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3->''"Somewhere in Southern Israel..."''
4->''"In a highly-secure secret base..."''
5->''"The Israel Defense Force guards its [[UsefulNotes/TheSamsonOption doomsday weapon]]."''
6->''"This is the story of the most secure place in the middle east."''
7-->-- ''The OpeningNarration''
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9''M.K. 22'' was an animated series from Israel that ran for 10 episodes on the channel Bip in 2004. It was a sitcom about the soldiers of an IDF military base that satirized major Israeli events of the time. Basically, think ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace if it took place in Israel]].
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11The show's two main characters are Corporal Shlomi Hanukkah and his nerd friend Itai Shulman. Other characters include the handicapped Michal Levinstein, the ditzy NCO Gabriel Shukrun, and the Israeli Arab Abed Abu Jamal.
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13Notable for being the first primetime cartoon series from Israel.
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15!!This work provides examples of:
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17* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Averted, with this being an Israeli show and all. Out of the show's four main Jewish characters, two (Shukrun and Hanukkah) are Mizrahi while the other two (Shulman and Levinstein) are Ashkenazi.
18* ArmedFarces: Runs off of this trope.
19* BigBad: Abed, who acts as Shukrun's friend, is also a terrorist.
20* BrickJoke: At the beginning of the episode "Heavy Water", a female lieutenant named Rinat Gonen Segev is seen in a news report on her being sent to space as an astronaut. The reporter talking to her in the interview mentions that some astronauts have been hit by stray rockets. A rocket hits the space station Segev is in later in the episode, and near the end of the episode she lands on Earth again... only to get hit by a falling rocket piece.
21* ContentWarning: One appears at the beginning of each episode.
22* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dudu Tapuach. His criminal record includes attempts to bribe civil servants, elected officeholders and foreign consuls, he repeatedly tries to buy Abed's land to build a luxury neighborhood on even though Abed refuses every time, and the moment he sees Adiso's family, he uses them as menial laborers for a construction project. And once he's committed to a mental asylum for [[CassandraTruth telling Shukrun that Abed trains his sheep as terrorists]]...
23-->'''Tapuach:''' ''[after staring out of the asylum's window]'' Say, who owns all these lands?\
24'''Asylum inmates:''' ''[all at once]'' Mine! Mine! They're mine!\
25'''Tapuach:''' Nevermind. Psychos.
26* DrillSergeantNasty: Gabriel Shukrun, in a sense.[[note]]The IDF has no drill sergeants as Americans know them (new recruits are trained by slightly older recruits), so the disciplinary [=NCOs=] (like Shukrun) are in charge of base discipline and enlisted soldiers go see them for their punishment - kinda like a Provost Sergeant in the UK military.[[/note]]
27* TheDitz: Gabriel Shukrun.
28* FatAndSkinny: Hanukkah and Shulman.
29* LimitedAnimation: The show used limited joint movement on the characters.
30* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: In order to drive the Jews away from Palestine and prevent the establishment of the State of Israel, Abed travels to several different points in time, and tries to kill Moses with a bazooka, King David (before his coronation, during his fight with Goliath) with a rifle, and King Solomon with a thrown axe, and also tries to convince Theodor Herzl to found the Jewish state in Uganda instead of Palestine. [[spoiler:All of his attempts backfire, however, causing a StableTimeLoop: the bazooka hits the rock in the desert that produces water for the people, making Moses, who was planning to flee with his brother, a hero[[note]]in the original version of this Bible story, Moses hits the rock that provides the people with water out of frustration rather than asking it to produce water, which causes God to not allow Moses into the Holy Land; this, of course, is glossed over here due to RuleOfFunny[[/note]]; the bullet hits Goliath instead of David; the axe cuts the baby from the Judgment of Solomon in half, portraying the inattentive King Solomon as a hero; and Herzl had never thought about founding a Jewish state beforehand and gets hooked on the idea of establishing it in Palestine.]]
31* {{Mooks}}: Abed trains many, ''many'' sheep to do his bidding.
32-->'''Abed:''' ''Every sheep'' will be a shahid! Who wants to explode first? Who?!
33* ObfuscatingStupidity: Part of Abed's VillainWithGoodPublicity schtick is implied to be this. Shukrun describes his "simple" life using the expression "Eyn Sechel - Eyn De'agot" [[note]][When there's] no brains - [there's] no worries[[/note]], and shoots down Dudu Tapuach's offer of [[GratuitousEnglish business]] with him by saying that he doesn't know any English. This is the same Abed who traced Tapuach's ID number and criminal record with only a landline number and operated both a Nuclear Missile launch system and a TimeMachine without any problems, and did it all on-screen.
34* ShortRunner: Ran for 10 episodes.
35* {{Qurac}}: Tanjakistan, an ex-Soviet Central Asian republic and home of the Free Armenian National Tanjakistan Army - a rebel group that offers nuclear weapons for sale - appears in the first episode.
36* ShoutOut:
37** The show has a ContentWarning screen used at the beginning of each episode that is patterned after the one used in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. For example, both mention that the celebrity voices are just impersonations, and both mention the show contains coarse language, and due to it containing content like that, it's not suitable for anyone.
38** In the time-travel episode, the "future" segment has [[Franchise/StarWars C-3P0 as the anchor and an R2-D2-shaped robot version of Shukrun]], plus a [[Franchise/StarTrek Klingon]] stationed in logistics.
39* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Abed, the Bedouin who lives near the Base. Supposedly, he lives a simple life with his only worldly possessions being his tent and his sheep; In reality, he's a [[TheMole fifth-column operative]] of a [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Palestinian terrorist organization]], his tent hides a High-tech SupervillainLair, his sheep (one of whom [[RoboticReveal is a robot]]) are in the terrorism business too, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he offers his guests "authentic" labane which is actually store-bought and stored in a fridge]].
40* WomenDrivers: In the first episode, "Heavy Water", the (fictional) first female Israeli astronaut is interviewed before take-off. She talks about how how NASA has no room for stereotypes and women are involved in all parts of the organisation, while [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background a woman driver crashes into two parked cars while trying to park herself]]. This becomes a running gag throughout the episode.

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