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Character Analysis

Paul W. Downs

Trey

Played by Paul W. Downs

96 jokes across 10 episodes of Broad City

WAR

47.7

Total Jokes

96

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

7.1

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Trey delivers 96 scored jokes across 10 episodes of Broad City, averaging 7.1 on craft and 7.1 on impact for a career WAR of 47.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Trey Lines

All Jokes — 96 total

S1E03

Trey:Run a quick 5K, sweat it out, then take an eight-minute nap. Wake up, do a shot of Echinacea, and then jump right into an ice bath. Immediately after that, suck on some ice chips, then urinate as hard and as fast as you can. Then eat a full onion, rub that onion underneath your armpits, any kind of gland, any kind of mucal cavity, okay? It's called cellular confusion.

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S1E03

Trey:Join me in the showers. I'm not on my period.

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S1E04

Trey:Using the city as your gym, very solstice.

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S1E04

Trey:I wish I was as strong as you. I mean, sometimes I just go to Quizno's and I go nuts.

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S1E04

Trey:You're afraid of your own failure. Abbi, park our is terrifying, I know. But you've got to get back on that urban jungle.

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S1E04

Trey:Show me a tic-tac on the hydrant.

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S1E04

Trey:That's a good hostage, okay. Come down and do a spit roast.

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S1E04

Trey:Picabo Street.

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S2E02

Ilana · Trey:What up, Trey? — So much better. Thank you for asking.

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S2E02

Trey:I donated $14,000 to Zach Braff's Kickstarter... my whole savings. But it was worth every penny. The bummer is they spelled my name wrong in the credits and I didn't get my set visit.

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S2E02

Trey:The bummer is that they spelled my name wrong in the credits, and I didn't get my set visit.

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S2E02

Trey · Ilana:Cha-chinga! — Yeah, you know what, I'm in a really good mood today too. Today is a che-chinga. — It's 'cha-chinga.' But that's great.

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S2E02

Trey:Our cycles must be synched. Our... our happiness cycles.

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S2E02

Trey:Yeah, you're normally so sad and sickly and depressed, but today you're rocking positive vibes.

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S2E02

Trey · Ilana:Would you like to assist me today? — I would love to. — Rock on, Garth, let's party.

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S2E02

Trey · Abbi · Bevers:You guys know each other? — You two boyfriend-girlfriend? — God, no. He's my roommate's boyfriend.

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S2E02

Trey:So, you know his body. — This is great.

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S2E02

Trey:He's incredible. — He is the perfect 'before' picture. A lump of clay we're gonna sculpt together, Abbi.

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S2E02

Trey:He's gonna be my Garden State.

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S2E02

Trey · Abbi:(Slap) — Okay. Kinda inappropriate.

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S2E02

Bevers · Abbi · Trey:Oh! (Farts) I'm sorry. — Okay, I think we're done. — Abbi, if you farted, it's all right. — Trey, I did not just fart. — I moved his gluteus sensitive... — Yeah, that's a woman's fart.

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S2E02

Trey · Abbi:Abbi, motivate him, tell him how ripped he's gonna be. — So ripped. — Come on, be more specific. Paint a picture of how he's gonna look with words. — Uh, muscly, like on the top and then skinny stomach.

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S2E02

Trey:When you're home with him, I want you to monitor his diet, his sleep, even his stool. I want you to be all over him, okay?

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S2E02

Trey · Abbi:Oh, and Abbi, could you clean up all this sweat. It's really stinky. — It's actually my lunch break. — Good call. It'll totally be here when you get back. But Abbi, hashtag get clean. Your farts don't smell healthy.

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S2E05

Trey · Abbi:Trey says 'You're fired' to Abbi on her first day training a new cleaner, then immediately says 'I'm kidding, bazinga'

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S2E05

Trey:Trey describes the cleaning emergency: 'Somebody barfed on an exercise ball and then it bounced down two flights of stairs'

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S2E05

Abbi · Ilana · Trey:Trey hosts a party that turns out to be a tiny, lame gathering — the visual of Abbi and Ilana walking in and immediately needing to leave

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S2E05

Trey:Trey offers party snacks: 'Clif bars for the guys, Lunas for the girls'

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S2E05

Trey · Party Guests:The Apprentice 'All-Stars' / 'Omarosa' watching DVDs reveal — the party activity is watching reality TV reruns

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S2E05

Trey · Abbi:Trey's 'Pick a hand' game where no matter which hand you pick, you watch 'The Apprentice All-Stars'

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S2E05

Abbi · Trey:Abbi tells Trey she has a tapeworm to get out of the party

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S2E05

Trey:Trey responds to the tapeworm news: 'Abbi, that's really dangerous. I'm pretty sure tapeworms suck nutrients out of your body. That must be why you ate four and a half luna bars.'

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S2E05

Trey:Trey announces to the whole party: 'Guys, pause it. Abbi had to go because she's got a tapeworm in her butt.'

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S2E05

Trey · Coworker (Gemma):Gemma laughs and says 'She is such a riot' about Abbi's tapeworm announcement; Trey responds 'Gemma, no... no bazinga'

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S2E05

Trey · Abbi:Trey calling to tell Abbi he saw her Instagram at a party with 'a drink on your head' — while she claimed to be in the hospital with a tapeworm

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S2E05

Abbi · Trey:Abbi's cover story: 'It was a throwback Thursday pic that I put up.' / 'But it's Friday.' / 'I'm just stupid.'

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S2E05

Lincoln · Trey:Lincoln improvises: 'Hello, hello, this is Dr. Rotreiller, MD.' / Trey: 'Are you a specialist?' / Lincoln: 'I'm more of a general jack-of-all-trades style doctor.'

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S2E05

Trey · Lincoln:Trey: 'Sorry, no offense, are you a nurse or are you a real doctor?' / Lincoln: 'I, uh... they're calling me. I gotta go get the worm... is... taken out.'

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S2E08

Trey:Trey adopts a brief British accent to announce the 'bloody fucking spill' then immediately drops it: 'But really, there's a bloody fucking spill in the spin studio'

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S2E08

Abbi · Trey:Abbi fakes illness to avoid cleaning: 'I gotta relax before I teach the 12:30 kick ass kettle bell class' — she has no such class; Trey's confused 'What are you talking about right now?'

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S2E08

Abbi · Trey:Abbi performs an extended, disgusting throat-clearing as part of her fake illness: 'Whoa, that is a lot of phlegm, isn't it?'

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S2E08

Abbi · Trey:Trey: 'Abbi, that trick is for after hours, okay?' followed by Abbi's quietly devastating '...Kirk?'

8.38.5
S2E08

Trey · Abbi:Trey's office is revealed to be a storage closet containing Abbi's personal items — he insists 'it's your office, all your stuff's in here'

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S2E08

Trey · Abbi:Trey offers to go down on Abbi in exchange for her silence: 'What do you want, money?' / 'No.' / 'I'll go down on you right now.' / 'No, what?'

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S2E08

Abbi · Trey:Abbi's actual ask: 'I want to teach the 12:30 kick ass kettle bell class.' Trey: 'We can start there. That's Gemma's class.' Abbi: 'I don't care.'

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S2E08

Abbi · Trey:Trey: 'Look, can't I just go down on you?' Abbi: 'No, stop it.' Trey: 'I think it would be in your best interest—' Abbi: 'Kirk.'

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S2E08

Trey · Abbi:Trey: 'I have a kid.' Abbi: 'What, you do?' Trey: 'Probably! I mean, a paternity suit could pop up at any time.'

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S2E08

Trey · Abbi:Trey: 'Please, Abbi, I have a kid.' Abbi: 'What, you do?' Trey: 'Probably! I mean, a paternity suit could pop up at any time.'

8.18.5
S2E08

Abbi · Trey:The mirror installation scene — Abbi and Trey wrestling with the mirror in the dark gym after hours

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S2E08

Abbi · Trey:Abbi and Trey installing the mirror after hours. Trey: 'Looks good.' Abbi: 'Yeah. They're not gonna know, right?' Trey: 'No one will ever notice.' [Cut to the clearly crooked mirror]

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S2E08

Trey · Abbi:Trey ambushes a nearly-asleep Abbi: 'Not so fast, muchacha. I need you right here.' — there's no pube situation, but she has to teach a class

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S2E08

Trey:Trey's flattery: 'Abbi, you're such a good cleaner. You're so special.' — as his sincere compliment to get her to clean

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S2E08

Trey · Ilana:Regina has been missing for 48 hours — Trey: 'Plus Regina who normally teaches the class has been missing for 48 hours.' Ilana: 'Love Regina, but that's awesome.'

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S3E03

Trey:Trey tells Abbi he gets why she needed to decorate her locker: 'I need to curate my space and, it's like, a vision board, you... You know what I mean? Because it's like, I put my stuff in it.'

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S3E03

Trey · Abbi:Trey compliments Abbi smelling like chlorine and describes his locker decoration philosophy as a 'vision board' — then trails off completely

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S3E03

Trey · Abbi:Trey and Abbi simultaneously say 'Zen out' and then do an extended jinx ritual ('Jinx! / Jinx! / I was gonna say jinx. / Oh. We're buds. / Zen out jinx!')

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S3E03

Trey · Abbi:Trey: 'Oh, Abbi. I love you.' Abbi: 'I... I love you...' Trey: 'You do too? Yeah.' followed by him calling her 'my little cupcake' and immediately pivoting to 'My supplements. All hands on deck.'

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S3E03

Trey · Abbi:Trey offers Abbi a private changing room 'if you'd be more comfortable.' Abbi: 'No, I'm totally at ease.' Beat. 'Where is it?'

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S3E03

Trey:Soulstice Games announcement — employees are surprised but Trey is fully committed: 'I remember my first time. I was 23 and I had just found out I was allergic to cashews.'

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S3E03

Trey · Abbi:Trey: 'There's no I in Soulstice.' Abbi: 'But there's...' Trey: 'Well, yes, there is, yes. I've actually been trying to get them to change it to a Y for a long time.'

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S3E03

Trey:Trey: 'You still got time to shave your pubes if you need to lose that last L-B.'

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S3E03

Trey:Trey tells Abbi she doesn't need to do steroids to be cool — then immediately walks her through a half-dose anabolic regimen anyway, noting 'it does make your balls shrivel, but in your case, it's gonna make your boobs rock hard, which is a bless.'

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S3E07

Trey · Abbi:Clear! / Seriously, you're all clear. / Thanks, Trey. / No problem. I've always wanted to do that. You know, 'clear'? / Right.

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S3E07

Abbi · Trey:You don't give your key to a stranger just 'cause he's really cute, you know? / That's a dumb idea. / Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's cool.

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S3E07

Trey:'Hangover III,' honestly, the best one. / 'Babe.' Oscar nom. / And my personal favorite, 'Ratatouille.'

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S3E07

Abbi · Trey:Oh, that'd be cool, but, like, he took my TV and my DVD player. / I anticipated that, so... / My mom got me this portable DVD player for Christmas so I could watch movies on the subway.

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S3E07

Trey · Abbi:Man, I wish there was a basketball league for women so I could play. / Well, there is. / It's the... WNBA. / Yeah. / The WNBA. / I mean, they are so good. / I literally steal moves from them all the time.

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S3E07

Trey:If Remy had a real restaurant, I would totally go there for my cheat meals. Don't care that he's a rat. Don't give a shit. He is so... special.

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S3E07

Trey · Abbi:I would say my favorite painter is probably, um... Pablo Picasso. / Picasso, baby. / Uh, yeah, he's, like, pretty classic. / Want to see my impression of a Picasso painting? / Yes, I would love to. / [contorts body into Cubist shape] / Trey, that is really funny. / It kinda hurts.

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S3E07

Abbi · Trey:I was gonna show you a video on my laptop. / And then that guy stole it today. / Stole that, too... / Hey, you know what they say? You're not a real New Yorker until you've been robbed. / I've been a New Yorker three times, so.

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S3E08

Trey:Awesome sauce.

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S3E08

Trey:I even moved my cheat day in case you wanna split stuff, share aps, whatever you wanna do.

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S3E08

Abbi · Trey:Abbi orders the full 'pan roasted turbot with fennel pollen aioli, prosciutto, borlotti beans, parsnips, turnips and carrots' / Trey orders 'the chicken.'

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S3E08

Trey · Abbi:To new beginnings. / Yeah... But also, to how it is. Now. Presently. / Yes. / You know? Do you understand?

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S3E08

Trey · Abbi:It's a... / Corsage! Yeah. / You know how you said you didn't go to prom? Well... / It's kind of a joke, but... it's also real.

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S3E08

Ilana's father Arthur · Trey:Who the fuck is Trey? / Kirk Steele.

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S3E08

Trey · Abbi:Trey, no, no, wait... wait. / I'm not a joke, Abbi. / I thought we were having fun and... / We were... I was having a really good time. / This really sucks, you know.

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S4E02

Trey:Trey advising a client about steroids: 'I wouldn't recommend steroids for you yet... But we'll see where we wanna go. You wanna get really big, where you can lift a dancer, we might think about it.'

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S4E02

Abbi · Trey:Abbi: 'I didn't win Powerball.' / Trey: 'Yeah, I know, that's why I did this.' / Abbi: 'Does everybody know?' / Trey: 'I think so, air quotes are pretty big now.'

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S4E02

Abbi · Trey:Abbi: 'I knew Top Gun would work.' / Trey: 'Don't expect anyone to learn your name.'

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S4E02

Trey · Abbi · Shania Twain:Abbi introduces herself to Shania Twain and Shania already knows her name — 'Abbi.' — a beat before Abbi says it

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S4E02

Shania Twain · Abbi · Trey:Shania, Abbi, and Trey bonding over Friends: 'I'm such a Chandler.' / 'Total Rachel.' / 'I'm such a Ross.' — with Shania also being 'A little bit Phoebe' and 'A little Gunther, also'

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S4E02

Trey · Shania Twain:Trey does a Ross impression to get out of doing the stair climber, then has to do it anyway

6.26.5
S4E02

Abbi · Trey:Abbi demonstrating bungee fly exercise, gets launched: 'Uhh!' / Trey immediately: 'Abbi, you know what? Let me do that. Let's switch up. I just think seeing it from this angle might be, a little bit, ahem, safer.'

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S4E02

Trey:Trey, asked to say something meaningful to Abbi, says: 'Bazinga.'

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S4E02

Trey:'You're a good witch, not a bad witch.'

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Trey:Trey gets hit in the genitals by gym equipment and reports 'I think I broke my dick'

6.26.8
S4E02

Paramedic · Trey:'It's your standard penile fracture. We may have to operate. Sorry, man.' / 'Ma'am?' / 'No, no, I said man.' / 'Oh. Okay, cool, thanks, Doctor.' / 'Oh, I'm not a doctor.'

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S4E02

Trey · Abbi · Mike:Trey: 'You're not the relationship type, right?' / Abbi: 'Yeah, totally.' — then immediately after, Abbi hits on paramedic Mike

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S5E10

Trey · Abbi:Trey gives Abbi free weights as a going-away gift. / Thank you so much. I'll... I'll try to put it on my carry-on.

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S5E10

Trey:I've always said, Abbi and incremental free weights, match made in heaven.

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S5E10

Trey · Abbi:Abbi Gary Anna Abrams, will you marry me? / Um... oh, Trey. / Two carats. / No. Right? / Right, yeah, no. / Yeah, no.

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S5E10

Abbi · Trey:Um... oh, Trey. Two carats. No. Right? Right, yeah, no. Yeah, no. You know. You know what? It was a big swing.

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S5E10

Trey:Maria... Cut the video, okay? Delete it. She said no.

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S5E10

Trey:Okay, well, I should probably go 'cause you said no to my proposal, but promise me you'll eat for your blood type, okay?

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S5E10

Trey · Ilana:And I took off work for this. / You did? That sucks. You know what else sucks? When your best friend moves away, and everybody's out for face time for her. Get out of here! But maybe we'll be friends. / I don't have any left.

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