History Series / TwoAndAHalfMen

!!''Two and a Half Men'' provides examples of:

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Charlie's wearing pants and sleeping on the left side of the bed. Not to mention the fact that in the early seasons, he genuinely seems to care about Alan despite his hedonistic behavior, in stark contrast to the JerkAss he'd become for most of the remainder of the series. Not to mention the fact that Judith and Alan aren't nearly as horrible to each other as they'll ultimately become.

* CousinOliver: Season 11 had Charlie's long-lost daughter, Jenny, replace Jake.

Ladies' man Charlie Harper (Creator/CharlieSheen) is living the good life as a successful jingle writer in a seaside mansion in Los Angeles. That is, until his unlucky brother Alan (Creator/JonCryer), who was thrown out by his ex-wife, moves in, bringing his ten-year-old son Jake (Creator/AngusTJones). Now, not only does he have to cope with Rose (Creator/MelanieLynskey), the stalker who lives next door, Evelyn (Creator/HollandTaylor), his conniving and guilt-tripping mother, and Berta (Creator/ConchataFerrell), his sarcastic housekeeper, but also Alan's various neuroses and Jake completely lacking any sort of tact or personal hygiene. Unfortunately, however, Charlie's womanizing nature eventually catches up with him in 2011 when he catches a train the hard way. Enter suicidal billionaire Walden Schmidt (Creator/AshtonKutcher) as the new owner of Charlie's home. After quickly becoming friends with Alan, he continues to let him and Jake live with him while they get over the loss of Charlie.

The show aired on Creator/{{CBS}} from September 22, 2003 to February 19, 2015. Season eight was cut short after lead actor Creator/CharlieSheen was fired due to his self-destructive breakdown in 2011, one effect of which was a public feud with series creator Creator/ChuckLorre. The show continued with Creator/JonCryer taking Sheen's place in the lead role, joined by Creator/AshtonKutcher as co-lead Walden Schmidt. In the eleventh season, Angus T. Jones (who plays Jake) had his part changed to a recurring role due to college commitments, but did not appear onscreen again until his cameo in the series finale two years later.

* InstantSeduction: Charlie, natch.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: Averted in "818-jklpuzo;" the singer comes off as realistically unable to sing.
** Also averted in "And the Plot Moistens". Jake is realistically terrible at singing.

** Alan, the BromanticFoil to his brother Charlie who is TheCasanova, is a meek ButtMonkey who is consistently portrayed as a poor lover (not that it [[HollywoodDateless stops him from dating gorgeous women]]). In a season 10 episode, his two biggest {{Love Interest}}s, Kandi and Lyndsey, meet and [[CommonalityConnection bond over his lack of skills in the bedroom]], and even end up sleeping together.

* HollywoodDateless: Although gnomish, nebbishy, and for all practical purposes homeless, Alan does fairly well in the tail department. Most of the failures in his relationships come about as a result of either his crippling insecurity and neediness or the fact that he gravitates towards emotionally damaged women. This included his first ex Judith, his second ex Kandi, his former receptionist Melissa--and her mother--Rose, and a pill-popping suicidal woman played by Creator/JaneaneGarofalo and Rose herself (not Melissa's mother but Charlie's Rose, the Rose that is mad and played by Creator/MelanieLynskey).

%%* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Daddies]]

* InLoveWithLove: Walden, who can’t have sex with any woman without starting to think she’s ‘the one’. It got to the point his therapist tells him to ‘bang AnythingThatMoves’ (in these words) to stop forming emotional attachments so quickly.

* UngratefulBastard: What grown-up Jake has become. He's getting better in his attitude towards his father in Season 10, though, most likely as a result of enlisting in the Army.
** Alan has shades of this throughout the whole series, but it's more obvious in the later seasons. Most notable is when Charlie throws away his marriage to Mia because she wanted Alan to move out. When this is revealed to Alan, he barely seems to care and never mentions it again (Though in Alan's defense, he correctly guessed the real reason is because Charlie got cold feet and used Alan as an excuse to call off the wedding). This is on top of living at Charlie's house rent-free (and exploiting and manipulating him when he finally does charge Alan rent).

** Charlie, who is revealed to have had numerous NoodleIncidents with {{Wholesome Crossdresser}}s and/or possibly UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} suitors he had mistaken for women and then goes on a loud GayAngst debate that he accidentally slept with a dude "once because he was drunk and he had breasts!" and "a dude who wanted to be a woman, which meant he was looking for a straight man which is me!". Despite his Womanizer reputation and having possible relations with men, he still considers himself "straight" above all this and never considers the possibility of bisexuality.

* GagBoobs: Take a look [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-P-pQ_yRmA&feature=related here]]

* BungledSuicide: When his wife left him, Walden tried to drown himself in the ocean. [[WhatAnIdiot Apparently he didn't realize that the water would be really cold]].

** In "West Side Story", Larry and Lyndsey, and Alan and Gretchen, are playing a Pictionary-type game where Larry thinks the object Lyndsey is drawing is a duck (it's actually a witch hat). He guesses various duck-related topics, including "Duckie, from ''Film/PrettyInPink''!" Of course, Duckie was played by Creator/JonCryer (Alan), who gives Larry a strange look at this point.

* AllJustADream: The HumiliationConga that spans most of the episode [[spoiler: "Frodo's Headshots"]], from learning Jake's tutor is pregnant to seeing Walden making out with his girlfriend to being booted out of the house to being shot to death just as he was about to go out with someone.