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I find this episode very disturbing. Now, it's a given that Charlie is written in such a way so that we are disinclined to feel sympathetic towards him. But in this episode, one of his exes, Chrissy, defrauds Charlie out of thousands of dollars by presenting this young boy and allowing Charlie to infer that the boy is his son, when, in fact, the boy is somebody else's child, whom Chrissy has "borrowed" for the specific purpose of defrauding Charlie.

But Charlie never finds out he's been defrauded, and Chrissy is never held to account for this fraudulent presentation. Indeed, Chrissy reappears late in season seven (as a hallucination) as one of the women that Charlie has done wrong. But what Chrissy did to Charlie seems to me way worse than being loved and left.

Charlie may have been a selfish, inconsiderate, drunken reprobate, but the idea that Chrissy actually commits a crime, and gets away with it, is not a creative decision I would have made.

The plot is really interesting! Alot of the comedy is not in the script, that's what makes it really funny

First off before I am accused of being a hater, I think this is the best comedy of the new millennium. OK now for the bad news. I was very disappointed in this premiere episode. Usually a first episode of a season knocks your socks off. This one did not. Now for starters , the acting seemed forced to me. The actors seemed to be bored and it was not the same vigor I have expected. Jake spouted up like a weed, which I understand is not his fault. The impish kid that 'half' man is not anymore. Part of the folly of this show were the "8 year" old moments. The cutesyness is gone . Conchetta was still great with her two minutes, unfortunately there are 22 minutes in an episode. Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer were very blase as was Holland Taylor. There wasn't the same 'bitterness' in the one scene with the mom that was radiated with the actors not saying much. It was not the same show I saw the first 5 years and frankly this episode was boring. Hopefully it was just a blip from a summer off for our beloved characters. Even so the Jake we used to see , we will see no more because of Mother Nature. The bright side... You still have the first 5 seasons , which were impeccable.