@GargantuanBass  
@TexasUberAlles  
Yeah. Anime is “ADR”, I think, where you have to match the lip “flaps” and say your lines in the time allowed, and the animation is already finished.
 
Pony and other DHX shows are “pre-lay”, meaning the dialogue is recorded before the animation. (Source: Trevor Devall’s podcast, Voiceprint. He and his guests, the Canadian VA crew, would talk about their pre-lay shows. If they were lucky they’d maybe get a picture of the character they’d be voicing. Sometimes they had to wing it without a picture. They didn’t get to see the animation until well after the fact.)

@GargantuanBass  
That’s actually how it’s always been done in cheapo animation (like all the classic Hanna-Barbera productions), and it was the industry standard for TV anime until fairly recently; the animation would play on a screen in the voiceover studio with colored bars underneath indicating which character was speaking and how long they had to read a line, and whoever’s color was up would say that line and try to time it to the bar length.

I’ll never understand how people actually thought the animation was done before the voices. Are you stupid?

@Godzelda123  
I think the Voltron callout with ponies was a little overkill for the premiere, personally.

HUGE SPOILER! I had no idea S5 was gonna have voice acting and a Script! Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!