Trivia / 2 Broke Girls

• Actor-Inspired Element: Kat Dennings flat-out told the producers she would only do the show if Beth Behrs was cast as Caroline, since the two hit it off so well during auditions.
• Actor-Shared Background: Beth Behrs worked as a waitress before getting her big break.
• Career Resurrection: Garrett Morris had struggled to recreate the same success he had enjoyed as part of the original cast of Saturday Night Live after leaving that show. 2BG put him back on primetime television for 6 years and went a significant way in restoring his fortunes.
• Dueling Shows: Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 had a very similar premise. Its pilot also had a plot thread where one of the roommates discovered the other one's boyfriend was cheating and told the new roommate, who didn't believe her until she caught the boyfriend in the act.
  • 2BG won the duel as its rival was Screwed by the Network and canceled midway through its second season.
  • And then 2BG even picked up one of that show's supporting players.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Max, who has a pronounced fondness for booze and weed, is played by Kat Dennings, who shuns drugs and alcohol in Real Life.
• Money, Dear Boy: Jennifer Coolidge has admitted that she took the role of Sophie mainly because she'd hit a dry spell in her career and it was the only place that offered her a job. She's also admitted that she didn't really care for the show at first, but she credits Garrett Morris and his positive attitude for making her more appreciative and grateful for the opportunity to have a steady job on a fairly popular series.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Creator Whitney Cummings decided to watch the Angela White VR parody (who was naturally standing in for Kat Dennings) when she was on the Barstool Sports podcast and later interviewed White on her own show. Cummings jokingly threatened to file a copyright suit, but was actually a really good sport about it. She's interviewed quite a few pornstars and expressed support for their work.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: In season 6, Nora Dunn and Kerri Kenney-Silver play the mother and sister of Caroline's boyfriend Bobby, and they do look like they could be mother and daughter.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Audition footage exists (and has been circulated on YouTube) of one of the actresses who tried out for the role of Max: a pre-Doctor Who Jenna Coleman.
  • Legendary singer Cher was in talks to play Max's mom as a guest star in Season 7 before the show's cancelation.

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