Two and a Half Men / Season 1
| Season 1 of My Cool Uncle Charlie | |||
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| Original title | Two and a Half Men - Season 1 | ||
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| Episodes | 24 | ||
| Country of production |
 United States
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| First broadcast | September 22, 2003 - May 24, 2004 on CBS | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
March 12, 2005 - August 20, 2005 on ProSieben + ORF eins | ||
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The first season of the US sitcom Two and a Half Men celebrated its premiere on 22 September 2003 on the transmitter CBS . The German-language premiere sent the German Free TV transmitter ProSieben and ORF eins practically simultaneously from March 12 to August 20 of 2005.
In German-speaking countries, the first season was broadcast under the title Mein cooler Unkel Charlie . From the second season the original American title was used and the German title was added as an addition: Two and a Half Men - Mein cooler Unkel Charlie .
actor
main actor
| Role name | actor | Voice actor |
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| Charles "Charlie" Francis Harper | Charlie Sheen | Benjamin Völz |
| Dr. Alan Jerome Harper | Jon Cryer | Viktor Neumann |
| Jacob "Jake" David Harper | Angus T. Jones | Adrian Kilian |
| Evelyn Harper | Holland Taylor | Astrid Bless |
| Judith Harper | Marin Hinkle | Christin Marquitan |
| rose | Melanie Lynskey | Cathlen Gawlich |
supporting cast
| Role name | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Berta | Conchata Ferrell | Regina Lemnitz |
Episodes
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (A / D) | Director | script |
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| 1 | 1 | Stubborn, compulsive and inflexible | Pilot (Most Chicks Won't Eat Veal) | 22 Sep 2003 | March 12 2005 | James Burrows | Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn |
| Bachelor Charlie Harper lives in a Malibu beach house , has an overpaid job, and goes out with beautiful women all the time. When his uptight brother Alan is thrown out of their house by his wife Judith, he shows up at Charlie's in the middle of the night. He's staying there for the next few days and bringing his son Jake with him. Shortly afterwards, his wife tells him that she is a lesbian. Because, according to Alan, Charlie is not good for Jake, because he teaches him the word "ship", for example, or lets him play poker with friends and his ex-flame, Rose, who stalks him, tapes up his closets, Alan and Jake move to Alans and Charlie's Mother one. After a week, Alan realizes that his mother is worse than Charlie, and he moves in with Jake again. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | The sock golf champion | Big Flappy Bastards | 29 Sep 2003 | 19 Mar 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Eddie Gorodetsky & Jeff Abugov |
| Jake annoys Charlie because he leaves his juice packets on his wing and feeds seagulls, which promptly move into Jake's room and cannot be scared away. Charlie cannot punish Jake for this, however, as there is nothing left that he can take away from him. Meanwhile, Alan is still doing some work for Judith, like repairing the lawn sprinkler . However, Judith tells Alan that she wants them to split up for good. In the end the seagulls disappear from Jake's room because they couldn't find any more food there. Charlie also finds out that he can punish Jake by buying him new game consoles but forbidding him to play with them for a certain period of time. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | Was that Beethoven? | Go East on Sunset Until You Reach the Gates of Hell | Oct 6, 2003 | 26th Mar 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Don Foster Acting: Mark Roberts & Lee Aronsohn |
| Because Jake becomes ill, he will be brought back to Judith over the weekend. Charlie and Alan then go to a bar and get drunk on tequila. Completely drunk in a taxi, they discover that their mother's upbringing is to blame for their broken life, and they bluntly tell the taxi driver about their private lives. It later emerges that Charlie and Alan, without knowing it, appeared on a TV show called "The Stupidest Taxi Reports". | |||||||
| 4th | 4th | I need Berta | If I Can't Write My Chocolate Song I'm Going to Take a Nap | Oct 13, 2003 | Apr 2, 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Susan Beavers & Don Foster |
| Charlie's housekeeper, Berta, quits because Alan constantly criticizes her and her work. Charlie misses her because he doesn't know how to get along without her. So Alan wants to do this work in exchange for being allowed to live with Charlie. However, he's not as good at it as Berta, so he has to persuade her to come back. Ultimately, she agrees, but she does not wash Alan's laundry and does not buy anything for him. He also has to use his skills as a chiropractor to straighten her back twice a week. Meanwhile, the stalker Rose Charlie uses a trick to invite her to dinner. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | The Wednesday man | The Last Thing You Want Is to Wind Up With a Hump | Oct 20, 2003 | Apr 9, 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Eddie Gorodetsky & Jeff Abugov |
| Charlie accompanies Jake to a soccer game, where he meets the single mother Kate, among others. He goes out with her once, but she doesn't want Charlie to be her boyfriend because she has such big money problems and says he shouldn't do that to himself. Two of the soccer mothers also vie for Alan's favor, but Alan is injured when he listens at the door during a clarifying conversation between the mothers, so that there is no relationship. | |||||||
| 6th | 6th | Don't bother, Charlie | Did You Check With the Captain of the Flying Monkeys? | Oct. 27, 2003 | Apr 16, 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Susan Beavers & Don Foster |
| Charlie and Alan are supposed to meet Tommy, the new admirer of their mother Evelyn, whose daughter Olivia had a relationship with Charlie. After Tommy leaves Evelyn for a younger boy, she is devastated. But she is cheered up again by Charlie accompanying her on the piano while she sings. | |||||||
| 7th | 7th | I understand | If They Do Go Either Way, They're Usually Fake | Nov 3, 2003 | Apr 23, 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Don Foster Acting: Mark Roberts & Lee Aronsohn |
| Jake discovers a tattooed butterfly on the buttocks of half-naked Cindy, which he paints at school on the subject of "drawing something interesting from your house" including buttocks. Judith then comes to Charlie's house and calls him accountable. However, Charlie always replies with his phrase "I understand", which means nothing to him, but is only intended to satisfy the interlocutor. Because Judith is overjoyed about it, she comes back to Charlie to cry herself over at him, but where she instead meets Cindy, who finally teaches her to surf. Because Alan suspects that they have started a relationship, he tells her he's okay, which makes Judith pissed off because she has nothing with Cindy. Meanwhile, Jake learns to distinguish fake breasts from real ones, and at the end of the episode he also uses Charlie's “I see”. | |||||||
| 8th | 8th | The Industrial Revolution Show | Twenty-Five Little Pre-pubers Without a Snoot-ful | Nov 10, 2003 | Apr 30, 2005 | Chuck Lorre | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Eddie Gorodetsky & Jeff Abugov |
| Jake's fourth grade is to present a musical performance on the theme of " Industrial Revolution ". Judith uses a trick to get Charlie to help, but only as a pianist, as Judith and Alan find his lyrics unsuitable. On the day of the rehearsal, Alan receives the divorce papers from Judith's lawyer, so that the two only argue and leave Charlie alone with the children. He actually wanted to cancel the rehearsal, but in the end they sing, Charlie's advertising jingles. They then also sing these at the demonstration of the Industrial Revolution. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | Phase one, successful | Phase One, Complete | Nov 17, 2003 | May 14, 2005 | Andy Ackerman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Susan Beavers & Don Foster |
| Everyone but Charlie himself thinks his new girlfriend, Wendy, is perfect. She gets along with Evelyn, entertains Jake by rollerblading with him, and makes Alan happy too. Charlie suspects she never wants to go away again, which turns out to be wrong. While Charlie understands that he has a wrong opinion about its effect on women, Alan plays Scrabble with Rose. Towards the end of the episode, Charlie apologizes to Rose for constantly disregarding her after her one-night stand. | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | The turkey and manhood | Merry Thanksgiving | Nov 24, 2003 | May 21, 2005 | Jay Sandrich | Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn |
| Charlie gets a call from his old friend Lisa. She only wants his friendship because she's getting married and doesn't think Charlie could change. But since he wants to get back together with her, he wants to prove to her that he is capable of change and therefore invites her to a family Thanksgiving. A lot goes wrong in the process, including because Charlie pays Jake to portray Charlie Lisa well and to praise him in pre-formulated texts. Evelyn tells Judith's parents that she is a lesbian, and Rose turns up surprisingly. During the feast, the climax comes when Charlie briefly threatens Evelyn with the turkey knife and then wildly shreds it in anger. Lisa decides not to return to Charlie but to get married, but promises to contact him in the event of a divorce. | |||||||
| 11 | 11 | Ready for the close-up | Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor | Dec 15, 2003 | May 28, 2005 | Robert Berlinger | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Don Foster Acting: Lee Aronsohn & Mark Roberts |
| Charlie and Alan meet Judith, who is on a date with Jake's soccer coach, at the cinema. Because Judith has changed and looks fantastic and Alan has noticed that he is not exactly attractive to women, he wants to change too. Charlie tries to help him find his look, but despite many attempts they have to find a gay in the clothing store who eventually recommends a sports jacket. While everyone agrees that it makes Alan look much better, he notes that it still doesn't have the same effect on women as other men do. | |||||||
| 12 | 12 | I take care of Prudence | Camel Filters + Pheromones | Jan. 5, 2004 | June 4, 2005 | Robert Berlinger | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Susan Beavers & Mark Roberts |
| Berta brings her 16-year-old granddaughter Prudence to Malibu, where she is supposed to support her grandmother. Charlie and Alan have to keep to themselves again and again, because if they did something with her, they would end up in jail because of their minority. That night, Prudence shows up at the beach house with her fiancé, whom nobody knew about, and tells that Berta, when she found out about him, threw them both out of the house. In the end, Berta and Prudence's mother also come to Charlie to get Prudence, but the mother is just like Prudence and wants to give Charlie her number right away, whereupon Berta takes both mother and daughter away. | |||||||
| 13 | 13 | In bed with angina | Sarah Like Puny Alan | Jan. 12, 2004 | June 11, 2005 | Robert Berlinger | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre Acting: Lee Aronsohn & Don Foster |
| Alan catches a bad cold. Because Charlie's date is looking for a companion for her sister, a soap opera star, Charlie finds Alan despite his illness. He tries to get well, although nobody is taking proper care of him. When Charlie also gets the flu, Alan tries to cure him by using his skills as a chiropractor, which Charlie refuses. It doesn't come to the date. | |||||||
| 14th | 14th | I can't afford hyenas | I can't Afford Hyenas | Feb 2, 2004 | June 18, 2005 | Rob Schiller | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Jeff Abugov & Eddie Gorodetsky |
| Because Charlie throws his money around, he goes broke. After his accountant tells him that he has no cash left, he realizes he needs to save and Alan helps him. He can only buy cheap goods in the supermarket and no longer the branded products he is used to, which he does not like at all. He desperately wants his lifestyle back and decides with Alan to borrow something from her mother Evelyn. After she has written a check, she wants to go out to eat with her sons, which Charlie sees as a condition for lending them, which is why he tears the check up. Ultimately, Rose lends him something, actually using the money as an excuse to get closer to Charlie. | |||||||
| 15th | 15th | Who's gonna get the crazy one? Part 1 | Round One to the Hot Crazy Chick (1) | Feb 9, 2004 | June 25, 2005 | Andrew D. Weyman | Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn |
| When Charlie and Alan walk into the dentist's underground car park, they notice the blonde Frankie ( Jenna Elfman ), who smashes her psychiatrist's car with a baseball bat. After Alan accidentally triggered the alarm system on the car, they escape with Frankie and take her to Malibu. There she plays with Charlie and Alan, saying things like, “I think I'm going to take a hot bath now. Which of you is lathering my back with soap? ”. While Charlie and Alan still stand there puzzled, she runs into the bathroom. In addition, she reveals practically nothing about herself, but towards the end she pulls the little girl Joanie up. | |||||||
| 16 | 16 | Who's gonna get the crazy one? Part 2 | That Was Saliva, Alan (2) | Feb 16, 2004 | July 2, 2005 | Andrew D. Weyman | Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn |
| Frankie brings her 8-year-old daughter Joanie to the beach house. She explains that she married a rich man and that her in-laws never liked her. After the death of her husband, her in-laws wanted custody of Joanie because they consider Frankie unsuitable as a mother. Therefore, the psychiatrist was also ordered by the court. Because Frankie doesn't want to lose Joanie under any circumstances, she takes her to see Charlie and Alan. While she starts a relationship with Alan, Joanie always runs after Jake, who in turn is annoyed by this. Charlie notices that it has become superfluous and, for example, does not come to Frankie's, Alans, Jakes and Joanies “family picnic” together. When Alan indicates to Frankie that he would like to start a new life with her, she tells him that her life is still far too chaotic and that she goes to her brother in Canada the next day to be able to work there again. She says goodbye by kissing Alan and handing him her bra. | |||||||
| 17th | 17th | Hamburgers and hats | Ate The Hamburgers, Wearing The Hats | Feb 23, 2004 | July 9, 2005 | Andrew D. Weyman | Synopsis: Jeff Abugov & Eric Lapidus Acting: Eddie Gorodetsky & Mark Roberts |
| Alan shocks Judith by saying that if he dies after Judith, Charlie will get custody of Jake. However, after Judith leaves, Alan informs him that Evelyn's sister's son and wife would have custody in Rhode Island. When he told his mother about it, she was also shocked. Meanwhile, Charlie and Jake play basketball; Charlie fouls Jake and has to drive him to the hospital because of a head injury. There it is sewn and it turns out that he always takes Alan's cell phone with him. | |||||||
| 18th | 18th | Old flame with new wick | An Old Flame With a New Wick | 1st Mar 2004 | July 16, 2005 | Andrew D. Weyman | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Don Foster Acting: Lee Aronsohn & Mark Roberts |
| Charlie's ex-girlfriend Jill wants to meet him. In the bar he notices to the person sitting next to him that he has found friendship best in his relationship with Jill. Then the person sitting next to him tells him that he is Jill - with the difference that he is now a man and his name is Bill. Bill joins Charlie at the beach house, where he is introduced to Alan and Evelyn. When he starts a relationship with Evelyn, Alan is initially bothered by the big age difference, but he is only completely shocked when Charlie tells him about Jill-Bill. Berta also recognizes from a picture that Jill is now Bill. On Charlie's advice, Bill Evelyn explains his condition, whereupon Evelyn is also shocked at first, but does not want to end the relationship, on the contrary, wants to continue it. | |||||||
| 19th | 19th | The cloakroom lady | I Remember the Coatroom, I Just Don't Remember You | 22 Mar 2004 | May 7, 2005 | Gail Mancuso | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Don Foster & Eddie Gorodetsky |
| Because it's Jake's birthday, Judith's sister Liz, who had sex with Charlie in the dressing room at Judith and Alan's wedding, comes to the beach house. For the rest of the episode, Charlie tries to remind her of him because she still remembers the dressing room but not Charlie. Jake's birthday presents include a magic box (Rose) and clothes (Evelyn). Since she is completely annoyed, Evelyn becomes dazed and believes the magic tricks performed by Rose and Jake are real. | |||||||
| 20th | 20th | I can pee in the dark | Hey, I can pee outside in the dark | Apr 19, 2004 | July 23, 2005 | Gary Halvorson | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn Acting: Jeff Abugov & Mark Roberts |
| Jake closes himself off from the outside world and only plays "Smoke on the water" on his electric guitar all day. Because all attempts to restore it to normal fail and the adults can no longer deal with it, they send it to therapy. The psychiatrist tells Charlie, Judith and Alan that she has found no reason for Jake's reticence and that it is not, as Judith suspected, related to the divorce. Ultimately, Berta solves the problem by giving Jake plum juice in the evenings, clearing the constipation that caused his behavior. | |||||||
| 21st | 21st | Ask your brother | No sniffing, no wowing | May 3, 2004 | July 30, 2005 | Rob Schiller | Synopsis : Lee Aronsohn & Susan Beavers Acting: Chuck Lorre & Don Foste |
| Alan hires super-expensive Beverly Hills divorce attorney Laura Lang. Charlie tumbles at her the first time she meets, but she is dismissive and suggests no interest. She is in bed with Charlie a little later, but only based on the words: "I don't have to like you to want you." In the purely physical relationship, Laura only sets the condition that Charlie always, when she wants, ready for her and sleeping with her. It's fine for a couple of days, but Laura starts annoying Charlie, which is why he breaks up. She takes revenge by giving Judith all the household items she would like and making the divorce terms as bad as possible for Alan. | |||||||
| 22nd | 22nd | Dust bunnies and cow dolls | My Doctor has a Cow Puppet | May 10, 2004 | Aug 6, 2005 | Gail Mancuso | Synopsis: Lee Aronsohn & Don Foster Acting: Chuck Lorre & Eddie Gorodetsky |
| Alan is walking back to sleep. Charlie thinks he's doing it because Judith is suppressing him, but when he asks Evelyn she says that he stopped when he was a kid when he learned to masturbate. Finally, Alan, accompanied by Charlie, goes to Jake's child psychologist Linda Freeman, who incites him to let his pent-up anger about Judith and her behavior run free. In the end, Alan succeeds in doing this and hits Charlie, who plays Judith in a role-playing game, with a Bataka. | |||||||
| 23 | 23 | Like the buffalo | Just Like Buffalo | May 17, 2004 | Aug 13, 2005 | Rob Schiller | Synopsis: Chuck Lorre & Susan Beavers Acting: Lee Aronsohn & Don Foster |
| Jake memorizes one of Charlie's misogynistic sayings and repeats it in the presence of Judith's divorce victims' support group. The group then talks to Alan, because they don't want Jake to be exposed to the misogynistic climate, and say that Alan may see his son on the weekends, but Jake is no longer allowed to contact Charlie. Charlie knows that you can't be angry with him for long and takes advantage of that by going to Judith's support group, apologizing and comforting the other women. They love him and then meet in Malibu, but Judith offers Alan an exchange. She wants her friends back and Charlie is never allowed to set foot in her house again, so they revert to the original custody agreement. | |||||||
| 24 | 24 | Can you feel my finger? | Can You Feel My Finger? | May 24, 2004 | Aug 20, 2005 | Rob Schiller | Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn |
| Charlie panics when a friend suspects she is pregnant. To avoid this problem forever, he decides to get sterilized. Charlie wants to freeze his sperm so that he can have children if the worst comes to the worst. When he finally sits on the operating chair, the doctor has to give birth to his child and postpones Charlie's appointment. But he changes his mind and does not allow the sterilization to be carried out. Instead, he invites the nurse on a date. | |||||||
DVD release
In the United States , the DVD for the first season was released on September 11, 2007. The DVD for the first season has been available in Germany since May 19, 2006.
Web links
- Episode list of the first season of Two and a Half Men on fernsehserien.de
- Voice actor for Two and a Half Men at synchronkartei.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Broadcast dates of the first season . In: Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved November 16, 2012.