What I’m Watching: 2 Broke Girls

2 Broke Girls: Season 1, Episode 10 “And the Very Christmas Thanksgiving” (B+)

Here we have our first themed episode of this show, and it’s actually two holiday celebrations wrapped into one. Following the timeline of the show, it stands to reason that this would be Caroline’s first real world holiday season experience, one for which she was woefully unprepared. Finding out that she used to serve meals to the homeless was a surprise, and it’s nice that she and Max opted to use the diner to do just that before their 5am shift with Santa. Those less than thrilled with the supporting characters may be more pleased after this episode, where Oleg uttered not one sexual punchline but instead donated his own movie from his New Hampshire cigarette business to pay for the turkeys that Han was less than eager to purchase. Han’s comment about all of the Jewish holidays being so confusing was quite funny as well. Seeing Max and Caroline essentially swap places as Max made an unexpectedly good Mrs. Claus while Caroline had a holiday breakdown in front of all the kids was a fun change from the norm, and getting Caroline to hate Mary Christmas didn’t prove as difficult as it initially seemed it might. Caroline’s foray into baking was predictably unproductive and plagued with trouble, though it did lead to my favorite lien from the episode, via Max of course: “If we could afford cocaine, we could afford a nicer blender!” Their total saved so far didn’t go up much, but this episode certainly helped them gain some new and important life experiences.