Early in the first episode of “State of Georgia,” an aspiring actress named Georgia Chamberlain (Raven-Symone) is told by a Broadway casting director that she’ll never be a star because of her weight. “In ‘Damn Yankees,’ when they talk about the big seduction scene,” he sneers, “they don’t mean the size of the actress.”

Here is an opportunity for moralizing, not to be missed. Georgia gives him a thorough but polite dressing down, and it appears that this is what her character will become: rejected, principled, resilient.

That’s not much fun, though. Soon enough, principle gives way to pragmatism. Georgia returns, planning to seduce the casting director, a former chubby child, with food. The scene is outrageous and messy, and also hilarious, conflating hunger and desire, humor and pain, satisfaction and ecstasy. It begins at simple double entendre and ends, far better, somewhere near puerile slapstick.

Georgia’s infantilization is total: A child of privilege, she’s simultaneously wide-eyed and petulant, unsure why the world isn’t organized around her needs. While waiting for her big break, she works at a perfume counter with her best friend, Jo (Majandra Delfino), a flaky, frizzy-haired physics genius.

By the show’s second episode, the friends become less goofy, more cosmopolitan: Georgia emerges as a vixen, without the comic undertones, and Jo’s life becomes “The Big Bang Theory.” Having traded in retail for grad school, she’s surrounded by clever geeks, including a blustery one played by the former “American Idol” munchkin Kevin Covais.

Georgia and Jo live in the lavish home of Georgia’s Aunt Honey, played by Loretta Devine, who unleashes the humor and swagger she keeps under wraps on “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Devine isn’t trying hard, but she’s delicious nonetheless, playing the part as a spin on Blanche Devereaux from “The Golden Girls”: a vision in silk robes, heeled slippers and never-out-of-place hair, who scans the obituaries for dating guidance. She floats through scenes, saying little, but always the best lines.

‘State of Georgia’

When: 8:30 tonight

Where: ABC Family