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How Things Got Ugly at a 2 Broke Girls Press Panel

by | January 12th, 2012

So apparently at a recent Television Critics Association panel, critics asked 2 Broke Girls showrunner Michael Patrick King about the show's offensively one-dimensional supporting characters and he – slowly, gradually – flipped the fuck out. Keep in mind, even CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler says this show needs to "dimensionalize" its supporting characters. But it looks like King really didn't want to face that criticism, instead turning defensive.

Things took a particularly uncomfortable turn when the reporter who had initially asked about Tassler's comments again tried to get King to clarify his remarks, reading the exact quote from the transcript of Tassler's executive session.

King asked the reporter for his name. The reporter gave it.

"So you're Irish?" King asked.

"Yes," the reporter replied.

"So we've identified your sexual problem," King said.

The cast members also joined King in straight-up denying the show's raunchy double entendres (please, like their use of "facial" actually referred to the spa treatment). It's tough to take criticism, but come on, guys. It's the only way to take what's good about the show and make it better.

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2 broke girls, cbs, michael patrick king, racism, television critics association, tv

  • Jason Nelms@twitter

    Sometimes you want one dimensional characters. Look, I love Modern Family and all of the intricate personality traits of the characters but sometimes, I just want something flat that makes me laugh without me having to become intimate with the character. It is like when you go to a restaurant once and the waiter is over the top and you never see him again. In your mind, that strange character is who he is. You don't want to get to know him. Getting to know people is work. It is the difference between and easy drinker beer and a beer with a complex flavor profile. They both have their place.

  • cooldude69

    I think the issue is not exactly that the characters are one-dimensional, it's more that they are ehh, how you say… borderline-offensive stereotypes. Some may argue that they are not even borderline, they are over the border, into the nation of Offensive. I'm thinking specifically about the Asian boss character who seems to have been directed to do an impression of Mickey Rooney in "Breakfast at Tiffanys."

  • Emerson Dameron@twitter

    Screw you! You're too sensitive.