🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:07:46 +0000 (UTC), Bruce Esquibel wrote:

> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm afraid if I set up the TV I'll be like an ex-smoker taking a couple 
>> of puffs for old time sake.  Next thing you know I'll be transfixed on 
>> the lives of those Two Broke Girls.
> 
> I dunno about being transfixed with that show, but it is oddly a guilty
> pleasure around here.
> 
> Seems like a bit over the line being a broadcast network show with some of
> the jokes they fire off, but both me and melissa think it's pretty funny.
> 
> I think though it might of "jumped the shark" recently, the point of the
> show, more or less, was them saving their tip money to some day open up a
> cupcake store. That sort of was dropped in their lap with the neighbor
> upstairs giving them $20K to do it.
> 
> I mean it won't take much to come up with something else, just seemed like a
> rush to derail that plot line which the show seemed to focus on since it
> started.

Maybe they wised up and realized that jokes about very attractive women
struggling to be a sanitized, prettified version of "broke" on TV ain't all
that fuckin' funny given reality these days, so they're mitigating that
aspect?

Then again, having someone show up and basically fund their dream outta
nowhere doesn't sound like the sort of thing a real-world unemployed
struggling brokedick would find amusing, either, so what do I know.

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smr