Cleveland Strip Clubs: Baron Cohen Leads Simpsons Through Holy Land
Israel has survived a great many things – and last night, the country survived the arrival of the Simpsons, as that long-running show aired “The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed.”
To get the Simpsons to Israel, it took a Flanders – Homer’s religious Christian neighbor who was going to the Holy Land with his Bible study group. Homer was less than enthused: “Hmm, let me think: take my family to a war zone, on a bus with religious lame-o’s, in a country with no pork, in a desert with no casino…” but Marge was so touched by Flanders’ offer that she decided they were going.
The show deployed a barrage of sight gags, including the Israel Airlines plane running over a glass as it landed (”mazal tov!” I shouted while the airport crew shouted “l’chayim!”), a hotel named the “Wailing Waldorf,” a gutter cleaner who’s fiddling on the roof, and an airport strip club called “The Gaza Strip.”