2 Broke Girls, And the Hoarder Culture

Waitress Max Black meets her co-worker, former rich-girl Caroline Channing and puts her skills to the test at a re-emerging Brooklyn diner. Despite her initial distaste for Caroline, Max softens and the two team up for a business venture.

Caroline thinks she's doing Max a favour but she is really stealing Max's thunder when she takes it upon herself to facilitate Max's breakup with Robbie.

Max introduces Caroline to the art of thrift store shopping, which takes a dangerous turn when a battle erupts over a T-shirt.

Max gets a taste of Caroline's posh life when they break into her former townhouse to retrieve her night guard.

Caroline and Max throw a '90s-themed party at the diner to attract rich hipsters and raise money for their cupcake business. Caroline is horrified when her rich ex-boyfriend, William, comes into the diner.

Caroline tries to build herself a Murphy bed, the kind which folds into the wall, in Max's apartment. Meanwhile, the chemistry between Max and Johnny heats up.

Caroline drags Max to a cake-decorating class to increase their skill level and learn how to make more attractive cupcakes for their business.

Caroline and Max walk into a hoarding nightmare and end up waist-deep in clutter when they take a job cleaning an apartment to make extra money. Plus, Max discovers Johnny has been keeping a secret from her.

Johnny's girlfriend, Cashandra has a devious plan in mind when she hires Max and Caroline to bake cupcakes for an art show featuring his work.

It's Caroline's first broke holiday season and, to earn extra money, she and Max apply to work as elves at a department store's Santaland.

Max and Caroline try to find Chestnut a job so the horse will have lodging and shelter for the winter. Meanwhile, Peach, the mother of the twins Max babysits, auditions for television reality show Real Housewives of TriBeCa.

When Max's stove breaks, Caroline tries to return some expensive rings to Barney's department store, but discovers her surname is no longer an asset at the store where she used to get special treatment.

In the midst of her new obsession with couponing, Caroline discovers the secret ingredient to Max's cupcakes.

Max and Caroline are suspicious of the new upstairs neighbor, Sophie, who moves in after the old tenant dies.

Max and Caroline must prove their cleaning skills to upstairs neighbour Sophie in order to be hired as maids for her cleaning business.

It's Valentine's Day and Max shows her softer side when Earl has a heart attack and ends up in the hospital after seeing Sophie all dressed up. Meanwhile, Caroline attempts to rekindle an old flame of hers.

Max tries to pass off her cupcakes as kosher when she and Caroline serve them at a boy's Bar Mitzvah.

Max joins Caroline on a trip to visit her father in prison.

Max and Caroline take a vacation from their lives when they are asked to dog-sit at a couple's posh apartment.

In an effort to raise money to help Caroline's father, Max convinces Caroline to partake in a clinical drug trial.

Caroline promises Earl that she will drop his tax return in the mail but when she learns that Max has never filed her taxes, she gets sidetracked trying to help Max.

Max's babysitting gig with Peach is in peril if the cupcakes she and Caroline deliver to Peach's socialite friend aren't perfect.

Max and Caroline use Caroline's invite to a Manhattan gala as a means to meet Martha Stewart and present their cupcake business.

Max and Caroline use Caroline's invite to a Manhattan gala as a means to meet Martha Stewart and present their cupcake business.