He's moved on, for realistic costumes for Buzz & Woody, for his son's BD.
Well what happened ?
I met up with my dad on that Thursday in the afternoon. We were hanging out at home, casually getting ready for an event he wasn't even sure how to get dressed for. My sister on the other side of the U.S. knew I was taking our dad to go see the show so she sent him a random text asking him what 5 divided by 2 was. I was in the room when my pops got that txt message and he was confused, wondering if that text was a riddle or something. He said, "2.5, duh." And that was that.
We get in my car and there was a bunch of traffic. After about 10 minutes he jumped out of his seat in the car and started laughing..(without me saying anything at all)
"We're gonna go see 2 & Half Men?!?!" he screams.
"How the hell did you know?!" I say.
He knows my sis and I even though she's on the east coast that we're always in cahoots and he quickly realized what that division text meant. Needless (he discussed) his favorite episodes and needing to catch up on the last season.
As I side note; my dad hates the way I drive. Always has, always will. I'm a fast driver and my dad always freaks out thinking i'm gonna get pulled over (though never have)...For some reason that afternoon my dad kept insisting I drive faster to the studio. "Hurry the hell up!" (lol)
We finally get to Warner Bros. Studios and it's packed. People everywhere. Luckily however most of the crowds were for Ellen's taping and not 2 & a half men. The tickets requested we get there 90 minutes prior to filming, which starts at 7pm but even with us arriving at 5pm, we were some of the last people there. Lukcily however upon us entering into the soundstage we got some pretty kickass seats right smack in the middle, between Charlie's living room and their kitchen.
We sat and waited for about an hour, along with perhaps a hundred others. Fortunately there was a comedian warming us up, mentioning that all of our laughs were being recorded for the show and they even played back for us an un-aired episode (before the actual taping) to gauge our responses.
It was actually a pretty funny episode where Allen moves out of Charlie's place, moves in with the wife from "According to Jim" and she was in this lingerie that was just ridiculously hot. Look out for that episode cause she was wow.
When they finally got ready to film Charlie Sheen, guy that plays Allen and the housekeeper Berta came out. The kid wasn't in this particular episode. This was the 8th episode of the new season; where Charlie discovers he's dating an older woman that he is (she's 47, he's 42) and it bothers him. And the entire episode Allen is caught masturbating in random spots of Charlie's house..obviously the comic relief in the episode.
In terms of the filming itself.....
The set is
super small compared to what you see on TV. The living room is tiny, with barely enough space to hold Charlie's piano. Whenever scenes are filmed at the kitchen table, the couch in front has to be removed for the camera to get in that tiny space. The camera's really make that Malibu house look spacing with the beach backdrop...but trust me, it's a small set. The stairs that lead to the upstairs are half the size you'd expect when you see an episode on TV. It really blew my mind.
During filming...Charlie & Allen are just great at acting. Yes, each messed up a couple of times but no scenes took more than 3 takes and that was great considering Allen's lengthy monologues which you'll see when the episode airs.
Sadly, no electronics of any kind were allowed. We had to pass through 2 metal detectors to get in; one into the studio and another into the soundstage.
"..and you wanted to bring you iPad," said my dad.
The comedian gave out numerous copies of signed photos of the cast in between takes to people that sang a song or displayed a weird talent. Women yelled out "I love you Charlie!" and Charlie Sheen would simply smile and give a thumbs up.
They even served everyone in the audience Pizza! Little Ceasars pizza
, but it was still pizza. lol.
He had a great time; my dad even kept the program each audience member got with the names of the cast and crew..
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and on the drive back home, my dad told me to slow down cause I was driving too fast.
