2 Broke Girls - 1x15 - And the Blind Spot

I've decided that if I'm going to stick with this show, I'm going to choose to just focus on the good parts and not obsess on the many, many, many faults. Even I've run out of long winded ways to say "these jokes SUCK". So, grading on such a steep, steep curve this episode wasn't actually that bad.

It wisely chooses to lean on what this show actually does really well (and probably the only reason I'm still sticking with it); the genuinely touching thread of watching Max and Caroline learn to trust and rely on each other implicitly. (I swear with just a hint of any kind sexual tension between the leads, and a gallon of guts, this show could be a really touching lesbian rom-com.) Of course it does this by continuing the new year's perplexing arc of showing Caroline act like the spoiled bitch she spent the first 10 episodes proving she's not, but at least it's somewhat entertaining.

Alright, so probably-offensive Polish stereotype upstairs neighbor is sticking around awhile, and that's probably good.  The odd misfire aside, this show tends to write better guest characters than supporting cast. And she's offering Caroline and Max that cleaning job she mentioned last episode, since one of the other things this show is actually good at is continuity.

The girls take Sophie up on her job offer because Caroline decides the girls need to earn a little more pocket change to pay for a fancy website. You know, I am glad that someone out there is appreciating the true value of good web design (both graphical and technical), but I'm honestly surprised they don't at least have a little free nameplate site up. A tumblr with pictures of cupcakes? A Blogger account? Any dipshit can make a Blogger account.

After watching the girls audition at her apartment (we're definately sure we're not going with Sophie's a madam, right?), Sophie doesn't care for Caroline's rich-girl "cleaning". But since Max cleans hardcore enough for two people, she hires them both, but advises Max to cut Caroline's metaphorical rock from Max's metaphorical balloon. Max gives a kind of half-hearted protest that I kind of want to hate her for, while bumming Sophie's electric cigarettes in what I can only assume is the awkwardest product placement this side of Hawaii Five-0.

And with this screencap, another hundred fetish tumblr's
are born

Things don't get better at their first job, a plus-size greeting card male model that Caroline's uncharacteristically snobby towards. The place is actually relatively neat and tidy, but she comes this close on insisting for double pay ("For triple the man"). It's really kind of horrible. And because she sucks at bathroom cleaning, she also clogs the poor guy's toilet with a roll of paper towels.

For some reason, Max did not buy that the torrent of blue liquid
meant it was a "heavy flow" day.

It all comes to a head at the second job, which is an absolute sty, but since the owner's an abs-ariffic male model, Caroline is thrilled. When it's time to decide who'll wake up the naked model though, it all blows up. By this point Max has forgotten basically everything Caroline has done for her in the past fifteen weeks (maybe down to 13, if we discount this string of Bad Caroline eps), starts bitching about how maybe Sophie was right and she might be better off without Caroline. Caroline rightfully points out everything she's done for Max and the business, and Sophie walks in on them literally throwing down.

In the end it's all a moot point when it turns out Abercrombie over there has OD'ed and Caroline uses her Rich People Problem Solving Skills to ghetto pump the shit out of his stomach. Then the girls make up and tell each other how great the other is. Aw.

I'm ... really not helping to curb the really disturbing Referral URL's that keep linking to this site, am I?