Motivation Quote by Stephen Baker

The joke lands because it flips a familiar hierarchy: you think youre shopping for something to entertain a pet, but the punchline is that the most reliable, ergonomic, endlessly customizable toy is you. Baker frames the owner as a product with specs - "large", "multipurpose", "completely assembled" - borrowing the language of consumer design to mock how seamlessly humans volunteer for the role. Its affectionate, but it also needles the ego. We like to imagine we train animals; this line suggests were the ones being optimized, nudged, and conditioned into providing enrichment on demand.

As an athlete, Baker is tuned to bodies as instruments: joints with ranges of motion, weight that can be climbed, a voice that becomes feedback. "Parts can be made to move" reads like a wink at physical control and responsiveness - the dog (or cat) doesnt need a fancy gadget; it needs a willing system that reacts. The detail "it makes a sound when you jump on it" is the comedic tell: pain and laughter collapse into the same squeal, revealing how caretaking often involves consenting to mild indignity.

In 1960s consumer culture - peak plastic, peak marketing, peak household gadgetry - the line also drags the idea of the perfect toy. No manufactured item competes with a human who provides motion, attention, and drama. The subtext is an oddly tender admission: pets dont just want objects, they want us. The owner-as-toy is a gag, but its also a portrait of companionship as mutual use.