And now firmly entrenched in its fifth season, CBS's prurient, pun-laden comedy 2 Broke Girls still manages to enrich its audience with chortles and chuckles week by week. This sleeper of a series brought to us by Michael Patrick King and Whitney Cummings is so solid it could be easily misconstrued as a Chuck Lorre creation. And that gaggle of gags, the Lennon-McCartney dream duet of Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as Max the self-professed trollop and Caroline a destitute once debutante and given they have been wearing the same polyester get-up since 2010, still as a series, manages to completely regenerate itself. A feat precious few sitcoms have been able to achieve. Another exception of shark jumping evasion - 'Mike and Molly'is sadly being cancelled by same said network at the time of my writing, alas 2 Broke Girls appears to be going the televisual distance. And just you keep it that way CBS, pretty please.
The Broke Girls ensemble - could it be more delectable if it tried? Stand-Up comic Jonathan Kite as oversexed Oleg the diner's shirtless short-order cook knows how to pull off a scene heist and who better to take along for a bit of the brinks than his best moll Sophie as played by the statuesque Jennifer Coolidge . The principal characters have surely met their match, not to mention proud proprietor Han as per Matthew Moy and SNL alum Garret Morris as Earl the septuagenarian cashier who offers more tips than he receives at the fictional Williamsburg Diner, words of wisdom you could be sure would make Confucius blush.
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| They've got a groovy kind of love (Johnathan Kite and Jennifer Coolidge) |
Oh and there's a horsey too, Chestnut, not of the Mister Ed variety, but the last remnant of a rich girl's past and how oh how can they afford to keep him up to his eyes in carrots with the meager wages they earn as part-time waitresses is a fait accompli that could happen only in the world of the American sitcom. And though Caroline slumbers inside of a wall courtesy of a Murphy bed, and the girls often have to take on menial second jobs as Santa's Elves and Starbucks baristas and such, despite the fact they opened up their own cupcake business a few seasons ago; the best they can offer you from their cupboards is a barren box of Pop Tarts . And there's really no reason to fret - they are actually living the New York high life.
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Now the series is slotted smack dab in prime time and given its subject matter it relies on suggestion and euphemism like you may just have never witnessed in any terrestrial sitcom before but it still maintains a sense of innocence and in a medium that is seemingly impoverished, 2 Broke Girls is unexpected gold.