Hanukkah in television

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Hanukkah in television, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (which commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks), is represented and referenced to in a number of television series of various genres such as comedy, sitcom, drama, documentary, animated, children's, competitive, talk and reality television, among others. Through a number of cultural references, tropes, and plot devices. Hanukkah has been referenced in many different American television series, as well as Israeli, British television, Canadian, and French television, among others.^[1]

Hanukkah plays a minor role in the plot of some episodes of television series, and plays a more important role as the main plot device in others, such as in "A Rugrats Chanukah", among others.