Their New York is a New York of endless possibilities, where unplanned adventure is simply a byproduct of walking out of one’s front door in the morning it helps that they have always counted on each other as accomplices, sisters in shenanigans, permanent partners in crime (though most of their transgressions are misdemeanors at best). The plan is visually absurd-it makes a deliberate reference to Marcel Duchamp’s Dada urinal art-but to Abbi and Ilana it makes perfect sense. The pair’s only choice is, naturally, to wheel the commode back to Brooklyn on a skateboard. The only problem is that no cab will pick up two women carrying a used john, and that Uber is surging sixty times the normal rate. “God, every time you are sprayed, you are reborn,” Ilana says, of the luxury-toilet experience, her eyes flashing with the zeal of a convert. One man’s trash is another woman’s treasure, especially when it comes with a heated seat and a bidet. It’s not like they could just leave it there. There was a purpose to this task-Abbi and Ilana, the plucky codependent B.F.F.s at the heart of the show (played by the show’s creators, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer) had discovered a fully-functional, ten-thousand-dollar Japanese toilet sitting in a pile of garbage on the street. Notice: This installation is a mirror-lined chamber with flashing LED lights that viewers look into. If you are uncomfortable with flashing lights and/or enclosed, dark spaces, please bypass this experience.“Broad City” ended on Thursday night in exactly the way one hoped it would: with its two heroines dragging a toilet across the Brooklyn Bridge.
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