It’s no secret that I am a huge “Friends” fan. I scheduled my life around their episodes, and despite owning the entire 10-year show on DVD (thanks, Mr. W!), I caught every episode of the re-runs I could when it aired on TV. That means that for the longest time up until recently, I was in front of the TV at 7p and 11p weekdays. I’d sometimes watch “Everybody Loves Raymond” as it leads into “Friends” if I was before the TV early, and would watch “Will and Grace” after “Friends.” I’d fall asleep to that lineup late at night. When “Sex and the City” started running at 11p pushing “Friends” back half an hour, I was ticked because it made me wait a half hour longer and stay up later.

This week, however, something shifted in TV Land. “Friends” at or around 7p disappeared, and the 11:30p episode got pushed back to past midnight. In their place are two episodes of “Two and a Half Men,” starring Charlie Sheen. I’ve always enjoyed the show whenever I happened upon it, but it’s a rare occasion for some reason and I don’t know when or where it airs. Despite my feeling disloyal to “Friends”, I can’t think of a better replacement, and I found myself for the past few days and nights staying up just to watch “Two and a Half Men,” which makes me laugh out loud in a way that “Friends” no longer can, having made myself immune by inadvertently memorizing all the characters’ lines from frequent overwatch. I call it Bland Overwatch of Reruns dEsensitivity Disease, or B.O.R.E.D.

Charlie Sheen’s character “Charlie” is a womanizing bachelor who lives alone at a Spanish-style house overlooking the ocean in Malibu which he affords by writing commercial jingles, but he secretly has a warm heart which he’ll deny to the death. The series begin when he takes in his geeky overly conservative younger chiropractor brother when the brother got a divorce. The brother’s son visits on weekends and the stuff that comes out of the kid’s mouth is irreverent and very boy-like. The show is witty and funny and the best part is that Mr. W, who has a tendency of talking through every show and movie he watches as he tries to predict the upcoming plot and lines, has been wrong on every prediction. HA!