"Okay, this is something that has bothered me for years, and in all sorts of medium. So I'm furnishing my little Animal Crossing cottage, right? But I don't know if I'm comfortable with keeping a caged canary (which is a furniture item) in the window when my next-door neighbor is a talking, four-foot-tall robin.

It's the same thing in what was one of my favorite childrens's shows, Arthur, too. He's got a little pet dog, but one of his best friends is also a dog. And it happens again with Goofy and Pluto of the Disney universe; both are dogs, but they live in different castes of domestic hierarchy. What is this?

And when you encounter this sort of thing at such a young age, it's...I don't know, it's just crippling."

"It kind of weirds me out when animals TO animals exist in a world where animals are more like people than animals. ...Let me try that again."

"You could've just asked."

Rarity: Are there ponies where you come from?

Phoenix: Yeah, there are.

Rarity: Excellent! Before you go back, to your world I mean, I want give you some of my concepts. [...] I would like you to show my work to some of the ponies you know and ask for their opinions on them. This could really help me expand my business! [...]

Phoenix: I'll have a little trouble doing that. They don't talk.

Rarity: They don't talk? My word... What a strange world you come from Mr. Wright. Mute ponies... none of them fly or use magic?

Phoenix: They don't do that either. They just sort of sit in petting zoos and perplex. And they kinda smell...