Seinfeld (TV Series)

The Pony Remark (1991)

Rozsika Halmos: Manya

Quotes 

• 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?