We Jews are an enterprising people. Tell us we have to be moneylenders because the Bible forbids Christians from the practice, and we'll make a ton of money at it. Tell us we aren't allowed to keep our last names and we'll make up pretty new ones like Rosenberg and Goldfarb. And if something in pop culture becomes a big phenomenon, you can guarantee we'll find a way to make it our own. Sometimes, it's easy: we get dibs on "Sex and the City" because SJP is one of the tribe. But if there's not a Jewish angle on the next big thing, we'll make our own kosher version of it. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it will be any good. After all, a knockoff of a knockoff is still a knockoff. If you copy a copy of a key, it might not work well enough to open the door. And these terrible Jewish knockoffs of things that are often already terrible themselves force pop culture to turn in on itself, like one of those worms with a head at each end. I offer you the following examples.
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