ah fuck it it's the BROAD CITY thread

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.