To be honest, this show started to stink since its writers made Charlie behave like Alan (e.g. lame Mia, housewife Chelsea, Charlie becoming the husband type, etc.) and Alan behave like Charlie (e.g. banging chicks like crazy), but this is a new low, really - and for the same reason: the behavior doesn't fit the character.
Charlie might be spending a lot on women and accept their sometimes more expensive taste, but no man, let alone the Charlie character, would accept being extorted by a woman who is KNOWN to con men for profit, and has ALREADY done so against the said character. No pair of fake boobs, no supposed "depression" (after sleeping with a dozen women after Chelsea, Charlie is still "depressed"?!), no alleged "love" for Courtney (after 3 years of not mentioning her even once) can change that fact.
Now I know this is comedy and the focus is more on generating humor than believable stories, but this is simply unrealistic and plain stupid. I can understand having some not so good episodes in a show of this length, but this level of making things up for the sake of having some filler episodes when the writers' minds go blank is atrocious. Avoid these Courtney episodes at all costs - not only do they lack a bit of realism, but the humor in them is really bad too.
