Soon, the show’s roving camera reveals the message she has scrawled: “ABBI + ILANA FOREVER.” Abbi takes a Sharpie and writes something on the railing of the wind-tossed landmark. “Really,” Ilana says, “not as cool as when I’m with you.”Ībbi and Ilana look out over the East River, suspended, with their reclaimed street toilet, on the iconic bridge, the horizon spreading before them. “I’ve never felt so cool,” Ilana says, fighting tears. But this is still going to be the most beautiful, deep, real, cool-and-hot, meaningful, important relationship of my life.” Even if we’re in different cities, that’s never going to change.” “You know, Ilana, me and you, we’re still going to be us, no matter what,” Abbi tells her friend, as they pause to look over the bridge’s railing. The path Abbi and Ilana take over the bridge, though, ends up exploring not their show’s brand of (occasionally literal) toilet humor, but rather the bigger thing around which Broad City has revolved: the relationship between the two best friends the way it might be changing now that Abbi, newly accepted to an artists’ residency in Colorado, is about to leave New York. An expensive toilet is involved (they found it abandoned on a street in Lower Manhattan and then chained it to a skateboard and have been rolling the whole Frankensteinian contraption with them as they walk, and … like many things in Broad City, it’s a long story). In the finale of Broad City, the web series turned Comedy Central show celebrating the hijinks of two Millennial New Yorkers, Abbi and Ilana do the thing they’ve never managed to do together, over all the time they’ve lived in the city: They walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. This post contains light spoilers through Broad City Season 5.
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