I am not exaggerating when I say that 99% of the lines of dialogue in Two and a Half men are followed by laugh tracks.  And for that 1%, the very next line will be followed by a loud enough laugh track to make up for the loss.

I don't know how this isn't proof by itself that its' an awful show.  Even if there was something vaguely appealing about that show, it would be ruined by the laugh track.  Luckily it's bad enough on its own.

That doesn't prove it's an awful show, what don't you understand? Laugh tracks are nuisances, but they don't make a show terrible. Oh, and you still aren't giving any reasons why it's bad besides "laugh tracks".

You know another fad I hate? Smoking, drinking, and doing drugs..

I know what a fad is.. its something you do because everyone else is. And your point is?

*edit: Calm down man, none of the other shit that I said was gay caused people to freak out

the emo and goth thing. like almost everyone else here.

how does one define something as bad when every aspect of it is horrible? it operates on completely unrealistic characters like a child who is JUST SO DAMN PRECOCIOUS and a jingle writer who lives with his brother who is a chiropractor (did they have a wheel in which they had WACKY CAREERS and rolled those two, a maid who is mean and spiteful and yet is somehow lovable, a woman who jumps from her patio to theirs and is stalking the jingle writer, the whole thing reeks of "if it's random enough, we can make people think it's funny". dialogue is stilted and exactly like the sample I gave above, per all shitty sitcoms nothing real ever happens to any of these characters, and all the laughter is from not so witty dialogue or funny faces, why don't you tell us why it's not like a hundred other shitty sitcoms instead of asking us repeatedly to retread why it is.

First of all, I don't really watch other sitcoms so I can't COMPARE IT. The woman doesn't stalk him anymore, she's no longer in the episodes. There was an episode that featured her a little while after she moved, which was pretty good. I don't know why you think that the show is trying to sell off randomness, but the characters each have their own place in the show and this isn't an example of actually being truly random. Also, people never really watch sitcoms for character development, where have you been? If this is what you meant by "nothing real ever happens to these characters", then you can watch over time how the lives of the characters do in fact change a little bit? Either way, sitcoms aren't notorious for their intricate storylines but their ability to set the characters into quirky situations, and I think the show does a good job of this. Each episode has it's own interesting scenario that's written out in a witty way.

*walks out wearing some kind of QUIRKY underpants*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

What are you talking about? You're example isn't funny, neither are you, and I don't see any sort of correlation at all.

im fat im sassy im 11 goin on 40

Some sitcoms are just plain garbage cause of the lame actors(e.g. full house)

so we've got one guy arguing that a garbage sitcom is somehow defensible and another one arguing that smoking (5000 BC), drinking (7000 BC) and drug abuse (8000 BC) are all fads.

That's right....i've got you speechless sucker. 

I'm not going to post in this stupid topic anymore, it's like 100 to 1 and I don't feel like arguing with half of GW.

no way people were abusing drugs before they were drinking?