![]() He produced Two and a Half Men and still works on Mike & Molly and The Big Bang Theory. Canned laughter encompasses the entire scene and it cuts to black from the last shot of the two broken pianos.Ĭhuck Lorre has, for me, just been the name that pops up under Executive Producer at the end of his shows on CBS. ![]() ![]() Lorre then proceeds to turn around, look in the camera, say Sheen’s famous catchphrase, “Winning,” and then also be crushed by a falling piano. The camera pulls back to reveal the façade of the house being in a studio, where series producer Chuck Lorre is sitting in his director’s chair. The final scene of the program features a faceless Charlie walking up to his old home, knocking on the door, and then being crushed by a piano that fell from a helicopter that Jon Cryer and Ashton Kutcher’s characters had noticed in the previous scene. It makes for a poor and self-deprecating note to end a show on, and the last two minutes prove to be some of the most heinous moments I’ve ever seen on television. The entirety of the episode is spent berating Sheen and poking fun at the show’s own unnecessary longevity and weak writing. Sheen’s character was killed off after he left the show, but the series finale does away with this notion, making it so Charlie was never really dead, just kidnapped by a crazed lover. Sheen’s departure from the show was rather publicized and it was widely presumed that the show would just end with his absence as the rating in its eighth season dropped, but it went on, despite cringe worthy critical reception.Īppropriately, the show ended this year, but in a fashion I don’t believe anyone expected and not in a way long running fans deserved to see it come to a close. Ashton Kutcher was oddly introduced as a strange tech enthusiast who had struck it rich and moved into Charlie Harper’s Malibu beach house, dealing with Alan Harper’s antics for another couple years before the show closed. The show’s plot took a really strange turn when Charlie Sheen was forced out due to his drug habits, talk show outbursts, and generally tumultuous relationship with Lorre (I’ll get to him in a minute). The show, which ran for around 12 years, lived on way past its prime, probably due to its ludicrous and vain creator/producer, Chuck Lorre. The long-overrun CBS series Two and a Half Men came to a pitiful and stunning close last Thursday.
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