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I casually enjoy Big Bang Theory (though not NEARLY as much as How I Met Your Mother, about which I am, admittedly obsessed), but I can't watch even a minute of Two and a Half Men. My in laws love that show and watch it all the time and I just sit there jibbering. I don't understand what appeals to people about it so much, unless part of the appeal was watching Charlie Sheen's slow and steady descent from comedian to self-parody to utter madness. Clearly something about it makes people happy, because lord knows they've arrived in droves to watch it.
I am surprised that Angus Jones (or his agents) doesn't have more involvement in the next phase of this show. I feel like, while he may have been a little piece of the puzzle, he has to have been a critical piece. Unless he's made enough money to not care and wants to go, you know, have a childhood for a while instead of staying on TV, I'd find it bizarre for him to not be involved.
Finally, and pettily, I can't see how Married with Children, which was bizarre, pushing the envelope satire, can be occupying the same cultural landscape as Two and a Half Men which, whatever else it may be, is pandering and mainstream.
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