Cartoon characters who are Jewish

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Minnie Mouse

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT Elmer Fudd, obviously.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Marge Simpson

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry Seinfeld

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Magoo was Jewish if I remember correctly. He was very rich and cheap.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Krusty the Clwon.

― hstencil, Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean clown.

― hstencil, Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Harvey Pekar.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Am I Jewish????"

http://www.echo-7.com/opticals/010_dexter.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Betty Boop.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

????
http://www.velmadinkley.com/1019av2.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://lakrabo.tripod.com/images/hebrew-red1-4.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Queer anti-semitic overtones on this one:

http://www.asterix-obelix.nl/manylanguages/covers/iv-23.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lapraik.com/cordeaux/images/moses.10.commandments.cartoon.jpg

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://publish.uwo.ca/~jgorski/pic/gargamel.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.toonarific.com/f/flyinghouse3.jpg

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Disney's "Big Bad Wolf" put on a stereotyped jewish peddler outfit in the cartoon.

Krusty's the best one. Wasn't Jay-whatshisname in "the Critic" jewish? His withered old secretary might have been as well.

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, South Park? (No, I don't remember the names.)

― , Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.buta-connection.net/films/le_chateau_de_cagliostro/lupin3/lupin.jpg

(In a Jerry Lewis kinda way)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 20 December 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

How is Marge Jewish? Her maiden name is Bouvier.

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Saturday, 20 December 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Kyle and Jesus from South Park.

― Spadge (Spadge), Saturday, 20 December 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The entire Bruflowski family from South Park.

Rabbi Krustowski, Krusty's dad from the Simpsons.

Say, does the annoying neighbor lady from Pee Wee's Playhouse count?

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Saturday, 20 December 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

boris & natasha possibly?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 21 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Kent Brockman, aka Kenny Brockelstein.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 21 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a more-awful-than-usual episode of Rugrats where the babies played out the parts in the life story of Moses (as narrated by one of their Jewish grandads).

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 21 December 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

How is Marge Jewish? Her maiden name is Bouvier.

Leee, if you'd ever had any Jewish female relatives, you wouldn't be asking that question.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 21 December 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose nobody has mentioned Superman because that's just too obvious, right?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 21 December 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Also,

http://haggadahsrus.com/images2/Superman17.jpg

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 21 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

menorah man?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 21 December 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

looks pretty jewish to me

http://www.vegalleries.com/filmationopc/4arch8.jpg

― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 21 December 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Superman is Jewish. He's more... Nietzschean. Clark Kent, however, is Jewish.

I'm developing a threory of the bicamerality of German culture as seen through the lens of Hollywood over here.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 21 December 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Willow Rosenberg

― The Yellow Kid, Sunday, 21 December 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly.

http://etabeta.pcupdate.easyspace.com/usa/w_us_a/w_us_0033_00.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 21 December 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

There was nothing the slightest bit jewish about Uncle scrooge.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon. Just take a look at that, uh, hat.

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sephardic Tradition and "The Simpsons" Connections

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Who knew?

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://headworks.net/simpsons/photo/Images/Pictures/bergstromlis.gif

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Artie Ziff:

http://simpsons.metropoliglobal.com/famosos/7F12JonLovitz.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and:

http://www.ericdsnider.com/images/old_images/katzalone.GIF

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://simpsons.metropoliglobal.com/famosos/1F01TheRamones.jpg

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 21 December 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

uncle scrooge was so not jewish.

betty boop is near the top of any hot jewish chicks list though.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 21 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

also doiby dickles, green lantern's taxi driver sidekick!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 21 December 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Betty Boop is your classic Jewish chick who gets into showbiz.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 21 December 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

He's prone to illness, he's bald at a young age, and he can't kick a football to save his life: Charlie Brown is totally Jewish!

― antexit (antexit), Sunday, 21 December 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i take issue with these characterizations

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 21 December 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I do too.

The Village Voice ran an essay ten years ago arguing Superman was conceived as a parable by its Jewish creators; this essay echoes some of the same points:

"The Superman narrative is also rich in Jewish symbolism. He is a child survivor named Kal-El (in Hebrew, "All that is God") from the planet Krypton, whose population, a race of brilliant scientists, is decimated. His parents send him to Earth in a tiny rocket ship, reminiscent of how baby Moses survived Pharaoh's decree to kill all Jewish newborn sons. In the context of the 1930s, the story also reflects the saga of the Kindertransports--the evacuation to safety of hundreds of Jewish children, without their parents, from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain."

There's also the way in which Superman is torn between his father's edict not to blend in/not interfere with the world of the humans and his urge to save the world from evil.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 21 December 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.portalmix.com/futurama/downloads/zoidberg.gif

― Michael B, Sunday, 21 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

look at the schnoz on that one!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 21 December 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

boris & natasha possibly?

Slavs, not Jews. And probably all religion was banned under the state run by Fearless Leader, I'm guessing.

― hstencil, Sunday, 21 December 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Slappy Squirrel from Animaniacs?

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 21 December 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Superman is Jewish. He's more... Nietzschean.

I thought Superman was supposed to be a rebuttal to Nietzsche's Übermensch (although the Nietzsche texts of that era had been edited by his Nazi-symp sister).

(But then if Superman's mission is to uphold truth, justice and the American way, why is his archenemy named Lex [Latin for law] Luthor?)

(And should "Luthor" be understood as a reference to "Martin Luther," perhaps as a representation of Christian German culture?)

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 22 December 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

this superman stuff is fascinating, no doubt would have been explored in greater detail in the tim burton/nic cage remake...

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

sort of a superman/the jazz singer hybrid really

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Zoidberg definitely. All that guilt, why not.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Angela Anaconda and her buddies just did a hannukah show

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Uncle Scrooge is Scottish, his full name is Scrooge McDuck. Saying that he's Jewish because he's avaricious is a bit cheap, don't you think?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Fievel, the little mouse from American Tail.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Natch:

http://www.top100comics.de/images_comics/08maus.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 December 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

He's prone to illness, he's bald at a young age, and he can't kick a football to save his life: Charlie Brown is totally Jewish!

By this reasoning, so is mr ailsa (he isn't).

Oh, and Uncle Scrooge is Scottish, his full name is Scrooge McDuck

You can have Scottish Jews you know, they aren't mutually exclusive...and the stereotypists can have a field day with the resultant uber-tight-fisted implications.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad's best friend is a Scottish Jewish ACCOUNTANT. How d'ya think he feels?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay Sherman

as for the Superman thing, I had thought this was a Mordecail Richler quote (but I know he's said something v. similar) but:

"They're all Jewish, superheroes. Superman, you don't think he's Jewish?
Coming over from the old country, changing his name like that.
Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself."

(Sammy Klayman to Josef Kavalier in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, pg. 585)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

half the characters in that Adam Sandler cartoon

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You can have Scottish Jews you know

Like the MacCabees?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

*collapses*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Slavs, not Jews

but on this thread, funny/different/"ethnic" = Jewish!

In the Doonesbury world, Bernie, Marcia, Sid and the Slackmeyers are/were Jewish, though apparently the last have/had become quite divorced from tradition, and Sid's status may be undefined.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't agree about Jughead and Gargamel.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 December 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

certainly not Gargamel...Jughead might be reform

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 22 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Gargamel=Jewish

"An analysis of race has dramatic effects upon the original "socialist-utopia" metaphor. Although it is never directly said, it seems subtly implied that Gargamel is Jewish. His abnormally long nose and balding head with unkempt black hair appears reminiscent of 1930's Nazi propaganda. Although his name is not especially Jewish-sounding, that of his sidekick cat, Azrael, is. In several episodes he meets with his uncle, Balthazaar (another Jewish name). To complete the stereotype, he has a domineering mother who constantly criticizes him for his inability to catch the Smurfs. In this light, one might interpret the Smurfs as being a "racially pure" community (Smurfette had to be blonde to enter), with Gargamel as "the eternal Jew" who wants to turn them all into gold."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This is where we get to the point that the analysis is doing more to reenforce the stereotypes then is the supposed offender.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

There are no references to the Smurfs actually being "born." Smurf literature holds that "some scholars think [that they] dropped out of mushrooms, while others are sure they just Smurfed out of nowhere."

I thought there was a whole episode about where the smurfs came from...weren't they brought by a stork?

― Kris (aqueduct), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(And should "Luthor" be understood as a reference to "Martin Luther," perhaps as a representation of Christian German culture?)

This is the part where I relate the antecdote about mr teeny getting really upset about his nephew being baptized in the Lutheran church and muttering through the ceremony about idiots praying to Lex Luthor.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 December 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Superman do not forget that his creators were both Jewish.

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Monday, 22 December 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Big but worthwhile.

http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/images/zimmerman2-cover.gif

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

who prays to martin luther? that's epostasy!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Comics rather than cartoons, but Cerebus had an ongoing subplot (for about a year) in which Cerebus reads a Preacher spoof called Rabbi . When Cerebus is kidnapped by the Three Wise Fellows he begins to think he actually is Rabbi. Can't find a picture of Rabbi, but here's Cerebus as Rabbi...

http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/pictures/bc7.jpg

I've actually thought of Cerebus as being Jewish for some time, probably since somewhere during Rick's Story - the whole guilt over the 'affair' dream with Joanne is typical, and the thoughts going through Cerebus' head during Going Home about Jaka's behaviour likewise. Later revelations about Dave's religious beliefs (Dave Sim, Cerebus' creator, professes to practice Judaism, Islam and Christianity simultaneously) may undermine quite how Jewish Cerebus is, I guess.

The Rabbi character, or at least someone who looks very much like him, also appeared in a recent issue of The Ultimates by Marc Millar and Bryan Hitch - which one of them was responsible for the refernce I don't know.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hitch is drawing Ultimates again? I'ma have to check that out.

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

The People of the Comic Book

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 8 January 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Later revelations about Dave's religious beliefs (Dave Sim, Cerebus' creator, professes to practice Judaism, Islam and Christianity simultaneously) may undermine quite how Jewish Cerebus is, I guess.

Sim practices Islam? Really? last I'd seen he had gone foaming at the mouth mad anti-islam.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

he is part of this weird self made syncretic cult.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

This may work...

http://f5.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/kIz9Pz0OrwAAXrVDql64uS8efqxuue70CPhuQfuPjQLsRZRPnEfxmcvBWp4gb7qRXH9mJNTImnFVcxxZ-5RLv8k4zUFLpPUl/Saturday%20Night/page5.jpg

― Paul Isaacs (genewilder2), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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