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22 Episodes 2015 - 2016
Season 5 of the sitcom about odd-couple friends Max (Kat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs), who pool their meager earnings as waitresses to start a cupcake shop, begins with the ladies having to fight off the city when it wants to demolish their business to open am I-MAX theater. In other developments, Caroline attracts the attention of a Hollywood studio wanting to make her riches-to-rags story into a film. While Max must deal with heartbreak after her new crush Randy (Ed Quinn) breaks up with her. Together, the partners decide to use the movie money to expand into a dessert bar and find a new location.
Episode 1
Thu, Nov 12, 2015 30 mins
Season 5 begins with Max and Caroline teaming up with the diner staff in a frantic attempt to keep their businesses open when the city targets Han's diner and their cupcake window for destruction. Meanwhile, Sophie and Oleg announce they are trying to have a baby.
Episode 2
Thu, Nov 19, 2015 30 mins
The shower at Max and Caroline's apartment breaks, so they get part-time jobs at a fancy gym's juice bar and enjoy free use of the locker room. But their jobs are placed in jeopardy when a group of rich moms become jealous of the attention Caroline receives from a sexy trainer.
Episode 3
Thu, Nov 26, 2015 30 mins
The girls run into Caroline's newly engaged ex, Candy Andy, and Caroline offers to make his wedding cake. Later, when she sees Andy's seemingly perfect relationship and how he supports his fiancée's career, she wonders if she should have stayed with him.
Episode 4
Thu, Dec 10, 2015 30 mins
Max and Caroline's cupcake shop is boycotted after they refuse to sell cupcakes to an artist who wants to put cocktail weenies in them.
Episode 5
Thu, Dec 17, 2015 30 mins
Han believes his diner employees are not working together as a team, so he insists they all attend a mandatory night out at the Escape Room club. Once the diner gang is locked inside the "Alice in Wonderland"-themed Escape Room, they learn Han has ulterior motives.
Episode 6
Wed, Jan 6, 2016 30 mins
Max is puzzled and curious when her new beau expresses hesitations about intimacy because he is "not regular down there." Meanwhile, Sophie and Oleg struggle to get pregnant.
Episode 7
Wed, Jan 13, 2016 30 mins
Caroline's grandmother Astrid awakens from a coma with no knowledge of her family's massive money scandal, so Caroline tries to keep the truth from her a bit longer by giving Astrid one last fancy luncheon.
Episode 8
Wed, Jan 20, 2016 30 mins
Max and Caroline interfere with a basketball game in an attempt to promote their cupcakes, but the chaos that ensues threatens to ruin their business' reputation.
Episode 9
Wed, Jan 27, 2016 30 mins
Earl is crushed when he is not invited to play with his old jazz band at their reunion show, so the diner gang join forces to help get Earl back performing on stage.
Episode 10
Wed, Feb 3, 2016 30 mins
Caroline falls in with the wrong crowd when she tries to make new friends, after Max reconnects with an old friend.
Episode 11
Wed, Feb 10, 2016 30 mins
Max and Caroline sign up to be "Booth Babes" in order to get into a large gaming convention for free. Once inside, they discover Han's friend created video game characters based on them, so they demand compensation.
Episode 12
Thu, Feb 18, 2016 30 mins
Caroline shares her riches-to-rags life story on stage at a storytelling night and captures the attention of a Hollywood studio executive. Meanwhile, Sophie and Oleg search for a surrogate.
Episode 13
Thu, Feb 25, 2016 30 mins
Max tags along with Caroline when she travels to Los Angeles on a film studio's dime to discuss the idea of making her riches-to-rags life story into a movie. While there, Max loses her luggage but finds a new crush.
Episode 14
Thu, Mar 3, 2016 30 mins
Caroline meets with studio writers in an effort to make her life story into a movie, but she is torn when they reveal they would not portray Max in the project. Meanwhile, Max is spoiled by her new Hollywood beau, who sets Caroline up on a date with a friend.
Episode 15
Thu, Mar 10, 2016 30 mins
Max and Caroline lose Randy's dog while pet-sitting and risk their lives to find him, while a cannibalistic serial killer is loose in their neighborhood.
Episode 16
Thu, Mar 31, 2016 30 mins
Caroline signs away the rights to her life story so it can be turned into a movie. Meanwhile, Max is heartbroken when Randy breaks up with her via his therapist, so Elliot and Caroline rent a party bus in an attempt to cheer her up.
Episode 17
Thu, Apr 7, 2016 30 mins
The girls visit Caroline's father in prison to see him perform in a musical and to tell him their plan to use Caroline's movie money to convert their cupcake window into a dessert bar.
Episode 18
Thu, Apr 14, 2016 30 mins
Randy surprises Max at the diner with hopes of patching up their relationship, but Max looks to Caroline to decide for her. Meanwhile, Han sets the girls up with a real estate agent to help them find a bigger space for their dessert bar.
Episode 19
Thu, Apr 21, 2016 30 mins
Max's boyfriend asks to spend the night at her apartment in order to get to know her world better. Meanwhile, Caroline works on getting a liquor license for their dessert bar.
Episode 20
Thu, Apr 28, 2016 30 mins
A law firm that's courting Randy for a job invites him and Max to dinner at a hip new restaurant with eclectic cuisine, but the evening veers off course when things don't sit well with Max.
Episode 21
Thu, May 5, 2016 30 mins
Max and Caroline approach the owner of the pizza place next door about renting space to expand their renovated dessert bar.
Episode 22
Thu, May 12, 2016 30 mins
Season 5 ends with Max and Caroline learning that Han is in big trouble with a gang for amassing a hefty gambling debt on women's tennis that he can't repay.