Two and a Half Men/Trivia

• Actor Allusion:
  • Charlie, every now and then, goes to a psychiatrist played by Jane Lynch. In "My Puppy's Dead", he and Alan go home after one visit and watch Glee, to which he responds "that tall blond in the red track suit is freaking me out."
  • In "Warning, It's Dirty", Evelyn remarks that a character played by Carl Reiner is "a thousand years old".
  • In "People who Love Peepholes", Alan says that "when I was was in high school, I was dating a poster of Molly Ringwald." Before Two and a Half Men, Jon Cryer was most famous for Pretty in Pink, where his character is hopelessly in love with Ringwald's.
  • In "A Giant Cat Holding A Churro", Alan confronts his girlfriend Lindsey, played by Courtney Thorne-Smith, with her playing in a soft-core porn movie when she was younger and she then tells that the producer had said he could get her on Melrose Place. Courtney Thorne-Smith was a Melrose Place regular for the first five seasons.
• Creator Breakdown: The circumstances surrounding Charlie Sheen's exit are an explosive example.
• The Danza:
  • Charlie Sheen as Charlie Harper.
  • Paula Marshall as Paula, Alan’s transsexual girlfriend from episodes 9-10 of Season 11.
• Fake American: Rose, played by New Zealander Melanie Lynskey.
• Money, Dear Boy: A variation; the main reason why Chuck Lorre pushed the network to commission a pilot was because co-creator Lee Aronsohn would cease to be eligible for WGA health coverage if one of his scripts wasn't put into production very soon. Fortunately for all concerned, it turned out that the network quite liked the pilot...
• Write Who You Know: Charlie Harper's characterization is basically that of his actor, Charlie Sheen. It's even referred to as such by Trifecta.

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