In the book "Something Ain't Kosher Here: The Rise of the "Jewish" Sitcom", Vincent Brook analyzed the episode, saying, "Jerry is made to feel guilty for his 'lethal' pony remark, whence the episode's macabre humor; yet the moral in terms of ethno-spatial identity is clear. In its violent rejection of Manya, "Seinfeld" has driven descent-based ethnicities (and their legacy of privation and self-sacrifice) off the face of the earth, and literally off the air. There is no place for traditional Jewishness in the hedonistic "Seinfeld" world, "The Pony Remark" vociferously proclaims."