"It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is bae. Here are just some of my favorite episodes of the most amazing show ever created. (I am not sure if I mean that, but I do love this show.)
Charlie and Dee Find Love
Despite burying his face in a cheese tray in full view of everyone at a fancy restaurant, Charlie manages to bag himself a beautiful rich girl. Dennis is convinced the young woman, Ruby, is playing some sort of rich gal mind game with Charlie (les liaisons dangereuses!) when, in fact, she really loves him. In the end, Charlie turns out to be the one playing mind games as he reveals he was only using Ruby to make The Waitress jealous.
Oh, and Part B of Charlie's plan was to have Frank terrorize The Waitress to prove to her that she's unsafe without Charlie around. Some may argue that "Always Sunny" has lost some of its luster, but this Season 8 gem proves they're still cooking with gas.
The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore
And speaking of the later seasons, this Season 7 vacation episode was filled with brilliance. Dennis and Dee drag everyone down to the Jersey Shore in a feeble attempt to recapture childhood memories. What they get in return is a vacant ghost town filled with homeless sex, puke, ripped out hair, and armed robbery. Meanwhile -- thanks to some Ecstasy -- Charlie spends the perfect night with The Waitress. But, it's Frank and Mac who win big here thanks to Frank's ingenious "Rum Ham" and a party boat filled with booze, spray-tans and steroids.
Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person
The Gang thinking that they're all super talented, or that what they want to accomplish requires no talent, is one of the basic blueprints of a Sunny episode. But this time, the boys all think themselves to be rock stars -- be they in Frank's Beatles-esque Pecan Sandies, Mac's punk rock Chemical Toilet, or Charlie and Dennis' sexually magical Electric Dream Machine. Aside from their inevitable failure as musicians (although keyboards seem to "make sense" to Charlie), a little ditty known as "The Nightman" is born. "Just two men sharing the night. It might seem wrong, but it's just right..."
CharDee MacDennis: The Game of Games
What kind of game involves wine, beer, trivia, darts, grapes, a First Aid kit and a dog kennel? Oh, and also allows/encourages cheating? What game, despite winning 18 times in a row, had Dee crying for two months straight? Even contemplating suicide? Why, it's CharDee MacDennis! The physically and emotionally dangerous game that The Gang plays when it's a rainy day and they've exhausted all other activities.
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System
Dennis has a fool-proof way of seducing women, leaving them with a psychological craving for his essence. His one mistake? Introducing the D.E.N.N.I.S. System to the rest of The Gang and then taking a fool-hearty bet that he could win back the woman he abandoned. Meanwhile, Mac implements M.A.C. (Move in After Completion) and becomes competition for Dennis while Frank hopes his SCRAPS plan for picking up the sexual scraps pays off.
Charlie decides to focus on the first "N" of the system ("Nurture Dependence") with The Waitress, including a plan to stab her so that he could then come to her immediate aid. All the psychological games and backstabbing then leads Dee to mistrust her own boyfriend, who winds up dumping her and taking off with Dennis' gal. There've been many instances over the course of "Always Sunny" run that illustrate what a callous, perverted misogynist Dennis is, but nothing explored the devious lengths he'd go to just to have an extremely short, unsatisfying relationship with a woman like this messed-up chapter.
Everyone go watch "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"!
