S05E11: Party Pooped

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Re: S05E11: Party Pooped

Postby Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:18 am

londonarbuckle wrote:
Nice, hadn't Sibsy been away from the show for awhile?

Sibsy's always been around. She also did "Make New Friends But Keep Discord" this season, and she worked on five episodes in season 4.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:23 am

It's Raven Molisee who moved on (and is now on Steven Universe).
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:57 pm

I think there had been rumors that Sibsy was going to move to another show, though obviously those never came to fruition.
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Postby stonecutter (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:57 pm

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He could've been visiting Pete Best pony. :-I
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Postby Throbulator (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 7:47 pm

PictishBeast wrote:I feel like in Season 1 the yaks would have been like, "We're not going to be your friends anymore!" so instead when they were all "WE'RE DECLARING WAR ON EQUESTRIA" it was like damn, when did we cross that threshold? :starity:

I mean I remember when "Rainbow won't look like a tank" was dissected to mean "see, this implies the existence of military vehicles" vs. "no that wouldn't fit the universe at all, Rarity must have been referring to a water tank."


Would the yaks even have need for tanks? They're so good at smashing things.
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Postby Ransom (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:41 pm

In all seriousness, I could see a Yak/Equestria war being entirely about smashing buildings with no loss of life. Somehow, because magic ponies and yaks.
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Postby Throbulator (?) » Mon Jun 29, 2015 9:36 pm

Given how quick they are to rebuild Ponyville, maybe it has already happened.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:52 am

Who knows? Maybe they have to build new Ponyvilles every other week. :v:
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Postby WandereringPony (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:47 am

Bakertoons wrote:Twilight's face during "so cheesy" is something to behold

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That has got to be another Sibsyesque moment (one where the storyboarded faces make it almost perfectly into the actual episode). First time I remember it was during the Tirek vs. Twilight fight, but there's got to be other points it's happened.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:36 am

I was surprised that Sisby made a comeback, I didn't notice in her style in Make New Friends But Keep Discord. Neat.
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Postby Just Scuds (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 2:54 pm

Throbulator wrote:
Would the yaks even have need for tanks? They're so good at smashing things.


:rant: :"Do your worst, Yaks! You won't even come close to the carnage caused by the Parasprites!"
:bluh: :"Don't encourage 'em. I don't see you re-raising a barn.

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I mean I remember when "Rainbow won't look like a tank" was dissected to mean "see, this implies the existence of military vehicles" vs. "no that wouldn't fit the universe at all, Rarity must have been referring to a water tank."


:ohrarity: :"Let's see you rhyme a part of a horse with 'barrel' "
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Postby Chronos30 (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:36 pm

Where's the love for this gag?
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:43 pm

Ha, just noticed that Pinkie signed it with her cutie mark. Adorable. :allears:
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Postby Niels Olof (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:30 pm

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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:41 pm

Some stuff I don't think has been brought up yet, or maybe I just missed it...

Our brief glimpse at Yakyakistan.
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Actually, the second time through, I noticed that they specifically mention at the beginning that this place is so far north that no pony has ever been there. It's kind of funny that, for all the stereotypical Russian-ish, barbarian-ish, Viking-ish personality they gave the yaks, they seem to live in this mysterious Shangri-La. And sure enough, even Pinkie is denied entrance at the very last moment.

Pinkie still gets Looney Tunes gags, like her periscope hair:
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Rarity never gives up on trying to fix that vase.
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A very Mad Men train ride. And a bum.
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Image I's had all's I can stand, and I cans'k take no more!
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The animators showing off a bit.
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It's that spiky-haired pony again!
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We've been over the Beatles' cutie marks, a peace sign, a yellow submarine...
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...but what's this? :skeptical:
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Relevant to the recent helmet safey discussion:
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(Also, Berry Punch spends a lot of this episode drinking from those pools. I guess she's just really thirsty!)
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Fancy store signs
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I love how Twilight gets progressively more excited at her profile.

:ponder: ...dancing...
:excite: That's right!
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:10 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Our brief glimpse at Yakyakistan.
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Actually, the second time through, I noticed that they specifically mention at the beginning that this place is so far north that no pony has ever been there. It's kind of funny that, for all the stereotypical Russian-ish, barbarian-ish, Viking-ish personality they gave the yaks, they seem to live in this mysterious Shangri-La. And sure enough, even Pinkie is denied entrance at the very last moment.

I wonder if the episode had originally planned to show us a bit more of Yakyakistan, but had those scenes left on the cutting room floor at some point. That seems like the sort of thing that the show's artists would've loved to design.
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Postby Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:30 pm

I think the animators had plenty of fun this time regardless. :gotcha:

A little research tells me that in the early days of Beatlemania, a rumor arose that George loved Jelly Babies, leading to the band being pelted by them whenever they came on stage (because fans, then as now, are dumbasses). Maybe that's the cutie mark.
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Postby acksed (?) » Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:13 am

Finally got round to watching this. Man, all the cast were on point, and they all had good lines that made me laugh. What with better animation, wider scope and new faces, it feels like the show's grown up. The yaks were a bit too one-dimensional, but Pinkie was the Most Valued Pony.

Her faces as they piled on the pressure for the perfect party actually freaked me out. :starity: :amazing:
:rainbert: "Rarity, you look ridiculous."
:vogue: "I'm going to ignore that comment out of a desire to help you."
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Postby Seven Seas (?) » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:28 pm

I can't believe it took me a week to make time for this episode. When did I get so bad at watching My Little Pony? :sadrarity:

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I don't recognize any of the Wonderbolts here... :-P

Well, that's Cloudchaser off on the right!

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I don't recognize the other two, so I guess they're dipping pretty deep into their cadet pool. Maybe the real Wonderbolts are preparing for war with Yakyakistan.

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Postby Pocket (?) » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:47 am

Still catching up... Violent characters with cartoonishly short tempers is one of those things that's been a staple of kids' shows pretty much forever (Disney's version of the Queen of Hearts, Pesto, Cyranose de Bergerac), and has always rubbed me the wrong way. But I can't think of any that took it to quite this level. Around the point where they nearly trampled a bunch of baby animals to death :gonkity: I was about ready to call it quits and severely question Celestia's judgment for trying to forge an alliance with them. (Granted, this is the same princess who thought it would be a bright idea to reform Discord, and that only barely didn't fail horribly too.)

But then it turned into Pinkie's story, and darned if this isn't one of the best uses of Pinkie Pie I've seen in quite a while. It's an interesting twist to have the cartoon antics she's known for happen to her instead; maybe her presence just has a way of bending reality even when she's not trying.

Hey. How many here used to watch Early Edition? Because I was reminded of an episode where a couple of delegates from made-up eastern European countries were scheduled to be in town for peace talks, and they had a history of canceling over petty stuff. And I guess the magic newspaper Gary gets says that the latest one is going to break down to the point of one of them declaring war, so he gets the crazy idea to move it to the bar that his friend owns. I forget how the hell he arranged that, but it works out because they end up having a competition to see who can eat the most buffalo wings before going for the water and... I dunno, I guess they end up bonding somehow. I presume alcohol was involved; I'm amazed I remembered as much as I did.

Anyway, it kind of had the same twist to it; everyone else was putting too much emphasis on the formalities that the delegates were being picky about, but Gary cut the Gordian knot by dispensing with them altogether and focusing on creating a casual atmosphere they could let their guard down in.
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Postby ROBOT B9 (?) » Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:31 am

I used to watch Early Edition all the time (awesome show, never thought I'd meet another fan of it here) but I never saw that sort of connection. I think that the Yaks were meant to represent a civilisation like the Mongols and that their anger over everything when it wasn't the way they wanted was their natural behaviour.

Also, I thought that Gary ended up owning the bar. :v:
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Postby Mordja (?) » Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:39 am

Fucken' yaks, man. Fucken yaks.
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Postby BurningBright (?) » Fri Oct 16, 2015 6:33 pm

This was the weakest episode of the season, IMO, and usually I love Pinkie Pie-centric ones. The Yaks were unrepentant assholes, and even though they were stereotyping an ancient culture that isn't around to get offended anymore I still got some uncomfortable casually racist "brutish savage foreigner" vibes from them. I understand that the pony's attempts to poorly emulate their culture may have come off as rude and racially insensitive to them, like blackface (yakface?...I'm sorry) but they were still just huge jerks. Seriously, they were ready to declare war just because they weren't enjoying themselves despite the ponies obviously busting their asses to try.

The main cast had a lot of great moments in the episode, and most of the gags were funny and very Pinkie Pie-esque, but the overall plot just couldn't salvage the episode for me. Probably the only S5 episode I'll pass on rewatching.
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Postby Jill (?) » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:15 pm

  • "IF THINGS NOT PERFECT YAKS GET MAD. YAKS ALWAYS GET MAD WHEN THINGS NOT PERFECT." gee thanks for that little bit of exposition.
  • So the yaks are a race of brutish manbabies.
  • "They even broke the trophy." :lol:
  • NOT PERFECT
  • "ANIMALS CUTE >:("
  • :whatsup: "Excuse me? Do you want death?"
  • Yes, let's destroy a bunch of snow.
  • Oh boy it's time for Pinkie to lose it again.
  • "EVEN FLUTTERSHY MADE THEM MAD! FLUTTERSHY-HY-HY!" :saddershy:
  • "Gummy, you're a genius. *smooch*" :3:
  • "PONIES TOO HEAVY ON VANILLA EXTRACT" why is this funny
  • Sleepdelivery sounds like a rough job, but someone's gotta do it.
  • Go to war in the magical world of My Little Pony. :-I
  • "Now the only surprise is that I may have just started a war." This sounds so out-of-place it's incredible. :hilarious:
  • SECRET PARTY LAB :toot:
  • "They're just so... cheesy. :twonk:"
  • Impressive sled ride.
  • "So... um, do we walk back up the slide or... or what?" :ponder:
  • There's something to be said for imitating another culture to the point where it's patronizing. On the other hand... brutish manbabies.
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