Chuck Lorre Addresses Charlie Sheen Situation in ‘Big Bang Theory’ Vanity Card

Chuck Lorre appeared to reference the Charlie Sheen situation again Thursday night through one of his show’s vanity cards.

Sheen sued Lorre and Warner Bros. TV for $100 million after being fired from his CBS comedy Two and a Half Men earlier this month.

At the end of Thursday night’s The Big Bang Theory, which Lorre also co-created, he didn’t call out Sheen by name, but it seems apparent that he was addressing the situation.

Here’s what the vanity card said:

Whenever I’ve gone through tough times, well-meaning people have told me that God/the universe does not give us more than we can handle. Well, I’ve been going through a tough time recently, and sure enough, that old saying has been tossed my way on several morose occasions. After some careful consideration, I’ve decided it’s bull$#*!. As an aphorism, it only makes sense in hindsight – after you’ve managed to crawl from the wreckage of whatever calamity that God/the universe decided to toss your way. No one ever uses it to comfort someone who’s been hit by a bus or turned into a puddle of goo by flesh-eating bacteria (although in the right circumstance, that could be a hoot). Another thing I hear a lot is, “this too shall pass.” Again, I know these are words meant to reassure, but somehow they always leave me feeling that heartbreak, rage and grief are going to come shooting out of me like kidney stones through an inflamed urethra. For someone in crisis, I think a more accurate and helpful assessment of reality would be, “Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but never forget that God/the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary.” Consider trying that next time you’re called on to do some consoling. If you’re feeling impish, you might also try, “According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you’re having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.”

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It’s not the first time Lorre has addressed the issue through a vanity card. Earlier this month, before Sheen was fired, he commented through a Mike & Molly vanity card. [Read the full text of that card here.]

He also drew the ire of Sheen when he famously wrote “If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I’m gonna be really pissed” in his Two and a Half Men vanity card in mid-February, when the show was on hiatus following Sheen’s entering rehab.