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CHARLIE SHEEN CHARACTER FUNERAL IN 1ST NEW 2 1/2 EPISODE

gregg75

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or will it be like Isaac Hayes leaving South Park? Get shot, stabbed, fall over a cliff, and then
have a pack of wolves devouring the pieces, etc.?
 
easttxtv said:
I heard that in the most recent new episode, that Charlie was supposed to fly off to Paris with some woman. If he gets killed off, wouldn't the most logical cause be a plane crash?
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Maybe that was the original plan, but discarded it due to bad taste (especially after the 2009 Air France crash of a flight between Rio and Paris).
 
azumanga said:
Maybe that was the original plan, but discarded it due to bad taste (especially after the 2009 Air France crash of a flight between Rio and Paris).
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Also, narratively speaking, you have to kill dozens of other (in-show) "people" to make that plot point happen. Bad idea.
 
hubcity said:
azumanga said:
Maybe that was the original plan, but discarded it due to bad taste (especially after the 2009 Air France crash of a flight between Rio and Paris).
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Also, narratively speaking, you have to kill dozens of other (in-show) "people" to make that plot point happen. Bad idea.
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It would also be an inside joke, because I don't think most general public people would associate "2 1/2 Men's Charlie dying off" and "2009 Air France plane crash" without A LOT of help.
 
Whatever happens- its going to be must watch TV by 2011 standards- its the "Who Shot J.R.?" of the comedy world...

Speaking of, shot by a scorned lover sounds like an appropriate theme for both J.R. Ewing and Charlie Harper.
 
justpassingthough said:
Whatever happens- its going to be must watch TV by 2011 standards- its the "Who Shot J.R.?" of the comedy world...
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Didn't we already have that in 1995--with the Simpsons' "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (with Maggie Simpson the assailant).
 
landtuna said:
Personally, I think Berta is going to do it.
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Not Berta, Rose. She way have just stalked him a wee bit too much. :D
 
Don't they usually shoot two or three possibilities so that no one will know what is the actual show till airtime?
 
MarcB said:
And for whatever reason they're being hush-hush about Ashton Kutcher's character. They said he showed up for rehersals today and tweeted that he arrived on set for his new job. Filming begins Friday.
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It's interesting that there is a rumor that Ashton Kutcher is playing a version of himself in the show. A single version of himself, or a recently divorced version of himself, who drinks and womanizes would certainly take the place of the Charlie character. Arguably, Charlie Harper was just a less famous version of Charlie Sheen himself.
 
Yahoo says he's going to be "a mysterious billionaire."
I didn't read past the frontpage blurb, because, well I figured that was enough. ;)
 
LibertyNT said:
Something tells me the show just won't be as good.
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I think this is correct, the show is basically a fictional version of Charlie Sheen's life.

The trick to making it a success is going to be able to transition formats. Not a lot of shows can do this. "The Hogan Family" is probably the best example of this. A show revolving around a star that changed direction.
 
I liked the one premise I heard where Charlie got kidnapped or just left the show, and Cryer got married and his new wife had a kid. Goodness knows Angus T. Jones is old enough to be one of the men. Won't people grow tired of seeing a dead man in the syndicated shows? I think Chuck Lorre is being stupid and this move will eventually hurt the rebroadcast of the shows in syndication.
 
KyDXIn said:
Won't people grow tired of seeing a dead man in the syndicated shows?
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CBS isn't going to care about the syndicated episodes it doesn't air anymore, and the entire point of Warner Bros. hiring Ashton Kutcher was to keep the show going to fill those future syndication orders.
 
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