Ever since Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson mentioned that she originally mistook Ilana Glazer for Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat, fans have been wondering if she’d ever make an appearance on Broad City – and last night, they got their wish.
In this weeks Broad City, we finally got a clear definition of Ilana Wexler’s sexuality, when she hooks up with her doppelgänger Adele (Alia Shawkat) and talked through the intricacies of her sexuality.
Throughout the show, there have been many hints that Ilana could be less than straight. And when she first meets Adele, her attraction seems to come as no one surprise to herself, best friend Abbi or roommate Jaime. “Dude, I just saw the hottest girl I have ever seen,” she tells Abbi, eliciting no response. “We had the most incredible spark.”
And they do, because the two look exactly alike, which is the whole joke to begin with, but which is also meant to explain Ilana’s attraction to another woman.
Ironically though, it is actually Ilana’s sexual openness that leads her to end her same-sex tryst.
“I have sex with people different from me. Different colors, different shapes, different sizes. People who are hotter; people who are uglier. More smart; not more smart. Innies; outies. I don’t know, a Catholic person.”
Turns out, Adele is different from Ilana, in a single intolerable way: she “doesn’t smoke pot”, which mean immediate ejection from Ilana’s apartment.