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Janet Meltzer's avatar

definitely Crazy Ex boyfriend!!!!! Patty Lupone as the Rabbi is too much!

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Lior Zaltzman's avatar

THE BEST!!

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Janet Meltzer's avatar

Although nothing tops Tova feldshuh singing “where’s the bathroom”! I can’t stop laughing even thinking about it.

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Tracey Simon's avatar

Freddie Crane’s bar mitzvah on “Frasier!”

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Molly Tolsky's avatar

Pen15's bat mitzvah episode was amazingly accurate, I thought (like I really was convinced they somehow saw footage of my own late '90s party for their inspiration)

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Tracey Simon's avatar

Why is it that animated shows do b’nai mitzvot better than live action. “Hey Arnold” had a bar mitzvah episode, as did Disney’s “Molly McGee” and “Moon Girl” (bat mitzvah), to name a few. Also of note - Why are the Jewish girls in the Disney animated series a mix of Jewish and Latina (not Sephardi, though).

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Kveller's avatar

These are both excellent questions 🤔

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Lior Zaltzman's avatar

OMG Harold's Bar Mitzvah!!! LOVE! I agree that we need more Sephardi representation, in animated TV and beyond!

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Benjamin Zober's avatar

The Wonder Years has the best episode. It treats the ceremony with respect from the get-go (while most episodes are about how excited the kid is for the party, and then realizes what it all really means).

On the other end, Krusty the Clown's Bar Mitzvah is great. Sydney to the Max has a bat mitzvah episode (up until recently there were NO bat mitzvah episodes) with some good chanting (often the shows skip most or even all of the actual b'nai mitzvah).

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Elisa Jones's avatar

My favorite!

We watch this episode over and over especially before Pesach!

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Lior Zaltzman's avatar

Aaaah I love that so much!! That's a delightful family ritual!

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