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Jewish Mother

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Jewish Mother	comment	A Stock Character that makes frequent appearances in Jewish comedy, the stereotypical Jewish Mother is overbearing, emotionally manipulative, and persistently interferes in her children's lives long after they've become adults. Usually, she'll speak with a Yiddish accent (it's worth noting that Jews refer to Yiddish as mammeloshen, literally "mother's tongue") or a New York-ish one, and will often be heard boasting about her offspring ("my son, the doctor..."), when she isn't nagging them. The only option in life for her children is college and (for the girls) marrying a Nice Jewish Boy (often parsed even more with "A nice Ashkenazic boy" or "A nice Ashkenazic doctor" or "A nice Ashkenazic doctor with an apartment in New York and plenty of frequent flier miles to visit your mother whom you never cawl anymore"). Likewise, a Jewish son is expected to bring home a nice Jewish girl. No matter how nice, however, this girl will not be good enough. Heaven forbid he marries a Shiksa Goddess. And above all, she'll want grandkids. A related Stock Character is the stereotypical Jewish Grandmother: just as much meddling and interest in the personal lives of her descendants, but more likely to provide them with highly caloric snacks made with plenty of schmaltz (did we mention that being a Supreme Chef is part of the stereotype?). The Jewish Grandmother is the occasional ally of her grandchildren, as she can use on their mother the techniques of guilt and shame that their mother does on them: "Why don't you let the kids play more? Study, study, study all the time is not good for them! And then they're too tired to even visit their grandmother. Are you trying to keep me from seeing them?" "No mama..." "You be quiet! Now bring me that brisket before you ruin it." Similar stereotypes about mothers and grandmothers are common throughout Eastern Europe, especially the Balkans, and the Mediterranean Basin among Arabs, Berbers, Turks, Greeks, Italians, and Spaniards, as well as among Latin Americans and Asians. On the other hand, the stereotype is seen as uniquely Polish in Israel itself. Apparently, the other Ashkenazim don't think it applies to them — not that there are all that many non-Polish Ashkenazim — and the first-generation Sephardic Jews just saw it as "isn't that just how all moms are?" because their Muslim and Christian Arab or Iranian neighbors had the same stereotype. Surprisingly, the otherwise northern European Scots suffer... erm... enjoy a variation on this trope with their own mothers. Goodness Gracious Me illustrates that on the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, Hindu and Islamic mothers are also a force to be reckoned with and share many characteristics — overbearing nagging and a recourse to inducing guilt in their adult sons, while stuffing everyone with food. Poles and Russians (and Ukrainians, and Belorussians) are also in the same camp, because, well, Ashkenazi Jews are just as much Poles/Russians as they are Jews — Hell, as mentioned above, this stereotype is considered Polish in Israel. And any mother of an adult character who hails from New York City will come off this way, whether Jewish or not (after all, in New York, "even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish"). Expect a more passive-aggressive form of Jews Love to Argue with her. Heck, she's a master of Passive-Aggressive Kombat. A Sub-Trope of My Beloved Smother. See also I Have No Son!, Jewish American Princess, Jewish Complaining, Drama Queen. Can sometimes overlap with Education Mama.
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Jewish Mother / int_148e50f7	comment	Walburga Black from The Black Sheep Dog Series looks suspiciously like one, in spite of not being Jewish. Her eldest son running away was a source of complaints for her, but it gets cranked up when she learns he's living in a Muggle, low-class neighbourhood. Cue Walburga rearranging the flat, insisting for Sirius to attend family dinners, replacing his clothes, and freaking over his possibly dating muggle women since he ought to marry a proper pureblood lady.
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Jewish Mother / int_14e0f4f9	comment	Golde from Fiddler on the Roof.
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Jewish Mother / int_160b4833	comment	Gandhi has stereotypically Jewish parents in Clone High. His mother even threatens to hang herself when he tells her that he wants to become a trucker, going as far as to use "the good noose."
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Jewish Mother / int_1afaadc2	comment	Mark Cohen's mom from RENT.
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Jewish Mother / int_1b0c5ffe	comment	Elizabeth's mother in Better Days constantly voices her disapproval of Fisk and tries to hook Elizabeth up with nerdy Jewish boys.
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Jewish Mother / int_22147342	comment	Subverted in Arrow: Felicity might actually have a better relationship with her mother if her mother fit the stereotype, instead of being flighty and kind of ditzy.
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Jewish Mother / int_2219c941	comment	In the "A Little Chicken Soup Wouldn't Hurt" episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Gomer, who is about to eat a bag of peanuts when he was about to consider eating a hot dog for lunch, is befriended by Molly Gordon, who invites him over to her apartment, where he joins her in a sing-along and even though the lyrics are in Yiddish, he actually sings pretty well. Molly urges Gomer to sit down and eat, offering him some leftovers to take back to camp, which Sgt. Carter and the other Marines enjoy eating.
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Jewish Mother / int_2275c659	comment	Cuddy's mother in House. Made all the more annoying by the fact that she's a convert.
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Jewish Mother / int_22ff6a6f	comment	Ida Morgenstern on Rhoda.
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Jewish Mother / int_2350acad	comment	In Cheers, Lilith's mother Betty Sternin walks in, takes over, and provokes a massive mother-daughter row on Lilith's wedding day to Frasier Crane. During the row, she bursts into tears and reveals to Lilith that she had exactly the same row with her own mother on her wedding day.
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Jewish Mother / int_258b2e5e	comment	Albert Peterson's dithering mother in Bye Bye Birdie is often portrayed this way, even though we're never given any reason to believe that the Peterson family is Jewish.
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Jewish Mother / int_2590d8fa	comment	Discworld's dwarves at least occasionally seem to serve as the setting's Fantasy Counterpart Culture for Jewish culture (much as the Klatchians tend to stand in for the Middle East and surrounding regions, Quirm stands in for Italy or France depending on the book, Ãœberwald stands in for Eastern Europe, Fourecks "is not[...] Australia. No, it's[...] somewhere entirely different which happens to be, here and there, a bit... Australian. Still... no worries, right?" etc.). The details aren't always identical — dwarven names are usually Nordic-sounding, for instance — but there are definite parallels, and when it comes to mothers, this trope is clearly in full force. For context, Carrot Ironfoundersson, a human obliviously raised by dwarves, delivers the following speech in Guards! Guards! to a bar full of brawling dwarves, reducing every last one of them to tears. (He is, one might note, also essentially serving as a gender-swapped example of this trope as he does so — but Discworld's dwarves, with rare exceptions, don't even acknowledge gender, so this isn't actually notable for the setting.) While it's established throughout the series that he has a significant amount of personal magnetism anyway, it's implied that his appeal to their mothers is what really sends them into tears.
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Jewish Mother / int_261c8d3f	comment	From The Simpsons: "A grizzly bear stands 7 feet tall, weighs like a Mazda Miata, and can tear through a tree like a Jewish mother through self-esteem." In "Simpson Christmas Stories," the Virgin Mary, as played by Marge in a segment about the nativity story as imagined by Homer.
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Jewish Mother / int_26baf6f7	comment	As revealed in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, BJ Blazkowicz's mother, Zofia, is a Jewish immigrant from Poland. While BJ's father, Rip, was an abusive wife-beater, Zofia was always good to her son, took a lot of abuse defending him, and taught him kindness and compassion. Tragically, after the Nazis took over America, Rip jumped at the opportunity to sell her out to the conquerors, condemning her to die in a concentration camp. For this, BJ would give his father his just desserts.
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Jewish Mother / int_2a929dfc	comment	Better Things: Sam likes to play up being one at times, guilt-tripping her daughters on not appreciating her and getting far more involved with their lives than they'd often like (it rarely works, unless she's really serious about this).
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Jewish Mother / int_2abd5315	comment	Has come up a few times on Whose Line Is It Anyway? as a suggestion; Greg Proops plays an especially good one.
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Jewish Mother / int_2eab162f	comment	A Steam Train Let's Play of Civilization V features Danny (and Egoraptor) doing Brooklyn-accented Jewish Mother impressions in response to the decision to build Notre Dame in Tokyo. Hilarity Ensues.
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Jewish Mother / int_2fa5aee6	comment	In The Prince of Tides, Tom jokes that Dr. Lowenstein is acting this way, and she confirms that she is a Jewish mother, and that she even brought sandwiches for her son. Downplayed in that she is not particularly overbearing, just protective, accommodating, and Jewish.
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Jewish Mother / int_37b6c44f	comment	Seymour's mother from the original The Little Shop of Horrors. On top of the usual stereotypes, she's also an extreme hypochondriac, to the point where Seymour has been led to believe that all normal food is prepared by adding medicines to it.
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Jewish Mother / int_3c5675b	comment	Ruth Cole from Black Panther. Christopher Priest designed her as an Expy of Aunt May from Spider-Man if May were a stereotypical Jewish mom.
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Jewish Mother / int_40b251c5	comment	in the continuation tale Gap Year Adventures, Rivka has graduated as a an Assassin who is frighted of almost nothing. however, the one thing that terrifies her is the matchmaker Yenta Goldberg, a friend of her mother's who has taken on a difficult job. Their road trip across Howondaland has the Yenta popping up everywhere to remind Rivka she is of marriageable age and single, and do you want your mother to die of sorrow, schmoopie? note Rivka is pursued, in Earth terms, from her home in a place like Tel Aviv all the way across an entire continent to its version of Cape Town.
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Jewish Mother / int_41b0198a	comment	Waldo Butters in The Dresden Files has one and Bob, who is his temporary Companion Cube, imitates her. Complete with Yiddish accent. Harry finds this hilarious.
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Jewish Mother / int_44478c84	comment	in The Osbournes, Sharon Osbourne is a terrifying Jewish Mother to her kids, and also to the man-child she married. note The daughter of feared music promoter and manager Don Arden, Sharon is ethnically Jewish via her parents.
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Jewish Mother / int_45b21df3	comment	In Monty Python's Life of Brian, the title character's mother guilt-trips him while he's on the cross: "Go ahead, be crucified. See if I care."
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Jewish Mother / int_4e45b093	comment	Mrs. Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory. Although her son Howard, whom she lives with, is a successful engineer, she treats him like a small child: "Howahhhd! One of your little friends is here." She also constantly makes demands on him from offscreen.
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Jewish Mother / int_5547a41d	comment	Attachment: Leah's mom Chana. She chides her often over different things, guilt trips her for this, and very often clashes with Leah about her life. Leah still lives in the same house with her (though they have separate apartments) and is a bit embarrassed about this. It turns out that Chana even casts spells to help Leah. She sacrifices herself so Leah can live at the end.
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Jewish Mother / int_55f41ce9	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_55f41ce9	comment	In the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode "The End", Larry has a Near-Death Experience, and he meets his dead mother in Heaven... who berates him.
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Jewish Mother / int_56199e06	comment	In Slipping Between Worlds, Fusilier Jonathan "Tailor" Cohen joined the British Army against his parents' wishes. Born in Wales, he has the right birth qualifications to be sent to a Welsh regiment, where he is accepted by Seven Platoon largely because of his skills with tape measure, needle, and cotton. However, his distraught mother fires off a barrage of letters to the Colonel commanding, full of heartfelt questions such as ''Is he keeping well? Does the Army allow him a kosher diet? Is he allowed to respect the Sabbath? Please tell me he hasn't been drinking and smoking and getting involved with the sort of women who hang around Army barracks?" The Colonel passes the letters down the line to Cohen's platoon commander, Lieutenant Philip Holtack, who is curtly told "Deal with this, Philip". An OC in the same author's Discworld tales comes from a small country in the Circle Sea where the parent religion of Omnianism still tenaciously holds on. The Cenotians respect kosher law, have a religion hedged with taboos and commandments, know the secret of creating golems, and have an origin myth of being exiled from their homeland to the banks of a river in Babylon — then finding themselves in a different world entirely, led there by a relative of the Witch of Endor called Naomi Ogg. They believe their G-d got really annoyed and chose to ratchet up the exile factor in a big way. Student Assassin Rivka-ben-Divorah is a typical Cenotian who complains to her best friend about her overbearing and protective mother who appreciates she wants to get a steady job in a prestigious profession but demands she marries a good Om-fearing Cenotian boy in a profession and buckles down to giving her lots of grandchildren and keeping a kosher kitchen as soon as can be arranged. And promise me that however many people you inhume, you respect kashrut and attend Temple every Saturday! in the continuation tale Gap Year Adventures, Rivka has graduated as a an Assassin who is frighted of almost nothing. however, the one thing that terrifies her is the matchmaker Yenta Goldberg, a friend of her mother's who has taken on a difficult job. Their road trip across Howondaland has the Yenta popping up everywhere to remind Rivka she is of marriageable age and single, and do you want your mother to die of sorrow, schmoopie? note Rivka is pursued, in Earth terms, from her home in a place like Tel Aviv all the way across an entire continent to its version of Cape Town.
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Jewish Mother / int_563d9c1a	comment	The VHS promo The Invasion of Nintendo has the "invaders" torturing Ken Lobb by bringing in his mother, who nags him mercilessly until he gives them strategies for Killer Instinct.
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Jewish Mother / int_56810041	comment	Although she doesn't have much screentime, the protagonist's mother in Next Stop, Greenwich Village (played by Shelley Winters) somehow manages to dominate the movie (and of course she manages to drive her son up the walls when she drops by).
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Jewish Mother / int_573a748d	comment	The Beauty Queen Of Jerusalem: Gabriel's mother Mercada is very controlling of both her son and daughter-in-law, even if she sometimes has a point (like telling Gabriel to take care of his family and business and stop spending all his money on Hookers and Blow).
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Jewish Mother / int_57e6c245	comment	Sabra Klein's mother in PreTeena is proud, protective, and smothering to her daughter. It is hinted that Sabra's multiple allergies and food phobias are down to over-protective parents. Mrs Klein also disapproves of her daughter's nickname "Stick", even though everyone calls her this.
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Jewish Mother / int_60d5f3f9	comment	Gender switched in Private Benjamin with the titular character's parents. Her father in one scene does the guilt tripping and scolds her for "causing" her at the present composed and quiet Mother's nervous breakdown.
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Jewish Mother / int_60f02ddb	comment	Snot's mom in American Dad! appears to be this in her appearance in "Moon Over Isla Island", but when Steve and Snot actually talk about her in other episodes it's revealed that she's actually an alcoholic slut who steals money from her son.
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Jewish Mother / int_611b218d	comment	Call the Midwife: The Patient of the Week in Series 3, Episode 4 is Jewish and lives with her mother. On account of what seems to be a combination of MÃ©niÃ¨re's Disease and PTSD (the family rode out the Holocaust by living in a cellar), the mother gets physically ill if she attempts to leave her flat. When, in response to Dr Turner's news that her condition can be treated, her daughter and son-in-law announce a plan to move them all to Golders Green, she gets a bit passive-aggressive (understandably, since it's a big shock). However, once her granddaughter is born, she drums up the courage to leave the house...to nag her daughter about the inadequacy of the baby's clothing.
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Jewish Mother / int_627b3897	comment	Marie Barone, in Everybody Loves Raymond, is a Jewish Mother in everything but religion and ethnicity (she's Italian-American. Connoisseurs say Catholic mothers of Latin or Irish extraction are their spiritual sisters, though). She counts, as ELR is co-written by Philip Rosenthal, whose Jewish Mother helped inspire the character. Plus she is played by Jewish actress Doris Roberts.
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Jewish Mother / int_6f153936	comment	In The Last Temptation of Christ, Mary (Jesus's mother) is portrayed this way. Word of God is it was a deliberate choice by director Martin Scorsese.
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Jewish Mother / int_706b3301	comment	Crazy Mazy from the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, although she's actually a grandmother. She complains (with the accent and everything) that her grandson doesn't call her often enough.
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Jewish Mother / int_7680545c	comment	The Nanny: Fran Fine's mother Sylvia is one of the best examples in a modern sitcom. She is very Jewish, has a need to control her daughter and push her into marriage (any man will do at this point, so will almost any woman for that matter), and is keen on using guilt-tripping to get Fran to do what she wants. Sylvia's mother Yetta acts like a typical doting Jewish Grandmother to Fran and the Sheffield children and occasionally like a snarky Jewish Mother to Sylvia. Despite how Fran complains about how overbearing her mother is, she can sometimes show similar traits herself when it comes to the Sheffield children. It is difficult for her to let Grace go on a play date by herself for the first time, and she also tries to use guilt-trip on Maggie on occasion. Eventually she becomes their Jewish stepmother, at which point Sylvia encourages her to "unleash the power".
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Jewish Mother / int_7884ec15	comment	Mrs. Helen Seinfeld and Mrs. Estelle Costanza from Seinfeld. Especially Estelle. One wonders if she's trying to make up for the fact that her husband is not Jewish. Kramer starts acting like one when tasked to cook all the food for Jewish Singles Night.
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Jewish Mother / int_858624ba	comment	In some ways, Grace's mother from Will & Grace is like this — Grace remembers being told "...the classic Dr Seuss story; One Fish, Two Fish, Goy Fish, Jew Fish" by her mother.
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Jewish Mother / int_87b55b5d	comment	In The Onion's news videos, one ticker item read, "Jewish Scientists Discover New Way to Disappoint Parents".
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Jewish Mother / int_887acd55	comment	Schmidt's mother in New Girl constantly berates him and tries to change aspects of his lifestyle. When she visits him in L.A., he dreads seeing her. He asks for his long-awaited Bar Mitzvah money, but she won't give it to him until he writes thank-you letters to everyone who attended.
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Jewish Mother / int_89465e75	comment	Perhaps most notably in Percy Jackson and the Olympians:
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Jewish Mother / int_8e6a5adf	comment	A Catholic version in Saturday Night Fever: Mrs. Manero is always criticizing and guilt-tripping Tony and dotes on her older son Frankie the Priest. She is absolutely crushed when she finds out Frankie is leaving the priesthood, and ends up disowning him for "disgracing the family."
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Jewish Mother / int_8e82c366	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters: Although initially established as being descended from a line of Christian Jews, when Egon's mother is eventually introduced, she's revealed as being one of these, to the extent that she'll mother the entire team including the secretary, Janine. Of course, Janine is used to it, given that her mother is one as well.
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Jewish Mother / int_905cf99c	comment	It's never stated in The Fifth Element that Korben is Jewish, but his mother is a perfect fit for this trope. All throughout the film, she guilt-trips him over the phone for never calling or visiting her. At one point she even berates the President of the Federation because she thinks he's just some schmuck who's helping her son avoid her.
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Jewish Mother / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Mama Lipsky is already one in Kim Possible. But in RONMAN THE BARBARIAN!, this trope comes full blast, in addition to being evil, due to Mama King wanting her son to marry Kimila to secure the throne.
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Jewish Mother / int_90c73dda	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_90c73dda	comment	Downplayed in Animorphs with Rachel's mother, a career lawyer who (according to Rachel) is only happy when people are arguing, like trying to hammer out a constitution for a species of aliens who are entirely happy to leave leadership up to the very rare super-intelligent genetic anomalies they call seers. She also once tried to attack a grizzly bear with a spice rack when she thought it had eaten her daughter alive (before Rachel got it across that she WAS the bear).
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Animorphs	hasFeature	Jewish Mother / int_90c73dda
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Jewish Mother / int_957a7896	comment	In A Very Potter Musical, Molly Weasley is implied to be this trope.
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Jewish Mother / int_9a7088bc	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_9a7088bc	comment	Riffed on in Star Trek: The Original Series in "The Changeling", wherein an intelligent space probe mistakes Captain Kirk for its creator, or as he puts it: it thinks he's its mother. Since it had the ability to heal people, Kirk jokes about how proud he would have been to be the "mother" of a doctor, with the setup implying he means it in a very Jewish-mother-type way:
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Jewish Mother / int_9a7b5102	comment	Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth. Sophie Portnoy repeatedly nags young Alexander to finish everything on his plate, once even threatening him with a knife when he refuses to eat. During the controversy following Portnoy's publication, a journalist asked Roth's mother if she thought she was a "Jewish Mother". Her reply was "All mothers are Jewish Mothers." Jewish writer/humourist Howard Jacobson has observed that this is certainly true of all comedy mothers.
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Jewish Mother / int_9faa5198	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_9faa5198	comment	In But I'm a Cat Person: Sparrow's mother (even as an ethnically Jewish pagan), and her mother before her.
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Jewish Mother / int_a0500a06	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_a0500a06	comment	Averted with Didi Pickles on Rugrats, but Didi's mother Minka fits the Jewish Grandmother mold.
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Jewish Mother / int_a183d57f	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama, Dr. Zoidberg's aunt first criticizes him for wanting to become a comedian instead of a doctor, then for giving up his dream of becoming a comedian to go to medical school. While not overtly Jewish, Leela's mother seems to fit this trope and is very adept at self-deprecation and passive-aggressiveness.
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Jewish Mother / int_a40d4f31	comment	C-Section Comics gives us Mary as Jesus's Jewish mother.
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Jewish Mother / int_a5549ed0	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: The book of Judges (4:1-31) tells the story of Deborah, who leads the men of Israel to victory over the foe, berating and shaming them into picking up weapons and fighting. She explicitly says of herself after the victory: "Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, arose as a mother in Israel". Never get between a Jewish mother and her children! The story of the wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11) in which Mary informs Jesus that the party has run out of wine. Jesus's response is, essentially, "What do you want me to do about it?" Mary ignores him and tells the servants to, "Do what he tells you." Basically, Jesus's first miracle occurs because of this trope which even the Son of God Himself won't go against.
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Jewish Mother / int_a812c87	comment	Naked Came the Stranger: Melvin Corby's mother disapproves of everything about his life, from his wife ("A Jewish girl who doesn't know enough to save chicken fat") to his name change ("What'll you tell the fancy neighbors? My name is Corby, and this is my mother, Mrs. Korbinsky?") to his seven-year-old's horseback riding lessons ("Fancy schmancy. Who needs it? Better he should get good marks").
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Jewish Mother / int_aa028d27	comment	Kissing Jessica Stein: Jessica's mother is a textbook example. She's very emotional, nags her adult kids to do what she feels is best, and pushes for "good matches" with other people whether they want these or not (often annoying them).
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Jewish Mother / int_ac5bf678	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_ac5bf678	comment	Arnold's mother Mrs. Beckoff in Torch Song Trilogy (a role written for Estelle Getty), is a sympathetic version. Still annoying, and can't understand the gay thing, but she means well underneath.
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Jewish Mother / int_b0fc9724	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: The "Coffee Talk" sketches are hosted by Linda Richman, who exemplifies this trope, being based on Mike Myers's then-mother-in-law.
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Jewish Mother / int_b4290f43	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_b4290f43	comment	The Destroyer: Chiun, Master of Sinanju, is male. And Korean. And the world's deadliest martial artist/professional assassin. And he's still a Jewish mother to poor, poor Remo... In one Destroyer fanfic, it's stated that when he's not on the job, Chiun spends his time in Florida retirement communities with the Jewish grandmothers. The actor who played him in the movie, Joel Grey, is Jewish.
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Jewish Mother / int_b4b79d84	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_b4b79d84	comment	Jackie in Friday Night Dinner is more subtle about it and very, very, British. But she can do Jewish Mother to her two sons when she has to.
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Jewish Mother / int_b5efd918	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_b5efd918	comment	Harley Quinn's mother, Mrs. Sharon Quinzel, is strongly implied to be one in Harley Quinn (2019). At first smothering and passive-aggressive, the mask drops after the The Reveal (that her parents really want her dead) and she expounds at length about how big a disappointment her daughter has turned out to be. Sharon complains that all she wanted was what every Jewish mother wants: for Harleen to marry a doctor, while wiping the blood off a knife pulled from a body. Harley pointing out that she is a doctor doesn't deter her mother, either.
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Jewish Mother / int_be6e814a	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_be6e814a	comment	Humoresque: Mama Kantor is a Jewish mother straight from central casting. When Leon is touring Europe to great acclaim, she is following along, showing his baby pictures to random strangers. She extols how handsome he is. When it's time for him to go to France to fight in World War I, she asks him to sit in her lap like when he was a child.
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Jewish Mother / int_bf71f0c3	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_bf71f0c3	comment	Aase, mother of Peer Gynt. Constantly dissatisfied with her son, and for good reason, and complaining that he didn`t marry the wealthy girl who actually wanted him. Subverted because she is a Norwegian Christian, not a Jew, but her attitude fits the trope.
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Jewish Mother / int_bfdf4757	comment	In the British sitcom So Haunt Me a Gentile family moves into a house haunted by its previous owner Yetta Feldman (Miriam Karlin), who treats a Christian exorcism with scorn ("Gevalt, have you got the wrong sort of ghost!") and then becomes Jewish Mother from beyond the grave to the entire family.
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Jewish Mother / int_c5ead8e8	comment	Karen's mom in Goodfellas, right down to berating Henry for staying out too late. When they first meet, the first thing she says to Henry is "Karen tells me you're only half-Jewish." Henry is half-Italian, half-Irish, and was wearing a cross before Karen hurriedly made him cover it up so she wouldn't see it.
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Jewish Mother / int_c7c11ab4	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_c7c11ab4	comment	In La VÃ©ritÃ© si je mens!, a comedy set in the French Sephardic Jewish community: A couple is in bed late at night when they hear the doorbell ring. "Who could show up at such an hour?" the husband asks. "Your mother?" the wife suggests. "No," the husband retorts, "my mother has her own set of keys!" Sandra Benzakem's mother bombards protagonist Eddie (who passes as Jewish) with indiscreet questions and advises him to never marry a non-Jewish woman.
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Jewish Mother / int_c911df7d	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_c911df7d	comment	Griselda from Strange Magic distinctly comes off like this with the stereotypical voice, the nagging, the attempts to get her son to get married, and the passive-aggressive nature of her complaints.
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Jewish Mother / int_cfe32855	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_cfe32855	comment	Harley's mother in Boy Meets Boy. She doesn't show up much, but she notably nagged Harley about his boyfriend Mik for a pretty long time, trying to get him to date her friend's son (who was a doctor) instead.
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Jewish Mother / int_d69208d2	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_d69208d2	comment	Numbuh Two's Grandma Lydia in Codename: Kids Next Door, a physically abusive Jewish Grandmother with a Yiddish accent who serves as the Evil Matriarch of his family, using Comedic Spanking to keep the kids in line while moonlighting as a supervillain.
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Jewish Mother / int_d9c602eb	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_d9c602eb	comment	Sheila Broflovski, Kyle's mom, from South Park. She's started wars over being protective of her son. Well, a war, with Canada in the movie, albeit one that inadvertently led to the Apocalypse. Good thing the Reset Button managed to get pressed...
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Jewish Mother / int_dd07ec1b	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_dd07ec1b	comment	In The Great Houdinis, Harry's mother isn't happy about either his career as a magician or his marriage to a Shiksa Goddess, especially since one of his brothers is a doctor and another is a lawyer. At the beginning of his career, she keeps pressuring him to get a steady job at the tie factory.
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Jewish Mother / int_ddad77ae	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_ddad77ae	comment	Played for laughs in Astro City with Marta Dobrescu, whose mother continues to nag her to get married (and have grandkids), manipulates her to visit more often, and asks about baseball scores — as a ghost. That's one of the drawbacks of living in Shadow Hill...
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Jewish Mother / int_e8595ff9	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_e8595ff9	comment	Mother Gothel from Tangled has an air of this trope to herself. However, the cut verse of "Mother Knows Best" is basically a tribute to Jewish mothers in fiction.
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Jewish Mother / int_e936047a	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_e936047a	comment	Marilyn Berman, Harold's mother on Hey Arnold!.
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Jewish Mother / int_ea29fc84	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_ea29fc84	comment	Hilariously, Doctor Doom's mother Cynthia Von Doom (or, as she prefers to be called, "Coco") is portrayed as this in The Super Hero Squad Show. She even has sonic nagging abilities. (This is strange considering her mainstream comics counterpart is of Romani heritage. To be fair, she's also usually dead...)
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Jewish Mother / int_ef894e37	comment	In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca's mother is the epitome of the Jewish Mother — her very first scene in person (not over the phone) has her singing the song "Where's the Bathroom?". This being the series it is, it gets deconstructed with how unhealthy the relationship is and how badly it's affected Rebecca, both from having a mother like that and having everyone around her wave it off. Notably, her last scene in the series is Rebecca finally putting her foot down and saying that if she keeps trying to control her life she'll disown her, which Naomi grudgingly agrees to respect.
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Jewish Mother / int_f31d7d98	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_f31d7d98	comment	A minor character on Drawn Together once described her mother as an "incredibly Jewish woman." Definitely Informed Judaism, since it's the one and only time in the episode the character brings up her (alleged) Jewishness.
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Jewish Mother / int_f655ed11	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_f655ed11	comment	Used in an episode of Frasier involving Frasier's new Jewish girlfriend and her mother. The mother is so involved in her daughter's life that arguments on the subject have apparently become routine. When one such fight breaks out and Frasier asks if he should leave the room, the mother casually answers, "Sit, we're nearly finished."
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Jewish Mother / int_f871a01f	comment	Marco's mother in Marco & Marty. An entire strip is devoted to her complaining about her son's ex-boyfriend, and she visits him at college with blintzes and brisket because he "sounded thin" on the phone.
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Jewish Mother / int_f8ab1ef8	type	Jewish Mother
Jewish Mother / int_f8ab1ef8	comment	Seymour's mother in The Cannonball Run despairs that her son is running around pretending to be "some goy movie star named Roger Moore".
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Jewish Mother / int_ffc6ca91	comment	In The Goldbergs, the Goldberg family of Philadelphia are Ambiguously Jewish — the name fits, the younger son fits the stereotype of being nerdy and bad at sports, the daughter has a sense of spoilt entitlement, but matters of religion are not really hinted at.note The family takes to Chinese food, pork and seafood and all, like ducks to water But mother Beverley Goldberg is a terrifying Mama Bear who fits the Jewish Mother persona to a tee.
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Jewish Mother	processingCategory2	A Nice Jewish Index
Jewish Mother	processingCategory2	Always Female
Jewish Mother	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
Jewish Mother	processingCategory2	Stock Characters
Jewish Mother	processingCategory2	The Parent Trope
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Stray Bullets (Comic Book) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Cartoon History of the Universe (Comic Book) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
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Queen Of New York (Fanfic) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
A Walk on the Moon / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
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Beau Is Afraid / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Can't Stop the Music / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
GoodFellas / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Hannah and Her Sisters / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Hester Street / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Keeping the Faith / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Kissing Jessica Stein / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
La VÃ©ritÃ© si je mens! / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Operation Finale / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Saturday Night Fever / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Shiva Baby / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Sisters (1973) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Addams Family / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Apple / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Birdcage / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Cannonball Run / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Fifth Element / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Hebrew Hammer / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Little Shop of Horrors / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Mirror Has Two Faces / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Wiz / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Barney's Version / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Book of Judges / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
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Ghost Story / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Guards! Guards! / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Motherless Brooklyn / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Portnoy's Complaint / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Roxy Was Here / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Destroyer / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Upon This Pale Hill / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
MaggieGyllenhaal	seeAlso	Jewish Mother
MarcelProust	seeAlso	Jewish Mother
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Better Things / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Call the Midwife / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Cha Cha Cha / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Cheers / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Come Dine With Me / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
4thought.tv / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Friday Night Dinner / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Happy Endings / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
House / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Kings / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Man Seeking Woman / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Mrs. America / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Penn & Teller: Fool Us / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Rhoda / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Shtisel / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
So Haunt Me / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
State of Grace / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Suits / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Beauty Queen Of Jerusalem / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Cherry Queen / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Comic Strip Presents / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Goldbergs / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Nanny / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The New Normal / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The O.C. / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Victorious / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Wiseguy / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Young & Hungry / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Younger / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
TV Tropes Superhero Team / Sugar Wiki / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
A New Brain (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Bye Bye Birdie (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Falsettos (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Fiddler on the Roof (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
13 (Theatre) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Judgment Rites (Video Game) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Shtreimels (Web Animation) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Bad JRPG: The Legends of Krys (Web Video) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Steam Train (Web Video) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Warning! Readers Advisory! (Web Video) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
But I'm a Cat Person (Webcomic) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
C-Section Comics (Webcomic) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
American Pop / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Big Mouth / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Bob's Burgers / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Dot. / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Leo the Lion / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Paradise PD / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Buzz on Maggie / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Lion King 1 Â½ / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Lorax / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Lorax (2012) / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Mask / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
The Real Ghostbusters / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Tiny Toons Looniversity / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
T.U.F.F. Puppy / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother

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