![]() Holy crap, one of the babies’ parents who aren’t Didi or Stu is actually there? With their child? This is unprecendented! Of course Phil and Lil have just been abandoned at Didi and Stu’s house despite the fact that they’re going to a Chanukah festival. In the kitchen, Chaz assists Minka and Didi with the latkes. I am very curious as to what that special entails. Meanwhile, Angelica is extremely excited because according to her, Chanukah is the special time of year between Thanksgiving and Christmas when all the best holiday specials are on (aha! They still managed to sneak Christmas in there somehow) and she really wants to watch the Cynthia Christmas Extravaganza. It’s especially exciting because Boris has written a play about the meaning of Chanukah which will be performed at the synagogue - unfortunately his nemesis, Schlomo, will also be in the play, portraying the evil King. Now back in present day, Didi’s parents, Boris and Minka, AKA the best old couple ever, are over at the Pickles house helping prepare food for a Chanukah fair that’s going to happen at the local synagogue. She’s about to tell them of the battles that happened (with illustrations that don’t look appropriate for small children if I’m honest) but she’s interrupted by Didi, who needs her help in the kitchen. Judah the Maccabee (AKA Tommy) doesn’t like this nonsense so he decides to challenge the king. (When the Roman soldiers gave them the books of Plato I honestly thought they were Bibles for a minute which I know makes no sense because Jesus didn’t exist yet but still I thought it was little funny). Minka tells of how the King of the Greeks refused to let the Jews read their old books and had to read what he told them to. ![]() As she tells the story, the babies imagine themselves in Ancient Israel, with Tommy playing the hero, Judah the Maccabee.Īlso, Tommy and Chuckie are SO CUTE in their prayer shawls. We start off with Minka, Tommy’s maternal grandmother, telling the babies a somewhat simplified version of how Chanukah came to be. There’s plenty of cartoon episodes where a character either wants to “choose” between Christmas and Chanukah (”Pepper Ann”, “As Told By Ginger”) or has to be taught by a friend that Chanuka isn’t just Christmas Lite or something (”Arthur”), but not many (or up until this point, any) that specifically focus on the holiday from a Jewish perspective featuring Jewish characters. Up until this point, it was pretty unusual to have a cartoon special *just* focused on Hanukkah (Chanukah? I’ve seen both spellings, I’m not sure which is right, but the special is called Chanukah so I guess I’ll just go with that). This special actually won a lot of awards. Well, since nobody has requested any holiday specials yet, I figured I should probably get off my ass and actually make another post.
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