Bob refuses to attend, disregarding it as being exclusive to young girls, but is told by Teddy that it is actually a meeting ground for a subculture of adult male fans of the series who call themselves "Equesticles" because "they have testicles."

At the convention, Bob impresses Bronconius with his display of Equestranauts trivia, and begins to partake in various Equesticle activities with the group, such as face-painting, eating from a trough, and getting drunk on cocktails the fans call "horse medicine."

Angered that his whole fandom ordeal (which resulted in a small, nondescript, unfinished tattoo which remains for the rest of the series) may have been for nothing, Bob orders Tina to play with the doll before she goes to bed.

Club gave the episode an A, saying it "offers a master class in the careful construction and destruction of its absurd scenario, and this is a feat that takes considerable skill.

He also praised the episode's knowledge of the My Little Pony fandom, writing, "[This] real-world counterpart feels less like a target for mockery and more like an inspiration for affectionate parody and a jumping-off point for something far stranger.

"[2] Robert Ham of Paste gave the episode a 9.8, writing "Maybe I don't watch enough TV because I have to wonder what took a series this long to mock the brony phenomenon [...].