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Jewish Complaining

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Jewish Complaining	comment	All right, all right! I'll describe Jewish Complaining here already! There, are you happy now? Jews have a long, proud history of whining and complaining (aka, "kvetching"), or at least the Ashkenazi do. They will complain about many things, in many forms, whether it's Hypochondria (Oh God, can you catch something from writing that?), having to go to work, having to come home from work, paying too much for something, paying too little for something and worrying it's not good, their friends' bad habits, their friends' good habits, their Jewish Mothers thinking they aren't good enough, or the mothers themselves thinking their children aren't good enough. This is Truth in Television and is actually joked about more among Jews themselves than anyone who's ever been prejudiced against them. Heck, if you see a TV show with Jewish people being big whiners, it's more than likely a Jew wrote those parts. But when things get truly serious, the complaining tends to die down as they get more somber. This comes from the actual history of the habit: superstitious Jews believed showing happiness or satisfaction brought the Evil Eye, so they complained to ward off the demon world. Actual misfortune "fills the need" for misfortune in keeping demons away, and may well already have been caused by a demon, so why try to ward them off when they're already here? Jews Love to Argue is a Sister Trope. Hey, a lot of arguing among Jews is often just them complaining about each other at the same time. The Greeks do this too: it is called gana. Various Eastern European countries also have this practically as a national pastime. Same for the Irish. Germans and Austrians have perfected it into an art form, the political satiric cabaret. The French (both in French Canada and France) consider this their national sport. Compare Sickly Neurotic Geek. noreallife
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Jewish Complaining / int_14e0f4f9	comment	Done a number of times in Fiddler on the Roof, especially by Tevye, including once as a way to save face after he finally gave his blessing to one of his daughters after she married a Gentile. Yenta is also a big fan of kvetching, but hers is a lot more shameless.
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Jewish Complaining / int_1bda074e	comment	Maus: Vladek does complain a lot in the present day.
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Jewish Complaining / int_322c2b7c	comment	The Hebrew Hammer uses this as the final test the "Jewish Justice League" has to gain entrance, seen above. It also turns out to be part of a Jew's ultimate weapon.
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Jewish Complaining / int_37b6c44f	comment	Mushnik in The Little Shop of Horrors (and the recursive adaptation Little Shop of Horrors).
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Jewish Complaining / int_3a40271e	comment	The opening number from the musical March of the Falsettos is titled "Four Jews In A Room Bitching." (Well, technically, Whizzer is by his own admission only half-Jewish, but it doesn't stop him from bitching.)
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Jewish Complaining / int_426a7572	comment	The Animaniacs sketch "Noah's Lark" models its Noah, both verbally and vocally, after comedian Richard Lewis, whose acts are nothing but this.
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Jewish Complaining / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld tale Gap Year Adventures, the two back-packing graduate Assassins arrive at a kibbutz in Cenotia which, to the horror of the Rimwards Howondalandian is populated by the Discworld's version of Complaining Jews. Her Cenotian friend tells her this is how it is: two Cenotians. Three arguments. Rivka, the Cenotian half of the travelling team, is prone to complaining herself. About her Jewish Mother who is trying to get her safely married off, about the food being unreliably kosher, and above all about how the Guild of Assassins charges fifty percent Guild Tax and is inflexible about negotiating a better deal. Read more in the works of A.A. Pessimal.
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Jewish Complaining / int_4905861f	comment	Miri, Big Boob Auntie and Shlomo from RasputinCatamite.
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Jewish Complaining / int_490e100	comment	Evan plays with it in 13. Archie lampshades this trope during 'Terminal Illness'
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Jewish Complaining / int_4d8e5ec	comment	Jon Stewart loves joking about this, usually with some overlap into Jews Love to Argue. ("Black people have blues music, while Jews complain. We just never thought about putting it to music.") Hilariously used when Jon Stewart sliced his hand open while parodying Anthony Weiner's press conference.
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Jewish Complaining / int_4e45b093	comment	Mrs. Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory. She tends to overlap it with Too Much Information, too.
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Jewish Complaining / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): Ives often complains about changes made to the franchises he follows, and the reason he puts up with Tim's girlfriend Ariana seems to be that he loves arguing with her just on principle. He does mellow out a bit in this regard by the time he's a senior in high school and amusingly his family is incredibly mellow and quick to defuse situations rather than argue.
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Jewish Complaining / int_55f41ce9	comment	In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David complains about things even when it's socially unacceptable to do so. Susie Greene is the queen of this trope, however. She spends her whole time calling Larry a 'bald-headed freak' and her husband Jeff a 'fat fuck' because they do something that annoys her and she finds out about it.
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Jewish Complaining / int_60f02ddb	comment	Shari from American Dad!.
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Jewish Complaining / int_6ed09d93	comment	Marty Glouberman from Big Mouth is this to a T. His son Andrew once described him as "a one-star Yelp review come to life".
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Jewish Complaining / int_70d87bbd	comment	In The Sunshine Boys, George Burns and Walter Matthau play old vaudevillians. They're each a Grumpy Old Man, but the Alter Kocker is the grumpier.
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Jewish Complaining / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld Estelle Costanza gripes about everything, which leads to arguments with her Roman Catholic husband Frank who complains just as much. Helen Seinfeld complains about Jerry's career as a comedian, thinking that there isn't much money in it (despite plenty of evidence to the contrary). As a consequence, she constantly sends his gifts back and he in turn will not accept money from them. Despite only appearing in one episode for two scenes, the mohel is one of the best examples in the series. Not one minute after arriving at a house for a bris, he delivers FOUR long, complaining rants, in the span of about two minutes.
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Jewish Complaining / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: After Jimmy McGill embraces the persona of Jewish lawyer Saul Goodman, he plays this up in order to manipulate others. Most notably, in season six, Jimmy infiltrates a country club as part of his Prank Gone Too Far against Howard Hamlin. He's spotted by Kevin Wachtell midway through, who speaks to the manager and tries to get him thrown out. Jimmy buys time by accusing Kevin and the club of being anti-Semitic and lamenting all the discrimination his people have faced, guilting the manager into letting him stay a bit longer.
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Jewish Complaining / int_858624ba	comment	Weaponized by Malcolm in Will & Grace, when he intimidates Grace by saying that he is trained in multiple forms of torture, including "Jewish Whining". Grace immediately steps aside.
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Jewish Complaining / int_994a18ad	comment	Avi Denowitz from Snatch. is a Jewish American criminal who has to travel over to London in order to obtain a diamond one of his men stole from Antwerp. He is not happy about having to be in England and makes it clear at every given opportunity.
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Jewish Complaining / int_9a7b5102	comment	The novel Portnoy's Complaint centres around a young man ranting to his psychiatrist about his obsession with masturbation. His parents also love to complain, and constantly berade him about his lengthy amounts of time on the toilet. His overbearing Jewish Mother is obsessed with his health, and his long hours masturbating in the bathroom leads her to assume he has constipation or diarrheoa from 'eating burgers.'
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Jewish Complaining / int_a5549ed0	comment	All the way back to the Torah. In Numbers 11:5, the people complain that all they have to eat is manna from heaven, whereas in Egypt they had eaten fish. Even God lost patience, and declared that if they wanted meat so much, He'd make it rain meat instead... nothing but meat for weeks and weeks until the Israelites were even more sick of it than the manna.note Thus demonstrating that God is the ultimate Jewish Mother. And this is not before Moses gets a chance to complain to God about the Israelites' complaining and their irrational demands, and telling God to "just kill me and get it over with"! God tries to avert this in the New Testament with Paul the Apostle advising his fellow new Christians in the Book of Philippians to do the Lord's work without grumbling about it, but easier said than done.
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Jewish Complaining / int_a62dae97	comment	The Qur'an : Al Baqarah 67 - 71 recounts how the Children of Israel were commanded by Allah to sacrifice a cow, but they kept asking for more and more details about the cow, making the task difficult for themselves.
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Jewish Complaining / int_ab15a9de	comment	God tries to avert this in the New Testament with Paul the Apostle advising his fellow new Christians in the Book of Philippians to do the Lord's work without grumbling about it, but easier said than done.
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Jewish Complaining / int_ac03a2dd	comment	Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors.
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Jewish Complaining / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live had an It's a Wonderful Life parody (it wasn't the one from season 12 where everyone gets revenge on Mr. Potter; this was from season 36) in which the movie was originally supposed to be a Hanukkah movie instead of a Christmas one — including a lot of Jewish people (save for the characters played by Jimmy Stewart {Jason Sudeikis}, Donna Reed {Abby Elliott}, and the daughter {Nasim Pedrad}) and a lot of this trope and Jews Love to Argue.
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Jewish Complaining / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: Lampshaded by the snarky Mittens about herself in "The Coffee Shop" — she even uses the term "kvetch" to describe her mode of expression. Played with in that while Mittens comes from an urban New York background, she isn't presented as being Jewish.
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Jewish Complaining / int_d9c602eb	comment	The Broflovski family, especially Kyle's cousin, Kyle Schwartz and Sheila, from South Park, the exceptions being Kyle Broflovski himself and his adopted brother Ike.
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Jewish Complaining / int_dca041af	comment	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Everyone in Midge's family exhibits this to different degrees, Abe especially. Midge addresses the subjects in one of her stand-ups:
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Jewish Complaining / int_de1c6fa8	comment	The Rabbi's Cat: Downplayed, the Jewish characters do complain but usually it's appropriate to the setting of 1930s Algiers rather than kvetching about every last thing that annoys them. The titular rabbi's mother is even said to have heard of her son's vocation and proclaim "Rabbi is no job for a Jew!"
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Jewish Complaining / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy likes using this trope a lot, given that most of the writing staff are Jews. Mort Goldman, though he's more of a hypochondriac (whose job is in pharmaceuticals) than a straight-up complainer. The "Moses" segment of "The Griffin Family History" plays this trope agonizingly (yet hilariously) straight: the Jews being liberated from Egypt's tyranny aren't impressed by anything.
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Jewish Complaining / int_ef894e37	comment	Naomi Bunch from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, whose first big entrance in real time (as opposed to flashback or on the phone) was a song full of complaining, "Where's the Bathroom?"
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Jewish Complaining / int_f655ed11	comment	Parodied in the Frasier episode "Merry Christmas Mrs. Moskowitz", when, in their usual "Fawlty Towers" Plot, Frasier and Niles pretend to be Jewish to impress Frasier's new Jewish girlfriend. The complaining part comes from Martin, who hadn't even been told about the plot yet when he does it.
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Jewish Complaining / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Ross Geller from Friends is sometimes criticized for being too whiny. He realizes this when he starts a relationship with Janice (who's considered to be the most annoying woman in the world by the gang) and she breaks up with him because she finds his whining annoying.
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