14 DAY TRIAL // “Two and a Half Men” ended almost one month ago with the episode “Of Course He’s Dead,” which saw Charlie Sheen’s presumed dead character return to the small screen for one last time - sort of. It was the final jab between series creator Chuck Lorre and Sheen, in a feud that has been raging ever since Lorre and CBS bosses fired the actor from the show because he refused to get help for his drug problem.
Charlie is determined not to have Lorre have the final say in this, as a paparazzi video posted to TMZ proves. He might be trying to pass it off as a joke, but he’s definitely threatening Lorre for the insult on the series finale.
Lorre and the #winning vanity cards
After he fired Sheen from “Men,” as the actor went on a rampage in the media and did his best to discredit anyone and everyone he’d worked with on the show, Lorre started fighting back by inserting vanity cards in certain episodes.
He did the same on “Of Course He’s Dead,” as you can see in the photo below. Because this was the series finale, he did a bit more than that: after he crashed a piano over Charlie the character, and right before another one crushed him to death, he broke the fourth wall in order to have the last laugh.
The move was bold and duly appreciated by fans of the series, and even by Sheen’s fans. After all, a guy like Charlie should know to appreciate a joke as meta as this one, they assumed.
Well, Sheen isn’t laughing.
Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood is boiling
TMZ caught up with the actor outside an LA mall the other day and asked him what he thought of the ending and especially about Lorre’s final (and quite witty) jab. Video of the chat is available at the link in the second paragraph.
Sheen initially tries to be the better man, criticizing Lorre for being so immature after all these years, and saying, “That’s just him. I don’t care anymore. I don’t care if he lives or dies. Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter.”
Charlie might claim he doesn’t care anymore, but the more he speaks, the more his tiger blood boils, because, towards the end of the video, he utters what sounds very much like a threat to Lorre.
“You must feel safe mother[expletive]er. You must feel safe where you live,” he utters staring into the camera, pointing a finger.
Sheen may sound like he’s joking but his friends’ reaction is the tell-tale sign that he isn’t: the moment two of them hear this, they grab him as a sign of “let’s go” and they start telling the paparazzo that the impromptu interview is over.
Embedded below is the scene that got Charlie Sheen mad. That wasn’t him in the “cameo” because, Lorre explained in the vanity card, he wouldn’t come back to reprise his role unless they did it on his own terms, which he didn’t want to do.
