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Say what you will about CBS’s sitcom 2 Broke Girls, a lot of people out there love and adore the thing. It just won the People’s Choice Award for Best New TV Comedy, which, say what you will about that too, is better than getting cancelled mid-season.

I admit that after watching the pilot I convinced myself this was yet another out of touch TV-land version of what real life as a struggling waitress is like, but I still set a series recording and have watched every episode since. The ADD-era laugh track had my thumb hovering over the delete key more than a few times, and the fact that they’re so “poor” but living in Williamsburg — the Riviera of Brooklyn — was a little tough to swallow. Sure they’re “squatting” in the apartment but what does that even mean these days? Usually people squat in run-down, rat infested warehouses right, not super nice Williamsburg apartments with little backyards? Characters in The Wire might squat, not these chicks. Anyhow, what started off as a kind of skeptical, anthropological curiosity from afar has somehow, somewhere along the way, turned into something more. Which got me wondering… why? Where did they go right? READ MORE