SPOILERS! Mariusioannesp Reviews: "Party Pooped" · 3:38am Jun 28th, 2015
WARNING!!! The following contains SPOILERS for today’s episode MLP “Party Pooped”.
Now, without further ado, here is my review of “Party Pooped”.
Princess Twilight Sparkle is nervously preparing her castle for a visit by some Yak delegates and the Yak Prince Rutherford from Yakyakistan. It’s been hundreds of moons since Yaks and Ponies have opened their borders, and Twilight is hoping to make a good impression on them before Princess Celestia arrives for the friendship party Pinkie Pie is planning for that night. They’ve tried to make everything the way it is in Yakyakistan to make the Yaks feel at home. However, the Yaks are very particular and destroy everything if it isn’t exactly the way it is in Yakyakistan. After everything they try doesn’t go well, Pinkie comes to an ultimate conclusion. She’s going to have to go all the way to Yakyakistan to get something the Yaks will like for the party. Will Pinkie Pie learn what it truly means to make someone feel at home?
So what’s the verdict?
Yaks get angry and Yaks smash!
Yaks don’t like it so Yaks crash!
Yaks ain't gonna take it any more
Yaks come back and Yaks go to war
Yakety Yak!
Let’s talk Yak!
Don’t tell me you weren’t thinking of that song.
What’s better than an episode where Twilight has a freakout?
What’s better than an episode where Pinkie Pie has a freakout?
An episode where Twilight and Pinke have freakouts!
So yeah, me like it!
As stated in the beginning, the Yaks are very particular, and they smash up the foyer of Twilight’s castle when the ponies’ fail at making their traditional Yak foods authentic enough. Twilight was such a mess waiting for the Yaks to arrive. She was all twitchy everywhere! She also calms herself the way Cadance showed her way back in “Games Ponies Play”. Given this unfortunate setback, Twilight is more determined than ever to make friends with the Yaks. She calls on Pinkie Pie to show the Yaks around town and make them feel welcome. The key they feel is to make everything feel like Yakyakistan. So, Pinkie takes it upon herself to do so. Pinkie first takes them to Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres so they can rest on some traditional Yak hay beds. However, the hay is not Yak hay, and the Yaks smash everything. Next, Pinkie takes the Yaks to Fluttershy to watch a parade of animals Yakyakistan style! So, Fluttershy’s little animals parade out wearing little Yak horns. However, a horn falls off a little ducky, and the Yaks fly into a rage and smash things because these animals aren’t actual Yakyakistani animals. (Wait, are you telling me the animals in Yakyakistan all have Yak horns?) Anyway, Pinkie takes the Yaks to Rarity where she shows them her fabric from the Crystal Empire in hopes of appealing to their northern sensibilities. The Yaks eat her fabric and become angry and destroy things when it isn’t Yak fabric. Pinkie then takes the Yaks out to a field where Rainbow Dash bucks a snow cloud so it snows on them. Snow is the same everywhere, right. So certainly, this snow must be the same as they have in Yakyakistan right. The Yaks though are still angered because this snow isn’t Yak snow. Yeah, seriously.
Back at Twilight’s castle, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow seem to think everything is going well, while only Fluttershy and Pinkie can admit that everything is not going well. It’s a disaster! Pinkie’s Yakyakistan-themed friendship party that evening is more important than ever. It has to be perfect or else the Yaks will smash everything. Everypony else is certain Pinkie Pie will be able to pull this party together, but Pinkie has her misgivings. She starts freaking out, her eyes darting about the room. 
Back at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie laments to Gummy about what she’s going to do. Nothing she has planned will do. The Yaks are so sensitive, Fluttershy made them mad. Fluttershy! The only way she could make this party like Yakyakistan would be by going to Yakyakistan herself and bringing something back. Gummy helps her come to the realization that this is what she must do. 
I know Gummy doesn’t actually do anything here, but after hearing his inner thoughts in “Slice of Life”, it could be possible that Pinkie Pie can hear what’s going on inside his head.
Moving on, Twilight is bringing the Yaks to Sugarcube Corner where they’re baking a traditional Yakyakistan cake. Twilight pops into Pinkie’s room to see how Pinkie is doing with the party and sees that she’s gone! The Remane 5 search for her throughout all of Ponyville, but it’s to no avail. Pinkie Pie is gone! Twilight starts freaking out, but then Gummy lands on her head and spits out the note Pinkie has attached to his tongue.
In the note, Pinkie says she’ll be back in time for the party, and so Twilight tries to trust Pinkie’s judgement on party preparation and remain calm. Then, Twilight remembers the Yaks are tasting the Yak cake. The Yaks become angered when they went too heavy on the vanilla extract.
Meanwhile, Pinkie is off on her epic adventure, riding a train to the Crystal Empire. Yakyakistan lies to the north of Equestria beyond the Crystal Mountains. However, the train ends up stopping in Dodge Junction because there are sheep sitting on the tracks that won’t budge.
Curse you, sheep!
In Dodge Junction, Pinkie happens to run into Cherry Jubilee. Remember her from “The Last Roundup”. Kind of nice seeing her again. Anyway, Cherry Jubilee recognizes Pinkie Pie and is willing to help her out. She just so happens to be on her way to make a cherry delivery to the Crystal Empire. However, Cherry and the ponies pulling her stagecoach are rather tired because they spent the whole previous night counting cherries. So, they ride off, but then Cherry and her stagecoach ponies fall asleep just as they’re headed straight for a ravine. Pinkie does everything she possibly can to wake Cherry up.
She finally just grabs the reins and wakes up the stagecoach ponies in time for them to stop at the very edge of the ravine. Once Cherry realizes what has happened, the cliff they’re standing on cracks, and they fall down into the ravine.
Back in Ponyville, they’ve managed to keep the Yaks distracted with Spike playing some classical music on a piano. The music’s so beautiful the Yaks are crying. However, the Yaks find out that Spike hasn’t actually been playing, and it’s really one of those old-timey self-playing pianos. The Yaks demand to have the party now! Twilight tries to stall, but the Yaks will wait no longer. The Yaks shall go home and return with more Yaks for they are declaring war! Seriously, they’re going to war over the lack of a party. Twilight goes to her other friends and finds that they panicked and tried to plan a panicked-themed party. Pinkie Pie is still nowhere to be found. Twilight is concerned that she may have put too much pressure on Pinkie Pie and has now left everypony down. She accidentally activates a button in Pinkie’s room, they all fall through a trapdoor.
The next time we see Pinkie she’s already at the edge of the Crystal Empire on her way to Yakyakistan. She summarizes all that has happened since she and her party fell into “Falling Pony Ravine”. (A name about as uncreative as dragon-sneeze tree. Are all these things being named by pirates or something?) It just so happens that they were rescued by some passing Wonderbolts who dropped them off in Manehattan. There, Pinkie joined a traveling band that got so popular, they almost made it big until creative differences drove them apart. 
Yes, the band Pinkie joins is a pony version of the Beatles. As a Beatles fan, I most enjoyed this reference, especially the parodying the album covers of Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper.
Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I'll say that something
I wanna hold your hoof!
I wanna hold your hoof!
I wanna hold your hoof!
Apparently, Pinkie Pie is Ringo Starr.
This whole time, Pinkie has been talking to Princess Cadance. Princess Cadance! This is like the third episode in a row to feature Princess Cadance. She sends Pinkie on her way Yakyakistan. On her way, she encounters some kind of baboon/yeti monster! 
Anyway, Pinkie has the mighty gates of Yakyakistan in her sights. 
She hitches a ride with a Yak calf on its sled. 
However, once she reaches the gates, the cliff Pinkie and her sled are sitting on collapses, and Pinkie goes sliding back from whence she came. She slides past the baboon yeti, past Princess Cadance, past Cherry Jubilee in Manehattan, past Dodge Junction, and all the way back to her bedroom in Ponyville. She was so close and now she’s back where she started! She hears something stirring beneath the floor of her room.
The trapdoor the Remane 5 had dropped through before just so happens to lead to Pinkie Pie’s secret party-planning cave. 
They find she has files on what everyone in Ponyville likes and dislikes. (Yeah, that’s not creepy. Not creepy at all.) For example, Twilight likes vanilla ice cream, red balloons, and dancing, but she dislikes quesadillas… because they’re so cheesy!
She apparently also has plans laid out for her parents’ 50th, 100th, and 500th anniversary. (How long do Earth ponies live?!) Pinkie sneaks down on her slide and watches them while hiding behind some balloons. The Remane 5 praise Pinkie for how much work and effort she really puts into her parties. Pinkie comes out, thanking them for their kind words. She tells them how she tried to go to Yakyakistan to get something for the party but a mistake sent her right back to Ponyville. After all the effort she put into this party, it’s still a failure. Pinkie’s friends assure her that she’s not a failure because no one would put this much effort into planning a party. She recalls how much help she got on this trip from the ponies she met along the way, and then she realizes she must do for the party. Twilight sadly informs her that the Yaks went to take the train home, but Pinkie knows they couldn’t because of the sheep. She goes off, sliding up her slide.
How does this even work?!
As Pinkie expected, the Yaks are at the train station, and she invites them to join her party.
The party is a success! Pinkie realized that every time they tried to make something in Equestria feel like Yakyakistan, they failed. Instead of making Equestria feel like the Yaks’ home, they should have made the Yaks feel at home in Equestria. For Pinkie, that means showing the Yaks why they love Equestria. That’s a lesson I can stand behind. The Yaks agree and take back their declaration of war, vowing friendship with Ponies for a thousand moons. Princess Celestia congratulates Twilight and her friends for a job well done. Pinkie also gives Prince Rutherford an awkward hug, but then he gives her a great big Yak hug.
There might also be a lesson here about cultural appropriation, but I'm not a liberal so I don't care.
The LyraBon just keeps rolling on. It’s like the Korrasami of MLP now.
This episode has much going for it beyond the many humorous moments highlighted already. For the most part, we get worldbuilding with the introductions of Yaks and their native land of Yakyakistan. The possibility of a Yak nation out there beyond Equestria was something I’ve seen a few authors speculate. The Yaks were the best part of this episode with their demands for perfection and their wanton destruction when not pleased. I saw a comment on another blog here that described the Griffons as “surly Ferengi”. If the Griffons are Ferengi, than given that Yaks are supposed to be noble warriors, I think they count as Klingons. Either way, I look forward to learning more of the Yaks in the future.
Yak
Yak
Isn’t Yak such a fun word? It’s like one of those Inherently Funny Words like moose, spoon, or banana.
Yak
Yak
Yak
Yakyakistan
Yakety Yak!
Yak! Yak! Yak!
The promos that teased this episode spoke of special guests, and there is one in this episode. Prince Rutherford here is voice by none other than Gary Chalk. Who’s Gary Chalk? Well, Garry Chalk is an actor and voice actor who was the voice behind Optimus Prime in Transformers: Cybertron, Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon, and Beast Machines: Transformers as well as Optimus Primal on Beast Machines: Transformers and Beast Wars: Transformers. He was also Dr. Robotnik on Sonic: Underground and Grounder in The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. In live action, he appeared on Stargate: SG-1 as the SGC’s Russian attache Colonel Chekov. Stargate:SG-1 is still one of my all time favorite shows. Had I known this guy was such a prolific voice actor, he would have been on one of my two lists. MLP has had one Optimus Prime, let’s hope they can get the other. Come on, Peter Cullen!
The only thing I can say was wrong about this episode is that it was a little rushed at the end as they made their way to the moral of the story. I think I would have liked to have seen the Yaks enjoying themselves at Pinkie’s party more.
Overall, “Party Pooped” was a wonderful episode. It’s quite the step up after last week’s episode. This is what an episode of MLP should always be like.
What did you all think of “Party Pooped”?
God bless you all. God bless America. And God bless Equestria.
Yak. Hey that is funny to say! Yak yak yakety yak!
As you could already tell from my own review, I really liked this episode as well. Insane Pinkie and Twilight moments are always a plus.
This was the worst Episode of the entire Series... there was next to nothing good about it... in Fact this was the only EPISODE where I ragequit it (when Twilight's Fear of Quesidillas was revealed)
3222167 In the words of The Dude:
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