I admit somewhat reluctantly to indulging in Two and a Half Men on CBS from time to time. I catch an episode here and there, but don't make a big effort to catch every single time a new one is on. It's a bit of a sad enterprise, wishing I were watching Charlie Sheen doing something more...interesting.

Watching Major League recently made me wonder what Charlie Sheen would do if he were headlining movies and not a TV show (one of the highest-rated on) these days. I think the main reason I watch is that I'm constantly amazed at how much they get away with in "Family Hour" on a major network.

The fifth season hit DVD last week (5/12) in a nice, sleek, single-DVD-sized amaray case with three discs inside. The featurettes include Two and a Half Men at 100, shot during the taping of the sydication-bringing 100th episode, where they talk about how the show and the "Half" in the title have grown. More interesting to me was The Lore of Chuck Lorre: Must Pause TV, in which producer Lorre talks about how he has (and hasn't) gotten away with some really naughty stuff in the vanity cards that are gone in a blink at the end of each show. Two and a Half Men - Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard is all about the crossover that made me wonder last season, where the writers of CSI wrote an episode of this show and vice versa (that Bonus Episode of CSI is included too). The result was one of the best episodes of either show and one of the cheapest (but effective) semen jokes in the show's history.