Frasier: Star Mitzvah - VIDEO

July 10th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: Retro Squad, Standout Episodes, Frasier

The bar mitzvah is a Jewish rite of passage, the duration in a boy’s life when he becomes a man — symbolically — by reading from the Torah. When a girl does the ritual, it’s called a bat mitzvah. I mention all that considering in TV, the bar/bat mitzvah has been the catalyst for some wonderful episodes, mostly on sitcoms.

The Simpsons celebrated Krusty the Klown’s bar mitzvah in the episode “Today I Am A Klown,” which was a variation on one

of the all-time great sitcom bar mitzvahs of all moment: the episode “Buddy Sorrell, Man and Boy,” on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Square Pegs shared “Muffy’s Bat Mitzvah” with viewers, and that past season, Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David used his friend Jeff Greene’s daughter Sammi’s bat mitzvah to announce that he never put a gerbil up his butt.

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