Pinkie Pie

**Pinkie Pie**, full name **Pinkamena Diane Pie**,[note 1]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.

## Development

Lauren Faust was inspired to create Pinkie Pie by her childhood toy G1 Pegasus pony, Surprise.[2] 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. 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,[3][4] who was back then an Earth pony called Posey, and merchandiseeventually 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".[5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

Faust said that when the show was being developed, she encouraged the crew to keep the "wacky gags" exclusive to Pinkie.[8] The *Season 1* DVD commentary for Winter Wrap Upsays that Faust had dictated that "only Pinkie Pie could do certain crazy gags and other characters wouldn't do it."

According to The Hub's Twitter account and Facebook page, Pinkie Pie's birthday is May 3.[9][10] 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 Confalonereplied "it comes down to your definition of twins for non-humans"[11] and "Marble/Pinkie not identical twins, if they were I'd call them twins."[12] 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 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."[13]

## 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 2Pinkie 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

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

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 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 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

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".

* Pinkie's Gala Fantasy Song
* The Ticket Song
* Hop Skip and Jump song
* Evil Enchantress song
* Cupcake Song
* You Got to Share, You Got to Care
* Pinkie Pie's Singing Telegram
* I'm at the Grand Galloping Gala
* Pony Pokey
* Happy Monthiversary
* Piggy Dance
* Smile Song
* You're a Cranky Doodle Donkey
* Welcome Song
* Cranky Doodle Joy
* Fruit Bat Roundup
* Pinkie the Party Planner
* Pinkie's Lament
* The Goof Off (with Cheese Sandwich)
* Make a Wish
* The rappin' Hist'ry of the Wonderbolts
* Pinkie's Present (as the Spirit of Hearth's Warming Presents)
* It's Gonna Work (duet with Rarity)

#### Cooking

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".

* "My ears are flopping!" She says she'll start a bath for Twilight, and a passing cart splashes Twilight with mud.
* "When my back is itchy, it means it's my lucky day. And, when my knee gets pinchy, that means something scary's about to happen."
* "My shoulder's achy. That means there's an alligator in the tub." She pulls Gummy out of Twilight's bathtub.
* "Ear flop, then knee twitch, then eye flutter. That means the sky is about to be graced with a beautiful rainbow!"
* "Ear flop, then eye flutter, then knee twitch. That usually means 'look out for opening doors'."
* Twilight observes, "She's hiding like something's about to fall out of the sky, but a twitchy tail means that something's about to fall from the sky, *not* an itchy nose." A swarm of bees then appears and attacks Twilight.
* "Whatever that shudder's about, it's a doozy. Something you never expect to happen is gonna happen!" After the hydra attack, Pinkie says the attack wasn't the doozy. After Twilight decides to believe in the Pinkie Sense, Pinkie tells her "You believing. I never expected that to happen.”

#### 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

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 Prideand Maud Pie reveal a third sister, first mentioned in the same book, 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.

### 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 gets liberal with her own Pinkie Promises.

### 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.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Pinkie is very silly and, along with Mickie, break the fourth wall from time to time. She knows that she and her friends are on a TV show and will break the fourth wall to talk to them. In the game, she and Mickie host a talk show that talks about everything that had happened in the game

## 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
"*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
"*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
"*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
"*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
"*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)
"*There’s no doubt, friendship is the best thing ever. But friendBOATS are great too!!*"
— *My Little Pony* Facebook post[17]
"*Woohoo! Ponyville forever!*"
— Hub ad bumpers
"*Ooh the pies!*"
— Target Holiday 2017 - Thanksgiving[18]
"*I'm glad we're crushing tiles and not candy! What a waste of good candy!*"
— *My Little Pony Puzzle Party*