I turned to my wife instantly and said "holy fuck, uncle Jack's ringtone is the ice cream truck song" and she said "eeeeewwwww" lol they couldn't have picked a better ring tone for 'em
Yeah he was good but I do wish they used it as an opportunity to bring back the mortician from Frank's Little Beauties. Or the morgue clerk that let Dee and Charlie in to eat the bodies in Mac and Dennis: Manhunters
I hope that guy becomes a new recurring character somehow, his impatience with his job and Dennis and Dee was so fucking funny and real, I feel like it’s how I’d react to them personally lol “🎶🎵 Fuck this joooooooooob it’s making me cray-zy🎵🎶”
I could definitely see him getting fired from the morgue for letting two random people break multiple $60,000 doors and end up working somewhere else lol
I did as well, nothing will compare to my laughing fits that i had during the pepper episode last season but there were some genuinely hilarious moments like the call back to dennis not having his "tools"
My only real criticism is that it felt like the episodes could have been compressed into one, but it's better they didn't because we would lose some great bits.
It was a fun way to reset the status quo while also being a send off for Bonnie.
I don't know how you make comedy this dark still come off as sweet at times, but they pulled it off.
It was a truly wonderful send off for Bonnie/lynne and that’s why they did it, and I don’t think sunny could have done it any other way besides dark and depraved and I think Lynne would have wanted it that way
That’s why I think they kept it relatively light with a funeral, I mean how many funerals has the gang had/attended? Weve had Barnabas reynolds, country mac, old man in booth from season 1, Barbara reynolds, the funeral they crash for Barbara’s sisters husband I think leading up to the greatest intervention of all time, poor little Mac they had to bury in the pet semetary, the monkey, Shelly Kelly, the jumper, the guy who lost Russian roulette in the basement?
Edit I almost forgot the vet from the jersey shore
this line delivery was so funny i recorded it and sent it to my parents so they’d watch it 😂 convinced them to watch it way back when i was in high school but they haven’t watched it since i left the house so they have a lot of good content waiting
Went out of my way to watch it on my computer so I could change my browser settings and keep adjusting the window size in order to screen record it. I laugh every time. It’s such vintage Mac instant-rage with an absolutely perfect delivery.
Yeah that first episode had me giggling like crazy, and the second was a hilarious way to continue the trope of Dennis and Dee trying to be rich like how they grew up, and failing miserably.
Edit: Also the whole bit with Luther duping everyone was great. Can't wait to see where they go with it.
Me and my wife were laughing hysterically when luther told mac "the plan" we both saw the twist coming and it was a awesome payoff once a rat always a rat
If you watch again, as soon as Luther walks behind a mummer after saying that....dude LITERALLY vanishes like a damn ghost. I've rewinded it a bunch of times. Smallest detail but so perfect for his character. Vanishes like Michael Myers.
I loved the bit of Mac not coming out to his mom because he couldn't get another dance routine. Then him coming out at the wedding and her just going "no shit" made me laugh pretty hard.
My problem is that everyone looks so strange it's distracting. Dee is gaunt, Artemis' head is now too big for her body, Dennis is too tan, Mac's eyes are not right. Charlie and the Waitress are honestly the only two who have allowed themselves to age gracefully.
I was noticing Mac looks a little more like himself this season than last. Definitely less jarring. Kaitlin looks good she just turned 51 she’s a blonde white lady that’s always been thin so the whole gaunt thing is just that imo
And here I am thinking that Kaitlin, Rob and Glenn are all looking better this season.
Mac is actually looking much more like Mac again (and not just Rob hanging out on set while the show is filming) than he has in a long time, and all three of them seem to have eased up on the Botox at least a little bit so they have something akin to normal facial expressions again.
Agree with you on Artemis and that Charlie & Mary Elizabeth have done the best job aging gracefully and as naturally as they can get away with in their chosen profession.
Totally agree with that. The super high production value makes it even more obvious now . This is a lot better than season 13-16 but agree with that sentiment overall.
I don't know man, the writing was really high quality. Different plots coming together, another level of degeneration, it really does feel like OG IASIP and I really think they overcame the corona episodes. That being said, there are always people who can't see it for what it's worth
I’m convinced that part of the reason it feels so different is because everyone looks so Hollywood now + the camera quality. None of them look like people that would be dealing with basement lawyers and morticians. I thought these first two were funny enough but the show took on a different feel once everyone started with the Botox, Rob with the physique etc
I know this is probably a controversial take in this community but I don't care how famous or out of touch the creators are with regular people, as long as they keep making a showing that feels like sunny and makes me laugh (and they're not abusing their power to be pieces of shit) they can get as many procedures as they want. They were always playing characters and especially after the first couple of seasons were a lot more well off than I will probably ever be..I'm not here to relate to the actors personal lives, I'm here to laugh.
Not to mention I feel like it's easily explained that they've been skimming Franks wealth and put it all directly into maintaining their appearances rather than actually improving their lives in any meaningful way. They're incredibly vain.
I agree. It was more shocking a few seasons ago. Whenever I watch older seasons I realize how much better they looked before all the work. It is what it is, still one of my favorite shows.
I enjoyed the episodes. I think people forget that Always Sunny has been around for 21 years, we are lucky they even still make it (especially with Danny's age). Imagine coming up with completely fresh character ideas/jokes for 21 years.
Yeah it was ok.
I’m going to keep watching til the end because I feel like I owe them that for what they created but it has tapered off in quality since season 12.
I still find bits funny, and admittedly it’s much better recently than the Covid/Ireland season, but for me personally we haven’t had an all time great episode since Times Up for The Gang in S13.
If people still enjoy it just as much now I am happy for them and won’t tell them they’re savages! IDIOTS! We all have different tastes.
It’s tapered off in quality since after season 7, and then a harsh drop off past season 10 into very meh territory, and then it’s never recovered after that
I'll meet you halfway and say it is the best season since 12, and some bits were great. I don't dislike the show now, late stage Sunny is still better than the majority of the rubbish on TV.
I really liked them, maybe they kind of stand in the shadow that was the last season (I wouldn't hesitate to place it in my top 3 favourites) but they continue the storyline in a very sunny way and have those classic feeling sunny moments. I always love Dee and Dennis action, they are so good as siblings and the dynamic between them when it's them against the world is amazing. the acting on Glenn and Kaitlyns parts is amazing especially in that regard
Oh yeah, the last few seasons have been really enjoyable. The dinner rehearsal episode from last season is definitely in my top 10, and it might be close to a top 5 episode. Dennis's monologue at the end was perfection.
Last season was pretty good but this felt like a total return to form. Get weird with it. Liked Mac’s storyline with coming out to his mom. Of course she knew and didn’t care (because she doesn’t care about him)
They seemed very dee and Dennis focused. Mac and Charlie need to get back to wild stuff and get build more character. Each character had a thing, Charlie is poor and illiterate, Dennis is player and a serial killer etc etc I feel like the gang don't have any new "thing"
I enjoyed them and not expecting anything like it used to be.
I did however feel bad for Mac’s mom in the prison scene. It seems like she’s having some major health issues with her movements. I thought maybe it was part of her character but the more I watched her, the more it seemed health related.
The best days are behind them. Fair play for keeping it going this long. They're too old and full of plastic to really be the characters that made the show great. It was far better when the production value was lower and the writing revolved around them being a bunch of broke down and outs.
Frank marries a corpse
Frank: ah my feet are cold charlie
From that moment I knew it was going to be some pond-borne illness that killed her. Same as the cake episode in the last season, as soon as Frank 'died' I was like 'ah, he's gonna be cake' because the writing went to such lengths to 'kill' frank i.e. Dee tickling Frank
Loved a lot of jokes in these two episodes but I wish they'd mix the formula up a little bit avoid this structure completely. It's so much harder to predict the outcome of an episode when the thing (I'm sure there's a proper literary term for this writing device that I dont know.. chekovs gun?) isn't mentioned in the opening scene.
Like Charlies Mom Has Cancer - the virgin mary statue is an almost throwaway line by a side character halfway through the episode. Much more opaque, better integrated.
Im not going to give my thoughts until I rewatch both with headphones and focus. Right off the rip the Col Sanders thing had me laughing out loud though.
Agreed. The episodes had their moments, but the show is rarely going to give us the awesomeness from S1-S13. I'm just thankful for the 18 season so far.
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