Oh my God. There are so many things wrong with this episode, that I can't just make one big comment about it. Instead, I've decide it to break it down into several bite-sized comments (though I can compile them all into one big comment later if need be). Let's get started:

First of all, we're apparently doing the exact same thing we did with ''[[Non-Compete Clause]]''; taking everything good about an episode, throwing it out the window, and making it into a train-wreck. Apparently we needed a rehash of ''[[Horse Play]]'' with everything likable removed, because that's this episode in a nutshell. Though this episode does have one advantage over ''Horse Play''; Twilight doesn't blatantly ignore her friendship lessons like she did there, so at least the writers got something right. The way Twilight and co. told Pinkie that she couldn't play the yovidaphone worth a {{Emote|yay}} could've been better, but at this point I'll take what I can get; "beggars can't be choosers" and all that jazz.

Secondly, this episode was a pain to sit through. Was this supposed to be funny? Because I fail to see the humor in watching Pinkie disrupt her friends' daily lives. What was supposed to be funny about that? Not to mention Pinkie's terrible yovidaphone playing was worse than nails on a chalkboard. I get that her playing was supposed to be terrible and obnoxious, but the writers went WAY too far.

And lastly, biggest issue is Pinkie herself. This one's gonna be a bit longer than the others, because I have a lot to say about this one, and it made me genuinely angry.

Writers, what the actual {{Emote|yay}} did you do to Pinkie Pie? I thought Twilight's recent handling was bad, but that Pinkie is completely intolerable here. I mean, I know Pinkie's characterization has been all over the place since the beginning, but even those waivering and hazardous rails she here goes off. Where do I even begin with this one? Well, I suppose I should start with the fact that Pinkie didn't seem to care that she was upsetting ponies with her terrible playing. I get that she can be oblivious at times, but I refuse to believe that the pony who makes others happy as a hobby couldn't tell that she was making others miserable.

Then there's the issue of how she reacts to being told that her playing is terrible. Instead of trying to get lessons on how to play (probably from Yona, but that's another story), she becomes "Pinkamena" again. Why? [[Party of One|The last time]] she did it because she thought that her friends didn't like her or her parties - her special talent, lest we forget - anymore; she became depressed because she thought she thought her calling in life was pointless and that she lost her friends. Here she becomes depressed because her friends told her that she was terrible at playing an instrument? And people say '''''I''''' overreact, good God. This implies that she cares more about that stupid instrument than anything else. That may not have been the intention, but that's how it comes across.

This coupled with the fact that she doesn't even react when Twilight and co. try to cheer her up makes it seem like she's throwing a tantrum over a stupid instrument that she's had for less than a week. There's being out of character, and then there's this; this is being so far out of character that she occupies a different plane of reality than her character. The Pinkie Pie we've known for 8 seasons now was never this petty. Sure she wasn't the most mature pony around, but she was never this immature before.

And just to further reinforce the idea that she cares more about that stupid instrument than anything else in the world, she moves to Yakyakistan to hear yaks play that stupid thing without even telling her friends or her family (barring Maud, of course). And when her friends come to apologize for their "harsh words," only THEN does she finally cheer up. That's right; she makes half of Ponyville miserable, overreacts when her friends tell her to knock it off, and doesn't act normally again until her friends apologize for telling her to stop bothering them. There are no kind words in the dictionary that would accurately describe how I feel about that.

I'm completely dumbfounded by how badly Pinkie was written here. The writers of this episode should write a book; ''How to Derail 8 Seasons Worth of Character Development in 30 Minutes or Less''. You couldn't derail 8 seasons of character development this badly if you tried and the writers did it in 22 minutes; that is quite the accomplishment. I'm at a loss for words. I didn't think it could get worse than ''[[Non-Compete Clause]]'', but I spoke too soon.

All I can say is this; at least Rainbow wasn't the one to have her entire character derailed in one episode, or I'd be out for blood right about now.

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And don't even get me started on the abysmal moral, because the moral this episode gives is definitely not the moral the writers were trying to teach.