It’s Always Sunny: The Gang Reignites The Rivalry (12/10/09)

On 12.10.09, In TV, By AC Slater

I can’t believe we’re already at the 5th season finale of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it seems like just yesterday that Charlie dressed as a nazi, eating cereal while watching cartoons. Hopefully this finale will live up to the previous seasons finales, I mean The Nightman Cometh was one of the greatest episodes of the show so far, so we’ll see. It appears that most of this episode takes place outside of the bar which seems to be the trend lately, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. And as always I’ll be back tomorrow with the final recap of the season.

The Gang Reignites the Rivalry

After being banned for 10 years from a local drinking competition appropriately named “Flipadelphia,” the gang tries to reignite their old rivalry with another local bar. Finding that they are in need of some serious practice, the guys head to Dennis’ old fraternity house at the University of Pennsylvania to get their game up to speed while Dee hones her skills on her own. Frank wears skinny pants.

The episode starts with Frank walking into the bar showing off his new skinny jeans, which have a humpty dumpty vibe to them. Dee then walks in and informs the gang that the ban has been lifted and they are allowed to enter the “Flipadelphia” flip cup competition. They were banned from it years ago for poisoning the other teams. Flip, flip, flipadelphia. So with the ban lifted they decide to reignite the rivalry with another bar down the street.

When they make their way over to the other bar the realize that it’s been completely redone and looks like a nice establishment, but that doesn’t stop them from trashing the place. They walk right into the restaurant and throw customers food around, scream and yell until they finally get the owner. It’s at this point that Charlie explains how he keeps his poison in the fridge at home, but apparently he keeps it in a pickle jar which has lead Frank to believe he was allergic to pickles. Frank then asks what was in the jar with the skull and crossbones, Charlie tells him it’s mayo and in the mayo jar is shampoo, so apparently Frank has been putting shampoo on his sandwiches.

Back at the bar the gang starts practicing and Dee is absolutely terrible so they need to find a replacement. It’s her huge hands that’s the problem. They tell her that in order to get back on the team she needs to prove that she can flip 10 cups in a row. Dennis then decides that he’s going to go visit his old frat to get some practice in. He walks in and looks at the class picture from his year and finds his picture has the caption “I Chug Dick” over it. In the other room the current residents of the frat house are watching Frank attempt to hula hoop in his skinny jeans. Dennis introduces himself and the frat guys basically just make fun of him and shock him with a stun gun over and over again. Frank then asks if they have any “ludes” to which they say they have riterall which sounds like a combination of ritalin and adderall, “oooh snortski” Frank exclaims as he sees the lines of chopped up pills on the counter and of course he snorts some. Frank and Dennis then get run out of the frat house via taser.

Back at the bar Dennis explains how the frat guys are disrespectful savage idiots. It’s at this point that the rivalry switches from the bar owner to the frat guys. Mac and Charlie decide they are going to head over to the frat house and let them know the rivalry is on. Charlie comes up with an idea, he’s going to pretend he’s a smart janitor like Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting although Charlie is only a janitor and not a genius and Mac is not a janitor.

So Mac and Charlie go over to the frat house to find a black light paint party, all the girls are half naked and painted up. Two girls come up to them asking them if they want to paint them up. Flash to Dennis and Frank destroying the other bar owners house. Dennis starts telling Frank about how he was a legend at the frat house, he would pull pranks like shoving a banana in a dudes ass and calling him banana-ass or sticking the tip of his penis in other dudes mouths. As for destroying the other bar owners house Dennis has a more straight forward approach by nailing his shoes to the floor, where as Frank is tying knots in the arms of all his shirts and then proceeds to cut the shower curtain half way so when he gets into the shower everyone can see his junk.

Back at the frat house Charlie and Mac are completely painted up, but are getting kicked out since they aren’t in the frat. Charlie then busts into his Good Will Hunting act and makes a complete fool of himself. So back at the house, Frank and Dennis snort some more riterall and Frank decides to do the guys taxes in order to cause him to get audited, meanwhile Dennis has done “it”, he’s created a masterpiece. “Paddys have respect idiots. I am legend.” is burnt into the front lawn.

Back at the bar the gang is back together discussing how the frat guys have burned them all. It’s at this point that Dee shows that she’s been practicing flip cup and flips 10 cups in a row perfectly, she’s back on the team. They decide to go back to the frat house and challenge the guys to a game of flip cup. If the frat guys win, they get to drink at Paddy’s forever for free and if the gang wins they get to hang out at the frat house whenever they want. Dee is chosen to go first and Charlie will be the anchor.

The flip game starts and Dee chugs her beer right away, but of course she chokes and can’t flip it for shit. Meanwhile, the frat guys have no problem winning the game. However, Dennis, Charlie and Mac put poison in the beer and everyone starts puking, including Dee. They knew she would choke so they put her first and poisoned the beer. Flip, flip, flipadelphia.

Back at the bar the guys are trying to pull the skinny jeans off of Frank as he’s losing circulation in his legs. The other bar owner walks in and is pissed because the gang never showed up to the actual “Flipidelphia” contest. He challenges them to another flip cup game at his bar, but the gang isn’t having it as they are over the whole rivalry.

I thought it was a pretty solid season finale, but I’m still sad that we won’t get any new episodes until next September.

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It’s Always Sunny: Mac and Charlie Write a Movie (12/3/09)

On 12.03.09, In TV, By AC Slater

We’re starting to wind down to the end of another amazing season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and what better way to begin to wrap up than to have Charlie write another script, but this time he has Mac’s help so I can only imagine what sort of craziness is going to come from this. After this episode there is only one more, so I hope they go out with a bang, but don’t worry, “Sunny” will be back again next year as it’s already been renewed for at least 2 more seasons if I remember correctly. And as always, I’ll be back Friday with a recap of this episode.

Mac and Charlie Write a Movie

When Dee gets a part in an M. Night Shyamalan film, Mac and Charlie seize a chance to pitch their movie script. But first they have to write it.

The episode opens with Mac and Charlie telling a pretty sweet story about them getting locked in a parking garage stairwell until a security guard came and let them out. Only that’s not how the story was told, it was much worst. Dennis has a new touch screen phone that Frank gets grease on because his fingers are covered in grease from the sausages he has in his pockets. Dee then comes in and informs everyone that she has been cast in an M. Night Shyamalan movie and that’s when Mac and Charlie decide to write a movie. Best part of the conversation is when Charlie starts talking about the twists at the end of all Night’s movies and he thinks the twist of The Sixth Sense is that the dude in the bad hairpiece was Bruce Willis.

Dee then heads to the set and thinks she’s actually staring in the movie, but is pretty disappointed when she finds out she’s just an extra. Cut to Charlie and Mac trying to figure out what kind of movie to make to “get meat in the seats”. They decide that they need to make a movie with an underrated actor that will bring him back into the mainstream, Dolph Lundgren. The idea of a muscular scientist that fights crime with his brain and his brawn comes up, as long as the coat doesn’t cover his body. Charlie comes up with a twist, the scientist runs around on all fours, it’s a science experiment that goes haywire and the guy wakes up “all dog”. The twist will be that dolph lundgrum will the voice of the talking dog. This leads to Dolph Lundgren being able to smell crime before it even happens, then Charlie comes up with the brilliant idea that Dolph Lundgren’s entire head will be a giant nose.

Dennis is now trying to get into the movie industry and shows up on set with Frank as his agent. Frank gets him a part in the movie as an extra and Dee finds out that she’s playing a corpse in the movie. It’s at this point that Mac and Charlie come by the set with their pitch and instead of pitching it to “Slumdog” as they call M. Night, they end up pitching the movie to Dennis and Frank. They start pitching the movie, The Fifth Sense, The Sense of Smell.

Imagine a super smart, ripped scientist [in a mesh tank top] played by Dolph Lundgren, who after a terrible accident in his lab, blows off his nose. After reconstructive surgery he soon realizes that he smells something that stinks… crime.

Mac starts pitching the movie after Charlie botches it, but Dennis has some ideas. He wants to add some full penetration scenes to the movie. Dolph will be smelling out crime, then going back to the lab to perform sexual experiments on his lady lab partner. Crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration, and that will go on for about 90 minutes before the movie just sort of ends. Frank loves it, but Charlie thinks that audiences will be a little uncomfortable with full penetration. So Mac and Charlie take those ideas and set out to type up the script.

They head to the library, but neither of them know how to type so they find an “indian” guy sitting in front of them, who turns out to be Pakistani, to help them out. Flash back to the movie set and we see Dee in her makeup, basically just covered head to toe in fake blood. Dennis walks up and shows his makeup which is just a drip of blood coming out of his ear. They are called to set and are told to lay on the ground as dead bodies, but Dee does not want to lay face down.

Back to the library, Mac and Charlie and the Pakistani kid are going over ideas from the movie and he’s all about the full penetration, but he doesn’t like the title. So they ask the kid to type out the script for them, but he doesn’t write, so they call Dennis in the middle of his scene to tell him their new plan. Instead of writing a movie they are just going to make a poster of what the movie is instead. Dennis gets yelled at for talking on his phone in the middle of the scene and Dee switches over and starts posing during the take. On the next take, we see the view from the movie camera and Dee is staring at the camera yelling “Brains” like a zombie and Dennis’ phone is ringing again, but since the director told Dennis not to answer the phone he just lets it ring. At this point Dee finds out that the shot they are in is just a simple 2nd unit shot so M. Night isn’t even there. Then Frank walks up and takes Dennis’ phone, then has a solution for the director, fire Dennis and Dee and hire him as a body. So Frank is now in the movie.

Mac and Charlie come into the extra’s tent and show off their poster “Crime Stinks: The Smell of Penetration, He Nose the Truth”. It’s at this point that Dee tells them that Night isn’t going to be there and that’s when Dennis informs them that while they thought he was just dicking around on his phone all day he was actually writing a script about two guys that get stuck in a parking garage stairwell with a guy they think is a bum but it turns out he’s the security guard, instead. Cut back to the movie being shot and as it pans past Frank he sits up and eats the sausage out of his pocket.

Pretty good episode, I found it amusing how they referred to M. Night as “Slumdog” for most of the episode and threw out random twists all over the place. And who doesn’t love Dolph Lundgren.

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It’s Always Sunny: The D.E.N.N.I.S. System (11/19/09)

On 11.19.09, In TV, By AC Slater

Another week, another Sunny. This week it appears as though Dennis is going to finally reveal some of his secrets to getting women, although in the past I don’t know that we’ve actually seen him get with too many women so I’m a little leery as to how well this so-called system works. I guess we’ll find out tonight! And on a side note, did everyone pick up A Very Sunny Christmas? You can find our review of the ridiculous Christmas special here.

The D.E.N.N.I.S. System

Dennis tells the gang how he seduces women, but none of them can get the hang of it.

I’m warning you now, the recap below got a little long, I may have gotten slightly carried away with documenting everything that was going on, but it seems like they packed a lot of good stuff into this episode.

The D.E.N.N.I.S. system is the system that Dennis uses to seduce women and make them fall in love with him, even though they don’t know how madly in love with him they are, which is evident by the hateful voicemail his last conquest leaves for him, which he proudly plays for the gang.  And that is how the show opens, with this voicemail from a girl that is obviously quite pissed off at Dennis. It’s at this point that Dennis sits everyone down to the explain the DENNIS system. It’s a series of steps, of which the first letters of each step spell out DENNIS, thus the DENNIS system.

D – Demonstrate value
E – Engage Physically
N – Nurturing Dependence
N – Neglect Emotionally
I – Inspire Hope
S – Separate Entirely

Dennis explains how he Demonstrated his value to a cute pharmacist by forging a prescription and and telling her that his grandmother was very sick, thus making himself look like he has value. After explaining this Frank jumps in with his technique. He would have bought a box of magnum condoms thus demonstrating that he has a monster dong, which Dennis shot down and instead suggested that he have a magnum condom peaking out of his pocket when he goes to pay, much better plan.

The next step is to ask her out and move on to the next step which is to engage her physically. Dennis explains that he tries to get to this step to without going on the date at all because it’s a waste of time. He takes a girl to a restaurant that doesn’t take reservations, but he instead walks her in front of a restaurant that is always closed on Sundays at which point Dennis offers to just get a pizza and watch a movie back at his place. This is where Mac comes in, he sits on the couch pretending that there is a black widow spider in his room so he can’t go in there, thus forcing Dennis and the girl to eat pizza and watch a movie on Dennis’ bed, which eventually leads to sex. Great line here, when the girl says “Pizza’s good” Dennis’ response “You’re the one that’s good”, then they start to make out.

The next step comes after you’ve had sex, naturally all women will then become dependent on you for things. Nurturing dependence is making the girl depend on you for things. Dennis suggests slashing her tires or having her car towed in order for her to depend on your for a ride. Or his personal go to is to create a fictional angry neighbor of which you will take care of. In actuality it’s Dennis calling her using a threatening voice, from a pay phone.

The next step is to Neglect Emotionally, stop taking her phone calls, cancel all plans, call her back as the angry neighbor but don’t rescue her this time. Dennis’ angry laugh when it cuts back to the bar was classic. And this is the best time to move on with the next step to Inspire Hope. Dennis shows up at the girls window and explains that he was distant because he was scared she was going to break his heart at which point they bang. This scene is hysterical, playing Take My Breath Away in the background we see Dennis and the girl against a blue background as they bang. And after the sex comes the last step, Separate Entirely, which is where Dennis sneaks out the window never to see her again.

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It’s Always Sunny: Mac and Dennis Break Up (11/12/09)

On 11.12.09, In TV, By AC Slater

Based on the preview alone this looks like a great episode. They didn’t show much of the Mac and Dennis break up, but they did show what happened to Dee’s cat. Somehow the cat got into the wall of her apartment and she can’t find him to get him out so Charlie comes up with the idea to tie a string to another cat and put it in the wall and once the two cats bond he’s going to pull the cat out, bringing Dee’s cat with it. The only problem is when Charlie pulls the string there is no cat on the other end, so now there are two cats stuck in the walls. Pure genius.

Mac and Dennis Break Up

Mac and Dennis decide to take a break from each other, a development that strains relationships. Meanwhile, “kitten mitten” Charlie helps Dee find her lost cat.

So normally how I do this is I’ll watch the episode when it airs (or slightly after on the DVR) and then write a recap which publishes early in the morning on Friday. Well last night had some conflicts, I still got to watch the episode, but it wasn’t until after the Bears game (which was shitty) so I didn’t stay up to write a recap. So seeing as how I’m not in front of my DVR at the moment I’m going to try to recap the episode from memory rather than watching as I’m writing. So if I miss anything feel free to let me know in the comments. And I will preface this recap by saying that honestly, I was not too impressed with the episode last night.

The episode starts off with Mac and Dennis barging in on Dee’s apartment looking for a giant bowl to hold popcorn for their Thursday movie night. They are going to watch Predator again for what is apparently like the 30th time in 2 months, but more on that later. So they go to Dee’s to get a giant bowl and discover that she has recently bought a cat to keep her company. She tries to explain why she bought a cat; she’s lonely, needs someone to talk to, etc… and Mac and Dennis inform her that she’s taking the first step to becoming a crazy cat lady, yet she doesn’t believe them and instead flips it and tells them that she has never seen two grown men that can’t go an hour without checking in with one another. They both had to come and get a bowl together, which is clearly a one person job, but Mac was there to hold the bowl while Dennis made snide comments about Dee, although the only one he could come up with was that she looked like a bird…

After the intro we have Mac looking a little frantic as he’s on his cell phone near the window of his and Dennis’ apartment. Dennis comes back into the apartment and Mac asks him where he was and why he wasn’t answering his phone. Dennis tells him that he was at the video store renting a movie and he couldn’t answer because he was talking to the clerk about movie recommendations. Still all flustered, Mac asks him why he didn’t respond to his “911″ texts. Again Dennis tells him he was talking to the Clerk and asks Mac what the emergency was, to which he responds that the emergency was that Dennis wasn’t answering his calls and that he almost called the police to report him missing. There’s a little more banter between the two regarding the movie store clerk which makes Mac jealous, then Dennis informs him that he rented Transporter 2 instead of Predator. Mac gets a little upset about this and they start arguing about Jason Stathom and the combined body mass of the actors in Predator and just general weird shit about the bodies of the guys in Predator. It’s at this point that Dennis informs Mac that he thinks they need some time apart and Mac should go stay at Charlie’s apartment. As Mac is standing in the door way to his room, there is a knock on the front door. Dennis opens it to find a cop standing there who says he’s responding to a missing persons call…

Dennis decides to go back to Dee’s and watch the movie with her, but when he gets there he discovers that she has a little bit of a situation with her cat. Somehow the cat has gotten itself stuck in the walls and she can’t seem to get him out. Meanwhile Mac goes over to Charlie’s apartment and immediately starts bugging the shit out of Frank and Charlie by cleaning up the trash and suggesting a better way to clean a cut on Frank’s toe that he got from botching his toe nail cutting which he uses a steak knife for. So Dennis calls Charlie and asks him if he wants to come over to Dee’s place to watch a movie with him and he’s a little hesitant at first until he hears about the cat situation, then he’s all over it. In the background Mac is constantly asking if Dennis is asking about him which also helps Charlie leave the apartment.

Upon arriving at Dee’s, Charlie finds Dennis and Dee arguing about the skin of an apple. Apparently whenever Dennis would eat apples Mac would peel the skin off of them for him because he claimed they were full of toxins and he didn’t want Dennis eating them. So after arguing for a bit Dee peels the apple for Dennis as Charlie and Dee come up with a plan to get the cat out of the wall. After leaving cheeto stains on the wall Charlie decides that the best plan of action is to put another cat in the wall with a string attached to it, that cat will then bond with Dee’s cat and once that happens, Charlie will pull the string and both cats will come out of the wall. Yeah, well the string breaks and now there are 2 cats in the wall and the only other idea Charlie has is to put more cats in the wall, but Dee has a better plan, she’s going to go buy a bird and put that in the wall to lure the cats out.

Before Dee leaves, Frank randomly shows up as he can’t deal with Mac around the apartment anymore. He cleaned everything, put plastic on the couch and flipped out at Frank when he started eating an apple that had the skin on it and then when Frank goes to peel it, Mac flips out again because Frank was using his Toe nail knife to peel it. So now at Dee’s apartment Frank and Charlie are working on the cat situation when Dennis comes in telling them he just ate an Apple seed and doesn’t know if that’s good or not. Frank says it’s fine but Dee and Charlie convince Dennis that he needs to make himself throw up, so he gets all nervous and goes to make himself throw up the seeds. It’s at this point that Dee leaves to get the bird and decides that she needs to get Mac and Dennis back together.

Mac is now sitting at a fancy restaurant waiting for what he thinks is a large breasted woman that Dee is setting him up with, but instead, Dennis walks in with Dee and sits down. Immediately Mac throws a glass of water on him and then Dennis does the same to Mac. They argue a bit and eventually realize that they need to be together. At this point the waiter walks over and tells them that they have to pay and leave, Dennis informs him that, that’s fine because they didn’t have anything, but then Mac says that he had a couple rum and cokes. The waiter chimes in saying that Mac had 6 rum and cokes to which Mac replies that he was nervous about the large breasted woman he was supposed to meet. Dennis offers to bail him out and everything is good between them.

Meanwhile, Dee shows up back at the apartment with her bird to find that there are cats all over the place and Frank and Charlie have shoved more cats in the wall. She ties a string to the birds leg and puts it in the wall only to get eaten by the cats. Fed up with the whole situation, she bashes a bigger hole in the wall and climbs in to get the cat, only she gets stuck and cannot back out. At this point Frank and Charlie are bored and decide to leave Dee stuck in the wall telling here that she should really get a sidekick to help her get out of situations like that… the end.

So after thinking about it a bit, the episode wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great. I thought the cat storyline was funnier than the Mac/Dennis stuff, but none of it was laugh out loud funny like the previous week.

What did you guys think?

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It’s Always Sunny: A Very Sunny Christmas Review

On 11.09.09, In Uncategorized, By AC Slater

The gang at It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia decided that since the show usually ends its run on FX before the Christmas season they were going to put out a straight to DVD Christmas special entitled “A Very Sunny Christmas”. I recently happen to come into a copy of this episode and figured I’d give a quick review before it comes out on DVD next week so that you can make up your mind on whether or not to purchase it, although if you’re a fan of the show and own all the other DVDs I’m sure you are going to purchase this no matter what I say, and with that said, it’s definitely worth checking out.

I usually don’t like when TV shows take one episode and release it as a DVD because frankly it seems like a rip off.  This DVD lists for $17.99 on amazon, which is almost what you pay for an entire season of the show and this is only one ~42 minute episode. I’m not sure if there are a lot of special features or extras on the DVD itself since I did not watch a retail copy, but even with extras I don’t know that the DVD warrants the price. I will admit that it was a solid 42 minutes and compares to some of the funnier episodes we’ve seen this season, but again that price point just seems illogical. But enough about the price let’s talk about the actual episode.

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