The series may be called "two and a half men", but its creatives really prioritize one of the "men". Indeed, Charlie Sheen was the biggest name in the show, and he and his character, Charlie Harper, seemed crucial to his success. In the Netflix documentary "Aka Charlie Sheen", Jonon Krier (who played on a divorced brother of Charlie, Alan), remembers how, at the height of the popularity of the series, Sheen made three times more than him. As he explained:

"North Korea's dictator was a man named Kim Jong-il. He behaved crazy all the time and thus gained huge amounts of help from countries that were so scared of him that he would blade money to him. Well, that's what happened here.

How much is "third" right? Well, as newspapers reported at the time, Sheen managed to negotiate $ 1.9 million per episode in his eighth and last season of the show, while Cryer made $ 620,000. (With Season 8 covering 16 episodes, this meant that Sheen was paid over $ 30 million that year.) These figures represent an absolute amount of Shin's earnings; Reports of his salary Earlier in the series "Run" set about $ 1.2 million per episode, which is still high.

Sheen's salary implied that the directors behind the show consider it irreplaceable, but that did not turn out. After his fights behind the scenes became too disrupted for the production of the series, Sheen was fired, and his character died outside the screen. How would you kill the show? Well, the longtime Stalker of Charlie Rose (Melanie Lysini) was understood that he was pushing him into the coming train. (Ah, Classic Rose!) None of the surviving characters tried to seek justice for Charlie's death, nor, because everyone brazenly admitted that he had it. The whole thing felt as if the series gave Shin one last middle finger before going on.

"Two and a Half Men" subsequently replaced Sheen with Ashton Kutcher as a different character, and the results were ... okay. Fans generally agree that Sheen's era of the series was superior, but Kutcher's running performed well enough to keep the show last four more seasons.

Shin's salary on "two and a half men" feels like the dark version of The main salaries of "Friends". At the 1990s hit show, the six basic stars decided to negotiate as a team, demanding equal salaries for all of them. They started earning $ 22,500 per episode in season 1, but by season 9, each earned $ 1 million episode. This was less than what Shin did, even adapting to inflation, but was equally between the waters of the series. And since there were six main members of the cast, the "Friends" cast technically demanded much more than the network as a whole.

It is worth noting, of course, that the "friends" were a bigger hit than "two and a half men", never falling below an average of 20 million viewers throughout her deadline. "Friends" also proved to be a cultural power to stay That "two and a half men" never achieved it, and the show still goes strongly to Netflix and other platforms even 30 years after its premiere. All this is to repeat what Krier himself already knew for some time: Charlie Sheen was overpaid.

But while Krier might not have wanted to make a third of Sheen's salary despite making an equal amount of work, he still made it clear in his interview "Aka Charlie Sheen" that he did not hate the boy. As he explained:

"I worked with Charlie Sheen for eight years. And if you were wondering what it was like to work with Charlie Sheen for eight years, when I started to have hair. I had a little trembling to participate in this, partly because part of Charlie Sheen's cycle was that he knitted terribly, he hit him, That house was flammed and I didn't want to be part of that cycle. "