# Charlie Sheen fired **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845 "2011-03-07T21:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/81 "2011-03-09T07:31:51Z")
A shrink on Anderson Cooper was opining that Sheen is definitely not on drugs, he has reached the point where he is like that without them. ---
**Author:** ![Agnostic\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@Agnostic\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agnostic_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/82 "2011-03-09T08:05:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > A shrink on Anderson Cooper was opining that Sheen is definitely not on drugs, he has reached the point where he is like that without them. He is not just a shrink. He is Dr. Drew [Pinksy] of _Loveline_ and _Celebrity Rehab_ fame. So he probably is the most qualified practitioner out there to give a proper assessment. As someone whose family has a history of mental illness, and I suffer from major depression myself, it is hard to watch. I’ve always had the good sense to never broadcast my meltdowns across the entire globe, and I hope if I ever get that urge that my family would throw me in a psych ward before they let me get in front of a web cam. That said, I find myself with little sympathy for Sheen. I wish I had a hundredth of the resources he has to deal with my issues. He has no excuse, and this will only make it that much harder for others to confront themselves. “I am not as crazy as that guy, so my problems are nothing to worry about.” He does not need rehab; he needs serious psychiatric help. And I hope Sheen’s accountants have set up a decent nest egg for him, but I cannot see him working as an actor for a long time, if ever after this meltdown. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/83 "2011-03-09T08:40:39Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > He’s definitely got flight of ideas, and I’m hearing what I’d consider circumstantiality, derailment, clanging and hints of word salad, as well. Those are signs of thought disorders (mental illness) not drug abuse. I actually think he \*might \*be clean right now, and the drugs he was using to mask his thought disorder are no longer doing their job. You know, this does go hand in hand with his statements about how he tried sobriety five years ago and found that it wasn’t “for him.” If he’s been self-medicating and is now devolving because there’s no chemical filter keeping his illnesses at bay, it’s going to get worse and worse. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/84 "2011-03-09T14:06:50Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > I forget who tweeted this but > > Q: How much coke did Charlie Sheen do? > A: Enough to kill Two and a Half Men Love it! Drugs and/or insanity, that video is scarey! ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/85 "2011-03-10T00:54:21Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > It’s a zero-sum game for the crew. CBS still needs to produce shows to fill time-slots, and the crew will get shifted to the next one. That’s not really how television production works. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/86 "2011-03-10T02:27:52Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Yeah, but I was thinking of his father and his brother, who are also rich and famous, thus immune to threats of being cut off. I’d bet anything his parents and siblings are working on a way to force him to get help for his illness and do some sort of conservatorship. Unfortunately, they probably have to give him enough rope to nearly hang himself, a la Britney Spears, before they will be successful. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/87 "2011-03-10T20:19:17Z")
…AND now here comes the lawsuits…😃 > [@](#): > > TMZ reports that Sheen has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. and Lorre, demanding that he be paid for the eight “Two and a Half Men” episodes that fell by the wayside. Not only that, the actor is suing for $100,000,000 plus punitive damages on behalf of the entire crew. Full story at [Zap2It.Com](http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2011/03/charlie-sheen-two-and-a-half-men-crew-sue-warner-bros-chuck-lorre.html) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/88 "2011-03-10T22:17:13Z")
He can always fall back onto his cooking show. [Charlie Sheen’s cooking show](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bfb12aea47/charlie-sheen-s-winning-recipes?playlist=featured_videos) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/89 "2011-03-11T17:23:37Z")
Jon Cryer has come out from under the bridge and admitted that he is, indeed, a troll. ["It get’s better. Not gay better, but still, sorta better.”](http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/11/jon-cryer-the-fact-is-im-a-troll/?hpt=T2) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845/90 "2011-03-11T18:04:10Z")
This morning in the CNN Newsroom: “Anderson’s going to Japan so get the tight T-shirt and black jeans out of the vault. Roll the earthquake animation, show some sad people talking about Japan, show Japan, then cut to Sheen. Maybe we could seg with ‘Shockwaves of another sort were felt in Hollywood today over Charlie Sheen’s lawsuit against Chuck Lorre…’. Oh, get that doctor on who’s going to look all sad while talking about what an out of control freak Sheen’s being.” Currently in the Fox newsroom: “If Obama speaks about Japan we open with outrage over him ignoring the problems here, etc and so forth. If he doesn’t give a press conference about the earthquake then open with outrage over his disrespect of Japan. Either way, roll the computer earthquake animation, show some people looking sad in Japan etc and so forth, then cut to Sheen. Maybe for a seg we could say 'Charlie Sheen is hitting a 8.9 on the Hollywood Meltdown scale for his latest earthshaking antics…”. Currently in the MSNBC newsroom: “Roll the Japan footage, show the computer earthquake animation, then roll the video of Bush Sr. vomiting at the Japanese dinner. Then cut to to a 14 minute editorial about how we’re not going to join other networks in talking about Charlie Sheen. Find some cheap footage of Sheen in his heyday… Terminal Velocity can’t cost much.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-sheen-fired/573845.md?page=4)