Pinkie Pie (G4)

Pinkie Pie, full name Pinkamena Diane Pie,[note 2] is a female Earth pony and one of the main characters of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. She is an energetic and sociable baker at Sugarcube Corner, where she lives on the second floor with her toothless pet alligator Gummy, and she represents the element of laughter. Pinkie writes and performs many songs, and she is the source of many of the show's comical and cartoonish gags. She is called Ponka Po in some merchandise. 
== Contents ==
* 1Development
* 2Depiction in the series
** 2.1Exuberance
** 2.2Cartoonish behavior
** 2.3Love of parties
*** 2.3.1Party cannon
** 2.4Insecurity
** 2.5Skills
*** 2.5.1Musical abilities
*** 2.5.2Baking
*** 2.5.3Pinkie Sense
*** 2.5.4Skating
*** 2.5.5Memory
** 2.6History
** 2.7Pinkie Promise
** 2.8Gummy
* 3Depiction in Equestria Girls
** 3.1My Little Pony Equestria Girls
** 3.2Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks
** 3.3Equestria Girls: Friendship Games
** 3.4Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship
** 3.5Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown
* 4Depiction in My Little Pony The Movie
* 5Depiction in My Little Pony: A New Generation
* 6Depiction in comics
* 7Other depictions
** 7.1Hasbro.com description
** 7.2Hasbro.com "Meet Pinkie Pie" clip
** 7.3HubNetwork.com description
** 7.4Teacher for a Day description
** 7.5My Little Pony (mobile game) descriptions
** 7.6My Little Pony magazine description
** 7.7The Elements of Harmony guidebook
*** 7.7.1Volume II guidebook
** 7.8The Art of My Little Pony The Movie description
** 7.9My Little Pony Essential Handbook
* 8Appearances
* 9Merchandise, commercials, and cameos
* 10Quotes
* 11Gallery
* 12See also
* 13Notes
* 14References
== Development ==
Lauren Faust was inspired to create Pinkie Pie by her childhood toy G1 Pegasus pony, Surprise.[4] The previous Pinkie Pie is a G3 pony whose coat is pink, with a lighter shade of pink for her mane and tail, and her cutie mark is three balloons with curved strings. Faust had published concept art of the G1 pony Surprise which was developed into the current Pinkie Pie. Originally, Faust wanted to name her Surprise but the trademark to the name was lost. To pay homage to the pony she was based off of, her first line of dialogue (aside from the large gasp) is "SURPRISE!" Hasbro published a recolor of the image in their "Style Guide for Pinkie Pie", complete with Pegasus wings. Pinkie Pie ultimately remained wingless, (with an exception in The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2,) and her wings were given to Fluttershy,[5][6] who was based on an Earth pony called Posey. Merchandise eventually gave the name Surprise to a member of the Wonderbolts. She shares some personality traits with the G1 pony named Clover.
According to Lauren Faust, she "used to have a 'power' of sorts when she ate too much candy", which she called a "Sugar Rush".[7] She'd plow through doors in a fit of speed, which would cause the Cakes to have to replace their front door on a weekly basis.[8]
Pinkie's mane and tail "poofing up" when she's happy and going flat when she's sad was conceived by Jim Miller for The Cutie Mark Chronicles and repeated in future episodes by James Wootton.[9]
Faust said that when the show was being developed, she encouraged the crew to keep the "wacky gags" exclusive to Pinkie.[10] The Season 1 DVD commentary for Winter Wrap Up says that Faust had dictated that "only Pinkie Pie could do certain crazy gags and other characters wouldn't do it."
According to Discovery Family (previously the Hub Network)'s Twitter account and Facebook page, Pinkie Pie's birthday is May 3.[11][12] In the year 2012, this day was seventy-five days after February 18, the premiere date of A Friend in Deed, an episode in which Pinkie says that her birthday is not for another seventy-five days.
When asked on Twitter if Pinkie and Marble are twins, Hearthbreakers writer Nick Confalone replied "it comes down to your definition of twins for non-humans"[13] and "Marble/Pinkie not identical twins, if they were I'd call them twins."[14] Characters who have been referred to as twins include Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake, Flim and Flam, Cheerilee and Cherry Blossom, Tofu and Tempeh, Antonio and Francesco, and the Spa ponies.
Regarding The Saddle Row Review, Jim Miller was asked "Are we gonna see more of THAT one Pinkie Pie from today's episode?" and replied "No plans. It was a gag."[15]
== Depiction in the series ==
=== Exuberance ===
: "Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of... laughter!"
: — Twilight Sparkle, Friendship is Magic, part 2
Pinkie is hyperactive, excitable, quirky, and outgoing, often speaking and acting in non sequiturs. She warmly welcomes new faces such as Twilight Sparkle and Cranky Doodle Donkey. True to the element of laughter she represents, she loves to make ponies smile and laugh.
Pinkie tends to have a lighthearted manner in serious situations, such as stopping to drink chocolate milk raining from a cotton candy cloud when the main characters confront Discord in The Return of Harmony Part 2. As a result, she is often not taken seriously even by her closest friends, who occasionally call her out on her seemingly illogical behavior.
In The Return of Harmony Part 1, Discord hypnotizes Pinkie with his chaotic magic. In this state, Pinkie is an irritable grump who hates laughter and happiness and has a general dislike of many things. When she's returned to normal in the following episode, she laughs and says, "I-I turned gray! Can you believe it?!"
=== Cartoonish behavior ===
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: See also: Gallery of Pinkie being cartoonish
Pinkie frequently performs cartoonish feats, such as eye-bulging, wild takes, and unusually angled cuts into the frame. Her merry skips resemble Pepé Le Pew's, particularly in Griffon the Brush Off. Her costume and waddle in Dragonshy are reminiscent of Daffy Duck's four-legged body in Duck Amuck.
On several occasions, Pinkie breaks the fourth wall and shows awareness of cinematic elements. For example, at the end of Over a Barrel, she pokes her head through the iris wipe to grumble about Twilight's friendship lesson, and in Magic Duel, she stretches the iris wipe wide open and climbs into the black screen to protest about her vanished mouth, and in Make New Friends but Keep Discord, she gets so excited about Discord buying all the cakes in the bakery, she shakes the camera. In The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, after Pinkie claims that keeping Cadance and Shining Armor's secret was a "piece of cake", when the screen irises in on her, she shakes her head at the viewers, indicating the contrary.
=== Love of parties ===
Pinkie Pie is first introduced as a talented and avid party-thrower. She throws a party for Twilight Sparkle in Friendship is Magic, part 1, a welcome party for Gilda in Griffon the Brush Off, and a birthday party for Gummy in Party of One (and even an "after-birthday party" the following day). Pinkie is even shown to throw parties on completely random occasions, such as a "finish ringing the school bell" party in Castle Mane-ia.
In The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Pinkie says she got her cutie mark when she was inspired to throw her first party for her dour family. In Party Pooped, Pinkie is revealed to have a secret party planning cave in the Sugarcube Corner basement.
==== Party cannon ====
: Main article: Party cannon
In Sweet and Elite, Pinkie organizes a birthday party for Twilight on very short notice, putting up decorations in very little time with her "party cannon." The cannon would become a running gag throughout the show, up to the point where Pinkie even uses it to fight off the changelings in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2. The cannon is used again and alluded to in multiple episodes and other media, and a giant cannon appears in My Little Pony The Movie.
=== Insecurity ===
On occasion, Pinkie Pie shows an insecure side of her personality, doubting her friends or herself. In Party of One, she believes her friends to be unfaithful, causing her hair to "deflate" and her coat color to fade to a grayish pink. She slowly goes insane as she adopts several inanimate objects as new friends, pretending that they are real.
Pinkie Pie tries to prove that she is responsible in Baby Cakes by begging Mr. and Mrs. Cake to let her babysit Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake. When the Cakes eventually agree, Pinkie Pie quickly becomes overwhelmed by the task and shows doubt in her ability to handle the responsibility.
In A Friend in Deed, Pinkie Pie tries to befriend Cranky Doodle Donkey, despite his many rejections. She only succeeds in making a friend out of him by reuniting him with Matilda.
In Too Many Pinkie Pies, Pinkie Pie creates duplicates of herself in order to make time for her friends. However, when Ponyville becomes overrun by dozens of Pinkie Pies, Pinkie Pie soon wonders if she's even the real Pinkie Pie.
In Wonderbolts Academy, Pinkie Pie worries that Rainbow will eventually forget about her and the rest of their friends when Rainbow becomes a Wonderbolt.
In Pinkie Pride, Pinkie Pie feels outdone and replaced by Cheese Sandwich and doubts in her own partying abilities. She gives up party planning and tries other tasks but fails at them. Her faith in herself is only renewed when she looks back on parties she had thrown for her friends, including Twilight's welcome party and the wedding reception for Shining Armor and Princess Cadance.
=== Skills ===
==== Musical abilities ====
: See also all songs in the series
Pinkie frequently performs songs and plays a variety of musical instruments in the series. She plays a one-pony band in Swarm of the Century and Magic Duel, as well as the pipe organ in Castle Mane-ia despite having no prior knowledge of having played said instrument. During an afternoon in Party Pooped, she plays drums—mostly matching those of her human counterpart earlier in Rainbow Rocks—in a traveling band with "Liam T. Walrus", "Paul McCartneigh", and "George Horrsen".
However, in The Crystal Empire - Part 1 and Yakity-Sax, Pinkie proves to be inept at playing both a crystal flugelhorn and the Yakyakistan instrument, the yovidaphone. In Honest Apple, she expresses an interest in learning to play the guitar.
On My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #20 page 18, Pinkie and Spike play horns to a Winter Wrap Up line.
ExpandList of songs that Pinkie leads
==== Baking ====
Pinkie works at Sugarcube Corner, a confectionery run by Mr. and Mrs. Cake. She teaches Apple Bloom how to make cupcakes in Call of the Cutie and sometimes comes up with her own outlandish recipes, such as cupcakes topped with hot sauce in Friendship is Magic, part 1 and a "chimicherrychanga" in The Last Roundup.
==== Pinkie Sense ====
In Feeling Pinkie Keen, Pinkie reveals her ability to predict events in the near future by interpreting various twitches and involuntary motions, which she calls her "Pinkie Sense." The citizens of Ponyville pay heed to Pinkie's predictions, according to Applejack. Twilight is skeptical of the Pinkie Sense at first, since she fails to find a scientific explanation for it, but she eventually accepts it.
In The Mysterious Mare Do Well, Pinkie saves a team of construction workers from a collapsing building as part of the "Mare Do Well" plan. After Pinkie mentions her Pinkie Sense, her tail twitches, and she pushes Rainbow Dash out of the way of a falling pot. In It's About Time, Pinkie says she can only predict immediate events and not the actual future. Her tail twitches and a flowerpot falls on Twilight's head. In Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1, her tail twitches before a plunderseed vine knocks into Rarity.
In The Gift of the Maud Pie, Maud Pie claims to have a similar ability called "Maud Sense", and in Pinkie Pride, Cheese Sandwich displays a "Cheesy Sense".
ExpandSigns that Pinkie describes in Feeling Pinkie Keen
==== Skating ====
Twilight admires Pinkie's ice-skating skills in Winter Wrap Up. Pinkie states she's been skating since she "was an itty-bitty little-wittle Twinkie-Pinkie." Later, in Power Ponies, she skates around on scrubbing brushes. Later still, in The Gift of the Maud Pie, she ice-skates again.
==== Memory ====
In various episodes, Pinkie Pie has an exceptional memory. In Friendship is Magic, part 1, Pinkie says she knows "everypony in Ponyville." In A Friend in Deed, she wishes Cheerilee a happy birthday, Zecora a happy day-after-her-birthday, and Matilda a happy-birthday-in-one-hundred-and-thirty-two-days.
=== History ===
: See also: Pie family
Pinkie Pie tells the Cutie Mark Crusaders in The Cutie Mark Chronicles that she was raised on a rock farm with her sisters Limestone Pie and Marble Pie and her father and mother Igneous Rock Pie and Cloudy Quartz; the episodes Pinkie Pride and Maud Pie reveal a third sister, first mentioned in the chapter book Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party!, and the episode Hearthbreakers features the family. Her family's coats and manes are Earth-colored, muted browns and grays, and they all wear somber expressions until Pinkie Pie discovers her special talent.
When Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom clears the clouds and paints a rainbow across the sky, the shock wave frizzles Pinkie Pie's hair and gives it its distinctive curl. The sonic rainboom that she witnesses makes her smile, and she then decides to dedicate her life to spreading joy to other ponies. She invites her family to their first party ever, and they all shakily develop smiles, eventually merrily participating in Pinkie's party. Pinkie then earns her cutie mark.
Sometime after gaining her cutie mark, filly Pinkie throws a large party in Ponyville; present at this party are Berryshine, filly Cheerilee, colt Cheese Sandwich, "Cinnamon Swirl", filly Cloud Chaser, Cloud Kicker, filly Derpy, Diamond Mint, "Drizzle", filly Flitter, Green Jewel, Lemon Hearts, filly Lyra Heartstrings, Meadow Song, Merry May, filly Minuette, "Mjölna", Orange Swirl, Parasol, Rainbowshine, Sassaflash, "Serena", Shoeshine, Silver Spanner, Sprinkle Medley, Sunshower Raindrops, filly Sweetie Drops, "Tropical Spring", Twinkleshine, "Welly", and S02E18 Unnamed Pegasus Mare #3. Cheese Sandwich, visiting from Manehattan, is inspired by the party to become a party planner.
The plot of Pinkie Apple Pie involves Pinkie investigating the possibility that she may be related to the Apple family, although in the end the truth is left ambiguous.
In the series finale The Last Problem, Pinkie Pie marries Cheese Sandwich and has a son named Li'l Cheese in the future.
=== Pinkie Promise ===
Pinkie Pie has her own kind of promise, a variation of "cross my heart, hope to die, stick a needle in my eye." Her version is "cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Twilight recites this promise in Green Isn't Your Color, Applejack in The Last Roundup, and the whole main cast (except Twilight) in Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1. Pinkie makes a Pinkie Party Promise to Rainbow Dash by literally sticking a cupcake in her eye in Pinkie Pride. Pinkie takes these promises very seriously, stalking Twilight throughout Green Isn't Your Color to make sure she doesn't break one and angrily pursuing Applejack in The Last Roundup when she believes she has broken one. Also in The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows, Pinkie Pie, in her own words, gets "liberal" with her own Pinkie Promises, having a long list of them to fulfill.
=== Gummy ===
Gummy is Pinkie Pie's toothless one-year-old pet alligator who is introduced in Feeling Pinkie Keen. Pinkie Pie confides in Gummy many times about her feelings in Party of One, and she celebrates her birthday one day after Gummy's in the same episode. She outright screams to Gummy how much she loves him in Just for Sidekicks and kisses him in The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone and Party Pooped.
== Depiction in Equestria Girls ==
: Main article: Pinkie Pie (EG)
=== My Little Pony Equestria Girls ===
In My Little Pony Equestria Girls, Pinkie Pie accompanies Twilight to her first princess summit in the Crystal Empire, and she witnesses Sunset Shimmer steal Twilight's crown. In an alternate world, Pinkie's human counterpart appears as a high school student. At the end of the film, she accurately guesses the details of Twilight's relationship with Flash Sentry on "a hunch."
=== Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks ===
Pinkie briefly appears in the sequel My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks at Twilight's castle, where she hears the legend of the sirens. Through Pinkie's musings, Twilight gets the idea to transfer the magic of Princess Celestia's book into the Crystal Mirror.
=== Equestria Girls: Friendship Games ===
At the end of the gag reel for the film, Pinkie comes out of the portal and trades places with human Pinkie Pie.
=== Equestria Girls: Forgotten Friendship ===
In Forgotten Friendship, Pinkie Pie is depicted in stained glass at Canterlot Castle.
=== Equestria Girls: Spring Breakdown ===
In Spring Breakdown, Pinkie Pie makes a brief appearance bringing treats to the Castle of Friendship for Sunset Shimmer and humans-turned-ponies Sci-Twi and Rainbow Dash.
== Depiction in My Little Pony The Movie ==
In My Little Pony The Movie, Pinkie Pie is in charge of cake baking for the Festival of Friendship in Canterlot. When the city is invaded by the Storm King's forces, led by Tempest Shadow, Pinkie and her friends escape to seek out the "Queen of the Hippos"—later specified to be Queen Novo of the Hippogriffs—for help. During their journey, they are nearly sold into slavery by Capper and thrown overboard Captain Celaeno's airship. In the underwater kingdom of Seaquestria, Pinkie befriends Princess Skystar and leads her friends' effort to convince Novo to help them save their home from the Storm King, but Twilight's attempted theft of Novo's Pearl of Transformation gets them banished from Seaquestria.
Pinkie and her friends have a falling-out with Twilight over her actions, but they—along with other friends they made during their journey—return to Canterlot to rescue her when she gets captured by Tempest. After sneaking into the city and fighting past the Storm King's forces during which she defeats a Storm Guard by throwing cupcakes at him, the Mane Six reunite and make amends, and they eventually succeed in defeating the Storm King. In the end, the Friendship Festival resumes, and Pinkie and her friends befriend Tempest.
== Depiction in My Little Pony: A New Generation ==
Pinkie Pie appears at the beginning of A New Generation as part of an imagination sequence with Sunny Starscout's figurines.
== Depiction in comics ==
An alternate universe version of Pinkie Pie appears in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #20 Reflections mini-comic "Elsewhere in alternate Equestria..." In Ponies of Dark Water, the influence of a magical hot spring causes Pinkie Pie to become a maniacal clown. In Wings Over Yakyakistan, Pinkie Pie's appointment as an honorary yak inadvertently angers the dragons under Ember.
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #57, Pinkie Pie inadvertently falls into Discord's realm and is affected by its magic, briefly transforming into an Alicorn and seeking to rule over the chaotic dimension. In Issue #59, following the events of Secrets and Pies, Pinkie tries desperately to find a pie flavor that Rainbow actually likes, hounding her for days while doing so, but she eventually accepts that Rainbow will never like pies. In Issue #63, Pinkie is briefly convinced by Temperance Flowerdew that sugar is "evil" and joins Temperance's anti-sugar crusade.
In Issue #69, Pinkie eats a magic golden apple that allows her to grant her every wish, but her attempts to use this new power to make things better for Ponyville only result in chaos. In Issue #80, Pinkie serves as the game master for the Mane Six's LARP game. In Issue #86, Pinkie is asked by Marble to help plan a party she is throwing to try to make some new friends.
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #89, the start of the comics' "Season 10", Pinkie Pie forms a team with Fluttershy, Trixie, Discord, and Capper on a mission to Capper's homeland of Abyssinia.
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Issue #94, Pinkie works together with Cheese Sandwich to plan the Festival of the Two Sisters, with Pinkie struggling to admit her romantic feelings for Cheese. Her dilemma is hampered further when Muffletta Moss causes all sound in Canterlot to disappear. In Issue #95, Pinkie and her friends help the ponies of Canterlot deal with the silence, and she discovers the moss's effects are cancelled out by laughter. Pinkie and Cheese put on a comedy show that restores the city's sound.
In the Issue #96-97 story arc, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Trixie, Discord, and Capper arrive in Panthera, where they are soon arrested and thrown in prison by the magic-hating King Meowmeow. Capper's old friends, who are leading a resistance movement against Meowmeow, break them out of prison, and Pinkie takes a liking to the kitten Molly. Over the course of the story, they discover a Tree of Harmony underneath Panthera and foil King Meowmeow's efforts to destroy it. When Capper and his friends gain the power of the Abyssinian Elements of Harmony, Pinkie is pleased to see Molly is their element of laughter.
In Issue #99, Pinkie struggles with accepting the fact that Marble will be attending a university far from Ponyville. With guidance from Applejack and help from Cheese Sandwich, Pinkie makes peace with Marble's departure, and throws her a going-away party.
In Issue #101, Pinkie aids in preparing Canterlot for an attack from the Knights of Order. In Issue #102, she participates in incapacitating Princess Ceridwen.
In My Little Pony: Legends of Magic Issue #5, Pinkie Pie learns of a second adventure of Somnambula's from Sunburst and reads the account to him.
In My Little Pony: Generations Issue #1, Pinkie and her friends struggle with an influx of new students at the School of Friendship and hire Violet Shiver, Black Belle, and Shadow Storm. In Issue #3, Pinkie plans a party to resolve the recent strife in Ponyville caused by the new teachers, and she, Twilight, and Zecora trace their hate-inducing magic to its source. In Issue #4, Pinkie travels with her friends to another world and recruit the ponies of Dream Valley. In Issue #5, she takes part in the final battle against the Smooze.
Pinkie Pie appears on the My Little Pony (2022 comics) Issue #1 cover RI. In Issue #2, she appears in flashback form, with Discord revealing that she and her friends created the Unity Crystals in order to ensure peace in Equestria.
== Other depictions ==
Pinkie Pie is featured in several commercials.
=== Hasbro.com description ===
To say that Pinkie Pie marches to the beat of her own drum is certainly an understatement! Giggly, playful and brimming over with energy, it's not unusual to find this pink pony prancing and skipping joyfully through the streets looking for fun, doing cartwheels, singing a song in a silly voice and making up her own ridiculous lyrics. By far the silliest pony around, nothing makes her happier than evoking a giggle and a smile from her friends. She is the freest of free spirits, always acting on her whims, following her heart, talking your ear off and getting a laugh or two along the way.[16]
=== Hasbro.com "Meet Pinkie Pie" clip ===
Pinkie Pie keeps her pony friends laughing and smiling all day! Eager to amuse her friends and make everyone happy, Pinkie Pie will find any excuse to throw a party! More than one pony in Ponyville has been the unsuspecting victim of a sneak-attack surprise party! To Pinkie Pie, everyday with her friends is worth celebrating![17]
=== HubNetwork.com description ===
Pinkie Pie is a free spirit who prances to the beat of her own drum. Actually, she prances to the sound of her own singing. She's playful and full of energy. She can talk till the ponies come home. She loves to invent silly songs, giggle, skip, and make her friends laugh.
=== Teacher for a Day description ===
Pinkie Pie keeps her pony friends laughing and smiling all day! She believes every day is worth celebrating, and loves to throw parties with her pony friends. The only thing Pinkie Pie loves as much as her friends and parties are sweets. She loves to visit the Sugarcube sweet shop. She is always positive, and always helps the ponies see the bright side. You can count on Pinkie Pie for lots and lots of fun.[18]
=== My Little Pony (mobile game) descriptions ===
Pinkie Pie:
Pinkie Pie represents the Element of Laughter and loves to make everybody happy, throw parties, eat sweets and talk and talk and talk!
Anti-Sugar Pinkie Pie:
For additional pictures of this pony, consider looking up 'oxymoron' in the dictionary.
Apple Pinkie Pie:
This is DEFINITELY not Pinkie Pie enchanted into talking apple form. Nope. No, sir. Nobody here but us pippins.
Breezie Pinkie Pie:
A rare, ultra-condensed form of Original Recipe Pinkie Pie. Best used sparingly!
Changeling Pinkie Pie:
Parties are so much more fun when you can just shapeshift into the cannon from the get-go.
Changelingverse Pinkie Pie:
When the Changelings invaded, alt-historical Pinkie Pie's knowledge of rocks was invaluable in figuring out which spearheads would be the pointiest.
Chaos Princess Pinkie Pie:
On balance, she's only about 20% more chaotic than Pinkie Pie usually is -- which really says something about Pinkie Pie, now that we think about it.
Dark Changeling Pinkie Pie:
The only laughing SHE does is the EVIL kind! MUAHAHAHAAA!
Drinkie Pie:
Pinkie Pie already likes disguises, eating dessert, and hanging upside-down--so becoming a Vampire Pony was sort of a lateral move.
Future Pinkie Pie:
It isn't ours to speculate on Pinkie Pie's future, but we suspect that it's DANGEROUSLY cheesy.
Jokester Pinkie:
See this? This is Pinkie Pie without a filter. That very fact should be terrifying.
Kirin Pinkie Pie:
Quiet? What is this... "quiet" of which you speak?
Nightmare Pinkie Pie:
...Actually, Pinkie never even came CLOSE to surrendering to her nightmares, in this or any other timeline. Maybe this is just her playing dress-up!
Nirik Pinkie Pie
Moonlights as a boundary-busting insult comic on the Kirin stand-up circuit.
Pirate Pinkie Pie:
Does her Pirate Party Cannon shoot Party Cannonballs now? She's SUPER excited to find out!
Retro Pinkie Pie:
This pony knows -- if you want a wicked magical party, you just have to get out there! And DANCE!!!
Sombraverse Pinkie Pie:
This alternate-universe Pinkie Pie has no times for parties...unless they're RAIDING PARTIES AGAINST THE TYRANNICAL KING SOMBRA. (Those are among the worst kinds of parties.)
Western Pinkie Pie:
What she wears when she wants to singlehoofedly bring vaudeville back.
Young Pinkie Pie:
Just as full of laughter--but not as full of life experience.
=== My Little Pony magazine description ===
* Giggly
* Fun
* Chatterbox
What a ball of energy! Pinkie Pie is super girly and loves to make everybody happy, throw parties, eat sweets and talk and talk and talk!
=== The Elements of Harmony guidebook ===
Giggly, playful, and super girly, it's not unusual to find PINKIE PIE prancing and skipping blissfully through the streets of Ponyville. The silliest pony around, Pinkie Pie has a desire to entertain that makes her the most likely source for humor. She is a free spirit, often acting on her whims and following her heart. You would never guess she grew up on a dreary rock farm. Eager to amuse her friends and make everyone happy, Pinkie Pie will find any excuse to throw a party. She loves eating sweets and baking them so much that she is often found at the Sweet Shoppe in Sugarcube Corner, where she works, and lives in the apartment upstairs.
==== Volume II guidebook ====
Need a power-packed dose of peppy positivity? Pinkie Pie has everypony covered! Her giggle is infectious and so is her unstoppable spirit. Anypony who hangs around her long enough is bound to get caught up in her infectious spirit. When she's not slinging sugar at Sugarcube Corner, she's planning parties for all her besties. Who doesn't love parties? Pinkie is also an excellent talker with the gift of gab. Speaking of gifts, she loves to give them! What else is she supposed to do with that big heart? Pinkie loves having friends but is extra thankful to be included in such a wonderful group of inspiring young ponies. Hooray for friendship!
=== The Art of My Little Pony The Movie description ===
Bubbly, spirited, and a total chatterbox, it's not unusual to find PINKIE PIE bouncing through the streets of Ponyville. Pinkie Pie is a party planner extraordinaire who can cram a lifetime of fun into the blink of an eye. As the silliest Pony around, she brings laughter and levity to even the most serious situations, and her non-stop comedy will provide some much-needed laughter as she and her friends face their biggest challenge yet.
Pinkie Pie represents the Element of Laughter!
=== My Little Pony Essential Handbook ===
Pinkie Pie is the most energetic and fun pony EVER! She loves nothing more than baking cakes and throwing parties for her many friends. Though she may seem goofy, Pinkie Pie has a big heart and cares about everycreature she meets.
== Appearances ==
: See also: Character appearances
:Pinkie appears in all episodes except Look Before You Sleep, Stare Master and The Show Stoppers in Season 1. Sisterhooves Social, Family Appreciation Day, Hearts and Hooves Day and Hurricane Fluttershy in Season 2. Sleepless in Ponyville in Season 3. Flight to the Finish, Somepony to Watch Over Me and Leap of Faith in Season 4. She only had cameos in Boast Busters and For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils.
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P 	No physical appearance, but appears in a photo, drawing, or figure
M 	No appearance, but a mention by name or title
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== Merchandise, commercials, and cameos ==
: Main articles: toys, merchandise, commercials
Pinkie Pie is featured in many commercials and her likeness is used for many toys and other merchandise. Several cards in the collectible card game have quotes from The Art of Fun, an in-universe book written by Pinkie Pie. The collectible card game's Absolute Discord expansion set card #36 C of Ponka Po shows her disguised as in Spike at Your Service and gives her the description, "Who could this mysterious mustachioed mastermind be?! Nopony knows..."
Pinkie Pie makes a brief cameo in the seventh episode of season one of The Aquabats! Super Show!. She is one of many background elements during a musical number of one of the Aquabats.
== Quotes ==
: "Isn't this exciting? Are you excited because I'm excited I've never been so excited, well, except for the time that I saw you walking into town and I went [gasp] but I mean really, who could top that?"
: — Friendship is Magic, part 1
: "Ooh, ooh, more guessing games! Um, Hokey Smokes! How about... Queen Meanie! No! Black Snooty, Black Snooty"
: — Friendship is Magic, part 1
: "It was under "E"!"
: — Friendship is Magic, part 2
: "Hey, you know what this calls for? A party!"
: — Friendship is Magic, part 2
: "Okie-dokie-lokie."
: — Multiple episodes
: "Whatcha doin'?"
: — Multiple episodes
: "She'll become a crazy cat lady!"
: — Referring to Rarity, Suited for Success
: "Holy moly, that's a lotta holeys!"
: — A Dog and Pony Show
: "FOREVER!"
: — Green Isn't Your Color
: "I'd never felt joy like that before! It felt so good I just wanted to keep smiling forever! And I wanted everyone I knew to smile too, but rainbows don't come along that often. I wondered, how else could I create some smiles?"
: — The Cutie Mark Chronicles
: "My friends laugh with me, not at me."
: — The Return of Harmony Part 1
: "Too old for free candy? Never!"
: — Luna Eclipsed
: "Oh, I never leave home without my party cannon."
: — Sweet and Elite
: "Oh my gosh. Hold on to your hooves – I am just about to be brilliant!"
: — Hearth's Warming Eve
: "Unicorns are snobs!"
: — Hearth's Warming Eve
: "Nopony breaks a Pinkie promise!"
: — The Last Roundup
: "Applejack! (deeply) You Pinkie Promised!!"
: — The Last Roundup
: "Nailed it!"
: — A Friend in Deed and Equestria Games
: "Come on, ponies! I wanna see you smile!"
: — Magical Mystery Cure
: "Alicorn party!"
: — Magical Mystery Cure
: "Best coronation day ever!"
: — Magical Mystery Cure
: "I always let my imagination run away from me! Then it comes back...with cake!"
: — Castle Mane-ia
: "Don't you worry, Discord! I'll give you cuddles, and read you stories, and tell you all about me! I was born on a Tuesday..."
: — Three's A Crowd
: "Parties. Are. Serious!"
: — Pinkie Pride
: "Ha-ha, just kidding. OR AM I?!?!? Sometimes I can't even tell!"
: — Trade Ya!
: "We did it! Ponyville won the medal count! And only by one medal."
: — Equestria Games
: "Yeah, I get that a lot. Now about those bubbles..."
: — My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks
: "I don't like it. I don't like it one bit. I know smiles. And those smiles? They're just not right."
: — The Cutie Map - Part 1
: "Laughs don't come in barrels. They come from inside you as your body's response to delight."
: — The Cutie Map - Part 2
: "Well, that just takes the cake. Wait, no! It can't take the cake 'cause there is no cake! Or muffins! Or griffon scones!"
: — The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone
: "No glowing tushies here!"
: — What About Discord?
: "Maud... [sniffs] You know me so well. You really are the most thoughtful gift-giver in the world! I'm gonna love it five-ever! That's even longer than for-ever."
: — The Gift of the Maud Pie
: "Buuuut now that you mention it... I could use more confetti for my party cannon. You wouldn't believe how much of that stuff I go through in a day!"
: — The Gift of the Maud Pie
: "Well, look at the bright side! At least they didn't call you Rainbow Trash!"
: — Newbie Dash
: "Making copies of yourself always sounds like a great idea, but before you know it, you're locked in a room with fifty Pinkie Pies watching paint dry."
: — The Saddle Row Review
: "Fluttershy and Twilight in Appleloosa! No, me and Rainbow Dash in Las Pegasus! No, Rainbow Dash and Twilight in Yakyakistan! No, Twilight and Twilight in Twilight's castle! Oh. Me! Me! Oh, me... and Rarity! Ooh! I hope it's some faraway place that nopony has gone before!"
: — Spice Up Your Life
: "Y'know, some ponies get excited about the silliest things."
: — Spice Up Your Life
: "It's piñata o'clock!"
: — P.P.O.V. (Pony Point of View)
: "[shouting] Hey! Is this the shouting closet?! Because I've got a free day, and I'm totally up for some shouting! [sniffs] [normal voice] Also, where's that brussel-sprouts-covered-in-cotton-candy smell coming from? Because it is really interesting."
: — Molt Down
: "Wait. So instead of lots of presents, I only buy one of you a present? What kind of game is this?!"
: — My Little Pony Best Gift Ever
: "He made them bake a black licorice fruitcake that says "Congratulations to Our Favorite Supreme Emperor King Sombra" in green frosting! It's the ugliest cake I've ever seen!"
: — Referring to Mr. and Mrs. Cake, The Beginning of the End - Part 2
: "All right, ponies, this is the final line between light and darkness. We are the defenders of that line. We are the nightlight that keeps the world safe from monsters. We are the candles in the relaxing bubble bath of the world. We are the annoying light that your neighbor across the street keeps on all night. What does he need that light on all night for? Who's using that?"
: — Siege of the Crystal Empire
: "There’s no doubt, friendship is the best thing ever. But friendBOATS are great too!!"
: — My Little Pony Facebook post[19]
: "Woohoo! Ponyville forever!"
: — Hub ad bumpers
: "Ooh the pies!"
: — Target Holiday 2017 - Thanksgiving[20]
: "How about, hmm, rose gold?"
: — Deck the halls in Millennial Pink | Target Holiday 2017[21][22]
: "I'm glad we're crushing tiles and not candy! What a waste of good candy!"
: — My Little Pony Puzzle Party
== Gallery ==
: Pinkie Pie image gallery
== See also ==
* Pinkie Pie (EG)
* Pinkie Pie on the Collectible Card Game Wiki
* Pinkie Pie on the Fan Wiki
* Pinkie Pie on the My Little Pony Gameloft Wiki
* Pirate Pinkie Pie on the My Little Pony Gameloft Wiki
* Chaos Princess Pinkie Pie on the My Little Pony Gameloft Wiki
== Notes ==
# ↑ The April 1, 2017 English post identifies itself as an April Fools' Day joke, but the July 11, 2017 Spanish post carries no such disclaimer.
# ↑ Pinkie Pie's parents Igneous Rock Pie and Cloudy Quartz refer to her as this in The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Hearthbreakers, and the chapter book Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party!
== References ==
# ↑ My Little Pony: Pony Life 💖 NEW 💖 Pinkie Pie Squared | MLP Pony Life | MLP Toys | Toys for Kids. YouTube (2020-08-27). Retrieved on 2020 August 27.
# ↑ My Little Pony: Pony Life 💖 NEW 💖 Fluttershy Becomes Rainbow Dash - Flutterdash | MLP Pony Life. YouTube (2020-08-27). Retrieved on 2020 August 27.
# ↑ Andrea Libman (2017-11-12). Andrea Libman on Twitter: "@Kizaru7Twilight @arnettwill not me". Twitter. Retrieved on 2017 November 23.
# ↑ Lauren Faust (2013-11-29). SURPRISE!!! A Pegasus inspired Pinkie Pie. Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 December 2.
# ↑ Lauren Faust (2011-03-21). MLP art for Japan **UPDATE**. Retrieved on 2013 December 10.
# ↑ Lauren Faust (2011-09-25). Tee hee. Retrieved on 2013 December 10.
# ↑ Lauren Faust via Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 March 15.
# ↑ Lauren Faust via Twitter. Retrieved on 2013 March 15.
# ↑ Everfree Radio interview with Jim Miller (2012-08-31). Retrieved on 2012 August 31.
# ↑ Faust, Lauren (2011), Exclusive Season 1 retrospective interview / Q&A for Equestria Daily Archived locally
# ↑ HubTVNetwork: RETWEET to wish Pinkie Pie .... Twitter (2013-05-03). Retrieved on 2013 October 7.
# ↑ Timeline Photos. Facebook (2013-05-03). Retrieved on 2013 October 7.
# ↑ Nick Confalone (2015-10-24). @FaustXXXVII it comes down to your definition of twins for non-humans, e.g., to me, puppy litter = siblings not twins.. Twitter. Retrieved on 2016 May 16.
# ↑ Nick Confalone (2015-10-24). @FaustXXXVII Marble/Pinkie not identical twins, if they were I'd call them twins. But they're not, so how about "sametime sisters! #NOTCANON. Twitter. Retrieved on 2016 May 16.
# ↑ Jim Miller (2016-05-22). The Biggest Jerk on Twitter: "@RealShadowfall No plans. It was a gag.". Twitter. Retrieved on 2016 May 22.
# ↑ Meet the Ponies: Pinkie Pie. Hasbro.com. Retrieved on 2012 January 24.
# ↑ My Little Pony - Meet Pinkie Pie. Hasbro.com. Retrieved on 2013 September 8.
# ↑ Movie Clip Meet Pinkie Pie Video. Hasbro.com. Retrieved on 2013 September 8.
# ↑ Timeline Photos. Facebook (2016-01-10). Retrieved on 2016 January 10.
# ↑ Target Holiday 2017 - Thanksgiving. YouTube (2017-11-09). Retrieved on 2017 November 23.
# ↑ Deck the halls in Millennial Pink | Target Holiday 2017. YouTube (2017-11-25). Retrieved on 2017 November 30.
# ↑ Deck the halls in Millennial Pink | Target Holiday 2017. YouTube (2017-11-25). Retrieved on 2017 November 30.
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