'2 Broke Girls' In Hot Water Over Joke About Indigenous Australians

2 Broke Girls, a show figuratively overflowing with offensive stereotypes, has finally earned the ire of its fans Down Under after an episode aired that included a joke made at the expense of Indigenous Australians.

Four seasons into the adventures of two white protagonists and their army of cartoonish supporting characters, the show threw in an off-the-cuff dig at Aboriginal people's physical appearance during And The Fun Factory, which aired on Tuesday night on Channel Nine.

According to Fairfax (well, we didn't watch it), the scene in question depicted "a male character ... chatting up an Australian woman online before explaining, 'She's part Aboriginal but has a great personality,' to a friend".

The reaction from Australian fans has been deservedly swift (and is growing), yet in some ways pretty belated. Stateside, the show has been the target of wide criticism for its overt racial insensitivity since it first started airing in 2011, yet a lot of the people expressing outrage now seemed to feel like this was the first obvious time the show had been insensitive about race.

Well, at least they noticed eventually.

Some fans were even attuned to the offensiveness back in January, when the episode originally aired in the US:

A person can dream.