Pilot (22 Sep. 2003)

After 12 years of marriage, his wife Judith, kicks Alan out. He turns to his older brother Charlie for help. Charlie has trouble adjusting his carefree lifestyle with the presence of his 10 year old nephew.

Director:

James Burrows

Writers:

Chuck Lorre (creator), Lee Aronsohn (creator),

Stars:

Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Charlie Sheen	...	Charlie Harper
Jon Cryer	...	Alan Harper
Angus T. Jones	...	Jake Harper
Marin Hinkle	...	Judith Harper
Melanie Lynskey	...	Rose
Holland Taylor	...	Evelyn Harper
Kristin Bauer van Straten	...	Laura (as Kristin Bauer)
Thomas F. Wilson	...	Mike (as Tom Wilson)
Frankie J. Allison	...	Rodney (as Frankie Jay Allison)
Eugene Byrd	...	Lenny
Jennifer Taylor	...	Suzanne
Eddie Gorodetsky	...	Doug
Dan Foster	...	Ken
Louisette Geiss	...	Karen

Storyline

Charlie Harper just had his pants down and a willing girl stripping for sex when his brother Alan calls, whose wife Judith threw him out with ten year-old son Jake. They move into playboy Charlie's beach-house 'a few days, tops', which seems an eternity for the serial seducer. Yet Jake grows on Charlie, as he proves a better babe-magnet then a puppy and a natural at seeing through poker-faces. When Judith announces the break-up is final, she may be lesbian, Charlie extends a long-term invitation to father and son, rather then let Jake undergo the influence of their selfish socialite mother from hell.

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Plot Keywords:

sex | gambling | undressing | brat | underwear | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 September 2003 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 26, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chuck Lorre Productions, Tannenbaum Company, The, Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

23 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The scene here Alan and Charlie drink, at the sound of a bell, in the bar is called Pavlov's. Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov used classical conditioning to train a dog, just as Alan and Charlie responded to the bell, by drinking a shot.

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Goofs

In the shot where Charlie says "he's thinking about it now," you can briefly see the white and pink dress worn by Blythe Danner as Evelyn in the original pilot episode rather than the blue outfit being worn by Holland Taylor in the reshoot.

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Quotes

Jake: Your mom is my grandma?
Charlie: Yep.
Jake: Grandma says you're a bitter disappointment.

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Crazy Credits

As with the end of every episode, Chuck Lorre always has a paragraph at the end of the episode. This episode production note says: "CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #108 When Dharma was cancelled, my heart was broken. Over the next few years my efforts to mend it by creating a new show led to an even deeper emotional nadir when I noticed I had somehow become the author of a seemingly endless succession of failed pilots and pilot scripts. This was not a big enough string of stinkers to lower AOL-Time Warner a stock price (that had already been done by people more incompetant than myself), but my ill-advised attempts at heart-mending were sufficient enough to cause people to not look up from their cobb salads when I ambled into the WB commissary (in Hollywood even has beens amble). But I was indominatable. I kept writing...and failing...and ambling. And then, about a year ago, my good friend and favorite cross-to-bear, Lee Aronsohn, told me he needed to write something fairly quickly in order to keep the Writer's Guild health insurance. Everyone -- friends, agents, execs -- told me not to get involved. They assured me that I was too big, too successful, for such a partnership. You see where this is going. Lee and I wrote "Two and a Half Men". Which brings me to the glaringly obvious spiritual lesson to all this. How do you mend a broken heart? The BeeGees never figured it out, but I did. You help a friend keep that health insurance from lapsing."

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