Tonight on 2 Broke Girls: hipster jokes, doll rape… and Andy Dick! ‘And The Broken Hip’ has a smidgen of intelligence buried underneath its painfully unfunny premise and execution. For a brief moment, it feels like 2 Broke Girls actually makes a connection to its characters: unfortunately, it’s a mere glimpse of enlightenment, a thrown away moment in an episode full of empty serial killer humor.
There’s two lines of jokes in ‘Broken Hip’: hipsters loving 90’s references, and people who like marionettes are creepy. That’s it – and somehow, ‘Broken Hip’ stretches those two really thin ideas into 22 minutes of an old, tired looking Andy Dick going through the motions as the sexually ambiguous middle-aged doll man, who sues Max and Caroline for injures to his doll Pierre after an accident in the cupcake shop. Honestly, the guy just looks bored, not even game enough to inject the classic Dick weirdness (however ineffective it’s been for 20 years, save for his role on NewsRadio in the late 1990’s).
In a way, it’s almost a meta-commentary on itself: how else could the show extend a joke about hipsters loving tired 90’s celebrities (like Joey Buttafucco and Nancy Kerrigan) in any way better than having Andy Dick in the ENTIRE episode? But 2 Broke Girls doesn’t even make a wink-wink about this idea, which suggests that they weren’t really going for anything that deep at all.
The moment I mention in the opening paragraph comes near the end, when Caroline wonders if their dream is really just stupid idea. It’s really a wonderful bit of dialogue: how are they to know what they want to do in life won’t be a complete failure? If you don’t blink, the girls of the show become relatable for a moment, revealed to be as insecure as the rest of us. Of course, Max steam rolls over it with a contradictory explanation about how Caroline can’t do dumb things, because she has a best friend (Max) who will let her do dumb things. What the hell?
But this is par for the course on 2 Broke Girls, who are slowly getting successful at their cupcake business – without really showing us that they’re doing anything in a way that suggests their business might be getting better (Max made a hipster flier, so now they’re cool). Once in awhile, 2 Broke Girls stumbles upon an interesting idea during its weekly shenanigans, but as always, it’s buried under the same trademark flat humor.
Grade: D+
Other thoughts/observations:
– Sophie committed genocide? No, wait, she was just dreaming about the movie Carrie.
– broken HIPs… and HIPsters. How witty!
– I’ll admit: Max’s string of doll jokes she unleashed outside the puppeeter’s apartment is mildly amusing.
– Han has his first funny moment ever, calling out Max and Caroline for having no work ethic whatsoever. It’s then followed by about six small penis jokes, but hey, it’s the small victories.
– Max has to win a trivia contest in a hipster bar: one adventure I’m glad the show spared us.
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I’m convinced the writers are on hard drugs, and rush these scripts out as quickly as possible. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.