Two Broke Girls - sitcom

Situation comedies have "tropes".

A trope, for example, is the dumb/innocent/kooky blond. In the Mary Tyler Moore show from years ago, it was Georgia Engels character. In Designing Women, it was Jean Smart's character. In The Golden Girls, it was Betty White's character.

Now we've got

Two Broke Girls.
Set in New York City, the series chronicles the lives of two waitresses in their twenties—Max (Kat Dennings), who comes from a poor working-class family, and Caroline (Beth Behrs), who was born rich but is now down on her luck—working together at a Brooklyn restaurant. The two become fast friends and build their dream of one day opening a cupcake shop (for which they need to raise $250,000), although they can barely afford anything with the pay they receive at work, and must continually find ways to make ends meet. Among those working with them at the restaurant are their boss, Han Lee; Oleg, a cook; and Earl, the cashier.

The rich girl is of course blonde and stupid, the working-class girl is smart and of course a wise-acre.

And what's the upshot of it? Another TV sit-com in which women are portrayed as either waitresses, or moms, or basically - women in dead-end jobs.

Of course women in drama series are cast in "roles of power" - Rizolli and Isles, The Closer, Law and Order SVU - but what TV shows get watched more often, sit coms with horny male adolescents and stupid women, or dramas?

In addition to the sitcoms, of course there are the commercials - and they have their stereotypes as well. In the commercials, the dads are invariably stupid, the moms smart, and the kids of course sarcastic and know-it-all and so much smarter than their parents.