HaPijamot

Background

Seasons

Characters

• Ilan Rosenfeld – Ilan is the keyboard player of the band and writes a majority of the songs. His main interest is girls, and many episodes involve him trying to get a date, but eventually everything goes wrong. His catchphrase is: "What do I need all this for?! Let's just pack up our bags and move back to Netanya."
• Oded Paz – Oded is the drummer for the band. He is very dimwitted but he's the luckiest person in the show. He works at the Hamburgary and often irritates Gary. His catchphrase is "Gotta go, Gotta go!".
• Ya'akov "Kobi" Farag – Kobi is the guitarist of the band is always hungry and eats almost anytime he can. He is Gary's nephew and Roni's cousin. He can change clothes remarkably fast, so he has many identities, including Naji Comradin Jackson, an Iraqi who is supposedly the "Chairman of the Association for Apartment Management". He takes advantage of an elderly woman and always eats at her house.
• Gershon "Gary" Mendelbaum – Gary is the owner of the Hamburgary, a burger joint with apparently inedible food. His hot dogs can make someone faint, throw up, or supposedly die. He is Kobi's uncle and Oded's employer. He hates life and is constantly troubled by his wife Shifra and his daughter Roni. Apart from Roni, Gary also has triplets named Poli, Shaike, and Gavri who also annoy him. During the last season, Gary discovered "Wikipedia" and tries to change history by editing his and other sitcom characters pages on his magic "Leck-top". Gary every time saying, "Why?" When the situation returns to normal condition.
• Roni Mendelbaum – Roni is Gary's daughter and thinks badly of her father due to his ignorance. She is referred to as annoying, but she is very talented and usually much smarter than any other character in the show. She always forces Gary to give her money.
• Alona Tal – Alona is the background vocalist and percussionist in the band. She is the threesome's neighbor, and they're always fighting over her. Alona Tal is a regular cast member in the first, second, and third seasons and makes guest appearances in the fourth and fifth seasons.
• Yamit Sol – Yamit effectively replaces Alona in the fourth and fifth season, despite officially " replacing Alona". She has her own agenda and is not just the pretty face of the series. She plays percussion and is a background vocalist in the band in the fourth season. In the fifth season, she lives with Dana and learns psychology.
• Nathan Kuperman – Nathan is Ilan's cousin from Beersheba and the band's temporary DJ. He shows up a couple of times in the second season and eventually becomes a main character in the fourth season. He is emotional and cries very loudly when he is either happy or sad.
• Dana Frider – Dana Frieder is Shifra's niece and joins the show in the fifth season. However, she doesn't replace Yamit, as they both star in the Fifth season. Yamit has a smaller part in the fifth season. According to the show, 'she went to learn psychology and won't have as much time to run around with the gang'. The characters often mention the fact that Dana Frider was in Nolad Lirkod and did commercials for the Israeli shampoo brand Mui Keph. Dana always clarifies to them that they don't even have the right to fantasize about dating with her.
• Shifra Mendelbaum – Shifra is Gary's wife. Gary is always complaining about her, and claims she is very, very fat and ugly. Whenever she calls Gary, she always complains to him and gives him a lot of chores. She doesn't let him speak, and Gary always starts words without finishing. Shifra is never seen in the show except for one episode, when the young Shifra is seen in some flashbacks. She is also seen in a spinoff, Mendelbaum Private Detective.

  Supporting characters

• Mr. Avraham Latin – Mr. Latin is introduced a side character in the fourth season. He is an old man that lives in the same building as the others. He is deaf and whenever someone talks to him, he responds by saying "What?" He is played by Ilan's real-life father.
• Ms. Bracha Kirschenberg – Bracha is an elderly woman who owns the building and hates everyone in it. She calls the threesome "Afrikaner hooligans." She is in love with Naji Jackson and always allows him to eat at her house. She is the head of the Mossad, according to the episode "Shem Kod Moustache".
• Ruby Duenyas – Ruby is the show's director. He appears many times in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons.
• Badash – The Devil. He was the producer of Gary and Oded Menashe's band. He first appeared in the first season, when he tried to trick Ilan and convince him to join "In Shtink". In the fourth season, he represented Mr. Latin in his prosecution against the Pyjamas. Appears in four episodes in season five and in three episodes in season six.
• Albert – Renovated the Hamburgary and the Trio's home in the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons.
• Shimon Tzimhoni – Tzimhoni is Gary's arch enemy; ever since they competed for a student council election, they started an endless feud. He appears twice in the third season, twice in the fourth season, in three episodes in the fifth season, and twice in the sixth season. In the third season, he and Gary competed for the position of mayor. In the fourth season he tried to buy the Hamburgary, in the fifth he opened a business called Tzimhoburger to compete with Gary's, and in the sixth season he met Gary in the prison.
• Malka Kuperman – Ilan's aunt and the owner of the trio's apartment. She didn't live in Israel because she's in a delegation of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Poland. She doesn't know that Oded and Kobi live in the apartment, so every time she's visiting Ilan, Kobi and Oded need to find somewhere to stay overnight. She appears twice in the show: in the two last episodes of the first season, and in the first episode of the sixth season.

  Kobi's characters

• Freddie "Nice-to-Meet" – Freddie is the band's manager and often does anything in the series that has to do with planning. He talks very fast and tricks people to agree with him. He creates fictional stories about knowing stars. He is aggressive and is feared by many characters in the series.
• Naji Comradin Jackson – Unlike Kobi's other characters, Naji doesn't have a specific purpose other than to "silence" Bracha when she complains about the noise, but in the fourth and fifth seasons this becomes more rare. Ms. Bracha is in love with him and always gives him food.
• Marcel Fuerro – A policeman. He appears when crimes occur or when investigations are needed. Very attached to the mole he has on his face.
• Sabbaba Sali – Rabbi. A parody on the Baba Sali. He sings songs in English and says "Sabbaba".
• Eddie "Good-to-See" – Freddie's gay brother. He says "Naim li" as a response to someone else's "Pleased to meet you".
• Meireinstein – Broadcaster with an obsession to comb his hair. He has a dog named Hava who is mentioned in one tack and appeared just after the chapter. Based on a true boulevard named Meir Einstein.
• Yehoram Zuberbuler – The announcer of "The Only Channel". He usually shouts his last name. Joined in the sixth season.
• Mani Pire - A new character in season 8, shows up when Kobi is on the TV show "Mister Chef". Becomes a superstar when the group decides to give him an online show to promote the band.

  Episodes