Filthy Jokes on 2 Broke Girls Result in Outraged Viewer Complaints
LatestIt makes sense that a show created by Sex And The City‘s Michael Patrick King and lewd comedian Whitney Cummings would have some raunchy humor. On 2 Broke Girls, sometimes there’s sexual innuendo; most of the time it’s just overtly filthy. (One character asks how far you can go on a first date; the other says “anal?”) The complaints — picked up by several sources — are pretty hilarious. According to Adweek, between Sept. 2011 and Dec. 2013, the show earned at least 91 informal complaints to the FCC. A sampling:
It’s 8:30 at night on a Monday and I have to explain to my child what ‘fingering’ is?
Two casual references suggesting anal sex on a first date. Are there no standards anymore on broadcast television?
Forced fellatio and ejaculation on a woman’s breasts are not prime-time material.
From constant comments about sexual positions and ejaculation in every orifice to menstrual cycles in much more vulgar terms…Two Broke Girls is unrelenting… I don’t know when TV censorship died in this country but we need it back.
I am no a prude, but having a male character talking about having finger sex and had sex with a female character is offensive to me at 8:30… It was not even a double entendre – the male character actually said, ‘I had hand sex with her,’ and then seconds later when asked to pinkie swear, another character said, “I don’t know where that pinkie has been” and the first character said, “I just told you.” Meaning that his pinkie was in a woman’s vagina. Are you serious?
You can read more here. But the general consensus? Censoring: Bring it back!
In another episode, Caroline gave Max a bed skirt. Max said: “My bed doesn’t wear skirts! It’s a dude. I know because it pokes me in the back while I sleep.”
The show may be very problematic and only sometimes-funny, but it’s kind of fun to hear women talking so frankly about sex and enjoying being crass. It’s obviously not for children — you’d think after three seasons of sex joke after sex joke, parents would get the hint.