Be this for Halloween: Shoshanna’s Crackcident

It is almost impossible to pick a favorite episode from Lena Dunham’s genius first season of Girls, though “Welcome to Bushwick,” the episode set entirely at a party in Brooklyn’s latest hipster locale, may be the funniest for its quotability alone:

“I’ve literally been here for two hours and I haven’t spoken to anybody. I’m so happy to see you, I could murder you.”
“Oh my God, don’t tell my mom. Don’t even tell me.”
“I can usually tell when someone thinks it’s with a C.”
“Well he’s got like huge ears, so that’s usually the first thing.”
“I bet you were born on a dirt floor.”
“It means I don’t think you’re cool and I think your mother was poor.”
“Enjoy going through life as yourself.”

1./ 2./ 3./ 4./ {All made in the U.S.}
While the warehouse party is pretty epic for everyone individually: Marnie watches Charlie “get climbed like a gym class rope by a tiny Navajo” and is karate-chopped in the face by Hannah’s scene stealing ex-boyfriend; Hannah jedi mind tricks Adam into being her boyfriend (her furtive smile in the backseat of the taxi is one of the season’s best moments of cinematography); and Jessa’s insults leave her boss beaten and pathetically whimpering in the hospital waiting room; however, it is Shoshanna’s accidental bathroom-line crack-smoking incident that places this episode among the ranks of HBO gold.

Assuming the guys standing in line for the bathroom in front of her are offering her marijuana, Shoshanna unknowingly smokes out of a crack pipe. Fueled by her hazy crack-logic she runs the streets of Bushwick skirtless and employs all of her self-defense tactics on her crack spirit-guide, Ray.

If you are not familiar with Girls, it is highly unlikely that you have read this far or that the above synopsis made even the slightest inkling of sense, but in the off chance you’re still reading, do yourself a favor and watch this season in its entirety. It will be a lot easier than marathon-watching subsequent seasons to catch up. This show has longevity.

Shoshanna Shapiro deserves to be paid a little homage this Halloween. Bonus points if you take to the streets sans skirt, or more importantly, if you can convince your significant other to go as your crack spirit-guide.

{Shoshanna and Ray.}