Pinkie occasionally has trouble understanding the seriousness of situations, interpreting them through her party obsessed mindset. Nightmare Moon's attack only phased her briefly and she soon figured it was some sort of guessing game, likewise the only reaction the cattle stampede in Applebuck Season caused was amusement at how it made her voice ‘sound silly’. Her worst case was inThe Return of Harmony, Part 1, where she consistently failed to understand why eternal chaos was such a bad thing, including as it did chocolate rain.