A.P. Bio (NBC): "Ruin His Life" Promo (HD) (Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt comedy series)

Here's the "Ruin His Life" promo NBC's upcoming new series, A.P. Bio. I'm really looking forward to this show. It looks hilarious. :)

A.P. Bio (NBC): "Trouble" Promo (HD) (Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt comedy series)

Here's the "Trouble" promo for the upcoming new NBC series, A.P. Bio.

A.P. Bio (NBC): "Catfish" Promo (HD) (Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt comedy series)

Here's the "Catfish" promo for the upcoming new NBC series, A.P. Bio.

A.P. Bio (NBC): First Look (HD) (Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt comedy series)

Here's a "First Look" preview of the upcoming new NBC series, A.P. Bio. I think this show looks pretty funny, so I'm definitely going to check it out when it premieres. :)

A.P. Bio (NBC): Trailer (HD) (Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt comedy series)

Here's a trailer for the upcoming new NBC series, A.P. Bio. If you ask me, it looks like this show is going to be absolutely hilarious, so I'm really looking forward to the series premiere. :)

A.P. Bio (NBC): Promo (HD) (Glenn Howerton comedy series)

Here's a promo for the upcoming new NBC series, A.P. Bio. I'm a huge fan of Glenn Howerton, especially when it comes to his acting on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I think this show looks pretty good, so I'm definitely going to watch A.P. Bio when it premieres. :)

The Mindy Project: Mindy and Cliff related scoop on episode 2x16 and Danny related scoop on episode 2x17 from E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos

Here's some scoop on The Mindy Project from Kristin Dos Santos' Spoiler Chat column, which was posted on 12/6/13. 

Debbie: Mindy Project's Christmas episode was the show's best yet! Mindy and Danny have to get together, right?!
Well, we've got good news and bad news. It seems like her relationship with Cliff will be getting super-serious super-fast as we'll be meeting his grandfather in episode 16, which finds Mindy supporting her new boyfriend during a very difficult time. That said, you can expect to see Mindy help Danny during a very emotional experience in the very next episode

Link to the full article:Spoiler Chat: Once Upon a Time's New Villain, The Mindy Project's Couple Conundrum and More! | E! Online

The Mindy Project: Scoop on Mindy's love life in season 2 from E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos

Here's some scoop on The Mindy Project from Kristin Dos Santos' Spoiler Chat column, which was posted on 8/19/13.

Jared: Now that we know Mindy will be single again, is there any hope for a hookup with Danny?
Sorry, but it seems like Mindy will be enjoying the single life in season 2 of The Mindy Project. Not only is an It's Always Sunny I Philadelphia star guesting as a new love interest, but Mindy will also go on a date with a skater boi…or should we say man? However, she will be spending a lot of time texting with Danny, which is a big date no-no, no?

Link to the full article:Spoiler Chat: Scoop on Once Upon a Time, Arrow, Nashville, Carrie Diaries, Twisted and More! | E! Online

New Girl: Get ready to witness a kiss that’s so hot that it should probably only be allowed to be shown on premium cable (My thoughts on episode 2x15 “Cooler”)

Let me begin this post by saying that as a hardcore Jess/Nick shipper, this is the episode that I’ve been dying to see pretty much since New Girl began. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again; I’ve always loved the way the writers have handled the will they or won’t they get together element of Jess and Nick’s relationship. Personally, I’ve always found Jess and Nick’s relationship rather refreshing and original when you compare the writing for their relationship to couples on other TV shows, such as Ross and Rachel on Friends.

If you ask me, it was very risky on the writers’ part to have Jess and Nick kiss each other fairly early on in the show’s run, but after seeing how the whole episode played out I think it really paid off to have them kiss in this episode. I thought it was handled very well. As I mentioned in this post (Why Jess and Nick's [SPOILER] almost didn't happen), the creator of the show, Elizabeth Meriwether, had originally planned to have Jess and Schmidt be the ones who went into the other room to make out, and not Jess and Nick when they were playing a new version of the game True American. I’m not sure how that would have impacted the Jess and Nick material in this episode if the writers had gone that route, but I’m glad that they changed it to Jess and Nick being the ones who ended up being sent into the other room to make out. The idea of Jess and Schmidt kissing each other in any situation just seems beyond weird to me, and I’m not sure that I’d want to see that.

Nick absolutely cracked me up in every scene that he was in, especially when it came to him wearing the women’s trench coat that he found and the way he and everybody else was talking about it. Nick thought that he looked really cool wearing the trench coat and kept saying that it made him feel very confident, but everybody else just kept reminding him that it was a women’s trench coat. The way that he was acting about the trench coat in this episode was classic Nick, and it once again reminded me why I think Jake Johnson is the true breakout star of New Girl.

The whole bit with Nick and the trench coat wasn’t the only thing that I found rather amusing when it came to Nick in this episode though. Nick and Schmidt met a girl named Holly at a bar who was basically aroused by sadness, which just sounds beyond weird to me, but I suppose there are probably people in the world who are really like that. Personally, I thought that Brooklyn Decker did a great job of playing the role of Holly and I really liked how she played Holly’s fetish for sad men in such a comedic way. Anyway, Nick and Schmidt spent most of the episode trying to one-up each other when it came to convincing her that they had the saddest life, which I thought was hilarious. It actually kind of reminded me of the first episode of the TV show Go On and the whole “March Sadness” competition that Ryan came up with for the other people in the support group to play in order to decide which person in the group had the best sob story.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Only on this show would a dispute over a car accident lead to a creation vs. evolution debate (My thoughts on episode 8x10 “Reynolds vs. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense”)

I have to say that it’s hard to believe that season eight of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is already over, but that’s partially because this season only consisted of ten episodes. While I would have loved for this season to have at least two, maybe three more episodes since I love the show so much, I think it’s important to remember the idea that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to certain things in life. I think that’s especially important when it comes to the quality of TV shows, and if you ask me season eight was amazing for the most part. That being said, I thought this was a great episode, and I’m thrilled that both the writers and the cast ended the season on a good note. Although, as much as I loved this episode, I’m not sure that it was the right episode to end the season with. Personally, a part of me thinks that perhaps episode 8x05 “The Gang Gets Analyzed” or episode 8x09 “The Gang Dines Out” would have been a better episode to end the season with.

One of the things that I loved the most about this episode is that it really showcased how prone The Gang is to getting sidetracked from one of their plans. The episode started with Frank driving somewhere using an audio cassette tape of Charlie giving him directions, while Dennis was also driving somewhere in his car. As Dennis was driving, he was eating a bowl of cereal, and Frank ended up crashing into his car while he was sitting at a traffic light, eating cereal as he waited for the light to turn green. The outside of Dennis’ car wasn’t damaged when Frank crashed into him, but the inside of his car was damaged from cereal and milk spilling everywhere. Dennis insisted that Frank pay to have the damages sustained to the inside of his car repaired, but Frank refused to take responsibility for the accident. Because each member of The Gang has had their fair share of run-ins with the law over the years and Frank has numerous unlicensed guns, they decided to have their own trial at Paddy’s Pub and resolve the matter on their own. Charlie served as Frank’s lawyer for the trial, and Dee served as Dennis’ lawyer, with Mac serving as both the bailiff and the judge.

This episode featured a lot of great moments for Mac, in my personal opinion. While I’ve often considered Glenn Howerton to be the one cast member who stands out the most in each episode since season seven, I feel like Rob McElhenney was the true standout in this episode. One of the things that made this episode so great is that in true It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fashion The Gang got completely sidetracked from trying to decide who was at fault for the car accident after Mac turned the whole trial into a creation vs. evolution debate. I love that they took the episode in that direction, because it really showcased Mac’s religious side and how he can be very self-serving at times when it comes to expressing his own religious beliefs. This episode also once again demonstrated how talented the writers are at addressing various social and political issues in a very interesting and extremely funny way.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Would somebody just give Glenn Howerton an Emmy already? (My thoughts on episode 8x07 “Frank’s Back in Business”)

Let me begin by saying that while I thought that the previous episode was good, it wasn’t great, but I’m happy to report that this episode was truly excellent and was perhaps one of the best episodes yet of season eight. Although, I have to say that it’s hard to believe that this is the seventh episode of season eight, which means that there are only three more episodes left in the season since season eight is only going to have ten episodes.

The premise of this episode revolved around the fact that a company that Frank apparently founded was having problems, and they called him asking him to come back and help them try and save the company from going out of business. Frank made Charlie his right-hand man, and I have to say that I loved Dennis’ reaction to Frank telling the rest of The Gang that he had made Charlie his right-hand man. When Dennis pointed out that Charlie can’t read, Frank simply told them that Charlie would adapt. I have to say the idea of Charlie being Frank’s right-hand man is absolutely hilarious. Dennis was right. How would Charlie “adapt” to reading? This was yet another great moment on the show stemming from Charlie essentially being illiterate, and the show has definitely had a lot of great moments throughout its run thanks to Charlie’s illiteracy. The only thing that I found a little disappointing about that storyline is that I feel like the writers missed an opportunity to have something really bad, yet really funny happen at the end of the episode due to Charlie’s illiteracy, especially given the fact that he had been taking notes for Frank for most of the episode until Frank fired him. Although, Charlie is pretty much the only one who can make sense of the things he writes, so I’m sure that he would be able to make sense of the notes he took.

At the beginning of the episode, Dennis, Dee and Mac were looking through a man’s wallet with some Canadian money and skybox tickets to a Phillies baseball game in it that they had found in the bar, which is what kicked off their storyline at the beginning of the episode. The wallet belonged to a man named Brian LeFeve, and after two guys also came to the sky box that they had tickets to for the Phillies game Dennis started claiming to be Brian LeFeve. Glenn Howerton was great in that scene, but I do think that Kaitlin Olson was great in that scene too, especially when she started talking with a fake Canadian accent. I have to say that really made me laugh. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like Dee didn’t have much of a presence in this episode, because other than the scene at the bar when Dennis, Dee and Mac were looking through the wallet, the scene where Dennis, Dee and Mac were in the sky box and the scene where The Gang was at the press conference that Frank was holding for the company, Dee didn’t really stand out to me in this episode all that much.

All season long, the writing for Dennis has made him seem much more dialed back compared to last season where the writers had Dennis go full on sociopathic in terms of his behavior. I had really been wondering if the writers decided that didn’t want Dennis’ behavior to go that far this season. Dennis did show signs of still being rather sociopathic in last week’s episode with all his talk about not feeling any emotions, but he still felt rather dialed back in my opinion. The writers made it clear in this episode that just when I thought that there are still some boundaries even Dennis wouldn’t cross, he showed that he’s completely ready to cross them if he feels the need to.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: The show goes for the nostalgia factor once again…with mixed results (My thoughts on episode 8x06 “Charlie’s Mom Has Cancer”)

Once again the writers went the nostalgic route with this episode where they paid homage to the classic episode from season one “Charlie Has Cancer” much like they did with episode 8x02 “The Gang Recycles Their Trash” which was a reference to season four episode “The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis” and to a certain extent the season three episode “The Gang Sells Out”. While I feel like that was an excellent episode that did a great job of making a lot of references to previous episodes without seeming like the writers were using the idea from a previous episode out of laziness, this episode’s attempt at nostalgia didn’t work out nearly as well.

The episode began with Charlie and Mac visiting Charlie’s mother, Bonnie, who’s still living with Mac’s mother because they wanted her to do their laundry for them as well as Dee, Dennis and Frank’s laundry. Bonnie was repeatedly telling Charlie that she needed to tell him something, but he initially ignored her because he only cared about the laundry. Bonnie finally blurted out that she had lung cancer, which confused Charlie since his mom doesn’t smoke. However, the cold open ended with showing Mac’s mother smoking in the background saying that the whole thing was strange.

Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate this episode, but as I was watching this episode for the first time I kept feeling like the whole episode had a major “been there, done that” feel to it, and given the way the episode “Charlie Has Cancer” turned out I spent the whole time waiting for Bonnie to tell everyone that she didn’t have cancer after all. Bonnie told him that she wanted to go see a man named Dr. Jinx who was played by Sean “Diddy” Combs because she believed that he could cure her cancer. However, she needed the money to see him. Charlie was skeptical about Dr. Jinx, so he, Dennis and Mac went to see him, and I have to say that Sean “Diddy” Combs did a great job playing the role, in my opinion. Charlie, Dennis and Mac ended up leaving because they thought that Dr. Jinx was a strange man, especially since his doctor’s office was in a warehouse; I agree, he was downright weird. Although, while Charlie, Dennis and Mac were visiting him Dr. Jinx treated a rash that Mac had on his arm, which later went away, leading him to think that Dr. Jinx might be able to help Bonnie after all.

One of the things that I liked the most about this episode is the fact that the writers once again revisited Mac’s religious beliefs. After Charlie, Dennis and Mac visited Dr. Jinx, Mac suggested that they turn to God and go to church. The scene where Mac, Charlie and Dennis were at church was definitely one of my favorite scenes from the episode. My parents raised me in the Lutheran church, although, my mom was raised in the Catholic Church and converted to the Lutheran church when she married my dad. Pretty much all of my mom’s siblings have remained a part of the catholic church, and whenever I go to church with them I always get confused about when to kneel, when to stand and when I’m supposed to sit. I could definitely relate to Charlie and Dennis’ confusion in that scene, and I simply thought that it was a rather funny scene as a whole. Charlie’s reaction to the priest asking them for money to fix the church’s statue was also beyond hilarious, and I have to admit that I didn’t think that them mentioning the statue in that scene would come into play later on in the episode the first time I watched this episode.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: The Gang gets revenge, Glee style, Frank has a moment of rational thinking, and Schmitty screws Charlie over once again (My thoughts on episode 7x13: The High School Reunion, Pt. 2: The Gang's Revenge)

Let me begin this post by saying that I can’t believe that season seven is over already. I guess it’s true what they say, time flies when you’re having fun, because I absolutely loved season seven. I have to say that I thought that this episode was a great way to end what I think was a phenomenal season.

The episode pretty much started right where the previous episode ended. Mac, Charlie and Frank were all hanging from the toilet stalls in the men’s bathroom after the “cool kids” had given them wedgies at the end of the previous episode. Dee decided to that she wanted to team up with Mac, Charlie and Frank again now that all of her classmates have shunned her because they found out that she had told Rickety Cricket that she loved him years ago. Mac, Charlie and Frank were hesitant at first to let her rejoin “The Freight Train” after she turned her back on them in order to try and become one of the popular kids, but they ultimately decided to team up with her. However, before they set their plan for revenge in motion, they gave Dee a wedgy as a part of her initiation back into “The Freight Train”. The part of the episode where they were giving Dee a wedgy was beyond hilarious, especially since she threw her back out when the guys gave her a wedgy. Dee was forced to wear her old back brace that had earned her the nickname The Aluminum Monster in high school.

Judy Greer reprised her role as Ingrid “Fatty Magoo” Nelson in this episode, which was really fun to see, because I’m huge fan of hers’. I thought her interactions with The Gang in this episode were beyond hilarious. I love how Ingrid “Fatty Magoo” Nelson told Mac that they had hired security guards specifically to keep Psycho Pete from being able to get in the high school. That was funny. Another one of the things that I loved about the return of Ingrid “Fatty Magoo” Nelson is the fact that it led to Charlie once again mentioning that he views himself as a lawyer who specializes in bird law. That was awesome! :)

Once again Glenn Howerton completely blew me away with his performance in this episode. Dennis decided that he was going to get revenge on his nemesis from high school, Tim Murphy, by having sex with his wife. Dennis tried to use The D.E.N.N.I.S. System to seduce her, but when he told her in a very crude and hilarious way that he wanted to sleep with her to get back at Tim, she ended up telling him that she thought he was gay, because he was wearing makeup and a girdle, which caused him to blow up at her in a fit of rage and told her that he was “The Golden God”. I thought that whole scene was beyond hilarious.

After that, he went to get some things out of the trunk of his car and Dee, Charlie, Mac and Frank noticed some bizarre items in secret compartments inside the trunk of his car, which he said were for various fetishes that he has. Just the sight of the inside of his trunk had me rolling with laughter.

Once they were all back in the school, they ended up running into Tim Murphy, who told him that he had always seemed really weird in high school because he would say really weird things such as referring to himself as “The Golden God”. Over the years, the writers have frequently acted like Dennis was very popular in high school, but after watching the two part high school reunion episode, I’m really beginning to question if he truly was popular in high school. A part of me now wonders if Dennis simply believed that he was popular due to his strong sense of narcissism and he wasn’t actually popular in high school. Dennis told Tim that he wanted to get revenge on him for sleeping with his prom date in high school, but in a twist Tim told Dennis that he never slept with his prom date, Mac did. Dennis tried to beat Mac up, but Frank and Charlie broke up the fight. Frank proceeded to give this epic speech about not letting people get away with humiliating them. Dennis, Charlie, Mac and Dee’s reaction to Frank’s speech made the whole thing even better, saying that it was the most coherent thing that Frank has ever said. However, Frank quickly lost his train of thought, and after some debate, The Gang decided to do plan B, which was to do a dance routine in front of their former classmates.

I have to say that I absolutely loved the speech that Charlie gave his classmates about dancing before they did their dance routine. After Charlie’s speech, they showed them doing this great dance routine and all of their classmates seemed to really be enjoying it as they watched them. However, their great dance routine turned out to all be a fantasy they were imagining in their heads. I have to say that I thought that Kaitlin’s facial expressions throughout the whole fantasy dance were very awkward, but in a very funny way. In reality, their dance routine was basically them moving awkwardly and sweating like pigs while their classmates stared at them awkwardly. I thought that their classmates’ facial expressions as they watched their actual dance were all beyond priceless. What made the whole thing better was that as soon as they were done dancing, Frank promptly ran off to throw up in a trashcan. That was priceless. :)

Tim ended up inviting everyone except for The Gang over to his house for an after party. The Gang ended up leaving trying to figure out why their classmates didn’t like their dance routine. As they were leaving, they ran into The Waitress who was still drunk like she was in the previous episode. She told that she was going to have sex with the next guy who talks to her. Charlie’s face promptly lit up brighter than a Christmas tree hearing this, but of course something prevented Charlie from getting a chance to sleep with The Waitress. Schmitty literally jumped out of nowhere and greeted The Gang. The Waitress asks him if he wanted to sleep with her, and he said he would and they left together. The episode ended with Charlie being upset that Schmitty had once again screwed him over as The Gang left the high school to go back to the bar.

Before the season started, I had heard that Jason Sudeikis was going to be guest starring as Schmitty again in an episode this season, but I had forgotten all about that until I watched this episode. I love how Mac ended up being right about Schmitty not showing up until the end of evening just to go sleep with the grossest girl at the reunion, which ended up being The Waitress. That was priceless.

All in all, I have to say that I absolutely loved this episode, and I thought that it was a great way to end what was a phenomenal season. Personally, I would have loved to have had The Waitress be in the episode more than just the last scene of the episode, but that didn’t really bring my level of enjoyment of the episode down at all.

All that being said, I give this episode a rating of an A+. By the way, I think I’m going to do another thoughts post on my overall thoughts on season seven of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia now that the season is over.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Mac’s full name is revealed, and The Waitress’ downward spiral continues…Good Times! (My thoughts on episode 7x12: The High School Reunion)

Let me start by saying that the first time I watched this episode, I didn’t think it was all that funny until The Waitress showed up and was completely drunk, and then I absolutely loved everything that happened after that. However, I was pretty tired when I was watching it then, but when I was watching this episode for the second time, I thought that this episode was absolutely hilarious and now I think it’s probably one of the best episodes of season seven. I’m guessing I was simply too tired to truly enjoy this episode the first time I watched it, because this episode really is brilliant and it just keeps getting better and better every time I watch it.

One thing that has really stood out to me a lot this season is the fact that they’ve had a lot of episodes that take place mostly outside Paddy’s Pub at various other places, if not entirely outside of the bar, such as episode 7x09 “The Gang Gets Trapped”, which I also absolutely loved. I kind of like that they’ve done a lot of episodes that are set mostly outside the bar this season. I think it helps keep the show fresh. Maybe they’ve done a lot more episodes that were set primarily, if not entirely outside the bar, than I’m remembering, but it just seems like they have done a lot more episodes set outside of the bar this season than they have in the previous seasons.

This episode featured the returns of Maureen Ponderosa, Rickety Cricket, and The Waitress. It turns out that Maureen had used her alimony payments that she has been receiving from Dennis in order to get a diamond put in her dead tooth. I have to say that I think it looked absolutely gross and just flat-out weird. I’m really glad that they featured Maureen in this episode though, because I’ve been wondering what the current situation was with Dennis having to pay Maureen alimony in addition to the debt that she had wracked up before she was even married to Dennis that her lawyer had saddled him with. They hadn’t mentioned Dennis’ very brief marriage to Maureen Ponderosa since they got divorced in episode 6x02 “Dennis Gets Divorced”. One last thing that I loved about Maureen’s appearance in this episode was definitely Frank commenting on how bad Maureen’s breath smelled. It must smell really bad because the last time we saw Maureen; someone (I can’t remember who) described her breath as smelling like “she nibbled on little pieces of shit".

I continued to absolutely love Dennis in this episode, who kept talking about how he was really cool in high school and spent the episode “waiting for his minions to swarm him”. However, pretty much everyone at the reunion was less than thrilled to see him and refused to give Dennis the time of day, so I have to wonder if Dennis truly was one of the popular kids when he was in high school, or if Dennis had only mistakenly believed that he was cool due to his narcissistic nature. If you ask me, season seven has really been the season of Dennis/Glenn Howerton, because Glenn has blown me away with his acting in pretty much every single episode this year. While I’ve always loved all of the characters, Dennis has never really stood out to me all that much, but this season Dennis has really stood out to me more than ever before as one of my favorite characters, right along with Dee and Charlie.

We finally learned Mac’s full name in this episode, which is Ronald McDonald. I think that’s a hilarious name for Mac, and I loved how they revealed his full name by showing it when he put on his nametag. The first time I saw this episode, I wasn’t expecting them to reveal Mac’s full name at all; although, in retrospect I should have seen the reveal coming as soon as Dennis told him to put his nametag on. I loved Dennis reaction to seeing Mac’s nametag. It was very understated, especially the way he just giggled softly as he walked away from Mac.

They also revealed that Mac stopped going by the named Ronald in high school after he busted one of his classmates for selling drugs so that he could be the main drug dealer at their high school, which led to his classmates to give him the nickname “Ronnie The Rat”.

Dee was excited to be at their high school reunion, because she no longer wears a metal back brace like she did in high school, which is where her nickname “Aluminum Monster” stems from, and it was also coined by one of her classmates, Adriano Calvaniste. Dee was wearing a backless dress to show off her back, which got Adriano’s attention. Dee spent the whole episode hanging out with them and making fun of Charlie, Dennis, Mac and Frank and her classmates like Adriano and his friends were doing. She told Charlie that she was going to do this as a way to gain the trust of “the cool kids” from high school so she could be a part of their inner social circle, and once she was a part of their social circle she would get revenge on them for both her and Charlie, who Adriano had given the nickname “Dirt Grub” and had made him eat spiders. Although, I don’t think that Dee honestly meant what she said about also wanting to get revenge on Adriano for Charlie. I’m guessing that she was just doing this for herself. Also, I have to say that I felt really bad for Charlie since he actually believed that Adriano would like him if he would inhale various kinds of chemicals or eat strange things.

 Mac ended living up to his nickname “Ronnie The Rat”, because after he saw that Adriano had made copies of the tickets that they were given to redeem for drinks so he could get more than the two drinks each person was allowed, he ratted Adriano out. Everybody got mad and somehow Charlie ended up being the one who got blamed for the whole thing, which caused him to get mad and go into the bathroom in order to inhale various chemicals and get high. Frank tried to stop Charlie, but he wouldn’t listen and promptly passed out as soon as he inhaled some of the chemicals that he had mixed together.

What happened next was both beyond awkward, yet downright hilarious all at the same time. Dee came into the bathroom with Adriano and several of Adriano’s friends, and they ended up giving Mac, Frank and Charlie wedgies. I have to say that I think it’s both really weird and really funny at the same time that Dee was the one to give Frank a wedgy since he’s her dad. Also, I have to say that what we saw of Charlie’s underwear looked absolutely disgusting. I get that Charlie is supposed to be a character that lives in filth and squalor, but at the beginning of the episode he did say that he had brought some extra clean pairs of underwear in case someone gave him a wedgy, so I don’t understand why he wouldn’t have put on one of those clean pairs of underwear before he went to the reunion in the first place. Although, if he had, then there wouldn’t have been any reason for the reaction from the guy who tried to give him a wedgy and his reaction to Charlie’s underwear was beyond hilarious.

Rickety Cricket was at the reunion, and it looks like he’s really cleaned himself up since we last saw him in episode 7x06 “The Storm of the Century”. He’s apparently a priest again, but his presence at the reunion caused Dee’s time as one of the popular to be short lived. Dee was quickly shunned once again after everyone realized that Rickety Cricket had stolen their jewelry by hugging them throughout the evening, which he blamed on Dee and told everyone that she had told him that she loved him several years ago. It turns out that Rickety Crickety had ringworm all over his chest, which looked disgusting. I thought it was really weird that Rickety Cricket was trying to hug everyone throughout the episode, but once they revealed that he had stolen everyone’s jewelry and wallets, it all made sense.

Charlie was really excited about the prospect of getting to see The Waitress since they’ve been getting along better than usual lately, but he didn’t get a chance to see her in this episode since he was busy with everything else that was going on with Dee and Adriano. The last time we saw The Waitress was in episode 7x02 “The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore”, and in that episode she spent an entire night hanging out with Charlie at the beach only to tell him the next morning that she had been high on ecstasy the entire time. In this episode however, it was revealed that she’s off the wagon and is drinking again. The Waitress spent the entire episode walking around drunk and rambling on and on about how nobody seems to remember who she is since the people in charge of nametags at the reunion didn’t have one for her. At first I, along with a lot of other viewers apparently, was thinking that her name was Nikki Potnick since just a moment before she walked over to Dennis’ table rambling about her nametag, Frank joined Dennis at his table, telling him that he had managed to sneak into the reunion by stealing the nametag that was supposed to belong to a girl named Nikki Potnick. However, Glenn Howerton tweeted on his Twitter account that The Waitress’ name isn’t Nikki Potnick. I have to say that I for one am glad that they didn’t reveal The Waitress’ name in this episode since they had already revealed Mac’s full name earlier in the episode. I think that it would have cheapened the reveals of Mac and The Waitress’ names if they had revealed them both in this episode. I do hope that they reveal The Waitress’ name at some point though. Maybe they can save that reveal for the series finale. Since this was part one of a two-part episode, I’m hoping that Charlie will get to spend some time with The Waitress in the next episode.

One last thing about this episode that I’d like to comment on is the fact that Frank went to The Gang’s high school reunion. I get that they are all supposed to be friends, but he is Dee and Dennis’ father, so why would he want to go with them to their high school reunion? Why would any parent go to their children’s high school reunion? Maybe Frank blackmailed The Gang into letting him go with them, and we simply didn’t hear about it. Ultimately, I decided to not get too hung up on trying to come up with a reason to explain why Frank would go to his kids’ high school reunion with them, because I absolutely loved Frank in this episode. I definitely think that Danny DeVito deserves to win an Emmy for his acting on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, because he plays the role of Frank Reynolds perfectly.

All in all, I absolutely loved this episode, and I really do think that this episode just keeps getting better and better every time I watch it. It’s definitely one of my top favorite episodes from season seven now I’ve always thought that It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has a great replay ability factor to it in terms of being able to watch an episode over and over and still be able to enjoy it as much as I did the first time that I watched it, if not more, and this episode is definitely proof of that. The way that the writers handled the reveal of Mac’s full name was absolutely brilliant. Every scene that The Waitress was in was definitely one of the other many highlights of this episode for me personally. I thought that this was an altogether really well written episode, and the entire cast was great in this episode, especially Glenn Howerton and Danny DeVito. I’m really looking forward to the next episode because I can’t wait to see what happens next, but on the other hand I’m also dreading it because it’s also the season finale, and after that I’ll have to wait an entire year for season eight to start.

All things considered, I give this episode a rating of an A+.