"I'll be there in just a second! Auntie Pinkie Pie just needs a little help. Could you ask Spike to come around the back window? We need more, uhhh, firepower!"

"Heya, Spike! Well... it's a funny story!"

"Well, not exactly funny. It's not like, a 'ha-ha' sort of funny? It's more of a 'wow, isn't the passage of time and the things it does to ponies crazy' kind of funny? The kind of funny that isn't exactly funny, but you don't have any choice but to laugh, because the alternative is throwing up and crying a lot and being sad?"