YMMV / My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic S5 E11 "Party Pooped"

• Accidental Aesop:
  • For a while it seems like the episode is heading to a moral of "It's good to make friends, but you shouldn't bend over backwards for someone who's being unreasonable."
  • The ending seems to suggest that cultural melting pots do not work and lead to conflict and war, while parading one's own culture while ignoring that of visiting nations make everyone happy.
  • Alternatively, attempting to blindly mimic another culture based on only superficial knowledge will just end up offending people actually from that culture.
  • Yet another option, people are often more reluctant to criticize something if they don't understand it or it comes from another culture.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Prince Rutherford's behavior could be the result of a number of things: Could it be that the belligerent behavior is actually normal within Yak culture? Normal for just Yak royalty? Or is the Prince a Royal Brat that was chosen for a job he's not qualified for? If the former, are they stand-ins for Genghis Khan-era Mongolians or the audience?
    • "If things not perfect, yaks get mad! Yaks always get mad when things not perfect!" Sound familiar?
  • Is Pinkie's party archive documenting all of Ponyville's inhabitant's likes and dislikes awesome or obsessive? And just how creepy is her collecting of all this info?
• Base-Breaking Character: The yaks. Some found their behavior hilariously over the top, others found them rude jerks. It's one thing to hate literally everything that your hosts do for you, it's another to then smash it into bits simply because it isn't just like home.
• Broken Base: Pinkie's journey to the borders of Yakyakistan. From starting out on a train heading the wrong way^note Dodge Junction is southeast of Ponyville, the Crystal Empire is to the north. to the level of implausible stuff she gets up to during it, then having a single sled take her all the way back to Ponyville in just a few hours. Is this simply Pinkie being Pinkie and not something to take seriously, or the writers ignoring all common sense, logic, and established continuity for an extended joke that shatters any Willing Suspension of Disbelief in the audience by taking the Cartoon Physics way to far?
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • No matter how unreasonable you think the yaks were being, them getting mad at different snow is so ridiculous it's funny.
    • The scene where Rutherford threatens to kill Fluttershy's animals shouldn't be funny, but the circumstances make it so.
  • After a long, arduous journey, Pinkie finally reaches the entrance to Yakyakistan... only for the ground to give way, causing her to slide down a cliffside, ALL THE WAY BACK TO PONYVILLE. Pinkie’s drawn out “NOOOOOOO” only adds to the tragic hilarity.
• Fan Fic Fuel: Yakyakistan. Fans can only guess what the homeland was like when all we saw was its doors.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Pinkie Pie running surveillance on everyone in Ponyville is reminiscent to her running the Ministry of Morale. Pinkie Pie is watching you, forever, indeed.
  • Pinkie Pie having a secret room beneath a trap door in Sugarcube Corner brings about cries of "Cupcakes!" from many fans. (Though in the original fanfic the location of the room is never explicitly stated, it's generally assumed to be the basement of Sugarcube Corner.)
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Twilight's fear of quesadillas. "They're just so... cheesy."
  • The faces everypony made in the episode are disturbingly funny; specifically this face from Twilight.
  • Tongue-in-cheek comparisons made between the visiting Yaks and Bronies.
• One-Scene Wonder: The Nice Guy Yak child whom Pinkie encounters on her way to Yakyakistan. He doesn't even talk, yet he responds much more reasonably to her hijacking his sled than the Yaks back in Ponyville do about "imperfections."
• Paranoia Fuel: Pinkie's secret basement has a file cabinet on every pony in Ponyville and what kind of party they like. It's intended to be heartwarming but at the same time it takes Pinkie's obsession with getting to know her town kind of far.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: We never did see what Yakyakistan was like in this episode and had to wait until "No Asking For Trouble".

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