DVD Review: Two and a Half Men: The Complete Sixth Season

Written by General Jabbo

Season six of Two and a Half Men brings more of the usual antics from drunken womanizer Charlie (Charlie Sheen), his neurotic brother Alan (Jon Cryer), and Alan’s dimwitted son, Jake (Angus T. Jones) but offers some twists. Charlie finds a girlfriend named Chelsea (Jennifer Bini Taylor) who tried her best to reign in the eternal playboy, Alan considers patching things up with his ex-wife Judith (Marin Hinkle), and Jake ponders college and a cooking career of all things after his grandmother Evelyn (Holland Taylor) offers to pay for his college.

In the first episode, Charlie runs into an old flame who doesn’t want anything to do with him. Problem is, she has a son who looks and dresses just like Charlie and even plays the piano like him. Charlie is desperate to know if this is his son and ends up having a nightmare that he has hundreds of children running around. Finally, out of guilt, he offers financial support to the child’s mother, but is he really the father?

Alan decides that rather than start from scratch every time he breaks up with a woman, he’ll just date two at a time. He figures if Charlie can do it, so can he. He finds it’s not as easy as he thinks though. Meanwhile Jake, who is now 14, misunderstands the advice Charlie gives him about drinking and gets a man named Satellite Jack to buy him beer at a party store with $20 Alan had given him.

When Charlie’s friend and old partner-in-crime, Andy (Emilio Estevez), dies while visiting Charlie, it causes Charlie to rethink his own life, buying gifts for everyone except Alan and nearly proposing to Rose (Melanie Lynskey). He tells Alan that Andy was like the brother he never had, which is ironic, of course, as Estevez is his real-life brother. While at Andy’s funeral, he nods off and imagines his own funeral. Alan has inherited everything as Charlie left no will, James Earl Jones delivered the eulogy for $25,000 and a succession of Charlie’s ex-girlfriends line up to spit in his casket.

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  • 1 - Golf Reviews

    Sep 05, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    This is my favorite season by far. I know the story line isn't changing much, Charlie is drunk, Alan is neurotic, and Jake is lazy, it's still a good watch. It's made it this far.. and maybe Charlie actually has a son?

  • 2 - A two and a half men fan

    Sep 07, 2009 at 8:03 am

    this is the worst season by far.
    stupid jokes and I don't like how alan has become sooo weeeiird.
    And I just have to ask: why is jake so stupid?!. he has never been this dumb before. yeah, he was a bit stupid sometimes but not that dumb, like he couldn't think at all.

    I love the other seasons of two and a half , but this season was just so bad...

  • 3 - Joan Wilson

    Dec 30, 2009 at 5:02 pm

    I HAVE WATCHED ENOUGH SHOWS TO KNOW THAT THE
    "TWO AND A HALF MEN" CAN BE REALLY REALLY FUNNY WITHOUT DISPLAYING THE DISRESPECT BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD AND WITHOUT PRACTICALLY EVERY EPISODE INVOLVING SEX. THIS SHOW IS ON WHEN CHILDREN ARE UP AND POSSIBLY WATCHING, AND GIVING THESE EXAMPLES OF HOW LACK OF RESPECT AND CONSTANT SEX ARE EVERYDAY EVENTS FOR CHILDREN GROWING UP ARE LITERALLY A DISGRACE. WHEN THEY ARE FUNNY ON OTHER SUBJECTS AND CLEANER THIS COULD BE THE BEST COMEDY ON TV, WHOEVER WRITES THESE
    STORIES NEEDS TO CLEAN UP THE STORY LINES.
    LIKE I SAID, SOME OF YOUR SHOWS HAVE ALOT
    OF FUNNY SUBJECTS AND ENJOYABLE BUT THE
    CONSTANT SEX AND DISRESPECT WE CAN DO WITHOUT. HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU LIKE FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO TALK TO YOU LIKE YOU HAVE THE TWO AND HALF MEN TALKING TO THEIR MOM OR DAD or UNCLE. PEOPLE CAN BE FUNNY WITHOUT BEING GROSS. THANK YOU.

  • 4 - El Bicho

    Dec 30, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Apparently you haven't spent enough time with your keyboard to know where the "Caps Lock" button is located. Other buttons you should look into are the off button and the one that changes channels.

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