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Describe All Jews Are Cheapskates Here. It's free, after all. Simply put, the stereotype that Jewish people are thrifty with their cash and liable to complain about having to spend it. Being smart with money actually is part of Jewish culture, for various reasons, but this trope is about exaggerating that aspect to comic levels. Jews aren't just good with money, but really cheap. They won't spend money if they don't have to, even if it's a necessity. They would haggle with anyone over anything (especially since Jews Love to Argue). This kind of joke comes especially from Jews themselves (so doesn't always carry the unfortunate implications of similar tropes). By the way, this doesn't preclude Conspicuous Consumption, just that they will make it clear they got it at a better price. Usually they "know a guy" who can give them a fantastic discount on something, possibly because it Fell Off the Back of a Truck (although they would never stoop to actual stealing, themselves. Incidentally, you see this one a lot from Jewish characters living in and around New York City or New Jersey, which are major shipping hubs). In Great Britain, this trope is less common, since Jews are a much smaller and less culturally-represented minority, and their economical niche is filled by Scotsmen, a never-failing source of British ethnic jokes. Yorkshiremen also have this reputation, especially among other Northerners. Welsh people point at Cardis—no, not her, people from Cardiganshire in western Wales. In France, the Normans have this reputation; in Germany, it's Swabians, Westphalians, and (among Westphalians) people from Lippe; in Spain, the Catalans; in Sweden, SmÃ¥landers; in Denmark, the Jutes. Parsimony is also seen as a peculiarly Prussian trait. It's also broadly associated with Germanic people as a whole, especially Switzerland and Germany. Switzerland is well-known for its banking system, and the European Central Bank is located in Frankfurt, Germany, which is itself a major financial hub (Germans also tend to support austerity measures toward other EU countries). In Northern Europe, the Dutch and the Finns tend to have a reputation of frugality. Among Italians, the Genoese are most likely to be stereotyped as stingy. In modern times, thriftiness is often a trait associated with East Asians, especially the Chinese. Though there are literal Asian Jews, such as the Chinese Kaifeng Jews, this stereotype is rarely used except as a joke.note Curiously, those Chinese who have heard of Jews at all will often hold this opinion about them, but also consider it a positive trait! This positive view is also held in Japan and to some extent Korea, and some Japanese officials advocated admitting Jewish refugees because they believed it would make Japan economically powerful. Also, the Cold War-era generation of people from the former Eastern Bloc, no matter what ethnicity, is stereotyped this way by the younger, more Westernized generation, to which they agree with pride as this lifestyle enabled them to survive in the times of mass poverty and low living standards, and chastise younger people for their consumerism. In Israel, where most people are Jews, the stereotype is applied to Persian and Yemeni Jews. This is a Lighter and Softer successor to the old Greedy Jew stereotype. Do not confuse the two. Even this trope borders on N-Word Privileges as, like any ethnic stereotype, it can be quite offensive when coming from an outsider. See also All Jews Are Ashkenazi, Yiddish as a Second Language. noreallife |
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Don Jacoibo, a previous character in Condorito, was a very amoral Jewish loan shark. | |
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In Maus, Art Spiegelman's dad is...well...a walking racial stereotype, going to comical lengths to avoid spending money (including taking back half-eaten boxes of cereal to a supermarket and harassing the manager until he actually gets a refund for the uneaten portions.) This brought some heat that the book was promoting racism, except Art was simply chronicling things his father did while he wrote the comic. The first pages of the second book shows Art's fear of portraying his father's behavior, and he frequently brings up his discomfort with the idea that he is perpetuating the Greedy Jew stereotype in his attempts to give his father an honest portrayal. Vladek defends himself by saying he's obsessive over money because careful manipulation of very scarce resources is what saved his life many times. Vladek's wife Mala, on the other hand, comments that they both have Holocaust survivors in their families, and Vladek is the only one they know who behaves this way. | |
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On Steam Train, Danny (who is Jewish) admitted that this stereotype always confused him: | |
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Strike Commander plays this trope straight with Virgil Beetlebaum, The Squad's accountant, who complains constantly about every single financial decision, and literally cannot be pleased no matter how much money you make. Subverted in that Virgil is ultimately a sympathetic character who has an incredibly difficult job keeping the Wildcats afloat with all of the overhead. | |
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Accidentally inverted in Racial Holy War. The writer was trying to go for the Greedy Jew stereotype, but invoked this by having the Jewish enemies' power be to make the Aryan player characters skip their turn by giving them money, implying it's not the Jews who are cheapskates or greedy here. One commentator described this as the writers being "too stupid to get their own prejudices right". | |
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In the "Jewsploitation" film The Hebrew Hammer, the title character tells his black friend that a "Stereotype Alarm" in the villain's base will go off if they do something stereotypical, and he then lists a series of classic black racial stereotypes (including playing basketball and eating watermelon). His friend explains that, despite his pride in his heritage and membership in the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, he does not exemplify these stereotypes, but then the Hammer picks up a penny from the floor thinking that Raheem had dropped it, setting off the alarm. An earlier scene had him and Esther escaping from a mob via the Jewish Underground - which played like an amusement park ride through Jewish history, including awful scenes of their persecution throughout history that both she and Mordecai laugh at... until they see a Jewish woman getting her credit card declined at Macy's, at which point both become somber. The Jewish Atomic Clock, which runs on Judaium, keeps track of all the most cherished Jewish holidays - Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, and the Macy's 50% Off Sale. |
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Hinted at in Everyday Heroes, when Lee Free (the oldest one) convinces the arcade manager to let Summer and Carrie Work Off the Debt for the damages they caused... then turns around and charges them for his legal services. However, since it only took him two minutes of work, at his regular hourly rate, his fee amounts to five dollars total (or, as he puts it, "lunch at Taco Bell"). | |
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An older example is the Jewish Doctor in Arabian Nights sub-story "The Hunchback's Tale" who thinks about money when he hears a patient comes to visit but is portrayed as a sympathetic character and a competent doctor. | |
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In Monty Python's Life of Brian, failure to haggle in the market is a surefire way to attract a lot of unwanted attention. | |
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The Discworld of A.A. Pessimal has Rivka ben-Divorah, who whiletouring abroad, is happy for her friend to do most of the spending for both of themnote To be fair, Rivka's parents have blocked her from accessing her own cash, forcing Mariella to budget for both of them, and demonstrates she can do complex currency conversions in her head even before the other person has stopped speaking. As a Klatchian friend remarks | |
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The Daily Show: Jon Stewart makes jokes about this, like by comparing Yom Kippur to Lent: "Forty days, to one day. Even in sin, you're paying retail!" | |
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Ends up in Static Shock of all places. At Frieda's Chanukah party, the lights go out (due to supervillain hijinks) and one of the guests, who is presumably also Jewish, jibes Frieda's dad that he was probably too cheap to pay the electric bill. | |
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Abacuc in The Incredible Army of Brancaleone is a Jewish merchant and part of the titular Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. He is so protective of his money that it's a running gag for him to hide inside his own portable vault whenever he feels in danger of being robbed. | |
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In one episode of Knowing Me Knowing You, a Jewish comedian is guesting, and Alan asks him to tell a joke about Jews, which he does. Alan responds, to general disgust, with: | |
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In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David, despite being a half-billionaire, is portrayed as being even worse than George Costanza, his Seinfeld alter-ego, when it comes to money. Larry is rather often characterized as a "cheap Jew" in his endless quibbling and penny-pinching over tips, bills, and other minor sums that he shouldn't really care about in his financial position. In contrast, on the show, the actual Jason Alexander (who is also Jewish) is shown tipping both generously and anonymously, much to Larry's annoyance. He usually "justifies" it by going on tangents about various social conventions, riffs on which Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld run on. | |
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It was a little subtle, but Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show was Jewish and always had "a guy" for anything you wanted to get cheaply. | |
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One character on The Young Ones (played by Arnold Brown) plays with this trope by describing himself as being "Scottish and Jewish — two racial stereotypes for the price of one!" Works on multiple levels because in the UK the Scots are also commonly stereotyped as being cheapskates, and two of anything for the price of one would therefore appeal to them, too. | |
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In the World War series, RAF radar operator David Goldfarb is always careful to be generous, so that his friends don't accuse him of this trope. | |
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The House of Rothschild: Even a movie about antisemitism can't resist this joke. A cabbie complains about the small tip he got from Nathan Rothschild—the richest Jew in Europe—saying that even Nathan's daughter Julie tips him more. Nathan shoots back that Julie has a rich father, but he doesn't. | |
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Features in A Field Guide to the Jewish People, i.e. Esther maintains her Gentile disguise by "going so far as to pay retail on three distinct occasions." | |
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Jack Benny of The Jack Benny Program. Perhaps it bears mentioning that his birth name was "Benjamin Kubelsky." His stage persona (not his real-life personality) was one of the most titanic cheapskates in all of comedy, and provided him with what is widely regarded as one of the funniest exchanges in the history of radio: Jack Benny is kind of an unusual example of this, as while his persona is a perfect example of this trope, that persona wasn't explicitly Jewish and was more of a WASP if anything. Thus, his being a Jewish stereotype/being played by a Jewish actor is sort of subtext. Also, in real life, Benny was a massive subversion of the trope, being extremely generous. |
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The Nanny. Fran is something of a played with example. Fran was an avid Fashionista and frequently mentioned having her credit cards maxed out, including an episode dealing with being a shopping addict. On the other, she was shown to be rather thrifty about it, favoring outlet malls, shoving her feet into too-small shoes that were on sale, and showing that some of her clothes came from having designer Todd Oldham as a cousin. Her family plays it much more straight: Grandma Yetta apparently recycled tea bags, Sylvia would buy cheap shoes and put them in the freezer so they'd be less painful, and she apparently taught Fran such tips as "why buy Sweet-n-Low when restaurants give it away" and "suck the innards out of chocolate covered cherries before they weigh the bag." | |
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Jerry's family in Seinfeld. His father takes particular pride in finding merchandise that is so cheap that it might be stolen. However, he also Insists on Paying for everything when Jerry is around (because he and his wife refuse to believe Jerry isn't broke). Jerry himself is actually a subversion; he's immensely generous with his money and often gives thoughtful and expensive gifts. It's one of the character's few redeeming traits. | |
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Grace Adler in Will & Grace. | |
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In A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, Seth Goldstein (who has recently converted to Christianity) asking Kumar to pay back the 57 cents that he owes is taken as a sign that he is still a Jew at heart. | |
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The American Splendor episode "Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarkets" is about the various incidents the narrator observes of old Jewish ladies trying to get discounts. At the end of the story, he's astonished to encounter an old Jewish lady who actually gives back the extra change the cashier gave her by accident. | |
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The mother in Taking Woodstock. She turns out to have a huge stash of money in the end, she just was tight with the money to keep her son helping around the motel. | |
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In Atom RPG, equipping a kippah gives the user a bonus to the Barter skill. | |
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The Two Ronnies snuck in a joke about Disraeli combining the stereotype with real 19th-century politics. | |
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In an episode of Shameless (US), Frank tries to sell a gold watch to a Jewish pawnbroker. After clumsily trying to get in the pawnbroker's favor by talking about how he thinks the Israelis should just smash up the Palestinians (the pawnbroker supports a 2 state solution), Frank gets annoyed when the pawnbroker won't raise his offered price, saying that he's "Jewing him down" incorrectly. | |
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Inverted by Futurama's Dr. Zoidberg. Not only is he established as being terrible with money (easily falling for scams or buying multiple items from infomercials), but (more positively) "The Tip of the Zoidberg" reveals that he was perfectly willing to sacrifice a lucrative career for the sake of Prof. Farnsworth's friendship. | |
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In The Bible when the Lord announces his intention to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because the people are sinful, Abraham haggles with God over how many righteous men in the city would be enough to spare it — and specifically, his innocent nephew Lot. In the end, there aren't enough righteous residents, but Lot and his daughters get out anyway. The "Lot and his daughters" thing becomes a problem not too long after... | |
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In a Robot Chicken skit where Seth MacFarlane has the power to set up Cutaway Gags, he brings up the idea of Scooby Jew. Cut to a stereotypically-dressed Scooby haggling over Scooby snacks in exchange for going into a haunted house. | |
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The Left Behind series uses this trope, falling firmly on the unfortunate implications end of the scale. | |
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In Humoresque, Leon's Jewish father doesn't want to fork over $4 to buy Leon a violin at a thrift store. It's $4 in early 20th-century money, but still. A bit of humor follows as Leon's father tries to convince him that a kazoo and a music box are just as good. | |
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In Freaks and Geeks, Neil Schweiber is discussing negative stereotypes with an unnamed black character, claiming Jews have it much worse because "Last year, I was elected school treasurer. I didn't even run!" | |
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Angel Schmaltzy of Big O Abridged is this, as seen in Episodes 3 and 4. Oh, and Cassius 614, who does the voice, is Jewish. | |
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South Park: Kyle Broflovski's cousin Kyle Schwartz plays this for laughs, along with other New England Jew stereotypes. After Cartman accepts Kyle Broflovski's offer to not bully Schwartz in exchange for forty dollars, Schwartz immediately on meeting Cartman asks him how much his jacket cost. Cartman sighs heavily. Kyle himself gets this in "Good Times With Weapons;" he thinks he should dump his weapons so he can deny he ever had them, but Cartman smirks and tells him he would never allow himself to throw away something he spent money on. He's right. In "Two Days Before the Day after Tomorrow", when the boys are about to be rescued by the government from a burning oil factory, Cartman demands the little bag of gold from Kyle that he states all Jews carry around their necks. As it turns out, Kyle actually does carry gold on him. Not only that, but he carries a bag of fake gold to keep the real bag of gold safe, just like all Jews do, apparently. When Cartman calls him out on this, Kyle looks like he's about to surrender the real gold... only for him to toss it away into the fire, making sure Cartman can never have it. Subverted in "Night of the Living Homeless" when Kyle gives a homeless man $20. Because of that, all of the homeless invade South Park. But it turns out that it wasn't Kyle's fault, but the fault of the neighboring town of Evergreen, who exiled the homeless and sent them to South Park. And then subverted majorly in "Margaritaville" when he uses his American Express credit card (with no spending limit) to pay off the debts of all of South Park, much to the dismay of his mother Sheila, who says he's ruining himself. However, this is almost a double subversion as the entire episode has Kyle as a Christ allegory, equating his taking on said debt with Christ's martyrdom. |
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Family Guy tends to do this a lot, partially because one of its creators is Jewish. "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein," where Peter wants to find a Jew to do his accounts (the person he finds, a Jewish accountant, points out that this is an unfair stereotype). In another episode Flashback Twist, Peter tries to pass himself off as a Hasidic Jew to get off work. At a synagogue, he strikes up a conversation filled with this stereotype and gets kicked in the groin. They even exaggerate it and pull this on Jesus, where he delivers an Aesop on religion. Peter asks Jesus to prove he's Jewish by calculating an appropriate tip on a $180 bill. In the episode where Meg turns to a life of crime and robs the pharmacy Mort tells her she can take the donation money for children with cancer since he never gives it to them anyway. And in the same scene, when Brian is trying to use a magazine article to convince her not to go through with the robbery, Mort complains "This isn't a library!" In "Road to Germany," when Stewie and Brian travel back in time to Poland, on September 1st, 1939, to retrieve Mort, who accidentally used Stewie's time machine. They track him down to a Synagogue where he's witnessing the wedding of an ancestor. Mort thinks he's in heaven since he's seeing "my frugal Aunt Ruth, my thrifty Uncle lsaac... my bargain-hunting Aunt Flo... and my Great-Aunt Vera who didn't like to spend a lot on anything." In "Mr. and Mrs. Stewie", Stewie and his new girlfriend, Penelope put a bomb in Mort's wallet, which will explode when he opens it. Two weeks pass, and Mort is still okay. In "Burning Down the Bayit", Peter has difficulty explaining the concept of 'Buy one, get one free' to Mort who only hears non-sensical gibberish. Though only in reference to doing it in his own store since he hears the phrase just fine when Peter brings up a theoretical store doing the same offer, and asks him excitedly which store it is. |
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The Merchant class in Pokémon Clover. Aside from being designed after the stereotypical Greedy Jew and having Jewish names, they are the only trainers that won't give you any money when you defeat them. This is most obvious when you rescue them from Polk when they still refuse to give you anything despite the fact that you saved their lives. | |
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Gets some use on Drawn Together. For example, Clara's anti-Jew scarecrow, which looks like a waiter with a sign saying "Tips please" on it. | |
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Ross Geller from Friends. At times also his sister, Monica, as in "The One Where Rosita Dies" where Phoebe Buffay refers to the Geller siblings as "the worst tippers in the world" after having them as massage clients. | |
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In The Sopranos episode "Chasing It", where Tony's debts with his Jewish friend and loan shark Hesh grow out of control, he complains about him fitting this trope to his shrink. She responds by saying that it's an ugly stereotype. In "Pax Soprana", Hesh does almost spoil Tony's and Johnny Sack's plan to bail Hesh himself out of some hock with Junior, who has instituted a retroactive tax on Hesh's businesses upon becoming boss. Junior listens and "magnanimously" lowers the rate, and the back taxes owed to "three hundred". Before anyone else can react, Hesh says, "Two-fifty!" There's a moment of brittle silence, and then Junior smiles. "What did I tell you? Hang on to your cock when you negotiate with these desert people!" | |
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Some bullies mock Ferris with this in Fishbones. | |
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Gravity Falls: Deconstructed and partially justified in the case of Grunkle Stan. When first introduced, Stan appears to be a greedy miser who uses his own family to make an extra buck. By the time the Author is introduced, we learn that he's so preoccupied with money because he was homeless for much of his life and had to turn to crime to survive, and now that he owns the Mystery Shack, he has to pay the mortgage on it to have a chance of seeing his brother again. Notably, we don't get any hints that he's Jewish until "A Tale of Two Stans" when a mezuzah is seen in his childhood home. By this point, he's become a sympathetic character. Contrast his actions in the finale with the archetypal Greedy Jew, Shylock, who cares more for money than his own daughter. Stan responds to Bill's offer of money and power with a Megaton Punch, proving he puts his family first. | |
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Confronted with demanding children and a wife who will spent any amount of money on the kids so that the world can see just how awesome they are, paterfamilias Murray Goldberg has been known to grumble at the expense and occasionally put his foot down and say "no". Leading to accusations of mean-ness. | |
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