--- title: Man Kicked Off Plane for Broad City Shirt After South by Southwest description: Should have just taken the Chinatown bus canonical: https://time.com/3755915/college-student-kicked-off-plane-broad-city-shirt/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-24T15:36:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:57.463Z og:title: Guy Kicked Off Plane Because His 'Broad City' Shirt Had Profanity On It og:description: Should have just taken the Chinatown bus og:url: https://time.com/3755915/college-student-kicked-off-plane-broad-city-shirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb65d07af3805011/698695e2f983e7508904e3a6/broad-city_abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer-photocredit_lane-savage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: broad-city_abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer-photocredit_lane-savage og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Guy Kicked Off Plane Because His 'Broad City' Shirt Had Profanity On It twitter:description: Should have just taken the Chinatown bus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb65d07af3805011/698695e2f983e7508904e3a6/broad-city_abbi-jacobson-ilana-glazer-photocredit_lane-savage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Guy Kicked Off Plane Because His _Broad City_ Shirt Had Profanity On It > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 24, 2015 3:36 PM UTC  Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, creators and stars of Comedy Central's Broad City Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, creators and stars of Comedy Central's Broad City Comedy Central by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 24, 2015 3:36 PM UTC People get kicked off planes for all kinds of [reasons](http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/06/showbiz/alec-baldwin-flight/) — but college student Daniel Podolsky was thrown off a plane Monday for a conflict that happened over a T-shirt. Podolsky was heading home from the South by Southwest festival in Texas and had a layover in St. Louis, [KTVI-TV reports](http://fox2now.com/2015/03/23/man-kicked-off-southwest-flight-over-language-on-t-shirt/). He was wearing a shirt advertising the Comedy Central show _Broad City_ — but the shirt didn’t just say “Broad City_._” It said “Broad F—king City.” Podolsky said he removed his jacket during the layover, revealing the words, and then he was booted from the connecting flight. “It just happened so fast. Within thirty seconds the flight was gone,” Podolsky said, adding that he would have “gladly” covered up the shirt. However, Podolsky provided video of the incident that seemed to tell a different story, KTVI-TV reports. According to the footage, when a Southwest Airlines worker asked him to change the shirt or turn it inside out, he simply replied, “Nope.” He insisted that he had freedom of speech and that the shirt wasn’t bothering anyone. Soon, though, airport police escorted him from the terminal like he was some kind of a [counterfeit bag peddler](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/broad-city-knockoffs.jpg). Eventually, Podolsky made it to his final destination — but only after changing his clothes. 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