Ash Ketchum Goes to Barnyard: The Original Party Animals is the first Pokemon/Nickelodeon crossover made by Daniel Esposito. It will appear on Google Drive in the near future.
Plot[]
Otis (Kevin James) is a carefree cow who prefers playing with his friends rather than accepting responsibility; much to the chagrin of his strict adoptive father and barnyard leader, Ben (Sam Elliott). After Otis interrupts a barnyard meeting with his wild antics, Ben warns his son that he will never be happy if he spends his life partying without acting more maturely. Otis ignores his advice and leaves to have fun with his friends Pip the Mouse (Jeffrey Garcia), Freddy the Ferret (Cam Clarke), Peck the Rooster (Rob Paulsen) and Pig the Pig (Tino Insana). That same day, Otis meets a pregnant cow named Daisy (Courteney Cox), who is accompanied by her friend, Bessy (Wanda Sykes).
That night after the farmer (Fred Tatasciore) went to bed, the animals throw a party in the barn. All the animals at the barnyard are there except Ben, who guards the fence line. Otis is assigned a shift along with Ben, but Otis talks himself out of work. Before he leaves, Ben tells him that the night he found him as a baby calf stumbling alone in the meadow, he swore he saw the stars dance, which reminded him that his place was at the farm. Soon after, Ben takes on a pack of coyotes led by Dag (David Koechner), who raid the chicken coop during a rainstorm. He manages to fight off the pack until he is bitten on the leg by Dag, making him fall. The Coyotes pile on Ben, but he manages to grab Dag's leg and escape the pile; using Dag to overpower the coyotes. He threatens to punch Dag but lets him go, scaring him and the coyotes away in defeat. Ben falls to the ground, exhausted. Otis is alerted and he runs outside to his father, who dies from his injuries. The next morning, Ben is buried on a hill by the farmer, and the other animals mourn Ben once the farmer leaves except for Otis.
Following Ben's death, all the animals elect Otis as the new leader of the barnyard. Otis shirks his duties by leaving Freddy and Peck in charge of the coop, then helps the trouble-making "Jersey Cows"; Eddy, Igg, and Bud (S. Scott Bullock, John DiMaggio, and Maurice LaMarche respectively) teach a lesson to a mean, fat youngster called Eugene “Snotty Boy” Beady (Steve Oedekerk) for cow-tipping, eluding the police along the way. Later that night, while Otis is holding Daisy's hoof under the starlight, he overhears the coyotes chasing a rabbit and leaves her to pursue the coyotes and avenge his father's death. Otis tries to fight the coyotes, but is outnumbered. Since Otis is weaker, Dag proposes a deal: he and his pack will take various barnyard animals at random times and that, if Otis tries to do anything about it, they will slaughter everyone at the barnyard. Otis decides to leave the barnyard, realizing his chances of victory are slim.
The next morning, before leaving, Otis is informed that the coyotes took the hens including Maddy (Madeline Lovejoy), a little chick who looks up to him. Otis realizes that Dag doubled-crossed him, as he was not expecting him and the coyotes until nightfall, and sets off to rescue the chickens. Otis arrives in the junkyard to fight off the pack and gains the upper hand in the fight, until Dag bites him in the leg. However, Pip, Pig, Freddy, Peck, Miles (Danny Glover), a mule and Ben's old friend, and the Jersey Cows arrive to help Otis. Dag tries to attack Otis from behind, but he is alerted when Peck successfully manages to crow a warning. Otis thwarts Dag's attack and threatens to punch him like Ben did, but warns him to never return to the barnyard before sending him flying out of the junkyard; finally avenging his father's death.
On their way back, Pip reveals to Otis that Daisy went into labor after he left, so Otis and the rest of the animals steal a biker gang’s motorcycles from a diner and make it back to the barn in time to witness Daisy giving birth to a calf that she names Lil' Ben. Otis then takes full responsibility and becomes the new leader of the barnyard as he watches the stars of himself, Daisy and Lil' Ben dancing just like Ben said.
Trivia[]
- Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper, Ruby, Guido, Grandpa Longneck, Grandma Longneck, Skip, Mr. Thicknose, Miss Frizzle, Liz, The Bus, Tim Jamal, Arnold Perlstein, Carlos Ramon, Keesha Franklin, Dorothy Ann, Ralphie Tennelli, Phoebe Terese, Wanda Li, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, and Team Rocket will guest star in this film.
- This film will be dedicated to Tino Insana (1948-2017), who voiced Pig in the real film and died of cancer on May 31, 2017.
- This film will take place before Ash Ketchum Goes Back at the Barnyard.