Two and a Half Men"Waiting for the Right Snapper"
Original Air Date: May 19, 2008
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Jake is planning to scrape through seventh grade and Charlie and Alan fight over their new mommy. Meanwhile Berta threatens Alan and Evelyn is a card-carrying cougar. Welcome to the season finale of Two and a Half Men.
Charlie is in therapy. The therapist clearly sees what we saw last episode – Charlie’s new “girl” is the epitome of a mommy complex. He still doesn’t get it. The therapist recommends more sessions before kicking him out to see her next patient. That patient is Alan who is concerned because he’s in love with his brother’s girlfriend. They should rename the show Two and a Half Mommy Complexes.
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Original Air Date: May 19, 2008
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Jake is planning to scrape through seventh grade and Charlie and Alan fight over their new mommy. Meanwhile Berta threatens Alan and Evelyn is a card-carrying cougar. Welcome to the season finale of Two and a Half Men.
Charlie is in therapy. The therapist clearly sees what we saw last episode – Charlie’s new “girl” is the epitome of a mommy complex. He still doesn’t get it. The therapist recommends more sessions before kicking him out to see her next patient. That patient is Alan who is concerned because he’s in love with his brother’s girlfriend. They should rename the show Two and a Half Mommy Complexes.
Charlie goes on a date with Old Lady Author and it’s creepy as usual. She reintroduces him to her 32 year-old son Jeremy and his fiancée Tricia. It becomes apparent very quickly Charlie knows – and we’re betting biblically.
Charlie takes Old Lady Author to a movie and they run into the original mommy dearest – Evelyn. Insert bitchy, witty, snarling mother-son banter here. She does dispense a wee bit of motherly advice warning Charlie his date was a cougar – an older woman who preys on young, virile men. After Charlie leaves a young, virile man joins Cougar Evelyn. Grrr!
Alan is unimpressed with Jake’s study habits... because he doesn’t have any. He thinks that he doesn’t need to study because getting a grade better than the bare minimum passing mark is a waste of time. Alan tries to explain to him that it’s not the way to get ahead in life but Jake’s not having it. Alan makes Jake study but he cheats and uses the answers in the back of the book.
Alan gives up on having a Mensa child and joins Charlie and Old Lady Author on the balcony where the two compete for her attention. Her real name is Angie, but really, who cares? Alan decides that since Charlie hasn’t slept with Old Lady Author yet, she’s fair game. Charlie agrees with the rationale – then promptly sweeps her off to his bedroom.
The next morning Alan goes back to trying to make Jake study. Then he snaps at Berta. Alan is a sore loser who obviously doesn’t see how lucky he is to have avoided geriatric sex. Charlie, of course, comes down and rubs it in his brother’s sex-deprived face.
In the middle of the bragging Tricia – Jeremy’s fiancée – shows up at his door and announces she can’t marry Jeremy because she’s still in love with Charlie. Alan tries to convince Charlie to be with Tricia, but Charlie knows it’s so he can nab the Old Lady Author. Despite Tricia reminiscing about bondage and four-ways in Vegas, Charlie still kicks her to the curb. He wants a mommy more than a four-way – how sweet!
When he shows up at Old Lady Author’s house, turns out he was a good boy for nothing. She knows Tricia left Jeremy for Charlie and she tells him to drop dead. Thank God! So Charlie’s foray into geriatric sex might have been good but it was brief (I mean short, not like Depends “brief”)
Evelyn joins Charlie for a consolation scotch. Alan swings by Old Lady Author’s to pick up the geriatric pieces but she’s a mean drunk so it’s a no-go. Jake passes 7th grade! Woo hoo!
Recap in Quotes
“I said she was warm, nurturing and supportive. The words toxic she-devil did not pass my lips” – Charlie to therapist.
“Hookers don’t have to listen to you, Charlie” – Therapist on why she charges more than call girls.
“All I gotta do is get a 67 to pass the course and then it’s adios 7th grade, arrivederci 8th.” Jake.
“Always great bumping into you. Maybe next time you’ll be standing in front of a wood chipper.” Charlie to Evelyn.
“You should have seen your face when you thought I was smart!” Jake to Alan.
“You’ve got a little boy? Aren’t you afraid Jake will eat him?” Charlie to Alan.
“What’s bugging you Zippy? Your blow-up doll run off with a pool toy?” Berta to Alan.
“I want you to do what you always do. Pick yourself up. Dust yourself off. And call one of your little whores.” Evelyn
Charlie says the title line when chatting with Jeremy about meeting Tricia. Charlie says she was probably single because she was “waiting for the right snapper.”
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