Thursday, April 5, 2012

Dear Chuck Lorre...

I read your vanity card recently where it said " I am so very tired". Well, that has become pretty obvious lately. Listen, you have, and have had, many shows that have lots of dialogue that has double meanings, inuendo and other forms of wordplay that were mostly thinly veiled sexual remarks, and most were okay, some even very cute, BUT...Lately, on TAAHM, you have seriously crossed the line. I realize that you don't write all these shows or maybe even check the content before they are done, but you need to start watching. TAAHM is failing now, and it isn't because of Ashton, HE is the only reason I look in still, the only redeeming quality left on the show. "Men" has always been a pretty much one trick pony and sex talk has always been part of it because it was about a "playboy and an over-sexed and under-achieving sad sack", so. BUT when two lines cannot be exchanged without SOMETHING sexual being said, that's just too much, and it's not even just the quantity of sexual material, it's the quality, or total lack of, that is disturbing me. I am not a prude by most standards, but when a joke HAS to be made, not just once, but twice about the "fact" that Allan can, well, with the help of extreme flexibility, "toot his own horn" as it were, well, that is just crossing a very gross line. Yes, I know it's a possible thing, a lot of people know that, but does it have to find itself on one of your shows? I don't think so. I didn't think Mr. Cryer could sink much lower, but it seems I was wrong. I realize his character is very flawed, but there is a point after which he's not just flawed, but sick. It would seem that everyone on the show has become a caricature of themselves, even the previously "normal" ones. Walden seems to be the only one still within the realm of normalcy, sexually speaking, but even he is slipping. I realize that in the day of Mr. Sheen, your main demographic was 18-38 year old males, and toilet and sexual humor was all that was expected, but now that you have someone NOT basically portraying themselves and there is more reason to tune in, there are those of us that could use some of the adult, but not crude, humor that we all know you're capable of. What do you say, Chuck? I miss your wit, I really do. While you're at it, can you get Mike and Molly back out of the sex sewer? That was a cute little show, and you're ruining IT little by little, too. Please stop, I'm not the only one that feels this way. We love your stuff when it's closer to our "pay grade", okay? Thanks for listening. 
A longtime fan.
Just sayin'
Dragonfly Davis

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