This explains why so many of the peripheral characters on Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley were Italian-American.
All of my relatives are Jewish stereotypes. This includes my three-year-old niece who’s crazy for gefilte fish and pickles. My parents are loud, love the work of Barbra Striessand, love flea markets, and are insanely nurturing and caring. After getting off the plane and arriving at their place, I assure them that I don’t need anything and would just like to take a nap. There follows a half hour or so of them offering me things to make sure I’m okay- blankets, pillows, a drink, something to eat, explaining how exactly to work the particular array of cable, television, and vcr in that room in case I wake up and want to watch a movie (In Dad’s defense, I think he and I are the only ones who can decipher some of the bizarre wiring in our homes.), is it too hot, is it too cold, there’s Diet Mountain Dew (my favorite) in the fridge if I want any, are you sure you don’t want a blanket or pillow, oh and we checked that the chicken in the fridge contains no milk products, oh I have this article I want to show you.
They live near Boca Raton. The whole place is filled with Jewish stereotypes.
The Simpsons have five Jewish characters- Krusty and Kent Brockman who have both abandoned or hid their Jewish identity in order to gain acceptance and success (An early tape of Kent Brockman has him giving his name as Kenny Brocklestein)Who plays the rabbinical father of Krusty the Klown? Jackie Mason. Professor Frink is wimpy, awkward nerd. Who plays his dad in a Halloween episode? Jerry Lewis. This is also the episode in which they finally reveal that Frink is likely Jewish (His dad uses Yiddish terms of endearment and asks for Jewish food. Frink’s response includes “Hebraic desires”.)
I’ll worry about anti-semitism in the media when I start seeing some.