Trading Z's For Some G's

2 Broke Girls, S02E12

The girls found out they had forgotten about a huge order of cupcakes due to their lack of sleep.  They snuck out of the diner earlier by faking an illness and tried to bake a thousand cupcakes in a limited time span while being extremely sleep deprived.

I was impressed by a lot of things in this story.  One being that Han is so nice that he keeps Caroline and Max around when they are sleeping blatantly in front of customers.  I guess he's just a super-understanding guy.  It was more amazing that after Max and Caroline faked being sick to cut work and then needed Han's help later, that he agreed.  He's just a big ol' sweetheart.  I mean, Max was piling on the short jokes and he still let them use his ovens.  They really owe him big.  The most impressive thing was that they were able to bake all those cupcakes in such a short time even with Earl and the others' help and especially since they ruined the majority of them at the near end.  Realistically, they shouldn't have been able to pull it off.  Not without one of them falling asleep in the oven or something.  A missing earring was like the least worst thing that could have happened.

I kept thinking there must have been some way they could have checked all those cupcakes without destroying them.  I mean, like sticking a toothpick or something in them?  I dunno.  Caroline probably wasn't thinking at full capacity when she just started tearing them up so quickly.  I would have tried to think of another way.  After all, once they covered them in frosting, I doubt anyone would notice a hole or two.  What a waste.  It was a bigger waste when you think about the earring not even being in any of them.  I guess it was just a way to add more drama and get that Andy issue out in the open.

I'll have to side with Caroline about it being a little weird that Max continued to be friends with Andy after the breakup.  They do have a good friendship and all, but there's no way for it not to be weird when Caroline and Andy still have some feelings for each other.  It would always be awkward and they wouldn't be able to keep Caroline completely out of it.  To my dismay, Andy did the right thing and broke up with Max too.  Aww.  They make such good besties.  Plus, Max loved all that free candy he could give her.  But she'd soon be looking like the worst friend ever to Caroline if she kept texting and talking to Andy as if nothing had happened.  Now I really wish Andy and Caroline would get back together some day.  Love the exchanges between Andy and Max that we'll not get to enjoy anymore.  Boo.

The funniest thing I found in this story was when Caroline was doing her guy voice terribly and she asked Max to let her hear hers.  Max responding that she's doing her guy voice right now was cute.  I liked it even better when Caroline and Max laughed at it together like they were going insane from lack of sleep.

Something that also caught my attention was when Max noted Andy's "Bradley Cooper tone."  He actually sort of looks like that actor--I wouldn't have noticed that before.  No wonder I think Andy is pretty good looking.  Which once again makes me sad if he's not going to make an appearance every now and then.

I liked this episode.  I don't know why, but it was sort of exciting to see hundreds of cupcakes being made.  It was incredible that they got it done in the state they were in and were able to collect $4,000 for it--damn.  If the girls keep this up, they may be in pretty good shape.  Just wish that Caroline and Andy's reunion was in good shape.  Unfortunately, it looks like the two have agreed to close the chapter on that book.  It doesn't stop me for wishing for their reconciliation, though!

Jess And Nick Are Morons, But They Belong Together

New Girl, S01E23

Jess tried to get over her breakup with Russell.  She seemed to be on the path to recovery until Nick made her think that under different circumstances, dating a lover from the past could be promising.  She ended up sleeping with Paul, which eventually led her to helping him propose to his girlfriend Jen.  Nick decided to move in with Caroline, even though he warned himself not to go down that path with her again in a DVD.  Winston got an earring after a wild night with his boss and refused to admit that it looked ridiculous.  Schmidt and Cece tried to find a way to interact with each other without turning Schmidt on since his penis was still broken.

I didn't have much time to feel bad about Jess moping about Russel because her friends' reaction to her listening to a record of "River" over and over were really funny.  The champion of complaints about her music polluting the apartment was Winston by far:

I liked it when you played it for the first time at 10 o'clock last night. I liked it a little bit less at 2 a.m., and now I'm kind of hoping that the sun comes up, thaws that river, and that woman drowns.

Sometimes Winston is the only one who knows just what to say (even though that didn't get her to stop the record).

When Jess was making a booty call after Schmidt got too distracted by Cece to make sure Jess didn't backslide, I had a feeling it wouldn't be Russell.  I was a little happy to see Paul show up again, as he is the boy version of Jess, but greatly disappointed to find out that he was in already in a happy relationship.  I thought it would be impossible for Jess to get out of that situation without looking like a huge whore or destroying what Jen and Paul had, but she managed to help him propose.  Wow.  That's amazing.  I mean, she even said the actual propose words for him and pushed him down to one knee.  I guess she really is the female version of Paul because Jess basically proposed to Jen herself.  That has to be love when you can have the girl your man cheated with propose to you and you agree with little hesitation.

What isn't love is whatever Caroline and Nick are doing.  I was really counting on Past Nick to knock some sense into him, but all it did was make him convinced that moving in with Caroline would be a better decision than the lack of progress he's made by being apart from her.  Damnit, Nick.  Caroline is probably part of the reason you can't move on because you haven't burned her from your life yet.  He's such a moron!  Jess had this pretty sweet speech to him about not settling and how she would handle the voice in his head that discourages him, and he basically barfed in her face with the news he was moving in with Caroline.  I wanted to jump through the TV and choke him!  He ruined the moment!  This could have been their turning point that let Nick see that Jess is the girl for him.

Jess and Nick being morons was my main focus in this episode.  The only good thing about Cece and Schmidt's story is that Schmidt's penis is still out of service, so we don't have to hear his disgusting stories about how he has screwed Cece.  Cece's grandmother was a cute little lady, though.  Besides that, I didn't care what they were doing.  As far as Winston was concerned, he was the only good side dish to Jess and Nick dancing off to "Bad Decision Land."  My favorite joke at the expense of Winston's increasingly bad earring (it started off as a stud and ended with a flamboyant feather type) was one of Nick's:

Oh, and Mr. T called. He wants to punch you because that earring looks stupid.

For being the voice of reason most of the time, it's incredible that he couldn't see how gaudy his piercing looked.

This was kind of an exciting episode to see how the stupid actions of Nick and Jess would pan out.  It's unfortunate that Jess' revelation of moving forward was too late to influence Nick's decision to move out.  I'm unhappy that he couldn't listen to reason, but I know that somehow Jess and/or the others will find a way to help Nick before he reverts back to the sad sack we had to see in the DVD.  As long as something goes horribly wrong (as it often does) for Nick while he's living under one roof with Caroline, there's still hope that he will come to his senses and start seeing Jess as his destined match.  If Nick ends up happy shacking up with Caroline in the next episode, however, someone needs to shoot him.