MLP:FIM The Maud Couple

Today's episode was the seventh written by Nick Confalone. In this episode he continues to show his great sense of humor as he did in such great episodes as Party Pooped and The Saddle Row Review (one of my favorite episodes). The episode was storyboarded by Ward Jenkins (who started boarding for the show in season 6) and Melissa Allen (who I believe this is her first episode). In this episode Maud has a boyfriend who Pinkie does not like.

This is a very funny episode. The humor hits home over and over again. Maud is as great as ever and it is always a delight to her. She brings a deadpan style of humor to this show that is completely different from any other character and again she is extremely funny here. Her stand up routine at the beginning is downright hilarious. Her boyfriend works perfectly for this story, but I am unsure how the writers can use him for the future. He is in many ways a carbon copy of Maud. The humor of Pinkie being unable to see the similarities between the two is fantastic. I am interested to see where the writers will go with this character in the future and if we will get to see him more fleshed out in the future. All and all this is a must see episode for fans of the more comedic episodes of this show as it is extremely funny.

-Michael J. Ruhland.