“Two And A Half Men” Goes “CSI”
By Chuck Barney
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am in CSI, Two and a Half Men.
Is that a corpse we see on “Two and a Half Men”?
I usually try to avoid the overly crude and not-so-funny “Two and a Half Men.” But I’m a shameless sucker for gimmicks, so I had to tune into last night’s episode, which was penned by writers from “CSI” in a sweeps crossover stunt. (The “Two and a Half Men” writers return the favor on Thursday).
My reaction? I’d give it a C+, maybe a B-.
Of course, there had to be a murder and so we learn that Teddy (Robert Wagner) has been killed on his wedding day — while having sex, no less. The buff and beautiful forensics investigators even find lipstick on his “hu-hu,” a development that allows the writers to giddily wallow in penis jokes (”Who do you suppose was smoking Teddy’s sausage?”).
That’s about as good as it got in a rather lame and uneven half-hour that also contained references to big boobs, semen splatters and one fart joke.
The touches of “CSI” included extreme inner close-ups inside the boy’s mouth and throat any time he swallowed something, a very brief cameo by George Eads and the melding of The Who and the “Men” theme song. The latter, according to my TV critic friend Roger Catlin, was “like beer on your cereal.”
Yuck.
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May 6th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Wow..what’s it coming to? You can print this crap and have to replace my damn with (darn)?? I just don’t get it. Patti
May 6th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Yeah, Patti, I’ll address that. One is online and the other is in the newspaper, which is generally considered more conservative when it comes to language. And, for the record, I have never agreed with our poolicy to disallow the word “damn,” which was uttered by Clark Gable in “Gone With the Wind” in 1939, for crying out loud.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
But it was shocking of Clark! Shocking!
Aw. I liked the episode. It wasn’t the most hilarious ever or the best episode to date but it was a fun send up. I really liked “Grissom”. Yowza.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Two and a Half Men is one of my favorite shows, and I follow it all over now that it’s in syndication…… I’m wondering if that was the original intent of the storyline until the CSI people came in?……it seemed like a page out of a soap opera..where the storyline is going along in a direction that looks like its projected for months…..and then wooosh! new writers….new twist…..characters acting out of character (I wondered last week why father (Wagner) was arguing with daughter (McCarthy) with whom he had been indulgent before)……and now I remember why I don’t watch CSI…..I hate blood and that going into the body schtick ….yuk! Good 2 1/2 Men…..yuk on the CSI gimmicks….and we lost Robert Wagner and potential story line twists with a step dad on the scene.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Not my favorite of episodes, either…didn’t care for the CSI shtick and if you don’t know CSI or the characters, it would be boring. My husband kind of liked it. Love the show, but stick to the regular stuff….However, the writing of the rest was hysterical as always. Need more of Berta’s lines…