🕎 Kick off Hanukkah with the objectively better son from “Growing Pains” spinning bad puns like he made them out of clay. 

🎙️Sarah Shay stops by as we shine a light on a 1990 episode of “Shalom Sesame,” an on-again, off-again co-production of “Sesame Street” and its counterpart in Israel, “Rechov Sumsum.” 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

“Shalom Sesame” on Muppet Wiki. 

Israel’s Big Bird stand-in, Kippi Ben Kippod, is mistranslated as a porcupine despite clearly being a hedgehog. A similar but unclothed costume was used in Spain’s Barrio Sésamo for Espinete, who’s identified as a hedgehog. 

Jeremy Miller, as Linus, sings “The Vigil” in “Snoopy! The Musical.” 

Yoav Tzafir’s other credits include the Hebrew-dubbed voices of Ninja Turtle Michaelangelo and Super Mario. Later he directed Israel’s version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” 

The real, actual, annual Hanukkah Torch Relay. 

Moishe Oofnik, Israel’s counterpart to Oscar, looks less like a grouch and more like a standard Muppet monster. Probably because he has a nose. 

Baby Bear teaches Telly Monster how to play dreidel. 

A supposed folktale listed on the Wikipedia entry for sufganiyah may or may not be full of something that’s not jelly. 

Sarah met the head puppeteer from “Lamb Chop’s Special Chanukah.” 

Nell Carter, a Jewish convert, appeared on other episodes of “Shalom Sesame” as herself. 

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“Shalom Sesame” © 1990 Children’s Television Workshop. 

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