i haven't watched the show in years, but i read somewhere that they originally planned to bring charlie back for the finale. sheen made ridiculous demands for his appearance so that negotiations fell through and that's why they decided to go with the "fukk you" scenario that ultimately aired. Anyways, the show jumped the shark back when Charlie started looking like a corpse. Don't know how it survived that long.
For his part, Lorre explained the reason why Sheen did not make an appearance in a message during the show’s closing vanity card:
I know a lot of you might be disappointed that you didn’t get to see Charlie Sheen in tonight’s finale. For the record he was offered a role. Our idea was to haves him walk up to the front door in the last scene, ring the doorbell, then turn, look directly into the camera and go off on a maniacal rant about the dangers of drug abuse. He would then explain that these dangers only apply to average people. That he was far from average. He was a ninja warrior from Mars. He was invincible.
And then we would drop a piano on him.
We thought it was funny.
He didn’t.
Instead, he wanted us to write a heart-warming scene that would set up his return to primetime TV in a new sitcom called The Harpers starring him and Jon Cryer.
We thought that was funny too.
Charlie Sheen Slams Chuck Lorre Over ‘Two and a Half Men’ Finale: ‘I Don’t Care If He Lives or Dies’
“You must feel safe, motherf–ker,” the actor adds
Charlie Sheen didn’t appreciate last month’s “Two and a Half Men” finale, which involved a lookalike being crushed by a baby grand piano. When cameras caught up to Sheen and asked him if he had any words for showrunner
Chuck Lorre, the actor didn’t hold back.
“To go to that low, to be that immature, that completely un-evolved and that stupid. In my face, really?” he told
TMZ. “You must feel safe, motherfukker. You must feel safe where you live.”
As
TheWrap previously reported, Sheen starred opposite
Jon Cryer for years on the CBS sitcom before feuding publicly with showrunner Chuck Lorre and parting ways with the series in 2011. He would eventually be replaced by
Ashton Kutcher.
Still, Sheen was rumored to be making a cameo appearance on the series’ Feb. 19 finale and showrunners never ruled out the possibility. But “Two and a Half Men” ended with the Sheen-related gag instead.