Episode
Pretend It's a City: Metropolitan Transit
Overview
Mean cabbies, arty subway stations, interstellar tourism and spacey bus drivers can get Fran going. Then Leonardo DiCaprio offered her an e-cigarette.
Details
- Series
- Pretend It's a City
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2021-01-08
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Metropolitan Transit is Episode 3 in Limited Series of Pretend It's a City. It aired on 2021-01-08. The runtime is 30 min.
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