Lunella Lafayette helps celebrate a bat mitzvah
Casey reads from the Torah, gives a speech about her portion and gets candy thrown at her. And to top it all off, there is plenty of Yiddish and Hebrew sprinkled throughout...
Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is based on the Marvel comic about Lunella Lafayette, the smartest person in the world who becomes a superhero, Moon Girl, with a dinosaur sidekick.
Lunella’s best friend Casey Goldberg-Calderon is the only person who knows Moon Girl’s true identity, and it’s Casey’s bat mitzvah that is the focus of the episode, Today, I am a Woman.
Lunella has Shabbat dinner with Casey and her dads, Isaac (Andy Cohen) and Antonio (Wilson Cruz). For dinner, they have asopoa (a traditional Puerto Rican stew) de brisket, combining both their cultures. As Casey says, “It’s me, as a dish.” The main customs are explained for a non-Jewish audience, but there are also many details that only a Jewish viewer would recognise. There is even a gag in which someone says “Sheket bevakasha” and two people appear behind her to clap their hands and say “Hey!” If you know, you know.
Casey reads from the Torah, gives a speech about her portion and gets candy thrown at her. And to top it all off, there is plenty of Yiddish and Hebrew sprinkled throughout the episode.
Technically, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur isn’t part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but this episode features a cameo that connects it to current Marvel characters, so I think it’s safe to say that not only is Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur pushing Disney Channel’s Jewish representation forward, it’s also the best Jewish rep in a Marvel TV show.