Posted BySteve Szilagyi on May 12, 2001 at 15:19:33:
The "polopony" gag may be way older than Steptoe or Gleason. I can recall seeing it in a Three Stooges short. And since the Stooges, for all their virtues, we rarely original, I wouldn't be surprised of the "polopony" gag were truely ancient -- going back perhaps as far as the Polyponesian Wars.