I would really like Pinkie getting a taste of her own medicine for acting how she was in this episode. She came across as really obnoxious, crass, and somewhat creepy in this episode. The whole climb-up-a-wall-like-spiderman gave me a bit of the shivers. I really hope that they never write her like this again.

@SemiJuggao  
This. Just…this.

@K_A  
To be fair, in ‘A Friend In Deed,’ it’s clear that Pinkie’s heart is in the right place, at least. She’s just trying to do whatever she can to make friends with Cranky, despite his constant rejection.
 
Pinkie’s behavior in ‘Filli Vanilli’ completely goes against her earlier acknowledgment of Fluttershy’s sensitivity, in ‘Griffon the Brush-Off.’ I’ve seen many people defend Pinkie’s actions, by claiming that we’re just butthurt because we’re overly defensive of Fluttershy. That may be true, but my MAIN problem with that episode is that Pinkie was out-of-character, PERIOD.

@K_A  
*but this scene

@Background Pony #175C  

 
Which is really off-putting given her past writing of Pinkie. There was that toupee thing, sure, but that scene not only went overboard but repeated itself.
 
The mid-season Flutterslump and the scale of its acceptance nearly broke the entire show for me.

@Background Pony #6581  
Agreed. If Pinkie actually shown some remorse about her actions, as well as a LOT more restraint, then I wouldn’t have had as much of a problem with ‘Filli Vanilli’ as I do. However, even when she realized what she was doing wrong, she still wasn’t making things easier for Fluttershy, which is a shame because everything else about the episode was GOOD! Sadly, I can’t watch it anymore, without yelling at the screen…
 
PINKIE!!! YOU’RE NOT HELPING!!!

Personally, I didn’t have a problem with Pinkie going overboard as she did; it’s on the far end of her oblivious-to-how-others-react scale, but it’s not really out of character for her, IMHO. I just thought she should’ve had some realization of how it was affecting Fluttershy afterwards.

Fluttershy or not, if Pinkie had antagonized anypony else, it wouldn’t have made any difference. If she were doing this to Rainbow Dash in ‘Sonic Rainboom,’ the result would have been the same.

I don’t care about “Pinkie making Fluttershy cry”, I was pissed off because Pinkie was turned up to fuckin’ 12 for the entire episode.
 
Screaming, stopping the scene to make dumb jokes, being completely insensitive over and over again, doing dumb shit to the point where the other 5 repeatedly roll their eyes at her…that’s not the Pinkie I came to know and love.
 
Even worse is that AKR openly said she enjoyed writing Pinkie like that.