Welcome, one and all, to the season one wrap-up of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!

 

 

Well, we're not quite to the actual finale yet, but today we're reviewing the second-to-last episode for season one entitled "Party of One!" For many, this is a huge recovery from "Owl's Well That Ends Well", but seeing as I, again, didn't hate that episode, I'm not sure I'll feel the same way. HOWEVER, I do remember really liking this episode, so let's see what goes down!

 

This is a spoilers review, so if you haven't seen "Party of One", fuck you. It's fuckin' brilliant. Feel ashamed!!!!

 

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This episode opens up with Pinkie Pie as she hands out invitations, in song, to her Ponyville Pals for her pet alligator's birthday party! Wooohooooo! Although, handing out these invitations ends up being a huge chore and she gets tired by the time she gets to invite Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Next time, she says, she'll just pass out written invitations. Kind of like a Jehovah's Witness, but less professional and more pink. Then the title sequence plays. This party is already really fun! /sarcasm

 

Pinkie Pie, you look a tad thirsty. Fluttershy, you look thirsty as fuck.

 

Well, the shitty performances from Pinkie Pie work (just like pop concerts work) and everyone shows up for Gummy's birthday party! And just like Celestia's tea party, it's in Sugarcube Corner! And just like Celestia's tea party, Rarity's over in the corner licking a Popsicle, Applejack's shooting herself up with celery, Rainbow Dash is attempting to get Twilight to do a mudplay photoshoot, and Pinkie Pie is trying to convert Fluttershy to the First Church of Cupcakes. This happens whenever this band of insane fuckwads get together. After the party, everyone goes home drunk as Twilight tells Pinkie that we should do this again soon. Next morning, when everyone's hungover, Pinkie Pie decides that "soon" has finally come.

 

Oh, Jesus Christ, she looks like she's about to take a huge shit on Twilight's lawn!

 

Twilight rejects her invitation because she's got to rearrange her library that she just unarranged upon hearing that the party was "this afternoon this afternoon." So Pinkie Pie travels to Applejack, who also rejects her invitation because she has to pick apples. Applejack, the elephant of honesty indeed. Well, technically, she didn't lie, but fuck it. For it was at this point in the review that thy holy eyelash doth stuck itself under thy eyelid and rolled behind thou art holy eyeball. This party is really going great now. Meanwhile, during my intense pain, Pinkie Pie ran off to visit Rarity, who had Spike moving her trash, which made him smell bad, so Rarity told him to take a shower...........................in her pussy. So, when Pinkie Pie invites Rarity, she excuses herself by saying she had to wash her hair. When the pink one says her mane doesn't look dirty, she sticks her head in the trash.

 

Don't be silly. That's how her mane looks every time she dances at Gentlecolt's Club

 

After Pinkie Pie tries to invite Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, they both say they have to go house sit for a bear that likes to play seashells. That bear is me. Anyways, after Pinkie Pie mulls it over in her room, she deduces that all of her friends sound more like they're making "*gasp* EXCUSES!", and gets this confirmed when she sees Twilight sneaking into Sugarcube Corner. That lying bitch! Time to get the skinny on this...err...secret. Fuck it, I can't rhyme. She starts stalking everypony as she watches her friends transport things around like a drug ring. They're probably all dealers for Applejack, but I digress. She manages to grab Rainbow Dash's attention and chases her down a-la "Griffon the Brush-Off", but RD forgets that quickly that Pinkie Pie has teleportation powers.

 

Oh, Jesus Christ, she looks like she's about to take a huge shit on the road!

 

Pinkie Pie attempts to learn what's in those bags, but Rainbow Dash manages to take refuge in the barn at Sweet Apple Acres, where Applejack denies her being there. Holy shit, Applejack actually pulled off a...*gasp*...LIE! I'm bio-shocked. Pinkie Pie doesn't accept the bullshit, but still leaves anyway because she's a doormat. That's another episode and another character entirely. Back at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie interrogates Spike, where he confesses to spilling juice on Twilight's copy of Magical Mysteries and Practical Potions, used up all the hot water in Ponyville taking a 7-hour bubble bath, and that sometimes, when no one's around, he does this. Pinkie Pie wants Spike to confess that her friends don't like her parties and don't want to be her friends anymore, so Spike tells her that because she said she wanted him to say that, which depresses her. She then goes batshit insane.

 

sǝɯoɔ uuuuuuuuuᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉᴉɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɐɹ ǝɥʇ ɟI / sǝɯoɔ uuᴉᴉᴉɐɐɐɐɐɐɹ ǝɥʇ ɟI / pɐǝp ǝq llǝʍ sɐ ʇɥƃᴉɯ ʎǝɥ┴ / spɐǝɥ ɹᴉǝɥʇ ǝpᴉɥ puɐ unɹ ʎǝɥʇ sǝɯoɔ uuᴉᴉᴉɐɐɐɐɹ ǝɥʇ ɟI

 

She invites a collection of inanimate objects to a tea party, and talks to them about they're all her best friends, and not those other cunts. Involved in her own psychotic fantasies, she says that she's never going to speak to those other bitches ever again, and will become totally tight with her new friends. I can only imagine what is to become of the First Church of Cupcakes now that their leader has one flying over the cuckoo's nest. Nevertheless, Rainbow Dash enters her room to this insanity, and attempts to pull her out of it. Pinkie Pie fights her, and after a smackdown or two, Rainbow Dash decides it's time to do this the hard way. She subsequently drags her all the way to Sweet Apple Acres, and reveals to Pinkie Pie what her friends really were doing for her "this afternoon this afternoon."

 

Pie, our savior, is born!

 

At first, Pinkie Pie's pissed. She thinks the party is a farewell party because her friends want to "kick her" out of the group. But after they remind her that it's her FUCKING BIRTHDAY, she becomes happy Pinkie Pie puffy hair again and they all celebrate. Twilight writes a lesson to Celestia about how your true friends have your best interest at heart or some shit, and they all celebrate the party of fun!

 

And so concludes "Party of One"

 

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Alright, first the glaring negative. The letter to Celestia was among the most forced of season one. Not so much that it was a sloppy moral, but it's like they intended the episode to end without it and remembered they had to have it in there, so they shoved it in. I noticed this right away and felt a little disappointed...

 

but this is still, by far, the best episode of season one.

 

"Party of One" is a fantastic blend of exceptional comedy with amazing characterization. Following Pinkie Pie through this episode, we get an amazing look into her psyche and how connected she is to other ponies, and to be isolated from them leads her into depression and mental deterioration. The darkness and maturity of the tone of this episode really works in contrast to the on-the-surface portrayal of its main character. This is why Pinkie Pie is one of my favorite characters. She's so diverse, complex, and ever growing in this series while still being a really fun comic relief character in the mix. The only other comic relief character I can think of that pulls that off well is Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender. So if you can match fucking Sokka, you're doing something right. This episode is a perfect example of this, and the overall enjoyable nature of this episode matched with all of its perfections can make me overlook the slapdash Celestia letter and give this episode an outstanding 10/10!

 

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Well, folks, we're here. The next review on Monday is the season one finale: "Best Night Ever."

 

But is it really the best night ever? There's a lot of praise for this finale. Will it hold up to expectation? Or will it fall flat on its ass?

 

I guess we'll have to find out on Monday, as we continue the season one wrap up of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE FUCKING EYELASH IS STILL IN MY EYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE