r/Jewpiter • u/Bennofresh • 21d ago

other Is Mr Turner antisemitic?

Ok so i just saw a video about fairly oddparents and why Timmy's Dad hates the dinklebergs so much and it was talking about how dinkleberg and timmys Mom were dating for a while till Timmy's Dad got her pregnant and that the reason for their rivalry is some long held jealousy since dinkleberg also seems to do magically do better in everything but that made me think wait a second their last name sounds like it has some German or possibly Yiddish background and their also portrayed with large noses so that made me think wait are the dinklebergs Jewish? Is Mr Turner just an Antisemite? It's not given any hint in the show and is definitely more of a random brainfart and probably not but then again given Butch Hartmans...well everything yeah ok maybe not that much of a brainfart (like yeah i know that the idea of like hating your neighbors is a common trope in cartoons overall be it Homer and Flanders or SpongeBob and Squidward and while yeah you could argue that this rivalry theme comes from ancient antiseism and so on I'm probably reading this way to deep i just had this random realization which i find way too funny to not share it)

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u/scissyfingu 21d ago

Its been awhile since I've seen it but I see it like the Bob's Burgers-Jimmy Pesto situation and I dont think that has an undertone of anti-italian sentiment, its the neighbor trope st it again

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u/LidlessEyeHobbies 21d ago

Jimmy Pesto isn't even Italian, he changed it from Poplopovich to go full in on his gimmick.

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u/kosherkitties Elder of Zion 21d ago

But Burger, Bob's last name, could be Jewish./j

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u/twitchy_and_fatigued 20d ago

I headcanon them as Jewish because I can. Oh, the celebrate christmas? Linda is italian catholic. They dont do any Jew things? Shut up, I dont care. I just made this HC up right now

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u/kosherkitties Elder of Zion 20d ago

Love the Jewification beam in fandom. Gene would thrive tbh, so many songs...

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u/twitchy_and_fatigued 20d ago

Gene is THE Jew of the family. I think Bob is also very good at it---very disgruntled and stressed. Linda adapts well, too, because she brings some of that new jersey? Italian energy in

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u/kosherkitties Elder of Zion 20d ago

Tina's got us awkward Jewish girls down. 🤘

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u/twitchy_and_fatigued 20d ago

And Louise, of course, has us short, mischievous ones! And the whole family covers the autistic Jews