Season 5, Episode 11 Thoughts and Review · 5:55am Jul 1st, 2015
Yes, I'm late with this review, but whatever, let's just get this over with.
So a Pinkie Pie episode... I was disappointed by this episode, to be honest. They could have done a lot better with this premise, and they didn't. Whatever, let's just get onto the episode.
At the castle, Twilight is nervous about the soon-to-arrive royal delegation from the remote region of Yakyakistan. Noting the region's previous isolation from the rest of Equestria, Twilight hopes to make a good first impression for when Princess Celestia arrives later. (I bet Sombra had to deal with them at one point.) When the delegation led by yak prince Rutherford appears, Twilight greets them and offers a banquet of traditional yak cuisine as a show of goodwill. Unfortunately, Prince Rutherford hates the food, and he and his fellow short-tempered yaks proceed to demolish the castle foyer. Already I didn't like the direction this episode was going. "OH, SOMETHING ISN'T LIKE MY HOMELAND, LET'S DESTROY IT." Calm down, America.
As the Mane Six clean up the mess that the yaks made, Twilight asks Pinkie Pie to show the yaks around Ponyville and try to make them feel at home until the friendship party later that evening. At Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack fashions beds of hay for the yaks to rest on during their stay in Ponyville. However, because the beds are not made from Yakyakistan hay, Rutherford and the yaks are displeased, and they demolish the inside of the barn. Pinkie Pie tries to appease the yaks with a tea party with Fluttershy's animal friends, all wearing yak antlers. But when the yaks discover the antlers that the animals are wearing are fake, they trample over the tea party.
At Carousel Boutique, Rarity appeals to the yaks with Crystal Empire-imported fabric. Believing the fabric to be edible, the yaks start eating it. Outraged that it isn't Yakyakistan fabric, they trample over everything in the boutique as well. Finally, Pinkie Pie has Rainbow Dash make a blanket of snow so the cold-accustomed yaks feel more at home. Unfortunately, the yaks are still not satisfied.
Back at the castle, the Mane Six discuss the yaks' disastrous visit so far, and Pinkie is under more pressure than ever in making the friendship party a success. Though incredibly nervous, Pinkie assures her friends that she can pull it off.
Pinkie returns to Sugarcube Corner and confides in Gummy about the stress she is under. As she worries about how to make the party feel like Yakyakistan, she gets an idea. When her friends go to check in on her, they only find a note saying she'll be back in time for the party. During this, yet another attempt to please the yaks ends badly.
Meanwhile, Pinkie rides the Friendship Express to the Crystal Empire, but she is forced to stop at Dodge Junction because of sheep obstructing the train tracks. Luckily, Cherry Jubilee is on her way to the Empire to make a delivery of cherries, and she lets Pinkie Pie hitch a ride. However, because Cherry and her stagecoach ponies spent the previous night picking cherries, they are considerably fatigued and end up steering the stagecoach into a ravine.
Back in Ponyville, Spike appears to successfully entertain the yaks with his piano playing. But when Spike steps away from the piano and it keeps playing on its own, the yaks realize it's a self-playing piano. Fed up, the yaks not only decide to leave but also declare war on Equestria.
Through a series of odd coincidences and musical misadventures, Pinkie Pie makes it to the northern borders of the Crystal Empire, guided there by Princess Cadance. After a run-in with a monstrous yeti/baboon-like creature, Pinkie finally arrives at Yakyakistan's gates. But just before she can enter, a sled she was riding on slides backwards, carrying her all the way back to Ponyville and making her entire journey a wasted effort.
As Twilight laments her failure at Sugarcube Corner with her friends, she accidentally opens a trap door under Pinkie Pie's bedroom. The ponies end up in a secret party planning basement, where Pinkie keeps various party supplies and detailed files on the kinds of parties that everyone likes.
As Pinkie returns to her bedroom, she hears her friends in the basement and joins them, recounting her own failure as a party planner. Though her friends assure her that she isn't a failure, Pinkie recalls the ponies who helped her on her journey and wishes to show the yaks how great Equestria is. Just then, she gets an idea.
With the yaks stuck in Ponyville due to more sheep blocking the train tracks, Pinkie catches up with them and invites them to the friendship party.
As the yaks, dozens of ponies, and Princess Celestia enjoy the friendship party, Pinkie apologizes to Prince Rutherford. She says that, instead of trying to make Equestria feel like Yakyakistan, they should have made it feel like a natural home so the yaks could see why the ponies love living there. Rutherford is moved by Pinkie's friendship efforts and calls off his declaration of war, and he and Pinkie agree that ponies and yaks will be friends for a thousand moons. As Celestia congratulates Twilight, Rutherford and Pinkie Pie seal their newfound friendship and understanding with a big, strong hug.
Seriously, just... Why couldn't they have done better with this episode? The plot literally went around in a giant circle, the yaks bit about destroying everything that upset them wasn't even funny, and the only really interesting thing I appreciated was Princess Cadence. I'm glad they're giving her more screen time. She deserves it.
As for this episode, honestly, it could have been way better. It had some funny moments with Pinkie, but other than that, it wasn't that entertaining.
If I don't get a good Pinkie Pie episode soon, I might literally throw the writers into a ravine.
You forgot to mention the Beatles reference.
It's very rare that I dislike or even partially dislike episodes of MLP, and this season has made me do both, consecutively!
Any scene that the yaks weren't destroying something was immediately ten times better. My favorite parts were of Pinkie's journey all together and the party room. And Celestia's face when she learned there was almost a war.
The yaks really could have been handled better.
Honestly, tihs was a good Pinkie Pie episode. Pinkie Pie was enjoyable, as were the mane six. It was The Yaks that dragged this episode down, their running gag got old really fast.
At least pinkie is no longer being flanderized
What about SPIKE THO???
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Him, too. I'll throw all the writers out if I have to.
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Throw them under the bus!
Calm down,
AmericaNorth Korea.I'm just surprised that there wasn't a hacksaw in her basement. Lord knows they would put that there. 'Cause #SuckingTheFandom's****Lately