It wouldn't be the final season of Two and a Half Men without some Charlie Sheen rumors and drama. Current series star Ashton Kutcher stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and discussed the upcoming series finale and whether the rumor about Sheen's return (which seems to have been started by the actor himself) was true. When the news originally broke, Warner Bros. TV denied Sheen was in talks to return. But...well...
Ellen DeGeneres asked if they had shot the finale to the 12-year-old sitcom and Kutcher said, "No, we haven't shot it, but I got pitched yesterday what the story is going to be."
It seems the ending as a "clause." "It's uh, I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it," he said. "But I'm scared...Yeah, I'm a little terrified."
That's when DeGeneres asked the Sheen question.
"Does Charlie come back?"
"No. I'm like, I don't...here's the thing if you're working on the Warner Brothers lot," Kutcher said. "If there's sirens, come save me."
"So, Charlie comes back?" the talk show host pressed.
"I didn't say that," Kutcher said. "I'm not saying that. Did I say that?"
So...Sheen might be back? Is the whole series going to be a dream a la Newhart? Will Jon Cryer wake up next to Molly Ringwald and everything will have been for naught?
Let's recap: Sheen was the star of Two and a Half Men for a while and made a ton of money. Then he started bashing the show and had that infamous implosion. The show was shut down, Sheen was fired and his character was killed and Kutcher replaced him the following season. Sheen went on to talk about "tiger blood" and "winning" and star in Anger Management on FX.
In September, word came that Sheen had floated the idea about a return to the series to Chuck Lorre.
"I just want to do it classy," Sheen told us about his potential return to Two and a Half Men. "I want to do it in a way that still services what the show is today, and also honors what it was when I was there. Who knows? I'm sure they are over there right now, pen to paper, trying to figure something out. If it's not done properly, then there is no reason to do it. But it's a pretty smart group over there and I'm sure they will figure something. Something that makes sense to everyone."
But a source told E! News in September that there have been zero talks.
"We haven't discussed that, really," Lorre told us over the summer about Sheen's possible return. "We've been really focused on finding a storyline that puts Jon and Ashton front and center in a really interesting, provocative, hopefully funny story. That was our priority going into this year, was to do a storyline that puts these two guys right in the middle of it. So outside characters will come in as they do, but that's not the focus."
As we mentioned, the character was killed off. His ghost has already appeared...played by Kathy Bates.
So...is Sheen coming back?
The one-hour Two and a Half Men series finale airs Feb. 19 at 9 p.m. on CBS.