Basic Trope: Jewish men find non-Jewish women attractive.
- Straight: Bob comes from a Jewish family, and falls in love with Alice, who comes from an Orthodox Christian family.
- Exaggerated: All Jewish men in the setting are paired with non-Jewish women.
- Downplayed: Ambiguously Jewish Bob falls in love with Ambiguously Christian Alice.
- Justified: Alice's character and/or beauty attracted Bob first and he only learned later that she wasn't Jewish.
- Inverted: Alice falls in love with Bob because he's Jewish.
- Gender Inverted: Andrew is a Christian man who falls in love with Bethany, a Jewish woman.
- Subverted:
- Alice was adopted, and her birth family is Jewish.
- Bob's attraction to Alice is fleeting and he eventually marries Carly, a Jewish girl.
- Bob falls in love with Alice, who converts to Judaism.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice was adopted and her birth family is Jewish... except there was a mix-up with the papers, and her birth family turned out to be non-Jewish after all.
- Bob tamps down his attraction to Alice and marries Carly, but later on has an affair with Alice because he's tired of "how Jewish" Carly is.
- Parodied: Bob falls in Love at First Sight with Alice because of how non-Jewish she obviously is.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Jewish ethnicity (or lack thereof) isn't a factor in Bob's choice of partner.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Of course you like Alice, she didn't go to Hebrew school!"
- Invoked: Bob purposefully picks a non-Jewish partner.
- Exploited: Bullies and trolls taunt Bob by pointing out that his children won't be Jewish.
- Defied: Bob's friends want him to get with Alice, but he purposefully goes out with the Jewish Carly instead.
- Discussed:Carly: "Of course you like Alice, you're just like every other Jewish protagonist ever, not wanting to marry a Jewish girl."
Bob: "And your opinion of who I choose to date should be the only thing that matters to me because...?" - Conversed: "Hey, what's that movie about?" "It's about a Jewish man, Bob, falling in love with WASP Alice." "Oh, so just like every other Jewish protagonist ever."
- Implied: Bob's mother talks about how her son doesn't want to get with Carly because she's Jewish, but we never see Bob or any of his other partners.
- Played for Laughs: The Culture Clash between Alice's and Bob's respective upbringings drive much of the humor.
- Played for Drama: The Culture Clash between Alice's and Bob's respective upbringings drive a wedge into their relationship. Indeed, Bob's parents are strict Orthodox Jews and Alice being a "goya" is a big problem in terms of religion and transmission of rite to the grandchildren. Meanwhile, Alice's parents are devout Orthodox Christians and marrying a Jewish man is fiercely discouraged in Alice's own community.
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