It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia shakes the rust off in season 15 premiere
Looking back gets It's Always Sunny off to an uncharacteristically wobbly start
TV Reviews Charlie Riggs
Episode 1: “2020: A Year In Review”
“Do I want a bunch of eggheads who spend all day learning about shit influencing how I think about things?”
After more than two full years away, it’s hard not to tear up a little when It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s unprecedented 15th season kicks off with a familiar soundtrack clang-clang and some deceptively pleasant strings. Of course, the tears might be due to what Charlie’s been doing to those raccoons who’ve taken over Paddy’s basement during those ecosystem-destabilizing years, but we’ll get to that.
And, no, I’m pretty sure these are happy tears. After all, Sunny has endured and overcome plenty to get to this point. The Gang has, too, even if Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Danny DeVito themselves haven’t spent their COVID lockdowns running bootleg hair dye scams, disrupting a presidential election, or tanning raccoons in order to supply seditious rioters with distinctive outerwear. (That we know of.)
Still, it’s heartening to see the Gang (both fictional and real-life versions) back and doing their thing after so long. Especially (for the actors) taking into account the predatory, potentially series-imperiling effects of advancing age, lucrative and successful outside projects, and the weekly prospect of doing some truly reprehensible things for our entertainment. Again, nice to be back in Paddy’s.
That said, the “what we did on our pandemic vacation” structure of “2020: A Year In Review” hardly feels like the gracefully filthy reentry into the It’s Always Sunny world fans might have been anticipating. Instead, the Gang’s anthology of off-years shenanigans feels rushed and a little obvious, each story in the episode’s three-part structure leaning heavily into the events surrounding a single joke, and leaving precious little time for nuance.
And, yes, I said “nuance.” Sunny’s broadest comedy outrages are couched in character, and how the Gang’s uniformly yet uniquely awfulnesses coalesce into that episode’s plot. Here, we get frustratingly fleeting glimpses of just how a quintet of Philadelphia’s least responsible businesspeople spent their sketchily acquired COVID stimulus loans in three separate tales, all presided over by an understandably aghast government inspector. (The very funny Brian Huskey, here relegated to asking variations of, “Are you really telling me that you [insert terrible, possibly treasonous act]?”)
For example, Dennis and Mac’s Punch, Inc. started as a way for Mac to sublimate his bouncer’s need to “choke out jabronis” (with Paddy’s apparently shuttered for much of the pandemic), morphed into a country-pop duo, and finally wound up as a poll-watching/voter bullying organization. That’s three different plot moves inside of one of three separate short stories here, and it simply doesn’t allow for anything but incident.
Indeed, the best part of their segment is when Mac and Dennis—kitted out in full, government subsidized tactical gear to harass voters outside the local polling place—immediately get sidetracked in a debate over which Philly athlete is best. In trotting out their can’t-miss quiz to vet true Philadelphia voters, Mac picks Rocky Balboa over Dennis’ Donovan McNabb, with Dennis countering that, as a non-fictional human being, McNabb has the decided edge. (Mac’s assertion that the “celebrity five-nine” Stallone could theoretically have taken the Eagles to the playoffs against the weak NFC East of the early 1980s is the sort of desperate, on-the-fly tortured logic Mac depends on.)
Frank’s Imports and Exports similarly scammed the taxpayers, this time on the back of Frank’s Chinese motor oil hair dye scheme for salon-deprived men of a certain age. The weakest of the bunch, this segment functions as one long (-seeming) Rudy Giuliani joke, with Frank revealed as the purveyor of the knockoff hair coloring that memorably streaked Giuliani’s face throughout Donald Trump’s farcically traitorous attempt to overturn an American election. Complete with a labored Goodfellas pastiche (narration, “Gimme Shelter,” and all), it’s the most egregious example in the episode of stretching a joke until it plops to earth.
Sunny’s stabs at social satire are best and most illuminating when they’re rooted in the Gang’s all-consuming self-interest. Here, though, as with Dee and Charlie’s bubbled-together concern, Garments and Varmints, the joke is just one big setup to a painfully predictable reveal. (That their raccoon-pelt outerwear became the signature costume of the now-convicted rioting nutcase known as the QAnon Shaman.) Along the way, Dee and Charlie’s squabbles over their business’ direction provide a few laughs—Charlie apologizes to Huskey’s inspector for adopting abusive language toward his partner in flashback, noting, “that’s sort of Dennis’ thing.” Plus Dee, adding to her reel of disastrous, advertising-based character work, gets to play both halves of a quarantined married couple, with her stressed-out wife gladly accepting her husband’s gift of a novelty COVID mask reading “Bitch muffler.”
“2020: The Year In Review” functions best as simply a reintroduction. The Gang is back, they’re still the pits (Dee asserts that she and Charlie, as Paddy’s essential workers, represent, “the last tit on the hog before the asshole,” to no one’s edification), and they spent the last two years of enforced isolation and economic uncertainty plying three disparate but predictably reprehensible trades in wastefully destructive nonsense.
What works less well is the entire episode’s winking sendups of some very easy targets. Not to tar Sunny with the Saturday Night Live brush, but these are sketch ideas, and hardly imaginative ones. That some of the outgoing Trump administration’s most laughably seditious bullshit had some Philly (or at least Pennsylvania) connections had me anticipating just how Sunny would incorporate such hometown farce into the Gang’s world. Here, however, the way that everybody keeps referring to their candidate (unqualified, narcissistic, mentally ill, but “electrifying” onstage) without mentioning him by name sees the episode creak along until the reveal we all saw coming a mile away. (They all voted for Kanye.)
As the gag finally splats to Paddy’s floor, I’m with Huskey’s straight man, who explodes in long-stifled outrage, “There is no way that you were all involved in every major event of the last year!” (“Because you’re not Forrest Gump!,” Huskey’s functionary responds to Dennis’ objection, before promising that the IRS will be calling.) The episode tries like hell to turn the Gang into Gumps, however, inserting Frank into Giuliani’s embarrassed Four Seasons Landscaping crowd, and Charlie and Dee confusedly sporting their Kanye for President gear at the periphery of the Capitol riot. (Dennis and Mac’s unfortunate placement of seas of “vote here” boxes is seen capturing actual ballots and not their intended Rocky vs. McNabb votes.)
It’s an uncharacteristically wheezy first episode out of the gate that leaves It’s Always Sunny looking distressingly ordinary. Of course both the 2020 election and a global pandemic were going to bring out the worst in the Gang. But the Gang’s worst is usually a whole lot better than this.
Episode grade: C-plus.
Episode 2: “The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7"
“This is gonna be tough to cut around.”
“Do we really need another Lethal Weapon?,” is a question that’s come up a lot recently. What with outspoken bigot, wife-beater and apparently not-that-cancelled original series star Mel Gibson getting second chance number eight or so in helming the upcoming, real-life Lethal Weapon 5. Well, the Gang is nothing if not industrious in their own self-obsessed, fame-grubbing, racially questionable way, and so Season 15's second episode sees Dee, Charlie, Mac, Dennis, and Frank collectively decide that now is, indeed, the time for .Lethal Weapon 5.
Incited by Frank’s ire that the local library has pulled the Gang’s first two deeply unofficial franchise entries from its shelves, Dennis notes that he’s pretty shocked the library took the films in the first place. But, with Frank grumbling out every free speech cliché in his old school book, the Gang ultimately decides that, despite all the regrettable creative choices they made (over and over again) in the past, the only solution is to make yet another film—and to do it right this time.
“Right,” in this case, is the driving comic idea of the episode (apart from the reintroduction of some recurring characters and one very mangled prop birthday cake), as the Gang grapples with the changing face of Hollywood with regard to everything from blackface, to cancellation, to whether or not Frank really needs to perform actual onscreen hardcore penetration this time out. (Producer Frank allows himself to be bargained down to a hand job, and under a blanket at that.)
With Dennis leading the Gang’s pre-production meeting, the episode walks perilously close to uncharacteristic comic obviousness. Once more, I’d argue that Sunny is most effective when its lessons emerge less directly than Mac outright stating, “Hollywood has a very clear moral code on mistakes—you get one.” Dennis, in response, notes that Mac’s examples of Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, and Roman Polanski, show the exact opposite of that, adding, “And I would actually argue that all these things that we’re talking about, they weren’t so much mistakes as they were violent sexual crimes.”
As Mac continues to publicly express contrition for his (and Dee’s, and Frank’s) multiple infractions in black- and red-face, he pauses momentously, before explaining that he’s waiting for applause for his selfless act of not slathering himself in shoe polish in order to play Roger Murtaugh this time out. “You don’t get praise for telling people you’re not racist,” Dee scoffs, with Mac responding in baffled irritation, “Then why am I doing it?”
The Gang aren’t strangers to professing allegiance to at least the trappings of human decency—it’s just that they traditionally do so either to make someone else in the Gang feel bad, or to try and prop themselves up as that episode’s superior moral voice to win an argument. The running joke on Sunny isn’t that those moral qualms are themselves a joke, but that the truly awful (aka The Gang) will twist them into a cloak of self-righteousness for selfish reasons.
Here, Mac wants credit for not doing blackface this time, merely getting to direct Lethal Weapon 7. Dennis gets to preach to the others that their casting choices (for Murtaugh and the poor sex worker brought in to give Frank’s villain his contractual handy) are drawn from the only Black people they’ve ever really interacted with. “All the people of color that we know are people of the bridges and the streets,” proclaims Dennis, performatively, “They’re pimps and they’re prostitutes, and that says a lot more about us than it does about them.”
It’s funny enough—I especially like when Dennis’ lofty pretensions see him incorporating rhetorical flourishes like “of the bridges and tunnels.” But simply having the Gang spell out the points the episode is striving to make (this one credited to Keyonna Taylor and Katie McElhenney) in big, impossible-to-miss letters and inviting us to laugh that the Gang misses them gets tired. There’s too much ironic speechifying, long after we’ve gotten the gag.
Still, the resulting trainwreck that is Lethal Weapon 7 has some very funny moving parts. Mac and Dennis’ plan to address previous audiences’ confusion about the series’ mis en scene emerges with first Dee then Charlie’s Riggs essentially doing a solo version of “The Californians” to explain precisely why he’s late to Murtaugh’s daughter’s birthday party. It also continues the Gang’s conviction that Martin Riggs should have Gibson’s Australian accent, which always makes me laugh. (Especially as Charlie desperately gabbles out Spanish-language L.A. street names in Aussie dialect.)
Recasting Murtaugh with onetime antagonist Pepper Jack might be illustrative of Dennis’ rant on the Gang’s very limited experience talking to anyone not white, but the returning Marcius Harris is, frankly, pretty hilarious in the role. Pepper Jack, while admonishing the flaccid Frank that he has to pay whether he “nuts” or not under the ministrations of one of Pepper Jack’s “hos,” is nonetheless deeply committed to his big break, Harris making the would-be thespian’s commitment a tangible thing, even as Pepper Jack can’t help but address Murtaugh’s daughter (a doll), “little baby ho.”
If Harris’ return (from all the way back in Season 3) is a referendum on It’s Always Sunny’s own history of using non-white characters as occasional comic straight men for the Gang’s insular bigotry (Harris was originally credited merely as “Pimp”), Harris makes Pepper Jack work as a character, and not just a callback. (Even though we see Dennis’ cherished Fraggle Rock thermos, still in Pepper Jack’s loving possession.) The same goes for the other, more frequent recurring guest star, Geoffrey Owens.
Here reprising his role as the one Black actor in Philly the Gang turns to to impersonate whatever Black celebrity fits into that week’s scheme (here, he’s Don Cheadle), Owens ably swoops in to provide the gravelly gravitas to the Danny Glover half of the Lethal Weapon team. (Pepper Jack shifts to Riggs, awkwardly explaining that Riggs’ history of baroque personal tragedy accounts for Pepper Jack’s own intimidating brusqueness.) Owens makes the most of this opportunity, too, improbably imbuing Roger Murtaugh’s emotional speeches to his plastic baby girl with genuine emotion. (Even when tapping the blankly staring doll’s heart to make his point.)
Partly, Owens casting serves to remind us that Sunny knew Owens had the stuff even when the actor was infamously struggling to find roles. (“He’s a real actor!,” marvels Mac after Owens’ first take.) But Owens’ participation brings about the episode’s final twist. The Gang, stymied by the knot of performative, paternalistic woke-ness they’ve adopted (sprung from Dennis’ realization that aping millennials’ strident rhetoric is their only hope to avoid only having sex with people their own age), couches their creative block in an offer of full creative control for Owens. OWens, in turn, transforms Lethal Weapon 7 into a crowd-wowing “exploration not of what is gained by learning, but of what is lost by staying ignorant.”
The Gang, looking around at the paying audience’s actual, unprompted applause for Owens’ repurposed documentary, is pissed that their Don Cheadle’s “cautionary tale” dared to, you know, actually use that creative freedom to criticize them. “Where does he get off telling our story without even including us at all?,” Mac sputters, underlining the episode’s message once more for the people in the back.
It’s a fitting way for the episode to land what had been a shaky enterprise in on-the-nose comic storytelling, but these first two episodes both hint that the Gang could use some new scenery. On to Ireland, I guess.
Episode grade: B-minus.
Stray observations
- Mac’s questions for determining true Philly residence include, “Why do we hate Chris Chelios?,” and “Who is Uncle Eddie Savitz?” (Google that figure at your peril). I would have flunked both, but, luckily, Mac and Dennis find out that polling places have actual security to keep roleplaying fascist ding-dongs away from the voters.
- Nice to see Artemis again, even if her Persian ancestry isn’t enough for Mac and Dennis to feel superior for belatedly hiring her as Lethal Weapon 7's Assistant Director.
- In addition to Allen, Cosby, and Polanski, Frank brings up the time that Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando sexually abused Last Tango In Paris costar Maria Schneider onscreen. “Marlon Brando got to jam butter up his costar’s orifice against her will, and got nominated for an Oscar!,” Frank protests. Naturally, he’s just bringing that up to assert the need for hardcore sex in his scene.
- Creatively stymied, the Gang tries out a wealthy white “Karen” (calling the cops on Riggs and Murtaugh for being in “her” public park) as the film’s villain, since, as Dennis puts it, “One of the last socially acceptable groups to villainize are entitled white women.” Ultimately they decide Dee’s “Karen White” is just too scary. (Or, as Artemis pronounces, “a little bit cunty.”)
- Welcome back to The A.V. Club’s reviews of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Season 15. My name’s Dennis. The other Dennis. I’m the nice one, I swear.
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Yeah, it wasn’t a classic by any means, but it was still more entertaining than LW7—that episode was all over the place and made no sense.
And the Oscar for Best Actor goes to…Pepper Jack from Lethal Weapon 7!
First off the answer is Rocky obviously. Now that the painfully correct part is done, man I expected more from a 2020 Always Sunny episode. I wanted Frank robbing stores for toliet paper and running off with TVs, Dennis trying support BLM while using it to DENNIS SYSTEM people. I wanted Charlie to be at the insurrection for some contrived reason. I just wanted something… better then three Gump like election stories. Fome on Always Sunny! Be more cruel!
Dennis seemed almost subdued during the 2nd episode—-he actually looked disgusted when he called out Cosby, Allen, and Romanski for “sexual assault”.I guess Dennis’ scorn could be explained away with “I don’t need to physically assault women to get them to do my bidding”, because otherwise it seemed out of character for the guy who invented “The Implication” or the “D.E.N.N.I.S.” system.
Dennis is very clear in the The Implication that he would never hurt those women
Good point; at least with Cosby and Romanski, with drugs and alcohol being the primary means of assault, I could see Dennis thinking that that’s “beneath” him.
also, i feel that if Dennis ever sodomised a fourteen year old, he’d only discuss it sotto voce
I fully expected Dennis to call them sloppy or gauche or hacks….
I thought it was great that they made the debate iver two guys who had never won anything and left out the Eagles QB who actually won a Super Bowl, because everyone in Philly is done with Nick Foles.
Dr. J. that is all
I think they had to choose between devoting two or more episodes to 2020 and the “Year in Review” style. I can see the strengths and weaknesses with both approaches, but after watching the premier, I do kinda wish they would have spent more time following one or two interlocking schemes for a few episodes than to “Gumping” on three completely disconnected stories. I think the “Year in Review” would have worked better if they let the stories intersect, felt like an even less satisfying structure as the Super Bowl two-parter.
Come to the AV club for the Paul Thomas Anderson slideshows, stay for the 40,000 word Its Always Sunny reviews.
The second episode was alright but boy was that first one rough. What makes it even worse is you can tell they thought they were putting their best foot forward. It was like having someone confidently give you a handshake while their fly is unzipped and there’s a booger in their mustache.
Awful stuff. I hope things kick up a gear when they get to Ireland.
Ah man the first episode was hilarious, it was def a B+ for me.
Pepper Jack needs to come back. I would very much like to see him managing Rickety Cricket.
YES. That’s spinoff material.
I thought that was gonna be the payoff, that he now manages Crickett.
Seemed oddly conspicuous that Z would not come up at all (I guess alluded to with talk of “bridge people”). Wondering if they reached out to Coleman or if there was any falling out between them.
I was glad to see Artemis back, she’s my favorite side character.
Not the best episodes, but the return of Sweatshop Charlie and his manic sewing machine, yelling “THE PELTS, YOU BITCH” at Dee was pretty phenomenal
I love when those two fight. They always put their all into it.
Charlie/Dee is sneakily the funniest pairing on the show, wish they would utilise it more
This might have been the only thing I laughed out loud at from these first two. So good.
I haven’t seen ‘Lethal Weapon 7′ yet, so I can’t comment on that. But ‘2020: A Year in Review’ felt like a missed chance to me. Maybe they were worried about just repeating the flu pandemic episode they did years ago, so they decided to shake up the format for this one? I dunno if that worked, though. This episode felt like an awkward clash between the politics of the characters and the politics of the guys writing the show, which is something they normally skip around so well. They normally find very clever ways to avoid committing to a party line on very tense and sensitive issues (abortion, gun laws, blackface you name it), instead choosing to parody hysteria while always ensuring that The Gang comes off the worst, but it felt like they couldn’t quite commit to that for COVID.I was expecting them to split off into factions: Dee and Dennis think COVID is a hoax and try to smugly carry on as normal, Mac thinks it’s a sign from God, Charlie and Frank decide they don’t care and insead take advantage of nationwide lockdowns to roam the streets rooting through peoples’ garbage. But instead we got a lot of real-world references that already feel very dated (Giuliani’s hair dye, the Qanon Shaman, the voting count delays) and weren’t really welcome in the episode. They felt more like a checklist of events that Rob, Glenn, Charlie, etc. wanted to laugh at, and I’m not saying that can’t work, the execution just didn’t land for me.
The one joke that really landed for me was the reveal that they all voted for Kanye rather than Trump, and I laughed at Charlie’s initial belief that “face masks” were actually plastic Ronald Reagen party disguises, but about 80% of this episode felt mostly watchable but underwhelming. Still excited for the rest of the season, and it’s great to have them all back again, but this… could have been better?
My name’s Dennis. The other Dennis. I’m the nice one, I swear.I sure hope that’s nothing like “Other Barry”.
There were funny bits, but I agree that the overall messaging got in the way. Three subplots with a flashback wrapper in the opener was especially too much, and then trying to tie everything to actual events AND have the Kanye reveal just doomed it. It didn’t help that Mac and Dennis seemed fairly listless, although I thought Frank, Dee and Charlie were better.I think what ultimately dragged down Lethal Weapon 7 was the whole generational divide piece with Dennis. It was a lot longer than some of the other navel gazing lines that didn’t land, and felt like a lot being said about something they never really figured out. The simpler plot let the humor flow a lot better than the first episode, but they never quite established good comic momentum.
I need to go back and watch the 2nd episode (Lethal Weapon 7), as I actually started dozing off during that one. But yeah, the first episode (2020: A Year in Review) felt really subpar for Sunny. Really hoping this isn’t a sign of the quality of the rest of the season.
I did laugh at them bascially doing what they always do and say they were involved with all of the worst parts of the election. But the Frank part dragged to me.The 2nd episode had be crying when Dennis couldn’t get a word in and realized his time was up but then he turned it on them and he was back to being Dennis! I love Dennis!
I didn’t get a chance to watch much of the second episode to have a fully-formed opinion, but man, that first one was just a dud. It was just flat and lifeless, briefly trading on “huh, yeah, I remember that moment” recognition.I would have rather seem a more coherent “the Gang weathers the pandemic” plot; the show always works so much better when the full cast is bouncing off each other (I suppose there might have be shooting-schedule issues that prevented this). Sure, there’s already technically been a lockdown episode (“The Gang Gets Quarantined”), but there were enough new wrinkles with this COVID lockdown—Zoom meetings, essential worker status, etc.—that they could find a new angle. Surely, there could be some scheme to keep the bar running during the lockdown or perhaps a plan to hoard toilet paper; Hell, they could even possibly expand on one of the idea from one of those three segments.
They have no problem doing sequels to episodes, they did the Wade Boggs drinking episode again but with women. Why they didn’t do Lockdown Covid Edition I don’t know.
Yeah, they haven’t always been this sloppy with their topical humor. “The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis” and many other classic episodes come to mind.
I wonder if the first episode with the threat of the IRS, plus more Lethal Weapon shenanigans becoming a legal problem (which is what I was hoping the second episode would be about, and not just more forced wokeness jokes), will eventually lead to the trip to Ireland being a flight from the US from their multiple legal woes.
Is this show any good
Seasons 2-12ish are great.
I honestly felt it could’ve ended in season 7’s reunion episode, but I have enjoyed intermittent episodes from later seasons.
Season eight is really solid! It lacks the all time classics of season seven, but The Gang Gets Analyzed is close.
I did like that one! That poor psychologist!
I also thought Seasons 9 and 10 were pretty stellar.
season 14, episode 1, Scott Bakula’s final song. Best moment since long.
I love that. Also Franks confusion that he was Blackula. What we do in the Shadows recently did a similar version of that joke.
In small doses. Don’t binge watch it, the characters will get super annoying with all of the yelling. Just do an episode or two at a time. I also recommend the same for Arrested Development.
The earlier episodes were fucking hilarious; it takes the whole concept of “main characters are all terrible people who get their comeuppance” from Seinfeld and cranks it up to 11.
Yes.
Definitely one of the most consistent sitcoms of the last twenty years. After the second season, the lows are really never too low, and the highs are some of the best TV American comedy you could hope for.
One possibly bad sign for the upcoming season is that only one of the episodes were apparently written by Megan Ganz, who has written the only classic episodes in recent memory.Then again, next week starts us off with one written by Rickety Cricket.Or Mr. Bones as he’s known.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philadelphia_(season_15)And I am absolutely fascinated by the title of “The Gang replaces Dee with a monkey”.
That’s true, Megan Ganz is the secret MVP of the writer’s room. BUT she’s also directing the two Ireland episodes, and the one episode that she wrote is the finale, and is titled, and I cannot stress this enough, “The Gang CARRIES A CORPSE UP A MOUNTAIN.” There’s still reasons to be hopeful!
I liked the “they took lethal weapon 5 and 6 out of the library!” nod to those episodes being pulled from Hulu.
I was waiting, hoping for a “She’s just mashing it” but I guess that only applies to Gail the Snail
Who does a sex scene better, Frank Reynolds or Steven Seagal?
I don’t think they thought making the villain a “Karen” was too scary, they though it was sad and not fun.
Fuck, I missed the Lethal Weapon episode because I thought it was a rerun of one of the other Lethal Weapon episodes.
The first one was OK, but the biggest laugh I had was how Charlie making a Reagan mask, despite not knowing who Reagan was and thinking he was just making a Dennis mask.
I can’t believe that they managed to get Space Jam II: Space Jammer star Don Cheadle to appear in Lethal Weapon 7!!!
The gang’s cohesive sense of oblivion and their symbolically, emphatic representations’ seem to be what your critique was missing. Beyond that, you made astute and knowledgable points.
Whose “advancing age”? the 4 mains are mid-40s (and DeVito aside)? How long do you think people live?
it’s not so much that they’re getting old it’s that they’re getting LA old.
I hope they make the show well into their 60s
They’ve all aged very well. That said, is it just me or does Olson look like she had something done with her face?
4o is around the halfway point in life, they’re not on the verge of death. And yeah, maybe some work done, but good work.
I haven’t kept watching through their whole syndication, and I’m actually skimming through some of the old episodes right now, so the contrast is apparent. And considering I’m losing my hair at 28, I think I can say they’ve aged well at 40.
Whose “advancing age”? the 4 mains are mid-40s (and DeVito aside)? How long do you think people live?
i’m not sure there’s any way to make 2020 jokes seem fresh, but it certainly wasn’t that way.
The Lethal Weapon episode was classic always Sunny. Not sure what more you want after 15 seasons! Callbacks, recurring characters, Dennis’ Oh Face. It had it all. So glad to have this show back!
My Lord, but these were shit.
Kaitlin Olson looks like the love child of Kaley Cuoco and Jane Lynch in the top photo.
I haven’t watched this show in a long time, I get it, and it’s funny, but it’s still a little much for me. Is the opening theme still the same? One of the best in the history of TV. So captures the sanguinely aberrant nature of the show.
okay only watched the first ep but im eeeehehehe CONFUSED… they were very clearly anti Trump in the Quantum Leap episode but now they aren’t? wut?
So you missed the end? Where it was clearly stated they voted for Kanye after they all scoffed at the idea they voted for trump? Observant viewing.
What? They weren’t talking about Trump when they kept saying “our guy”. Did you not watch till the end? They voted for Kanye, that’s who they’re talking about.
My name’s Dennis. The other Dennis. I’m the nice one, I swear.
both of you would block me from this site, the other one hasn’t yet
These were the weakest efforts of the Meghan Ganz era — she doesn’t get name checked much for helping the show’s self-referential elements take on new meaning and self-interrogation since season 12. The way I wrote that sounds boring but episodes like the Ladies Reboot of the Wade Boggs challenge have been some of the best Sunny episodes in the entire run. Unfortunately, like the show’s founders, she’s probably stretched thin with her other work on Mythic Quest. It’s hard to keep multiple plates spinning simultaneously.Still, I’ll take a middling episode or two any day. Even a bum effort can find ways to make me laugh.
You suck Dennis, how’s mom’s basement?
In episode two, I thought Dennis’ whole dating sequence was hilarious and pretty brilliant social commentary. Surprised these reviews are not more glowing.
Muh insurrection. They didn’t mention the 1619 riots with blacks destroying their own shifty neighborhoods. Instead the funniest things these guys could come up with was a few protestors in funny costumes.