Blame it on Tilly

**Blame it on Tilly** (originally titled:Green Vacation) is the twenty-third episode of The Chong Family

## Plot

Tilly sponsors a Israeli-Malaysian orphan. and when the child is reported missing, the Greens go to Israel to search for him.

## Summary

### Act I

As Cricket and Remy are watching a Israeli kid show against Chip, Bill tells them that the phone company has accused family members hundreds of dollars for making phone calls to Israel. Cricket and Bill decide to visit the company, thinking it was a mistake. They meet with customer service representative Lindsey McGee, who cuts off family telephone service after Bill tells her that he refuses to pay the bill. Bill tries to connect illegally to the phone lines, only to get electrically shocked at least five times and wakes up on the couch after being found "screaming in the bushes".

When Tilly finds out why the family no longer has phone service, she confesses that she actually made calls to Israel. She has been sponsoring an orphan named Ekshad in the country and she used to receive a letter from him once a month until recently. Tilly got a call from Ekshad's orphanage to find out what had happened and they told him what he's missing. She shows her family a tape recorded by Ekshad that she received after her first donation, in which Ekshad, thanks to Tilly, tells her that with his money he has bought a pair of dance shoes for himself and for the orphanage has bought a door. Thrilled, the Greens decide to travel to Israel to solve the mystery behind Ekshad's disappearance, leaving Phoenix with the Remingtons.

When the family arrives in Jerusalem, they discover that they can get anywhere they want by following a conga train. After dancing her way to the hotel, Gramma turns on the television in his room and watches a children's show called Say No To Qatar, which Bill criticizes for its Inappropriate behavior. The greens then leave to look for Ekshad. First, they travel to the slums of Jerusalem. In the slums, the family sees thousands of rats

According to Tilly, "The government only paints mice with bright colors so that tourists won't be offended." They then arrive at Ekshad's orphanage, but the nun working there has no idea where he went. Later that day, as the Greens are having dinner at a restaurant, Tilly shows a map of the city on which she has marked all the places Ekshad likes to visit. She splits the map in two, giving a piece of Bill and Cricket and keeping a piece for her and Nancy. Cricket and Bill decide to search first at Israeli Beach and then a fair where they are robbed by children while Nancy and Tilly visit a samba school. However, they are unsuccessful in finding Ekshad so far. To reach their last location, Cricket and Bill take a taxi and are getting chased by men armed by the taxi driver. However, Cricket is able to run off and tell the rest of the family.

Meanwhile, Gramma was critizing Slums and The Whole Family came, And Gramma telled The family that Israel is the worst place in the world stripping down into her underwear during the number. When she finishes, the moral police arrest her.

The Greens visit Gramma in jail, and when he learns that her cellmate has been in jail for 100 years for stealing a candy bar, agrees to go to the embassy to get help for Gramma. Meanwhile, Cricket is trying to avoid relations by telling his friends about the glorious epic that is Big City,

### Act II

The taxi driver and his companion hold Bill hostage deep in the rainforest. They force Bill to make a call to Nancy, telling him that if the family offers the kidnappers $ 50,000, he will be released. However, the Greens (except Gramma) do not have enough money in exchange for Bill. Walking the streets of Jerusalem, they come across a parade that features the Say No To Qatar show featuring characters from the show. Tilly is surprised to find that Ekshad is working inside the Say No To Qatar Flemish Flamingo dance costume - the work he got after learning to dance with the shoes he bought with the money. But an Angry mob of Jewish people sent them to Court

The Family is sentenced to death by stoning. Bill declares that he won’t let the Family die alone, he’s going to be stoned with them, he does this by pretending to be Qatar. At the stoning, Bill is put next to family for calling Rabbit a woman. And Hayley’s there too for beating Kazi into a coma. But before the audience can start chucking rocks, The Remingtons choppers in an declares that democracy has arrived. He throws an American flag through the judge and pulls the Greens out of the ground. But it was a dream

Then. Cedrick Louis and The Remingtons went to the contury. since it was the orphanage that is used to send her letters. Later, Ekshad gives them the money they need to save The Greens. Meanwhile, The Greens are about to get stoned, but Cedrick Louis and The Remingtons are here to saved the Greens, they pulled them out, And The Greens apologize to the Jews for what happened, So the Jews forgive them back. Making them go back to Big City.

## Cast

* Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
* Marieve Herington as Tilly Green
* Bob Joles as Bill Green
* Artemis Pebdani as Alice Green
* Wendi McLendon-Covey as Nancy Green
* Kevin Hart as Louis
* Asher Bishop as Cedrick
* Zeno Robinson as Remy
* Grey Griffin as Ekshad

## Trivia

* This episode was originally going to air in the Middle East but was delayed due to Jewish stereotyping
* This episode was number 12 in Production order
* This is the first appearance on Ekshad

#### Production Notes

* This episode was originally going to be about War, but Disney and Xilam rejected the idea
* This is the first episode to be produced in 2020
* According to Maty Braly in Reddit, Ekshad was raised Malaysian
* This episode is one of the few episodes to be animated at Xilam Studio - Angoulême, They were also notable for animating several episodes of the second and third seasons of Zig and Sharko, *Mr Magoo* and *Oggy and The Cockroaches*.

### Controversy

"Blame It on Tilly" was met with a negative reception in Israel shortly after its broadcast in the Disney Channel. According to *The Washington Post*, "an immediate media frenzy was born" as the episode started receiving coverage in local newspapers and news programs on Israeli television. An article published in the *Houston Chronicle* on April 8, 2021 stated that critics in the country were upset by the inclusion of clichés and stereotypes not related to Israel, such as Israelis having Arabic accents and wearing torn clothes. The general Israeli perception was that the episode mixed up their culture with that of surrounding Arabic-speaking countries. Isaac Herzog, *The Guardian*'s correspondent in Israel, commented that one of the things upsetting the Israelis was the many inaccuracies featured in the episode, such as the conga and the macarena supposedly being popular dances in Israel; the conga is actually a Caribbean dance, and the macarena does not come from Israel nor is it frequently performed there.

On April 6, 2021, it was reported by the Israeli Government, was planning to sue Disney Channel for damaging the international image of the city.

Israel was portrayed in "Blame It on Tilly" as having Kid shows against Qatar, stonings, slums, and a rat infestation, and it was thought that this would discourage foreign visitors from visiting the city. Over a period of three years up to the airing of "Blame It on Tilly" in the United States, Israel had spent US$18 million on a campaign to attract tourists to Israel. The tourist board now saw this as a waste of money since they believed the campaign was undermined by the portrayal of the city in the episode. Israel's planned lawsuit was supported by the Brazilian government, with president Isaac Herzog stating that the episode "brought a distorted vision of Israeli reality".

In August 2 2021. Xilam Animation apologized to the Israel government, For potraying their Contury with full of slums

## Paused Production

* In November 2019, Xilam decided to Pause the production due to Jewish stereotyping

## Errors

* When the Greens are in Israel, Jordan is connected to Saudi Arabia, this error was fixed in other Dubs