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Broad City the web series began in late 2009 and is is now transitioning to a half-hour scripted comedy at Comedy Central, slated to premiere in 2014.
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Broad City, created by UCB alums Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer and produced by Amy Poehler, is an odd-couple comedy about two best friends navigating their ...
- “Making Change,” Season 1
- “Under The Mistletoe,” Season 1
- “Laundry,” Season 1
- “Vchat,” Season 1
- “Date Night,” Season 1
- “Do The Right Thing,” Season 1
- “Valentine’s Day,” Season 2
- “Dream,” Season 2
- “The Commute,” Season 2
- “I Heart New York,” Season 2
Glazer and Jacobson’s opening salvo was this two-minute vignette that sees the former daring to try to make change with a homeless person begging for money, to the latter’s embarrassment. Even more noteworthy than the amusing scenario itself is the economy with which the two stars established their respective characters: Jacobson the self-conscious...
The loyalty between Glazer and Jacobson has been one of the most consistent themes of the TV series, to the point where they have toyed with the possibility, for Ilana at least, of something more than just friendship. One can see the first stirrings of such sapphic undertones in the climax of this episode, in which Ilana, seeing Abbi strike out mul...
Another hallmark of the TV series is its New York-centric humor (case in point: the Prospect Park dog wedding in the second-season episode “The Matrix”). For many young New Yorkers, it’s something of a holy grail to be able to live in an apartment with one’s own washer and dryer. When, in “Laundry,” Ilana discovers a male friend has both in his apa...
This episode is basically an extended video chat, with the camera pointed at Ilana’s and Abbi’s respective computer screens while cutting back and forth—just an inkling of the kind of stylistic chances Broad Citywould regularly take. Beyond the formal playfulness, “VChat” not only offers a pointed satire of the sometimes inscrutable nature of datin...
Watch here Speaking of dating, this episode is striking for the fact that it isn’t exactly funny. In fact, it’s essentially a dual romance, with Abbi enjoying herself with someone on a date that she goes home with him, and Ilana hanging out with a current love interest (played by Hannibal Buress in his first of many appearances in the Broad Cityuni...
Watch here This Season 1 closer daringly reconfigures Spike Lee’s classic 1989 treatise on American racism into an attack on sexism—an empowering call to arms to all the women that deal with harassment every day on the streets, from the mouths of men who see them merely as sex objects instead of individuals. Certainly, it was the first episode of t...
Watch here Season 2 kicked off with this mostly dialogue-free episode chronicling these two single gals’ adventures traipsing around New York City on Valentine’s Day—set, à la Woody Allen’s Manhattan, to George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue—before it unexpectedly climaxes with argument kickstarted by Ilana’s attempt to kiss a horrified Abbi in a gest...
Watch here Abbi’s skittishness about Ilana’s romantic overtures are given a workout in this episode, which, as suggested by its title, is essentially an extended dream sequence. But it’s the nature of this dream that truly dazzles: As Abbi keeps waking up to ever-more-outlandish nightmare visions of Ilana’s clingy devotion, the episode develops a n...
Watch here At first, the contrast between Abbi’s and Ilana’s morning habits—the former methodical, the latter messy—is amusing enough. But notice the accompanying songs to contrast their routines: Fleetwood Mac’s “Gypsy” in Abbi’s scenes, Missy Elliot’s “Pass the Dutchie” in Ilana’s. The episode cuts back and forth until, finally, both characters c...
Watch here This last hurrah for Glazer and Jacobson before they made their jump to Comedy Central offers a fitting summary of the YouTube series as a whole. As Ilana and Abbi run around Manhattan in their attempt to score a free cookie at a coffee shop, motifs from the series pop up—an ogler from “Do the Right Thing” reappears to hassle them again;...
Broad City: Created by Ilana Glazer, Abbi Jacobson. With Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Hannibal Buress, Arturo Castro. Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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S5.E1 ∙ Stories. Thu, Jan 24, 2019. Abbi and Ilana travel through Manhattan to celebrate Abbi's 30th birthday. 8.6/10 (429) Rate. Watch options. S5.E2 ∙ SheWork and Shit Bucket. Thu, Jan 31, 2019. Ilana opens an outdoor workspace for smokers; Abbi stands up to her landlord. 7.6/10 (285) Rate. Watch options. S5.E3 ∙ Bitcoin & the Missing Girl.
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When Ilana finds out about a secret, pop-up Lil Wayne concert, she and Abbi hustle their way through New York City to try and scrape together enough money for tickets. No matter how creepy it gets, the girls keep their eyes on the prize.
