This show is off to a good start. I wanted to check it out initially because of the adorable posters, but I kept hearing that it’s actually one of the funniest new shows of the season…and I laughed a number of times. It’s typical sitcom style, but Kat Dennings has great timing and wit, and Beth Behrs is good on the eyes (and small doses of Garrett Morris are always a plus)…and the show takes place in my neighborhood, so all of the fucking hipster jokes were icing on the cupcake! It’s also a bit shocking (not that I mind) all of the lines that made it past the radar.
Okay, I get the reasoning behind having the cupcake business idea and flashing the running net worth counter at the end of the show – they have to provide some hope to the audience that the two down-on-their-luck protagonists will succeed. But the math and logic behind it is rather suspect.
First of all, in two days, they earned a combined $387. This is before taxes and their expenses. Assuming they decide to work every day of the year, taking no vacation; they under report their tips and thus pay no income tax; and they somehow have no expenses, they can save at most $70,000 in a year.
But paying rent and other expenses will seriously limit how much they can actually save away. And choosing Starbucks over a cheaper McDonalds coffee drink demonstrates they still have expensive tastes and they aren’t even trying to be thrifty.
Supposing they both get extra jobs, they might double their earning power to $140k, but now they are in a higher tax bracket and will have a tougher time avoiding the taxman unless they can be paid in cash, under the table.
Even still, they’d have to find a 3rd and 4th job to hope to reach $250k in a year.
Assuming they somehow work non-stop 32 hours a day, every day of the year. They don’t sleep or spend on anything. They earn the $250k. So now they switch from proven income sources to quit their jobs and go open a new, risky cupcake shop? In a business environment where they compete with other established bakeries?
If they’re dead-set to start a cupcake business, why not sell the horse (so you no longer need to pay to feed and maintain it) and use the proceeds as seed money to procure a business loan?
Do you have anything special?
Not accourding to my High School guidance counselor.
:rolleyes:
Dang it! Now I can’t watch it anymore because it isn’t realistic!
I haven’t seen the show, but I’d note that businesses don’t just multiply their first-day expenses and revenues as time goes on. The cost of production decreases because more efficient means are found to create in bulk, material costs decrease because a bulk supplier can be found, and so on. If they’re making a profit at all, on day one, that’s pretty good. And obviously baking companies can and do make a sufficient profit on a daily basis, employing hundreds, yet only selling items for under a buck. The question is whether they can get from A to B.
Really awful show. The jokes were blatantly obvious and dumb. I knew I should have given up with they start out with that “She’s coming” joke, something that you could see a mile off. (And it was old 40 years ago, when the Firesign Theater did it). There really wasn’t anything about the show appealing or interesting or funny. It actually made Two and a Half Men seem like great comedy.
disappointed in this. like the cast, the idea of the show, & I hope it gets better. Does it have to be so vulgar? really? and no, I am not a prude especially.
Never even heard of this show, but this thread had me wondering if there was a “two girls, one cupcake” joke.
This was one of the most promising shows of the new season? Yikes. It just goes to show you that develping a good comedy is even harder than opening up a cupcake business.
Created by (name I forgot) and Whitney Cummings, whose commercials don’t inspire me to want to watch her show, either. Did she sell her soul?
I’m not a prude either, but I would like to have comedies on TV I could watch with my son withouth both of us becoming uncomfortable.
“I wear knit caps because it’s cold, you wear knit caps because Coldplay”
i chuckled…
Decent start - poor girl teams up with newly poor girl - been done before, but the premise has worked well in the past.
Verdict still out, but will continue to watch - some funny lines and they could make a good team
Yeah, that was my response. We haven’t watched prime time TV in years, but my wife wanted to see it because she liked one of the girls in Thor. Poor timing, lame writing, and gag-focused humor that prevented the development of interesting characters. I’d rather watch iCarly.
Kat Dennings is trying to be the character Leah Remini played on “King of Queens.” However you believed Carrie was from NY with the attitude.
Here Dennings is like not believable. She portrays the character not a tough, streetwise New Yorker, but someone who’s never been to New York thinks how it should be portrayed.
The other Paris Hilton cloan is better at it. This show is miles below “$h*! My Dad Says” which was supposed to be the big hit last year. But being behind the 8pm anchor show on Monday has never hurt anyone.
Customer/young beefy guy with sorta Elvis hair (known in the credits as Hipster #3) is my buddy Alex. So, watch the show…I guess.
Me too.
Every time I hear the title of this show, I mentally add “One Cup”!
Is there something wrong with me?
Much better than I expected. The rich girl wasn’t played up as stupid (which I expected) and while I didn’t laugh a lot, I did like it enough to try it again.
I like Kat Dennings’ boobies.
But not enough to watch a show that looks this bad.
My reaction was “oh boy another odd couple buddy show” meh I only saw it because I was too lazy to get off the couch while my husband had it on. I won’t make that mistake again.
I didn’t like the deliberately colorful denizens of the diner where they worked, such as the Asian owner with the really thick accent.