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Misadventures in Adulting Ep 4: Bro, Interrupted

From the 2010s script vault: On a slow night at the bar, the bros one-up each other over annoying instances when others interrupted an otherwise perfectly solitary moment.

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Jawanza Barial-Lumumba
Dec 01, 2025
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Bro, Interrupted

Written by Jawanza Barial-Lumumba, edited by Emily Peterson

ISAAC (Narrator)

It’s just another Thursday night at Slum’s, my employment-pad. Like every Thursday, it’s slummin at Slum’s, except for my two best-bros/housemates, who are dressed to impressed, with no one in sight aside from them. Brotastic. As I manhandle the shit out of the bar, they engage in their lives with a dire and wondrous ponderment…

JEREMIAH

What if they had never cancelled Firefly…

CARLOS

We’d somehow be getting laid less. And statistically speaking, that’s nearly improbable.

JEREMIAH

Real talk.

ISAAC (Narrator)

He raises his beer.

JEREMIAH

To its cancellation!

CARLOS

And to our moderate/occasional sex-lives.

JEREMIAH

Here-here!

ISAAC (Narrator)

The bros cheers their classy Budlight to their strangely conceived triumph.

JEREMIAH

I had the biggest realization today at work, bro!

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