Shakespeare and Crack: 2 Broke Girls - 1x07

Meh. I'm not AS disappointed in this one was I was in HIMYM, but that's only because I expected more from HIMYM. All this show has to do is get through one episode without a horribly unfunny racial joke and it'll impress me. This was not that episode.

Some well-suited "trendy locust" Gentrificators (that could be a term) come into the diner and start going on about how much they love Max's cupcakes and how they want to meet the chef (baker? boulanger?). Caroline has to force Max's stupid childish Too-Cool-For-Suits straight up hostile ass to the table to meet her fans. To her credit, she does start blushing and mumbling thanks and generally looking grateful and humble. Who the hell knew you had it in you? The Gentrificators (it'll catch on damnit) tell them they should sell the cupcakes in the "hip new coffee place" in their building, where they'd be a big hit. Caroline thinks this is a great idea. Max doesn't want to actually try to sell her wares because she feels that's "selling out" (jesus). Han feels adorably betrayed that the girls are shopping their cupcakes around.

Oh yeah, this will go well.

Han needn't worry though, because the pseudo-hippie-whatever-she-was-propeitor turns them down because Max's cupcakes aren't "pretty enough" and Max gets utterly discouraged and tries to quit the world and all of you suck shut up. Caroline, as usual, tries to make the best of -Max's shitty attitude- a bad situation and signs them up for cupcake prettying classes? The classes are run by these two Long Island reject sisters that don't react well to Caroline's upbeat and perky introduction about how her and Max are going to Make It After All in the dessert bakery business. The bitchy sisters pretty much just bitch at Max and Caroline's attempts to make little pastry flowers and whatever, further angering The Max. Seems Max has a bit of a perfectionist/OCD/batshit insane streak that compels her to Monk out on these stupid excercising, spending the entire first lesson, and the resulting night, trying to get her rose *exactly* perfect. In the end, they return to their second class with exactly one perfectly sculptured rose (just to show them she could do it) and about half a dozen Fuck You cupcakes, with various insults painted on them. Caroline realizes wayyy too late that they should focus their energies on what Max is good at, -being unreasonably angry at- insulting the world, and decides their cupcakes aren't going to be "pretty", but insulting. I'm surprised she didn't go with a "fresh" pun in there. When the Bitchy Sisters ask who the hell would want those, a pair of Random Micheal's also taking the class raise their hands and place the first ever order with Max and Caroline's Fuck-you-kery. Aw.

If you have HD, you can tell the cupcake is just a transcript of Deadwood.

In unrelated news, even though things are still weird after the bite-and-grope hijinks the week before, Max comes into the diner trying to set his friend Carlos up with Caroline. Caroline is practicing some manner of chastity or something right now and isn't interested. It might have something to do with the fact that NYU-lit-degree-holding Carlos tends to let his "inner Rico Suave" out whenever he's nervous. Max spends the episode accusing Caroline of being racist, and in the end...absolutely nothing happens with that subplot. Alrighty then, I guess we're saving that for another episode.

Random thoughts, because why the hell not?

The Golden Agers Bitch Brigade in the beginning of the episode. What was that? Is this something that happens to a lot of wait staff, and the writers were finally getting their revenge? Or did someone in the writers room go "You know what'd be funny? If a bunch of old ladies were bitchy and Max cursed them out." Actually, on second thought, that could be funny. It wasn't here.

Aaron Sorkin actually wrote this piece after having a fight with his grandma.

I don't know why, but I liked Caroline's Vagina Bed gag. That probably says something about me. Or maybe, in the tragedy of lowered expectations, I'm just relieved they didn't feel the need to add a cushioned public hair to the set up. Though there was an unfortunate "curtains" joke that could have been referencing that. Sigh.