8.0/1010 votes#1 - Large Birds, Spiders and Mom
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2007
Jake is getting ready to start a new school as he graduates to Junior High. Alan and Charlie take him school shopping and find themselves in trouble.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.8/109 votes#2 - My Tongue is Meat
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2006
Charlie has trouble keeping up with Mia's healthy lifestyle, so he begins to sneak beers, cigars, and burgers behind her back. When Mia finds out what he was doing, Charlie has to decide if he is truly in love with her or just whipped.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.8/109 votes#3 - Apologies for the Frivolity
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/2006
Charlie is dating a woman whose personality and life are like his mother’s.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.8/108 votes#4 - Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-Lookin'
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/2007
Charlie is shocked when the handyman working on his house beats him out for Chloe's affections. Alan has no sympathy for Charlie’s distress.
Director: Lee Aronsohn
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.7/1012 votes#5 - Walnuts and Demerol
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/2006
Charlie's friends and family put a crimp in his plan for a romantic Christmas Eve date. When Evelyn sees who the date is, she goes to great lengths to force a wedge between them.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.6/1039 votes#6 - The Spaghetti Catalyst
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2010
When Leonard and Penny aren't speaking, Sheldon goes to extremes to keep them both happy.
Director: Anthony Joseph Rich
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.6/109 votes#7 - Back Off, Mary Poppins
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2004
Alan learns that Charlie belongs to an exclusive men's group, and he begs his brother to let him join.
Director: Chuck Lorre
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.6/109 votes#8 - Woo-Hoo, a Hernia Exam!
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/2005
After Charlie has back pain, Alan decides to take him to the Hospital. While there Charlie can't stop hitting on the doctor who is examining him. The only problem is that he has a history with her that he can't remember. Berta is feed up with Jake's inability to use the bathroom properly, so she decides to make him clean it until he learns.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.6/108 votes#9 - Just Once With Aunt Sophie
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2006
A girl from Jake’s school invites him to his first boy-girl party. Charlie and Alan help him get ready for it by giving him advice. Alan and Charlie get nostalgic and remember their first boy-girl party.
Director: Lee Aronsohn
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.5/1011 votes#10 - I Always Wanted a Shaved Monkey
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/2005
Rose tries to help the brothers sort out their feelings, when Charlie and Alan take their personal frustrations out on each other.
Director: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.5/1010 votes#11 - A Live Woman of Proven Fertility
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/2006
Alan is overjoyed by the prospect of Judith remarrying, as he would no longer have to pay alimony. Alan gets Charlie to help him when it looks like the marriage maybe derailed due to Jake’s dislike of his mother’s fiancé.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.5/1010 votes#12 - Dum Diddy Dum Diddy Doo
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2007
Alan convinces Charlie that he needs to date more respectable women and sets him up with a judge. The two double date and their waitress happens to be one of Charlie’s ex-girlfriends. Charlie's date backfires the following morning, when he ends up in court in front of the judge.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.5/1010 votes#13 - City of Great Racks
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2007
Charlie and Linda get closer to consummating their relationship, but Charlie has trouble focusing when he begins to see Rose's face everywhere he turns.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.4/109 votes#14 - A Low, Guttural Tongue-Flapping Noise
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/2005
After Charlie takes Alan to an eye doctor, they end up at cafe where they bump into Charlie's ex-girlfriend, Sherri. While there Alan shows an interest in Sherri, and decides to ask her out. The problem is that Alan can't get over Sherri's relationship with Charlie.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.4/109 votes#15 - Release the Dogs
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2006
Alan suffers from insomnia. He visits his psychiatrist, who reveals that the cause of Alan's sleepless nights is his jealousy towards Charlie, and his inability to glide through life.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.4/109 votes#16 - Smooth as a Ken Doll
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2007
Charlie takes a liking to Myra, the witty sister of Judith's fiancé, Herb.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.4/109 votes#17 - Is There a Mrs. Waffles?
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2007
Charlie writes a children’s song and finds success as Charlie Waffles. The children love him and the mothers seem to as well. Charlie's new found fame irritates Alan.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.4/109 votes#18 - The Two Finger Rule
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/2009
After Chelsea discovers a nude picture of another woman on Charlie's cell phone, he blows off steam by going out for a night of drinking with Alan, Herb and his neighbor.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.4/1010 votes#19 - Three Girls and a Guy Named Bud
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2010
When Jake finds out that Alan has been dating Eldridge's mom, he packs up and heads to Judith and Herb's. Meanwhile, Charlie decides it's time to cut back on boozing.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.3/109 votes#20 - Zejdz Zmoich Wlosow (Get Off My Hair)
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/2005
After an earthquake hits, Judith's house is damaged and she needs a place to stay. So Alan decides to invite her to stay with him and Charlie, without getting Charlie's permission. Charlie isn't happy with this, but accepts it. Alan becomes jealous when Judith goes on a date, and asks Charlie to find him a date, so that he can show Judith that he dates as well.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.3/1011 votes#21 - Who's Vod Kanockers?
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/2006
Charlie finally tells Alan that he didn't marry Mia because she wanted Alan and Jake to move out of the house, but Alan finds a hole in his logic. Charlie and Alan deal with a noisy neighbor who constantly sings all the time, who happens to be Steven Tyler.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.3/1010 votes#22 - The Sea Is a Harsh Mistress
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/2006
Charlie tries to surf to impress Dottie, a beautiful woman he just met, but after he nearly drowns he is convinced that he saw his late father.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.3/1011 votes#23 - A Pot Smoking Monkey
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/2006
Alan tries to hire his ex-wife's lawyer to help him win custody over the dog he and Kandi shared.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.3/109 votes#24 - Kinda Like Necrophilia
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/2007
Alan finds out that Charlie stole his girlfriend and works on a plan to get back at Charlie, even though this happened when they were in high school.
Director: Ted Wass
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
7.3/109 votes#25 - A Little Clammy and None Too Fresh
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/24/2008
Rose returns from England, and plays nurse rather oddly for an ill Charlie.
Director: James Widdoes
Writer: Lee Aronsohn
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"Large Birds, Spiders and Mom" is the best rated episode written by Lee Aronsohn. It scored 8/10 based on 10 votes. It was directed by Ted Wass. It aired on 9/24/2007 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "My Tongue is Meat".