The taping of the Two and a Half Men season 9 premiere was recently completed, and details have emerged that reveal how Charlie Sheen’s character, Charlie Harper bites the dust. Rather than writing him out of the show, Chuck Lorre was hell-bent on ensuring his character could never return and in a stroke creative revenge, the character has been killed off in a most violent way – one that Charlie Sheen seems okay with.
In the last episode of season 8, Charlie and his stalker neighbour Rose, went off to resume their relationship – and over the fictional summer, supposedly got married. The story sees Charlie unable to keep it in his pants for long and hooks up with another woman, Rose catches them in the shower but rather than going all Norman Bates on them, she plots her revenge. While they’re waiting for the Paris subway the next day, Rose pushes him in-front of the train (she claims however that he slipped) and just to make sure he hasn’t survived, they say his body disintegrates on impact.
In the new season Ashton Kutcher shows up as a “lonely internet billionaire” who buys Charlie’s house after the funeral.
You can check out a picture from the funeral set via TMZ (Harper’s trademark bowling shirt and shorts hang in front of a chapel – no coffin or an urn in sight)
Shortly after the news of his character’s demise, Sheen told TMZ:
I am honored that it took something as large and violent as an oncoming train to terminate my character… Anything less would have been an insult!
Despite the controversy that Sheen caused, his performance was never an issue. Perhaps a resolve could’ve been reached, though this narrative turn ends any chance of a return and it will be interesting to see how audiences warm to this creative shift.
Two and a Half Men returns September 19 on CBS
via: TMZ
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