^ He got jealous of an owl for what he presumed were attempts at his job, which is the most important thing in the world to him. You’ll have to give me an example of Spike falling off a ladder/dropping a book because I can’t think of any. He did fall off a ladder in the first episode, but that was because Twilight magically pulled him off it.

Actually, in the earlier episodes/seasons didn’t half the time Spike drop books, fall off ladders, get jealous of owls, and such? Spike always had his “incompetent” moments, this episode isn’t anything new. The thing is he gets more clumbsy if he tries to hard to do something, but ironically does a better job when he remains calm usually.

Do you have ANY idea how expensive plumbing issues are? This is no laughing matter!

This was damn cute.

Rarity isn’t used to that kind of pipe.
 
Also, The Simpsons has sucked for the past ten years. Stop paying attention to it.
 
starts singing  
Just don’t look! Just don’t look!

In before someone shoop the pipe into a cut-off dick with blood on one end and sperm on the other.

Maybe he’s a walking disaster area because he’s currently Apple-obsessed? He’s trying way too hard to please her that he’s ignoring his mistakes?

@Flammie, search the term, someone else can explain it better than me. To put it another way, Flanderization is “reverse character development”; a character becomes less nuanced and believable over time instead of more, sometimes to the point of becoming a caricature of what he once was, the clearest example I can think of is; someone writes a gay character whose sexuality is only a small part of who he is and is downplayed, but over time, the character becomes more and more flamboyent and his homosexuality becomes the focus of his character.
 
Spike is usually a competent worker, and eager to please, but at the same time he is more than just an assisstant to Twilight and co., but in this episode he becomes stupidly clumsy and inefficient, and obsessed with helping to the point of interference. He became a shallower version of himself, that is Flanderization.

Simply put a convention change of character behaviour for the sake of plot completion?
 
wow, why just use of “Flanderization” then?

@Flammie, tvtropes will ruin your vocabulary; basically, the term means “extreme exaggeration of a personality trait a character possesses, to the point of undermining the rest of character’s all around development”, which kinda did happen with Spike this episode. The term was inspired by Ned Fanders, whose personality devolved from all-around nice guy, to a two dimensional bipolar fundalmentalist in later seasons of the Simpsons.

@gittonsxv:
 
Plot convenience man, plot convenience.
 
But I know that feel bro.

@gitton
 
Well, he IS a little kid. He’s gonna make mistakes.
 
This episode was a cute one :3

the one thing i hated in this episode was that spike was shown as a clumsy, accident prone annoyance even tho he cleans up after twi all the time and was never like that.

@zeta
 
BAH DUM TISH

Zetadine has just won the internet!
 
Also, Flanderizations? Tilts head

Don’t worry, I’ll fix your pipes Rarity.

I beginning to suspect that Merriweather can only write in Flanderizations. I mean really, Spike was never this inept or this abrasive at any point prior to this episode.

Rarity. It’s a damn pipe.

i find this adorable and i feel pity for her, i can almost here a “neh neeeh” sound…hnngg

W-will it bite me?