The first season of the American television sitcom 2 Broke Girls premiered on CBS from September 19, 2011, and concluded on May 7, 2012.

Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs portray the two lead characters of the series, Max Black and Caroline Channing.

The main cast is rounded out by actors Garrett Morris, Jonathan Kite, Matthew Moy, and Jennifer Coolidge, who portray Earl, Oleg, Han Lee, and Sophie Kaczynski.

The season featured writing from King, Cummings, David Feeney, Liz Feldman, Sonny Lee, Dave Mallins, Jhoni Marchinko, Molly McAleer, comedian Morgan Murphy, Michelle Nader, and Patrick Walsh.

[5] Directors hired for the season were James Burrows, Scott Ellis, John Fortenberry, Thomas Kail, Julie Anne Robinson (serving as associate director), actor Fred Savage, actress Jean Sagal, and actor Ted Wass.

Cinematography for the series was headed by Chris La Fountaine, with Gary Baum and Joseph W. Calloway directing photography for one episode each.

Actresses Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs were the first to be cast in the series as Max Black, a sarcastic below-the-poverty-line waitress, and Caroline Channing, a former socialite who is bankrupt following her father's arrest for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme.

[8][9] Jonathan Kite, Garrett Morris and Matthew Moy were later cast as Oleg, a foreign hypersexed cook; Earl, a wise but hip elderly cashier; and Han, the Korean proprietor of the diner.

Jennifer Coolidge portrayed Sophie Kaczynski, a Polish cleaning businesswoman who moves into the building where Max and Caroline live, beginning in the episode "And the Upstairs Neighbor".

[5] Brooke Lyons played Peaches Landis, a wealthy clueless mother who hires Max as her babysitter of her twins.

[13] Marsha Thomason appeared in the season as Johnny's British girlfriend and Max's romantic rival Cashandra.

[14] Brian Gross and Greg Worswick appeared in two episodes of the season as a gay couple Steven and Michael.

Hinrichs also praised actresses Dennings and Behrs for their portrayal of Max and Caroline, highlighting the chemistry between them and the characters themselves as the series' "winning formula.

Nussbaum positively concluded, "there's so much potential here it kills me—a deep female friendship, raw humor about class, and a show that puts young women's sexuality dead center, rather than using it as visual spice, as in some cable series about bad-boy antiheroes.

"[25] Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict praised the lead actresses' chemistry but ultimately found it "repetitive, broad, grating and, more often than not, just stupid."

Max, a hardworking waitress, soon finds herself helping out Paulina's replacement Caroline, who until recently was very wealthy, but has been left with nothing after her father was sent to prison.

A struggling street artist, Johnny, catches Max's attention with his similarly sarcastic sense of humor.

When Caroline's effort to sell cupcakes to a trendy new coffee shop in the neighborhood fails after the owner says they are not pretty enough, she persuades Max to take a cupcake-decorating class.

Max and Caroline take a job cleaning a hoarder's apartment for the extra money and find items they can sell.

However, when her hopes of seeing her father are dashed, and Max is unexpectedly promoted to playing Mrs. Claus, their viewpoints change.

Encountering hostility from a clerk who remembers Caroline all too well, the pair decide the best option is a pop-up sale in the women's bathroom.

Max and Caroline are suspicious of the new upstairs neighbor, Sophie (Jennifer Coolidge), who moves in after the previous tenant dies.

Caroline and Max find themselves spending Valentine's Day in the emergency room when Earl has a heart attack, after being overwhelmed by Sophie's beauty.

Max starts a relationship with a bacon baker man and Ashley, Caroline's spring break alter ego, flirts with a beer brewer.

Since he cannot represent her for free, Max convinces Caroline to partake in a clinical drug trial in an effort to raise money for his fee.

Her efforts to help Max organize her finances put the two at odds, and risk of missing the midnight deadline.

A major opportunity for Max and Caroline falls through when her father's move to a new prison brings her story into the news again.

Max's mood is then affected when Johnny, whose art has become more successful, comes into the diner to say goodbye to her as he is moving to Manhattan and getting married.

Final tally for cupcake business venture: $922.00 After Sophie helps them get proper evening clothing, the girls are forced to ride Chestnut to the ball when Oleg's car breaks down.

[78] The DVD boxset and Blu-ray for season one was released by Warner Home Video on September 4, 2012 in the United States.