By Matt Ern, Columnist
2 Broke Girls- “And The Disappearing Bed”
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2 Broke Girls is the most consistently disappointing and blatantly unfunny new show this season. There are about a million things wrong with this show and I don’t think I can fit them all into the few hundred words I get to write each week. But here goes.
First things first: the plot is almost non-existent. This week’s episode did have a plot, but I’ve seen episodes that can really best be described as a series of unrelated events strung together randomly while Kat Dennings makes pithy one-liners.
While we’re on the subject of one-liners, I think that’s the only form of joke the writers have ever heard of before. Most of the dialogue is either a set up for a one-liner, or is one. It would be one thing if they were at least funny but most are double entendres a 12 year old boy would come up with. Kat Dennings laughs after many of her own jokes, but my issue isn’t that she’s breaking. My issue is that she would actually think any of the lines she’s been fed are funny.
“And The Disappearing Bed” also contains a really bizarre date rape joke that comes out of nowhere and falls kind of flat. Date rape is obviously a sensitive issue and if you’re going to joke about it you should try and do it in a creative way that hasn’t been done before, or at the very least make it funny. Certainly don’t make the joke at the expense of a victim. This joke comes up completely inorganically; it’s just forced in there because the writes felt like making a joke about rape.
“Somebody date raped me and I didn’t think I’d live through it but I did and now I’m stronger. And still