New Delhi, April 26 -- It's easy to forget that 9/11 was really just a Tuesday. The first episode of Ramy Youssef's brilliant and nutty new animated series #1 Happy Family USA (streaming on Prime Video) is set on 10 September 2001. Two girls decide that the next day is the best possible day to come out of the closet, since one of them knew she was gay since she was 9 and the other since she was 11. What, they reason, could be a better day than 9/11?

Understandably, these young ladies don't quite get the spotlight the next day-or at least not the spotlight that they want. Youssef's unlikely sitcom is about a Muslim family left struggling to fit into post-9/11 America, with FBI agents infiltrating their mosques and suddenly suspicious scho...