An insight into the history of the popular American TV sitcom, Two and a Half Men clearly hints at the effects of Charlie Sheen’s presence as an important member of the show’s cast.

As Charles Francis Harper a.k.a Charlie, Sheen had contributed largely towards all the popularity that the show is today adorned with, nine years since its inception.

Early 2011 saw Sheen entering rehabilitation and disrespecting co-creator and executive producer Chuck Lorre. All this led to him being fired from the show in March, 2011 and it is then Chuck Lorre felt for a moment that they probably wouldn’t be able to continue with the biggest comedy hit of the past decade without Charlie Sheen.

Lorre did feel that it would be such a sad way to end the show, and he somehow came out with “Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt”, the ninth season for 2011-12 .  Sheen’s character is done with for this season and Ashton Kutcher has been pulled in to fill up his vacancy.

The plot had been handled tactically. At the very beginning of the ninth season, Sheen died in an accident that occurred while he was on a trip to Paris with Rose. That marks the entry of Ashton Kutcher as the billionaire on the block, Walden Schmidt.

Though as Kutcher admitted, his recruitment was experimental and since he survived, he’s there on the show…I mean replacing Sheen’s popularity that has been growing since 2003 wasn’t that simple and as obvious  a task, and hence they had to wait and watch if things could fall in place before finalizing Kutcher for the new season.

Well, that is what” scripting” is all about and, flexibility to allow such sudden amends in the plot is what “effective scripting” is all about. Whatever it is, now Lorre has proven a fact that a success of a show sailing smooth on pillars of a good script does not entirely depend on any single character, no matter how popular it is.