2 Broke Girls, And the Partnership Hits the Fan

Season 5 begins with Max and Caroline teaming up with the diner staff in a frantic attempt to keep their businesses open when the city targets Han's diner and their cupcake window for destruction.

The shower at Max and Caroline's apartment breaks, so they get part-time jobs at a fancy gym's juice bar and enjoy free use of the locker room.

The girls run into Caroline's newly engaged ex, Candy Andy, and Caroline offers to make his wedding cake. Later, when she sees Andy's seemingly perfect relationship, she wonders if she should have stayed with him.

Max and Caroline's cupcake shop is boycotted after they refuse to sell cupcakes to an artist who wants to put cocktail weenies in them.

Han believes his diner employees are not working together as a team, so he insists they all attend a mandatory night out at the Escape Room club.

Max is puzzled and curious when her new beau expresses hesitations about intimacy because he is 'not regular down there'. Meanwhile, Sophie and Oleg struggle to get pregnant.

Caroline's grandmother Astrid awakens from a coma with no knowledge of her family's massive money scandal, so Caroline tries to keep the truth from her a bit longer by giving Astrid one last fancy luncheon.

Max and Caroline interfere with a basketball game in an attempt to promote their cupcakes, but the chaos that ensues threatens to ruin their business' reputation.

Earl is crushed when he is not invited to play with his old jazz band at their reunion show, so the diner gang join forces to help get Earl back performing on stage.

Caroline falls in with the wrong crowd when she tries to make new friends after Max reconnects with an old friend.

Max and Caroline sign up for Booth Babes in order to get into a large gaming convention for free. Once inside, they discover Han's friend created video game characters based on them so they demand compensation.

Caroline shares her riches-to-rags life story on stage at a storytelling night and captures the attention of a Hollywood studio executive. Meanwhile, Sophie and Oleg search for a surrogate.

Max tags along with Caroline as she travels to Los Angeles on a film studio's dime to discuss the idea of making her riches-to-rags life story into a movie. While there, Max loses her luggage but finds a new crush.

Caroline meets with studio writers in an effort to make her life story into a movie but she is torn when they reveal they would not portray Max in the project. Meanwhile, Max is spoiled by her new Hollywood beau.

Max and Caroline lose Randy's dog while pet-sitting and risk their lives to find him, while a cannibalistic serial killer is loose in their neighborhood.

Caroline signs away the rights to her life story so it can be turned into a movie. Meanwhile, Max is heartbroken when Randy breaks up with her via his therapist, so Caroline rents a party bus in an attempt to cheer her up.

The girls go to see Martin perform in a prison musical, where they tell him they plan to open a dessert bar with Caroline's money.

The girls look for a bigger space for their dessert bar, so Han refers them to a realtor who has a crush on him. Max is surprised when Randy wants to mend their relationship.

Max's boyfriend, Randy, asks to spend the night at her place so he can become more acquainted with her world. Caroline tries to get a liquor license for their Dessert Bar.

A law firm that's courting Randy for a job invites him and Max to dinner at a hip new restaurant with eclectic cuisine, but the evening veers off course when things don't sit well with Max.

Max and Caroline approach the owner of a pizza place next door about renting space to expand their renovated dessert bar.

In the Season 5 finale, Max and Caroline learn Han is in trouble with a gang when he can't pay a substantial debt he amassed from gambling on women's tennis.