Top-Ten Tuesday: The Gang’s Best Quotes

For ten seasons now the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia have been spitting out the most vulgar, outlandish, and utterly hysterical one-liners on television. As a result, it was a difficult task to choose just ten of the best quotes from the series as it’s progressed so far. However, these ten quotes are the ones that make me laugh out loud no matter how many times I hear them or read them–this is my list for the top ten quotes from the gang.

#10). “Hey-o! What’s up, bitches?!” -Mac 

#9). “Later, boners.” -Sweet Dee

#8). “Later, dudes. S you in your A’s, don’t wear a C and J all over your B’s.” -Charlie

#7). “See you later, Dirt Grub and Ronnie the Rat. Hope you suck each other’s rotten peckers until you get mouth cancer.” -Sweet Dee

#6). “You gotta pay the troll toll, if you wanna get into that boy’s soul.” -Frank

#5). “Name’s Artemis. I have a bleached asshole.” -Artemis

#4). “I will eat your babies, bitch!” -Sweet Dee

#3). “Your mom doesn’t know dick! She’s a dumb, fat cow. And your sister, she’s a stupid little shit-mouthed bitch, isn’t she?” -Sweet Dee

#2). Mac, you have an exceptional number of bugs in your teeth. You’re gonna wanna rinse those out. It’s disgusting. -Dennis

#1). Mac, I’m gonna stop you right there. First of all, your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion. Secondly, I know you’re trying to manipulate me, and it’s not going to work. Get your hand off my shoulder, because I’ve got a fatty to burn. -Sweet Dee

Like I said, this was incredibly hard due to the plethora of quotes to choose from. So, just because I didn’t want to leave out some of my other favorites, here is a list of honorable mentions.

• “I’m a…full-on rapist, you know? Uh, Africans, dyslexics, children, that sort of thing.” -Charlie
• “I eat stickers all the time, dude!” -Charlie
• “Hi. Um, I’m a recovering crackhead. This is my retarded sister that I take care of. I’d like some welfare, please.” -Dennis
• “Oh, get a job? Just get a job? Why don’t I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on jobbies?!” -Charlie
• “I’m not fat. I’m cultivating mass.” -Fat Mac
• “Dee, don’t be ridiculous…think of the smell. YOU HAVEN’T THOUGHT OF THE SMELL, YOU BITCH! Now you say another word and I swear to god I will dice you into a million little pieces…and put those pieces in a box, a glass box, that I will display on my mantle.” – Dennis

Agree or disagree with my list? Leave me a comment and let me know what your favorite quotes are from the show, and see if they made my list of top-ten picks.

Rob & Glenn Give Us the Scoop

Just wanted to share this with everyone–an episode of the Nerdist Podcast with guests Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney. The duo, along with the two hosts of the show, discuss a variety of topics like juggling hectic schedules and how their senses of humor come together to produce It’s Always Sunny. It’s a very entertaining segment, and I loved hearing such an in depth conversation with the guys outside of the show; you learn a lot about who they are as people and why that makes their show so successful.

You can skip the intro if you’re uninterested, as the actual interview begins about 3:00 into the podcast.

Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton.

 Check out more of Chris Hardwick’s podcasts at http://nerdist.com/podcasts/nerdist-podcast-channel/

Season 10, Episode 10 Review – Ass Kickers United: Mac and Charlie

Emotional instability, withdrawal, lost sense of purpose.

If you think these are all things to describe the members of the gang, you’re wrong (well…you’re not totally wrong). These are all things to describe how I’m feeling after watching the season 10 finale of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and knowing I now have to wait another year to see my favorite people doing horrible things. However, for the sake of this blog, I will set aside my feelings of depression and recap/review the finale that premiered last night on the FXX.

The epsiode begins with Dee and Frank finding Charlie, Mac, and two strangers aggressively exercising in the living room. They reveal that they’re part of “Ass Kickers United.” Mac received a newsletter advising him to follow the words of the ‘master’, someone who has achieved “enlightenment through the way of the warrior.” Come to find out however, the whole thing was created by Dennis’ to play on Mac’s body insecurities and make him stop eating Dennis’ thin mint cookies (no thin mints is one of the first Ass Kicker rules).

Dee jumps on board with the plan, wanting to use these newsletters to convince Mac to fix up his apartment so him and Dennis will leave hers. Frank also wants ‘in on the action’ as always, but for some less practical reasons: “Maybe you could get him to eat a shit sandwich. That’d be fun!” Thus, Dee drafts a new letter, with Frank gnawing beef jerky over her shoulder, including her personal specifications to convince Mac of the importance of drywall and construction. Frank continues his pointless rambling about what else he thinks is important:

“Pu**y…put pu**y.”

“Got damn, Frank. Don’t say pu**y. It’s disgusting. I’m not putting it.” (Crazy what people can say on TV now…).

To shut Frank up, Dee makes is a requirement that each Ass Kicker must bring one female into the system. When he sees said females at the bar working out, Mac, of course, seems to have a problem with it and decides to take a break from the system.

 

I love how this season has really brought Mac’s low key homosexuality more towards the forefront this season. I think it’s so funny how there’s a juxtaposition between Mac’s masculine appearance/homosexual tendencies and Dennis’ feminine appearance/masculine tendencies. Like when Dennis comes out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped on his head like a woman, but criticizes Mac for looking fat knowing he would care about Dennis’ opinion of him.

Dee brings the guys, including Dax Shepard who had an awesome cameo playing an idiot Ass Kicker, to Mac’s apartment so they can fix it up. However, they don’t take the bait and end up bailing–forcing Dee to think of another plan. She decides to use blackmail to hold information over the guy’s heads and get them to do what she wants, so she gives them a ‘personality’ test.  Basically, she just manipulates them to tell her embarrassing things about themselves, but all Dax and Charlie admit is that they’ve both previously eaten toads.

When Dennis convinces Mac to re-join with another newsletter, Dee sees it as a threat and sets her sights on now taking Dennis to see who can be the master manipulator. Thus, Dee and Frank get Charlie into a drunken stooper and convince him to rally the Ass Kickers together and bring them to the apartment–using a cloaked man to pose as the ‘master.’ However, Dennis bursts in claiming a higher level ‘master’ told him that all the Ass Kickers must commit suicide to reach enlightenment, and breaks out a bottle of lighter fluid. In the midst of bickering where the truth comes out about the entire system being false, Dax bursts out of the bedroom as it’s engulfed in flames. As the gang basically watches him burn alive, the episode comes to a close and they’re back to square one: a burned down apartment with their lives in shambles.

I thought this was a solid season finale. Wasn’t one of my favorites from the season but it was a strong way to come full circle and close out the season. Additionally, I’m a huge fan of Dax Sheppard and was happy to see him make an appearance. Rating: 8/10

 

Top-Ten Tuesday: Mac’s Best Moments

Whether he’s been straight, gay, fat, or skinny, Mac has been making us laughing on It’s Always Sunny for over ten seasons now. He uses his fast-paced karate moves and aggressive insults to ensure his self-proclaimed ‘bad-assness’ always shines through. Here are my picks for Ronald McDonald’s top ten moments from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

‘#10). ‘Jabroni’

During his shot at fame on a local hockey rink, Mac coins his signature term ‘jabroni.’ A word that I love just as much as Charlie.

#9). His Christmas epiphany

During the Always Sunny Christmas episode, Mac and Charlie reminisce about their childhood holidays. It’s during this flashback that Mac learns his first few Christmases were far from normal. Charlie breaks the news to him that, no, it’s not normal for families to run from house to house opening the presents under other people’s trees. Mac, that’s stealing…and your father is a dirty criminal,

#8). His Mac day

During ‘Mac day,’ where the whole gang has to do all the activities Mac wants, we learn a few crucial things about Mr. McDonald. He avoids jumping off a bridge into the river, proving he is in fact not bad-ass; he sucks at karate and fails miserably in a real match. Finally, after he makes the gang go to a body building convention to oil up the contestants, they finally relay out loud that Mac is in fact gay…for sure.

#7). The reveal of his real name

Having been known solely as Mac in the series thus far, we get to finally see his real name when he checks into his high-school reunion. Turns out, it’s Ronald McDonald. Hey, maybe sharing the name of the spokesperson for the biggest fast-food chain in the world is the reason he got so fat?

#6). When he sleeps with a tranny

Flattered by Carmen’s compliments on his muscular body, Mac went to the gang to brag about his new catch. Turns out though, shes clearly a man. Mac decides to suck it up though and wait til she get’s her reconstructive surgery, hiding their relationship from the gang all the while.

#5). When he had bugs in his teeth

While the guys go on a mission to offer door-step trash service, Mac decides to ride on the back of the limo like a real garbage man on his truck. However, when they arrive at the first location Mac offers to do all the talking–failing to notice his pearly whites are riddled with dead bugs.

#4). His nightman role

Cat eyes, hissing, karate, and uncomfortable boners were all components of Mac’s role as the nightman in Charlie’s play “The Nightman Cometh.” Despite his desire for gasps from the crowd, all he gets is laughter and ridicule.

#3). When he banged Dennis’ mom

One of Mac’s more controversial moments, he ends up sleeping with Dennis’ mom in a fit of passion. Afterwards, he becomes enthralled with her. Unfortunately, she thought he was a horrible lay and completely ignores him–sending him into a downward emotional spiral as he tries to win her affection.

#2). His towels

When the gang decides to make Paddy’s merchandise, Mac comes up with the vulgar idea of dick towels. Don’t really know what else to say besides, who in their right mind would ever purchase this, Mac? You degenerate ass.

#1). When he got fat

There’s no arguing what Mac is more famous for  than when he suddenly came back one season extremely overweight. My favorite part is not necessarily the role of this weight gain in the series itself, but rather Rob McElhenney’s reasoning for why he did it. To paraphrase an interview he had, he saw how characters from popular TV shows tended to become more visually appealing as the programs made more money. He wanted to stray from this and get progressively worse looking as Always Sunny grew in popularity. Eat on Mac, eat on.

The Gang Goes Late Night

Finally, a talk show host finally did something sensible and got the entire cast of Always Sunny together for an interview. Kaitlin, Danny, Glenn, Rob, and Charlie all appeared on the Conan O’Brien show Monday night and I’m so happy that we finally got to see them all together, not as their television personalities. I included the four segments from their spot on the show (sorry about the last one being a link it wasn’t on YouTube for some reason).

The gang discusses fan tattoos, black-face, and the much talked about hook up between Charlie and Dee from last week’s episode. I hope they do more mainstream group appearances like this because it’s so great to see their dynamic off screen–you really see how true their friendships are in real life.

Danny Devito discussing all of the outrageous things he’s done throughout the series, which always seem to push the envelope of sanity.

The gang’s take on their previous controversial episodes, in light of the drama surrounding the recent film The Interview.

A look at some of the most extravagant fan tattoos. Yes they’re all real.

Kaitlin, Charlie, and Rob’s opinions regarding the hookup between Dee and Charlie

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Enjoy, bozos.

 

 

Season 10, Episode 5 Review: The Gang Spies Like U.S.

Episode 5 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s 10th season premiered last night and went international. Not literally of course, but in that the gang was involved with the Asian fish factory across the street from Paddy’s. After noticing they had set up cameras that were facing the bar, Dennis and Mac grabbed Dee to bring her in on the plan to infiltrate the plant. Surprised by Dee’s inclusion despite her constant “back-sassing,” Frank and Charlie become suspicious of what’s really going on with Dennis and Mac. They’ve recently been locking the back office door and have been acting quite fishy (no pun intended) since they moved in with Dee. The duo decides to act on these suspicions and concoct a plan to spy on Mac and Dennis’ endeavors.

After Dennis and Mac instruct Dee to infiltrate the plant and dig up any useful dirt, she poses as a factory worker. However, in typical Dee fashion, the only thing the does is hurt herself (repeatedly) and cause physical and structural damage to the plant and it’s workers. She:

• Get’s slapped in the face with rancid fish guts
• Causes a fork lift to slip on fish innards and spiral out of control into a shelving unit
• Fails at flirting with the manager and gets her hair caught in a conveyor belt–forcing it to be hacked off with a meat cleaver
• Slips off a ladder while spying on Frank and the manager, causing her to fall (hitting many pieces of machinery along the way) and wind up hospitalized.

Smooth!

Meanwhile, Charlie enters Dennis and Mac’s apartment pretending to deliver a bouquet of flowers but it’s actually housing a hidden camera. All the while Charlie is being directed by Frank via ear piece and doesn’t seem to understand the concept of remaining discrete. The whole situation is extremely awkward, but Dennis and Mac are used to Charlie’s bizarre actions and don’t question him because they just want him out of the apartment. Charlie’s funniest scene of the episode for sure, especially when he tells the guys he’s acting strangely because there’s a spider in his ear that tells him it’s thoughts. Doesn’t seem too far off from a typical Charlie-ism.

When the hidden camera fails after the flowers are thrown away, Frank decides to have Charlie call Mac and Dennis to an ‘urgent’ meeting at Guiginos restaurant while he breaks into their apartment to search the computer. At this dinner the trio runs into the waiter who served them back in season 8 (“The Gang Dines Out”), the same waiter whose shoes they tied together, causing him to face plant into scalding spaghetti. However, the guys have no recollection of who he is and treat him with no sense of respect (as the do with everyone):

Dennis: “I’m to remember every man I’ve seen fall into a plate of spaghetti?!”

Mac: “Get me the snapper, bozo”

Just two of the many classless things said during this encounter. We come to find out that Frank hacked the guys’ laptop and found their previous searches were ‘Asian’ and ‘cream pies.’ Frank misinterprets their clearly sexual context and instead thinks Dennis and Mac plan on going into a pastry making business with the Asian factory. Wanting to prevent this from happening, Charlie meets again with Dennis and Mac to try and get “in on the action” as Frank would say. An incredibly awkward conversation ensues with both parties misinterpreting the connotation of ‘cream pie.’

The episode ends with the guys meeting Dee in the hospital where she cluelessly believes she’s been a big help. They leave her in the bed to recover and walk off down the hallway to concoct some new bogus plan that we know definitely will not work.

 It was going to be hard for this episode to live up to last weeks brilliant “Charlie Work,” but I think it did a good job. While the story-line and directing wasn’t nearly as innovative as last week, I found myself laughing out loud quite a bit. Even though all of Dee’s misfortunes are now somewhat predictable, they never fail to make me laugh because they’re just quintessential to her character. One again I find myself levitating to the comedic voice of Dennis in this season and he had another great episode full of snide comments and hilarious one liners. Overall, a good episode that’s keeping a great season rolling along.

Rating: 8/10

Top-Ten Tuesday: Charlie’s Best Moments

Tuesday is here once again and it’s time for another top-ten countdown. This week, I’ve assembled my picks for the ten best moments from none other than Mr. Charlie Kelly. His wacky outlandish personality has established him as one of the most well received characters from the series. Whether he’s killing rats, eating cheese, or writing in his dream journal, he never fails to make an audience laugh. So, without further adieu, here are Charlie’s top ten moments from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

#10). His green-man acid trip

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“Green Man is saving your life right now, bro.” When the gang gets the opportunity to try out for the Philadelphia Eagles, Charlie and Frank decide to sit out and tailgate the mediocre event. When Frank drops a boat-load of acid into Charlie’s beer, he slips into a hallucinogenic state–leading to a dance party with the McPoyles in his Green Man suit.

9. His night with the waitress

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During a trip to the Jersey Shore, Charlie runs off on his own and runs into someone surprising–the waitress. She seems shockingly receptive to his greeting and, although apprehensive at first, he runs with her affection. They end up spending a wonderful night together by the ocean. Unfortunately for Charlie however, he comes to find that she was actually on ecstasy the night before and his chances with her are once again crushed into steroid-soaked sand.

8. When he got smart..kind of

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Was this the workings of the apocalypse, or did Charlie Kelly actually become a sudden savant? When Charlie is selected–as a direct result of his sheer idiocy–to be the subject of an intelligence experiment, he finds himself quickly rising up the scale of intelligence. Books on tape, new languages, and science equations all come quite naturally to him as keeps poppin’ the new brain pills. However, we come to learn all of Charlie’s “progress” was just a result of the ever-so-fooling placebo effect; all of his work was actually a jumbled mess.

7. The pirate door

On a mission to scope out the competition from a neighboring Korean bar with a popular micro-brew, Charlie has one of his best dyslexic mess-ups of the series. Misreading an office door marked ‘private’ as ‘pirate,’ he needs the help of Dennis to clarify things for him and explain that no, pirates don’t live in bars.

6. His “spa” day

When Charlie’s birthday rolls around, the gang decides to prepare him a surprise party full of all the things he loves (AKA incredibly ambiguous and incomprehensible etchings found in his dream journal). They send Dee out with two spa gift-certificates to act as a distraction for Charlie as they prepare for the party. However, he’s quite confused by the whole “spa” idea and is convinced it has something to do with spaghetti–which he carries around in a plastic freezer bag the entire day.

5. The Dayman song

After being kicked out of the guys’ band due to his questionable, rape-referencing lyrics–despite his surprising keyboarding skills–Charlie takes to a depressed hibernation in his room. After being discovered by Dennis in his dark living room, high on spray paint, Charlie gets inspiration from the light through the curtains. With their musical juices flowing, Charlie and Dennis go on to create the ‘Dayman’ song, which any fan probably knows…and acted as my roommate’s morning alarm for an entire semester.

4. When he was hooked on steroids

My favorite episode of the entire series, “Hundred Dollar Baby,” follows Charlie as Mac and Dennis train him to become an underground street fighter. Eventually, he stumbles upon Dee’s stash of steroids and winds up hooked, becoming manic and emotionally unstable–more so than usual. The result is a typical Charlie freak out with some drug-induced flare that never fails to make me laugh.

3. When he tries his first pear

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On a road trip to the grand canyon, Charlie reveals to the gang that he’s never had a pear. While I can relate, somewhat, to his confusion about the bulbous appearance and awkward shape of the bland fruit…come on, how have you never tried one? When Mac buys one at the market, Charlie expresses his distaste after having eaten the entire thing–sticker, stem, core, and all. Responding to Mac’s criticism, Charlie comes in with one of his most famous lines, “I EAT STICKERS ALL THE TIME, DUDE!”

2. Kitten mittons

Charlie’s creativity reaches an all time high when the gang decides to make some Paddy’s merchandise. While not Paddy’s related, Charlie creates Kitten Mittons: little mittens for your kitten if it’s being too loud walking around your house. The idea itself, paired with his horribly made commercial make this one of Charlie’s most memorable moments from the show.

1. When he wrote a musical

I wish I could post this whole damn episode (“The Nightman Cometh”) because it’s one of my–and almost every Always Sunny fan’s–favorite episodes. Charlie writes a musical, and the gang acts it out on stage for an ambiguous audience. Charlie acts as the director, becoming progressively more unstable as the gang messes up his “glorious” work. The musical ends with a sunny (literally) song sung by Charlie to the waitress in which he offers up a pathetically sincere proposal. Can you guess what she said?

It’s Usually Not Sunny on Sundays

Anyone hungover?

Thought so…

Sundays, specifically college Sundays, are always spent recovering from the brutal attack of the weekend. This weekend at Bonaventure was an especially wild one after our basketball team upset with a buzzer beater, conquering VCU. Thus, today–and all Sundays–are spent relaxing and recovering in preparation for class on Monday and the start of a new week.

Thus, here are 5 quintessential Sunday-isms that everyone can relate to. Highlighted of course by the Always Sunny gang members in their various states of being.

#5). Dry-heaving.

We’ve all felt the struggle of waking up on a Sunday morning feeling a bit queasy. The weekend really catches up to you and whether it be a strong smell, bad taste, or embarrassing memory, the Sunday dry heave is something that really sneaks up on ya. However, if you’re a witness rather than a participant, it’s quite a funny sight to see. No one does it quite like Dee though.

#4). Eating greasy food.

One of–if not the best–cures for a Sunday hangover is a big ol’ greasy meal. Nothin’ like a Big Mac to sop up the sorrows your body is facing after a weekend of going out. Just try and avoid taking Mac’s approach and eating in a church confessional, no matter how funny of an idea it sounds like when you’re drunk.

#3). Asking questions.

While most of us are probably much more literate than Charlie when it comes to how we ask this question, we’ve all asked it before. “Did I do weird things?” “What happened last night?” and “I did whaaaat?” are common Sunday questions. Learning about your actions after an aggressive night out is rarely satisfying, usually embarrassing, but alllllways interesting.

#2). Battle wounds.

Whether it be scrapes, bruises, or Sharpie marks, you never know what you might find yourself riddled with when you roll out of bed on a Sunday morning. Who wouldn’t want to start their day with a nice sharpie dong drawn on their forehead? Truly blissful. Hopefully however, you never look as bad as Dennis–for your own sake, and the sake of anyone who would have to look at you…

#1). Laying down…way down.

Fat sleepy Mac is the absolute epitome of a hangover; I feel like this image sums Sunday up perfectly. Sundays are spend doing nothing but lounging each week. I spend as much of the day as I can in a horizontal state, watching movies in bed. Relaxation for the mind, body, and soul are necessities and weekly occurrences. Have to make sure you’re rested enough to be able to get up on the ever-so-dreadful Monday and actually face the real world and responsibilities. Unfortunately…

Season 10, Episode 4 Review: Charlie Work

Nothing cures a hangover like greasy food and some Always Sunny. 

This fast paced, Charlie driven episode premiered Wednesday night and I have to say–bravo. Mark Shakman did a fantastic job directing this episode that was carefully crafted and brilliantly written by Charlie, Glenn, and Rob. It kicks off with Charlie frantically heading towards Paddy’s while on the phone with Frank; he urges him to ensure the bar is empty and clean for the impending health inspection. As he walks in however, Charlie finds the bar in shambles and riddled with chickens–yes, live chickens. Come to find out, the gang is in the midst of carrying out an initially ambiguous plan involving chickens, airline miles, and a “loophole” they discovered. (It’s later revealed that they used Frank’s card to buy airline miles, ship a butt load of steaks to the bar, planned to contaminate them with chicken germs, repackage them, and return them to the steak company for cold hard cash). Charlie frantically begins instructing them to clean up their shit and tells Frank to find some shoes. Honestly, how does a human begins loose shoes so frequently, if at all???

We later learn that he actually flushed them down the toilet due to anxiety but still…..????

The entire episode is basically one long frantic progression with Charlie as the ring leader–trying his best to ensure that the health inspection doesn’t go awry. Odd for him to take the reigns, but when it comes to dirt and grim and the removal of the two, who better for the job? I mean, there’s a reason it’s called Charlie work…

In the midst of all this chaos the gang must also deal with the different components of their plan coming into play: a delivery man showing up with 4000 steaks, the tension arising over the issue of who thought up the idea for the plan, and of course, the god damn chickens.

One of the best things about this episode is the plethora of creative and perfectly placed foreshadowing throughout the progression. There are things that seem initially puzzling but end up working out just the way Charlie planned in the end–shockingly enough:

• He tells Mac to count down from thirty, then moan into the storage room vent and say “I’m sorry.” This acts–with perfect timing–as a cover up for the clogged toilet in the bathroom. A strategically placed pair of shoes and moans from Mac make it appear that the stall isn’t clogged, but rather someone’s just in there takin’ a big ol’ dump.
• When they check the carbon-monoxide detector in the basement, Charlie notes that the operating noise is a G-sharp; he later has Dee paint Frank black, puts him in the dark basement, and has him play the note on a recorder when the inspector checks to see if the detector is working. Little does she know, there’s no battery in it, and there’s enough gas in the basement air to knock out an African elephant.
• Finally, throughout the episode Charlie repeatedly picks up and slams down one of the bar stools. Come to find out, it’s to prove a point to Dee about comedy. She wanted to leave out the “joke stool” (a regular stool with a gigantic nail sticking out of it), but Charlie had other plans. His stool slamming paid off in the end as Dee sits down and it collapses, tossing her frail body to the ground and showing everyone what a real joke stool is.

For once, everything works out almost seamlessly (I literally think once is a correct word, because nothing ever goes as planned on this show…). Aside from an angry delivery driver who was served a charred steak and a slight deduction for a dumpster regulation, Paddy’s is awarded the highest possible score by the inspector. She hands over the paperwork just as Charlie slips her keys (which he pick-pocketed) back into her purse and her car (which they stole) pulls up to where she parked.

I didn’t think this episode was particularly hysterical, but I loved it anyways. The writing was top-notch, and the story-line really went above and beyond what the show normally produces. There were subtleties and intricacies that were both unexpected and genius. I feel Glenn and Charlie both had amazing performances in this episode as well, and I honestly think Glenn is shining so far this season. Great acting, great one liners, great performances. An episode that was well-crafted and worthy of just as good of a rating as they got from their inspector.

Rating: 9/10

 

Season 10, Episode 2 Review: The Gang Group Dates

“Here’s to orgys!”

The second–particularly raunchy and erotic–episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s tenth season premiered last night on the FXX Network. It began with Dee revealing to the gang that she has a new boyfriend that she’s “going steady” with.

Really, Dee? Going steady–what is this, Rydell High? Anyways, the guys are curious as to how their bird-like friend achieved this relationship status, so Dee explains that she met this guy, Ryan, at a ‘buncher’ (a online site that assembles groups of people together for group dates). Liking the idea, the guys decide to host some of these bunchers at Paddy’s in order to make some cash and hopefully enhance their love lives. Dennis offers to coach Mac and Charlie, breaking out the D.E.N.N.I.S. system which we haven’t seen for some time now.

I love that the scene is set at the bar for most of this episode since we didn’t see any of it in the premiere. At Paddy’s first buncher the trio of guys work together to mingle with some girls, but Charlie and Mac’s ignorance blows up Dennis’ spot and fouls up the system. As a result, Dennis gets pretty frazzled and ends up repelling the girls and sending them–ironically–over to the company of Charlie and Mac. This is something I enjoyed because I always love to see Dennis get shafted in the love department, because he’s a cocky bastard but is horrendous and handling rejection. It’s essentially his kryptonite.

Meanwhile, Dee shows Frank the promise ring she got for Ryan and says she changed her Facebook relationship status–so we know it must be official. Frank then starts talking about his ‘cock ring.’  Ok, I really tried to think of a subtler way to mention this, but I decided it was better just blunt and out there–like ripping off a band-aid.

Dee further touches upon this uncomfortably sexual declaration with my favorite quote of the episode: “Why my father is talking to me with a cinch around his penis is beyond my grasp” Honestly Frank, ew.

Thankfully however, the story line continues and Dee’s ‘boyfriend’ shows up to Paddy’s. She thinks he arrives to visit her but comes to find out that he’s there for the buncher and never had any idea they were dating to begin with. Dee then has to think on her feet–something that can never end well–and tells Ryan that the promise ring she was planning on giving him is actually her dad’s…well…you get the picture. But I mean Dee, come on, you really couldn’t think of a lie that’s a little less incestuous and nauseating?

At the end of the night, Dee rants about her a-hole one night stand, telling the guys shes going to reduce the number of stars she awarded him on a different website: ‘Ratings.’ Intrigued, the guys ask if they’re on the site. Come to find out, they are, and Mac & Charlie appear to have gotten a higher rating than ‘lady’s man’ Dennis–something he is not amused by.

Night two ensues, and the dynamics change a bit. Dennis takes off on his own, hoping to have more success without the burden of Mac and Charlie’s incompetence; Dee works the crowd hoping to score as many dudes as possible, and the other three guys take to the back office to devise a game plan. Dennis soon becomes obsessed with his potential ratings from the women he meets and end up consistently sabotaging himself because of his paranoia–becoming progressively distraught. Dee bangs a BUNCH of guys and thinks that giving them low ratings, regardless of their true status, gives her some sort of power. This further infuriates Dennis, because he feels the pain of these ‘great men’ being misrepresented online. Finally, the other guys brainstorm topics for conversation. When confusion ensues they decide to just go out on the floor, try their hand, and keep things simple–start with introducing yourself of course! However, just in case things go awry, Frank brings along a whistle that he intends to blow as an abort signal.

Confident as ever, they leave the office, walk up to some woman, and Frank triumphantly declares, “Hi ladies, I’m Frack…SHIT!” *defeated whistle blow* However, things progress, after many failed attempts, and the crew finally seems to get the hang of things. A group of ladies appears somehow interested in the trio of degenerates, but of course, Mac drops the ball when trying to close the deal by beginning a racist joke and causing Charlie to blow the whistle. Meanwhile, Dennis is on a dinner date with the waitress where he tries to show some empathy and apologize for having degraded her in the past. However, when he asks her to rate him highly in return for the promise ring he gives her, she declares that she doesn’t “have online” and wont’ be able to. Things brings good ol’ selfish conceited Dennis back as he storms out, saying he doesn’t need anyone’s approval and will ‘rate’ every last woman in the restaurant.

He finally storms into Paddy’s kicking all the woman out, but realizes there really aren’t any there. Most likely because throughout the course of these antics, no one has really been around to serve the customers drinks. Throughout the episode, when asked for service, they would just brush it off and say ask “bird lady and troll man” or “the dirty one or the gay one.” Dee claims all the dudes in the bar to be hers, saying that she has power over them all due to her low ratings she’s been giving. However, her fantasy is soon dissipated as they guys start coming up to her and revealing they’re only following her around because they want to sleep with her again. Perfectly summarized by a short bald man in glasses coming up and asking, “hey are you the whore who bangs everybody?”

The episode ends with a speech from Dennis that’s simultaneously inspiring and degrading. He says the gang doesn’t need approval from anyone else, because they all constantly assure themselves of their own ridiculous illusions. Like the fact that Mac is straight, or that Dee isn’t a whore.

An all in all hysterical episode that I think surpassed the premiere from last week. I thoroughly enjoyed each scene and story line and the kick ass 90’s R&B that was bumpin’ in the bar throughout. I mean, seriously, the Ignition remix, Return of the Mack, No Scrubs? Classic.

Rating: 9.5/10