Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-14909251-20140726044024

I have a feeling the food fight started out more as just some funny little thing Monty and the team did while toying with the new models and then everyone was like, "Hey, we should just put this in the show!" The whole scene in the cafeteria struck me more as the Rooster Teeth guys messing around. You had like three different references to politics for some bizarre reason when Ruby explained her plan for the day (Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King Junior, and Richard Nixon), the additional possible reference to Spongebob with "Best Day Ever", and maybe even a shout-out to Ace Attorney. Then there was the "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" reference, a throwback line from Nora, a reference to Alice in Wonderland, and Ruby's melodramatic Weiss scene. Of course, then there is the fact this was our first scene of Pyrrha heavily utilizing her Semblance in full Magneto-mode and Ruby pulling some crazy move with her speed well beyond anything else we have seen from her. All the seemingly recycled combat moves causes me to see the whole thing as basically a way of saying "Look what we can do now!" Granted, there were some cultural references at other points in the episode, but none were quite as extensive and compact as in that food fight scene and all the other schmaltz just made it seem like this was more of a quirky demonstration than an actual part of the episode.

Sooooo, take it with a grain of salt (pun not intended).