Alice was a child of screwy parents whose divorce early in her life left her needing some moral support.
Lucky for Mary, though, apparently there is nothing in Alice’s adult life more stressful than meeting the children of her boyfriend of three months, Ben (Broad City’s Stephen Schneider).
Mary, who narrates the show, was Alice’s unseen bestie through high school, but then, when Alice had grown up enough, Mary was (much to her chagrin) abandoned for the realities of adult life.
Since her folks were almost never there for her emotionally, Alice dreamt up Mary, an adorably noseless, short, white, fluffy imaginary friend with light blue spots, to help her through the hard times.