Season 9 - Episode 8
Comedy Central (UK)
Alan takes a mental breakdown and believes that he's Charlie. I'm not sure there's much else to say about this episode of Two and a Half Men, other than despite how that first sentence may sound, this is the best episode of the show in around 2 years.
After witnessing Walden hook up with a hot one night stand, Alan takes things badly, and starts talking to Charlie in heaven (quite why he thinks Charlie would be in heaven, other than for a plot device, is beyond me) and suddenly starts to talk and act exactly like his dead brother, even going as far as calling himself Charlie to his newly found ladyfriend (the utterly captivating Taylor Cole, nice to se eher back on TV after being the best thing about the abomination that was The Event last year). Things spiral out of control when he starts wearing bowling shirsts and shorts, and in interactions with Walden, it becomes obvious that he actually believes he is Charlie. Walden then checks him into a mental institution, and the episode closes with Alan exclaiming that he is "winning". A thinly veiled dig at Charlie Sheen, but very funny!
"Thank You For the Intercourse" takes Two and a Half Men in a bit of a new direction, and it realy works well. Knowing that the show could now go a number of ways is intriguing, I just hope they don't screw up a good opportunity out of pettiness.
*** 1/2
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