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Recap / Two And A Half Men S 8 E 14 Lookin For Japanese Subs

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Charlie continues to find himself pulled towards Rose now that he believes that she's married, just as Rose planned. Jake and Eldridge start recording themselves performing 'Jackass'-like stunts to upload to the internet.

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  • Farts on Fire: The 'Fumes of Fury' stunt intends to see if the flame generated from an especially powerful fart can act as propellant for the farter, sending a roller-skate wearing Eldridge off a ramp on the balcony out onto the beach. The fart does manage to generate a massive flame, but Eldridge isn't propelled forward in the slightest.
  • Parental Neglect: While it's perfectly understandable that Alan would be extremely frustrated with how stupid his son is, the end of the episode seems to indicate that he's starting to simply give up on raising and protecting him, walking out of the room and muttering under his breath after walking in on Jake and Eldridge doing another dangerous stunt as opposed to stopping them and attempting to enforce an end to the 'Dumbass' show.
  • Soda-Candy 'Splosion: The first of Jake and Eldridge's Jackass-style stunts, the "human volcano", has Jake consume warm (off-brand) Diet Coke and Mentos and lay on the floor. Alan shows up in the middle of it, getting vomit violently spewed in his face as a result.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Jake and Eldridge toss all sense of self-preservation out the window in performing their 'Dumbass' stunts, jumping off the roof of Charlie's house in a shopping cart. They seem completely unbothered by how easily they both could have died, and Alan's attempts to get them to understand how stupid their stunts are fall on deaf ears.
  • Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Jake's 'Human Volcano' stunt is shown in all it's disgusting glory, a fountain of diet soda spraying up into Alan's face. Not as bad as most examples since the 'vomit' is just diet soda.

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