2 Broke Girls

The series chronicles the lives of two waitresses in their mid-20s (at the start of the series): Max Black (Kat Dennings), the daughter of a poor underclass mother and an unknown father, and Caroline Channing (Beth Behrs), who was born rich but is now disgraced and penniless because her father, Martin Channing, got caught operating a Bernie Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme. The two work together at a Brooklyn diner (Williamsburg Diner), soon becoming roommates and best friends while working towards their goal of opening a cupcake shop. Among those working with them at the restaurant are their Korean boss Han Lee (Matthew Moy); Oleg (Jonathan Kite), an upbeat but perverted and harassing Ukrainian cook; and Earl (Garrett Morris), a 75-year-old cashier. Also featured starting late in the first season is their neighbor and part-time boss Sophie (Jennifer Coolidge), a Polish immigrant who runs the house-cleaning company Sophie's Choice. For most of the first season, Max also works a part-time nanny for the twin babies of Peach Landis (Brooke Lyons), who during the season adopts Caroline's horse Chestnut. At the end of each episode, a tally shows how much they have made toward their goal of $250,000. Early in the second season, Sophie lends the women $20,000, which is enough for them to start their business. However, the business fails, and in the 18th episode, they are forced to give up the lease of their cupcake shop with just enough money to pay off Sophie's loan, resetting the end of episode tally to $1. The shop opposite to theirs belongs to Andrew (Ryan Hansen) who had his own candy shop called Candy Andy. He and Caroline become romantically involved, but they eventually break up because her focus is on her cupcake business. During the third season, Caroline and Max reopen the business in the back room of the diner where they work, using a window as a walk-up window for sales. Max also enrolls in, and Caroline goes to work for, a pastry school called the Manhattan School of Pastry, where Max finds a friend, and later love interest, named Deke. This is Max's first relationship since the second episode when she broke up with her cheating boyfriend, Robbie. Caroline unknowingly has an affair with the married French instructor named Nicholas, who works at the pastry school. This eventually leads to Nicholas closing down the school and moving back to France with his wife. Max, Caroline, and Deke also attempt to get Deke's parents to invest in the school, planning to run it themselves, but they do not succeed. During season four, the women finally start their cupcake business, which succeeds briefly before going into the red. Both Max and Caroline end up working in an elite-class pastry shop called "The High" to make more money to return the loan they took for their business. Max also had a brief fling with a new handsome waiter, Nashit. She later discovers he is under 18 when his mother arrives from Ireland to bring him back home. At the end of season four, Oleg and Sophie get married. In season five, Caroline sells her life story to a film producer for $250,000. She uses most of the money to expand their old cupcake space into the adjacent pizza shop, converting it into a dessert bar. The remaining $30,000 is used to purchase part ownership of the diner to help Han pay off his debts from gambling on women's tennis. While in Hollywood with Caroline consulting on her life story script, Max meets a "lawyer to the stars" named Randy. Meanwhile, despite her advancing age, Sophie becomes pregnant with Oleg's child. Season six has Sophie and Oleg welcoming their baby daughter Barbara to the world. Randy returns to continue his relationship with Max, but it does not work out. Randy wants Max to move to Los Angeles, but Max, publicly acknowledging her strong friendship with Caroline for the first time, says she cannot do so because she has important people in her life now. Meanwhile, Caroline meets Bobby, a contractor who rebuilds the dessert bar after a storm, and the two start a relationship. By the end of the season, the movie about Caroline's life has been made (albeit with some "creative license" changes), but Caroline destroys a $10,000 on-loan dress at the premiere, which wipes out both her and Max's combined savings and returns them to "broke" status. Randy comes back to New York, this time permanently, and proposes to Max, who accepts. The series ends at this point, as the network unexpectedly canceled 2 Broke Girls without allowing the creative team to resolve its plotlines.

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