Comedy for Purim on the small screen

Purim is coming up, and you might want to celebrate with the staff and customers of a small-town supermarket, Shefa Issachar, in Checkout (aka Kupa Rashit), the popular Israeli sitcom which you can watch on the KAN website at kan.org.il or on Netflix.

- By HANNAH BROWN

The 10th episode of season two is about Purim, and everyone dresses up in ways that showcase their quirks. The relentlessly cheerful manager, Shira (Noa Koler), whose usual style icon is Steve Jobs, is a bit put out when she wears a costume based on a pun that no one understands. Kochava (Keren Mor), the wildly self-centered cashier, dresses like an angel and refuses to give a holiday gift basket that management has promised everyone who comes in wearing a costume to Amnon (Dov Navon), the store’s most annoying customer. She says he isn’t dressed up, but he retorts that she always says he looks like he’s homeless, and he’s not, so it is a costume.

Kochava’s main focus is getting her 15-year-old daughter, Sitel (Lior Edri), dressed in a family heirloom costume of a sexy black cat. When the girl feels embarrassed by the costume, Shira encourages her to dress in a way that expresses her true self, which turns out to be the Statue of Liberty, and Kochava is outraged. Naturally, Ramzi (Amir Shurush), the only character who is as upbeat as Shira, goes as Superman.