他是花花公子的典型，对女人很有手段，做广告配乐的，几乎不工作，却能赚大把的钱，穿梭不断的美女和音乐就是他生活的主题。可是alan的出现打破了他单身汉的快乐生活。 Alan被老婆赶了出来，和兄弟Charlie住在一起。工作是指压按摩师。他是一个有责任心，对妻子百依百顺的好丈夫，但是唧唧歪歪的性格，粘粘糊糊的脾气，让人想到唐僧。一直试图和妻子和好，分居了还老回去干家务，她却宣布自己是女同性恋。 一个儿子Jake，胖胖的很可爱，虽然年纪小小，也有点好色，无论多少东西都吃得下。大智若愚的性格，让他成为本剧的大亮点，一点不输给两个成年的男主角。和蜡笔小心有得一拼。 值得一提的是 几个配角，让兄弟两个对女人产生阴影的魔鬼老妈，刻薄的前妻，拽得要死的清洁女佣，还有和Charlie共渡一夜之后就跟踪了他两三年的邻居RoseThe Harper brothers Charlie and Alan are almost opposites but form a great team. They have little in common except their dislike for their mundane, maternally cold and domineering mother, Evelyn. Alan, a compulsively neat chiropractor and control-freak, is thrown out by his manipulative wife Judith who nevertheless gets him to pay for everything and do most jobs in the house. Charlie is a freelance jingle composer and irresistible Cassanova who lives in a luxurious beach-house and rarely gets up before noon. Charlie "temporarily" allows Alan and his son Jake, a food-obsessed, lazy kid who shuttles between his parents, to move in with them after Alan's separation/divorce. The sitcom revolves around their conflicting lifestyles, raising Jake (who has the efficient, caring dad while having a ball with his fun-loving sugar uncle who teaches him boyish things), and bantering with Evelyn and various other friends and family. Other fairly regular characters include Charlie's cleaning lady Berta and his rich, self-confessed stalker neighbor Rose who often sneaks in to spy on Charlie.
