It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

"Who Got Dee Pregnant?"

In the past on Thursdays, I would watch my marathon of comedy on NBC and then delightfully switch over the FX to catch It's Always Sunny. It was the dessert to my main course. The overtime after the regulation time. The afterschool latchkey program following the full school day (Any latchkey kids out there? No, of course there aren't. Because they are all in therapy sorting out what a lifetime of confusing your nanny with your mother will do to a child). However, recently I have been playing trivia at 9:30 on Thursdays (rather successfully I might add, ah thank you) and thus usually have to catch the latest episode the day after. I might add that it is quite sobering watching It's Always Sunny in the afternoon as opposed to the anything-goes immoral darkness of the night.

Well this was certainly somewhat of a departure from the usual episode (although it did have a faint familiarity with "Who Pooped the Bed?). In fact, the timing of the flashbacks coupled with their subtle changes in details over the duration of the episode was rather impressive. Sometimes, and I'm not complaining, the show can get by simply by putting the gang in a room and letting them banter (I could personally watch an entire episode of Frank, Dennis and Dee's podcast). Yet the writer seemed to have gone above and beyond in creating a very well executed flashback episode.

Let me say one thing though, Mac didn't invent the term "browning out". Two separate social circles of mine (social circles? Who says that? Are we in The Great Gatsby all of a sudden?) have been simultaneously using it for years so clearly its out there. Nevertheless, I found Dennis' frankness, as I often do, hilarious in his declaration of not only using the term liberally but proceeding to use it several times in the upcoming sentences.

I recently listened to an interview with Danny Devito on NPR before the premiere of this season, and he talks about how different it is to hang around these guys but how youthful and casual they are about everything during the filming. I am so jealous of anybody that is on this show. It just makes me want to be them (morally? perhaps even yes). In fact, when I started watching the show, my life's ambition was to open a bar with my friends. Not exactly well thought out and it's also somewhat startling that a young adult's life goals can be so heavily influenced by a television program. I wonder what would happen if I got really into Dexter? Would I become a serial killer? If I got really into Gilmore Girls, would I start getting my period?

-"We don't care about you, or your body, or that baby bird you're carrying around inside of you."
-"He eats theater people!" "No, he doesn't." "I think he might."
-A complaint of mine: No scene inside Charlie and Frank's bedroom. I have discovered that any scene taking place in that location is guaranteed to be funny. The pinnacle of this hilarity?: When Mac moves in with them to discover Frank cutting his toenails with a knife and then him and Charlie plugging up the cut with trash.