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2 Broke Girls: “Pilot”

Oy, vey! Boy, is this an awful series. I know that star Kat Dennings is cute and that she is supposed to be the hottest thing since sliced bread, but even she can't save this show from being close to unwatchable.

The whole show revolves around two girls who end up working together as waitresses in a small Asian-owned restaurant. One girl grew up poor and is barely getting by; the other grew up rich but just recently became acquainted with poverty when her father got arrested for stealing money from his wealthy clients in a Bernie Madoff-style deal.

No doubt the show has plenty of opportunity for both jokes and social commentary but thus far it relies on jokes. Bad jokes. Really bad jokes. The type of bad jokes that even comics who specialize in bad jokes hesitate to tell. (For example, the first episode features a rape joke told by one of the show's main characters -- a joke which is not less awful because it was told by a female.) And don't get me started on the show's ethnic stereotypes -- though I suppose I should be glad that this is one of the TV sitcoms set in a restaurant which does not feature a Latino stereotype as a regular character.

I would like to pretend that this show gets better by the end of the first season but thus far I have yet to make it to the end of the show's first season. On the plus side, though, I have a hard time seeing how even this show's writers can top the first episode for awfulness. However, I sincerely hope that they don't try.