Seinfeld (TV Series)

The Pony Remark (1991)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Elaine Benes

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• Elaine Benes : Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

  Jerry Seinfeld : Wonder about what?

  Elaine Benes : You know, the spirit world.

  Jerry Seinfeld : What, you think Manya

  [her spirit] 

  Jerry Seinfeld : showed up during the game and put a hex on me?

  Elaine Benes : I have never seen anyone play so bad like that.

  Jerry Seinfeld : But I went to the funeral!

  Elaine Benes : Yeah, but that doesn't make up for "killing" her!

• George Costanza : I just don't see what purpose is it going to serve your going? I mean, you think dead people care who's at the funeral? They don't even know they're having a funeral. It's not like she's hanging out in the back going, "I can't believe Jerry didn't show up".

  Elaine : Maybe she's there in spirit. How about that?

  George Costanza : If you're a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway?

• Jerry Seinfeld : Horses. They're like big riding dogs.

  Elaine Benes : What about ponies, huh? What kind of abnormal animal is that? And those kids who had their own ponies.

  Jerry Seinfeld : Oh, I know. I hated those kids. In fact, I hate anyone that ever had a pony when they were growing up.

  Manya : I had a pony.

  Jerry Seinfeld : Well, I didn't really mean a pony per se.

  Manya : When I was a little girl in Poland... we all had ponies. My sister had pony. My cousin had pony. So, what's wrong with that?

  Jerry Seinfeld : Nothing, nothing at all. I was just merely expressing...

  Helen Seinfeld : Should we have some coffee? Who's having coffee?

  Manya : He was a beautiful pony, and I loved him.

  Jerry Seinfeld : Well, I'm sure you did. Who wouldn't love a pony? Who wouldn't love a person that had a pony?

  Manya : You! You said so.

  Jerry Seinfeld : No, see, we didn't have ponies. I'm sure at that time in Poland, they were very common. They were... probably like compact cars.

  Manya : That's it! I had enough!

  Isaac : Have your coffee, everybody. She's a little upset. It's been an emotional day.

  Jerry Seinfeld : I didn't know she had a pony. How was I to know she had a pony? Who figures an immigrant is gonna have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats... coming into New York Harbor... I never saw one of them sittin' on a pony. But why would anyone come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense. Am I wrong?