Let me start off
by apologizing for not having my review for this episode posted before the new
episode aired on Thursday. I had to work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and
then I got sick on Wednesday night, so I didn’t feel well enough to do very
much writing on Wednesday night and on Thursday; that being said, here are my
thoughts on the episode.
After I watched
this episode for the first time I found myself thinking that this episode was
great enough to be considered an instant classic. I also thought that this
episode was rather surprising in a lot of ways as well, especially when it
comes to the way the episode ended, but I’ll get to my thoughts on the
episode’s ending later.
The episode
started off Charlie and Dee driving around in Dee’s new car as they followed
The Waitress as she delivered Indian food to people on her bike since that’s
apparently her new job. Charlie took it upon himself to guard her bike by
barking like a dog at a guy who was walking by it after she left it unattended
while she was delivering some food to people, which I have to say that I
thought was hilarious. The Waitress soon caught Charlie scaring off the guy
that he believed was trying to steal her bike. Despite Charlie explaining all
of the things that he does to try and make her life easier such as put vitamins
in her shampoo so her hair doesn’t fall out, taste testing her food in order to
make sure that it wasn’t poisoned and guard her bike to make sure that it
doesn’t get stolen, this latest stalking attempt from Charlie was apparently
what sent The Waitress over the edge even more so than in the past.
The only
difference this time is that this time Charlie actually listened to her. Despite
being devastated by The Waitress’ insistence that she wanted him to get out of
her life, he admitted to Dee that The Waitress was right about how he shouldn’t
follow her around when Dee said that she wanted to follow The Waitress around
some more. However, her car was quickly crashed into by a man named Trevor Taft
who was with his sister, Ruby, and despite the fact Dee was furious that he had
crashed into her car she was instantly smitten with him, while Charlie was
instantly smitten with Ruby. Speaking of Dee’s new car, I thought it looked
hideous. I haven’t seen too many purple cars, and I have say that purple isn’t
a good color for any kind of car.
I have to say
that I thought it was hilarious how Dennis and Mac were both trying to make the
whole situation about them when it came to Charlie and Dee befriending Ruby and
Trevor. Mac adamantly told them not to screw the whole situation up for him when they were telling him, Dennis
and Frank that Ruby and Trevor were taking them out to dinner to apologize for
hitting Dee’s new car. Mac insisted that Charlie not eat any cheese or any food
that’s similar to cheese, and he also told Dee not to drink any alcohol when
she and Charlie had dinner with Ruby and Trevor. I have to admit that I’ve
always wondered what the deal is with Charlie liking cheese so much. I love
cheese too, but Charlie seems to love it even more than I thought was humanly
possible.
The whole dinner
scene was rather funny, especially when the cart with a bunch of different
kinds of cheese was set right by Charlie. Charlie Day did a great job in that
scene, because the way he played it made it seem like it was causing Charlie
physical pain to not eat the cheese before he finally cracked and started
shoving as much cheese as he could grab off the cart into his mouth. Charlie’s
behavior prompted Dee to stop resisting the urge to not drink any alcohol and
show off her pit stains, which was just weird.
Instead of being
scared off Charlie and Dee’s behavior, Ruby and Trevor were actually relieved
to see them act the way they did because it made them nothing like their other
friends, which they liked and the evening actually took a turn for the better
after that. It turned out that Mac and Dennis were watching them from Dennis’
car and were baffled by the fact that Ruby and Trevor appeared to like Charlie
and Dee. One thing that I noticed about this scene was when Dee was showing off
her pit stains Kaitlin Olson started talking in the same voice that she does
when she’s taking on her Martina Martinez alter ego. That was funny.
I have to say
that Charlie really surprised me in this episode. I wasn’t expecting him to act
as mature and grown up with Ruby as he did, and I wasn’t expecting him to tell
her about The Waitress either. I instantly assumed that he wouldn’t tell her
about The Waitress and that she would be scared off after she found out about
Charlie’s past with The Waitress. The Waitress soon showed up after Charlie had
finished telling Ruby about her, and if I didn’t know any better it looked like
The Waitress was jealous when she saw Charlie with Ruby. It was especially
surprising to see Charlie defend Ruby when The Waitress saw them together and
freaked out. As much as I love Charlie’s obsession with The Waitress and all of
the comedy that it provides on the show, I have to admit that I liked Charlie
and Ruby together, because he acted a lot more mature with her than he
typically does.
Once again
Dennis constantly cracked me up in this episode, and Glenn Howerton knocked
every scene that he was in out of the park. Dennis was convinced that Ruby and
Trevor were all playing a game with Charlie and Dee and were planning to
humiliate them, which he was convinced would destroy Charlie. In order to try
and prove that Ruby was playing mind games with Charlie, Dennis unsuccessfully
tried to hit on her, which was hilarious. The Waitress repeatedly called Dennis
throughout the episode, which led Dennis to believe that Frank needed to do all
of the things that were on Charlie’s list of all the things he does for The
Waitress that he had told her about at the beginning of the episode. Although,
due to Charlie’s illiteracy it was mostly drawings and horribly misspelled
words and because of that Frank was led to the conclusion that Charlie puts rat
poison in her shampoo. I personally thought that Charlie’s list/drawings of the
things he does for The Waitress was hilarious. It looked like a little kid had
written the list and had drawn the pictures. I’m curious to know who actually
made that list because it really did look like a little kid made it, but I’m
guessing that someone in the props department made it and just made it look
like it had been written and drawn by a kid.
In this episode,
we learned that in Charlie’s own weird way he does make her life a little bit
better. Without Charlie around stalking her, her bike got stolen and her life
appeared to spin into complete chaos, which was one of the things that prompted
her to call Dennis several times throughout the episode despite the fact that
he had changed his cell phone number several times. I really enjoyed Dennis’
interactions with The Waitress when she called him twice in the episode. I
especially liked that Dennis initially acted like he didn’t know who it was
both times she called him and that he wanted her to just say that it was The
Waitress. Personally, I think the writers have done a great job of keeping The
Waitress’ name a mystery throughout the show’s run, and I can’t wait to see
them reveal what her name is at some point.
I have to say
that Dee was just downright weird at times in this episode. I’m not sure what
to make of her dry heaving when she and Charlie meet Ruby and Trevor and
several more times throughout the episode. If I had to guess, Dee got a little nervous
seeing an attractive man, and it was probably an involuntary response to
nerves. After all, they showed Dee dry heaving when she was doing her stand-up
routines at a nightclub in the past. Regardless, I thought it was hilarious. I
thought Dee acted even weirder when The Gang was hanging out with Ruby and
Trevor at their place and she was drunk and was dancing very awkwardly. Dee’s
behavior in that scene got even weirder when she tried to hump Trevor.
After seeing
Mac’s behavior in this episode, it really does make me wonder if the writers
are slowly building up to Mac coming out of the closet at the end of the
season. He was constantly trying to show Trevor his karate moves throughout the
episode. My favorite scene where Mac tried to show Trevor his karate moves was
probably the video recording of Mac demonstrating various karate moves on Dee.
Although, I have to admit that I did feel bad for Mac when Trevor and his
friends were laughing at Mac as they watched the video of Mac. Ruby was definitely
right about Trevor in my opinion, he was an asshole.
The whole
episode started to reach a climax when The Gang all went to the party that The
Taft family was throwing to announce that their father was taking the company
public. I have to say that I was really surprised to see Charlie dressed up in
very formal attire along with Dennis while Mac and Dee were completely
underdressed for the party. If had to have guessed which members of The Gang
wouldn’t think to dress in formal attire, I would definitely have guessed
Charlie. If I had to guess why Charlie wore a tuxedo to the party, I’m guessing
Ruby must have told him that the party was black tie since apparently nobody
had told Mac and Dee that. Regardless, I thought Charlie Day looked great in
that tuxedo.
Things really
started to heat up when Dennis hijacked the event and showed everyone at the
party footage of Mac and Trevor apparently wrestling in his bedroom and Trevor
giving Mac a stock market tip on buying stocks in his family’s company. The
whole cast was great in that scene, but Glenn and Rob were especially good in
that scene in my personal opinion. I thought it was hilarious when Mac was
awkwardly trying to tell everyone that he and Trevor had been wrestling when
the footage of them initially made it look like they were having sex with each
other. It was very true to Dennis as a character to very casually admit that he
has a camera running filming in his room 24/7, and Charlie, Dee and Mac
reaction to him saying that was just priceless and made Dennis’ casual
admission to having cameras filming in his room even funnier in my opinion.
Trevor’s dad was
furious with Trevor for giving Mac an insider stock tip, but Dennis tried to
stir the whole situation up even more when he revealed that he had The Waitress
on the phone. Apparently Frank had hit The Waitress with his car, and she was
in the hospital. The Waitress told Charlie that she wanted him in her life if
it meant all of the horrible things that had happened to her throughout the episode
stopped, which prompted Charlie to tell her that he would come to the hospital
right away and dump Ruby. I have to say that I was surprised by how harsh
Charlie was when he dumped Ruby. I also think it’s really weird that Charlie
would rather go be with The Waitress who has for the most part been nothing but
mean to him and repeatedly rejected him throughout the show’s run than be with
Ruby who actually liked him, but on the other hand I guess the heart wants what
it wants, and Charlie wants to be with The Waitress. Charlie claimed that he
had only acted the way that he did with her in order to make The Waitress
jealous, which I do think worked given her reaction to seeing Charlie with Ruby.
This episode
also answered a question that’s been heavily debated on the IMDB message board
for the show, which was whether or not Charlie was virgin. Charlie said that he
and Ruby had slept together a bunch of times, so he’s clearly not a virgin. I
thought that what Charlie said about how a quality woman doesn’t sleep with a
guy right away was very revealing in terms of Charlie’s views on women. According
to Charlie, a good woman rejects a man’s advances for years before she finally
reciprocates his feelings. Personally, I think that this episode showed that
Charlie is somewhat old fashioned when it comes to sex, which is why he doesn’t
think that a true lady would sleep with a man so soon after she meets him, but
I digress.
As I mentioned
earlier, the ending of this episode surprised me when it came to how it ended
for Charlie. Charlie appears to have made a little bit of progress with The
Waitress who seemed to be genuinely grateful to have Charlie taking care of her
at the hospital at the end of the episode. She even told him that she would
revise the terms of the restraining order she apparently has against him to say
that he wasn’t allowed to come within fifty feet of her as opposed to one
hundred feet, which the restraining order had previously stated. Although, I
have to wonder why The Waitress hasn’t tried to enforce the restraining order
by having Charlie get arrested when he has violated it in the past. Anyway, I
thought it was nice to see Charlie and The Waitress actually getting along in
this episode, but this time she wasn’t being nice to him because she was high
on drugs like she was last season in “The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore” when
it was revealed at the end of the episode that she had been high on ecstasy the
whole night that they were together.
Even when The
Waitress is mad or annoyed with Charlie, I’ve always enjoyed watching their
scenes together because they are always fun to watch. Plus, the fact that
Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis are married in real life adds a certain
level of humor to their relationship on the show in my opinion. It’s the same
thing with Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson’s scenes together. I’ve always
thought it was hilarious that the two married couples’ characters on the show
don’t get along well with each other.
All in all, this
episode truly was It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia at its finest. This episode
was overflowing with hilarious moments, especially when it comes to the
character Dennis. Once again Glenn Howerton gave an Emmy worthy performance in
this episode. However, as much as I loved Dennis in this episode, I also
especially loved Charlie in this episode. It was really nice to see Charlie
come out on top for once when it comes to his relationship with The Waitress.
It was also a real treat to see Alexandra Daddario guest-star in the episode as
Ruby. I thought she was great on the TV show White Collar as Neal Caffrey’s
girlfriend, Kate, but given the fact that Kate was killed in an explosion, I
think it’s pretty safe to say that we’ll never see her again on White Collar,
so it was definitely nice to see her on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Based on the first five episodes, I think that season eight has been fantastic
so far, and I’m very confident that the rest of season eight will be just as
good, if not better.
That being said,
I give this episode a rating of an A+.
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