It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia “The Gang Saves The Day” Review

100th episode!  And it only took them 9 seasons!  What a great outing, though.  We got an unconventional format that was able to showcase the uniquely fucked up personalities of each person in the gang.  They’re all in a convenience store about to buy beer when the place gets held up.  Charlie asks everybody what they should do and each member of the gang launches into their own fantasies on the situation.

Mac is up first and of course he goes in full combat style.  He easily handles the robber but is then surprised by about a dozen ninjas who start popping up.  We get a crazy action sequence, wherein Mac destroys a dojo-full’s worth of assassins.  He uses a voice that’s like a crossover between the dark knight and Steven Seagal.  Even the gang in his fantasy is baffled by his inability to properly dish out a pun.  Mac kills the leader of the gang, but instead finds out that it was just the owner of the store.  His son avenges him by throwing a ninja star into Mac’s neck.  Mac uses his dying breath to tell the gang that he doesn’t forgive them.  He ends up in heaven with some beefcake angels and meets God, the beefiest of the beefcakes.  God has been cultivating some goddamn mass the right way.  Mac’s fantasy ends with him sitting at God’s side, ignoring everyone’s prayers.  Not bad.

Then we see Dee’s daydream and she quickly unmasks the robber as a woman.  She uses girl power to disarm the girl and proceeds to shoot every member of the gang and the store clerk.  She frames the robber for the murders and is placed in witness protection.  Dee’s idea about what witness protection is, is funny as hell.  Her witness protection “character” somehow becomes so popular that it spawns a hit sitcom with her starring as an English butler.  This segues into her becoming the biggest actress in Hollywood, dating Josh Groban.  Groban likes his ladies to pop.  Dee’s dream ends after a 17 minute marriage to Josh Groban whom she dumped for Brad Pitt.

Dennis’ fantasy starts off with a bang.  For some reason his daydream involves him immediately getting shot in the head.  He awakes and has to go through months of physical therapy with the help of new nurse/former weather girl Jackie Denardo.  The two naturally fall in love and soon thereafter Jackie suffers an accident.  Unfortunately for Dennis (and her), the accident obliterated her breasts.  Dennis’ daydream ends with him smothering Jackie to death with a pillow.  It was such a fuckin’ bizarre way to end someone’s own fantasy, and I loved that when it was over even Dennis looked confused as hell.

Frank’s dream was the shortest dream, but not the….leastest?  Sometimes less is more.  Basically his idea of what to do in that situation is to tell everyone to remain calm while he sneaks off to…..eat as many hot dogs as possible while everybody else is occupied with the robber situation.  We hear action going on in the background, police coming in and killing Dee.  But we only see Frank down about 5 hot dogs.

Charlie’s dream, oh Charlie’s dream.  What an amazing idea, that what happens in Charlie’s mind happens in cartoons.  His whole dream is animated and of course it involves the waitress.  He shoves Dee in front of the waitress so she’s spared and Dee dies.  The two run off in a whirlwind romance.  Charlie commands an army of rats to build a house, and do most of his chores.  He mourns each and every one, though.  His simplistic view of the world is so charming where they get married in “The Marriage Store”, get babies in “The Baby Store”.  Every boy in the family grows up to be a janitor, every girl a waitress.  The waitress dies, and the whole thing is very sweet but oddly familiar.  Then the daydream ends completely ripping off Up as Charlie’s house floats away on balloons.

Of course when the daydreams are over, the gang being the horrible people that they are, all decide to take advantage of the situation and grab as much shit as they can carry and run away.  Overall an awesome, awesome episode.  I loved the concept, very worthy as a milestone.  Five out of Five Stars

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  • Joel

    Hahaha, dude. Frank Reynolds exists, in droves. I worked graveyard shift for circle K for years and when the bars let out, whoaaaaa doggie. There would be these motherfuckers that meander in and toss me a twenty and straight up house the rollergrille. Eatin every thing that was on that bitch, no matter the duration it had been rolling. And slopping up the condiment bar leaving it looking like a crime scene. I identified with that scene. Every time I got robbed, no one was around :(