they actually *expect* certain baked goods to be gray. Is it supposed to represent dark breads, but dark brown didn't work?

Why does Rarity have wings....? You'd think the file containing the Rarity puppet wouldn't have the wing models anymore just to prevent this kind of mistake.

And the next rainbow trigger item. These are coming rather fast and furious now. At this rate each of the Mane 6 is going to have one long before the season finale.