A Heart Attack Is A Good Valentine's Day Story

2 Broke Girls, S01E16

This Valentine's Day episode was less about romantic love and more about fatherly love.  Our favorite cashier, Earl, comes down with a heart attack as he is about to get off work.  He treats the condition with little anxiety, remarking that he started feeling the pain when Sophie came in her revealing dress.  Now that is not much of a shocker because her melons were quite on display when she came into the restaurant, sporting a purple parasol.  Wow.  I also like what Sophie says to Earl before he has his attack:

I wish we had black people in Poland when I was growing up.

Caroline and Max rush Earl to the hospital with Sophie's town car.  The ER is full of people, and the guy at the front desk is anything but sympathetic to Max's sense of urgency.  Her threats to this unhelpful man are hilarious.  They tell him that Earl is actually Morgan Freeman, and that Max is his daughter.  The guy finds it hard to believe and even less when she says that Earl is the "love of her life."  Max wonderfully explains that both of these things are true because they're from the South.  Being a Southern girl myself, I can appreciate that kind of joke.  My favorite threat that Max uses on the front desk guy is that she would "cut [him] so deep that [he'd] have a vagina."  Her thug side really came out when Earl was in trouble.  I loved it.  I don't have to necessarily understand how their relationship came about, but you really see Max's deep love of him.

Caroline is able to get Earl a private room after asking for the help of her ex, Dr. David, who works at the hospital and practically owns it.  I was surprised that after he complained about his Dartmouth shirt Caroline never returned that he pretty easily agreed to help Max and Caroline out.  I wasn't really sure why, but Caroline took it as a sign that the two might get back together.  It was here that I thought we would see that random hook-up for the sake of it being Valentine's Day.  No such luck.  He rejected her because he didn't want anything to do with her family now that Caroline's father was in prison.  Wow.  What an asshole.  I guess we were a little deceived by him helping Earl to think that he was a decent guy.  Well, Caroline is better off.

It was funny when Han comes to visit Earl at the hospital.  He was still wearing his Cupid wings from the restaurant and Earl mistook him for an angel.  One of his concerns about going to Heaven was that there would be no jazz music.  Ha.

I also found myself unable to hold back a giggle when Sophie and Oleg talk in the restaurant.  He wants her to come clean his apartment and she responds:

Oh, you cannot get me to come.

Oh, I can get you to come.

No, I can longer come anymore.

It goes on like that for longer than I thought it would and the sexual implications are funny since it's Sophie, who is almost dead serious, and Oleg, whose brain never leaves the gutter if he can help it.

Caroline's father surprises both girls with some flowers at the end of the episode.  Aww.  I like that Max turns the sentimental moment into something sexual to distract us from her real feelings.  But that's something that I like about her character.  As far as romance goes, Max did apologize to the front desk guy at the end and give him some Valentine's candy.  He then asked her out, and Max only hesitated a second to get his number.  Hey, I think they have something special.  If anyone can sit there and take Max's most thug-like threats and not wet himself, he's probably a good match for her.

This episode was a good blend of funny, but also a bit heartwarming.  They should have more stories like this one.  This might be one of my favorite Valentine's episodes I've seen within the past week.