After killing off Charlie Sheen’s lead character and demoting Angus T. Jones to an occasional supporting character, CBS has become known for taking risks with Two and a Half Men. The longest-running comedy on broadcast TV is about to take its biggest and most controversial risk yet during its final season; CBS entertainment chairman Nina Tassler revealed Thursday that the show will explore a storyline that brings its two lead characters together in a fake gay relationship so they can adopt a child.

Tassler stated after her executive session panel at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills Thursday that Ashton Kutcher’s Walden and Jon Cryer’s Alan will take a page from Adam Sandler and Kevin James in their 2007 comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry during the series’ 12th and final season. Walden and Alan are going to pretend to be gay and marry each other.

Walden will reportedly experience a major health scare that leads him to an “existential crisis” which causes the bachelor to want to “add more meaning to his life.”

“He starts the [adoption] process and realizes it’s very difficult to adopt the child as a single straight man. So, once and for all, he decides he’s going to propose to Alan — they’re going to adopt a child as a ‘gay’ couple,” said Tassler.

When asked if CBS is concerned that the LGBT community might take issue with the storyline, Tassler stated, “I think it’s a very positive statement [to say] ‘I am going to adopt a child as a gay couple. The reality is he can do that. And at one point you couldn’t do that, and now you can do that, so I think that’s a much more positive statement.”