At least she’s smart enough to see a common thread in their debacles so far which is the inauthenticity of their representation of Yak culture. I just crashed the sun into it because I can do that.” Instead of that gloriousness though, we instead get to watch Pinkie Pie continue to doubt herself about the upcoming party. You know, I’d LOVE to see the Yak’s try to throw a shit fit in front of Celestia “WE NO LIKE YOUR COUNTRY!!!” “Oh yeah? Well poof! There goes Yakyakistan. Since there’s only ONE pony here who can plan such an event (Cheese Sandwich was unavailable I guess), it all falls upon Pinkie Pie’s shoulders to make sure the Yak’s don’t cause an international incident. “You think you’d be ANYTHING without me!? If I go down for this, YOU’RE ALL GOING WITH ME!!!”Īfter such an awful day, the Mane 6’s last hope to salvage the visit is the party later that night where Celestia herself will arrive to greet the prince. Then again, maybe it’s just an episode about Twilight freaking the fuck out again because that’s always good or a laugh. Will this be a story about misunderstanding another culture, or is it going to be a story about standing up to jerks? The ponies are trying and failing to represent a culture they’ve only recently become familiar with, but then the Yaks are seemingly using this as a flimsy excuse to be raging assholes that destroy other people’s property and hard work whenever they feel they can justify whatever slight has been made against them. While it is a bit annoying that the Mane 6 attempt no less than five times to try and appease them without thinking of WHY this isn’t working, I do like that there’s a bit of gray area here in terms of where the moral might go. Their deal seems to be that they ONLY want things from Yak-topia and every time they are presented with something that the ponies have prepared for them (Yak inspired food, familiar lodging, etc.) they start to Hulk Smash everything around them in a blind righteous rage. They also speak broken English and fly off the handle at a moment’s notice. To be fair, their design ISN’T some racist caricature of Middle Eastern culture, though they DO remind me of another Trey Parker/Matt Stone joke (“god damn Mongolians!!!”).
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Mohamad jihad.” “What?” “That means hello in racist speak.” Seriously, do I have to keep calling it that? What, is it next to Derkaderkastan from Team America World Police!? “Baka derka. It couldn’t have been closed for more than a decade, so how is it that NO PONY has ever been to… Yakyakistan. She specifically says that it’s been closed for “hundreds of moons” (implying less than one thousand) and if you recall, the Apple Family has a reunion every hundred moons. Furthermore, Twilight says that no pony has ever BEEN to Yakyakistan (ugh…) but they’ve only closed the boarders recently.
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Wait, is Equestria the Pony nation, or is it the name for the entire continent? I mean, with a name like THAT there’s really no question whose on top of the food chain in this scenario. The visitors in question are the Prince of Yakyakistan (uh… are you SURE you want that to be the name?) and his aids whose country had closed off diplomatic ties with Equestria several years ago.
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“The Princess of Friendship does NOT get nervous before a diplomatic meeting, right? RIGHT!?” “Uh… sure Twilight. Okay, so right off the bat I guess she doesn’t know what the heck she’s doing! That or she’s still having trouble managing the pressures of being a Princess. The episode begins with the Mane 6 getting things ready for the diplomatic visit and Twilight stressing out over it.
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Can she do a better job than Spike did? Will her presence make this episode all the more enjoyable? Let’s find out!! We’re back with another chapter in Twilight’s Saga to become the Princess of Friendship! After last week’s summit that had mixed results, she’s trying once again to prove her political prowess by inviting Royalty from a reclusive kingdom to the city of Ponyville! So is this going to be a theme this season? Is the show going to be the adventures of The Princess of Friendship trying to navigate the complicated world of Pony politics? Equestrian House of Cards if you will? I’m totally up for it if that’s the case! Now the last episode was pretty heavily flawed, what with Spike continuing to be short shrifted by the writers, but this episode will at least have the benefit of Twilight not being unconscious for the majority of the running time.