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Cheese Sandwich (character)
Fictional character from My Little Pony From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cheese Sandwich is a fictional character who appears in the fourth incarnation of Hasbro's My Little Pony toyline and media franchise, specifically in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010–2019). He is voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic and serves as a rival to Pinkie Pie.[1] The character made his debut in the fourth season episode "Pinkie Pride" and later appears in the ninth season episode "The Last Laugh" and the series finale.
Cheese Sandwich is depicted as an energetic and eccentric anthropomorphic earth pony with a talent for party planning and entertainment that rivals Pinkie Pie's abilities. He travels across Equestria as a professional party planner, earning the title "Super Duper Party Pony." Like Pinkie, he possesses an extensive collection of party equipment, including his own party cannon, and demonstrates similar physics-defying abilities.
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Appearances
Fourth My Little Pony incarnation (2010–2019)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Cheese Sandwich makes his first appearance in the fourth season episode "Pinkie Pride" as a traveling party planner who arrives in Ponyville to organize a birthday party for Rainbow Dash. His reputation as the "Super Duper Party Pony" initially threatens Pinkie Pie's role as Ponyville's premier party planner, leading to a party-planning competition between the two characters. The episode reveals through flashback that Cheese was inspired to become a party pony after attending one of Pinkie's parties as a colt, where she gave him his first smile.
During the "goof off" competition, Cheese’s elaborate party threatens to overwhelm Rainbow Dash, causing Pinkie to realize that a simpler, more personal celebration would be more appropriate. This leads to Cheese graciously conceding and the two party ponies becoming friends. He gifts his rubber chicken, Boneless, to Pinkie as a gesture of friendship before departing Ponyville.
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In April 2011, Yankovic posted a Twitter link to a user-created pony music video featuring scenes from Friendship Is Magic episodes set to "Polkarama!", one of his polka medleys.[2] Co-executive producer Jayson Thiessen discovered the tweet and replied, asking if Yankovic would be interested in guest voicing a character, noting that "Weird Al and My Little Pony seem to go together really well."[3] After receiving positive fan response, Yankovic privately messaged Thiessen about a year later expressing his interest in participating. Series writer Amy Keating Rogers and Thiessen developed Cheese Sandwich as a character who could rival Pinkie Pie in the realm of party planning.[4]
Following the positive reception of his debut episode "Pinkie Pride", Yankovic expressed enthusiasm for the role in a Reddit "Ask me Anything" session, stating that he "had a blast" performing as Cheese Sandwich and was "extremely happy" with the episode. He indicated willingness to reprise the role if asked by the showrunners.[5][6] The character would later return in the season 9 episode "The Last Laugh".[7][8]
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In a 2024 essay examining fatherhood in Friendship Is Magic, Samuel Oatley identified Cheese Sandwich as one of three male characters (along with Quibble Pants and Filthy Rich) who escape the show's typical pattern of either othering single fathers or creating symbiotic fathers who lose their individual identity within marriage. Oatley wrote that Cheese Sandwich's fatherhood is "painted as a mere facet of his personality rather than the totality of his narrative importance," arguing that because his marriage to Pinkie Pie and their child are only revealed in the series finale, his earlier appearances focus on his life as a party planner pony rather than his romantic or paternal relationships. According to Oatley, this narrative approach allows Cheese Sandwich to maintain "a stronger individual presence than many of the other Symbiotic Fathers" by establishing his character before "being pushed into fatherhood after the fact."[9]
In a critical analysis of "Pinkie Pride", author Jen A. Blue examined Cheese Sandwich's role as both a narrative foil and a catalyst for Pinkie Pie's character development. Blue wrote that while Cheese Sandwich "appears straightforwardly to just be a regular, mirror-image foil to Pinkie Pie," his character serves a deeper function in the episode's exploration of concealment and revelation. Blue highlighted how Cheese Sandwich's concealment of his past—that he is "not a 'born' party pony with an origin similar to Pinkie Pie, but rather a shy and lonely child who was inspired by Pinkie to become an entertainer and party planner"—creates a meaningful connection between the characters that transcends simple rivalry. Blue argued that Cheese Sandwich's revelation provides Pinkie Pie with an important part of her development: approval in the present for a past achievement, as she learns that one of the first parties she had even thrown had a transformative impact on someone else. According to Blue, this dynamic demonstrates the episode's success in using a celebrity guest character not only as a spectacle, but also as a vehicle for real character growth and thematic depth.[10]
Carly Olsen of Screen Rant ranked the pairing between Cheese Sandwich and Pinkie Pie the third best pairing in the series.[11]
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