Once again I found myself thoroughly enjoying the latest episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, and I have to say that with the exception of “Frank’s Brother”, all of the episodes have been really great so far this season.
One thing that I’ve always loved about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is that it has always reminded me a little bit of Seinfeld given how self-centered The Gang is, much like Jerry George, Elaine and Kramer always were, so I’ve always felt like the tagline “It’s Seinfeld on Crack” was the perfect tagline for the show because the characters go to even greater extremes than they did on Seinfeld since the show airs on cable and Seinfeld aired on NBC. I feel like this episode really lived up to that tagline, and it really reminded me of the Seinfeld episode “The Puerto Rican Day” to a certain extent since they got stuck in a traffic jam too. To this day, I consider that to be one of my all-time favorite episodes of Seinfeld.
The thing that I loved the most about this episode was definitely all of the references that they made to previous episodes. I thought Frank telling all of the tourists on the tour boat about various things that have happened throughout the course of the series was hilarious, and the passengers’ reactions to his stories because they didn’t understand what he was talking about since a lot of his stories were pretty outrageous made the whole thing even funnier. I practically died of laughter when he told the people on the boat that he loves “banging whores”. You never would have heard any of the characters on Seinfeld say something like that. Now on a more random note regarding Frank, I thought that his constant jabs at President Barack Obama in this episode were hilarious, especially his blaming the traffic jam on Obama. While I thought Frank’s jabs at Obama were hilarious, I myself like Obama. I don’t love him being the president, but I do still like him.
While I loved the scenes with Frank on the boat, I have to say that I loved the parts where Dennis was listening to the cassette tapes of him trying to hook up with various women using The D.E.N.N.I.S. System that he had developed over the years and introduced to The Gang in season five after Mac was criticizing his methods of seducing women and that he takes too long to seduce them even more. The way that Glenn played both Dennis’ reaction to a girl on one of his tapes telling him that she was sixteen, as well as the way he played Dennis’ reaction to realizing that he still had the tape of that encounter were both perfect.
The whole scene where Dee and Charlie were walking around in the sewer together was pure gold. Dee’s reaction to Charlie suggesting that they both take off all of their clothes, so they don’t get their clothes dirty if sewage started running through one of the tunnels was awesome. I don’t get why Charlie was so adamantly opposed to letting Dee wear his shoes after one of her shoes got stuck in a sewer drain and was so convinced that she would stretch out his shoes, but I still thought that whole exchange was hilarious. The scene got even better once Charlie walked off without Dee and she immediately heard a “wall of water” coming her way, so she quickly decided to take off all her clothes like Charlie had suggested after all.
One thing that I particularly liked about this episode is how they all pretty much abandoned each other one by one, or in Frank’s case, he jumped off the tour boat, abandoning all of the tourists as soon as he was close to the movie theatre only to have police officers waiting to arrest him. I thought that was very true the nature of The Gang’s friendship with one another.
The end of the episode was downright hilarious with the way Charlie loudly greeted Mac and Dennis who was in the back getting a handjob from a girl named Elena that he had gotten into a fender-bender with earlier in the episode and how Mac and Charlie said that he was moving along faster than usual in terms of using The D.E.N.N.I.S. System to seduce Elena. While I thought all of that was hilarious, my favorite part of the scene was definitely when a lady who was sitting next to Dee in the theatre was complaining about how Dee smelled really bad after having been in the sewer and how Dee acted very nonchalant about all of it and simply told her to move to a different seat. Mac continuing to wear the motorcycle helmet that he put on when he was trying to steal a motorcycle earlier in the episode after Dee and Charlie abandoned him when he realized that he was too big to fit through the hole down into the sewer was nice touch to the scene, in my opinion. Of course, a part of Mac seems to still think that he’s not fat, that he’s simply gained muscle mass.
The episode ended with Frank using his one phone call that he got after being arrested for stealing the boat to call the movie theatre and report a fake bomb threat so they would be forced to shut down the movie, which I have to say I thought was hilarious. If this wasn’t Frank that I was talking about, I don’t think I would be able to understand why someone would do something like that, but that kind of thing is typical Frank. Dee, Dennis, Mac and Charlie immediately figured out that the “bomb threat” was Frank’s doing since he had suggested that they do that earlier in the episode so they wouldn’t miss the movie. I love that they said that he had “Thunder Gunned” all of them, which I thought was a great way to end the episode.
Here are a few other things that I liked about this episode:
· I loved how they had a 24-style countdown clock that they showed throughout the episode. I thought that was really cool.
· I thought that Dennis pretending to be one of the co-creators of Facebook and acting like he also owned an auto body repair shop in order to impress Elena was hilarious.
· I thought it was cool how Frank told the people on the boat about he and Charlie like going down into the sewer when Charlie and Dee had gone down into the sewer together earlier in the episode.
· I thought that Dee wanting to see Thunder Gun Express because the star of the movie apparently “hangs dong” was priceless.
All in all, I have to say that I absolutely loved this episode, and I keep growing to love it more and more every time I watch it. All things considered, I give this episode a rating of an A+.
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