Gary Busey is checking into 'Two and a Half Men.' The eccentric 'Celebrity Apprentice' star will play himself in an upcoming episode.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Busey will share a room with Alan (Jon Cryer) in a mental institution. What drives Alan to the facility? Walden (Ashton Kutcher) will donate Charlie Harper's (Charlie Sheen) piano to under-privileged kids. Alan begins to unravel, unable to deal with his brother's death.

Alan will start to believe that he is Charlie in the Mon., Nov. 14 episode of the CBS sitcom.

In other casting news ...

It's report card time. From time to time, the TV Squad Soap Report will take a look at a show and grade it accordingly. This week, we'll look at General Hospital -- you know, sort of take its temperature. To put it bluntly, General Hospital needs some intensive care. The show is suffering from post-dramatic stress disorder, not traumatic, dramatic. I'm speaking specifically of the shooting of Michael Corinthos, Jr.

Intellectually and from a writer's point of view, I understand why Robert Guza, Jr. -- the head writer -- decided to do this story. It's caused a major upheaval in the Jason-Carly-Sonny-Jax quadrangle. The situation he created, for those who haven't been watching, is this: Sonny's new love, Kate, urged Sonny to bring Michael to the coffee warehouse so he could see the legitimate side of his father's business interests and presumably be impressed enough to want to emulate him. Sonny had been worried that Michael was on the path to becoming a mini-mobster.
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