There’s all sorts of terrible about this show. The aforementioned stereotypical diner characters, awful music, dumb sex jokes, jokes telegraphed a mile away, and a ripped from the headlines character. So. yes. That’s all there. Yet. I still loved it and I laughed throughout. Thought there were some pretty good jokes, and it was all carried over really well by the lead. And, the rich girl character’s actor was pretty good, too.
It was serviceable. I like Dennings. I enjoyed the shirtless boyfriend. The “running total” premise is cute. I like that the rich girl was smart, if naive. I loved the bucket list gag.
Obviously they can’t make 250k in a year at their current rate but I can see the occasional episode revolving around various schemes to score a wad of cash. OTOH I hope they get the cupcake shop before year four and dont make it the finale.
I was dubious about the Asian stereotype. I like the black guy but don’t get what his role is. He seems like a DJ but I don’t hear any music and don’t see a lower side diner having one.
I hope they have a revolving fired waitress like Murphy Browns secretaries.
Hipster jokes are tired. Hipster has become the catch all name calling term for the cynical. Being cynical and hating anyone who likes / cares about anything or tries and fails to be creative is more fake and disgenuine than most so called hipsters are. Give it a rest. Dissing on them for being rude was fine though.
Some of the timing was off but that seemed to be all due to waiting for the studio audience to die down enough to be heard.
I did like that they didn’t make the rich girl act like she was too delicate to handle what the poor people go through. She didn’t like the uniform, but she wore it because she needed the job.
Instead, they have the rich airhead that Max works for to act as the stereotypical rich person.
Write a letter, and maybe the network will send you fresh batteries for your remote.
OOOoooooo…hipster-snap!
You mean Bryce Lee?
- ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *
I watched it this morning on CBS’s site and it was OK. I like Kat Dennings a lot and I like that the blond wasn’t just a dumb bimbo, but she actually has some good business sense and she can hold her own.
The bit with Kat’s second job was pretty lame; the scene turned into exposition on the poor, now poor girl.
Kat seemed more like she was announcing her lines rather than interacting with them, but I think she can do better. They definitely have to get her out of that waitress outfit as much as possible, having her in that doesn’t do anyone any good. This show wasn’t too bad, but I think it has a way to go. I’d like to see it develop with stronger characters and move towards better character-based humor and lame innuendos and hipster jokes that feel forced.
I caught this last night. It wasn’t the worst show I’d ever seen but I do hope it gets better over its run, or I’ll be dropping it.
I’ve got 22 mins/week to spare now that “Shit My Dad Says” is gone, so I am shopping for something mindless. This isn’t too bad.
I did LOL a couple times but I also called a few jokes before they got said.
Thinking about it, I wonder if it would have been better if they put the 2 Broke girls in a hipster bar instead of a crummy diner. They could still have Garret Morris as the doorman or old jazz guy DJ and in a bar I think there’s a little more room to be caustic to the hipsters because they’re drinking. Kat Dennings being mean and shaming a customer just because he’s snapping his fingers for service at a resturant is pushing it a little, I think.
I don’t know who Kat Dennings is, but she has the acting skills of a Ray Romano or Jerry Seinfeld. If she is the creative force behind the show, then her lack of acting skills can be forgiven somewhat. But if she is supposed to be an actress, she’s really stiff.
Terrible. Cookie-cutter characters and a cliched premise. Not to mention the cringe-worthy “ethnic” characters and bad acting.
I watched it last night - hey, did you know Kat’s character is poor? And she has bad luck? If you didn’t catch that, don’t worry, because she announces it every other line.
At one point, I said to my husband, “This is like watching a home video.” I chuckled occasionally, but I’d give it about 2 out of 5, as I don’t care about Kat’s giant melons.
And yet despite their poverty the formerly-rich character spent $70 on a manicure in the second episode. And they’re somehow managing to feed that horse.
~sigh~ For the record… I actually don’t watch it anymore; because it sucks. 
this has got to be in the running for highest views-to-post ratio, even with my added post.
It was a very uneven episode. At first I thought it would be my last viewing. Then I had a few moments of not hating it. Then a few more of hating it. I’ll give it one or two more tries, but it isn’t a great series so far.
I’m in it for Chestnut the Horse.
Kat Dennings has an amazingly fantastic body - the exact figure that I find super-duper-yummy-tastic.
The show irritated me enough that I put on headphones and played Black Ops rather than oogle her boobiliciousness. 
So, I’ve watched the episodes online. I love it. Flame me if you want. I find both leads adorable. I like the innuendos they get away with. It is what it is. A sitcom. I don’t expect Oscar-worthy acting.
I’m with Southern Yankee. It’s off to a decent start, and the leads are terrific. I’m also glad to see “What I Like About You”'s Vince as her love interest.
I figured Kat Dennings’ flat delivery is supposed to show the world-weariness of her character. She is the rich babe’s anti-bubbly. This week they showed her inner angst with the whole “maybly” flub as she tried awkwardly to promote her cupcake business.
I had my moment around episode 3 where I said “If this doesn’t get better, I’m done.” That ep seemed to be titled, “How many times can we say vagina or tampon?” But, by golly, it got better.
I flipped over to it a week or two ago, coming in on the scene with the two girls in the back room of the diner, holding their fingers over their nipples. Obviously, I stopped to watch, because you don’t often see women handling their breasts on a sitcom, and the dichotomy of the two girls- one with huge tits and one with little mosquito bites- was funny. I don’t know the reason for that gag- was it a walk-in freezer, or something?- but I thought I’d give it a shot.
I think I switched channels about three minutes later. Bigtits’ flat, disaffected, monotone delivery really irritated me during the next scene when she was waiting on the table of 4 guys, one of which was trying to pick her up. I decided even the fingered-nipples thing wasn’t enough to keep me tuned in. I won’t be back.