ah fuck it it's the BROAD CITY thread

"Am I thin? Like, for a dog?"

Told myself that I can't watch tonight's ep until I write the cover letter (and update my resume) for a job I'm applying for.

Haven't even opened Word yet.

Tonight's was the funniest episode yet, from Hannibal talking to the dogs to Rachel Dratch counting gum balls on the floor to Abbi's roommate's boyfriend awkwardly kissing her. This show is so perfect.

this is a good year for weirdo comedies, enjoying this show way more than I expected

This last one WAS really funny but they lean on hacky jokes from time to time, like the running "noooo!" gag.

Hannibal Buress is killing it pretty damn consistently, though.

Thought ep 2 ("Pussy weed") was better than this one. Crushing on liana big time.

Hannibal needs to be on every tv show

I was sure that North Brother Island was something they made up.

Nope.

In the next episode they go to Pelham bay park

I think they should swap the actors that play the roommate and the crush down the hall

That is crazy talk.

If you think he's her roommate then you're missing the entire thing that's funny about that character

I was made a fan merely by the alternate pronunciation of "vagina" in ep 2

Just started watching this and man this shit is funny. The twenty seconds of her calling her old friend who's a housewife now (still with stretched earlobes) was just great.

that old woman who worked at the UPS-like facility had me dying.

That locksmith, oh my god.

Not as good as the last couple, but the subway sight gag was brilliant.

are u eating garbage bagels is a p good line

this is pretty funny

the abby girl is good at physical humor jokes

Parkour was pretty special.

I've been debating bringing it up here, but I get a lot of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia from this.These totally idiotic narcissistic protagonists who are completely confident in their twisted world view while generally frustrating the rest of the world. Differences being of course that these are brooklyn hipster girls and not drunk philly heshers/faux-yuppies. Also, in Sunny, while the supporting characters do include a bunch of bizarre characters, many episodes focus on them coming up against "normal" people, while so far this show has more of a Louis grotesques vibe, like the shipping company lady.

I'd call them dorks, not hipsters.

Getting high with Doug someone :
http://youtu.be/a8s1vdmVHyg

I think I've met enough bushwick art-school dropouts to be ok calling them hipsters.

i think at least abby's character is from philly originally (i think she calls her parents in one of the shorts in philly). also they're much more likable imo than sunny (or workaholics or girls characters)

Likable? I wouldn't want liana as an employee!

Ilana.

locksmith was the dude who played trevor in gta v!

Oh shit!!! I knew I had seen him somewhere before. I mean real him, though he looks a lot like Trevor.

I wouldn't want liana as an employee!

Neither would I. But totally WKIW.

lol'd @ her disposing of the work manual in the hazardous waste box

Finally caught this show on Wednesday and laughed pretty hard. My wife insisted on binge-viewing the first 3 episodes on Amazon Instant.

The sandwich shop guy was great.

the subway pole gag made me laugh so hard

Watched the first couple of eps, which were funny, in a sort of understated way. It kind of views as a parody of "Girls."

"arc de triomphe?"
"yeah, i see it as like, two guys butt to butt going down on us and we do oprah hands over them"

this show is A++++

Lol yeah this is def some kind of anti-Girls. They are both more likable and more horrifying than dunham's crew

Tonight's ep was kinda weak.

still pretty good.

Yeah I have no complaints thus far. Also Badger and Mantzoukas as the DJs were great to see. Miss Hannibal, though.

i lold @ their oh well 3 out of 12 aint bad but i dont think i get it

presumably one pair and one where half left but the other girl was down for the double team

Tonight's ep was kinda weak.

I thought it started kinda slow, but once they got to the party it really hit its stride.

I thought the opposite. Started out okay, just got worse.

The hors d'ouevres bit was definitely tops. The rest, kinda meh.

Badger's tits and Dan Bejar FTW

I saw them on @midnight last week and immediately afterwards sent my dvr in search of Broad City. they are so chill and funny irl, am looking forward to seeing how dope this dope new show is :D

Abbi is funniest when she goes into her higher more shouty register. I loled when she shouted "not TO-DAY!" and kicked open the bathroom door.

Second episode was incredible.

Lovin this show. Arc de triopmhe omg

Renewed!!! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/broad-city-renewed-season-2-683083

Highlight after highlight tonight, from the nude hula-hoop dancer to the improv group scene.

yeah this show is a new favorite for me, the two leads are so great and they have consistently good guest stars.

Fuck I love this show. Also I hope Hannibal is on this forever.

pretty much excellent on every level

My wife is endlessly grateful for me introducing her to this. This is right up her alley. We both cracked up when Rafi and Badger showed up last week.

FUCK YOU BOTH YOU YUPPIE TRASH TAX THE RICH

that's like ten dead horses i've had to replace

God that line killed me.

Also the phone videos.

love this show, did not realize that there were more than 3 episodes til now, have some watchin' to do

yeah glad it got renewed

watched some of Hannibal Buress's standup last night, pretty funny

animal furnace is great. He's got an album or two on spotify.

"what are we following, some sort of duck?"

Hannibal Buress was on fire tonight.

I enjoyed the cornucopia of sight gags in last night's ep.

renewed for a second season!

great news

So funny in the first one when they're drumming and that break dancer puts her hat down.

this show is the best

Last ep was ok. All the running around seemed a little filler-ish.

Except that running around NYC is what the show usually does…??? Not including that last episode when they were stuck inside Abbi's apartment, of course.

Is that the wedding one? There was a hilarious lazy b-roll montage in that, which was like a shot of a bunch of "I Love NY" t-shirts CUT TO a shot of a bunch of "I Love NY" coffee mugs CUT TO a shot of some other "I Love NY" t-shirts. LOL. Like, oh, this takes place in NYC?

Sry last ep sucked

I meant multiple jokeless scenes/shots of them literally running around. That was different.

If you visit New York for like 20 minutes you'd realize that a montage of cheap NY souvenirs represents "a place a real New Yorker rarely ventures" and was thus meant to imply that the women were running around in a place that wasn't their comfort zone

i think they do a pretty good job of capturing "actual new york"; i lolled at dude being unwilling to go with her to peen station (sic) because it was "gross" but i think that really woulda been more accurately applied to port authority

Hurricane episode was hilarious. Wedding episode was absolutely terrible. Just the pits. I mean, the gay guy doing drugs and incest jokes weren't funny the first time, but they ran them into the ground so hard I wonder if it was intentional, and even then they still weren't funny. I also wonder if they wrote these two even more cartoonish and obnoxious than our characters characters to make some sort of point, which also wasn't funny.

Oh well, they can't all be winners.

I didn't like the wedding episode as much as i've liked others but I did love ilana howling with despair that abbi touched boobs with another girl.

There's a video going around of the intro of tonight's episode, where the two apparently do a thing dressed up as Nicki Minaj and "The Rain"-era Missy to "Started From The Bottom" and I'd really like a link to said video that works in Canada. Goddammit.

http://www.spin.com/articles/broad-city-drake-nicki-minaj-missy-elliott-video/
?

Found it on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDN5DYsNk0

Kinda surprised how flat Amy Sedaris' scenes felt on tonight's episode. I'm afraid to revisit Strangers with Candy in case it hasn't aged well.

does that clip really have anything to do with nicki minaj at all?

if anything, lil kim was the one who wore furs

http://media2.giphy.com/media/y5U1ImMaVVU2s/200_s.gif

Kinda surprised how flat Amy Sedaris' scenes felt on tonight's episode. I'm afraid to revisit Strangers with Candy in case it hasn't aged well.

I agree - she didn't quite click for some reason. Having watched SWC recently it still holds up for me, though!

just discovered this show the other day and already it's my favourite thing

i thought the joek abt the racist dating site thing fell flat, was too idk hack sitcom bait-and-switch-y or something, but the rest of this ep was p good. this show is v good, well done all involved.

I thought that joke would've been better if the racism was more subtle dog-whistle style. Like obv that it was racist but not so blatant and cartoony. Sedaris was a little over the top too but generally I thought the episode was killer.

SWC really does hold up. Haven't seen this new BC ep yet tho.

I remember watching the movie in the theater and my friends and I were the only people in there besides a couple who I knew.

I guess I'm not as picky but all the episodes of this show so far have been good to great IMO. Top 2 were probably the package delivery episode and the hurricane episode.

Yeah I love this show and have very few, very minor complaints.

agreed

Oh it's all good, except for the wedding ep, which is almost all bad, strangely enough. My wife loves this. She said it's like Workaholics "but with more girl stuff."

Also way funnier than Workaholics this season.

settin the bar high there

*tokes a fatty*

You said 'high.'

since it appears to be yr MO for life whiney will u be posting on the hate reading: C/D thread?

I totally forgot about

http://chronicgamergirl.tumblr.com

good rebound from the wedding ep

saw the racist dating service thing coming but still lol'd

omg poly, i had no idea
ilana is demolishing me right now

OK, the finale was all kinds of awesome. Poehler did a stellar job directing.

I really hope we don't have to wait until 2015 for the next season.

We almost certainly do.

dayum that penis is pink!

"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh... Pick me up! ...aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

So my boyfriend from college asked if I'd seen this the other day (which I haven't) because he said that one of the women from this crossed with Hannah off girls reminds him of the me of the past and made a point of saying that wasn't meant to be insulting but rather endearing. Now I feel like I have to watch this.

Those last two episodes more than made up for the wedding episode. Love how Abbi is always the one who, when pushed, goes totally insane.

that wedding episode was hilarious--the bus scene was fantastic

Just got hipped to this, fucking love it.

the subway pole gag made me laugh so hard

― if you stan for nothing you'll fall for everything (symsymsym), Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:40 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This...THIS was some Jerry-Lewis-elevator-gag-level shit. Brilliant.

my girlfriend HATES this (one simple) show and it bums me out pretty hard

I have been introduced to this show. Some episode where they were trying to hook up with dudes at the bar and a phone was lost. Hannibal Buress delivering the line "I wouldn't submit a dog to the hectic life of a dentist!" about slayed me.

going thru withdrawal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GnJ5Y5cB6I

lol @ the 'push it' knock-off, perfect.

Longish profile of them in the New Yorker last week was kinda interesting.

weirdly timed tho

http://i.imgur.com/qg45fRN.jpg

Love this show.

xp wut

i was bored and bought the first episode. it was a struggle not to turn it off and delete it from my life w/in 20 seconds. i got up, had a glass of water, and eventually made it through the whole episode and it wasn't as horrifying as I might have imagined. I guess I am just not remotely interested in comedies about this demographic, unless they are really, really good, which this is decidedly not.

20something jewish people in NY should just volunteer to help make TV shows by and/or about other people.

insert UMC somewhere in there

what a shame we won't be blessed with similar analyses of the other episodes

I know, right?

http://i.imgur.com/3LES9YO.gif

first episode is good; #2 and #3 are so, so funny (abbi's physical comedy in the dentist's office and rachel dratch's cameo are big highlights) and from those episodes onward this became basically my favourite show.

i've been aggressively recommending it to friends and they've all loved it too.

YOU'RE a mom!

maybe i should give later episodes a try

or i could just watch red dawn on cable

Yeah this show's great. It took me a few eps to get into but they are both pretty funny and rad.

I think the fact that they are great is key. Even when an ep is sort of eh the pair of them are always great. Plus Hannibal.

or i could just watch red dawn on cable

I hope to god you're talking about the Swayze one, otherwise...

oh yeah, I'm a Swayze purist.

maybe I'll give Broad City another chance. some of the clips were funny. i am pretty tired of shows abt young, temporarily poor ladies working in the culture industries in NYC, but who knows.

Then don't watch them you big silly

They dont work in the culture industry btw

they illustrate and stuff, right?

they seem like culture-industry aspirants

but maybe i'm wrong

Aren't we all?

one cleans bathrooms in a fancy gym

The other has a bottomfeeder temp job she doesnt even bother doing

They are both permanently poor afaict

The only character w money is the dentist

Ilana's parents bail her out from time to time, iirc, which is played up for laughs.

they are temporarily poor, and at least one aspires to be a graphic artist

This show isn't about what they do for a living. I mean... I don't think of Laurel and Hardy as a story about piano movers.

Abbi's artistic aspirations are pretty quickly exposed as delusional. her art is m/l objectively awful iirc. it's just another joke they're playing with.

actually abbi has been selling her art since before the show was airing, no knowing wink going on there

well all art is objectively awful imo so maybe i am not the best judge

i totally get not wanting to watch another show about directionless twentysomethings in nyc (whether or not their in the "culture industry" is a pretty pedantic quibble), but anyone old enough to be tired of that trope is also old enough to know that when a show increases in popularity over a season, it's foolish to judge its worth off the pilot

that said my bar for "tv worth buying the episode" would be crazy high, not sure any show would pass

"tv worth buying by the episode" i mean

i totally get not wanting to watch another show about directionless twentysomethings in nyc (whether or not their in the "culture industry" is a pretty pedantic quibble), but anyone old enough to be tired of that trope is also old enough to know that when a show increases in popularity over a season, it's foolish to judge its worth off the pilot
--da croupier

Even Brooklyn 99?

Yes Virginia even Brooklyn 99

personally thought that show got a lot better over the season, Samberg and Peretti's characters got a lot less shrill

not saying one has some moral obligation to stick with a show after hating an episode, just that if a show becomes more acclaimed with time, it's pretty possible the pilot is nowhere near the best ep

Did the show get funny at some point too?

did you come to the broad city thread to start a conversation about how you hate brooklyn 9-9 or did my claim that pilots of good shows are often gestational works make you think about how much you hated that brooklyn 9-9 episode you saw

I saw the pilot of "Community" too

the unperson of sitcom threads

http://3mk6x2edyro40fowt3k9r6cr8b.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/meaning-of-Yin-Yang-symbol.jpg

Broad City is a very good show but I don't think it really demands onion A/V club "well the first episode is a C but THEN the season gets totally B+" convos.

But Stapp later came into the Harbor Court Hotel bar while Sexton and bandmates SA Martinez and P-Nut were watching Broad City on television. He stepped in front of the screen and said, "311, I am ready to fight about Brooklyn 9-9," according to Sexton.

whiney, we talked about this at therapy. "Av club" is a red flag word.

Haha

That's funnier than anything I saw on the pilots of Community and Brooklyn 99

wait i thought you loved community

aren't you the guy who's always talking about how great community is

it's like "dude, i know you're bored and looking for trouble, but stop going on threads and trying to pick fights about how community is better than whatever show they're talking about"

i knew he was trouble when he walked in

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/id-girls

missin this show so much at the moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfErkHGPJrA

Love this show. Any Hannibal scene is amazing.

The scene where the improv guy is going down on Ilana and she keeps flashing back to his terrible improv

webseries to tide us over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TSRMeydnlzs

idk something about those two got me watching more they're cute and funny like can i marry yall?

Deep Wang
15 hours ago

oh "deep wang" you charmer

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ianxcarlos/abbi-and-ilana-from-broad-city-are-angels#23y10kq

this show is gonna be fantastically popular next year isn't it

do u think ppl have discovered it in the offseason

i have def introduced it to several people and everyone of them loved it immediately

yeah in my world of young cultists it is beloved but that's like idk 6 ppl

i think it's gonna get crazy press and that fans are gonna be ridic hype about a new season and that abbi and ilana are doing a lot of work outside of this
key and peele is getting a .9 nielsen and broad city had a .6; i imagine they'll do as well as k&p?

looking forward to seeing their live thing next month

The key to success across the cable board seems to have been the belated American adoption of 8-13 episode runs. Not too many that it's impossible to catch up. Few enough that you can be familiar with every ep. Not stretched too thin to sustain itself. Thank you, UK, for showing us the way.

S2 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGxn6bJm8uA

removed :(

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/to417u/broad-city-get-back-into-broad-city---uncensored

Can't wait!!!

seeing them live this week :)

lol @ white power suit

i'm scared my expectations are too high for the new season. i've barely watched any tv this year because i'm just like "oh well probably won't be as good as broad city so why bother".

So, I avoided this until last night at which point I watched the first seven episodes back to back.

I really disliked Ilana at first because, well, her personality is kind of unbearable. She she does have some amazing lines though and seemed to get less annoying as the shows went on. I can't remember which ep it was but there was this one where they all woke up from sex dreams and she was dreaming that Abi wanted to masturbate with her and she said something like "I've been trying to get you to parallel play forever, dude!" and I just died.

Anyway, yes, this is good. I'm a huge Hannibal fan so his presence doesn't hurt.

"vape life!"

v v v excited for s2, this show slays

also it absolutely crucifies Girls in a way that I hope is at least semi-intentional

I am so excited for it. I knew I'd found my show when Abbi said that being in a pile of pugs was on her bucket list. ;) This show really makes me wish I still had regular access to weed though, man.

thrilled this finally showed up on Hulu. 5 episodes in and enjoying it so far

My parents were visiting us last week and put on episodes of this on Amazon instant and...

love it.

It was definitely awkward to watch with them, but at the same time, just so amazing that they enjoyed the show that I didn't care that we were watching people talking about masturbating and pink dicks and peeing out condoms.

I started laughing last night because Judith Light was on stage at the GG and all I could think of was the dog Hannibal named Judith Light.

this first episode is out there btw

the dog Hannibal named Judith Light.

it really did look like judith light! hannibal otm.

it totally did!

This show really makes me wish I still had regular access to weed though, man.

lol my wife wife made it a point that i saw my "guy" before tonight.

haha don't know why i typed wife twice there . still waking up i guess

is tnite the start of the new season??

yeah we already saw E01 last night, it's great fun :D

wife wife <3

"i'm not a mom. you're a mom. i'm a grown ass woman"

i haven't read this yet but it's super long:
http://grantland.com/features/broad-city-season-2-comedy-central-abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer/

it's their year

i don't want to be part of the backlash. really hoping this is a good season.

I just watched the first 2 episodes of Season 1. The two girls are likeable I spose but its not funny enough to get into tbh

watch some of the better ones from season 1 (i like ep5 with the sketchy DJs, and ep9 with the real estate agent) before you make a decision -- i find virtually every sitcom can't really be judged on the first 1-2 episodes

v true of say it's always sunny, which is in fact v amusing

despite seeming not that in S1E1, not that in a very great way

ilana's shoutout to/stop-comparing-us-to Girls in that interview kinda kiboshes my, um, comparison upthread. but while completely different it's so much better, and the discourse was always gonna lump them together /notsorry

abbi and ilana are legit funny and actually likable which makes it into an entirely different thing than girls imo

it's more like workaholics only less doofy and not suburban and with women

cant compare the two - girls is a dramedy. broad city is a zippy zingy (albeit quirky) 20 min sitcom

Girls pretends to be poetic, Broad City is poetic

Mordy otm

^^ seconded

I loved the first season of Girls and just started watching Season 4 now without having seen S2 and 3. It dropped off a bit, I take it?

workaholics is a p good comparison

abbi and ilana are legit funny and actually likable which makes it into an entirely different thing than girls imo

That also applies to any Workaholics comparison.

I feel that I'd last longer talking to the characters Abby and Ilana play than the Workaholics characters, though. They're constantly over the top, the women seem relatable if ridiculous

I positively loathe the three lead characters on Workaholics. Maybe irl they're decent likable fellas, but I don't even want to find out.

you know they don't exist irl and neither do the sitcom abby and ilana, right? :)

ugh dont compare bc to fuckin workaholics

workaholics is almost as bad as the league as far as unfunny shit on netflix goes

Ugh, The League.

I'm watching workaholics right now. It's fucking terrible.

http://www.avclub.com/article/broad-city-already-renewed-season-three-213827

Oh good.

Workaholics has a lot of funny stuff on it, and the comparison to Broad City is apt in some ways. The latter is probably a better show overall.

Broad City is DEFINITELY a better show. Workaholics was ok until the last season, which was garbage, but once better shows started coming on CC (BC, Review, Kroll Show, etc etc) I stopped watching Workaholics.

Only episodes of The League I've seen are the two centered on Jason Mantzoukas' character, which seem like a better concept for a show than the one the show is centered around.

I was about to ask if that is the dude who plays Raffi, but of course it is

We like the League fine, but wow, is it pretty much the laziest comedy on TV. Basically, barely there plot setups, horrible LA as Chicago, mostly them insulting each other, and when in doubt, Raffi. Who, to be fair, is a) a perfect OTT character and b) probably could not support his own show, thank goodness, which would quickly become a more extreme version of Workaholics. Which I liked for a few seasons and then, poof, no more interest My wife couldn't take Review, but I want to give it more time. Kroll Show, I started it but didn't get into it, but I hear it gets better. Broad City is ace, Amy Schumer hit or miss with glorious hits, Key & Peele still mostly great, Nathan For You short but sweet. Golden Age of Comedy Central stuff.

Amy Schumer is horribly racist fuck her forever. Review is incredible. But BC is best

I'm still making it thru the first season and it took me 7 episodes to realize Bevers wasn't gay

I've just gotten into Kroll Show recently since it's ending this year. It's up there with Key and Peele for excellence in editing/production values. (Also it is frequently hilarious.)

oh my god i just watched all of review tonight. i don't know that a show has ever made me so depressed before. so dark.

if you'd like something upbeat, may i recommend sex house?

lol sex house was better maybe bc it was more sartre than job

I don't understand why people think Key and Peele is funny. :(

wish I still had regular access to weed though, man.

Living in a particularly US state (and not traveling to any others all year) has honestly made me forget that this is a thing that people have to think about. Like "why don't you just go to the weed store?".

Anyway I heard vague things about this show last spring, don't have cable, recently got a Roku after having a baby and noticed this was on Amazon during one of my late night baby-feeding / TV watching stints. I totally love it, much more than any other show I've discovered lately mostly due to the dirtbagginess of Abby and Ilana that reminds me of people I know much more than any other "young single people living in New York" TV characters that I find really unrelatable.

I watched 3 seasons of Key & Peele and think it's generally pretty great but a bit inconsistent so who knows.

And I keep hearing about Workaholics but something about seeing this guy enrages me so much that I just can't bring myself to ever consider watching it
http://guycodeblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/workaholics_blake_r3.jpeg

The League isn't a great show that I'd rep for, but it's def better than one would expect at times. It was my favorite sitcom to hate that I'd never seen for a while. The Raff guyi and Kroll carry the show for the most part.

the dirtbagginess of Abby and Ilana that reminds me of people I know much more than any other "young single people living in New York" TV characters that I find really unrelatable.

this is super OTM.

As mentioned I was watching this recently with my parents and there were a handful of dirtbag situations that Abby and Ilana found themselves where I almost said, "Ha! That's happened to me!" but then remembered I was watching this with my parents and kept quiet.

something about seeing this guy enrages me so much that I just can't bring myself to ever consider watching it

nah he's the least annoying one by far

where are people watching new Broad City btw? like, actual cable or less-than-legal channels? i don't really mess around with either. :/

iTunes. I could easily get it freely from any number of sources but I want to support these chicas.

I want to watch the first season all over again. I keep thinking about it and laughing. I was just thinking about when Ilana was stealing the lotion from the gym in a bag and blurted out, "It's khiels!". That would have been me. At my old job, the tampon machines were always unlocked and stocked with tampax pretty much daily. I used to go to different floors with my reusable grocery bags and stock up. I didn't buy my own for the entire 3+ years that I worked there.

Since ppl are takling comedy central, has anyone watched @midnight? It's pretty good!

@midnight is great though it varies depending on guests...the one last week(i don't watch them all just now and again) with Maron, John Hodgman and Jen Kirkman was really funny. I didn't expect Maron would be good on that show but they all killed it.

Watched that one last night! :)

And, yeah, it was really good but JH needs to stop whatever he's doing with his facial hair. It's NAGL.

I really like Jen Kirkman. I want to be friends with her.

re: The League, I remember S2 being legitimately great, with diminishing returns after that.

even though there are people I like in the League I can't get past watching a show about fantasy football or whatever, something I find even more bafflingly ridiculous than actual football

ppl upthread otm about comedy central being legit good recently. bc is probably the best, but review and nathan for you are both extremely fucking hilarious too (not sure if either has been renewed?)

tho workaholics is funny for about 5 minutes and quickly wears out its welcome, and kroll show is pretty dire all around imo

fantasy sports are great, it's like the combination of statistics nerdos and rpg nerdos. the league is like a show about people who play dungeons and dragons with occasional guest star spots from the actual dragons and dwarves and elves

yeah no thx

I watched a couple episodes of Kroll Show and while it had its moments it was really just too aggressively ugly for me to enjoy, also lots of shooting fish in a barrel sorta stuff with the TV show parodies

Review was renewed for second season

The fantasy football aspect of The League is almost arbitrary. You could replace the sports fandom with music or film geekery and it wouldn't change the show really at all. It's too bad since that's the #1 reason people won't watch it.

The fantasy football thing also kind of makes you think it's going to be along the lines of, say, Arli$$. Arli$$ meets Entourage.

yeah, I avoided The League for years based on that assumption (and the terrible CC ads for it)

Nathan For You is coming back too

Damn this show is great. LOLling at them just carrying bags of ice around town.

fyi last night's episode is up on cc.com and doesn't require a tv provider (at least in the us).

This is fun - Broad City interviewing Sleater Kinney:

http://www.npr.org/event/music/378668756/we-cant-just-settle-broad-city-meets-sleater-kinney?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150121

The fantasy sports aspect of the League is as inconsequential as its LA-as-Chicago setting, or the fact that some characters have kids, somewhere, sometimes. It's mostly the people ripping on each other, and given the level of the comedians usually pays off at least a few times per episode.

Watched and liked this first new BC. It captures being young and in New York so well that my wife and I were basically, like, fuck New York, even if we were young that place sucks, how does anyone live there?

But yeah, Review was so fucked up and dark that my wife basically gonged it outright and told me to watch it on my own time.

i think i mentioned this but i watched all of review in one night and by the end i was just so so sad

esp after the pancakes ep

Forrest MacNeil is not a real person guys

but I saw him on TV?

anyway did everyone see the Broad City/Sleater-Kinney panel interview thin

apparently Review's second season barely got picked up, and only after a significant budget decrease, so, uh, tell yr friends to watch it when it comes back

Forrest MacNeil is not a real person guys

i'm not sure what this means? are you saying that ppl shouldn't have emotional reactions to works of fiction?

I just can't really fathom taking it seriously, it's such a farce...? Unless you were really sad because you thought it was terrible and a waste of your time or something.

i guess even as a farce i was able to empathize on some level w/ macneil completely destroying his life and everything that made him happy, and the suffering he felt when it happened. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That is totally the magic of Andy Daly. It doesn't matter how fucking stupid and ridiculous and evil any character he plays is -- when he injects a little bit of sadness into the character I always buy it. see also the guy from Eastbound & Down. no matter how much ridiculousness they buried that character in he was still as balievable as any of the characters they /tried/ to make empathetic.

i don't want to say underrated bc i feel everyone probably has the same opinion on andy daly, but yeah. a legit top 5 living comedic actor.

I agree Daly's great, love him in E&D etc. But yeah I don't feel emotionally invested in Forrest MacNeil, esp because all of his problems stem from his largely unacknowledged pathology (ie the need to be on TV)

kinda want some pancakes now though

wait. I've never seen review, but I thought that was Kurt Braunohler. Weird.

i think i have to watch that show again b/c i sort of disagree but i can't articulate why. but also fuck it, this is the broad city thread.

xp haha i was thinking of mentioning kurt braunohler and how I still occasionally confuse him & andy daly!

esp because all of his problems stem from his largely unacknowledged pathology (ie the need to be on TV)

That and an obsession with the weird rules he set out for himself that he feels the need to follow absolutely.

that's part of what makes me sad! i think it's a dramatization of the way humans destroy their lives by following weird rules that they make up for themselves, and only realize too late that it was never worth it

yeah so many people go for the easy "let's make this guy a sharklike mindless psychopath and let the humour come from there" angle when an angle like that is so much more a) funnier and b) true and c) tragic

not to be all whatever but why is the last fifty posts in the broad city thread about other shows starring men

agreed, this is seriously off track

is there a Review thread? happy to take it there. sorry for derail

lol yeah i was like oh people are talking about Broad City.

anyways i was a little too wasted while watching last night but i don't remember any huge laughs

idk i thought ilana and the interns were pretty great

bet u ilana wouldn't thread police

ok yeah that was good too much Bevers in the Abbi stuff iirc

Is there an episode of the tv show broad city, which this thread is about, that I should start with? A greatest hit?

yeah, the second ep, Pu$$y Weed

this was good!

Ouch, the second episode of season 2 is pretty early for a crap episode. Too much Bevers, Ilana kinda annoying. Abbi and trainer guy were fine I guess, but my wife and I didn't catch any laughs. And if we did laugh, we don't remember doing so, which is a different problem. Oh well. These two are pretty funny, they'll bounce back, and they get points for not having Bevers walk in on Abbi when she was dancing naked.

most lol bits were both Bevers pratfalls (collapsing on the treadmill and the credits bit about keeping him awakw) tbh

What does it say when the highlight of a Broad City ep is Bevers slapstick?

right tbf the white power suit joke was funny but I already saw it in the ads and it wasn't funny twice

feminist friends on fb jumping ship on this show because of the ilana rape culture jokes

i thought e2 was better than e1 personally. one of my favourite parts of the show is the depictions of them at work. had slight reservations at first but now im 100% full back on-board. also bevers is hilarious

^^^ iawtc, felt like the first ep was warming up and the second was better (sort of like the first season). And Bevers is great.

idk bevers is the hackiest thing abt this show, def feels like a caricature out of a much lesser work imo but to each his own i guess

he's v much the trad sitcom annoying/wacky neighbor

it's a familiar role but there's a surrealness to how awful he is that makes him more appreciable as an archetype. the same actor does a slightly more grounded variation of the theme on marry me and i found it more tiresome there.

that line about being the fastest one at sucking his own dick at summer camp in the hurricane episode cracked me up

he's good, all the stuff w him and his sister in the hurricane episode was great

lol xp

the sister was awes. I'M ON SPEED

Hurricane episode one of the few - only? - where their insufferable friends (Hannibal aside) hold their own. Bevers is so stupid. Unless he's supposed to be a walking parody of fart joke, in which case ... he's still stupid. The relationship between Ilana and Abbi is the heart of the show, and the farther they veer from that focus, the less satisfying it is. Last season's wedding episode being some sort of early nadir.

Have we met Abbi's roommate yet? I assume that is supposed to be a big reveal at some point. Lena Dunham?

if they're smart they will never reveal the roommate

I think they showed her in a photo once

If they're smart roomie will just show up one ep and behttp://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120122051029/muppet/images/0/03/ClassicMrSnuffleupagus.jpg

yeah she's hot

i love ilana's roommate though

Bevers seems more like "let's have Gemberling on this show" than "this character is a delightful counterpoint/contrast to our tale of friendship". Haven't watched any of this season yet though.

bevers just seems like a lazy ripoff of galifinakis in the hangover imo. still funny sometimes though, except the lol at the fatty jokes.

feminist friends on fb jumping ship on this show because of the ilana rape culture jokes

OK I know it's not really my place but uuuuuuuuugh

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funny episode

if they're smart they will never reveal the roommate

I think they showed her in a photo once

― Οὖτις, Monday, January 26, 2015 5:19 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

If you look carefully they never show her face

you guys are gonna overthink this show to death worse than Community, aren't you

Also props to Ilana for hiring a tatted up K-pop lookin dude <3

you guys are gonna overthink this show to death worse than Community, aren't you

― some dude, Friday, January 30, 2015 7:55 AM (23 minutes ago)

please noooo

ilana's white power suit

is it because i made out with you?

you guys are gonna overthink this show to death worse than Community, aren't you

― some dude, Friday, January 30, 2015 7:55 AM (23 minutes ago)

Yeah, I'm http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/i with some of these posts

i don't see any evidence of *overthinkingn* yet? all posts are just "i lol'd at [x]"

great episode, loved the Whole Foods adventure

i don't see any evidence of *overthinkingn* yet? all posts are just "i lol'd at [x]"

― flopson, Friday, January 30, 2015 12:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i totally get not wanting to watch another show about directionless twentysomethings in nyc (whether or not their in the "culture industry" is a pretty pedantic quibble), but anyone old enough to be tired of that trope is also old enough to know that when a show increases in popularity over a season, it's foolish to judge its worth off the pilot

― da croupier, Friday, June 27, 2014 7:31 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ouch, the second episode of season 2 is pretty early for a crap episode. Too much Bevers, Ilana kinda annoying. Abbi and trainer guy were fine I guess, but my wife and I didn't catch any laughs. And if we did laugh, we don't remember doing so, which is a different problem. Oh well. These two are pretty funny, they'll bounce back, and they get points for not having Bevers walk in on Abbi when she was dancing naked.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:02 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a familiar role but there's a surrealness to how awful he is that makes him more appreciable as an archetype. the same actor does a slightly more grounded variation of the theme on marry me and i found it more tiresome there.

― da croupier, Monday, January 26, 2015 4:48 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The key to success across the cable board seems to have been the belated American adoption of 8-13 episode runs. Not too many that it's impossible to catch up. Few enough that you can be familiar with every ep. Not stretched too thin to sustain itself. Thank you, UK, for showing us the way.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:11 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so did you go scroll through the whole thread once, realize you'd only found three where people were guilty of "overthinking" and then double back for a fourth?

Oh my god can you all please not

so did you go scroll through the whole thread once, realize you'd only found three where people were guilty of "overthinking" and then double back for a fourth?

― da croupier, Friday, January 30, 2015 12:25 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank you for overthinking thinking my post about overthinking

if amusedly noticing time stamps is overthinking, i'm guilty and you're welcome

idk those don't seem particularly egregious to me. i think your avclubphobia is going a little overboard. like, can no one talk about tv shows just cause some people went too far & shat the bed on it?

i do agree that the community threads were ridic tho

I saw an old ep for the first time last night and I am still haunted by that one dude's sister just shouting TELL IT TO THE TOE out of nowhere

Oh my god I loved the wisdom teeth episode so much!!! All yall need to stop fucking around in this thread and watch that episode.

one of the best eps yet tnite. susie essman was amazing - perfectly cast.

yeah that was great

Ilana's twerk of glee was great

That was great! Always nice to see Bob Balaban, too.

one of the GOAT broad city eps for sure

Ilana's twerk of glee was great

― Simon H., Thursday, February 5, 2015 12:56 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha this was my biggest LOL

I only got to watch the first 5 minutes of this but HOLY SHIT at those 5 minutes. love Susie Essman forever

this show is charming and often quite funny, but if these characters were real, i'd probably hate them :(

loved bob balaban

I don't think hating characters is an obstacle to enjoying a show. The only close to consistently likable character on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Charlie, still love that show.

haha yeah Charlie is v lovable

agree the girls would be p irritating in real life, but so would most people on TV

oh, i didn't mean to imply a negative assessment of the show, which i like. i think one of the most interesting things about the show is how they play versions of themselves, but notably not particularly witty or mature versions. the wit of the show is mostly ironic, that is, at the characters' expense, as in when ilana (sp?) riffs on "rape culture" in increasingly bizarre ways.

i think if the show took a few steps in the direction of melodrama, i'd abandon it. that it seems pretty focused on yuks is its saving grace.

actually i guess they do allow ilana (alana?) flashes of genuine wit, but they usually undercut that with something else.

yeah they've said that the show is about them making fun of their younger selves

i personally like the characters a lot. people on ilx always dislike characters of tv shows or movies lol. but it's obviously true that they're not very mature, especially ilana.

I think the show is very smart dumb, which hits the sweet spot (like Workaholics did early on).

rewatched Workaholics recently w/ my gf who's never seen it. warned her that it gets spotty after season one, but after we were done we sort've agreed that outside of a stray episode here or there it really didn't outright suck until season 4.

BC is awes. only bum ep was maybe the one where they're trying to get to the wedding? idk

But that one had a great line where they were riding hubway bikes and the gay friend stole one and was like, "OMG I thought we were all stealing bikes now!". I realize that one great line does not make an episode but that did kill me.

Watched the new one last night. SO so so good. Sussie Essman is the greatest and holy shit was she ever perfect as I's mom. There couldn't have been a better choice for that role.

I really hated Ilana's character at first but she's grown on me even and I find Abby endearing. Guys, I really love this show.

Great episode. This is how you do it, bring in guests but never forget that the story is about Abbi and Ilana.

I like that this takes place in the not quite real world, which makes their obnoxious behavior more tolerable. They're funny, because everyone else is insane, too. Even Lincoln, the closest this comes to a straight man, is a nut. Again, part of how this perfectly captures NYC c. now: you have to be crazy.

"now"?

Oh, it's always been bad, but there's a certain millennial + money + meandering vibe that seems very of the now.

My cousin took me to her personal bagman once in Beijing. I was dying

that was another great episode last night !

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Classic Val

So good.

You think it's gonna be another "they get into all kinds of wacky mixups!" thing, and then BAM there's Val.

and you (I) think the whole Val thing is some drunken fever dream but no...it seems like they're playing it straight. What a world they're inventing.

Loved the trainer and his party and friends as well. Cliff Bars for guys, Luna Bars for girls!

omg i started rewatching season 2 and in the first ep somebody calls out val to abby on the subway!

Haha wait waht

see for yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkxEAvAfgE&feature=youtu.be&t=46s

around 0:48

lol awesome

Holy crap, that rules.

And I never noticed the people eating the huge sub. I don't know why, but eating a massive sandwich on the subway sounds really appealing.

good foresight.

This is my current favorite show. So funny, and not all mean-spirited/hostile toward the leads...

You know how in sitcoms and stuff there are like fake auctions to win dates with celebs and stuff (maybe this actually happens irl but I don't think it does). I want to win a friend date with A & I. Is that weird? That's probably really weird.

u think my lunas are tainted

The Narnia of Partias

Did anybody else notice Garol was at the bar XD

Omg you're right!

I rewatched the mail ep last night and was dying at "Garol" all over again.

What a genius ep. I always had this pet theory that cell phones killed New York, because there are always dozens of things going on any given night, anyway, but suddenly people had the means to look for something better as soon as they got where they were going. Like, "great party, what else is going on?" This ep pushed that to the perfect FOMO extreme. Funny, well-acted, Lincoln (loved the cab exit) and gym guy and no Bevers.

A writer on the Irish Independent called this show "darkly humorous" uhh what?

aw <3 kyp malone i should give that new record another chance

Loved this ep, too. Great use of secondary characters that did not distract from the central pair of stars, especially given dog wedding had every potential to be as obnoxious as wedding episode last season. Cracked up at the endless rainbow flag from the bag and also Abbi kicking the ball back with a rollerblade on and predictably but hilariously taking a spill. Also, heartened by the lack of a blurred nudity gag.

abby trying to pinch/shift the physical photos was a good gag

i liked the ribbon gag so much i was hopnig she'd find another one

I hoped the ribbon gag would be endless, like Steve Martin pouring coffee in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, but it was perfect as it was.

omg the pegging episode

classic television

i've watched that one several times over and am still finding the way ilana says "girrrrrrrl holes" towards the end hysterical

i have spent time at the dog wedding gazebo and had an extended conversation about what that place was for.

gotta admit i'm starting to love bevers

(ewwwww)

jazz

fire rape

Denises with penises

I haven't seen this week's because I crashed at like 9:30 (lol old) but I'm so excited to go home and watch it tonight.

really warming to abby's comic timing

oh btw http://thealdentedentist.tumblr.com

This charcuterie. They got dog dick, ghost poop, grapes and they got cornichons. I love cornichons.

I love Jamie.

Seriously, that dude is great. Got to love a show where a gay hispanic dude and a straight black guy are taking turns playing Rose in Titanic.

YES! :D

It's my turn to be Rose.

Huge fan of the show, about to finish the first season. How's the second one?

Took them an episode or two to warm back up but it's great so far.

(If you hate Bevers, though, there's a bit more of him than last season in two episodes.)

second season is straight fire

Bevers is the worst

bevers is the best and was great this episode

Dude it was a quote

that makes sense

It was one of bev's lines in the episode and it was hilarious

I just watched it like 5 minutes ago so that's a testament to my incredible memory

one thing that I like about this show is the # of jokes that would make zero sense to someone who isn't living in nyc in 2015, or at least someone who knows the city pretty well

surely this limits its overall potential though

Murray Hill -> Williamsburg pretty good.

Bevers was ok in this ep because he was at least half human for once.

so i hear this show is going to do for Queens what GIrls has done for Bushwick and Greenpoint, huh

I really doubt that, it's barely noticeable that abbi lives in astoria

overall i think prob season 1 is still better than season 2 but the pegging episode is the show's best ever ep.

inclined to agree on both points.
Last three eps have been v v good tho'

never realised the show is in Queens, whereas Girls is all about being in Brooklyn.

"vulvarine"

Ilana and lincoln live in Brooklyn

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/2014/12/01-broad-city-girls_1200.jpg

Ilana climbing in going for the threesome and Lincoln just calmly pulling her back.

I also love little details like Abbi wearing the same dress to everything because it was $400. So good. That map is neat too.

Where's bed bath and beyond?

jazz

it comes out of my horn and you never know where its gonna go

Where's bed bath and beyond?

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, February 27, 2015 8:41 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/NbHMQQa.jpg

Bed Bath and Beyond is on 6th avenue btw 18th and 19th street. I work in that building. Around the corner from Academy Records and Taste of Persia.

Ilana was wearing her white power suit which she bought and was going to return but spilled something on at dinner...which she tried to cover up with an american flag pin based on this weeks episode.

based on that map ilana (always thought it was ilyana!) lives in Carroll Gardens I guess?

They need to lose Bevers.

lol i totally remember that BBB I just didn't see it on the map! :)

Ilana was wearing her white power suit which she bought and was going to return but spilled something on at dinner...which she tried to cover up with an american flag pin based on this weeks episode.

― dan selzer, Friday, February 27, 2015 11:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Fl

omg she was!

abby is starting to grate on me. i think she's a pretty limited comedienne. ilana consistently funny.

ditch bevers & abby, just have ilana & hannibal hang out and spitball.

abby and ilana are both kind of played out as characters now, maybe gradually phase them out and bring in charlie sheen, duckie, and a small fat child

lol

Caught the last three episodes of season 1 and this is pretty much fucking garbage. Weak ass sitcom obvious jokes delivered by lol 2 Young NYC Alt Chicks. Also kinda hateful? Like 90% of everyone they run into is hideous and repulsive and OMG how do you DEAL.

IDK, maybe I saw the wrong stuff, but I think I'm done.

perhaps this show is not for you

last night's ep not so good, i will cop

Haven't seen the new one yet, but the last few have been good. Still, it's a pretty erratic show, which always surprises me. They have so much time and so few eps, there really is not excuse for stinkers. Same goes for Key & Peele and a bunch of other stuff. The highs are so high and the lows so low that they have to be aware they've stunk the joint up, so why not just try something else?

i think because the first season was a considerable hit and they wanted to strike while the iron's hot. there was a new yorker profile for fuck's sake. They did a lot of touring and celebrity opps in the space following the season, it's understandable they have some sophomore jinx moments. I think they likely have six good episodes per year in them and that's quite a lot!

Not when you only make 10 episodes!

They should probably make eight but they really don't have the clout to make that call.

Nathan For You did. He specifically limited his seasons to 8 episodes because he wanted to keep the quality solid.

i think nathan had a lot more experience with production than abby and ilana; didn't he do a lot of work on canadian television?
and nathan 4 u (which i will say is as good or better than BC) doesn't really have the cultural heft that Broad City has right now.

Yeah, I guess I'm just not buying it. Broad City, Key & Peele (who just got their own NYorker profile!), and Amy Schumer Show - all buzzed, all shockingly uneven. I suppose it is because they stay so busy between seasons, but most of their bad eps are not unfixable disasters. They're more like weak SNL eps where they just kind of sit there. But of course, SNL hobbles itself by being "live." These filmed sketch shows don't have that excuse. They shouldn't feel as seat of pants as they are, unless there's just so much improv and ideas being thrown out it's just a challenge to collect it into anything coherent.

if broad city didn't feel seat of the pants it wouldn't be half as fun. also it's not a sketch show.

Feels like a sketch show to me, I guess. It's like one long sketch per episode. Because as much as I usually like this show, "plot" is not a word that comes up that often.

Hey, I've got a great idea! We try to go to a dog wedding!

Oh, I've got a better idea - we're on a boat!

Pegging ep and FOMO eps had it going on, though.

N4U perhaps isn't overtly mean-spirited, but the few times I've tried to watch, it has made me uncomfortable.

i like both broad city + amy schumer but sometimes i feel like ppl expect a lot more from television shows than i do. like if a show buzzes comfortably from the television while i check ilx that's already half of the way there. a few funny jokes and it's a fave. nb this is also why i've seen almost every ep of comedy bang bang.

Hey, I've got a great idea! We try to go to a dog wedding!

Oh, I've got a better idea - we're on a boat!

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, March 5, 2015 8:08 AM

they call this "situational comedy" iirc

Sitcoms usually have a few plots going on, though. BC is like Seinfeld if they were all the Chinese restaurant episode. It works as well as the characters can be funny, but it's not always awesome to be stuck in a room (or hole, or porthole) with them. Like I said, I think so for the FOMO episode might have been the peak, because it actually has an arc and (literally and figuratively) goes places that lets us know more about the characters. Lotsa this stuff, though, is two very funny comedians treading water.

Next week on BC: they sit in a hot tub.

"The One with the Sonogram at the End"
"The One with the Thumb"
"The One with George Stephanopoulos"
"The One with the East German Laundry Detergent"
"The One with the Butt"
"The One with the Blackout"
"The One Where Nana Dies Twice"
"The One Where Underdog Gets Away"
"The One with the Monkey"
"The One with Mrs. Bing"
"The One with the Dozen Lasagnas"
"The One with the Boobies"
"The One with the Candy Hearts"
"The One with the Stoned Guy"

it's kinda unfair to compare the two season newbie comedy central comedy to friends + seinfeld tho

true, v unfair to friends and seinfeld

true, v unfair to friends and seinfeld

haha

You gotta take a show on its own terms. It’s unfair to compare BC to (say) Girls (which I realize I may have done on the Girls thread)-- unfair to both BC and Girls. Beyond the apparent similarities, they’re different genres. Girls (like even Friends) are more long form novelistic, following the characters’ life trajectories and transformations. BC (more like Seinfeld) isn’t really about that. Things do happen and change in the lives of the characters (Abby finally sleeps with her crush, George gets engaged, Jerry and Elaine sleep together), but ultimately those events evanesce and the show at its core remains the same: these characters with these (more or less) permanent relationships among them are thrown into a variety of situations. It’s episodic, short stories (involving the same characters, more or less unchanged) as opposed to chapters of a novel.

but sometimes i feel like ppl expect a lot more from television shows than i do

yeah, like i feel i was a little too hard on Togetherness on the Girls thread. Why kick a pretty good little show (especially if/ when it’s down). Didn’t like it as much as I wanted to like it; but maybe what i’ve got to do is adjust my expectations of what it is.

i think this show rocking ass to universal acclaim kind of proves that everyone was fronting with all the "ugh, a show about affluent women in brooklyn?" RE girls

Yeah really everyone just found Lena Dunham intensely unlikable

Also more fun to watch a show about a couple of stoners rather than a self-important writer.

everyone was fronting with all the "ugh, a show about affluent women in brooklyn?" RE girls

are you implying that Abbi and Ilana are affluent? also Abbi lives in Queens.

this show does different things than GIRLS does - the similarity stops at "young women in New York" afaict

Also it is and tries to be funny, which Girls is/does not?

true. which is a problem for GIRLS because I can't take any of those dumbass characters seriously (barring a couple moments, mostly involving Shoshona)

They should rename it G.I.R.L.S. and try to make it stand for something.

Guffaws in real life? Slim.

Grief Is Replacing Laughs, Suckers

Gruesome Idiocy Ruins Love Story

Get Irritated Re Lame Self-importance

are you implying that Abbi and Ilana are affluent? also Abbi lives in Queens.

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 5, 2015 1:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're as affluent as characters in s1 of girls, yes. and as iatee said: "it's barely noticeable that abbi lives in astoria."

they're as affluent as characters in s1 of girls, yes

Abbi and Ilana work shit jobs and are not supported by their parents so I dunno what you're basing that on

Actually iirc in S1 it's suggested Ilana is supported by parents but doesn't really admit it to herself? I forget exactly how.

If Girls is novelistic I despair for literature

Seinfeld had a pretty big apt for living in NYC. Kramer too, especially seeing as how he never held a regular job.

If Girls is novelistic I despair for literature

lol I'd say Stephanie Meyer and E.L. James were reason enough to shoot ourselves long ago

Abbi and Ilana work shit jobs and are not supported by their parents so I dunno what you're basing that on

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 5, 2015 2:47 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LD's parents cut her off in ep 1 then she works... a sequence of shitty jobs. i don't think there's any indication they come from drastically different family backgrounds. glad u materialized to bring my strawman to life though

Actually iirc in S1 it's suggested Ilana is supported by parents but doesn't really admit it to herself? I forget exactly how.

― drash, Thursday, March 5, 2015 2:51 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think they just file her taxes

girls is about high class bitchez who work in cafes, broad city is about the struggling underclass who work in online startups and bougie gyms

Garol.

i think they just file her taxes

ah yes i think that's it-- there's an implication (maybe from abbi) that the "refund check" ilana gets from her parents is largely a check from her parents, but ilana is either not aware of this or doesn't really want to admit it.

LD's parents cut her off in ep 1 then she works... a sequence of shitty jobs. i don't think there's any indication they come from drastically different family backgrounds.

fair enough but there are three other main characters on Girls, and they code as affluent to me in a way that Abbi/Ilana do not

i'm getting a bit confused with this and girls thread on top of SNE today tbh

SNA*

have now seen last night's episode - imo it might be the funniest of S2 so far!

i tried an ep last yr & was on the fence but i binged the whole series last weekend & now i am all about these majestic women yaaaaaah

also ENBB otm re this:
I also love little details like Abbi wearing the same dress to everything because it was $400.

pegging episode argument over it being a custom made dildo from Japan & Abbi being all BUT THIS COST $79 made me lol so hard

the cheapskate/dirtbag stuff is so consistently good

ilana's flygirl steez when they go out is always great, her outfit at the shellfish restaurant was amazing

artisinal dildo

is the name of my dog

Two beachballs

reduce reuse rhianna

first time around was i thought it was a sketch show like key & peele which was v dumb of me but 100% why i was like eh idgi

I thought this week's was hilarious tbh.

Also I think I assumed the trainer guy whose name I can't remember right now was gay until last night. As a former camp counselor to many extremely privileged kids from the city, I thought the NYC kid/mom bits were amazing.

I kinda assume Abbi/Ilana just saw this vine and were like "let's make a character out of him" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sqz8ElSpmo

http://i.imgur.com/oY1H7vK.gif

me irl

ha that kid rules

hahahahahahah yasssssssssss

OMG I had a kid named Andrew in my group once who reminded me of that kid. He looked exactly like a miniature Jon Lovitz. It was uncanny. He didn't even really look like a kid version of Lovitz, just a shrunken one. Andrew was like a brilliant 40 year old in a 4 year old's body. He called his dad Tony and was a pizza delivery boy (no cars on the island do he used a wagon) by the time he was around 7. I wish I could remember that kid's last name because I would kill to find out what he's up to now.

Like a little red wagon??

YES! :D

:O

Feel like "kids who call their dads Tony" is a whole subcategory of humans by itself imo

(the wagon station by the ferry terminal in the town I'm talking about: http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/cotner/2.jpg)

I also liked Amy Ryan as the mom. Felt sort of against-type for her, but I think that's what made the character not a total caricature.

x-post - hahaha, y. Not to further derail but one of my favorite moments happened when he showed up at camp super early one day when I was setting up snack. I hugged him and said, "Andrew, you're so early!" This four year old looked at his dad all exasperated and said, "Tony, Tony, Tony. I told you not to wake me up so early, did I not?". I'm sure that I've written about that here on on FB before but it was the best. A kid like that has the potential to be so obnoxious but somehow he wasn't at least when he was that little.

Lmao XD

Also dying @ the wagon park

Like two of those are just egg crates with wheels latched on

Yes. Yes, they are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Beach,_New_York Totally doable as a day trip from the city if you left early though with the LIRR and ferry it wouldn't be cheap. Unfortunately the few "hotels" are super expensive but it's so amazing. I have to go back soon.

I went to a bar mitzvah once where, taking a break from the volume, out in the hotel lobby, I bumped into this precocious kid from the party, also taking a break. He was really oddly mature and well-traveled, but he mostly kept talking about the video game arcades in various international airports. I increasingly found it odd, until my aunt, later, told me that he had a certain type of autism/condition that made it very difficult to interact with his peers but easy to talk with adults. So he essentially was this little adult in a kid's body, with a kid's interests but unable to easily hang with kids. Tragic/fascinating.

"Gay-bysitter" killed me

Matt is the exact middle point between newman and jack black

Bevers

See, this episode is a great example of what I find so perplexing. Finally they devise a plot with tons of hilarious potential, but they seem almost unable to do anything with it, or at least no way to make it more than fleetingly amusing. Maybe one or two chuckles here, but the best stuff was probably guy's montage of anatomically improbable sex with pool toys at the end. The rest ... very slowly telegraphed setups. Wow, she broke the mirror and ended up teaching old people, didn't see those coming. Huh, the rich kid comes to the rescue (youngun equivalent of cursing granny gag in lame movies). Go figure, the bag she sold for a few bucks was marked up to a couple of hundred dollars. LOL New York. Thankfully the leads remain charming and inherently funny physical comedians even at the show's most uneven, and it works well as a satire of the city, but c'mon, Broad City - it's only 20 minutes! Keep it together! Find the jokes!

i just got on this train a couple weeks ago, just caught up last night. i think the second season is even better than the first! glad they're finally starting to flesh out some of the characters. they're starting to actually give the sorta-boyfriend guy (can't even remember his name despite him being in nearly episode - that's how dull he's been so far) some sort of defining features, which is a step in the right direction.

Lincoln?

haha, no i guess the other sorta-boyfriend guy (jeremy).

lincoln is not dull at all, he's awesome

newfound respect for kelly ripa

http://i.imgur.com/5kLwgj0.png

Haha.

Last night's episode felt like they were going for an epic, like the episode of Louie where he winds up with his daughters at the diner in the early morning. Don't know if it quite made it but I loved it anyway.

it was good. kinda reminds me why i haven't been around st. Marks in like 10 years

xxp, mind blown

btw, this is where I first realized Kelly Ripa was down for anything: http://www.hulu.com/watch/10309

Ripa killed it.

finale was light on LOLs but i like the more low-key seinfeldian abi & ilana just hanging out moments. love the show so much

don't wanna kill the party with non-rave reviews but this was a good read and not too much of a bummer; it's a discussion of the show by two feminist woc profs http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/brown-broads-white-tv

Tompkins' examples of comedy she finds funny in that article include 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' and 'Meet the Parents'; I don't think we're on the same page at all

I kind of checked out at Brown Roads, White TV tbh

c'mon 'meet the parents' is a classic

not for me

this was a rly nice finale. feel like they've been trying to get that right tonal balance for a while where they can fold in a more gauzy kinda self-aware meta reflective vibe (girls-ish is too strong and obv a super cliche at this point, but) and this is the first time it's come off without seeming leaden and dumb-smart rather than smart-dumb (meaning dumb like lulz caperz) (workaholics is smart-dumb btw u lames)

obv it's a corrective part 2 to last season's closer but i'd include all of s01e8 to s02e1 (gah fucking rogan plzzz never again) where yeah idk it seemed to abruptly and nonplussingly shift to a this-is-about-friendship-cos-look-we-are-really-doing-naturalistic-conversation-tho-also-nyc-and-being-young-huh effort

<3 this show anyway, u know it's a sitcom winner cos they are totally ur friends in ur head. plus lincoln and jaime are too cute

they are so unnervingly sharp on grotesque normz too, the couple in the restaurant in this episode and especially that woman at trey's party haha god

the pegging one was probably the most perfect single episode of any tv show since idk party down

i love workaholics

LA Review Of Books thing was interesting. Could quibble with some aspects where race and class are blurred - could easily imagine an african-american character from a middle class upbringing thinking they should be training rather than cleaning toilets at the gym - but it succeeds in underscoring how people could watch the show and feel left out of the party

just watched the last ep; i spent my mid 20's working next to st. marks and a lot of time eating and hanging out there. some flashbacks

totally worth avoiding now of course

Ripa killed it.

― schwantz, Thursday, March 19, 2015 2:42 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She was great, but it felt a little too much like Broad City wanted their Wayne Brady moment. And Brady/Chappelle set that bar impossibly high.

yay they walked past a bar I have been to before, I know where they are!

I think these last two eps were the show at its best. The Ripa episode was on par with the pegging and FOMO, imo, for laughs and structure, while the finale was very much a classic the-things-that-make-NYC-terrible-are-the-things-that-make-it-great episode. Like, the final episode was basically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXShit8aEi0

I finally figured out my eyebrows - they're sisters not twins

<3

Early in the season I was worried that the show had lost its footing, but somewhere along the way (Susie Essman? the boat?), it picked back up. I hope they get to keep making it for as long as they want to.

I'm so in love with this show and these two it's ridiculous. The fuck you finger response to the guy telling them to smile! Pretty much everything about this last episode and especially the blanket/pizza/bonding sesh at the end. SO GOOD.

St. Mark's lol. When I'd go into the city during HS we used to hang out there because we thought it was cool and then in college I spent a whole lot of time at Coney Island High (RIP) I haven't been in probably a decade but it was still neat to see.

I don't want to read at article because I don't want to read anything bad about this show. I know that is ridiculous and weird but I haven't identified with and/or liked anything on tv, particularly anything by/about women, as much as this in I don't even know how long.

Yeah I think the blanket pizza bonding sesh might be my favorite moment from the show so far

Just felt really honest

She was great, but it felt a little too much like Broad City wanted their Wayne Brady moment. And Brady/Chappelle set that bar impossibly high.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:24 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank you for reminding me of the WB DC moment. So so good.

Ripa was good though. My best friend loves her and I've never gotten it. Then again I don't watch Kelly and whoever it is now that Regis is gone.

xpost - it did! I've had that moment! Well, moments very close to that etc. Also the t shirts were killing me plus, "Stop, we're FBI!".

Yeah I feel like that's a platonic hanging out with your bestie moment. That's what all friendships should aspire to

Absolutely.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/southwest-broad-city-shirt
what a putz

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1467273_1056411591039073_4918340316287160515_n.png?oh=9cd00f5a466e2b2c55309180d86c973b&oe=55BC1796&__gda__=1436879918_b7c7f18a28de77e39507ba5ed08d5a17

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413NhzCcYRL.jpg

Garol is going to be my hotel check in name, I think

omg yas

Shit, I need one of those.

I thought this was the cutest/funniest

https://instagram.com/p/0gsnalipQc/?taken-by=abbijacobson

dying at Janeane Garofalo like actually being given the line "Well, the truth about cats and dogs is", so dumb and corny and hilarious!!

YES

Think it's time to watch S2 again.

I got an awesome BC tee btw.

(not the Garol one)

http://media.giphy.com/media/Vuw1g7BPswr1S/giphy.gif

Wanted the Bingo Benson one, does not ship outside US. ;_;

*Bronson*

"Buy it for me ______!!!" Has made it into heavy rotation

Took me entirely too long to get to this show.

"Bingo Benson" !!!! :D

The Bingo Bronson one was pretty neat. I got the one with their hair on it.

what shirt?? where did you get these shirts?

fuuuuck I just marathonned the last 4 eps of this today! Ripa was amazing, Telly from Kids playing a 31yo street punk was hilares, this show is just the best

Finally got around to the season-ender last night. So much good stuff. Patricia Clarkson was awesome, and the street scenes on St. Mark's were great. I can understand people being irritated by this show, but I think it's pretty much the best comedy on TV.

who is irritated by this show? I can understand ppl being irritated by a lot of shows I love but not this one.

^^^^^ otm

grown ups who think abbi and ilana represent the dying of their perspective

I haven't heard that from anybody

and this is def the best comedy on tv

i have, though plenty coded

Best comedy on tv.

And I feel like not only was the Val episode a turning point for the series -- Broad City's Marge vs. the Monorail -- but also that it might be see in the future as some kind of mid-2010s tv benchmark thingy.

*seen

It is the best show I can remember in forever and I've heard lots of people say that they find them irritating. I'll even admit that it took me about two eps to get past how annoying Ilana can be but now I wish we were friends irl.

At its worst it can feel like a youtube comedy troupe (over the top & predictable bits, don't always land) but at its best its very good. Loved the finale.

xp I would find Ilana (the character) terrifying in person but still love this show.

yeah it can be predictable but it can still be extremely clever and really surprising in a "gotcha!" kind of way (like Ilana's moving cab/bicycle weed transaction that actually "literally took two seconds, for real").

the bad episodes on this show feel particularly bad when you see how good they're capable of being but even at it's worst it's above average television

after 3 eps I decided I don't smoke nearly enough w33d to watch this show, but I'm gonna try again (to watch, not hit more bongs)

this show is so funny sober but when yr stoned you feel like you've unlocked some sort of cheat code, it's amazing.

I haven't smoked in like a year or something but I can totally see that and now it's my mission to get stoned specifically to watch my ladies.

omg plz plz plz invite me i will bring hummus/popcorn/pretzels/chips/salsa/pita chips/ice cream/peanut butter m&ms/twix bars/cheese-filled ritz crackers/cheez-its!!!!

Um, how fun would that be? you realize that we're absolutely going to have to make this happen some time this year now, right?

tbh I just wrote it on my official list of goals for the year

yes, i have one

honored tbh

that sounds real fun tbh

i finally watched first ep and armisen sorta killed it stone dead for me, but the two leads are great enough, and the premise endearing enough that it didn't matter

yeah, he never shows up again.

The dog waking up after Ilana calls out to stop the wedding is like, proof of a benevolent god.

So abbi and ilana are in the park with me tonight
http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/event/summerstage-lip-sync-battle/

wait u r ll cool j??

teigen actually

(LL did La Di Da Di with Doug E Fresh and then did Round the Way Girl; it was awesome)

there was jazz all over

Can the next season please be 26 episodes long?

Gun it, bitch, without that cocaine, I can't control the other werewolves!

http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/hack-into-broad-city-does-yom-kippur.html

I liked that, slightly predictable but their doofy charm makes it work.

I just saw Jaime in a phone commercial, with no accent! I'm freaked out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrK5ihx1zM

so good

season 3 trailer!

https://youtu.be/Ae9e1-I2R0E

http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9900618/hillary-clinton-broad-city-season-3

i suddenly hate this show

I thought Hilz was surprisingly not bad in that SNL sketch from a few weeks ago. This could be alright.

ugh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV9wImtXAAAnbeJ.png

all my fave stars of comedy

:D

congrats ilana that is prob the worst outfit i've ever found hot

she is very good at that

http://i.imgur.com/PD6n7Wq.png
i am a little wary about this season

wait is that a viral marketing article

is the article "about" a new broad city episode

http://www.bonappetit.com/people/celebrities/article/broad-city-taste-test

LOL

ilana looked so fine on colbert last night

https://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/bagel.png%3Fw%3D728%26h%3D489%26crop%3D1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebe9-7vCYTA

omg

God the Samantha impersonation from tonight's episode killed me

Great episode. We watched the intro in slow-motion after to make sure we didn't miss anything. The blue/gold dress thing was pretty brilliant.

yeah, i thought that was solid comedy.

love these guys so freaking much

this was so good, i felt like they lost their streak with a couple of the season 2 episodes but this one was true vintage BC

the security tag deployment was my favorite thing

when ilana turns to the camera ROFL

i'm with you monotony, that (plus their moment currently turning from ZEITGEIST to "already confirmed season 5" and everybody is fucking saying YAS KWEEN all the damn time) made me a little leery. but it was funny! proof is in the pudding!

http://57.media.tumblr.com/761ea109d8cdf07ff86138808dc065f7/tumblr_o2rtf0yN7R1qiaxzfo2_540.gif

was hoping somebody did the whole opening as a gif, that's gotta be out there right?

Idk how or i would

so much going on. Wife just told me she read that the outfits they were wearing in the first part of that scene was what they were wearing at the end of last season.

And the rat part freaked me out.

Yeah totally a continuation of the finale.

Ew it boils my blood that tons of ppl are going to think that "yas kween" is a Broad City thing instead of a gay thing or a black thing

Loved the drawn-out slinking out of the gallery and "WALK FASTER!"

no doubt stevie but i imagine the nyu freshman screaming YAS KWEEN in washington square park also unironically says the state of the L train is proof that "the struggle is real"