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Wins Above Replacement
“Hurricane Wanda” ranks #46 of 50 Broad City episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.8 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Abbi landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Marla: 'So Abbi, why'd you [bleep] in my Shapelys? And tell it to the toe!'
Marla Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Marla: 'Except for one thing! If you had a dog, I'd be dead because I'm allergic, bitch!'
Marla Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bevers: Bevers clarifies the self-blowing: 'I would blow myself and Greg would blow himself separate, across the room. There's a video of it! There's a...'
Bevers Escalation Character Comedy Callback Ilana: 'I got a boot in my cootch and I do not care!'
Ilana Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Ilana · Abbi: Ilana immediately proposes: 'I was thinking maybe we could masturbate next to each other.' Then adds it's 'parallel play.'
All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Abbi: Abbi waking up confused: 'What? How am I getting shorter?'
Abbi Absurdist Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Abbi · Jeremy: Jeremy tells Abbi she'd be the person he'd give a spare key to, and Abbi immediately crumbles into flustered stammering about 'commitment'
Abbi · Jeremy: Jeremy asks 'Do you mind if I take off my shirt?' and Abbi says 'Where'd you get all that oil from?'
Jeremy: 'Now I can put up that shelf.' — Jeremy, dripping with oil, announces the shelf's purpose as though it's totally normal
Jeremy Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Abbi: 'You're so... slippery.' — Abbi, apparently touching oiled Jeremy
Abbi Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Abbi · Bevers: Abbi wakes up and Bevers says 'Someone had a sexy dream, huh?' — implying he witnessed or heard something
Bevers: Abbi wakes from the dream and we hear an adjacent male voice narrating: 'My neighbor Abbi is so sexy and now I have this great big humongous boner'
Bevers Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Ilana · Abbi: Ilana immediately proposes: 'I was thinking maybe we could masturbate next to each other.' Then adds it's 'parallel play.'
Abbi: Abbi: 'It's because I want to so badly.' — confessing she's always wanted to parallel-masturbate with Ilana
Abbi Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Abbi · Ilana: Abbi: 'What a way to start the day.' Ilana: 'It's 5 p.m.' Abbi: 'Great... Closing time.'
Abbi Ilana Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Ilana: Hurricane prep supplies include 'Sour Patch Kids, Nutter Butters, Mrs. Fields cookies' — and 'potato salad half off because we all might die'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist Abbi: Bevers's sister has an 11th toe, and 'it's not where you would expect it to be'
Abbi Absurdist Dark/Subversive Marla: Marla enters saying 'Do I smell potato salad? Just kidding, I know I smell potato salad.'
Marla Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marla: Marla claims the potato salad was 'a gift for the host of the party' — commandeering supplies she didn't bring
Marla Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bevers: Bevers refuses to go to his girlfriend's parents' house because 'it's too much presh. Her parents are like, too into me. They just think I'm really fun.'
Bevers Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bevers: 'It's like camp right now!' — Bevers treating a hurricane and an unwanted houseguest situation as summer fun
Bevers Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Abbi: Abbi's hurricane confession: she switched their laptop chargers in the night 'like a sneaky thief' and that's why Ilana's charger never works
Abbi Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Abbi · Ilana: Ilana forgives Abbi instantly: 'It's not a big deal at all.' Abbi: 'You are forgiveness. You are. Wow. Whew. Thank you everybody. Namaste. Gracias.'
Ilana · Unknown: Never Have I Ever: 'Never have I ever read a newspaper.' — Ilana. Response: 'Even homeless people read newspapers.'
Unknown: Never Have I Ever follow-up: 'Never have I ever dealt with how my parents' divorce affected my overall, you know, being in relationships.'
Unknown Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Ilana: 'Light as a feather, stiff as a board' — Ilana initiates a full camp levitation ritual during the hurricane party
Ilana Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi: 'Just a lot of people here and I spite eat.' — Abbi explaining why she consumed the entire potato salad
Abbi Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Abbi · Ilana: Abbi refuses to use the bathroom because there are too many people. Ilana offers to come in and do 'ocean noises in your ear to relax you.'
Ilana: 'Number two for number two.' — Ilana's response when Abbi chooses Option Two (distraction)
Ilana Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Ilana: Ilana's distraction: 'Bags! Throw 'em up in the air, huh? It's like American Beauty.'
Ilana Absurdist Character Comedy Abbi: 'On the one night that Jeremy comes over to my apartment, I explode.' — Abbi using 'explode' to describe her digestive situation to Ilana
Abbi Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Ilana: 'This is the best. This is a sexy situation. It's terrifying outside. There's candles all lit. And who's your competition? Marla Bevers?'
Ilana Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ilana: 'I am a doo doo ninja.'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Ilana · Abbi: Ilana demands eye contact for permission: 'Look me in the eyes and tell me I have your permission.' / 'Any means necessary?'
Ilana Abbi Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Ilana: 'Now get out there, bounce some little titties for that hunky, quarter-Latino and whatever else he is.'
Ilana Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Abbi: Abbi explains she was in her bedroom because 'a felf shell.' She then corrects: 'A shelf fell.'
Abbi Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Jeremy: Jeremy says 'I'm pretty good with the felf shells' — echoing Abbi's malapropism back at her gently
Jeremy Character Comedy Callback Callback Marla: Marla cuts off the romantic moment: 'Don't have to figure out what your talent is, Ab. Pretty sure it's not washing dishes. She's always making me wash dishes!'
Marla Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Abbi: Abbi: 'Such a jokester. I love dishes and washing them.' — forced recovery through aggressive normalizing
Abbi Cringe/Discomfort Deadpan/Understatement Ilana: Ilana returns from the bathroom task: 'It is gone. The deed is done.' — delivered as if completing a military operation
Ilana Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ilana: Ilana improvises a song about the talent show: '♪ It looks like there's a talent show / In the living room / I think that we should go do that now ♪'
Ilana Character Comedy Absurdist Jeremy: Jeremy: 'I'll do anything if she sings it like that.' — responding to Ilana's absurd song
Jeremy Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Unknown: Talent show: 'Hello, my name is Flo. Everyone say, Hello, Flo. I can do lots of dances. I can do the running man. I can do the Roger Rabbit.'
Bevers: Bevers's camp rap includes the line '♪ We like to eat Skittles and master the bait... ting of hooks and archery too ♪'
Bevers Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bevers: 'Not just with our mouths but with our mushroom caps ♪' — the camp rap escalates to explicit territory
Bevers Dark/Subversive Escalation Ilana: 'I got a boot in my cootch and I do not care!'
Ilana Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Abbi · Ilana: Abbi: 'My talent can't be to like, wash his body.' Ilana: 'You mean like, wash his body after sex, right? I want to make sure you're optimizing your fantasies.'
Ilana · Abbi: Truth or Dare scheme: Ilana will say 'dare,' get dared to do something embarrassing, which will give Abbi cover to do something with Jeremy
Ilana: Ilana announces she won leg wrestling: 'Don't feel bad. I'm on speed.'
Ilana Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Ilana · Abbi: Truth or Dare: Abbi picks 'dare.' Ilana: 'I dare you to suck Jeremy's [bleep].'
Abbi: Abbi: 'Um, that's a wrap on Truth or Dare.'
Abbi Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Marla · Unknown: Reaction to Bevers's bedroom setup — 'That pasty ass. He lives here for free.' / 'Fully stocked mini fridge.'
Bevers: 'Should I put my Lincoln Log on one of these cans? That is so sweet. Abbi would love it.'
Bevers Character Comedy Absurdist Neighbor · Ilana: 'Should I put my Lincoln Log on one of these cans? That is so sweet. Abbi would love it.'
Unknown: Pre-death confession: 'I once ate a corn on the cob... including the cob.'
Unknown: 'I do it every time.' — the cob eater clarifies this is habitual, not a one-time incident
Unknown Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Callback Marla · Jaime: Someone asks if anyone smells something; the smell is identified as 'dookie' — but it's blamed on Jaime, who stepped in something
Ilana: Ilana's attempt to cover: 'I think that we can all agree that there's no smell. It's the storm, I think.'
Ilana Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Abbi: 'Sweet dreams on my ass, Bevers!' followed by physical comedy suggesting Abbi dumps something on him
Abbi Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Unknown: 'It's tea time, bitch. Oh, governor! I have a hole in my weenus!'
Jeremy · Abbi: Jeremy and Abbi bond over cooking; Jeremy admits his specialty is 'Egg, mostly.' (singular)
Marla: 'Who [bleep] in my shoe?' — Marla discovers the contents of her Shapely
Marla Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Marla Bevers: 'No one's going anywhere until I find out who took a (bleep) in my Shapely!'
Marla · Unknown: 'Was it you, Dimples? No, I'm on a low-fiber diet. I go like, twice a week, tops. I promise.'
Bevers: Bevers's camp defense: 'Camp was rough. Tonight brought up a lot of bad memories.' Implication: he pooped in a shoe at camp.
Bevers Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Bevers: Bevers: 'Only me and Greg Shapiro could blow ourselves. I was always the fastest at it. Always!'
Bevers Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun Bevers: Bevers clarifies the self-blowing: 'I would blow myself and Greg would blow himself separate, across the room. There's a video of it! There's a...'
Bevers Escalation Character Comedy Callback Marla: 'Are you the secret dumper, brown eyes?' — Marla addressing the dog Brody
Marla Misdirection Character Comedy Abbi: Abbi reveals: 'Marla, I know... It was Brody. Come on, Brody! Come on out here, boy.' — throwing the dog under the bus
Abbi Character Comedy Misdirection Marla: 'Brody's my dog. And that explains it.' / 'Oh, I feel like a crazy methhead right now.'
Marla Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marla: 'Except for one thing! If you had a dog, I'd be dead because I'm allergic, bitch!'
Marla Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marla: 'So Abbi, why'd you [bleep] in my Shapelys? And tell it to the toe!'
Marla Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Abbi: Abbi's full confession: she pooped in the toilet but couldn't flush (no water), Ilana said she'd handle it, Abbi 'did not think that that meant she would put it in your shoe.'
Abbi Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Callback Jeremy: 'Okay, uh, this was so fun. I'm gonna go. Glad I kept my shoes on.'
Jeremy Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Ilana · Abbi: Ilana denies putting anything in a shoe: 'What? / I didn't put it in a shoe.' / Abbi points to shoe with poop. / Ilana: 'There's [bleep] in this shoe, is there not?'
Ilana Abbi Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Ilana · Abbi: Ilana: 'Thank you so much for covering for me. You're the best.' / Abbi: 'You [bleep] in your sister's Shapely.' / Ilana: 'Just trying to say thank you.'
Lincoln · Ilana: Lincoln tells Ilana he has a 'man crush' on Jeremy; Ilana agrees: 'Jeremy has amazing teeth.'
Jaime: Jaime's hurricane confession: as a child, his pet turtle's private name was the N-word. 'I would say, Come here, [bleep]. I love you, [bleep].'
Jaime Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Ilana: CALLBACK REPLAY: 'Get out there and bounce them little titties for that hunky, quarter-Latino' — shown again as recap/replay
Ilana Callback Running Gag Callback Ilana: CALLBACK REPLAY: 'It is gone. The deed is done. / It looks like there's a talent show / In the living room' — shown again
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