Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob is a 1973 French comedy directed by Gérard Oury and starring Louis de Funès as Victor Pivert, a bigoted businessman forced into a chaotic disguise plot. Its Jewish dance scene became one of the most remembered sequences in French cinema and is still shared widely online. Clips and phrases from the film, including merci patron, circulate on soundboards as shorthand for overblown gratitude. The enduring popularity comes from de Funès physical comedy and the film status as a cult classic.