The final season episode of "The Two and a Half Men" aired on Thursday with very surprising and strange results. IN an interview, creator Chuck Lorre explained why the series ended that way.

The 49-year-old Charlie Sheen was fired from the show in 2011 following his drug use and rants against creator Chuck Lorre made on radio and TMZ. He was subsequently replaced by Ashton Kutcher and their network ratings reportedly plummeted thereafter.

The comedy series' finale was completely about Charlie Harper. It turned out that Charlie had been alive all the time and was being kept prisoner in the basement of a psychotic lover (a tribute to "Silence of the Lambs").

But Charlie Sheen does not make an appearance, not once, throughout the show.

Viewers are instead treated to the backside of a Charlie Sheen doppelganger. Before the lookalike can turn around, a piano drops in on him, finishing off his character for good.

The camera then panned to the show's creator, Chuck Lorre, who turned to the camera and says, "Winning." The phrase was famously adopted by Charlie Sheen while he on his interview rampage back in 2011. After that, a piano fell on his head as well.

So why was the "Two and Half Men" final season ender made to revolve around a character who wasn't going to appear in it at all?

It turns out that the producers, along with Lorre, wanted to have Charlie Sheen come back for the final episode after all, according to a report by Business Insider. A title card that flashed at the end of the series explained what happened.

"I know a lot of you might be disappointed that you didn't get to see Charlie Sheen in tonight's finale," the title card read.

"For the record, he was offered a role. Our idea was to have him walk up to the front door in the last scene, ring the doorbell, then turn, look directly into the camera and go off on a maniacal rant about the dangers of drug abuse. He would then explain that these dangers only applied to average people. That he was far above average. He was a ninja warrior from Mars. He was invincible,

"And then we would drop a piano on him,

"We thought it was funny,

"He didn't,

"Instead, he wanted us to write a heart-warming scene that would set up his return to primetime TV in a new sitcom called 'The Harpers' starring him and Jon Cryer,

"We thought that was funny too."

On NYT, the director gave his theory on why the actor refused the offer to reprise his role.

"I can't say. I just have to assume that he didn't see the humor in it, which is all right," the "Grace Under Fire" creator shared.

"What are you going to do? We thought that was a terrific way to end the series. He certainly understood there was a huge pent-up demand to see Charlie in the finale, and there would be creative closure in that. I wanted to make that happen, but it wasn't meant to be."

According to the numbers, 13.2 million viewers tuned in to the "Two and a Half Men" final season episode.