Mmmmm….. Manischewitz…

With so many religions waiting for their savior to come, there’s bound to be great diversity in how they picture the messiah. However, as far as we know the four fingered, Duff beer drinking, donut-obsessed Homer Simpson doesn’t appear in any scripture.

On this coming Sunday’s episode of ‘The Simpsons’, Homer and co. travel to the Holy Land and – naturally – Homer begins to think he might be the long awaited messiah. D’oh!

After two decades, ‘The Simpsons’ still manages to come up with absurd concepts week after week. Besides flying our favorite ‘Simpsons’ characters from Springfield to Jerusalem (on El Al, we assume) the episode also features Sacha Baron Cohen as their very Israeli tour guide.

Cohen himself has been in the news after the surprise announcement that he quietly married his longtime girlfriend and Jewish convert, Australian actress Isla fisher. In addition to lending his voice, the star of ‘Borat’ and ‘Bruno’ also worked with the writing staff to pen a number of the episode’s jokes.

But as for Homer being the Messiah? Meh. We’re still waiting.

We thank the JTA for this story.

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