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Rites Of Passage...

Season 8 Episode 8: For Real Men Only
Airdate:
November 16 1989
Frasier and Lilith are holding a Bris for their son but no one from Cheers can face going as they imagine the pain.

Cliff goes into this fun little story about the rites of passage.


This is nothing anyway, the original rites of passage started with the jungle tribes down in Borneo.
(Norm: "Yeah?")
When a young jungle tribal lad was on the brink of puberty they'd bring him forward and take out this large sharpened clam shell...

(Sam: "Oh, no, no, don't tell me.")
...They would fill it up with dip, pass around the hors' dourves...
(Sam: "Oh.")
...then they'd take these two big jagged rocks...
(Norm: "No, Cliffie, Cliff, Cliff.")
...bang them together to call in the tribe out of the hills, you know, then the witch doctor stepped up with this long sharpened bamboo staff...

(Woody: "Oh, here it comes.")
...and just sort of shoved it into the ground, hung a flag on it and they danced around it pretty much till they dropped, really.

(Sam: "Wait a minute, when do they circumcise the kid?")
What do you mean circumcise? There's no Jews in Borneo.


The truth:

All we can say is "WOW!"

We are pretty sure the rite of passage Cliff describes does not exist but here is a list of some that do:

  • Baptism.
  • First Communion.
  • Confirmation.
  • Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah.
  • Upanayanam or the Sacred thread ceremony is practiced amongst some Hindus.
  • Shinbyu is a rite of passage in Buddhism.
  • Rumspringa among the Amish .
  • Vision quest in some Native American cultures.

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