MLP:FIM Theory - Party of One Was Not Real

I’m sure that even if you don’t really watch MLP:FIM, you’ve heard of Party Of One. It’s the famed episode where “Pinkamena Diane Pie” (a.k.a Insane Pinkie) is first introduced. But what if the whole episode wasn’t even real? Or, at least most of it. I started thinking about this after I saw the new Joker movie and discovered that it’s quite a possibility. The ponies in the episode feature such strange behaviours. Pinkie Pie goes from door to door for all of her friends to deliver a “singing telegram”. But it’s strange how it cuts straight to Pinkie walking upstairs all exhausted and sweating instead of showing how exactly Fluttershy reacted to Pinkie’s exhaustion. What we saw was just a surprised face, but that was it and judging from Pinkie’s face later, I don’t think Fluttershy really said anything, which is weird of Fluttershy. Later at Gummy’s party, Rainbow Dash spits an apple straight into Applejack’s face and Applejack says nothing! There are no remarks and no angry faces at each other even after Pinkie Pie left the conversation, even though Applejack and Rainbow Dash are usually the main rivals of the series. Then, when Rarity found out how… unhygienic the punch was, she didn’t say anything. She just spat it in Pinkie’s face. Twilight said nothing, Pinkie said nothing, Rarity said nothing… in fact, most of the lines in the party are Pinkie’s. When Pinkie knocks Fluttershy and Twilight into the wall, they say nothing and continue happily dancing afterwards (though they do look slightly uncomfortable in their positions in the wall).

Despite being woken up early the next morning, Twilight seems suddenly fully awake the moment she sees Pinkie and doesn’t seem to be disturbed that either of them are up so early. Applejack also lies straight to Pinkie’s face when she gets her invitation. I’m sorry, Applejack lied? Rarity has so much desperation to keep Pinkie’s birthday party a secret (which Pinkie herself even forgot about…) that she dips her face into a trash can.

The episode also seems like Pinkie’s just trying to find excuses because she’s becoming more and more delusional. Throughout the series I’ve noticed the breaking friendships and her dips in and out of insanity. Her “insanity twitches” are quite similar to her Pinkie Sense twitches as well, which is featured in the earlier episode “Pinkie Keen” (which also features strange happenings and behaviours). Season 1 episodes that feature Pinkie have to be some of the strangest and most suspicious out of them all - strange behaviours from all of the ponies, strange happenings - but Party of One was the thing that really brought this to my attention. Pinkie wasn’t just insane for one episode - no. She’s been on the edge for quite a while now, which would explain how her mood goes so downhill so quickly in “Yackity Sax”, despite there being little apparent reason to.

Pinkie Pie was slowly being driven to the edge of insanity. I could even stretch things a little to say that Pinkie Pie is having delusions while reading the book featured in the beginning of Season 1: Ep 1 and at the end of Season 9: Ep 26, thinking that she’s actually a character that belongs in this series (an Asylum-esque story).

But after all, this is just a theory. A theory about the mind of the angry, depressed, violent, delusional Pinkamena Diane Pie (who is also very defensive of her sister).