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global1

(25,247 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:14 AM Feb 2012

Does Anyone Else Here Think That Two & A Half Men Jumped The Shark?......

This last Monday's show was the worst. They really took the show down the toilet. Kutcher's character as well as his girlfriend are stupid and one dimensional characters. They really steered the show in the wrong direction and they are resorting to potty humor and vomiting to try to make it work. It doesn't. They would have been better off not bringing in a new character. They should have just let Allen and Jake carry the show with the help of the Mother, Rose, Jake's Mother (Allen's wife) and her husband and Berta. I think they could have continued the story line on without having to bring in what they thought was a Charlie replacement. Sheen might have had a lot of problems in his life - but he was a good actor and really gave us a multidimensional character in his TV Charlie. John Cryer is genuinely funny and I think the writers could have come up with a lot of material based on his peculiarities.

I'm afraid the writers are stuck now and they have run out of ideas for this new direction of the show. It's too bad. Maybe if they brought some of the old characters back as I mentioned above they can recover - but I doubt it. I think they've jumped the shark.

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Does Anyone Else Here Think That Two & A Half Men Jumped The Shark?...... (Original Post) global1 Feb 2012 OP
I have to agree with your assessment.....we can only hope that Charlie can get a groove on for MindMover Feb 2012 #1
It has dr.strangelove Feb 2012 #2
This past week's vomitting episode was terrible... truebrit71 Feb 2012 #3
I agree that last Monday's episode was the worst EVER.... Honestly... an entire episode of vomiting? hlthe2b Feb 2012 #4
I watched one episode a few years ago and that was it for me MaineDem Feb 2012 #5

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
1. I have to agree with your assessment.....we can only hope that Charlie can get a groove on for
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:17 AM
Feb 2012

the Jewish faith.....maybe he could kiss up on some writers.....we can only hope and pray....

dr.strangelove

(4,851 posts)
2. It has
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:52 PM
Feb 2012

the show lacks something now. I think it was the way Sheen just made me want to both love and hate his character, which let the writers both make him look bad and good at the same time.

 

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)
3. This past week's vomitting episode was terrible...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:33 PM
Feb 2012

...they took an initial idea and beat it to death...

hlthe2b

(102,276 posts)
4. I agree that last Monday's episode was the worst EVER.... Honestly... an entire episode of vomiting?
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:09 PM
Feb 2012

Drunken, explosive vomiting-- and with very long audio of Courtney Thorne Smith's character hurling.

Honestly... They have a treasure trove of talent left in Berta's character, Allen's mother's character, and John Cryer. Yet, this is what they do with the show? I hate to say it, but Charlie Sheen was probably right in trashing the show. The entire premise of the show with Kutcher's character as this child-like billionaire is jsut ridiculous and I'll be damned if I get what some see in him to begin with.

Jumped the shark? Indeed.

MaineDem

(18,161 posts)
5. I watched one episode a few years ago and that was it for me
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:17 PM
Feb 2012

I could never understand the humor. Guess I'm not the show's demographic. I just didn't get it.

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