Why ‘Broad City’ Is The Greatest Stoner Comedy On TV


Tonight Broad City returns for its third season on Comedy Central. As a yuppie New Yorker, there are many reasons to love Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer: Their hijinks around the city are like holding up a mirror to many a millennial’s post-grad life. Like Seinfeld, it’s a show about nothing in particular, fueled strictly on their chemistry.

One consistent, besides sexual exploration and finding oneself, is weed. Lots and lots of weed. It’s everywhere in the show, though not lampooned or fetishized, sans an NYU dorm scene that turns into a massive smoke sesh:

In honor of the greatest stoner comedy returning to TV this evening, here’s a supercut of all the times Abbi and Ilana hit the bong:

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