14 DAY TRIAL // Charlie Harper is no longer with us. Charlie Sheen’s character on “Two and a Half Men” is officially out of the picture, with the first episode of the new show shooting late on Friday. Harper went away in a very violent fashion, it has emerged.
Fans knew for a long time that Sheen’s character would meet his end on the show, at the beginning of the season, given the ongoing feud between the actor and CBS and Warner Bros., which is also the one that got fired.
TMZ reports that producers made sure Sheen would never stand as much as a chance to ever return to the show – by killing off his character in the most gruesome manner.
*Please be warned of potential spoilers ahead, so don’t go any further if you wish to be surprised when the episode airs.*
The episode that taped on Friday and that saw Ashton Kutcher’s arrival on the show starts off with scenes of Charlie Harper’s funeral.
TMZ has the details of what happened before, that is, hints about Harper’s death.
“Sources at Friday night’s taping tell us, Harper married Rose – the neighbor/stalker he flew to Paris with last season – but things went downhill quickly when she found him in the shower with another woman,” the e-zine reports.
“In the episode, we’re told Rose speaks at the funeral and recounts what happened to Charlie... saying the day after the shower incident she and Charlie were waiting for a Paris subway when Charlie ‘slipped’ and the subway literally blew him apart in a ‘meat explosion’,” TMZ further writes.
In other words, Harper met probably one of the gruesome, bloodiest and most unexpected ends in the history of sitcoms. But there’s more to it, the aforementioned media outlet suggests.
“The strong inclination was that Rose pushed him and got away with it,” TMZ writes.
Of course, TMZ got no one to confirm the above. Even if the report was accurate, CBS wouldn’t say a peep about it to verify it. That means fans must tune in for the September premiere to see if this checks out.