I’ll say this, in terms of getting the moral wrong, this episode isn’t the only one to do that. I’ve seen this moral done numerous times over the years, and they always make the same errors. All things considered, I don’t really hate this episode for that.
 
But I absolutely DESPISE the episode for the abuse Twilight goes through. I can forgive getting a moral wrong, but HOLY BALLS did they go overboard with the slapstick. That’s what really killed the episode for me.

@James Rye  
Wasn’t going to weigh in on this two year old argument, but I don’t want one of the last two comments on such a great title card to be so ignorant, so here goes  
You look pretty stupid in hindsight, not gonna lie  

I…don’t understand why people are calling this the “worst episode ever”. I didn’t have a problem with it…mostly because I always look forward to Derpy and Twilight-Rapidash’s appearances in the episode.

@Background Pony Number 17
 
Sorry, that’s bullshit. Twi believes in Pegasi and Earthpony magic as well, but Pinkie’s Pinkie senses are anything but earthpony magic thus she couldn’t accept it. It was a unique only for Pinkie avaiable sense to foresee the future. No other earthpony got what Pinkie got. It was reasonable for Twi to doubt it.

My take on “Feeling Pinkie Keen” is that the episode was a lesson about narrow-mindedness and bigotry, not “knowledge vs. faith”.
 
Twilight Sparkle refused to believe in Pinkie Sense because it didn’t fit her world-view of what magic was. She was insisting (in her soapbox scene) that “real” magic was the kind you study, practice and control. Or in other words, the kind of magic Unicorns practice.
 
Thing is, Pinkie Sense is magic, but not Unicorn magic–it’s Earth pony magic. Like the Earth ponies’ ability to grow crops, Pinkie Sense isn’t something Pinkie Pie “does”; it’s just something that’s part of her basic nature. There’s no point in trying to study or control it, it just is.
 
Twilight’s problem throughout the episode was her refusal to acknowledge this. Her recognition at the end that there was more magic out there than she understood was a tacit acknowledgment of the reality of Earth pony magic.

@Beau Skunky  
Agreed.

I liked the episode, (and I like this fan artwork to)  
I just think people misunderstood the moral, especially the “Militant-Athiests” (who are basically the Atheist equivalent of a “Bible-thumper”) and blew the whole episode out of proportion overall.
 
Shame, ’cause it has alot of good sight-gags. Even a falling anvil, as a nod to “Looney Tunes.”

The big reason it’s one of my favorite episodes, in fact, is that I tend to do exactly what Twiliht did - stubbornly refuse something for the pure reason I don’t understand it. You know what else I don’t understand? Gravity. Why is mass attracted together like that? No idea whatsoever. But denying gravity exists would be silly without some sort of grounds, wouldn’t it? Sure, I’m an advocate for skeptisism, but you can still be pretty sure about something even if you don’t understand them.

Ohp! Hit the post button. Darn phone. Anyway, she wasn’t accepting results because of internal reasons. In fact, it’s COUNTER-religious. It’s more like people who argue against evolution when it is clearly observable and reproducable. No matter how much you deny it, it keeps happening and it will still be absolutely right.

One of my favorite episodes, and I’m constantly criticized for overanalyzing. The problem isn’t overanalysis, it’s incorrect analysis and looking for conflict. Ironically, or perhaps logically, the people who hate it are the ones who needed the lesson the most. The description at the end was bad - Faust admitted to that herself. What people don’t take into account is that Pinkie Sense was observably correct. It’s not comparable to god. The problem wasn’t that Twilight woupdn’t accept something

@RIG  
Yes, I had to post that after reading your comment. :p

*damnit, delete that “?” at the end.

@AIDS Kitten  
see? this is the unneccesary and fun kill overanalizing i was talking about?

People hated the religious connotations in the whole “leap of faith” thing, but (being on barbiturates at the time) I thought it was a reference to Karl Jaspers.
 
Twilight comes face to face with the absurd (Pinkie sense) and is unable to defeat it with knowledge. Her standing on the ledge represents the limits of knowledge against an unknowable world, and so she has to take a leap of faith (transcendence) to escape her ‘existenz’, to use Jasper’s term. She abandons reason and accepts Pinkie Sense (and the unknowable absurdity of the world she live in). At the end of the episode, she’s happy to have transcended reason.
 
Afterwards, when watching it again, I decided it was a bad episode, and then wondered what kind of quack doctor prescribes barbiturates for a god damn inflamed tendon.

this episode was overanalized as fuck, kids never will see all that stuff the overanalizers where complaining about.

this episode is a little over hated in my opinion its not great and the moral could have been handled a bit better but its not as bad as everyone made it out

I hated this episode.

Title Cards for the cartoon would be awesome.

Ooh! Awesome!  
Do this for more episodes!

This makes me think of that little ditty that used to play at the beginning of Ed Ed n’ Eddy episodes.

Nah, they would just take away valuable time for action :P

We need more custom title cards.