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Plot

A taxi driver has

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installed. Overwhelmed with the abundance of TV channels, he, together with his buddy, flips the channels, each of which shows a parody sketch. The ''Bravo alla Lancia'' episode is a hilarious a tribute to

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's films, a street scene. The text is mostly Italian gibberish, with some recognizable international words. In the mafia sketch the gangster boss Charlie gives away bunches of dollars and kills people because they watches show different time as the time passes ("Why did you lie to me?") one of sidekicks tries to reason him: "You cannot stop time, Charlie!", which had become a catchphrase. In the episode "Memories from Beit Abba" a broadcaster tries to shoot a documentary about three veteran brothers, but they disagree on almost everything, even about their own names, and it turns out that hey are wrong brothers, and not even brothers at all, and that does not matter. A short episode "Sea Lord" (, ''Yam Adonai'' is an old humorous song by the comedy group ("

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group") (of whom Einstein, Moshonov and Shissel were members), but in the film it was presented as a parody of Hasidic songs and in this worm it is best remembered now. The song includes a cameo of Israeli prime minister, Yair Lapid in the chorus of extras. "The French song" was a parody on pop music broadcasts, such as the

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, sung in French gibberish,jJust like an Italian sketch.

Production

About 20 years before the film, a group of authors, while working on other films accumulated a scrapbook of ideas. However they were not realised, because after some time the paths of the group parted. A decade later three of them, Einstein, Schissel, and Moni Moshonov recovered the scrapbook and decided to do something with it. The idea was inspired by the cable TV revolution in Israel in early 1990s. Initially a videotape release was planned, but eventually a theatrical release was done.

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{{imdb-title, 104654, Kvalim Israeli comedy films 1992 comedy films 1990s parody films