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" The Bachelor&amp;#039;s producers have fought back after Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre described the show as &amp;quot;idiotic&amp;quot;. Lorre made the comment in a vanity card for The Big Bang Theory which he posted on his website, assuming that it wouldn&amp;#039;t make it past the network&amp;#039;s censors.   The card - which saw Lorre comment on the US presidential race - contained the line: &amp;quot;What does it say about us when we think the institution of marriage is threatened by gay people who love each other, but not by idiotic game shows like The Bachelor?&amp;quot; However, the remark infuriated Bachelor producer Elan Gale, who took to Twitter to complain about Lorre, E! Online reports. &amp;quot;Someone has been freebasing crushed up copies of Dharma &amp;amp;amp; Greg DVDs,&amp;quot; he wrote, adding: &amp;quot;Two and a Half Men. Zero salient points.&amp;quot; Gale&amp;#039;s fellow producer Robert Mills also responded to the comment, saying: &amp;quot;Ironic that Chuck Lorre decides to bash #Bachelor and one of his stars @KaleyCuoco [from The Big Bang Theory] is a card carrying member of #Bachelornation.&amp;quot;   Mills suggested that Warner Bros - which produces Lorre&amp;#039;s shows as well as the Bachelor franchise - should &amp;quot;force [Lorre] to apologise&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Chuck Lorre&amp;#039;s getting #TwoAndAHalfMenNation to retaliate against #BachelorNation,&amp;quot; he added. &amp;quot;Step 1:teach their geriatric audience to turn on a computer.&amp;quot; The Bachelor&amp;#039;s host Chris Harrison also weighed into the row, retweeting comments from Mills and Gale and saying: &amp;quot;Chuck love it when people expose their own ignorance!&amp;quot; The next season of The Bachelor - starring former Bachelorette contestant Sean Lowe - is currently being filmed and will premiere on ABC in January. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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