american_mama
12-08-2009, 12:41 PM
I was watching an old episode of the TV show "Numbers" yesterday with my family and none of the three adults there got a joke, at least I think it was a joke. I think it had a Jewish connection.
It's set in LA, I guess, and a very sarcastic yet witty criminal has been abducted by other criminals and thrown in the trunk of a car. As he looks out a peephole and talks on his cell phone to the FBI/main characters, he thinks he's in "the Valley" and starts naming businesses to help identify his location. He names two chains, the FBI computer pulls up multiple locations for each, and the FBI lead says "Give me something that's not a chain." The criminal says, "Come on, it's the VALLEY." Then he says, "Ok, wait, here we go..." and he says something that sounds like "Mitvah Recovery Center." The FBI types it in and (here's the joke I didn't get) the camera cuts to them all looking surprised and the main character says deadpan "There are twelve Mitzah Recovey Centers?"
So, what might a Mitvah Recovery Center and what's the joke?
It's set in LA, I guess, and a very sarcastic yet witty criminal has been abducted by other criminals and thrown in the trunk of a car. As he looks out a peephole and talks on his cell phone to the FBI/main characters, he thinks he's in "the Valley" and starts naming businesses to help identify his location. He names two chains, the FBI computer pulls up multiple locations for each, and the FBI lead says "Give me something that's not a chain." The criminal says, "Come on, it's the VALLEY." Then he says, "Ok, wait, here we go..." and he says something that sounds like "Mitvah Recovery Center." The FBI types it in and (here's the joke I didn't get) the camera cuts to them all looking surprised and the main character says deadpan "There are twelve Mitzah Recovey Centers?"
So, what might a Mitvah Recovery Center and what's the joke?