Two and a Half Men “Gumby With a Pokey” – Season 8 Episode
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This episode of Two and a Half Men starts out with Charlie and Alan sitting on the couch together at night watching TV. It highlights one of the most recurring story lines that has made the show so funny over the years.
Alan is at the same time whining as he is psycho analyzing Charlie. Alan has always been a lame duck in the show and his ungratefulness for his brother Charlie’s generosity is both baffling and hilarious at the same time.
In this particular instance he is complaining that Charlie is watching the weather Channel and wondering if this is Charlie’s life now…sitting here at home alone waiting for Chelsea to call or come by. Charlie seems perfectly content for this to be his life.
Then the phone rings and Charlie gets very excited answering it saying “Chelsea”.
But then that kid on Christmas morning smile on his face goes away when he finds out it’s Judith.
The expression on Alan’s face also drops into sadness and melancholy as he takes the call. She tells him her grandfather died.
Another recurring storyline throughout the seasons is Alan’s forced continued interaction with his ex-wife Judith who hated and resented him while they were married and now is a bloodsucker sucking him dry with the exorbitant child support and alimony payments. She’s been a constant nag and one of the biggest reasons he can never get his head above water financially.
We learned a few seasons ago she doesn’t even really need the alimony but is just taking it because of perceived sleights she felt he made against her during their marriage. When he was having particular problems financially she told him he could delay the alimony payment because her grandmother left her a sizable inheritance.
This time she actually gives him some good news that her grandfather died. He is not so much happy about that but what follows is she tells him her grandfather left him a very old and valuable grandfather clock. He’s giddy with excitement thinking about the cool things he is going to buy with that especially the new car which turns out to be a Lexus convertible he wants.
He invites Charlie on the drive because the grandfather lived in Sacramento. Charlie has never hidden his feelings about not wanting to spend very much time with Alan and so declines.
Charlie’s seething rage and continuously building resentment towards Alan is another main plot line that has underlied the series since the beginning.
Alan has stayed inexplicably chipper over the eight seasons even as calamity after calamity affects him. He takes Charlie’s rejection with a grain of salt and says it’s okay because he’ll just take Jake with him.
This gets Charlie very excited because for once he’ll have the house all to himself just like he likes it.
Charlie has been having trouble sleeping because of his broken heart. He wants Chelsea back.
He goes to the funny pharmacist guy who’s been one of the most memorable minor characters in the series. The guy tells him that if he wants to sleep he needs to get this sweet weed that he’s got. Charley unexpectedly says “but I don’t have a prescription for that”. The pharmacist wonders what he’s doing following the letter and the spirit of law only in this one instance.
This starts a very funny exchange between Charlie, the pharmacist, and a new player which is a doctor from Sri Lanka. You have to see it because it’s hilarious.
Jake and Alan are having a typically uncomfortable drive up to Sacramento.
For a father and son they have very little in common. Jake is still dumb and this frustrates his father to no end.
Jake has a simple mind with simple wants and desires. And it’s almost a single-minded focus to his detriment many times.
You can probably guess because Alan inherited the grandfather clock what is going to happen during the transport. He is being so careful with his driving on the way back because he can see, feel and almost smell that new car smell as he’s driving his new Lexus convertible.
Overall another quite funny episode of 2 and 1/2 men. I’m definitely glad Charlie Sheen has signed on for another two seasons of this great comedy.
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