2 Broke Girls S04E15 Recap: And The Fat Cat

The girls get catty when their pet Nancy goes missing but finds them a potential business lead.

Story by @ErikaAshley

This week we find the Caroline at the diner covering for Max, whom shows up late to work when she tries to locate their missing cat, Nancy. Max is upset that Nancy has been missing for several days and fears this might just be the time she never makes it back to their dingy little apartment. Caroline reassures her that Nancy will be home in no time or that someone will call the number on her collar to report her found. Shortly after arriving back at the dinner Max gets a call on her cell from an anonymous caller. Alas Nancy has been found!

The girls make it back to their place to meet the hero that located Max’s precious kitty. Caroline gives Max flack about being so worried about the missing cat but hardly flinching at their $10k loan debt and over 1,000 cupcake shirts that they can’t unload. Max assures her that she wakes up at night screaming because of their situation. A knock at the door brings a handsome rich businessman with an equally expensive cat carrier. Max struggles to open the bag while Caroline tries to stay relevant with her old money talk and falls all over herself flirting with the handsome hero, Owen. He mentions that Nancy has been visiting his cat Dickens regularly and he was happy to help bring her back home. They finally break Nancy free from her fancy cat carrier and Max snuggles her and Caroline gets Owen’s business card when he tells her he’s a Venture Capitalist. This information perks Caroline’s interest and she promises to return the cat carrier as soon as possible. When Owen leaves Sophie pops into The Girl’s apartment and notices that Nancy is back and pregnant.

The Girls and Sophie then deliver an adorable litter of kittens which must be Dicken’s and Max demands that Owen help pay for the new little bundles of joy. Caroline suggests they just leave the matter alone and find new homes for the kittens, instead she wants to reach out to Owen to pick his brain for business tips and to hopefully get their cupcake business back on track. Max gets angry and tries to pull his card from Caroline’s apron and Caroline promises she’ll handle the situation. Once Caroline calls Owen they setup a time for him to come pick up the cat carrier and The Girls wait on their apartment stoop for Owen to arrive. In the meantime a shooting takes place and their neighbor Rico flees from the scene, The Girls joke about their neighborhood and a Max returns inside to watch the kittens but demands that Caroline bring up the money for the kittens to Owen. When he finally shows up nearly scared to death Caroline continues to flirt with him and requests a time to get together again and go over business tips he agrees only so he doesn’t have to stay another moment in their neighborhood.

The next day Caroline goes to Owen’s office and conducts a rather unprofessional meeting as she accidently spills coffee on his brand new suede loafers. She promises to clean up her mess and excuses herself to the lobby and asks his assistant for water to clean the loafers. The assistant is too busy freaking out about to un-send an email where she calls Owen a “self-absorbed ridiculous pig,” and Max bursts in demanding to see Owen while holding a basket full of kittens. Caroline swore she avoided Max by lying about where she was going and Max admitted to following her. She wants Owen to pay up and not be a deadbeat dad, like her own non-existent father. Caroline begs Max to leave and to her handle the situation but Max breaks into Owen’s office spilling the kittens onto the floor. Owen is taken aback by the abrupt entrance but then overjoyed by the adorableness in the overturned basket. Max demands again that he pay up for his cat’s wrong-doings and Owen contests that Nancy is pretty easy going into almost every window on the block. But, he is so taken by the cute kitties he agrees to take them all.

Instead of leaving it at that he asks Caroline when they are finally going to hookup because her little meeting is the weirdest fore-play ever. Caroline takes offense and insists her flirting was only business and Owen responds by telling her straight up that there would be no chance of him investing his company’s large fortune on their desperate cupcake business. Both girls take offense, gather the kittens and leave, but not before the tell Owen they agree with his assistant about his self-absorbed, ridiculous, and piggish characteristics. They return to the diner with the bundle of kittens and Han agrees to give them out at his apartment complex filled with animal loving lesbians and reassures them the kittens will have great homes with loving new caretakers. The Girls agree that they don’t need Owen’s help and they’ll get their business back on track with their own efforts but first they need to fix Nancy since Max received a text informing her that someone just found Nancy 69-ing with another cat.

Closing credits show The Girls' bank account last week at $1,475.00 took another large dip to $975.00

As much as I adore the show this week’s episode was a far fetch attempt at trying to make it the season finale by filling the last few episodes with random filler. The cupcake business is dwindling I'd like to see them make another effort at bringing it back to life. Instead they have been floating around the issue and making The Girls focus on off topic minor problems. This week was fairly disappointing but with the season finale coming soon enough hopefully the story will get back on track.