Last fall, a photo from the set of the final season of Comedy Central‘s Broad City prompted instant excitement from Phish fans. In the photo, you can see Ilana Glazer sitting with bassist Mike Gordon on a New York City bench, taking photos of Mike—clad in his oft-meme’d, all-white outfit—taking photos of his shoes. This, of course, prompted speculation that Gordon would make an appearance on the acclaimed comedy.
Ahead of the final season’s premiere, Gordon shared a photo of himself with Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the show’s co-creators and co-stars, from the same day of shooting, seemingly adding weight to the theory that Mike would make a cameo on the show.
:@isosparkle #phish #weareeverywhere #broadcityHowever, the final season of Broad City came and went, and Cactus was nowhere to be seen. On Saturday, the show finally shared a deleted scene on their social media accounts which answers fans’ burning questions about what happened to the Gordo scene.
The deleted scene comes from the season’s first episode, “Stories,” in which the show’s fictionalized versions of Abbi and Ilana set out to walk from the “tippity top to the tippity bottom” of Manhattan to celebrate Abbi’s 30th birthday. The girls document their trek live on Instagram Stories, and the episode plays like you’re watching the girls’ story on the Instagram app—complete with 15-second clips and selfies and captions and all.
As we know from Broad City‘s many references to Phish and the mutual adoration between the band and the show’s creators, Abbi Jacobson is a card-carrying Phish fan. In this particular clip, Abbi has stopped for a bathroom break and is off camera. Ilana is burning some time outside taking selfies for their big Instagram story when she notices a guy who is “definitely on Stories taking pictures of his shoes!”
When she runs over to “shoe guy” to compare notes on why “the internet is the f*cking best,” a white-clad silver fox appears in the frame to explain to Ilana that, “Um, no, well, I just kind of do this one thing.” The exchange ends, in true Stories style, with a pair of selfies that dub the stranger “Shoe Guy” and explain that he “wouldn’t gimme his handle”. Check out the clip below:
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DELETED SCENE ALERTThat’s right—#ShoeGuy is none other than Mike Gordon. The clip has several layers of humor for Broad City-loving Phish fans to appreciate. If you followed Gordon on Instagram during last summer’s Phish tour, you surely noticed his new habit of documenting his nightly outfits and footwear with similar legs-crossed photos of his shoes, socks, and pants (i.e. “I kind of just do this one thing”).
Then, of course, there’s the fact that this exchange happens when Abbi is out of the picture for a moment. Were she there, she would have immediately recognized the Phish bassist and the exchange likely would have gone much differently. But from Ilana’s perspective, this is just a funny interaction with some guy grabbing photos of his outfit for the ‘gram.
It’s pretty understandable why the clip was scrapped from the episode’s final cut—the joke may have been a little too “inside” for the show’s general audience. Thanks to Abbi, however, for sharing the deleted scene so her fellow Phish fans can enjoy the silliness. Oh, and thanks to #ShoeGuy for keeping that fashion sense on point.
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