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[[File:2_broke_girls_5842.jpg|frame|Max and Caroline [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|are about to serve you lunch]], and snarky comments.]]

 

 

 

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Oleg the fry cook to Sophie.

* [[Aborted Arc]]: Max doesn't know how to bake cupcakes from scratch, and she and Caroline move on with the cupcake business without ever addressing whether she's actually learned.

* [[Artistic License Religion]]:

** "And the Kosher Cupcakes" perpetuates the misconceptions that a Jewish boy "becomes a man" by having his bar mitzvah.

* [[Asian Gal with White Guy]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] when Han hooks up with the hipster girl, who's white. An Asian male web designer is also Caroline's love interest for an episode.

* [[Asian Speekee Engrish]]: Han's character runs on this.

** She also says in "And Martha Stewart Have A Ball" that she got her small jeweled purse, the one they kept the cupcake in, during the same raid.

* [[Camp Gay]]: The couple whose apartment they dog-sit in "And the Spring Break". Deconstructed throughout the episode when Caroline repeatedly tells Max not to view them through a stereotype, only to find out something new and stereotypical about them.

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Caroline in the pilot, about Max's boyfriend cheating on Max.

* [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]]: The way the episode titles are supposed to read (i.e. 2 Broke Girls <<insert episode name here>>).

* [[Costume Test Montage]]: Sophie gets the girls ball gowns to Nicki Minaj's "Starships" in "And Martha Stewart Have a Ball", the first season's two-part finale.

* [[Could Say It, But...]]: This line from "And the Pretty Problem":

* [[Crappy Holidays]]:

** Two for the price of one episode: "And the Very [[Christmas Episode|Christmas]] [[Thanksgiving Episode|Thanksgiving]]"

** No one does Sophie better than Sophie.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Max. She even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it in the second episode:

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Max, who doesn't even know his name.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The whole And the Pop Up Sale episode.

* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Caroline surprisingly averts this trope; while she's definitely naive, she's far from stupid and can hold her own in a lot of areas.

* [[Erotic Eating]]: Causes awkwardness for Max in "And The Disappearing Bed."

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: Each episode's end displays how much money the girls have earned towards their cupcake business.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Han, Oleg, and Sophie. The show has gotten some bad press for relying on this trope a lot.

* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Sophie. Caroline said it best when she and Max were apologizing for being [[Horrible Judge of Character|horrible, horrible judges of character]].

* [[Groin Attack]]: Sophie delivers a shot to Oleg's nuts after one too many crude come-ons in "And the Blind Spot".

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Caroline.

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Caroline's father, Martin. In "And the One-Night Stands", Caroline goes to see him in prison. A riot breaks out right before he comes into the visiting room. She says later she saw him for a second, although he didn't seem visible onscreen.

** However, in the first-season finale, "And Martha Stewart Have A Ball", his face was clearly shown on the computer while he was talked about due to a prison transfer and looked to be portrayed by [[Wings (TV series)|Steven Webber]].

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Max and Caroline have rapidly developed this vibe. The trope is played with a few times when Max makes teasing lesbian innuendo towards Caroline.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The end of "And the 90's Horse Party" reveals that Max went to college to study art in the hopes of illustrating children's books.

* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: How Max discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her in the pilot.

** Oleg and Sophie in "And the Big Buttercream Breakthrough". Played with by having Han Li be trapped in the closet with them.

* [[In the Blood]]: Caroline seems to have inherited her father's business sense as well as his lax approach to business ethics. This trait is somewhat selective, as sometimes (for example, the incident with the kosher cupcakes) she is more ethical than Max.

* [[Ironic Echo]]:

** Peach was on the verge of this when her friend Constance threated not to invite her to any parties unless she fired Max in "... And The Buttercream Breakthrough". But it tuns out Peach was faking it and offers Max's job back.

* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Oleg actually seems to have feelings for Sophie beyond the physical.

* [[Light Feminine and Dark Feminine]]: Max is Dark, Caroline is Light. Lampshaded by Sophie, the title character in "And the Upstairs Neighbor", who likens the duo to a chocolate and vanilla cupcake respectively.

* [[Like Father, Like Son|Like Father, Like Daughter]]: Caroline fears that this is the case in "And The Secret Ingredient".

* [[The Mafiya]]: Were the former owners of/customer base of the diner.

* [[Meaningful Echo]]: In the Pilot:

'''Max:''' Everyone needs help sometimes. }}

** In "And the Big Buttercream Breakthrough":

'''Caroline:''' And you can't spell it without "F U", either. }}

* [[Missing Mom]]: Caroline. Her mother cheated on her father and was gotten rid of... in a society way, much worse than in the Mob way.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Han's mother.

* [[My Eyes Are Up Here]]: Opening scene of the pilot.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: It's pretty clear that Caroline's father is supposed to be a Bernie Madoff expy.

* [[No Periods, Period]]:

** Averted in "And The Secret Ingredient". A two-act subplot was devoted to Han's attempt to squeeze out a little extra profit by tripling the price of tampons in the restroom tampon machine, which Max successfully protests by replacing the straws in the dispensers with tampons and giving them out for free with every check.

** Other episodes avert this as well. " In "[[Christmas Episode|And the Very Christmas]] [[Thanksgiving Episode|Thanksgiving]]", Caroline complains that the tights in her elf costume have a previous wearer's menstrual stains in the crotch. In another:

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: When Max actually compliments Caroline with no trace of sarcasm and mockery, Caroline thinks that Max must be seriously depressed.

* [[Odd Couple]]: Max: Cynical, jaded, and dead inside. Caroline: Optimistic, naive, and ever-hopeful. Note that ''both'' girls are portrayed as smart, just in different ways.

* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]: Shmulie and David in "And the Kosher Cupcakes" when their mother's not around.

* [[Profiling]]: In the second episode, Caroline finds a baker with an African name whom she intends to be their first business contact. Max jokes about not wanting anything to do with it due to her name.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Johnny, for most of the first season.

* [[Reality Ensues]]:

** At the end of 1x03, "And Strokes of Goodwill", the Puerto Rican woman who stole Max's The Strokes tee while she was briefly distracted. Both Max and Caroline insult her and her "closeted boyfriend" in the space of a few seconds, Caroline even spilling soup on the shirt. While they're metaphorically high-fiving at the counter, and talking about [[An Aesop|what they just learned]], Max notes the woman coming toward them with murder in her eyes.

** The money in the cupcake fund, as given at the end of each episode, doesn't always increase. In some episodes it goes down or remains flat, and is always in accord with an amount given during the episode. Doesn't always make sense, though, as it doesn't account for income they should've had.

** At the end of "And the Broken Hearts", when Max pleads with the doctor, a former friend of Caroline's who has gotten her upset by rebuffing her romantically, to reconsider, he says nice things about her but stands firm because there is still too much social opprobrium attached to the Channing family name because of her father's crimes.

* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: The gap in the subway tunnel walkway both Caroline and Max have to jump (with the former refusing to take off her heels) in "And the Big Buttercream Breakthrough." A real New York City subway tunnel would not have one, but it clearly symbolizes both the risk Caroline took starting her life over at the diner and the risk Max takes later in the episode by {{spoiler|giving up her babysitting job for the business}}.

* [[Sensual Slavs]]: Sophie.

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: In "And The Rich People Problems", Max calls karaoke "one of the worst things in history", but in "And The Pop-Up Sale" she mentions that she sometimes sings karaoke.

* [[Serious Business]]: ''Tipping''.

* [[Skirts and Ladders]]: Han accidentally looks up Caroline's skirt while she is standing on a ladder writing on the blackboard. He rushes off in embarrassment but not before thanking her.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Max and Caroline are the living embodiment of this trope, with Caroline representing the side of idealism and Max heavily on the cynicism side of the scale. That said, both have been known to cross to the other side on occasion (such as when things start to look hopeless even for Caroline or when Max has a good reason to go along with Caroline's optimism.

* [[Take That]]:

** Max's response to Caroline asking if she has no shame:

** This line from "And the Messy Purse Smackdown":

** Max to Caroline in "And the Big Buttercream Breakthrough" when she tries to force their business cards on people at the crafts fair:

** Max to a customer in a 19th-century outfit writing on a typewriter in the [[Cold Open]] for the first-season finale, "And Martha Stewart Have A Ball"

* [[Take This Job and Shove It]]: Max refuses to take her babysitting job back, even when Peach actually comes to the diner and begs her to, at the end of "And the Big Buttercream Breakthrough", in order to concentrate more effort on the cupcake business. She tells Caroline it's the first time she ever quit a job without another one to take its place.

** However, in the next episode, "And Martha Stewart Have A Ball (Part 1)", the [[Reset Button]] is partially applied when, in order to get Chestnut out of the stable and cheer Caroline up, Max agrees to babysit for her at least once a week "for the rest of my life".

* [[Terrified of Germs]]: Caroline becomes a germophobe from time to time, like when she went to a dentist office in the subway and during flu season.

* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: More than once.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Max and Caroline respectively, though Max can still be feminine.

* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: Max appears to be able to mouth off to any customer she wants without losing her job or otherwise suffering consequences. But Caroline is an even better example than that: We never really see her doing any work ([[Lampshaded]], of course, by Max) and in episode three she even {{spoiler|''deliberately dumps borscht on a customer''. The episode ends immediately after, and Caroline pretended it was an accident, but given the Wretched Hive the entire neighborhood is portrayed as, and his level of incompetence, Han might simply not care.}}

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Max has this with Johnny, the bartender, and it gets a lot of lampshading.

** Averted with Caroline. While we might expect her to be an Airhead Heiress she seems to have a fair bit of common sense and adjusts to her new situation quickly. She is not a bad waitress, considering her lack of experience, and has no problems washing her uniform in a sink. Also, she is an excellent saleswoman. She does display some elements of this though, like being unfamiliar with how a grocery store works or the finer points of using coupons.

** This is played straight with Peaches, the woman Max works for as a nanny. While seemingly sweet, she is spoiled and a [[The Ditz|ditz]].

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