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Video flashback: Electric car ridiculed on Two and a Half Men
It's EV flashback time. An electric car was featured in a 2004 episode of the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men (watch the video below the fold). The mother of the odd brothers in the show (Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer) enjoys her electric car but needs to exchange her EV with Sheen's Mercedes to impress a potential client. The real estate agent mother needs the luxurious gas burner because she is trying to sell a house to a Saudi Prince, and dear old mom doesn't think he'd be too keen on her EV. I don't recognize the type of electric car featured here but it looks like a very normal car, so I would guess it's an NEV or pure fiction.
[Source: YouTube]
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iDevin 8:09PM (2/26/2008)
They used a Prius. Look at the shape of the rear hatch, the head rests, the computer screen bump, and the windshield wipers.
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Mike Simpson 9:22PM (2/26/2008)
Looks like a prius to me - see the segmented rear window and the curve of the roof towards the back.
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Drew 2:21AM (2/28/2008)
Definitely a Prius. Later in the episode they teach the kid how to drive and they show the car from the outside. We all know it's not an "electric" car, but they had to play it that way for the gags to work.
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brn 7:48PM (2/28/2008)
Ridiculed? Hardly. They had a little fun with it, that's all.
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