Okay, this should catch me up from the Episode Watching blog point-of-view. I'll likely reset the dates on the last two entries once the next one comes out to keep to the 'one-a-day' promise I made myself. Again, it wasn't due to the forum issues that I fell behind, I just had other priorities come along so I hadn't put enough buffer in place for the holidays. The forum troubles just came along coincidentally when my buffer ran out.

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Baby Cakes (January 14th 2011, 22 minutes)

Summary: Pinkie learns to be responsible for others.

Okay, it's pretty obvious that pony 'genetics' doesn't work the same way as ours. The reactions show that having a single birth of multiple different tribe foals is very rare, but obviously it happens. And foals are not guaranteed to be of the same tribe as the parents. Mr. Cake's rather bizarre relationship listing is probably more due to new father stress than an actual genealogy chart.

Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Rarity point out that newborn ponies have uncontrollable magic surges that trigger their innate abilities (pegasi and flying, unicorns with telekinesis, so on and so forth). It is implied that these surges will die off reasonably quickly.

Okay, so a month has passed. Which means these surges last at least this long.

Why even try asking Rainbow Dash? That confuses me.

Frosting the cake when you get there is actually a good idea. They're obviously not using fondant, which is a much tougher decorative coating than 'frosting', but requires special tools and surfaces to work with. It's really popular for a cake coating at the moment (fondant, that is), because it travels better and you can get a much smoother surface, but personally I think it tastes like cardboard.

My reaction to this piggy thing is much like the babies'. What the heck am I watching?

I've watched new parents go through this exact same process with the bath and whatnot.

Razzleberry is raspberries and blackberries mixed together, just in case you didn't know.

Okay, self-levitation is one of those 'dangerous' tricks for magic to be able to do... Okay, walking through walls is even more so from a setting point of view, as both tend to invalidate other characters' abilities unless handled very delicately by the writers. This pretty much has to be covered by the newborn magic surge explanation, or it going to be difficult for continuity to deal with these abilities.