You're also a schmendrick, a schlemiel, and a schlemazel."

Mr. Fox, in ogre costume, says it could be worse: his mother might have named him Schlemazel or Schlemiel.

Although he never joins in the teasing, Ron Swanson describes Jerry as both the "schlemiel" and the "schlemazel" of the office, meaning he's both a klutz and the victim of the universe's contempt.

I mean, just look at it logically: Who, in all the great North Country, would be the most likely one to go wandering around dis- guised as a schlemazel peasant, supporting Alfar's policies with great verve and enthusiasm, and would have authority to command his soldiers?"

Don't be surprised, then, to hear music by Carole King, Harry Chapin and Irving Berlin, and stories that are even older, like "The Little Red Hen" and "Mazel and Schlemazel," a Yiddish folk tale adapted from a translation by Isaac Bashevis Singer.