Roseanne Barr went on a lengthy Twitter rant on Friday, accusing Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre and star Ashton Kutcher for stealing a joke from one of her past stand-up routines. She later apologized to the two, but still blamed the writers for joke plagiarism.

The expletive-laced rant started when she told her followers that her friends noticed Kutcher was “stealing my jokes without any sense of being conscious of being a f**king thief. #chucklorre.” She said that Kutcher had stolen her “wet where i'm supposed to be dry” joke.

According to Today.com, Kutcher did make a joke in a recent episode about being 91, saying, “I'd imagine that you're wet in the places you used to be dry, and dry in the places you used to be wet.” That does match jokes Barr told in a stand-up routine about menopause.

Lorre and Barr do have a history together, since Lorre worked on Roseanne before he was fired. (Barr did tell one follower that she never personally worked with him and that the show’s executives fired him for being “a drunk.”) Eventually, Roseanne turned her anger directly to Lorre, often tweeting in all capital letters.

Here’s some samples of the rant:

As TheWrap notes, Barr even sought legal advice. “any show biz lawyers lurking here? If something is copyrighted, then usurped 4broadcast, that is a slam dunk win in court, right?” she wrote. She even

Barr eventually calmed down a bit. She decided to blame the writers for the error.

Two and a Half Men airs on CBS Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.

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