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{{quote|''Jake, it takes more than sex to make a man happy... You also need money.''
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Ladies' man Charlie Harper is living the good life as a successful jingle writer in a seaside mansion in Los Angeles. That is, until his nerdy brother Alan's ex-wife throws him out and he's forced to move in with Charlie, bringing his ten-year-old son Jake with him. Now, not only does he have to cope with Rose, the stalker who lives next door, his conniving and guilt-tripping mother, and his sarcastic housekeeper Berta, but also Alan's various neuroses and Jake's complete lack of any sort of tact or personal hygiene. Sadly however Charlie's womanizing nature eventually catches up with him in 2011 when he [[Killed Off for Real|catches a train the hard
The show first began airing on [[CBS]] in 2003 and is currently{{when}} in its ninth season. Season eight was cut short after lead actor Charlie Sheen was fired due to his self-destructive breakdown in 2011, one effect of which was a public feud with series creator Chuck Lorre. The show has continued with Ashton Kutcher as Walden, the show's new lead.
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** With Charlie Sheen gone, the story of the decidedly odd love triangle of Charlie, crazy Rose, and "Manny Quinn" will never be resolved. Well, the Charlie/Rose/Manny issue has been somewhat resolved due to [[Bus Crash|Charlie being dead]].
** Whether Judith's new baby is Alan's or Herb's was never really resolved since her baby is not even mentioned anymore.
** Judith actually was supposed to turn out to be a lesbian originally... until someone pointed out that ''[[
* [[Abusive
** Evelyn eats the souls of children, as Alan points out.
** Judith herself isn't the best mom, or human being, ever. Considering how both Charlie and Alan seem to suffer from [[Mommy
* [[Actually Pretty
* [[Adam
* [[Aesop
* [[The Alleged
* [[All Just a
* [[Animal Athlete
* [[Artifact
* [[Ascended
* [[Ashes to
* [[Batman
* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: According to Alan, Walden is hung like an elephant. Berta and Judith are impressed when they see him naked.
* [[Bilingual
* [[Black
** The episode "A Sympathetic Crotch To Cry On". Dear. God.
{{quote|'''Evelyn''': ''(To dead husband at his'' funeral.'')'' I've got a great ass and yours is decomposing!}}
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"I'm afraid due to the nature of his passing, the remains aren't exactly... spittable."}}
* [[Brain Bleach]]: Invoked in an episode, where the brothers discover that one of Charlie's former girlfriends has undergone a sex change and is now dating their ''mother''. Charlie's suggestion to dealing with this? "Drink until the part of the brain that creates mental pictures dies!"
* [[Brainless
{{quote|'''Alan:''' I need to communicate after lovemaking. I need to share.
'''Charlie:''' Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you started boinkin' a girl with the IQ of Tickle Me Elmo!}}
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Although in this case literally, as Walden's ex-wife drives her car through the wall we usually never see because it's the side from which the audience watches the show (in the episode "What a Lovely Landing Strip").
* [[Brick
** In one episode, Evelyn asks Alan "More embarrassing when you were eleven and I caught you with the dog and the peanut butter?" In a later episode, Charlie tells a group of friends that he walked in on Alan and said "''Alan!'' The dog is supposed to lick the peanut butter off ''you!''" In "A Giant Cat Holding a Churro", when Alan tells Lindsey all his embarrassing secrets, he starts with this.
** In one episode, where Charlie dates a foreign girl he can't understand she says her family will be coming over and he of course can't understand her and just agrees. {{spoiler|After an entirely unrelated episode at the end she comes over with most of her entire family to Charlie's surprise}}.
* [[Bring Me My Brown
** After Walden apologizes for nearly killing them with his reckless driving, Alan apologizes for peeing on his car seat.
** And this clip, where [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwJHSkFpn-o a father-son bonding moment gets a little
** And again, when Walden offers Alan a "small" stipend to serve on the board of his corporation. Alan's response is to make a bubble in the bath, and not with his mouth. If it had been higher, "we would have had to drain the tub."
* [[Bungled
** Charlie tries this too in an earlier episode. Same result.
* [[Butt
* [[But We Used a
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]: Charlie tells his friends about when Alan was a kid and Charlie caught Alan licking peanut butter off a dog.
* [[The
* [[Car Meets
* [[
* [[Catch
** Charlie's "Are you out of your freakin' mind?" usually said to Alan.
** Alan's "nevertheless" and "be that as it may."
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: In "Is There A Mrs Waffles?", Charlie watches ''[[Dharma and
* [[Chuck Cunningham
* [[
* [[Code Word
* [[Comedic
** Charlie to disturbing levels.
** Also Alan, via his ventriloquist's dummy, "Danny O'Day".
{{quote|'''Alan:''' Boy, [
'''Danny:''' ...and you know what happens to pigs, don't you? They get ''slaught--''
'''Alan:''' Danny! Don't say that. Don't even think it!
''*[[
'''Danny:''' --ered.}}
** And Rose, who has yet to be prosecuted for Charlie's murder despite in effect confessing it to the assembled crowd at his funeral.
* [[Companion
* [[Covert
* [[Crapsack World]]: From Alan's perspective, you live with a brother who's [[Comedic
* [[
* [[Cultural
* [[Deadpan
* [[Depraved Kids' Show
* [[Distinguished Gentleman's
* [[The Ditz]]: Kandi and Jake.
* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme
* [[The Door Slams You]]. Happens to Alan courtesy of his dimwit son and his dope-head friend while investigating a noise in the middle of the night. Part of a long [[Humiliation
* [[Doppelganger
* [[Double Standard]]: Egregiously done towards ''both'' sexes, including the [[Running
* [[Dropped a Bridge on
* [[Drowning My
* [[Enter Stage Window]]
* [[Even the Guys Want
* [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]]:
** [[Butt Monkey|Except
** Continued briefly with Walden's addition.
{{quote|''Seeing Walden go upstairs with both girls after coming home''
'''Alan:''' This seems depressingly familiar.}}
* [[Everyone Has
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Evelyn.
* [[Failure Is the Only
* [[Fan
** How many gratuitously naked sexy women can fit into one show?
** And then for the ladies, Ashton Kutcher's first episode featured him walking around in his birthday suit.
* [[Fetish]]: Alan has a bit of a thing for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiNOcWY9KRI pregnant women.]
* [[First Girl
** (Sort of) In the pilot episode, the actress who plays Chelsea appears in the supermarket and hits on Charlie while he's shopping with Jake.
** In recent episodes, Charlie hooks up with Rose because she tricked him into thinking she got married, making her more attractive to him. She has been around since the very beginning as his stalker and has finally gotten her due (such as it is).
* [[Flanderization]]:
** Jake has become more stupid as the show has gone on, almost to the point of being a [[The Ditz]]. Recently he has shown to be good at cooking, so he is not totally helpless. More jokes have been made about his weight as well, even though he seems to be evening out. Makes you feel sorry for Angus Jones. Additionally, since he began smoking pot, he has gone from lovably dense to damn near inert.
** Every single character on the show. Charlie is a hedonistic man-whore and is worse than when the show started, many recent episodes made jokes about his recent love for prostitutes, despite having a fiancée. Alan is a cheapskate who literally will not pay for anything ever and he started out just having internal struggles paying for stuff.
** Judith is nothing but a giant bitch to everyone for little reason. Season 9 nicely [[Lampshade Hanging|
{{quote|'''Alan:''' When [Judith] left me, I was devastated.
'''Walden:''' Why'd she leave you?
'''Alan:''' No idea, she's a crazy bitch.}}
* [[Flirty
* [[Four-Temperament
* [[From the Mouths of
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]:
** In "A Sympathetic Crotch To Cry On", the family attends the funeral of one of Evelyn's exes; a lot of jokes are on the dead guy in the coffin.
** Charlie's funeral in "Nice to Meet You Walden Schmidt" is similar.
* [[Gag
* [[Gasshole|Gasinass
** Jake. Alan squeaks a few off now and again as well. He once admits red wine causes him to fart.
** Berta's daughter had this problem while pregnant, much to Alan's dismay: --> "Wow, that one's got some hang time!"
** Who could forget a less-than-affectionate Lyndsey telling Alan to back off [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM7IZMscSkE in no uncertain
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Walden is great with computers but has trouble picking matching shoes.
* [[Getting Crap Past the
* [[Girl of the Week]]
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Invoked on Season 7 premiere "818-jklpuzo" with "Psychosomatic Constipation".
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** "I just got kneed in the nuts!" - Charlie Harper.
** Jake mentions getting "a soccer ball to the nads" at least twice.
* [[Has Two Mommies|Has Two
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Herb and Alan are both abused by Judith.
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Charlie and Alan's childhood was like this.
* [[Hollywood
* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Averted in "818-jklpuzo"; the singer comes off as realistically unable to sing.
* [[
* [[I Can Change My Beloved]]: When Charlie's mother meets his first serious [[Love
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode
* [[If I Had a Nickel]]: "An Old Flame with a New Wick" has, "If I had a nickel for every time a girl broke up with me and came back as a man, I'd have a ''nickel''!"
* [[The Immodest
* [[In-Series
* [[Indulgent Fantasy
* [[Informed
* [[Informed Flaw]]: In Rose's earliest appearances, the major characters reacted to her as if she was ugly; this was phased out and replaced by sheer creepiness relatively quickly, though. Rose's actress is, by most standards, very pretty.
* [[Inherently Funny
* [[Inventor of the
* [[It's All About
* [[I Was Young and I Needed The
* [[
** Virtually every character on the show--primary, secondary, ''and'' tertiary--is a [[
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Charlie shows signs of this throughout the series, however his many callous moments tend to mask them. When Alan and Jake appear to be moving out, Charlie very nearly tells Alan he can stay before Alan's bluff about finding a good place to live falls through. Charlie however, does not rub it in his face; it's almost a nice moment.
* [[Karma
** Judith is always abusing Alan and she never gets any payback for it.
** Charlie <s>a lot</s> <s> most</s> all of the time too (well, until he went to Paris, that is).
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** It's heavily implied that Rose murdered Charlie, and made it look like an accident. Alan and Berta both realize this, and Alan casually tells it to several people, but nobody does anything about it.
* [[Karmic Death]]: Charlie went to Paris, and married Rose, then cheated on her. Let's just say he scorned the wrong woman and she pushed him into a train.
* [[Kavorka
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Charlie dies between seasons by "falling" in front of a train. The only "witness" is Rose and while she's talking about it the camera cuts to Alan with a knowing look on his face.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Berta in the Christmas episode. Just before the ad break she quips "I can't wait for Act 2."
* [[Long
* [[Manly
* [[Mars and Venus Gender
* [[McLeaned]]: Charlie was killed off by being pushed in front of a train after he was caught cheating on his fiance, Rose. And just to add insult to injury, [[The Fun in Funeral|the funeral]] is full of one night stands and angry exes. And after he is cremated, [[Ashton Kutcher|Walden'
* [[MD
* [[Mistaken for
* [[Moral
* [[Mr.
* [[Ms.
{{quote|'''Charlie''': Here's a fun thought: she's probably slept with more women than you.
''*[[
'''Alan:''' [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|That is a fun thought!]]}}
* [[Never Speak Ill of the Dead]]: Subverted during Charlie's funeral; Alan tries to say nice things about him in his eulogy, but Charlie's ex-girlfriends interrupt him with insults. Later subverted by Alan himself:
{{quote|'''Judith:''' And I thought your brother was a horrible influence. ''(on Jake)''
'''Alan:''' Don't speak ill of the dead! But you're right, he was a terrible human being.}}
* [[Nice
* [[No Nudity
* [[Noodle
* [[No Pregger Sex]]: Inverted; Alan says that the most sex they had with Judith was during the time she was pregnant with Jake. This led to him having a pregnancy fetish.
* [[No Sense of Personal
* [[Not Blood
* [[Not Staying for
* [[Not What It Looks
* [[Odd
* [[Once Per
* [[One-Hour Work Week]]: Walden is the head of a billion dollar company, yet he seems to have tons of free time to hang out with Alan and is hardly ever shown working.
* [[One of the
** Walden, originally. He no longer shows any shades of this, though.
** Charlie too, the guy depends on other people for ''everything''. As Alan put it: "You are a child. A high-maintenance child!"
* [[Only Child
* [[Only Sane
** How does Alan's fetish for pregnant women make him a [[
* [[Parenting the Husband]]: Being fed up with this sort of situation is what causes the split between Bridget and Walden.
* [[Pet the
* [[Played for
* [[
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Alan's literal dream woman is a [[Lady in Red]] who mentions she has several fur coats, that all feel the same in the dark.
* [[Queer People Are
* [[Quip to Black]]:
** Parodied when Charlie and Alan are watching a crime show that's an obvious [[
** And let's not forget the show's title: "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|
* [[Real Life Writes the
* [[Rearrange the
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly
* [[Servile
{{quote|'''Charlie''': I don't pay you to mock me.
'''Berta''': Charlie, you'd have to pay me not to.}}
* [[Sexy Santa
* [[Shallow Love
* [[Shoot the Shaggy
* [[Shout-
{{quote|'''Charlie''': While my mother is alive, nothing must happen to Fredo.}}
* [[The Sociopath]]: Charlie shows enough signs to be diagnosed as one.
* [[Something's Different About You Now]]: Inverted.
* [[Something We
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Rose. She is annoying and very creepy. She's also super-glued Charlie's testicles to his thighs, poisoned Charlie to keep him sick so she can [[Florence Nightingale Effect|take care of him and get him to fall for
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: No matter what plot twists we're wrung through, Alan is still sponging off of Charlie, Jake is still a young doofus, Evelyn is still a self-absorbed drunk, Judith is still an absolute bitch, Charlie's still single, etc.
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: Charlie's jingles.
* [[Suddenly
* [[Take
* [[Taking the
* [[The Thing That Would Not
* [[Title Drop]]: As mentioned above, every episode is named after a throwaway line of dialogue from that episode.
* [[Toilet
* [[Took a Level in
** Jake also suffered from this. At first, he was a naive, but pretty nice kid. But as he got older, he became a lot more rude; making snide comments to his father and uncle, shows insensitivity to other people's feelings and barely appreciates the hardships his father goes through for him.
* [[
* [[Unproblematic
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy
* [[Vanity
* [[Viewers are
* [[Vomit Discretion
** Both played straight and averted in "Not In My Mouth". Lindsey gets terribly drunk and vomits everywhere on Walden's private plane. Though we never see it coming out of her mouth, puke appears on Alan and Walden's shirts, and a [[Squick|great huge splat strikes the window]]. Also seen in the Charlie era, where following a night of binge-boozing he excuses himself to the kitchen to retch loudly in the sink.
{{quote|'''Charlie''': Hey, guess who had a Cobb salad for dinner? ** Also in one episode, Jake is doing an experiment called the "human volcano" which involves coke, mentos, and a massive projectile vomit onto Alan.}}
* [[Weather
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: Charlie. A lot. But one example in particular had him wake up the next morning finding out he tried to mail his pants back to the manufacturer because he [[Groin Attack|snagged himself]] zipping up.
* [[What's a Henway?]]: Occurs in "I Called Him Magoo", after Alan's girlfriend said her first time having sex was at a Police concert:
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* [[Who Will Take the Kids?]]: If something should happen to Judith and Alan... ''Charlie''?!?
* [[Woman Scorned]]: This is ultimately the reason why Charlie died, in-universe.
* [[Worlds Smallest
* [[
* [[Yank the Dog's
* [[Yippee Ki-Yay!]]: Played with in this exchange in one episode:
{{quote|'''Alan''': Now, I have been to a lot of these things with Mom, and I know you think it's gonna be bad, but believe me, it's gonna be worse than you can even imagine.
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'''Charlie''': It was you.
'''Alan''': Yeah, well, now it's you. Yippee-ki-yay, mother-accompanier.}}
* [[You Look
** The actress who plays Chelsea, one of Charlie's few meaningful relationships for a long time (some would say ''too'' long) had already appeared in other roles in previous episodes, including the Pilot.
** The actress playing Kandi made an earlier appearance playing a woman in Charlie's shower, named "Bubbles". It is possible Bubbles ''was'' Kandi, as Kandi shows up two episodes later.
** [[Jenna
** [[Judy
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