It’s an amazing Jewish joke: reference to the Exodus from Egypt, frustration about parking at a synagogue, and the rabbi taking up three parking spots.Īndrew, in feeling bad about masturbating, goes to a Catholic church. The best. Andrew asks his mom if she’s ever done anything she feels ashamed of, and Barbara responds, whatever you did, don’t tell me! Marty then butts in to say, “Don’t ask your mother about shame, that’s why I pay synagogue dues.” When Andrew points out that he doesn’t pay synagogue dues, he responds indignant, “you’re damn right I don’t!” And it culminates in the joke, “We wandered the desert for 40 years, so that this man can park at a diagonal?” (You can even see them in the background of the frame.) The rabbi tells Andrew earlier in the season that he tried to go on Jewish Shark Tank, called “Fish Tank,” and is very nervous about the business.Īh, Marty. This is a recurring gag, about the rabbi’s adult son trying, and failing, to start a business for wigs for religious dogs. (Also they got the visuals of a Jewish wedding down, from the chuppah to the kippahs to the tallis - the animators’ careful attention to Jewish detail is fantastic.) Catered, open bar, but wine and beer only, I’m not made of money.” Which is oh-so-very Jewish. As the animation switches to his fantasy, he imagines, “It would be a tasteful ceremony. When the boys ogle over Gina’s boobs early in the season, Andrew jokes about marrying her boobs. “Wine and beer, I’m not made of money” (Ep 2)
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This unexpected visual gag – of Jewish dogs, not the very Jewish Nathan’s hot dogs - made me chuckle.Īndrew’s Hormone Monster, Maury, disappears, so Andrew shouts, “Mauryyyyy!” His dad, Marty (arguably my favorite character) shouts to Andrew’s room, “Who’s Maury? Maury Povich? What kind of a bozo thinks about daytime TV at night?” Of course Marty would reference Maury Povich, the Jewish TV host, and of course he would be indignant that his son is thinking about a daytime TV host at night.ħ. Similarly from Nick’s dad’s flashback, he describes Brooklyn as “Land of the Dodgers, Coney Island, and Nathan’s Famous dogs.” Not Nathan’s famous hot dogs, but famous dogs, who had headshots. We love a good Woody Allen is a creep joke! Nick interrupts his dad’s retelling of his relationship with his mom to ask, “I’m sorry, is that a Woody Allen thing? I’ve never seen any of his movies, ’cause mom says he’s a monster.”
Connie and Maury are disgusted, with Maury commenting, “He figured out a way to ruin dildos.” This becomes a recurring gag throughout the episode.Īndrew, here, tells Nick that even though his basketball uniform has gotten bigger, he could “wear it as a nightshirt.” To me, he seems to be channeling his Jewish mom. Is this a Jewish thing? Is this just a thing that feels very authentic to my childhood? When Jewish moms are like, “It’s okay that it’s big, you could wear it as a nightshirt”? He responds that he collects “vintage Nazi dildos” which is so ridiculous it’s funny. When Maury and Connie (the Hormone Monsters, kinda like puberty personified) try and convince him to take a night off, Connie asks, “Don’t you have a hobby or something?” The Shame Wizard haunts the kids going through puberty to make them feel bad about themselves. It makes sense that he would be a fan of the Mets, arguably the most “Jewish” baseball team, and major props to the writers and animators for nailing these specific cultural details. This is a small visual gag that’s blink and you miss it, but the Mets poster in Andrew’s bedroom wall is just so authentic to Westchester Jews. While this season was less Jewish than season one, we still found the 13 best Jewish jokes, just for you.ġ3.