After Alan moves out of the house, Charlie embraces his carefree bachelor lifestyle once again. Alan has a huge fight with his wife Kandi. She plunders all of Alan's money. He is heart-broken to know that Kandi doesn't love him any more. He shows up at Charlie's doorstep with a severe bout of depression. He locks himself up in a room in fetal position. In a desperate effort to pull Alan out of his self-loathing depression, Charlie asks their mom to come down. She comes and makes Alan understand that he has hit rock-bottom and things can't get any worse.