Can’t Be Passed

April 4, 2007 - 8:00 AM by Stephanie

This next link is a Passover holiday must-see. Although we’ve already done the Seder we’re still in the early matza-eating stages so it is most certainly apropo.

Nominally Challenged brings us his colorful, creative and decidely non-Rashi-esque version of how days of yore went down i.e. why we’re eating ~~cardboard planks~~ matza this week. Let’s just say he puts things into historical and comical perspective:

Now, the old Pharaoh died (this is a recurring theme, you will note), and his son took over as the new Pharaoh. In a break from tradition and as a slap in the face of his ancestors, this Pharaoh did have a name, and it was: Yulbrynner. Pharaoh Yulbrynner was topless, somewhat dashing, appropriately brooding, and just a tad camp in his Egyptian style skirt thing, and was, in fact, moonlighting as the King of Siam at the time. He was lucky, though, since neither position required terribly much of a time investment on his part, and though Egypt and Thailand were, in that era, connected by a land bridge known, in the ancient tongue, as “Asia”, they were sufficiently far apart for the peoples to have never noticed, even though (and this is important and will be in the end of term test) both movies were made in 1956! Coincidence? I think not.

For the full on version, read here. Well done. Applause applause

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