I liked this moment, at least the show doesn’t overdo the “live action” gags, like some shows do.
 
“Bubsy” is an example of it being done “wrong.”
 
The original 2D “Muppet Babies” I think did it best, as while it relied heavily on the stock/movie footage gags, they didn’t feel too out of place, and they kinda added to the situations, and movie parodies they did. (Which unfortunately, has lead to issues preventing a DVD release.) And being the “Muppets,” they’re basically all about spoofing pop-culture. (Heck, Jim Henson’s earliest works involved Muppets lip-sync-ing to pop music of the time.)
 
@StrangeGirl  
6 now.

I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since this masterpiece aired.

@HighRollerHydra
 
Of course it did.

@Background Pony #402A  
Scroll down to “Pinkie Pride” under “Season 4”. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

@HighRollerHydra  
From Wikipedia, which is correct in this instance: “The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of human aesthetics which holds that when human features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among some human observers. […] The ‘valley’ refers to the dip in a graph of the comfort level of humans as subjects move toward a healthy, natural human likeness described in a function of a subject’s aesthetic acceptability.”
 
I’m skeptical this can apply to a fake rubber chicken…

@Dylanius  
It was because of the “Uncanny Valley”. I didn’t even write it there, someone else did.

@HighRollerHydra  

The Boneless part got put under “Nightmare Fuel” on TV Tropes.

@mexican_tofu
 
@ETech  
Pfft, like this really came out of nowhere. This is a Pinkie episode starring Weird Al. You should expect the unexpected.
 
Besides, it was funny.

I give up. Literally every site that does “YouTube to GIF” images just aren’t working for me. T~T

@mexican_tofu
 
Sometimes the whole “live action sequence in a cartoon” kind of gag works and is funny, like in “SpongeGuard on Duty” where SpongeBob is imagining himself as a lifeguard and it cuts to a guy in a SB mascot costume standing on a lifeguard tower. This sequence sort of came out of nowhere and didn’t really add anything to the episode.

@ETech  
I agree… I seriously dislike live action and cartoons mixing unless it was specifically meant to be (i.e. Space Jam). It just always seems out of place (like you said), very distracting, and takes a lot away from the show.

Good luck with the vector guys!

@Background Pony #3904
 
It was jarring and out-of-place and I hope they don’t do it again, but at the end of the day it’s just something you have to accept from a sequence like that. It’s not like the rest of it was any saner.

I loved this, just came outta nowhere.

Stuff like this is a big part of why I really, really like the direction this show is taking.

This kind of joke should make me angry, but it fits in the over the top tone of the episode.

@HJSDGCE  
Yo ho ho, it took a bite of gum gum?

OK how is it that the rubber chicken is more active the toothless alligator?

When Cheese Sandwich did it, okay. He’s a new guy.  
When Pinkie Pie did it, I felt sad. :(
 
Would’ve been cool if they’d done a realism vs felt instead, at least that’s already a theme.

my mind was blown

@Saga  
HOOPLA!

This part was brilliant

I think they’ve made enough…. to-
 
-GET THE ANIMATION BACK!