If you’ve been glued to your television waiting for Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer to swap some spit on Two and a Half Men (or for Michael Bolton to make a comeback), your wish has been granted.
In a somewhat odd storyline, Walden (Kutcher) and Alan (Cryer) — both of whom are straight — have decided to marry each other so they can raise a kid together, and E! Online has provided a first look at their wedding kiss. (Hopefully someone will give us a look at what happens on their wedding night.)
The show’s creator, Chuck Lorre, says he thought it was “both very funny and heartwarming that these guys would go to such great lengths to get a kid out of the foster system and give him a home. Yes, there’s some subterfuge in doing that, they are gaming the system, but the intention is to give a child a home, and it brings the series back to being about two men teaching a young man to become a man.”
And since every gay wedding needs a fabulous wedding singer, Michael Bolton will be on hand to serenade them with “When a Man Loves a Man,” a sure-to-be cheeky revamp of his signature song.
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Jon Cryer admitted to E! that he was initially thrown by the idea of his and Ashton Kutcher’s characters putting a ring on it. “The first time I heard it I said, ‘What?!’ And then I thought, ‘Oh yeah it kind of makes sense, because last season Alan’s wedding fell apart and Ashton’s wedding has fallen apart.’ The writers have a good idea and it opens up a lot of doors.”
Whether those open doors will provide enough room for shark jumping is anyone guess.
The two men take the plunge on the episode airing November 6.
rickhfx
I am sure all the str8 viewers will laugh their heads off, I find this making fun of gay people insulting.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
This show just became genius! No seriously. I didn’t even watch this shit when just Ashton Kutcher was supposed to be the big draw (and you do know who Ashton Kutcher is right? That’s a joke, otherwise referred to as comedy for all you dumb-asses out there who continue to think you’re so smart, but still continually need all the jokes to be explained to you in the end in the first place.)
This bold new move takes the show to “Three’s Company”-style hilarity. And my hat is always off to making bold new moves. I bet years after this show is over no one will watch the episodes before this (and certainly not the ones featuring Charlie Sheen). It’ll be like watching Laverne & Shirley when they still lived in Milwaukee. I can’t wait. Kudos!
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@rickhfx: Have a sense of humor. It’s Ashton Kutcher — gay kisses, and all! Geez!
Cam
That’s more affection than the gay couple on Modern Family ever shows each other.
tardis
I don’t watch this show, but whatever happened to that born-again Christian kid?
1EqualityUSA
I don’t like this idea. It weakens our equality argument and gives fuel to the Maggie Gallaghers out there. As long as there are states without marriage equality, we must not let the writers of an inane show use us for laughs and introduce our marriages as anything remotely as a scam, irrespective of the good intentions of their deceit. Damn it! I hate this idea!
pressuredrop
Yeah, this is really stupid. Luckily, this show already sucked long before they started grabbing headlines with this stunt.
It’s amazing, the lengths that straight America will go to co-opt “gayness” while never actually going into legitimately gay territory. They still generally don’t relate to actual gay men, but seem to *love* it when straight men play gay on camera. I imagine the effect is doubled for straight men who play straight men who play gay men.
I can just picture the writers sitting around a table, pitching the idea and thinking this is SO progressive and modern. As if we didn’t already get a big cheesy Hollywood movie with the exact same plot years ago.
Considering the proportionate lack of actual gay men on TV, it’s just really sickening.
Elloreigh
Fictional male characters on a sitcom can marry, but my partner and I still can’t. ‘Nuff said.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Elloreigh: So many hurt feelings. That’s like me getting angry, because I haven’t even fallen in love yet, and yet you have. That’s stupid. Like you said, the characters getting married are still just fictional.
I'm Black, and HIV-Positive.
@Elloreigh: And if it were science fiction they’d be able to fly into outer space, and then breath underwater. What’s your point?
gauty
@I’m Black, and HIV-Positive.: Don’t comment on things.
@pressuredrop: Yeah, it’s fucking infuriating. With this storyline they’re basically saying; “LOOK, LOOK hOw FunNY StRAIght men TOgether FOR take CARe oF CHILD HAhahAHAha”, while in actuality there are thousands upon thousands of gay couples waiting to be able to get married or adopt children. They also seem to say it’s so cool that these straight characters would do this for a kid and that gaming the system is so brave, while in actuality it’s impossible to game the system and trying to legally get all of this shit done is slow red tape torture for gay men and women.. It’s such a fucking slap in the face, and basically trivializing/laughing with the plight of these people.
gauty
Also, I would rather make out with the rusty barbed wire around a pig pen than with Cryer’s Eliza Thornberry-esque lips.
jason smeds
Modern Family is the most homophobic show on TV.
BitterOldQueen
This is a mockery of the decades-long struggle for marriage equality, and plays right into the old dusty arguments made by the christian right. It’s appalling, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from this tired old show.
BitterOldQueen
@jason smeds: I don’t know about “most homophobic,” but it’s certainly WAY less supportive than it postures itself as being (and as it gets credit for). It’s gay characters are just as unpleasant as everyone else, so yay for equality, but they are the same sexless, neutered creatures that gays have been on mainstream TV from the beginning. Oh we’re allowed to be funny and bitchy, and sometimes tragic, but there shall be no hint that we might have the same sexual feelings as straight couples.
Lvng1Tor
I can see from a straight person’s (or just a blissfully bootlicking gay’s) angle that this is a positive and supportive message….Just like “I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry” was supposed to be..in their opinion, but it’s just f’n insulting. I’m tired of people using the defense of “it’s just comedy, get over it” It’s a skin level defense made by simple people who never look deeper than what E! entertainment tells them it should be.
Captain Obvious
What a joke.