Use of Jewish/Yiddish words
The scene where he calls the sister a Yiddish word for ugly (I can't spell it) most of mid America wouldn't know the word so that joke is loss on some in the theatre.
Much as the scene in "Blazing Saddles" with Mel as the Indian chief uses all Yiddish
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