The series was produced for Warner Bros. The series has received a polarized response from critics and audiences alike. The on-screen chemistry between the show's six leads, especially that of Behrs and Dennings, has been praised, while others have criticized the show's reliance on sexualized, drug-related, and racial humor.
The series ran on CBS for six seasons and episodes. The series chronicles the lives of two waitresses in their mids at the start of the series : Max Black Kat Dennings , the daughter of a poor underclass mother and an unknown father, and Caroline Channing Beth Behrs , who was born rich but is now disgraced and penniless because her father, Martin Channing, got caught operating a Bernie Madoff -esque Ponzi scheme. The two work together at a Brooklyn diner , soon becoming roommates and best friends while building toward their aim of opening a cupcake shop.
Also featured starting late in the first season is their neighbor and part-time boss Sophie Jennifer Coolidge , a Polish immigrant who runs the house-cleaning company Sophie's Choice. During most of the first season, Max is also a part-time nanny for the twin babies of Peach Landis Brooke Lyons , who during the season adopts Caroline's horse Chestnut.
The shop opposite to theirs belongs to Andrew Ryan Hansen who had his own candy shop called Candy Andy. He and Caroline become romantically involved, but they eventually break up because her focus is on her cupcake business. During the third season, Caroline and Max reopen the business in the back room of the diner where they work, using a window as a walk-up window for sales. Max also enrolls in, and Caroline goes to work for, a pastry school called the Manhattan School of Pastry, where Max finds a friend, and later love interest, named Deke.
This is Max's first relationship since the second episode when she broke up with her cheating boyfriend, Robbie. Caroline unknowingly has an affair with the married French instructor named Nicholas, who works at the pastry school. This eventually leads to Nicholas closing down the school and moving back to France with his wife. Max, Caroline, and Deke also attempt to get Deke's parents to invest in the school, planning to run it themselves, but they do not succeed. During season four, the women finally start their cupcake business, which succeeds briefly before going into the red.
