A Bird in the Hoof

Shocking a pony episode starts off strong as the party scene is one of the more enjoyable scenes that I have seen.  Some things that I noticed from just the party scene and questions that it brings it up....

1. Its really no surprise that Rarity can make some of the outfits for the Grand Galloping Gala and then not be invited due to her ummm social issues, also the fact that the dresses she designed in the Suited for Success continue to make their appearances in episodes.
2. I wonder why Derpy Hooves wasn't invited to the party, yet they let Pinkie Pie out for how ever long they did.  Pinkie around all that sugar and ponies and nopony was expecting her to get a little crazy?  I mean I do understand its not a party without Pinkie Pie, but I'm not sure if this was the best time for Twilight to let Pinkie in on the action...tho Pinkie prolly has party senses or something and would have been there neways.
3. Mrs. and Mr. Cake were pretty entertaining to my surprise and I wonder how much Pinkie actually is around them due to Mrs. Cake's gasp at about 4:30 being pretty on with Pinkie's from episode 1. 
4. ooo you're good...too good, I'm bored
5. Fluttershy seems to be less socially awkward in situations and it seems to me that there is an argument for her being the most developing character in the series. 
6. Also I mean unless Princess Celestia really was just unaware of the situation...its seems that a small explanation of why the bird looks like its gonna die would have been a good idea with the pony that clearly has an obsession with animals.  
7. Even the ponies exiting was pretty entertaining...I'm trying to decide which would be more of a scene at a party Pinkie leaving doing cartwheels or Rarity threatening everyone while she goes out...plus while on Rarity does nepony else think she may still be holding a grudge about the dresses thing as she hasn't really been too chipper with the ponies as of late.  

Then it turned into a Fluttershy episode with a dash (not that one thankfully) of Twilight that had its moments.  I didn't find the bird shananigans that entertaining on the first go around, so since that was much of the episode idk.  Twilight supposedly is Princess Celestia's prize student and so should be on pretty good terms of understanding what is and what is not acceptable, but seems to just be way off on most of the stuff which is kinda surprising to me, but it may just be nerves.

I enjoyed this episode a lot, I guess the reason that the bird thing wasn't all that entertaining to me was that due to the fact that the bird being a phoenix just seemed to make too much sense, thus the whole act, especially with Celestia's reaction, just made everything some what predictable...also Fluttershy breaking the fourth wall was somewhat weird to me, because I had only seen Pinkie Pie do that so that kinda threw me for a loop.  But overall, you cant go wrong with ponies and this was another quality episode.

Kind of off topic, but something that I noticed was that this episode ended in the ponies laughing which felt too familiar to me so I decided to look up how the episodes ended:
Laughing: 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12(they were kinda laughing but its kinda cheating to count it but o well suck it I am), 17, 18, 19, 22
Disgust/Annoyance: 4, 6
AppleJack and Rainbow Dash going into the forest alone: 13
Pinkie Pie sound off: 2, 10, 21
Misc: 14, 15, 16, 20

so 11/22 episodes end in laughter which I guess makes it almost noteworthy