Once again I
found myself thoroughly enjoying this episode. I don’t think that it was good
as the first two episodes, but it was still a great episode. The main thing
that bothered me about it episode is the fact that Liam and Ryan McPoyle were
in the episode way too much for taste. Liam and Ryan McPoyle, as well as their
sister, Margaret, are definitely my least favorite recurring guest-star
characters on the show. I’m okay with their characters being on the show, but
only in small doses.
One of my
favorite things about this episode was Frank and Dee’s interactions with each
other as they conspired against Dennis. Much like “The Gang Recycles Their Trash”, I really
loved watching the two of them interact with each other a lot in the episode. I
personally thought that the part where Dee was sucking on Frank’s head to get
venom, rabies, poison, or whatever you choose to think would have gotten into
his bloodstream was absolutely priceless. Also, I have to say that I found
Dee’s reactions to Ryan and Liam’s comments about the fact that their family has
been strictly incestuous for over a hundred years beyond priceless. I also
loved the scene where Frank and Dennis walk in on Ryan and Liam, and at first
it looks like Ryan is giving Liam a blow job when in reality Ryan was just on
his knees crying and begging Liam for forgiveness. The look on Frank and
Dennis’ faces when first walked in on them was beyond priceless. The McPoyle
family sure are a creepy bunch, and the fact that they are so creepy is the
main reason why they are my least favorite recurring characters. I know that
sometimes a character acting creepy on a TV show can be funny, but when it
comes to them I don’t really think they are all that funny.
Frankly, I’ve
always found the entire McPoyle family extremely creepy to watch, and I always
cringe in horror when they are on the show. Honestly, the McPoyle brothers as
well as their sister, Margaret really are my least favorite recurring
guest-star characters on the show. I don’t hate them, I just think the McPoyle
brothers are very overrated characters, and there are other recurring
characters that I simply like more such as The Waitress, Artemis and The Lawyer.
This episode was obviously meant to be a Halloween episode, but as far as I’m
concerned having the McPoyle family in any episode of It’s Always Sunny in
Philadelphia would automatically make it creepy enough to be a Halloween
episode.
I have to say
that the cold open for this episode is perhaps one of the best cold openings
that an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has ever had. The part
where they are running around outside trying to leave the wedding in a panic
reminded me a lot of an actual horror movie given the way it was shot with the
camera. Plus, I love how the cold open ended with The Gang being in an
interrogation room at the police station. Also, I have to say that I thought it
was a really nice touch on the crew’s part to use horror movie style music and
a different font for the opening credits for the episode to fit the overall
horror movie/Halloween episode vibe that the episode had.
This episode
really reminded me of why Dennis now ties with Jenny Schecter from The L Word
as my all-time favorite fictional character. Dennis’ behavior seemed pretty
dialed back for him the first two episodes, but I felt like Dennis kind of
reverted back to the level of shallow, narcissistic, self-centered behavior
that he had last season, which was very over-the-top. The fact that he pretty
much only wanted to make sure that Maureen and Liam went through with getting
married, not for the sake of their own happiness, but simply so he wouldn’t have
to pay Maureen alimony anymore is proof of that in my mind. I’m not entirely
sure why he needed both Maureen and Liam’s signatures on the legal documents
that apparently would legally get him off the hook for paying her alimony that
he brought with him though. I would think that he would only need Maureen’s
signature since they were married to make that legal and official, but I’m not
a lawyer, so I don’t know how that kind of thing works. Maybe Liam’s signature
was needed to verify that he would be able to financially support Maureen once
they were married, but I’m not sure.
Anyway, Dennis
was unfortunately repeatedly distracted from getting Maureen’s signature. First,
it was because he noticed that Maureen had gotten breast implants and in true
Dennis Reynolds fashion was upset that Maureen hadn’t been more clear with him
when she had apparently told him that she would change for him back when they
were married in season six. He apparently didn’t realize that she was willing
to change physically. However, he was soon kicked out of the bridal party’s
dressing room before he could get her to sign the papers. I personally thought
it was hilarious that when Dennis was first staring at Maureen’s breasts, she
thought that he was looking at her teeth since she had finally had her dead
tooth fixed. It also didn’t have the diamond in it like it did when she showed up
at The Gang’s high school reunion last season.
Charlie also had
a lot of funny moments in this episode. My favorite was probably when he
apparently started quoting a speech from Jaws. I have to confess that I’ve
never seen the movie Jaws, so I don’t know what the original scene from the
movie is like, but I still thought it was funny. I thought that Charlie Day’s
delivery of that speech was priceless. Charlie Day did a great job in this
episode as a whole, if you ask me though.
Aside from
Maureen, another character that I really enjoyed seeing again in this episode
was Bill Ponderosa. It was revealed that Frank is Bill’s A.A. sponsor, which I
think is hilarious. The idea of Frank being Bill’s A.A. sponsor, or anyone’s
sponsor for that matter is ridiculous given the fact that The Gang has accused
him of being alcoholic in the past and yet he’s never stopped drinking at all.
I’m glad that Dee told Frank that he’s a bad sponsor after he told Bill that he
should drink a beer if he wants to. Fortunately for Bill, it was a dry wedding
and in true McPoyle fashion they were only serving milk. I still don’t get what
it is with the McPoyles and milk.
As the episode
continued, the guests at the wedding started behaving weirder and weirder. Someone
had apparently tried to bite Liam’s face off, which made his face look hideous.
Since they were only serving milk at the wedding, Mac and Charlie came up with
a bizarre theory that the guests had all been bitten and infected by bats like
Frank had been and that they had become “bat rabies zombies”, which prompted
them to try and flee from the wedding in a panic. However, their attempt to
flea from the wedding hit a snag after Charlie crashed Dee’s car because he had
apparently forgotten how to drive. The scene where Charlie crashes Dee’s car
because he apparently forgot how to drive and Dee tries to attack them when she
sees that Charlie crashed her car is definitely another one of my favorite
scenes from the episode. However, Mac and Charlie initially thought that Dee
attacked them because she had been infected like they thought all the other
guests had been. To be honest, I’m not even sure that I’ve ever seen Charlie
drive a car and given his illiteracy I’m not sure that he has ever knows how to
drive. Plus, it sounds like even Mac and Dennis weren’t sure that he knew how
to drive.
Toward the end
of the episode, Dee showed up at the police station and told them all that Bill
had spiked the milk with bath salts and the guests’ strange behavior was due to
the fact that they were all high on bath salts. I thought it was hilarious that
Bill spiked the milk with bath salts. He must really have been desperate to get
high. Dee also told them that the reason why she had tried to attack them was because
she was furious with them for ruining her car, not because she had become some
kind of zombie or was high. Personally, I love it when Dee gets mad at the guys
because I think Kaitlin Olson plays angry very well.
The episode had
an excellent ending for Dennis in my opinion. Maureen came to the police station
and bailed him out, which freaked Dennis out. He became even more freaked out
after he slept with her and she told him that she loved him and was never going
to leave him. I love how Frank pointed out the irony of Dennis being the one to
basically sabotage the wedding after he had told them he was worried that they
would ruin the wedding. Dennis definitely has a knack for sabotaging himself.
All in all, I
thoroughly enjoyed this episode even though the McPoyle family was heavily
featured in this episode, and I’m not really a fan of them. I wouldn’t say that
this episode is one of my top favorite episodes of the series, but I still
really liked it. The episode had an interesting storytelling structure, and the
camera work for when Mac, Charlie and Dennis were running in the woods in a
panic both in the cold open and at the end of the episode was excellent. It
really felt very true to an actual horror movie. The episode had a lot of funny
moments, and the cast all did a great job.
That being said,
I give this episode a rating of a B+.
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