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Bodega Bathroom

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The setup

A customer’s request to use a bodega bathroom opens a filthy world of Broadway spectacle.

Community rating

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Charlie ignores his friend’s warning and accepts the key to a bodega bathroom. A singing cat guides them into a restroom populated by cockroaches, a threatening toilet and a protective Virgin Mary candle. The store becomes a musical fantasy as its inhabitants turn grime, stale merchandise and dubious services into production numbers. After surviving the tour, Charlie discovers that the owner has been testing him for an unexpected inheritance.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 14

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

You want it super hot or solid block of ice?

Dude, relax. It's just a bathroom. I'm sure it's fine.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

John Mulaney described this sketch as a spiritual cousin to Diner Lobster, built around another New York City taboo.

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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