I always enjoy this show, even though it does have the same jokes over and over.
Charlie's a drunk who sleeps around a lot. Alan is very cheap and neurotic. His
son is not too bright. Their mother is a bitch. And so on. There are a lot of
sex jokes, too, and I can see that as the show has progressed, they have gotten
more raunchy. None of this is bad if you find the jokes funny, and fortunately,
I do.
This is the last season with Charlie Sheen (and I'm sure we all know why). He is
probably smart to leave it now while he is still relatively good-looking, and
the show is still funny. When the show first started, he was the cute guy on the
show, but now the actor who plays his nephew, Angus T. Jones, is the cute one
(what happened to that fat kid? LOL!).
The show may be a sitcom, but there is actually a sort of plot that goes from
episode-to-episode with Charlie and Alan's love lives. I never knew they did
that before. Watching the shows all at once this way really does feel like a
comedy movie rather than individual shows. Unfortunately, since the season
was cut short, due to the dispute with Sheen, the season on the DVD ends rather
abruptly. It's a shame because it looked like it was building to an interesting
season finale.
I don't know if I will watch the show this fall when Aston Kutcher comes in to
replace Charlie Sheen. If he plays the same dumb guy that he played on "That
70's Show", it will be boring. We'll have to wait and see what happens. I'll be
interested, at least, to see what excuse they give for the character of
Charlie's sudden disappearance. When we last saw him, he was headed to
Paris with his girlfriend (his former stalker), not realizing that she had lied
about getting married, nor that Alan had swindled him. I assume they will still
continue the Alan storyline...
Unfortunately, the DVD has no features or extras. Given that the season was so
controversial and cut short, I guess that is to be expected. It's still a shame,
though....it would have been nice if they had somehow addressed all the
backstage controversy. Maybe they couldn't due to legal reasons? I don't know...
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CATCH TWO AND A HALF TIMES THE LAUGHS AS WARNER HOME VIDEO RELEASES TWO AND A
HALF MEN THE COMPLETE EIGHTH SEASON ON DVD SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
Relive Hilarious Moments from the Long-Running Hit Sitcom on This Two-Disc Set
Burbank, CA (June 6, 2011) - This summer, Two and a Half Men returns for more
laughs as Warner Home Video (WHV) releases the hit comedy's eighth season on
DVD. Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eighth Season, featuring all 16 episodes,
will be available on September 6, 2011 for $44.98 SRP. Over the past eight
years, the hit series has been nominated for nearly 40 Emmys, two Golden Globes
and has won four People's Choice Awards.
In Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eighth Season, hapless chiropractor Alan
(Jon Cryer) decides it's time to move out of Charlie Harper's (Charlie Sheen)
Malibu bachelor pad and shack up with his girlfriend Lyndsey (Courtney
Thorne-Smith). But things take an unexpected turn when Alan, his teenage son
Jake (Angus T. Jones), and Lyndsey wind up back under Charlie's roof after a
fire breaks out at Lyndsey's home. Meanwhile, this season finds Charlie on his
endless quest for Mrs. Right Now, and instead finding himself smitten with his
lifelong stalker, Rose (Melanie Lynskey). At the same time, a desperate Alan
attempts to save his failing chiropractic business with a ridiculous investment
scheme. Season eight guest stars include Judd Nelson, Jenny McCarthy, Carl
Reiner, Jane Lynch, Martin Mull and more.
"We are very happy to be releasing Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eighth
Season on DVD," said Rosemary Markson, WHV Vice President, TV & Special Interest
Marketing. "The long-running series continues to mine big laughs even after
eight seasons on the air and we hope these millions of fans will enjoy this
collection for years to come."
Two and a Half Men: The Complete Eighth Season two-disc set includes the
following episodes:
Three girls and a guy named Bud
A bottle of wine and a jackhammer
A pudding-filled cactus
Hookers, hookers, hookers
The immortal Mr. Billy Joel
Twanging your magic clanger
The Crazy Bitch Gazette
Springtime on a stick
A good time in Central Africa
Ow, ow, don't stop
Dead from the waist down
Chocolate diddlers or my puppy's dead
Skunk, dog crap and ketchup
Lookin' For Japanese subs
Three hookers and a Philly cheesesteak
That darn priest
From creators Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn, Two and a Half Men is produced by
Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc., The Tannenbaum Company in association with Warner
Bros. Television. The executive producers are Lorre, Aronsohn, Eric Tannenbaum,
Kim Tannenbaum, Mark Burg, Oren Koules, Don Foster, Eddie Gorodetsky and Susan
Beavers. The eighth season stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Marin
Hinkle, Conchata Ferrell and Holland Taylor.
About Warner Home Video
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of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc., commands the largest home entertainment
distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's
film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage
titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment,
Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Video and New Line Cinema.
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content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide
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