# Winning!! Charlie Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" character to get funeral on premiere **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223 "2011-08-02T21:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/1 "2011-08-02T21:42:04Z")
[Charlie Sheen’s “Two and a Half Men” character to get funeral on premiere](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20087128-10391698.html) If this is the case, and if they do not mine comedy gold with this the writers need to turn in their word processors. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/2 "2011-08-02T22:10:35Z")
Not that I ever watch the show, but ever heard of a **SPOILER**? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/3 "2011-08-02T22:16:08Z")
[QUOTE=article] In June, TMZ reported that producers decided to kill off Sheen’s character on the show by having him drive off a cliff. [/QUOTE] Out in a ball of fire, how appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/4 "2011-08-02T22:17:10Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Not that I ever watch the show, but ever heard of a **SPOILER**? :rolleyes: Spoiler? I think his removal from the show and his being killed off to make way for the new actor is pretty much galaxy wide news at this point. This story is merely confirming they will actually have a funeral, it says nothing about the specific plot elements of how this will be addressed. The cliff was a guess by the article writers. What a delicious metaphor though! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/5 "2011-08-02T22:17:28Z")
I don’t think the spoiler rule applies here since the episode hasn’t aired yet and all the articles about the possibility of this plot move have trumpeted it from the very headline. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/6 "2011-08-02T22:17:38Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Not that I ever watch the show, but ever heard of a **SPOILER**? :rolleyes: You came into a thread about a show which you never watch just to throw down some :rolleyes: justice? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/7 "2011-08-02T22:21:59Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > You came into a thread about a show which you never watch just to throw down some :rolleyes: justice? [Larry]I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.[/Larry] ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/8 "2011-08-02T22:25:41Z")
Meanwhile Charlie Sheen is to be roasted on Comedy Central that same week. I wonder if any 2.5M cast members will be among the roasters. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/9 "2011-08-02T22:44:14Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Meanwhile Charlie Sheen is to be roasted on Comedy Central that same week. I wonder if any 2.5M cast members will be among the roasters. You have to wonder about how this would really play out with Charlie Sheen. Some of the entertainment from a celebrity roast is going beyond the limits of polite discourse and parodying or mocking the roastee, but he is so far out on the limb of self parody and public humiliation already how far will they have to go for anything they say about him to be outrageous or surprising? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/10 "2011-08-02T22:48:26Z")
I wonder if Desise Richard’s character will show up as part of the parade of Charlie’s exes? And wether most of the exes will be there to mourn or just to make sure it’s really him in the box. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/11 "2011-08-02T22:55:28Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I wonder if Desise Richard’s character will show up as part of the parade of Charlie’s exes? And wether most of the exes will be there to mourn or just to make sure it’s really him in the box. 😛 See… there’s a mother lode to be mined here. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/12 "2011-08-03T00:12:52Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > I don’t think the spoiler rule applies here since the episode hasn’t aired yet and all the articles about the possibility of this plot move have trumpeted it from the very headline. Okay, I read the forum rules on this and don’t understand why they wouldn’t apply. Granted there is a chance that the info in that article is false in which case it isn’t spoiling. People who don’t want things like this revealed to them in advance can avoid entertainment news but that shouldn’t keep them from reading message titles. Combine all of that with the general concept of courtesy - the basis of the spoiler rule and this one is pretty bad. I knew that Sheen would not be back but until I read the thread title I didn’t know if he was being written out dead or alive. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/13 "2011-08-03T00:13:10Z")
Now that would be funny. Open casket funeral, but facing the other way so we can’t see what is in it, just the faces of people as they shuffle by and talk to his corpse. Denise Richard’s character walks up. Pulls out a BIG HONKING KNIFE and stabs the corpse. “Yup, he’s dead.” ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winning-charlie-sheens-two-and-a-half-men-character-to-get-funeral-on-premiere/591223/14 "2011-08-03T00:29:15Z")
They did a dream-sequence funeral for Charlie Harper a few years ago: [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuhOS3UduY)