"It''s ok to shoot them Spike, they're just robots!"
Zap
"Oh god Thorax is bleeding to death!"
"They're not Robots Twilight!"
"They're changelings Spike, I don't respect them. Just keep shooting Spike!"

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the relationship between Spike and Twilight. The chemistry is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of equine sociology most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Twilight's optimistic outlook, which is deftly woven into her characterisation- her personal philosophy draws heavily from Renaissance literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike TwiSpike truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the honor in Spike’s personal title “Number One Assistant,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Darwin's British thinkpiece On the Origin of Species. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Lauren Faust’s genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

And yes, by the way, i DO have a TwiSpike tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.