Yeah, you missed the SynchTube by about half an hour. It wasn't a large one. I think we had 5 posters at most, but it was pretty chill, Algernon got to sleep at a decent hour, and I only got kicked twice.
Also, I blame BSoD for showing my face on that thread (kinda.) Well, I actually wanted to show you guys for a while, but I wanted someone else to do it first. It's just a picture anyway, I guess.
Anyway, I'll let you in (BSoD) on something I thought about mid-Tube.
What if Baby Cakes actually occurred during the events of Lesson Zero?
- Earlier in the episode, The Cakes are trying to find a babysitter, but Twilight Sparkle couldn't help because she was busy with a project for the Princess.
- Twilight later shows up at Pinkie's door wanting to help Pinkie. Just like she had with the other 4 mane ponies.
- Note that Pinkie was not shown in that part of Lesson Zero, so we don't know what she was doing before the picnic.
Now, I thought that it would be cool if it had timed out that way, but I felt as if it was nighttime when the Cakes returned from their event. Citation said it was still daytime though.
Citation then said something about Pinkie giving a report made it an impossibility, because Pinkie didn't give the Princess letters until that night, at soonest.
But if the Baby Cakes episode ended at some point during the night day…
- Twilight goes to get cupcakes. (Lesson Zero)
- This is before The Cakes leave for their event. (Baby Cakes)
- Twilight leaves Sugar Cube Corner (Lesson Zero)
- Cakes remember catering event at about the same time Twilight remembers her report (Lesson Zero and Baby Cakes.)
- Cakes leave to find Baby Sitter (Baby Cakes)
- Find Twilight to babysit (Baby Cakes) but she can't because she's doing something for the princess, perhaps something that occurred within her freakout with Spike in the library but not shown in the scene (Lesson Zero but not shown.)
- Twilight leaves to find her friends to help (Lesson Zero)
- Meanwhile Cakes are still trying to find Rainbow Dash and Rarity to babysit (Baby Cakes.)
- Cakes settle for Pinkie (Baby Cakes.)
- Twilight after seeing Fluttershy brutally
murder massage that bear figures out a way to finish her report. (hypothetically off-screen in Lesson Zero.)
- Twilight isn't satisfied with it, so she goes to find Pinkie. But Pinkie won't let her help (Baby Cakes.)
- Twilight goes crazy on a bench for the rest of Baby Cakes' length (Lesson Zero.)
But there's the problem. I've already fudged some facts. I'd have to liberally interpret things from here.
You know when Pinkie submitted her letter to the princess? She never wrote it down on-screen in that episode. Therefore, she might have remembered that recent event and sent it to the princess the day after Lesson Zero/Baby Cakes as a report to "help" Twilight.
So if that is true (and Baby Cakes did end during the day:)
- Pound and Carrot Cake go to sleep, and the Cakes come back home (Baby Cakes.)
- Pinkie, even though she's tired, leaves the twins to the Cakes and goes to Twilight's picnic (Lesson Zero.)
There are no signs that this could be the case (e.g., Twilight didn't look frazzled from a day of failures. Her believing that she had fixed everything…and magic…might have fixed how bad she looked between seeing Fluttershy and going to Pinkie's to help her.) And there are probably some facts or dialogue that render all of that moot.
But it crossed my mind.
And even if that wasn't the case, would it be cool to see an episode coincide with the events of a simultaneously occurring episode?
If there is a Season 4, I really hope it happens.
No, wait. Rainbow Dash had tickets to see the Wonderbolts. Unless it was a really quick show and she was able to help AJ before the show and get to the picnic, it may not have happened.
If you're up to it, point off others stuff that makes it impossible.