Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Tomorrow night at 9p on CBS, it is sadly the season finale for Two and Half Men. A few weeks ago, I was at a Warner Bros event honoring Chuck Lorre and the casts of his sitcoms talked about their shows. Someone wanted to know what Conchata Ferrell thought it was like to work with Ashton Kutcher.
Ferrell, who has played the housekeeper on the show since the first season, described the first time he appeared on it. Alan (Jon Cryer) was holding his dead brother’s ashes in a jar, when he accidentally flung them in the air. Through the cloud of Charlie Harper’s ashes, Walden Schmidt (Kutcher) suddenly appears and she said it was breathtaking.
That was the first we all saw him, but that was not when her character met her new boss. She shared that story, “first time I met Walden, he was totally naked, and I was charmed. It was easy to be charmed.”
That lead in to Cryer being asked about what is his weirdest memory of working with his husband on the show. For him, it was, “The moment I actually knew Ashton was totally going to fit in on the show was in the pilot.” Then he explained, “We were faced with an odd problem where he (Kutcher) had to be naked, and the audience had to see him, but we didn’t want to put the little flesh colored undies on him, because then the joke wouldn’t work, because the whole point was he had to be naked.” Then he added, “So we didn’t know how to do that in front of a live audience. And we were all sort of going back, and the writers and everybody, and there was, like, this just incredible agonizing over what are we going to do in front of the audience, what are we going to do, and then Ashton piped in, ‘Oh, I happen to have an enormous prosthetic penis in my trailer.’” Once the newest man on the show said that, Cryer knew he was going to fit in.
I bet you are wondering, why did he have a huge prosthetic penis in his trailer? It was a prop from his MTV show Punk’d. Kutcher then chimed in and said Cryer didn’t have to tell us why because “That’s mysterious. Leave it that way, Jon.” Even though it was supposed to be mysterious, Kutcher wound up sharing that, “It wasn’t my penis, it was somebody else’s penis.” Cryer then summed it all up with, “That was a weird moment.” While Kutcher ended the discussion, with these choice words, “Yeah. Top that, folks.Top that.” Nobody could and nobody ever will be.
When it comes to will the show go out on top, Chuck Lorre said, “I think we’re going to have a finale that you’ll be very, very pleased with. And that’s all I’m going to say about it.” We will just have to tune in tomorrow at 9p to find out. Knowing how hysterical the show has been through its run, I am sure we are not going to have another Seinfeld on our hands.

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Tonight at 8:30p, Mike & Molly celebrates its 100th episode on CBS.
A big reason why this sitcom is reaching this magic number is because of the chemistry between the cast. Was it there from day 1? Recently I was at the Warner Bros TCA Winter Press Day Event, and Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell talked about just that. Molly said that the whole cast hit it off immediately. Then she added, “We had a feeling after the first show that we’d been together about three years.”
That is how they felt when they all started filming the pilot, but for the two leads it happened even earlier. They knew as soon as they tested for the roles. Melissa explained that she was very pregnant at the time and she “waddled in” to meet her potential onscreen lover. Gardell took it from there, “We had each read with the other Mike and the other Molly, and then we read together.” Then he added, “Look, they found me in a comedy club in Houston. But I knew nothing about casting television, but I knew when we read it there was just you can’t wish for that. And you can’t just go, I want that to happen.”
That happened time and time again when the other cast members like Reno Wilson, Swoosie Kurtz and Katy Mixon read for their parts.
Gardell concluded the question by saying, “We stayed that way through five years, and I think it comes through. We all get along, and we really love each other.” A love you can see when you tune in every Monday a 8:30p.

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Tonight’s Mom at 8:30p on CBS get serious when someone close to them dies.
Now that Christy’s (Anna Farris) dad (Kevin Pollak) is back in her life, things seem to be going so much better for her. They are even better for her mom, Bonnie (Allison Janney), who has rekindled that fire that gave them Christy all those years ago. Bonnie doesn’t want to let him go again, so she rents him the apartment next to her family’s so he can be close to all of them.
Then they all get some bad news that someone they love has died. The loss is so hard on Bonnie, she is thinking of taking up drinking again. Will Christy be able to convince her mom to put down the bottle before it is too late?
I have heard great things about Mom, but I never watched it until this episode. Now, I get what everyone is talking about. This show brings the emotion and the heart, but also adds the right amount of comedy to make it a sitcom everyone can love and appreciate.

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