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Alter Kocker
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A senior citizen with a Yiddish accent. In fiction, Yiddish accents are common for old characters, even if their families are of a completely different culture. Alter Kockers are most common in comedies, due to the influence of Jewish comedians. Many Borscht Belt comics had immigrant parents with thick Yiddish accents. Sometimes, a character shown in the future or undergoing Rapid Aging will inexplicably gain a Yiddish accent and stereotypical Alter Kocker mannerisms, following Rule of Funny. Truth in Television, nearly all depictions of the Yiddish accent are spoken by older characters, particularly those who reached adulthood before 1945, due to cultural assimilation and the destruction of much of Europe's Jewish communities, leading to Yiddish no longer being commonly spoken among secular Jews in the United States. The adoption of Hebrew as the national language of Israel also served to hasten the decline of Yiddish, now seen as outmoded and an indication of a lack of education. Now that the older generation of Yiddish English speakers have almost died out outside of Hasidic communities, newer depictions often swap out the Yiddish accent for a working-class New York one with the occasional Yiddish word dropped in; the second and third generations are alter kackers now. Incidentally, the phrase alter Kacker literally means "old shit[ter]." It's the Yiddish equivalent to the American slang phrase "old fart." Also incidentally, it means the exact same thing in German (Yiddish is closely related to German), though they mostly defecal it into alter Knacker which just means "old geezer". Related to Informed Judaism. Compare Grumpy Old Man. Likely to exhibit Jewish Complaining and Jews Love to Argue. See Scratchy-Voiced Senior and Curse of The Ancients for other stereotypes about old people's speech. |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has an episode titled "Alta Kockers", guest-starring Judd Hirsch and Wallace Shawn as a pair of elderly, presumably Jewish brothers. | |
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Maus: Vladek is a Holocaust survivor, but that doesn't excuse him from being a grumpy, miserly, racist, and generally unpleasant old man (while he tries to blame it on his experiences, it's pointed out other survivors are nowhere near as stingy as him). | |
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Super Duper Sumos: Wisdom-san, the sumos' master, is an elderly blue man with a Yiddish accent. | |
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One of Grandpa's housemates at the retirement home in The Simpsons is known solely to fans by the nickname "Old Jewish Man" on the basis of his accent. | |
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In an episode of The Good Wife, Will and Diane, in their plot to oust Julian, bring back two equity partners whom they refer specifically as "the alter kockers" in order to get their votes. | |
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Ginsberg's father on Mad Men. | |
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Dan Lauria's character in The Spirit, Commissioner Dolan, lampshades this trope: "I'm just an alter kocker, ya gotta gimme something to work with here." When the Spirit has to explain to Officer Morgenstern what this means, Dolan complains "Jews these days don't even know their own language." | |
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This was how Gravis Mushnik was played by Mel Welles in the original film..."Gravis" sounds like an Old Country name — enough to be used as the surname of Andy Kaufman's character in Taxi — but it is rather of a piece with the "sick" jokes in the film, many of which reference illness and medicine, the last particularly in the scene involving Seymour's mother. (Yes, he has a mother; let a man start singing, and all of a sudden he thinks he's an orphan...and he never calls.) | |
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In Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, one of the Black Rabbits responsible for carrying souls to the afterlife is a straight-up Alter Kocker. | |
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Vampire Girl: Sigfred N. LeRoy. Given that it's a webcomic, one wouldn't know, but Word of God is that his voice would sound similar to John Byner's impersonation of Jackie Mason. His word balloons do indicate that he ends his sentences with a bit of a flourish. | |
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In Ugly Betty, when the title character dreamed of her and Daniel in the far future, they seem to have become this. Betty is Latina, and Daniel certainly isn't Jewish either. | |
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Eddie Murphy's character pretends to be one in The Distinguished Gentleman when campaigning for Congress when his van drives through a Jewish neighborhood, throwing around Yiddish words. Of course, he is earlier revealed to be fluent in Yiddish. | |
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Walter Wolf, the scheming nemesis of Slappy Squirrel on Animaniacs. Slappy too. Even if she isn't explicitly Jewish, she's been in show business so long she's picked it up. | |
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In the Rocko's Modern Life episode where Rocko gets appendicitis, he's being taken to his hospital room, and an old goat with this accent says, "So you think you're sicker than me, eh? I've got boils on my bottom bigger than you! You wanna see?" He appears again during the "Spring Cleaning" Crowd Song in "Zanzibar." Also, Crazy Aunt Gretchen. To be fair, she is in an aquarium tank way too small for her. A gag character of a spider on a toilet in "Leapfrogs" is portrayed as this: "Hey, vad iz dis, a sideshow?!" |
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The Guns of the South: Mr. Goldfarb, a German immigrant and an associate of Judah P. Benjamin, is recruited by Lee to translate the Afrikaner language books. | |
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Mrs. Wolowitz, Howard's mother on The Big Bang Theory. | |
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Tricky Business gives us Arnie Pullman and Phil Hoffman, a pair of Miami nursing-home residents. They're certainly old enough for the trope (83 and 81, respectively), and their speech is peppered with little Yiddishisms: "bupkis", "we know from X" instead of "we know X", Word Schmord, etc. They're pretty good arguers, too. | |
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Tommy Solomon (an alien who pretends to be a largely secular Jewish teen) in 3rd Rock from the Sun occasionally acts this way when he drops his cover. Of course, it was a 90s sitcom and they never showed the aliens' true forms, so this instance of the trope was personified by the (also Jewish) Joseph Gordon-Levitt. No accent, but he'd play up the patronizing crankiness and other mannerisms to a hilt on these occasions. | |
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Arthur from The Holiday...though he's one of a handful of old Jewish guys hanging out in LA, and he even refers to himself as an "old Kocker". | |
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In an episode of Superman: The Animated Series where Mr. Mxyzptlk's fifth-dimensional powers are taken away from him, the tribunal to which he must answer has a definite flavor of "old Jewish men". | |
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Sy Borgman from the New 52 Harley Quinn Comics fits this trope, too. | |
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Many of the characters in Fiddler on the Roof | |
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The Princess Bride has the "old Jewish coot" Miracle Max and his wife, lampshaded by the Jewish-American author William Goldman (who claims he is adapting a centuries-old story). | |
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Truffles from Chowder. | |
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The phrase was mentioned on The Nanny. Interestingly, despite star Fran Drescher's Jewish heritage, the phrase is mistranslated, likely for the sake of the joke. She instead says that it means "Old Cock...er Spaniel." | |
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Several older characters on Seinfeld, including the Mandelbaums, George's parents, and at times Jerry's own father, Morty. At one point they have an argument which degenerates into nothing but the word "ehh!". Jerry's Uncle Leo is probably the most stereotypical of an old, grumpy Jew. Every single resident of the retirement condo where Helen and Morty lived, The Pines Of Mar Gables/Del Boca Vista, seems to be an Alter Kocker- especially Morty's arch enemy Jack Klompus. | |
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Mervin the magician in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "King Mario of Cramalot". | |
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The old man who asks to use the employee bathroom in Clerks. Despite pestering Dante and grossing him out by asking for a nudie magazine, he's an otherwise friendly guy. Unfortunately, he ends up traumatizing Katelyn when he dies while masturbating on the toilet and she has sex with his corpse, assuming that it's Dante. | |
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Mixels has Nurp-Naut, a character made up of two entities: a baby and an elder, in one body with a swapping head. To emphasize that Naut is the elder, he's given this accent. | |
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Sleeper has two old Jewish robots who run a clothing shop, complete with yamulke-like head covers. | |
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In the final few episodes of Soap Jodie (Billy Crystal) did some past life regression hypnosis and got stuck as a 90 year old Brooklyn Alter Kocker originally from Minsk. | |
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Murray from The Cleveland Show. | |
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In later episodes of Boy Meets World, Cory seems to have matured into a full-blown Alter Kocker (having aged out of his Mouthy Kid phase) minus the accent, despite only being in his late teens. (The actor who plays him, Ben Savage, is Jewish.) | |
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Foundation Series' "Search by the Foundation": Preem Palver and his wife are rustic farmers - and speak with an Immigrant Yiddish accent (which Dr Asimov had grown up with). Subverted Trope, because Palver isn't an unintelligent hick, he is First Speaker of the Second Foundation. | |
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In Snatch., the Jewish gangsters in the opening credits dress up like Alter Kocker, with Hasidic dress and Yiddish accents. Frankie Four Fingers' natural accent, however, is very Yiddish. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, when Chazz is under the control of the Society of Light, Jaden duels him using Chazz's favoured Ojama cards against him. One card causes Ojama tokens to appear on Chazz's side of the field, which look like elderly versions of the normal monsters. In the English dub, they sound Yiddish. | |
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On Rugrats, Boris and Minka, Tommy Pickles' maternal grandparents, who actually are Eastern European (presumably Russian) Jews. | |
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On Futurama, every single Decapodian is, at least to some extent, an Alter Kocker, though Harold Zoid and the ambassador are straight examples. | |
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Judd Hirsch's character in Independence Day is an old Jewish man who kvetches constantly and speaks Yiddish as a Second Language. | |
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Pa Grape in VeggieTales, which is kind of odd because he was originally introduced as the patriarch of a hillbilly family, and none of the other members of the family sounded Jewish. This may be from the limitations of placing most characters on the shoulders of Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki, due to limiting most characters to whoever they can record in-house. | |
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Mushnik from Little Shop of Horrors, though some cottage productions give him a German accent just for fun. This was how Gravis Mushnik was played by Mel Welles in the original film..."Gravis" sounds like an Old Country name — enough to be used as the surname of Andy Kaufman's character in Taxi — but it is rather of a piece with the "sick" jokes in the film, many of which reference illness and medicine, the last particularly in the scene involving Seymour's mother. (Yes, he has a mother; let a man start singing, and all of a sudden he thinks he's an orphan...and he never calls.) |
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In Borgel, Borgel's father is an old man who still lives in The Old Country and speaks only in Yiddish-accented yells (this is particularly strong in the audiobooks, where the author gives him a heavy Yiddish accent). | |
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Miracle Max and his wife in The Princess Bride. Miracle Max was, on VH-1's I Love The '80s, referred to as "a little Jewish troll." Max's being played by the then thirty-something Billy Crystal only makes it funnier. | |
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Iroh in Avatar: The Abridged Series. Bear in mind, the original has a Japanese accent while everyone else in the Fire Nation has a standard American one. | |
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Harley Quinn (2019) Sy Borgman, Ivy's Retired Monster landlord, played by Jason Alexander, is a cranky former secret agent from Israel. In first-season finale, Clayface tries to disguise himself as an elderly wolf-man with a Yiddish accent. When Doctor Psycho asks why his character is Jewish, Clayface simply responds, "I took a swing." |
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In Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the humorous story "The Viper" (itself a retelling of an old joke) relies on this trope for the punchline. An elderly woman living alone receives an anonymous phone call from a mysterious man who says "This is the Viper. I'm coming for you." The man keeps calling and saying he's getting closer and closer, panicking the woman. She tries summoning the police, but then hears a knock on the door, slowly opens it...and reveals a little old man standing with a bucket and rag. It's the Viper—and "he vishes to vipe and vash the vindows!" | |
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On Danny Phantom, Vlad Plasmius's ghostly hench-vultures all have Alter Kocker voices and mannerisms. | |
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On Northern Exposure transplant Joel mentions them back in his "old country" of Queens, NY from time to time. In one episode, he finds the local Indians using what he knows as Yiddish words, which turns out to be due to memories of a Jewish explorer. One mentions hearing a television show using “aldakaka, that’s one of our words.” When Joel confirms it’s Jewishness, he asks “Does it mean ‘wise and venerable one’?” “Well… yes.” | |
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The Indian Chief in Blazing Saddles even speaks Hebrew. | |
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In So Haunt Me, Yetta, the ghost of the Jewish Mother who haunts the Rokebey family home, is an old London Jew who talks in exactly this way. | |
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Mayer in Lost Girl. | |
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Jellystone!: In this series, Lippy the Lion is an elderly man with a pronounced Yiddish accent. He even says "Meshuggah" at one point. | |
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In the two-part South Park episode "Do the Handicapped Go To Hell?"/"Probably", Pope John Paul II speaks this way - despite being the leader of the Catholic Church! | |
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In Ethan, Suspended, the title character's grandparents are this. | |
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Bernie Kibbitz on All That. | |
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Nana, the feisty old lady from New York in the Madagascar films. | |
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Yogurt in Spaceballs is played as an old Jewish alien. | |
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Doggy in his "review" show spin-off of The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat. | |
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Albert "Pops" Solomon, Beverley's father (Adam's grandfather) in The Goldbergs - he could well be poster boy for this trope, especially since he's played by distinguished Jewish American thespian George Segal. | |
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