I hope it’s explored again in a future, tighter episode. As much as I liked the notion of competitive Abbi, the actual execution of this idea felt a little weak. Luckily, Trey is convinced Abbi has just gotten into steroids, like a lot of the Soulstice trainers do when they start out, and lets it slide. That triggers another ALL CAPS meltdown, and Abbi pounds Gemma’s face with a padded stick. This is where I figured that nudity joke would come into play again - maybe Abbi’s hypercompetitiveness would be reawakened by taunts about her prudishness, or by Gemma publicly exposing her body - but instead, she’s teased about her past as a cleaner. Any time Abbi is given room to let her freak flag fly, we get another piece in the beautiful neon mosaic that is their friendship.Īnd oh boy, does her freak flag fly … though it’s really more of a freak pole, and I’m not sure if it “flies” so much as “repeatedly hits another trainer in the face.” Abbi’s competitive nature drives her to take the lighthearted team-building games all too seriously, and when Ilana figures out that Abbi has been put into a situation where losing is on the line, she rushes to save her - and everyone around her - from “All Caps Abbi.” Her presence initially proves to be calming, but then Abbi sucks herself into one of those mini-jousting competitions that looks like the playground version of the “Amok Time” fight from Star Trek. There are very good reasons why these two people truly understand each other. Because Ilana is such an overbearing presence, it can sometimes be hard to remember she doesn’t dominate their relationship. Abbi is nervous due to her latent hypercompetitive streak, a new bit of character development that’s one of my favorite details in the episode. The trainers are gearing up for their annual group-bonding activity: The Soulstice Games. Abbi’s unease about locker-room nudity struck me as a bit of a red herring - I kept waiting for this setup to pay off in a big way, but it ends just as the chaos gets going. are very comfortable letting it all hang out.
Now that she’s a trainer, Abbi gets to use the trainer-exclusive locker room, where Trey, Gemma, et. It’s not the greatest cold open, and I’m not sure the gag is funny enough to pull off its sleaziness.
The reference initially went over my head, and I wonder if others will be as confused and skeeved out as I was, especially since that particular Sandlot scene hasn’t aged well. Everything seems peachy until, in a nod to a very creepy scene from The Sandlot, an old man named Squints pretends to be dead so Abbi will give him CPR. “Game Over” isn’t Broad City at its best, but it pulls off some fun surprises.Ībbi is now an official trainer at Soulstice, in case you’d forgotten, and the episode opens with her teaching a senior aquarobics class.
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