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This article was originally published in 2019 and has been updated to include more Passover Seders.
Why is this list different from all other lists?
For one, it rounds up Passover episodes, a rare and under-examined breed of holiday special.
19.Sesame Street,Its Passover, Grover!
The Seder scene itself is pretty tame and by the book, though.
Still: Are we due for aNorthern Exposurecomeback?
But whither the lowly first-season Passover episode?
16.Homeland,Why Is This Night Different?
We were walking off the meal!Ba-dum-tss!
So we get a montage of all of the usual traditions, with sentimental violin music playing overtop.
Worth noting: Joey King and Logan Lerman talk in thick,Gru-like accents throughout.
Peter shows up to stop it dressed as the Easter bunny, but Jesus appears to talk him down.
Lots ofmishegosshere, so … a low-key episode ofFamily Guy.
Dressed in school-play-quality white beard and robe, he insults the wine (Manischewitz?Yeuch!
By the end, he summons his buddy Jesus (Phil Hartman) to show up.
That guy always has to makeeverythingabout him, huh?
He cant even give us onemeasly sketch for ourselves!
(I think this would involve airlifting it inland or something?)
Meanwhile, Rabbi Diggs hosts a Seder for the unhoused as a storm rages outside.
Dramatic but sort of all over the place, though major points for Judd Hirsch as Schwimmers father.
This is something I havent seen other shows do.
The icing on the matzo-meal cake is in Aces moms reactions: Shes all like, Is that Elijah?
and But we havent even gotten to the brisket!
We get thegoyishecaterer pronouncingkarpeththe way your worst friend pronouncesBarcelona(for more of this, skip ahead to No.
Theres bacon fat in the matzo balls.
Seder with the Waxmans feels like a fully realized short film, and it achieves Top Mishegoss Points.
She married a man named Gabriel (like the angel!
Like the herald!)
in Spain, and her mother simply cannot find out.
Chairs swap, lies abound, and Serena gets into Brown.
The first of the offending invitees is Jeffs Dubya-loving brother-in-law.
Theres a surgeon played by Rob Huebel who may or may not be stealing Larrys newspapers.
Theres a severed hand thrown into the mix somewhere along the way.
