This week on 2 Broke Girls, Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) learn that when you get sick, there's nothing better than a little matzo ball soup.
Maybe Just Take Some Vitamins?
Caroline is worried about getting sick because she doesn't have health insurance and can't afford to miss work. Ah, welcome to the life of a twenty-something American. After sneezing on her, Han (Matthew Moy) offers to pay for her trip to the clinic so she can go get some antibiotics. OK, first of all, she's not even sick yet. And second, antibiotics don't cure viruses anyway. Do your research, people!
Geography Lesson
While at the clinic they realize that they're in the "orthodox Jewish neighborhood." Huh?? Max and Caroline are supposed to live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For those of you not in the loop, Williamsburg consists of the largest Hasidic Jewish community in the U.S. So the whole neighborhood is the orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Max and Caroline would have come across Hasidic people way before now. This show makes no sense!
Today You Are a Man
Esther (Mary Testa), the woman who works at the clinic, just so happens to need 80 cupcakes tomorrow for her son's bar mitzvah. The bar mitzvah boy and his best friend turn out to be total gangsters, saying things like, "Your lips are movin' but your a__ is doin' all the talkin'" and offering Max money to flash her boobs when Esther's out of the room. Oy vey.
When Opposites Don't Attract
Meanwhile, Sofi (Jennifer Coolidge) meets up with a guy that she met on a Polish dating site. His name is Sergiusz (Matt Winston) and he's very, very gay. Like, over-the-top flamboyantly gay. If this were reality, they would just speak in Polish to each other, but neither actor is actually from Poland, so we have to suffer through their ridiculous not-quite-Polish accents. Eventually Sergiusz breaks up with Sofi to date another woman -- one with a penis. Yup, sounds about right.
Cupcake fund total: $865.00. They would have earned $275 from the cupcake gig, but Max had to go and admit that the cupcakes weren't kosher so they left with nothing.
Did you find Caroline's incessant use of Yiddish words charming or annoying? And will there ever be an ethnic group this don't won't make fun of?
Best Lines:
"I've already caught poverty this year. I can't afford to catch the flu."
--Caroline to Max.
"Those look like two giant orange traffic cones. Are you trying to tell me not to park there?"
--Sergiusz, talking about Sophie's boobs.
"Hey, I grew up with a lot of families! The Manson family, the Jackson family, the Menendezes..."
--Max to Caroline.
"We look like the Olsen twins."
--Max to Caroline, about the orthodox Jewish clothing they're wearing.
"Who cares what her name is? She looks like the people who stole my grandmother's hutch."
--Bar mitzvah boy's grandmother, about Caroline.
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