--- ---  # Watch as _Two and a Half Men_ Finale Kills Charlie Sheen. Again. ## Video: 5 Reasons TV's Top Shows Are So Addictive [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Reasons TV's Top Shows Are So Addictive](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2RqNgPrk.m3u8) (2:16)  _Published 2014-01-16. Here's a look at how our favorite TV shows—from "Game of Thrones" to "Scandal" and "Breaking Bad"—keep us coming back for more._ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 20, 2015 12:01 PM UTC  Charlie Sheen in Hollywood in 2013. Charlie Sheen in Hollywood in 2013.Michael Buckner—Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Feb 20, 2015 12:01 PM UTC Once just wasn’t enough for _Two and a Half Men_. For the finale of the intensely popular sitcom, creator Chuck Lorre revived Charlie Sheen’s character — who had been killed off in 2011 after the actor had a very public meltdown — only to kill him all over again. The one-hour finale was labeled “an hour-long slap at its former star” by [the Washington _Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/20/two-and-a-half-men-finally-gets-revenge-on-charlie-sheen-with-insult-filled-series-finale/?tid=pm%5Fpop), after the episode made joke after joke about Sheen’s infamous collapse, his subsequent career and scandals. In a production note, Lorre explained that Sheen had been invited to appear in the finale alongside former co-star Jon Cryer and Sheen’s replacement Ashton Kutcher. > [](https://twitter.com/TVMoJoe/status/568607046414651392) Sheen, however, declined to appear, but the writers wrote him into the episode anyway, under the guise that the character hadn’t actually been killed in 2011\. He’d simply been imprisoned by Rose (played by Melanie Lynskey), his one-time stalker. The producers then had the Charlie character — played by a Sheen look-a-like — only appear at the very end of the episode, shot from behind before being crushed by a piano. _Read next:_ [_Here’s What Jon Stewart Wants From the Next Host of_ ](http://time.com/3716174/jon-stewart-successor-expectations-daily-show/?xid=time%5Freadnext)[The Daily Show](http://time.com/3716174/jon-stewart-successor-expectations-daily-show/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) Watch as The 'Two and a Half Men' Finale Kills Charlie Sheen. Again. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3716229/two-and-a-half-men-finale-charlie-sheen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3716229/two-and-a-half-men-finale-charlie-sheen/"},"headline":"Watch as Two and a Half Men Finale Kills Charlie Sheen. 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