In tonight’s episode of 2 Broke Girls, “And the Inside Outside Situation,” their take on a gay bakery boycott has an Obama swipe, a "gender fluid" customer, a Trump hair joke, and, to end it all, the bashing of a family values organization. A little something for everyone!
The show started off with a quick smack to President Obama, but the show goes severely downhill from there. Caroline (Beth Behrs) is surprised that her tips are increasing and Max (Kat Dennings) credits it to Caroline finally getting the hang of her job. I know, that was a surprising move, right? She asks Caroline, “Is your last name Obama?”
Max: You're finally getting the hang of a job you've had for years. Is your last name Obama?
Then a “gender fluid” customer named “I” (Michael Cyril Creighton) stops by the walk-up window of the bakery to pick up his/her order. When he/she says the baked goods will become performance art –wait for it - pink cupcakes with cocktail wienies in the middle of them to “challenge how we instinctively label one another,” Caroline decides that she’s not going to let that happen.
While Max insists money is money, Caroline doesn’t want her cupcakes “defaced.” She tells “I” that she’s not comfortable selling them to him. As Max tells her to just bag the cupcakes (“Bag it!”) “I” thinks he hears something else. As is only too predictable, “I” accuses the girls of running a homophobic bakery. He says it as though there are such businesses all over the country denying service to people like him.
Caroline: Sorry, but we're just not comfortable selling you our cupcakes.
Max: He is right here. Bag it!
I: What did you just call me?
Caroline: Oh, no. - Oh, no.Max: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I did not say the thing you thought I said. I didn't even think it. In fact, I wasn't listening to half that crap you said.
Caroline: She said, "Bag it," with a B, as in boy-- or not a boy.
I: Oh, I see what this is. This is just another homophobic bakery trying to deny service to people like me. Well, I don't have to stand here to tell you how upset I am. That's what Yelp is for.
Much like the news-making story in Indiana, the predictable boycott begins in front of the bakery window. This time protestors are chanting, "No cake equals hate!"
Sophie (Jennifer Collidge) even heard about it at the hair salon – news travels fast among the gay community. She claims her hair stylist ruined her hair so she left before it was done. This is where a Donald Trump hair joke comes in.
Sophie: You know, if I were you girls, I would stay away from the Village, the East River, the Hudson River, Melissa Rivers, Pinkberry, Broadway. Yeah, and good luck shopping for dog clothes.
Max: Come on, Sophie. It's not that bad.
Sophie: Not that bad? If it wasn't that bad, would I have left the salon looking like this? [Gasps]
Caroline: Oh, my God. They sent you out like that? They do hate us!
Sophie: I know. Tell me about it. I look like Donald Trump before they velcroed that dead cat to his head.
A good Samaritan arrives in a friendly looking guy who offers a big order for cupcakes for a convention in town, as compensation for the business lost due to the boycott. He says however people run their business should be their own business. Yea for free enterprise! The organization? Family Foremost Foundation (FFF). Yeah, you know where this is going.
Brother Dan, the head of this fictional family values organization, begins to speak and the girls are shocked. The liberal Hollywood writers do just what you think they would do – the dialogue is written to make Brother Dan look like a homophobic, science denying, narc. He praises the girls for standing up to the “politically correct mafia” and showing what morals look like – not going along with “deviants, scientists and pot smokers.” Yeah, that’s what social conservatives sound like, right?
The girls decide that no money is worth all this and get up to leave. Then Brother Dan announces he has a check for them as a show of gratitude. A $10,000.00 check. Caroline then tells Max it is ok to take it if “no one” sees it. “No one” means the cool kids, because the room is full of FFF members. Alas, the event is being live-streamed around the world. Irony much? A worldwide audience doesn’t seem so out of the mainstream to me.
Brother Dan: Right now, all around the world, people are seeing what morals look like. These are the girls who are standing up against the deviants, the divorces, the scientists, the hop-hop lovers, and...the doobie smokers.
Max: Whoa. I don't like people or science, either, but ain't nothing wrong with a righteous doob.
Brother Dan: We need to show the world that we will not tolerate these deviants and these degenerates any longer!
As the girls go up on stage to accept the donation, instead of being grateful for support, they have to go for the shock value of a girl on girl kiss.
This is what Hollywood thinks of socially conservative Americans. They are to be mocked and shown as some kind of Neanderthals.
In real life, bakeries that refuse to make cakes for gay weddings get sentenced to sensitivity training or ordered to pay $135,000 for emotional damages. No happy, Hollywood endings here.
