Without half trying, you can probably remember the success of Two and a Half Men .

Twenty-two years ago on Sept. 22, 2003, the sitcom starring Charlie Sheen , Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones premiered on CBS and became a television juggernaut.

"This didn’t build," creator Chuck Lorre recalled in the recently released Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen . "There was an audience for it almost immediately."

The show followed bad boy bachelor Charlie Harper (Sheen), his straitlaced brother Alan Harper (Cryer) and Alan’s son Jake Harper (Jones) after Alan is dumped by his wife and moves himself and Jake in with Charlie. But as the series continued to prosper, Sheen began to spiral. There were his divorces from Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller , his 2009 assa

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