Its bonus material included bloopers, outtakes, a backstage tour with Angus T. Jones, and a behind-the-scenes special, with the cast and crew of the show.

"[6] "Most Chicks Won't Eat Veal", the original pilot, with Danner as Evelyn, remained unaired.

[7][8] According to the Internet Movie Database, Sheen was cast because the creators saw him on Spin City, in which he also portrayed a charming bachelor afraid of commitment.

Additionally, Sheen and Cryer each made guest appearances on the animated series Family Guy.

Carefree bachelor Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen)'s life is disrupted when his brother Alan (Jon Cryer) and ten-year-old nephew Jake (Angus T. Jones) move in with him when Alan's wife Judith (Marin Hinkle) kicks him out after 12 years of marriage.

To make matters worse, the guinea pig suddenly dies, which Alan sees as symbolic of the way his life is falling apart.

Next morning, they discover that their drunken conversation during the cab journey home was taped and they had agreed for it to be put on a TV show.

Alan is willing to take over her duties, but Charlie misses all the little things she did for him, like making his coffee taste "Christmassy".

Despite arriving home hungover and exhausted after spending a wild night in Las Vegas, Charlie keeps his promise that he made to Jake about attending his soccer game.

This has made Evelyn deeply depressed, so Charlie reluctantly invites her to stay at his place until she recovers.

Judith gets worried when Jake draws the tattooed buttocks of a female surfer friend of Charlie's, who walks around his place half naked.

Jake begins to learn from Charlie about fake and real boobs and doesn't stop comparing them both.

When he and Judith talk about the divorce, Charlie takes over the play; he soon enjoys the ride when the children learn he is the writer who wrote their favorite jingles.

Charlie wants to dump a female friend that Jake has grown close to, while Alan and Rose bond over a game of Scrabble.

In an attempt to prove that he is a family man, Charlie invites his ex-girlfriend, Lisa (Denise Richards), over for Thanksgiving dinner.

While at the movies, the brothers accidentally bump into Judith and her new boyfriend, who turns out to be Jake's soccer coach.

Against Alan's judgement, Charlie falls for a seemingly crazy woman named Frankie (Jenna Elfman) whom the brothers find smashing up a BMW in a parking lot with a baseball bat.

Alan offends Charlie by choosing their cousins from Rhode Island as Jake's guardians in the event of his and Judith's deaths.

After Alan goes out, Charlie accidentally injures Jake during a basketball game, but manages to take good care of him by driving him to the hospital.

In order to keep her sister separate from his ex-husband, Judith does claims she's going to seduce Charlie, a tactic which works successfully.

After the adults make many futile attempts to speak with him, Jake comes downstairs in a cheerful mood.