History Main / AlterKocker

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* Miracle Max and his wife in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. 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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* The trademark character of French comedian Judka Herpstu, better known as Popeck.
* French-Moroccan comedian Gad Elmaleh has the old grumpy Sephardic Jewish grandpa variant in his 2000 stage show ''La Vie Normale'' (''Normal Life'').

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* Mushnik from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', though some cottage productions give him a German accent just for fun.
** This was how Gravis Mushnik was played by Mel Welles in [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original film]]..."Gravis" sounds like an Old Country name -- enough to be used as the surname of Creator/AndyKaufman's character in ''Series/{{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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* Iroh in ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries''. Bear in mind, [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original]] has a Japanese accent while ''[[FridgeLogic everyone else in the Fire Nation]]'' has a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents standard American one]].
** Maybe he had a stroke at some point (in the context of the original series). Sometimes after strokes or other trauma that affects the brain, people recover the ability to speak but gain an accent (sometimes it's definitively Spanish/German/Japanese/what have you, most of the time it's just "generically foreign").
** ...or maybe it's due simply to Iroh being voiced by {{Creator/Mako}}, and he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent didn't even bother to hide his accent.]]

* Pa Grape in ''WesternAnimation/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.

-->'''Old Jewish Woman''': "Our son Schlomo is working on a kibbutz in Haifa, and we're schlepping him some kreplach."
-->'''Old Jewish Man''': "Yep, we're Jewish, alright!"

* Walter Wolf, the scheming nemesis of Slappy Squirrel on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''.
** Slappy too. Even if she isn't explicitly Jewish, she's been in show business so long she's picked it up.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Danny Phantom}}'', Vlad Plasmius's ghostly hench-vultures all have AlterKocker voices and mannerisms.
--->'''Vlad''': I don't suppose you could move any faster?
--->'''Vulture Ghost''': We are two thousands and eight years old, be happy we're moving at all!

* [[{{Cyborg}} Sy Borgman]] from ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'', Ivy's RetiredMonster landlord.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], then doubly subverted by [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2131957/whats-an-alter-kocker/ Jakob]] in ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes''.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[PlanetOfHats every single Decapodian]] is, at least to some extent, an AlterKocker, though Harold Zoid and the ambassador take it UpToEleven.

* The trademark character of French comedian Judka Herpstu, aka Popeck.

* French-Moroccan comedian Gad Elmaleh has the old Sephardic Jewish grandpa variant in his 2000 stage show ''La Vie Normale'' (''Normal Life'').

* Several older characters on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', including the Mandelbaums 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 AlterKocker- especially Morty's arch enemy Jack Klompus.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/SearchByTheFoundation": Preem Palver and his wife are [[SpaceAmish rustic farmers]] - and speak with an Immigrant Yiddish accent (which Dr Asimov [[WriteWhatYouKnow had grown up with]]). [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope, because Palver isn't an unintelligent hick, he is [[MeaningfulName First Speaker]] of the Second Foundation.]]

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* Starting in TheSeventies, Rhino Records released several songs by a fictional band called Gefilte Joe & The Fish, with a Yiddish-accented singer doing {{Rock}} songs. Their "hits" included "Walk on the Kosher Side" (a rewrite of [[Music/LouReed "Walk on the Wild Side"]], lamenting Jews who turn their back on their heritage) and [[UsefulNotes/JewishHolidays "Hanukkah Rocks"]], a celebration of the Feast of Lights (which was issued on Star-of-David-shaped vinyl).

Related to InformedJudaism. Compare GrumpyOldMan. Likely to exhibit JewishComplaining and JewsLoveToArgue.

* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/SecondFoundation'', Preem Palver appears to be a rustic farmer - and speaks with an Immigrant Yiddish accent (which Asimov was completely familiar with). [[spoiler:Subverted, as far from being an unintelligent hick, Palver is the First Speaker of the Second Foundation.]]

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* ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' has the "old Jewish coot" Miracle Max and his wife, lampshaded by the Jewish-American author Creator/WilliamGoldman (who [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis claims he is adapting a centuries-old story]]).

* Several older characters on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', including the Mandelbaums 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 AlterKocker- especially Morty's arch enemy Jack Klompus.

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 (which is closely related to Yiddish).

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has an episode titled 'Alta Kockers', guest-starring Judd Hirsch and ''Creator/WallaceShawn'' as a pair of elderly, presumably Jewish brothers.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has an episode titled 'Alta Kockers', guest-starring Judd Hirsch and Wallace Shawn as a pair of elderly, presumably Jewish brothers.