Two and a Half Men"If My Hole Could Talk"
Original Air Date: May 12, 2008
Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
victoria@thetwocentscorp.com
Jake is faking earthquakes to get out of homework. Charlie’s mommy complex is out of control. Alan just needs a hug. It’s a really well rounded episode this week with all the characters and quirks you know and love – at their best.
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Original Air Date: May 12, 2008
Victoria - TwoCents Reviewer
victoria@thetwocentscorp.com
Jake is faking earthquakes to get out of homework. Charlie’s mommy complex is out of control. Alan just needs a hug. It’s a really well rounded episode this week with all the characters and quirks you know and love – at their best.
Jake is the central key to this episode and it’s about time. The whole episode revolves about his aversion to homework – specifically a report on Taming of the Shrew. He’s decided that rather than reading Taming of the Shrew he’s going to pretend there was an earthquake. Yeah – the earthquake ate my homework. Alan finds out and insists on taking to the book store to get a copy and Charlie tags along.
At the book store Charlie decides to investigate the self-help section, at the mocking of a sales clerk. He starts talking to an older woman who recommends a book to him – turns out she’s the author. Charlie and the Old Lady Author totally hit it off and go for coffee. Leaving Jake and Alan to find their own way home from the mall – which happens to entail 2 buses and a walk along the Pacific Coast Highway. At some point on the trek home Jake manages to lose the book they just bought.
Charlie ends up going to dinner with the Old Lady Author as well – and she gets to the heart of his issues. Obviously it’s his mom. And then Old Lady Author kinda starts treating him like she is his mom. And somehow in some weird twist, he seems to like it. Eww! He kisses her but that’s interrupted by her 32 year old son.
Jake loses the book again. Charlie finds it in freezer. WTF?! He complains that the book is in some foreign language.
They go on another date and she plays mommy again. So freaking weird. Why doesn’t he see it? I know Charlie isn’t very emotionally developed but now he’s just not mentally developed either. And it’s ridiculous.
Alan meets Old Lady Author and she ends up counselling him on his insecurities too. Wow, free therapy for everyone! Again, over-the-top, but not creepy which is better than Charlie’s storyline. Everyone ends up going on a little jaunt to Santa Barbara together, much to Charlie’s dismay. Anyway Old Lady Author is SO the new Evelyn. Problem is she’s so not as much fun.
Recap in Quotes
“I bet your sorry you took all that LSD before you had him.” – Charlie to Alan about Jake.
“They don’t sell those kinds of magazines here. I checked.” Jake to Charlie.
“Smart Women, Foolish Choices. Thank God for those gals.” - Charlie about a book title.
“Now that it’s autographed I’m not a loser. I’m a collector.” – Charlie
“Is he trying to control her with rodents?” Jake about Taming of the Shrew.
“Whoa! Did you guys feel that?” Jake trying to fake an earthquake so he can get out of homework.
“Guess I should be reading Taming of the Shoe.” Jake after he can’t find his sneakers.
“You might wanna think about having him neutered.” Charlie to Alan about Jake.
“Are you still using that college degree? Cuz I’m still using the big boy potty.” Charlie to the Author.
“As far as she’s concerned the last thing she thinks I did right was evacuate her uterus.” Charlie about his mother.
“I should put frosting on the damn book. He’s never lost anything with frosting on it.” – Alan
“The kid’s bound to sell tube socks out of the trunk of his car.” - Charlie.
“Nobody makes TV shows about us or calls us McSteamy or McDreamy or McMuffin.” - Alan about being a chiropractor.
The episode title, “If My Hole Could Talk” was said by Charlie to the therapist about the hole his mother’s lack of love created.
So is it just me, or does this episode prove that Jake-centric episodes are always the best episodes? Give me your Two Cents in the comments!