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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Feb 20, 2015 5:05 PM UTC  Chuck Lorre attends The 41st Annual People's Choice Awards at Nokia Theatre LA Live on Jan. 7, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif. Chuck Lorre attends The 41st Annual People's Choice Awards at Nokia Theatre LA Live on Jan. 7, 2015 in Los Angeles, Calif.Jason Kempin—Getty Images  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Feb 20, 2015 5:05 PM UTC Last night, CBS’s sitcom _Two and a Half Men_ hit the end of the road, wrapping up its twelfth and final season. It was the end of a sitcom that, at its peak, was world-beatingly popular, but it’s not really the end of an era. Its creator, Chuck Lorre, has seen his sensibility come to dominate CBS. His power was proven in the 2011 standoff over Charlie Sheen’s public disparagement; Sheen, the star of the show and the seeming origin of its louche humor, was fired, and the show rolled on. Sheen was dispensable, but the show, and its creator, were absolutely not. This was really just a ratification of what already seemed apparent. By that point, Lorre’s _The Big Bang Theory_ was a hit and _Mike & Molly_, which he executive-produces, had begun. Those two shows continue on CBS to this day, while a third, _Mom_, bears Lorre’s name as well. But it’s not just the shows Lorre actually produces that bear his imprimatur. CBS, the most successful of the four broadcast networks, remains that way because of its rigid adherence to formula, and now, on the comedy side, that means Lorre-ness: A willingness to be gross about the body and sexually frank, “innuendos” that barely earn the name, and then a patina of sentiment to make it go down easy. _Two and a Half Men_ was about two men (first Sheen and Jon Cryer, then Ashton Kutcher and Cryer) obsessed with sex, but raising a boy, _aw_. The very title of _The Big Bang Theory_ refers to its nerds-seeking-women premise, but there are emotional bonds between the roommates grafted on top of it all. Lorre wasn’t involved in either CBS’s _The Millers_ or _The McCarthys_, but both series followed his playbook: The former was about a loving family [that had a lot of gas](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/02/laughing-gas-in-defense-of-the-fart-joke/), the latter about a loving family that couldn’t stop cracking jokes at the expense of the gay son. Neither premise made the show _bad_, per se, but both felt like a self-conscious attempt to merge old-school sitcom premises with post-_Simpsons_ crassness and irony. CBS’s _2 Broke Girls_, co-created by no less a TV veteran than _Sex and the City_‘s Michael Patrick King, discarded the subtly drawn emotional bonds of King’s HBO series in favor of a bunch of race and sex jokes with a friendship loosely scribbled on top. With all this success, it’s little wonder the creator took a victory lap with the _Two and a Half Men_ finale, which saw a stand-in for Sheen get crushed by a piano and Lorre himself appear to say Sheen’s catchphrase “Winning!” Lorre’s shows have perfect delivery mechanisms for a closely titrated blend of raunch and oddity with a sprinkling of cuteness on top. They’re the shows that are winning. ### LIFE Watches TV: Classic Photos of People and Their Television Sets  Radio Corporation of America (RCA) executives watch a brand new invention called television, their New York offices before introducing the product to the public, 1939. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Writer Russell Finch enjoys a smoke, a bath and a TV show in 1948 George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Men gather to watch TV through a store window in Pennsylvania in 1948. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A boy watches TV in an appliance store window in 1948. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Sisters at St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Penn., watch a program on a new local TV station, 1949. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Watching a Western on TV in 1950. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A group of swimmers at an indoor pool watch the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Jacob Malik, filibustering in the UN Security Council in 1950. George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Grade school kids in Minneapolis watch a video "classroom lesson" on TV while the city's public schools are on strike in 1951. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A rapt audience in a Chicago bar watches the 1952 World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. (The Yankees won.) Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Six-year-old girls use a "Winky Dink" drawing kit on their home TV screen as they watch the kids' program, 1953\. The show, which aired for four years in the 1950s, has been cited as "the first interactive TV show," especially in light of its "magic drawing screen" — a piece of plastic that stuck to the TV screen, and on which kids (and, no doubt, some adults) would trace the action on the screen. Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A performing chimpanzee named Zippy watches TV in 1955. Michael Rougier—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  An adopted Korean war orphan, Kang Koo Ri, watches television in his new home in Los Angeles in 1956. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Milwaukee fans watch the 1957 World Series, when their Braves beat the Yankees in seven, behind three complete-game victories by the gutsy Lew Burdette. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A railroad worker's family watches TV in a trailer at a camp for Southern Pacific employees in Utah in 1957. Frank Scherschel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  An awe-struck baseball fan is seized with utter delight as he watches the Braves win their first and only World Series while based in Milwaukee in 1957. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A traveling businessman watches TV in a hotel room in 1958. Nat Farbman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Tenant farmer Thomas B. Knox and his family watch Ed Sullivan and ventriloquist Rickie Layne on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Picketing workers watch TV in a tent outside the gates of a U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana, during a strike in 1959. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, watch the 1960 GOP convention in Chicago from their hotel suite. Hank Walker—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  The Kim Sisters — a Korean-born singing trio who had some success in the U.S. in the 1960s — watch television in Chicago in 1960. Robert W. Kelley—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Eventual VP candidate Lyndon Johnson watches TV during the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Thomas D. McAvoy—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A "Three-Eyed TV Monster" created by Ulises Sanabria which permits simultaneous two- and three-screen viewing, 1961. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Astronaut Scott Carpenter's wife, Rene, and son, Marc, watch his 1962 orbital flight on TV. Carpenter's was NASA's second manned orbital flight, after John Glenn's, and lasted nearly five hours. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Die-hard New York Giants fans watch the 1962 NFL championship game against the Packers outside a Connecticut motel, beyond the range of the NYC-area TV blackout, December 1962\. Green Bay won, 16-7. John Loengard—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  A crowd watches John F. Kennedy address the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Frank Sinatra watches his son, Frank Jr., 21, emcee a TV show, 1964. John Dominis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Different CATV (Community Antenna Television) stations available to subscribers in Elmira, New York, in 1966. Arthur Schatz —The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Actress Diahann Carroll and journalist David Frost watch themselves on separate talk shows. Carroll and Frost were engaged for a while, but never married. 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