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It’s Monday night…you know what that means. Time for the Internet to weigh in on Ashton Kutcher’s fourth go-round on Two and a Half Men. Many deride it, but it’s quickly becoming the little big show that could. While there was a drop off from the previous week, over 17 million viewers (!) tuned in last Monday. The numbers don’t lie. For whatever reason — Love of the show? Shirtless Kutcher? Morbid curiosity? — people are still watching.
This week’s episode centered on the continuing romantic woes of Kutcher’s helpless billionaire character, Walden. I think my favorite part of the show this season may be that we’re expected to believe Walden can’t get a girlfriend. Sure, he’s in love with his soon-to-be ex-wife, but even Berta got some (from the nine-fingered man) this episode. Stay classy, Two and a Half Men. Realism fail: When Cryer’s having sexytimes upstairs and Kutcher is sad on the couch down below, something doesn’t compute. How is everyone in that house getting laid except for Kutcher’s Walden?
All that changed, however, when Walden went to a bar and found Mrs. Right: Guest star Jenny McCarthy. McCarthy was previously on the show as Charlie’s crazy, con-artist ex. With Mr. Harper no longer around, she needed a new sugar daddy. Cue Walden. They had sex all over the house and, in the process, — hot diggity dog — tried to give Walden a catchphrase. Two and a Half Men: Stop trying to make ‘diggity’ happen. It’s not going to happen.
The show is still making plenty of Charlie jokes: “Fell, pushed, jumped, whatever the verb, the end result was Charlie Tar-Tar.” Har, har. And, for me, it still feels like Ashton Kutcher is ASHTON KUTCHER: a separate entity that isn’t gelling with the rest of the show. I love him, but I never forget that it’s Kutcher I’m watching as opposed to a TV character.
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It was enough. Deleted from my dvr. Not funny at all.
Yeah, Im not watching this anymore.
Agreed!!! This show sucks sooo bad it’s beyond words. Ashton’s character is terrible, enough of the poor me, all I want is my ex (who isn’t even remotely hot), and somehow I can’t even pick out my own clothes but I’m smart enough to develop a product that sold for a billion dollars… give me a break. He doesn’t know how to act, he needs to get an acting lesson….
I watched only the 1st ep of this season, because I just want to check it out if it is worth my time to watch it…turn out it isn’t ….if you do not like this show anymore. PLEASE STOP watch it so the rating drop below zero aud. 
I’m really just so disappointed in the show now… I know they had to do something, but it’s just not good…. Let Charlie make it up to everyone, get his crap together, and emerge from Rose’s basement where she’s kept him locked up for the past few months….
Am I missing something? Was this show all that special with Charlie Sheen? Um, no. The most recent show was kindy funny, just like most episodes of Two and a Half Men. Stop acting as if the show lost Peter Sellers.
Oh my God, Peter Sellers is not on the show anymore??!!???!!!
For this type of show Charlie Sheen was their Peter Sellers ! And Ashton is…a tired Kelso ! yeah ‘quel bonheur !’…NOT
Diggidy is too close to Family Guy’s Quagmire Giggidy.
Charlie Sheen is no Peter Sellers.
Honey, it’s “Charlie tartare,” as in a dish made from raw meat. And that’s “meat,” not “meet.” I realize using words is hard and some actually sound alike but have different spellings—but real journalists know (not “no”) the difference.
What’s really sad (and funny) is Erin Strecker thought she was being clever by spelling “tar-tar” like “har-har,” and instead comes across as an idiot. FAIL.
just cancelled recordingthis on my DVR . the new character is retarted and not the least bit funny.
Done, moving on to something better for my brain than this.
That’s brilliant John. I don’t know if that was mentioned before, but that’s one I never thought of. More the fool, me! Makes perfect sense!!
I agree, the series is sinking fast. Ashton Kutcher is not a great actor in comedy, action, or a drama. The guy isn’t all that attractive. He’s tall and skinny, not muscular. His long hair make him look girly and non masculine. He’s no Paul Walker that’s for sure.
LOL, is that you?
No it is not him, Carlos Estevez doesn’t sing the praises of Paul Walker for pete’s sakes.
Paul Walker is even more lame and dull than Ashton Kutcher (and Ashton is far more cute imo). Charlie has standards Cara…he knows where there is acting talent and on-screen charisma and Walker has neither, not to say that Ashton has a lot more but it can’t be worse than Paul, CAN’T BE..
i prefer to see Ashton on-screen than Paul; and i don’t want to see Ashton on my screen so it says something..
Um, okay. Jealous much?
@Cara, no I am not Charlie Sheen, but I wish I had his money. Robin, you are crazy. Paul Walker is a very fine white actor with a hot toned body. Ashton wished his had Paul looks and body. Most women and gay men would do Paul Walker in a hot minute, black, Puerto Rican, and white.
Who is Paul Walker?
I LOVE IT!! And by it i mean 2 BROKE GIRLS.
I’m trying desperately to like 2 Broke Girls, but it, too, is sinking to the bottom of my watch pile. And I’m a HUGE fan of Kat Dennings, too! It’s just not funny.
Two Broke Girls started out great but it’s been slipping lower and lower in my opinion. I had high hopes for Two and Half Men but have to agree that Kutcher is just not the right fit.
Charlie Sheen or no Charlie Sheen I never found the show funny. I just don’t get it I guess
Me neither
It was funny the first 4 or so seasons. Then it got worse and worse any by S07 the only reason to still watch it was inertia. Or that hopeless hope that it might get good again.
As Charlie would say: This relationship has run its natural course.
DO NOT BRING CHARLIE BACK JUST CANCELL THIS STUPID ISH ALL TOGETHER WOULD YOU WHINY MISERABLE F@CKS LIKE THAT?
Learn to spell and turn off your caps lock, dipstick.
America loves crap.
I turned it off when Jennie McCarthy was revealed. I don’t miss Charlie Sheen… that’s not the point. The point is that it is no longer as funny or enjoyable. Find Ashton a new show. Find the other actors a new show… I like all of them. But resorting to having Jennie McCarthy, a one-note actress by anybody’s standards, is just too much for me. I’m out. Deleted from my record list. Done.
Actually Jenny McCarthy isn’t a one note actress, she’s a two globe actress (lower case intentional, and I don’t mean Golden Globe Award)… OK, maybe actress is a bit much, she’s a two globe personality.
The producers of this show are idiots. They ruined a good thing for Charlie being what made them so darn popular in the first place. The show is just not the same. Sad…very sad
Charlie was better by far…no comparison
i will not waste my time watching any more
Agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lorre and the gang lost me at “You’re Fired, Charlie.” I’ve watched every episode before Kutcher. I own all DVD’s. I’m a true fan and they lost me.
Yes I miss Charlie Sheen. Its so not funny anymore without him. Walden is so not funny..Its supposed to be a comedy not a soap opera or sob story…………Oh my wife left me….Big deal…….
they can cancel this show any time the storyline sucks i tried to watch the last four episodes and changed the channel everytime
Get rid of Kelso, I mean Waldon. Jake should have inherited the house, mortgage free. Alan moves in with him and somehow a child (from Charlie shows up) and they have to raise it.
They need to change Waldon to a smart, funny, guy who has it on the ball. If not…The show is done. The coments coming from the house keeper about Waldon…They must stop. We don’t want to hear the dirty thoughts of a middle age women.
this show suck. alot of negative feedback. but alot of people still watching.
its alright. not really my thing though. wonder what all the fuss was about
the ‘all the fuss’ was about Charlie Sheen, his character and for lot’s of no life about his real life or better his public persona.
Your grammar sucks.
Won’t be long before the ratings begin to dwindle. They’ve lost over 50% of the premiere audience. With over 20 episodes left, wonder where they’ll be in May.
I’m willing to be it’ll be somewhere they don’t wanna be.
We need Charlie back. Bring him as a zombie or something, but bring him back.
The show without him sucks.
Sorry, but Charlie is through with the show and has gone to other things. Nothing will make him come back even if some fans are pleading to make him return.
Charlie won. 25 million is a settlement with Lorre and WB. 75 million in syndication payments.. If I was him I wouldn’t come back either. He doesnt need that abuse.
he just deserves better than this show and yeah he has moved on, looking forward to watch his new show.
@lulu– I TOTALLy agree!
Sorry CBS I am done! The show was Charlie Harper and Charlie Harper was Charlie Sheen… this show is horrible and horrible is Ashton Kutchner . I tried I watched all 4 episodes but no more!
TWO AND A HALF MEN FANS ARE THE BIGGEST IDIOTS!I KNEW ONLY D-BAGS EVER LIKED THIS SHOW AND FROM THE POSTS YOU ALL WRITE IT IS OBVIOUSLY TRUE
Well Rob, judging by your post you must have liked it also, because you seem like quite the D-Bag.
Rob, your stuck shift key and your punctuation and clear concise writing make it clear the value of your comments.
(I doubt you’ll recognize the sarcasm, but others will)
So you don’t like the show, you don’t watch the show, but you read these comments and bother enough to write one, even though you have no idea what the show was about or changed to. In my book, only an idiot would do such a thing.
Agree 100% – life has been sucked out of the show.
Didn’t watch it–don’t plan to.
I’m done. RIP 2.5 Men. Unless you bring back Charlie.
If Ashton was supposed to make us forget Charlie, well, Fail.
Is it just me, or does Kutcher look likes he,s just not that into it? The boy-man has limited acting skills, out of his league when compared to Sheen.
that whole jesus look isnt helping
I know!!!!!!!He does look like Jesus, doesn’t he?? You’re the first person who wrote that!!
I think he looks more like Rasputin – Ughhh-cut youro hair and shave
Removed it from my dvr list tonight. Not funny at all. Lindsay is a witch & Kutcher is playing Kutcher. Boring
I agree!
Agreed… I removed it as well. The nail in the coffin was Jenny McCarthy for me on top of everything else.
Trash, pure trash. The storyline is all over the place. Walden aka Kelso Jr is his typical boring and not funny self. I keep hoping Charlie Sheen will appear out of nowhere and Ashton says we were Punk’d. The remaining cast are great as should be expected but there is no chemistry between Ashton and the other characters. Jenny M. was also great on tonight’s show. It’s like Chuck Lorre hates Ashton Kutcher worse than Charlie with the way Walden was written.
I have always loved Charlie Sheen so it’s difficult to watch without him, but it’s so clear now how much of the glue he was to this show. Sheen had chemistry with every actor on the show, and I believe because of him, the cast worked at a higher level.
Now, without Charlie, the characters that I once loved are just annoying.
I don’t think it is Charlie who was the glue, I think it is that Kutcher is just awful. I watched about 3 minutes last week scenes with Angus and Kutcher was awful. He wasn’t funny at all, his delivery sucked and the canned laughter was annoying.
I completely agree with the characters being annoying now. Alan has always been annoying, but with Charlie in the show it made since and was some-what enjoyable to watch. I now hate the show, and purposefully change the channel. I can’t stand Ashton Kutcher in the role. They should have just let Charlie die and continued with the rest of the characters story lines. Berta inheriting Charlies house, Alan begging to stay…etc…
CBS = fail
Shawn and Louise, I totally agree with you, those are the words I have been seeking to describe the show without Charlie and the other actors now
Somebody should put this pitiful attempt at grown-up humor out of its misery. Walden’s character stinks and inspires pity more than any other feeling. Sophomoric, moronic, infantile, etc. etc.
Yes Josephine, all the things that CS is not right???
Charlie played a drunk smart winner. Ashton a dumb loser. I’d rather watch a drunk smart guy then a sober loser.
Sheen added smart sarcasm, double-entendres and snarky dark humor..to this fart jokes sitcom..that is the DIFFERENCE
“Sophomoric, moronic, infantile, etc. etc.”… You get what you cast for. Kutcher has always been those things. If he hadn’t married
Demi Moore (and what’s with that?) He’d be a nobody looking for bit parts. He’s not stupid, he invests in Silicone
Valley and has done well, it’s like those old commercials where they say “I’m not a Dr., but I play one on TV”… in this case it’s “I’m not a Sophomoric, moronic, infantile, fool, I just play one in the movies and on TV.”
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The fact that Sheen’s gone isn’t the problem, the problem is that the replacement is a waste of space on the set. There are sooooo many better choices they could have made …
I too watched the show for the last few weeks hoping that something would start clicking, but I’m done. Not funny- just lame. Ok the experiment is over, bring Charlie back if you want to see a real rating boost.
I say bring him back as a ghost,starting on HALLOWEEN
NIGHT.
what happened to Rose,she was good part of the show
darlene , they don’t have to bring him back as a ghost and Rose being gone from the show makes my idea a great one.On the season finally show Rose in paris with a man tied to a chair only show him from the back and have it be charlie. Remember his body was all messed up so only Rose told them it was Charlie could have it play out as rose wanted him all to herself faked his death, i did not see rose killing him in the first place. and Ashton only signed on for a year
This season just keeps getting better and better.
Are we watching the same SHOW?
It honestly could not be any worse. The story line is so unbelievable and over the place. The ratings are only high because Charlie Sheen gave the show tons of publicity during his “problem” period. The show is just no longer any good and people will continue to turn out week by week.
you must be watching the syndicated shows right because I’m really giving it my all and i feel like i just hit hitting a brick wall non-sense. I feel at home when I see the old cast members playing their roles like old times but when the new gets mixed it just falls apart I’m sorry but it has to go I can’t watch it any longer. Good Bye
Watched all of the first episode, 1/2 of the secon, one of the third and 10 minutes of th fourth. It’s just ot working for me
Are you crazy?
I usually give guys and shows and atleast 4 chances. And I’m outta of here!!! Done with show. It’s just not the same without Charlie. Chuck Lorre needs to face the music.
Aidan I do hope you’re being sarcastic
No, any crap is a good show to him.
Show going down hill. All are great but AK (send him bk to ex) Find “Charlie”., quick. Fade out AK to
New show… Rose taking/taking care of someone, ..whom only can be seen from the back… later to find Rose keeping Charlie in twilight stupor….Jake sees Rose/mystery man……Jake and Berta find out its Charlie…..Charlie loves/hates Rose…She has his “main” brain gone on the limp…..Rose go to
mental/spa getaway….Rose keeps breaking out to visit Charlie……………lol
Well there was no body. In TV land when there is no body, they aren’t always dead. He could come back you just never know. Show was better with him. It is kind of dull now.
Or this season could all be a dream. The guys got drunk or ate bad food, passed out and had a bad dream. Bring Charlie back next season and move on.