Season 2: BONUS REVIEW: “MLP: FIM: Season 5: Episode 11: “Party Pooped”

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING YOU’RE ABOUT TO SEE MAY CONTAIN SOME Y’KNOW, SPOILERS!!! BE SURE TO TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN’T, Y’KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING!!!

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Hello, I’m The Detective Librarian and you may already think that Season 2 is finally over on my blog. Sadly, we have a “BONUS REVIEW” to do. This time, on the latest episode of Season 5 of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. Please note that I was supposed to do it on the day it aired, but I got caught up on a different review, but, it’s finally time to share my thoughts on the latest episode, titled “Party Pooped”, which aired on June 27, 2015. As you can probably tell, it focuses on everyone’s favorite, party-animal, crazy, and serial killer member of the Mane Six, Pinkie Pie! Well, it’s been a while since we had Pinkie Pie as the main character of an episode, but who cares, it’s a new episode, which she once again gets to herself, Yaay! Now, let’s see how crazy Pinkie will be once again, by taking a look at “Party Pooped”.

We start off this episode in Twilight Sparkle Sparkle Sparkle’s castle with a bunch of food and decorations because of a new Friendship Summit coming, which is about the Mane Six being friends with a bunch of yaks from a location called Yakyakistan. Okay, it may sound like a racist or an Equestrian version of countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, since they’re filled with terrorist countries, no offense. But I digress, the reason why yaks are visiting Ponyville is because the border between Equestria and Yakyakistan hasn’t opened for hundreds of years (or “moons”, if you will) and please note that Yakyakistan is located South of the Crystal Mountains, which is located near The Crystal Empire. After we hear those facts, Twilight starts to get nervous/crazy over being friends over a Yakyakistan prince named Rutherford, or as Pinkie Pie would say “nervouscited”! Well, something tells me that this episode will be a sequel to the Season 2 episode, “Lesson Zero”, when Twilight went insane over not getting a friendship problem to report to Princess Celestia, which went something like this:

Anyways, Prince Rutherford and the Yaks arrive at Twilight’s castle and are greeted warmly. Twilight offers them Yakyakistan food that they made for the Yaks, but it doesn’t taste or smell like the way the Yaks like it back at Yakyakistan. Because they get angry when things do go perfectly, the Yaks begin to destroy/smash the decorations and the rest of Twilight’s castle. Well, let’s just hope they don’t go into a frenzy that destroys a bad video game, movie, or TV show that would be something either me or Nostalgia Critic would do if we hated a film, video game, or a TV show so much like this:

After all, he IS one of the angriest reviewers or critics you’ve known and seen, just like his rival/enemy, “The Angry Video Game Nerd”. But I digress, after the destruction the Yaks created, our heroes decide to repair the damage that had been done to the castle and try to make the Yaks feel home at Ponyville in the Summit/Friendship Party, such as create haybeds at Sweet Apple Acres, use Fluttershy’s animals as yaks, trying to make the same fabric as seen back in Yakyakistan, and have the same type of snow back in you-know-where. However, as try as they might, the Yaks still get angry and destroy EVERYTHING that isn’t perfect for them. Geesh, what a bunch of hot-heads if you ask me. Later, the Mane Six discuss on the current progress of the Summit so far at the Map, but they go “COMPLETELY CRAAAAAAAAAAAZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Meanwhile, Pinkie explains insanely to Gummy on how her friends are struggling to make the Yaks feel like Yakyakistan, while she’s at her room at Sugarcube Corner. After she says that she might have to go ALL THE WAY TO YAKYAKISTAN, JUST TO GO AND GET THE THINGS NEEDED FOR THE FRIENDSHIP SUMMIT, Gummy puts his tongue on Pinkie’s mouth and guess what?

Pinkie magically agrees to go ALL THE WAY TO YAKYAKISTAN to get those supplies to make the Yaks feel like Ponyville is their home. Outside Sugar Cube Corner, Twilight is giving the Yaks a tour of Ponyville and tries to find Pinkie, since she’s the most well-known party-pony, to find out on how everything is going for the party. However, she soon finds that Pinkie’s gone and decides to send a search party to find her, but to no avail. However, she receives a note from Pinkie, which is about her quest to go to Yakyakistan, in order to do what I explained earlier. However, things go from bad to worse when she finds out that the Yaks are about to eat the cake from one of the bakers, Mrs. Cake, made and just as she was about to stop them from eating it, it was too late.

The Yaks eat the cake and (of course) start smashing it up. Then, we cut to the next scene, which involves Pinkie Pie on the train to The Crystal Empire, beginning her quest to Yakyakistan. However, the train stops at Dodge Junction (a cherry village in the desert from Season 2 episode, “The Last Roundup”) due to a flock of sheep on the tracks. This reminds me of a usual episode of “Thomas & Friends”, except that it doesn’t involve Daisy the Diesel Railcar encountering a bull named Champion, when she thought that she could handle bulls, even though she’s feeble–

DAISY THE DIESEL RAILCAR: Feeble? FEEBLE?!

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: Oh yeah, sorry.

Anyways, Pinkie encounters Cherry Jubilee (from again, “The Last Roundup”), who was basically leaving the bathroom shack, which reminds me of the scene from “The Last Roundup”, when Pinkie needed the restroom, until Applejack went out in a huff. So, Pinkie asks Jubilee for her help and gets her only means of transportation so far, since Jubilee is going North of The Crystal Empire as well, which is a carriage with stallions with hats on their heads that are controlling the carriage, that have basically been very exhausted due to counting 400 cherries, along with Jubilee. As they leave Dodge Junction, Pinkie’s quest continues and danger arises when Jubilee falls asleep, along with those stallions and they are heading towards the edge of a cliff that lays above a deep ravine below. Clearly, this is like Timothy the Ghost Train’s death, except that Timothy isn’t involved in this and he doesn’t show his demonic form in this episode. Pinkie tries to stop the carriage from crashing into the ravine below, but it luckily wakes up Jubilee and the others, but the cliff easily breaks, like in a “Roadrunner Cartoon” from “Looney Tunes”, causing Pinkie and the carriage to fall into the ravine below.

Meanwhile, we see more montages of Twilight trying to impress the Yaks, by having Spike playing the piano, that pleases the Yaks, until we find out that Spike wasn’t really playing the piano and it was playing on it’s own. So yeah, the Yaks destroy the piano as well and want the Friendship Party to begin immediately, leave right now, and declare war as well. But things get even more worse when we see Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash attempting to create their own party, now the Yaks’ war between them and the Mane Six will have to commence without anything preventing it. Back with Pinkie, it’s revealed that the Wonderbolts (by a huge coincidence) saved her and the carriage, brought them to Manehattan, and we get a reference from “The Beatles” that goes like this:

So yeah, Pinkie joins the Beatles, temporarily, and it would’ve been funnier if we had Ringo Starr speak, instead of making a cameo as a background character. So, Cadence randomly pops up and warns Pinkie that she’s reached the Northern Boundary of the Crystal Empire, which leads to Yakyakistan, and nopony has made it out unscathed, everytime he or she tries to climb it. Well, because of Cadence’s short appearance, it raises the question of why Shining Armor didn’t even appear in this scene anyway? After all, he IS part of the Crystal Empire and Cadence’s wife, besides, it’s been a while since we last saw him and it’s high time Shining gets more screentime and has more info about his character and backstory, even though I decided to create his own backstory in my fan-fic, “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom”. Well, it could be just a theory of Shining’s past and I won’t spoil it for you, if you haven’t read it yet and I’ll give you the links to the various chapters of my fan-fic on my blog at the end of this review.

Anyways, back in Ponyville, Twilight and her friends have realized that they created way too much pressure on Pinkie and they’ve let everybody down and fall into major despair, because of their failure to make friends with the Yaks, until Twilight accidentally presses a ice cream-like switch that opens a trapdoor under them into a dark room. Meanwhile, Pinkie begins braving her way through the snow and encounters a yeti, monkey-like snow leopard in a cave next to her. The snow leopard attacks her and Pinkie runs away from it and encounters (again, by huge coincidence) a small yak with a sleigh that leads to Yakyakistan. As she’s about to step off the sleigh and go into Yakyakistan, the cliff under Pinkie and the sleigh collapses and sends her ALL THE WAY BACK TO PONYVILLE (UNREALISTICALLY)!!! Meanwhile, the rest of Twilight’s friends find themselves in a dark room, which is revealed to be Pinkie Pie’s Party Cave, like the Bat-Cave in “Batman”.

The Party Cave includes all sorts of files of parties Pinkie put up and other ponies or other animals she met or knows, while learning about Twilight’s fear of quesadillas because “They’re just so. *Ugh* cheesy.” *Ba Dum Tsh!*

THE DETECTIVE LIBRARIAN: HEH, NO WONDER THIS FOOD’S SO “CHEESY”!:

So, Pinkie arrives back to where she started with disappointment that she never succeeded in her quest to Yakyakistan. However, she cheers up when she overhears her friends congratulating her on how much hard work she’s done over the years and drops by in the Party Cave, still feeling like she’s a failure over her failed quest. But, she changes her mind when her friends praise her hard work and just then, Pinkie gets an idea to make this party rock. Because the train to Ponyville is stuck due to that flock of sheep, the Yaks are left stranded in Ponyville, having to partake in the Friendship Party. The Friendship Party turns into a festival because the Mane Six realized that every time they tried to make the party a Yakyakistan tradition, they failed in doing so, making everything worse. Even, Celestia is there too and the Yaks are impressed over the Party and cancel the war declaration as a result. The episode ends with Celestia being impressed over Twilight and her friends’ performance over the party and having their new friend, Prince Rutherford, hug Pinkie Pie extremely hard! (Awkward)

Guys, this episode is not the greatest, it’s decent. Although, the jokes are funny and my favorite joke is definitely the Beatles joke because ya gotta love the Beatles for how popular their songs were back in the 1960’s and it would’ve been more funnier if Pinkie just did a parody of the “Yellow Submarine” song and made it titled the “Pink Submarine”. As for the plot itself, it moves along a little bit slowly and it really has a cheap way of bringing back old characters we haven’t seen in a long time or a while such as Cadence and Cherry Jubilee. Speaking of, the new characters, the Yaks, were okay and I find it bland that all they did was just smash things when things go badly, since we need a personality MUCH MORE THAN THAT AND IT FEELS LIKE ANOTHER CHEAP WAY TO MAKE MORE TOYS, JUST LIKE WHAT HIT ENTERTAINMENT WOULD DO!!! Although, the animation is still good as always and I’m still wondering after Cadence’s appearance, “Does Hasbro prefer Cadence better than Shining Armor, after the events of ‘A Canterlot Wedding’?”

Besides, Shining Armor NEEDS more screentime and I really want him back, even though I still hold a grudge against him, it still would be nice to have him back every once in a while, since he’s sort of good and bad. All in all, I’d say this episode is a hit or miss and I would’ve expected more from it, even if it’s slightly better than the previous one, but at least the next episode will pick off Twilight’s old friends from the first episode of the series, but that’s another story. On a scale of a one to ten, I’d say this episode is a 5/10, it could’ve been better. Now, since I mentioned Shining getting his own backstory in “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom”, I’ll be showing you the links to various chapters of the story and the full version of it right now, but remember, the following you’re about to see contains some scenes that may be unsuitable for younger audiences, such as intense action, dark/scary scenes, ectetera, so please read at your own discretion:

LINK TO CHAPTER 1: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-1-feeling-unlucky/

LINK TO CHAPTER 2: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/23/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-2-the-legend-of-king-mephiles/

LINK TO CHAPTER 3: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-3-chrysalis-secret/

LINK TO CHAPTER 4: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-4-journey-through-galloping-gorge/

LINK TO CHAPTER 5: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-5-an-alone-journey/

LINK TO CHAPTER 6: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-6-the-truth-revealed/

LINK TO CHAPTER 7: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-7-escape-from-the-shadow-kingdom/

LINK TO CHAPTER 8: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-8-invasion-of-the-shadow-kingdom/

LINK TO CHAPTER 9: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-chapter-9-the-final-showdown/

LINK TO THE 10TH AND FINAL CHAPTER: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/mlp-fim-shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-the-10th-and-final-chapter-the-memorial-of-the-shadow-kingdom/

LINK TO THE FULL STORY: https://detectivelibrarian.wordpress.com/category/shining-armor-the-shadow-kingdom-full-story/

So, be sure to check it out if you haven’t and tell me what you think of “Shining Armor & the Shadow Kingdom” and the episode down in the comments below. And as always, I’m The Detective Librarian and be sure to look out for the Season 3 premiere of reviews on my blog later this week! Good-night, everybody!

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