Did you know that you can watch entire episodes of our favorite sitcom online?

It’s becoming more common all the time for movies and tv shows to be available on the Internet. The companies that own rights to them realized that it was impossible to catch, convict and ultimately stop illegal pirate sites so, as the cliché goes, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Sites like Netflix.com, Hulu.com and CBS.com now regularly make both tv shows and complete movies available. In some cases, one has to pay a subscription fee, in others the viewer has to sit through a few commercials – far fewer than air on regular tv.

The later is true for Two and a Half Men. CBS.com makes entire episodes available on the show’s section of the website. Besides recent episodes – which are usually posted just a day or two after they air on TV – there are also promos of upcoming episodes, compilations of previous clips, actor interviews, etc. They are also available for sharing with friends and even embedding in blogs which is how I post clips here.

Check out Two and a Half Men at CBS.com here.

It’s another Monday and, believe me, I’m truly sorry about that.

But, one good thing about this current set of Mondays we’re enduring, new episodes of Two and a Half Men come of the end of the day.

Tonight’s episode is concerned with that growing crowd of roommates joining Charlie in what is supposed to be his house. Last week we got a hint of things to come when Alan’s girlfriend was doing everything involved with living there – sleeping, showering, even going grocery shopping. But, Alan continued to insist that she hadn’t moved in. This week it looks like things will even get worse when the new roommates throw a party. Oh, and a ventriloquist dummy is somehow involved, a little detail that, if I were Charlie would send me over the edge.

Here’s a taste of what’s to come:

I’m an NPR nerd. I admit it; I own it. Odds are when I’m working I’m listening to the local NPR station’s classic music show. And every weekend there are a few shows like Car Talk, Prairie Home Companion and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me that I never miss.

Yes, I’m one of those people.

This week I was amused to hear surfing champ Kelly Slater quizzed on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me about bowling trivia. Slater is one of those people who seem to be put on Earth to humiliate the rest of us slobs. He is distinguished as a surfer for being both the youngest and the oldest to win a surfing champion. He appears to be on course to be the first to win ten surfing championships. He dates supermodels, was named as one of People Magazine’s Fifty Most Beautiful People and had a few guest appearances on Baywatch.

I, on the other hand, grew some really nice tomatoes in my garden this summer.

Anyway, it was fun to hear him stumble through a quiz about bowling. Check it out.

Ah, summer reruns are finally over. It was nice to get a fresh dose of Charlie Sheen and the rest of the gang last night.

The show wrapped up last season’s cliff hanger ending. After showing up, innocently at first but with growing intent to win Charlie back, Mia asked for his help in kick starting a singing career. Naturally she can’t sing at all.

Charlie began to realize, or was told by his intestines in the form of constipation, that spending time with Mia while living with – and being engaged to – Chelsea. Which brought him to his psychiatrist. (Played by Jane Lynch which is always a treat. Can anyone condescend quite as well as she can?)

In the end he told Mia that he couldn’t see her anymore. It’s unclear whether this was because he loves Chelsea or he just couldn’t take her awful singing. Let’s believe it’s the former, shall we?

In the meantime, Alan’s girlfriend, Melissa, has moved into the house. Charlie forbade it but apparently the plan is to fool him by continuing to insist that she hasn’t.

A few notes from the show – Will Sasso, another favorite of mine, had a role. And Eddie Van Halen showed up for what can only be described as a puzzling cameo.

Okay, tonight is the season premiere – the seventh season, woohoo! – of Two and a Half Men. As always, Lounge rules apply while the show is playing on the TV over the bar. In case you’ve forgotten the rules here’s a recap:

1. No talking
2. No laughing louder or longer than the studio audience (or is it a laugh track?)
3. No pool – sorry, those balls just clank too loudly
4. No domestic squabbles – as you know, there’s nothing more we like here in the Lounge than to see people airing their dirty laundry in public; just not while Charlie’s on the screen
5. No juke box – don’t make us unplug it like we had to last year
6. Drinks half off – the rule that keeps you coming back

We were considering instituting a drinking game but just never got around to putting it together. We only have two rules so far: chug a beer when Charlie Sheen appears in a new bowling shirt and do a shot for every puberty joke. Got any suggestions for more? As you know, every good drinking game must have at least 5 rules. Leave a comment with your ideas for a Two and a Half Men drinking game.

And now, here’s a sneak peak of tonight’s episode

Or so the rumor mills have been promising for a while now and finally it’s starting to feel true.

A few weeks ago we were all more than a little let down here in the Lounge that Charlie Sheen was to be excluded from the sequel to Wall Street. Well, that seems to be changing.

This time ’round Bud Fox, Charlie’s character, will only be making a brief appearance but, really, that’s enough. A Charlie Sheen cameo is just right to put the universe back to rights. It would just be wrong, wrong, ten times wrong, to make a Wall Street sequel without his Sheenness.

I’m not sure I meant it exactly like that.

Here are some things that I know about you. Since you’re reading this blog you are highly intelligent and a person of incredible taste. You are also very likely incredibly attractive; dare I say, breathtaking?

You are also hip, with it, cool and whatever outdated phrase that means you aren’t – outdated, I mean.

*Sigh* this doesn’t seem to be going very well. What I’m trying to say is that if you are reading this blog then you are probably a person with taste and sophistication. And that means that you are exactly the right kind of person to become a Facebook fan of BowlingConcepts.

So, just scoot on over to the BowlingConcepts fanpage on Facebook and join.

Not on Facebook yet? Hmm, maybe I don’t know you as well as I thought I did.

Have you noticed this trend? Old people are playing video games. No, I’m not talking about baby-boomers rediscovering their youth. These are real, actual, old people who are digging hard on the Wii.

I know; we’re all a little sick of the “miracle of Wii” but here it really seems to apply.

Nursing homes are using Wii video game – where they can afford them – to get their seniors up and active. Unlike previous tactics they’ve tried to use, the Wii is actually fun.

I can attest to this. As a devote Sendentarianist I have personally experienced the “get off the coach” aspects of the Wii.

Check it out.