"Woman: I started riding these trains in the forties. Those days a man would give up his seat for a woman. Now we’re liberated and we have to stand.
Elaine: It’s ironic.
Woman: What’s ironic?
Elaine: This, that we’ve come all this way, we have made all this progress, but you know we’ve lost the little things, the niceties.
Woman: No, I mean what does ironic mean?
Elaine: Oh."
Elaine: It’s ironic.
Woman: What’s ironic?
Elaine: This, that we’ve come all this way, we have made all this progress, but you know we’ve lost the little things, the niceties.
Woman: No, I mean what does ironic mean?
Elaine: Oh."
— “The Subway,” Seinfeld, Jan. 8 1992
