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"The Gang Gets A TV Tropes Page"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a critically-acclaimed sitcom created by Rob McElhenney and developed by him and Glenn Howerton for FX, where it premiered in 2005 and aired its first eight seasons before switching to FXX starting with Season 9, where it has remained. Reruns have aired on Comedy Central, MTV2 and Viceland, while the entire series is available for streaming on Netflix (in Ireland and the UK) and Hulu (also in the US).The show follows a group of friends, regularly called "the Gang", which consists of Dennis Reynolds (Howerton), Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds (Kaitlin Olson), Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day), and Ronald "Mac" McDonald (McElhenney). Together they run Paddy's Pub, a struggling South Philadelphia Irish-themed dive bar. Dennis is the vain, sociopathic prep from a rich family, Dee is his shallow, shrill, and insecure twin sister who has aspirations of being an actress, Charlie is the high-strung idiot savant who is obsessed with the waitress at a coffee shop, and Mac is the wanna-be bruiser forever stuck in adolescence as well as the closet.*Until season 12 In the second season, Danny DeVito joins the cast as Dennis and Dee's neglectful father Frank, a shady, millionaire businessman who is drawn to the gang's depravity and chooses to bankroll their schemes.The show goes to great lengths in bringing the Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist and sheer Comedic Sociopathy to new highs/lows, serving as a brutal Deconstructive Parody to many sitcom tropes. The most insane suggestions Played for Laughs only to be dismissed in other shows are followed through to the bitter end by this group. If there is a voice of reason, they are either promptly ignored or join in due to the possible pay-out. To them, getting addicted to crack in order to qualify for welfare sounds like a logical strategy.The three-guys-one-girl structure and selfish characters have led many critics to compare the show to Seinfeld, and was frequently called "Seinfeld on crack" by critics in early seasons. Sixteen seasons have been produced, with two more officially greenlit, making it the longest-running American live-action sitcom of all time. | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel: Invoked by Dee and Dennis when they dress up Frank's old business partner to try and give Frank a scare in "A Very Sunny Christmas". | |
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Fan Film: In-Universe. The gang make three unofficial sequels for the Lethal Weapon series. | |
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Miles Gloriosus: Mac, frequently seen busting out faux-karate moves and displaying various martial arts regalia. In reality, he flees from confrontation and gets beaten up in fights. Charlie suggests that he take at least one karate class if he's going to claim to be a master at it. | |
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Improvised Bandage: Spoofed by Frank, who occasionally thinks he can fix various wounds by packing them with garbage (including his broken nose and cuts from his toe knife). It never works and usually makes things worse for obvious reasons. | |
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Adam Westing: In "Dee Made a Smut Film", Richard Grieco plays himself as a washed-up actor with nothing better to do than play the title role in The Movie of Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life. Comedian Sinbad and Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas play as themselves as abusive mental patients in "Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life". In "The Gang Turns Black", Scott Bakula plays a washed-up version of himself who is now a janitor in a retirement home. | |
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Dirty Coward: Mac, Dennis, and Charlie always flee from confrontation. When someone tries to mug them in an alleyway, they throw Dee to the ground and bolt, abandoning her. When the guys realize that they don't have enough money to cover their restaurant bill, they agree to solve the problem like they solve every problem, and promptly run away. When Mac and Charlie don't have enough money to pay the dozen prostitutes they've hired, they run away, still wearing their top hats and tails. | |
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Katanas Are Just Better: Mac argues with Charlie over whether his katana is superior to Charlie's pistol, though Mac calls it a "saber." | |
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You Can't Make an Omelette... | |
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In "Charlie Has Cancer", Dennis and Charlie have an argument which culminates in Charlie telling Dennis that "sometimes you gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette": | |
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Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Offhandedly mentioned by Frank during the episode "The Gang Gets Quarantined", after he berates Dee for trying to order pizza (while the five main characters are secluding themselves in a bar to avoid a flu epidemic): | |
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With a Foot on the Bus: In "Dennis' Double Life", Dennis leaves at the end of the episode to raise his child in North Dakota. In the next episode, "The Gang Makes Paddy's Great Again", Dennis suddenly reappears at the end of the episode. | |
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Heroic BSoD: Charlie experiences one when he discovers that his mother is a former prostitute. After getting over it after a few minutes by "burying it down deep" (and also refusing to fully believe it), he gets another, much worse BSOD when he sees a mall Santa while shopping with Mac (triggering memories of numerous men dressed as Santa coming to his house one by one on Christmas mornings, presumably taking turns with Bonnie). Dennis has one after he decides to abandon his child. He then realizes that he would just be perpetuating another cycle of hurting and decides to leave Philadelphia to raise his son. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The lyrics to Night Man (the second half of them, anyway) sound like an account of someone (possibly Charlie, since he did write the song) getting molested in his sleep by a man who broke into his room. It has been lampshaded. Politically: In "The Gang Solves The North Korea Situation," the gang's dilemma with the Korean restaurant is made to parallel US-Korean relations. The owner, "Mr. Kim," is suspected of "enriching" his beer. In "The Gang Goes Jihad," where the gang's issues with an Israeli who buys the land their bar is on and later builds a wall around it, parallels the Israel-Palestine dilemma. The Israeli reminds the American characters that their country was also created by stealing land. In "The Aluminum Monster Vs. Fatty Magoo", the slave labor conditions are even described as like a concentration camp, with the loud speaker blaring German propaganda, and the workers being described as Eastern Europeans. This is sort of Lampshaded when Mac says "The German war propaganda was a nice touch." Also in "The Aluminum Monster...," Dennis invents dress orders that don't match the reality of their demand, which is much like the centrally planned economy of the Soviet Union. | |
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This Loser Is You: The whole gang, pretty much, but especially Charlie. | |
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Playing Catch with the Old Man: Parodied in "PTS Dee." Dennis tries to launch a career as a male stripper with Charlie as his manager, but Dennis's insecurities and a healthy dose of Insane Troll Logic leads to them performing as "Daddy and The Boy," a father-and-son duo pretending to play a game of catch onstage to "Cat's In The Cradle." The female audience boos them offstage. | |
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The gang as a whole, despite their own immoral and disgusting lifestyles, are all disturbed by the McPoyle family. Justified since the McPoyles are much more depraved than the gang is. | |
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Tempting Fate: At the end of some of the Cold Openings, one or more members will say something going against the title of the episode: | |
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Calvinball: CharDee MacDennis, a bizarre board game the gang made up. Playing it and explaining the rules take up an entire episode. Nightcrawlers, the running gag of a game played between Charlie and Frank. Not a whole lot is known about it except that it apparently involves crawling around in the dark like worms. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Happens often. | |
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Staging an Intervention: In the aptly titled "The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention", The Gang feels as though Frank is "going off the deep end," doing things like trying to have sex with his sister-in-law. They attempt to help him see what he's become, but unfortunately, The Gang's idea of doing so is to scream "Intervention!" repeatedly and make loud wailing noises (like a siren) while they insult him. They also try to stage impromptu interventions on Charlie for being illiterate, and Mac for banging Gail the Snail. | |
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Not Where They Thought: "The Gang Hits the Road." After a daylong struggle to get on the road to the Grand Canyon, the Gang allows a young hitchhiker to drive Dee's car so they can get drunk and pass out in the U-Haul. The next morning they realize they've stopped, and get out at what they think is the canyon... and realize the hitchhiker stole the car and stranded them right in front of Paddy's Pub where they started. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Mac, still stuck on adolescence, desperately seeks the approval of his creepy wayward father Luther. While Luther is in prison, Mac tries unsuccessfully to show him that he's "hard." When Luther first gets out of prison, Mac becomes emotionally invested in getting his parents back together, sputtering, "This is about happy boys!" He even tries to bond with his father by driving him to the houses of everybody who was responsible for getting him convicted. In the end of "Mac & Charlie Die Part II," Luther leaves a note telling Mac that he still loves him, even though Mac has driven him away with his constant screw-ups. | |
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Kafka Komedy: Ben Smith, Dee's boyfriend throughout Season 5, is a legitimately good-hearted, caring (if not very bright) man who treats Dee like a queen even though she constantly puts him through the wringer. He's also gorgeous with a "stupid"note (in a good way) body, but Dee pushes him away because she's paranoid that he's using some sort of elaborate scheme to get in her pants, just because Dennis revealed that he's been doing the same thing to other women. While this is one of the more blatant examples in the series, there are many instances of characters outside of The Gang getting screwed over because they unknowingly made the mistake of being nice to the main cast (Ben is one of the few to not suffer any lasting damage, being just smart enough to get out of the relationship while the getting was good). | |
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This show is a Black Comedy centered around five Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist "friends" who are horrible people. However, the episode "Mac Finds His Pride" deals with Mac trying to find himself as a gay person and it's played very seriously. The episode ends with him finally coming out to his dad and performing an interpretive dance to express himself but is rejected. But it also has Frank, seen as the most depraved member of the group and who in the entire episode has been uncaring in Mac's plight, showing legit empathy for Mac and applauding his performance. Similarly, "The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain" has some long-needed catharsis for Charlie's father issues, featuring him having a fairly moving breakdown over having been abandoned, only for the gang to show up (after themselves abandoning him earlier) and be uncharacteristically supportive of him as he performatively gets some closure on the issue. Dennis might get the most, mostly to do with him being a very dark depiction of someone broken by childhood sexual abuse; sadly telling Frank he has a massive god hole that he can only fill with sex, choking down tears as he mixes "cougars" up with "librarians", Trying Not to Cry as he admits to the others he has emotions that hurt him, and multiple dreams where he either desexualises himself to get looked after or realizes his Implication/Systems were how he felt as a kid. | |
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Title Drop: Almost. Dee's mom complains about Dee's skin and tells her that "There is a sun in Philadelphia." On an episodic basis however, almost every episode drops its title during the Cold Open before playing the opening credits. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Dennis. He manipulates, exploits others, barely shows any empathy, and thinks that others are strange or incompetent for not sharing his bizarre ideas. He has a rigid, egotistical view of himself and the world, flipping out at the slightest break from his narrowly defined idea of life. In season 10, he's diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. | |
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Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette" appears in "Frank Retires," "Chardee Mac Dennis 2," and "Mc Poyle vs. Ponderosa." Although the song is, like all the music on the show, in the public domain and fairly standard stock music, most people just think it's the theme to Alfred Hitchcock Presents. | |
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Kayfabe: Frank refuses to believe that pro-wrestling is fake. | |
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The Blank: Green Man. | |
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The Danza | |
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The Danza: In-universe example in "Mac and Charlie Write a Movie", where Mac and Charlie want the lead to be played by Dolph Lundgren. When they try to pitch it to Dennis, Charlie insists on the lead character also being named Dolph Lundgren. Mac argues that this would be confusing. | |
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Absurdism | |
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Absurdism: Glenn talked about approaching the show like it’s a drama, just with insane characters and insane situations, and that’s what brings the comedy. | |
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The Movie | |
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In "Dee Made a Smut Film", Richard Grieco plays himself as a washed-up actor with nothing better to do than play the title role in The Movie of Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life. | |
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Hillbilly Incest | |
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Hillbilly Incest: The McPoyle clan leans heavily into this trope. They are implied to be hillbillies due to their rural accents and the family meeting in a remote cabin in the woods. The whole family is very inbred. Siblings Liam, Ryan, and Margaret McPoyle are all overtly sexual toward one another. | |
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Self-Parody | |
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Self-Parody: "The Gang Recycles Their Trash", which constantly has the Gang commenting on how similar the events are to previous episodes involving the Gang having a wacky scheme, and trying to skew the team dynamics so they come out on top. This was in season eight, typically around the point sitcoms start to run out of ideas, and the episode ended up being a bit of metacommentary on storytelling patterns and the need for shows to stay fresh. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Dennis and Mac, though the "heterosexual" is increasingly debatable, at least on Mac's part. Charlie and Frank are definitely this. Few others would tolerate the squalor they live in together, but more than that they each enthusiastically support each other's weird habits (like sewer scavenging), have their own traditions and games (like Nightcrawlers) and rely on each other to be able to explain their joint weirdness which is pretty much incomphrensible to anyone else, Gang included. Of course, Frank might also be his father but won't acknowledge it. Mac and Charlie because they were childhood friends before meeting the Reynoldses, occasionally comes back when Dennis and Dee act stuck-up from their perceived upper-class upbringing and alienate the more "white-trash" Mac and Charlie. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Frank runs into his old boxing rival, Bobby, in the episode "Hundred Dollar Baby", and eventually challenges him to a boxing match. Bobby refuses until Frank threatens Bobby's daughter, which fires him up and drives him to accept Frank's challenge. | |
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The Friends Who Never Hang | |
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The Friends Who Never Hang: Generally averted as every potential duo in the Gang gets a few episodes together, but Dennis and Charlie rarely have storylines together without Mac or Frank acting as an intermediary between the two, and Mac and Dee only have a handful of episodes centering around just the two of them. | |
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Childhood Friends | |
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Childhood Friends: Mac and Charlie knew each other since they were little kids, and bonded over their terrible home life. After Mac started hanging out with Dennis and the other cool kids in high school, he managed to bring Charlie along into their circle too. | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy | |
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Constant as the gang consider themselves far more intelligent and capable than they are. Dee thinks she's a smart and sophisticated gal, Dennis is a charming ladies' man, Mac The Ace and Charlie a clever guy when they're a bunch of sociopaths. The gang try to do a "surprise home makeover" on a Hispanic family but with their dark clothing and talk of "taking care of things," the terrified family thinks they're about to be murdered. Dennis assumes he'll be welcomed back at his high school as a "golden god," unaware he was just a loser in school. In "The Gang Turns Black", the gang try and fail to decide how to turn back, using series like Quantum Leap and The Wiz as references. None of them get any closer, and it's revealed at the end that it was all the dream of Old Black Man's. | |
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I Love the Dead | |
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I Love the Dead: Discussed by Frank and a mortician in "Frank's Little Beauties". | |
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The Tooth Hurts | |
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The Tooth Hurts: Subverted; Mac takes a pair of pliers to Charlie's mouth as part of a plan to fake their deaths. Despite a dramatic buildup to ripping out a tooth... it just sort of slips out, to the surprise of both of them. Charlie then casually picks two more out with his fingers and examines them. | |
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Long-Runners | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_21c05222 | comment |
Long-Runners: Its 15th season made it the longest-running American scripted live-action comedy of all time, beating out The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. It is currently renewed up to season 18. The cast members have stated that they'll do the show as long as they're allowed. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Even if the Gang spontaneously died, the Philadelphia they live in would still be a pretty rotten and dangerous place. | |
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Shouting Free-for-All | |
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Shouting Free-for-All: This is what the Gang considers a standard way of exchanging opinions: screaming over each other no matter how inappropriate the setting (at the bar, fancy restaurants, court, etc.) | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Frank tricks Charlie & Sweet Dee into eating human meat after they wouldn't stop raiding his fridge. They soon start to crave it non-stop. It turns out that Frank actually fed them racoon meat, and their intense hunger is caused by a tapeworm. | |
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Iconic Sequel Character | |
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Iconic Sequel Character: Frank is introduced in the second season. | |
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Black Comedy | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_222dc873 | comment |
This show is a Black Comedy centered around five Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist "friends" who are horrible people. However, the episode "Mac Finds His Pride" deals with Mac trying to find himself as a gay person and it's played very seriously. The episode ends with him finally coming out to his dad and performing an interpretive dance to express himself but is rejected. But it also has Frank, seen as the most depraved member of the group and who in the entire episode has been uncaring in Mac's plight, showing legit empathy for Mac and applauding his performance. | |
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Minority Show Ghetto | |
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Minority Show Ghetto: invoked Discussed in "The Gang Desperately Tries to Win Award," where bars are a thinly veiled allegory for sitcoms. Dennis says that "black bars" don't win awards. He doesn't know why. They just don't. | |
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Laugh Track | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_224c9aef | comment |
Episodes such as "The Gang Tries To Win An Award" and "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" are more direct shots at stereotypical sitcoms and mock Laugh Tracks and other sitcom clichés. | |
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PlayedStraight | |
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Played Straight with Dennis in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom". Dennis is enraged when he discovers Mac has slept with his mother. He eventually ends up telling Mac off and fighting with him. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: In the Season 1 episode "The Gang Finds a Dead Guy," Pop-Pop mentions Dennis and Dee's "bastard father." Frank makes his debut in the next season premiere. The Nightman Cometh. Well, Chekhov's Musical. In "The Waitress Is Getting Married": Dee wanting to be a surrogate mother. Her pregnancy in season six is actually surrogate—for Carmen the transgender woman. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: "Sweet" Dee is anything but. | |
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Babies Make Everything Better | |
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Babies Make Everything Better: It's deconstructed in the case of Charlie and the Waitress. Their relationship gets worse after Charlie refuses to help her raise a potential child. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Sweet Dee in the first season usually plays this role. Actress Kaitlin Olson managed to remove the characterization by the second season, and since then Dee has been just as dumb, belligerent and crass as the rest of the gang. But due to being the Butt-Monkey of the group she is slightly more likely to call the others out on bad behavior, but in later episodes any member of gang can play this role depending on the subject of the episode. "The Gang Gets Trapped" highlights the importance of an Only Sane Man; Dennis comments on how the Gang's problems stem from the fact that they don't have a set person to reign in the others when they do stupid shit: | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All | |
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Know-Nothing Know-It-All: All four of them. | |
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Vomit Chain Reaction | |
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Vomit Chain Reaction: Dee merely gagging in "Mac Fights Gay Marriage" is enough to set off Mac's gag reflex. | |
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Speech-Centric Work | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_24cf8a0e | comment |
Speech-Centric Work: Much of the show's humor is based on the bizarre conversations the gang have with each other. | |
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Mistaken for Murderer | |
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Mistaken for Murderer: The episode "Mac is a Serial Killer." He's actually banging Carmen the transgender woman again. Mac's dad in "Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender" and "Mac and Charlie Die." | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: "The Gang Gets Trapped" begins with some of the gang trapped in the closets of a rich Southern family that just arrived home. Whereas most episodes start with someone bursting into the bar after hearing news they can exploit, this one unusually just has them argue about the unseen events that led up to this, Reservoir Dogs-style. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After 12 seasons of utterly failing to be tough, Mac and Charlie finally unleash a brutal beatdown... on a bunch of middle schoolers. | |
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Maintain the Lie | |
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Maintain the Lie: When Frank suffers a fall out the window and thinks it's 2006, the gang decide to play along to get a second chance at tricking Frank into giving them money. The ruse includes pretending Dennis and Dee invented smartphones and hiding any news of the present. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_25b5600 | comment |
Captain Ersatz: The Philly Phrenetic in the World Series episode is an obvious one for the Phillies' real-life mascot, the Phillie Phanatic. It's even lampshaded by Charlie at the end of the episode, when he mentions the legal issues that would arise if they actually depicted the mascot as the Phanatic. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_260926c3 | comment |
Failure Is the Only Option: The gang's ambitious plans never work out, though occasionally their small plans go off without a hitch, often with glorious results. | |
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Crime After Crime | |
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Crime After Crime: Happens to the gang in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar In Philadelphia." What Dennis, Dee, and Frank do in "Charlie Catches a Leprechaun." | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Frank's Jersey accent comes out when he pronounces "whore" as "hoor." Likewise with how he pronounces "trash". This is something of a running gag done by Danny DeVito throughout his career. The gang also tends to use the word 'pop' as a verb a lot, in varying contexts. For example, saying that someone is going to "pop" his shirt off, "pop" by a store, or "pop" a nametag on. "Move past it," "Can we just move past it?" etc. are used constantly. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: A subtle element of the show's style of comedy is out-of-focus characters reacting to whatever insanity is occurring nearby; Charlie is frequently either the subject of this or the one doing it (watch him whenever he's sitting in the background), and Dennis is often the latter by dint of a foul temper that he's phenomenally poor at hiding whenever the others' behavior starts to grate. | |
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Camp Straight | |
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In the pilot, Dennis deliberately ramps up his Camp Straight tendencies in order to get more tips and attention from Paddy's gay customers. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Mac has a touch of Small Name, Big Ego regarding his combat skills, which in actuality are almost nonexistent. | |
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Everyone Went to School Together | |
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Everyone Went to School Together: Almost becomes a Running Gag. While we know from his introduction that Rickety Cricket went to high school with the Gang, later episodes gradually reveal that a sizable chunk of the supporting cast did as well, and the Gang are simply too self-centered to remember. This reaches its apex in "The High School Reunion", which is a Continuity Cavalcade featuring every character previously stated to be a classmate. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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In "Sweet Dee Gets Audited" the gang holds a fake funeral for the infant Dee carried as a surrogate mother in order to thwart the IRS audit she incurred attempting to claim the child as a dependent. Separately lampshaded by almost every character. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: Ben is always seen wearing the jean shorts that Frank gives him in his first episode. Charlie, more than any of the other main cast members, wears the same clothes over and over, emphasizing his poverty. In one episode he states that he repairs his old clothes rather than buy anything new. Notable favorites include his black and red horse t-shirt, green army jacket and long thermal underwear— he also wears the same undersized brown-and-black necktie when a situation calls for formal attire. Some of these clothes are Charlie Day's actual property. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Dennis holds a very high opinion of his intellect, appearance and status as a ladies' man. When any of these are called into question, the results tend to be spectacular, such as his Golden God speech at the high school reunion, his breakdown on Family Fight, or when he's rejected by both Mac and Charlie's mothers in the episode "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom". | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: Mac's cousin Country Mac visits the gang in "Mac Day". Towards the end of the episode, Country Mac defuses a dangerous situation, while Mac reveals that he may have shit his pants. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Anheuser-Busch signed on as a sponsor before the show’s premiere, only to pull out following the airing of the first episode. The rest of season one has Bland-Name Product logos digitally superimposed over all A-B signs and products. | |
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The episode "Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life" has a scene where Mac and Frank are sitting in a theater after part of their scheme to make Dennis appear to be Jon Bon Jovi's sexual advisor where they talk loudly, point a laser pointer at the screen, argue with each other, fight with another theater goer, and answer calls from Dennis to get him out of rehab. | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Some of the gang's most frequent victims, in particular Rickety Cricket, Dennis and Dee's biological father Bruce, the Waitress and the Lawyer, often end up stooping to very low levels to seek retribution, usually in the form of the same kind of underhanded schemes that the gang is known for. These initially decent characters have all become just as unsympathetic as the main cast through their attempts to force karma on the gang, which always either backfires or just ends up restoring the status quo for next week's episode. | |
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Bondage Is Bad | |
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Bondage Is Bad: Dennis has been established as more or less a sexual predator. Adding to this characterization is a scene where he reveals that he has a compartment in his trunk filled with duct tape and zip ties because he likes to "bind and be bound." | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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In high school Dee had a gnarly back brace and was called "The Titanium Monster." She had two other "friends" in the same social category. There was Matt Mara who had leg braces and called "Rickety Cricket" which is retained by almost everyone else in the show. Ingrid Nelson was also obese and called Fatty McGoo but in the present day is slender and owns her own fashion line, attempts to still call her Fatty McGoo generally fall flat. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: As a whole the characters are quite depraved and psychopathic but on a few occasions it is demonstrated that they do have some standards, even if it derives from their apathy due to being self-absorbed. The fact that they are the butt of the joke sometimes goes a long way. While they may share inappropriate ideas and suggest inappropriate actions they are quite protective of minors and are rather non-judgemental towards subjects of race, sexual orientation and transgenders. Mac gets into a relationship with a trans woman named Carmen and it barely registers to the rest of the gang. It's also suggested that all of them are products of a toxic environment and upbringing, making their actions lean towards pitiable rather than meaningless. | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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"Whack off" is constantly used in "The Gang Gets Whacked". In the same episode Mac claims that he's hard and he'll explode all over anyone who crosses him. | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol: Dee and Dennis pull a largely unsuccessful one on Frank in "A Very Sunny Christmas". | |
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Depraved Bisexual | |
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Depraved Bisexual: The McPoyle brothers. | |
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Platonic Valentine | |
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Platonic Valentine: In the episode "The Gang Tends Bar", the Gang treats Valentine's Day like Serious Business. Dennis tries forgoing the Gang's usual antics and run the bar for once because no one gets him anything for Valentine's Day and Dee becomes jealous when Charlie tries making a Valentine's Day card for Frank's tapeworm to the point where she threatens him with a bag of powdered sugar disguised as anthrax if he doesn't give her something. | |
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Placebo Effect | |
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Placebo Effect: In "Flowers For Charlie", Charlie and Mac disscuss the possibility the pills are just placeboes. It turns out they are. | |
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Dumbass DJ | |
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Dumbass DJ: The Q Crew in "The Gang Dances their Asses Off." In "Mac's Big Break", Dee and Dennis host a radio show where they discuss issues and current events, but the pair quickly devolve into this. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: In the two-part season 11 finale we learn that Dee has her own version of Dennis' "Implication" — the "Insinuation". | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Two different bit characters fit this trope: In "The Gang Runs For Office", the union representatives intimidate Mac with a large black guy named Marvin, whose only line in the episode is a threat to stab Mac in his throat. In "The Gang Gets Invincible", the coach for the public Eagles tryouts is a big, intimidating black man who screams at the top of his lungs roughly 80% of the time he talks. Z, played by Chad Coleman, is the scariest member of the creepy people who hang out under the bridge. | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Dennis and Dee independently have the exact same reaction to Charlie's plan of opening a leather shop in Arizona. Dennis points it out. Dennis and Frank separately insist that the other must visit their restaurant table and "pay their respects," rather than the other way around. Mac won't let Dennis eat apple skins because he believes them to be poisonous. Later, Dennis eats an apple seed and Charlie tells him to induce vomiting because he believes the seed is poisonous. And when Frank asks why Dennis in vomiting, Charlie tells him that he ate an apple seed, Frank gives a shocked look, implying that he believes it's poisonous too. Mac also believes this, telling Dennis to smoke some cigarettes so the smoke will suffocate the bacteria from the seed. In "The Gang Escapes", Dennis believes that Frank loudly chewing gum is a power play because "the head cow is always grazing". When he sends Mac to get him some gum, Frank refuses to share because he believes the exact same thing and doesn't want Dennis asserting his dominance as the "head cow". The twins generally have a tendency to come up with the same predatory behaviour separately, whether it’s rapey implications, dominating their “friends�, abusive systems that they enjoy using on each other, or just pretending to have a dog that died to foster sympathy. This works to their benefit in “The Gang Escapes�, as Dee knows exactly how her brother’s brain works in his creepy rape dungeon, so gets out and lets the Gang technically win (and she’s delighted about getting praise). | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: When Mac joins the Mafia in the two-part episode "The Gang Get's Whacked," he ends up receiving the moniker "Pussyhands" from his new compatriots. Mac's high school classmates reveal that he was once known as "Ronny the Rat" for always snitching on others. In high school Dee had a gnarly back brace and was called "The Titanium Monster." She had two other "friends" in the same social category. There was Matt Mara who had leg braces and called "Rickety Cricket" which is retained by almost everyone else in the show. Ingrid Nelson was also obese and called Fatty McGoo but in the present day is slender and owns her own fashion line, attempts to still call her Fatty McGoo generally fall flat. | |
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Initiation Ceremony | |
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Initiation Ceremony: In "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry", Frank and Dennis visit Dennis's old fraternity house to find that the current hazing rituals involves lots and lots of tazing. The gang sets one up to welcome Schmitty into the gang, but he finds it hilarious and doesn't take it seriously, getting him immediately kicked out. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: The gang almost has no morals whatsoever. This makes the few times someone speaks up or acts selfless all the more notable, though often paired with Hypocritical Humor. The lines they draw typically involve exploitation of kids, racist ideology or actual acts of violence. Shortly after suggesting the gang hold an involuntary wet T-shirt contest by locking the doors and hosing down all the women in the bar, Frank finds out that the Korean girl Charlie put in the contest as an opening act is actually twelve years old. He immediately throws himself in front of the hose to keep her from getting wet, drenching himself in the process. Whenever it comes to the topic of children being sexually exploited, the whole gang is disgusted, taking the bit from "The Gang Spies Like U.S." for example, where Mac and Dennis are appalled when they misinterpret a conversation and think that Charlie is proposing that they should take advantage of kids in this way for profit. In "Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare," Mac is disgusted that Dennis and Dee are going to commit welfare fraud so they can get money to finance their dream careers, as he feels welfare is only for those who are poor and desperate, like drug addicts and those too mentally or physically disabled to contribute to society. The gang often spout out culturally and racially insensitive comments and views, but always show that they're against prejudice as a concept. Members of the gang will often bicker about whether something one of them said or did is bigoted. They're all unified in hating Nazis, though are amused at memorabilia. Frank is usually the only voice of concern towards the treatment of Rickety Cricket; he tells Mac and Dennis that man-hunting Cricket will drive him over the edge and helps him get them off his back, reacts with worry when he slashes Cricket's throat while wrestling, and even ignoring Dee's (and Cricket's own) objections and an impending storm to bring Cricket to a hospital after shooting him in the hand. Mac, Charlie, and Dee all take offense at the idea that peeping on unaware girls or flashing them is anything close to a prank or acceptable at all. In "The Gang Gets Whacked", Frank is against the gang selling cocaine to fund an electric bill saying that "only the biggest pieces of shit deal drugs." He's not above using drugs however. He was also okay with pimping his own son as a gigolo in the same episode. The gang as a whole, despite their own immoral and disgusting lifestyles, are all disturbed by the McPoyle family. Justified since the McPoyles are much more depraved than the gang is. When Dennis moves to the suburbs with Mac, he's outraged by the fact that one of their neighbors drives too fast while in the subdivision because he's concerned that the children who play in the street might get hurt. One notable example is in "The Gang Hits the Road" when Mac throws a beer bottle at a biker. Even when he does this, Mac is shocked when the bottle actually hits the biker in the back of the head, causing the man to veer off the road and hit a parked car. Mac and the Gang stop driving and actually express concern for the biker's well-being when he doesn't get up right away, and they're relieved when he finally manages to rise to his feet. | |
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Got Me Doing It | |
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Got Me Doing It: In "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs", Mac calls the old man that Frank presents as who he'll be sleeping with for a year if they lose the bet the "black man". Dennis corrects him that it's racist to refer to him that way, only to accidentally do the same a sentence later. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Charlie and Dee train for their fights in "Hundred Dollar Baby" while simultaneously taking fistfuls of steroids. | |
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Alliterative Family | |
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Alliterative Family: Dennis and Deandra Reynolds. According to Frank in "The Gang Gets Analyzed" they were supposed to be triplets and the third kid was going to be named "Donnie" but the fetus was reabsorbed by Dennis and Dee. | |
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Villainous Incest | |
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Villainous Incest: A lot of people, both adult and assumption in high school, think Dennis and Dee are fucking. Not that they help themselves in that regard. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Charlie's mall Santa freak out in the Christmas Special. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Fairly often in "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell". Most of the gang at various points attempts to use a fake accent, especially Dee. It is pretty much always absolutely terrible, especially Dee. | |
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Karmic Butt-Monkey | |
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Karmic Butt-Monkey: The main characters are a bunch of Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists. They try to scheme their way through life, but usually just end up making things worse for themselves and/or each other. Two of the protagonists are considered Butt Monkeys: Charlie, a stalker and Dee who once set a woman on fire. | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Once an Episode: A character will exclaim "GODDAMMIT!" in exasperation. | |
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False Rape Accusation | |
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Dennis is extremely possessive of Dee, claiming her hair is as much as his as well as hers and not letting her do anything innocently fun without him, and Dee finds it a turn on to emasculate or humiliate her brother and show how pathetic he really is, while also having sex fantasies of torturing him. They also seem to make it a point to TMI brag to each other about at best slutty exploits, or at worst, sexually extorting someone with the threat of violence or False Rape Accusation. | |
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William Telling | |
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William Telling: Dee and Frank are stopped in the act in "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell". They were about to try to do it with a blunderbuss. | |
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Title In | |
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Title In: The Cold Open to each episode begins with the opening dialogue playing over black title cards with "[Time]", "On a [day]", "Philadelphia, PA". This is played with in "Mac's Banging The Waitress", when Mac's intro to a video he's filming gives a Narration Echo to the title cards. "OK, it's 2:30... on a Wednesday... Philadelphia PA. Hello America, it's Mac here..." | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the beginning of "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs", Liam McPoyle screams at Mac and Dennis that he has no depth perception as a result of losing an eye. This leads right into a gag in which he attempts to revoke their video store membership by cutting their card with a pair of scissors, but can't line the card up with the scissors and misses completely. | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
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A minor example: Mac first starts hanging out with Carmen, a transgender woman, in the episode "Charlie Has Cancer". At one point during the episode, she gives Mac a low-five so hard that it hurts his hand. Later, in "Mac is a Serial Killer", Mac becomes uncomfortable with some of Carmen's masculine tendencies, and he cites the fact that she's "really strong" and that she hurts him when she uses her hands during their make-out sessions. | |
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Sexy Flaw | |
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Sexy Flaw: Artemis mentions that she's slept with a lot of paraplegic guys because she "likes the power". | |
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I Banged Your Mom | |
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I Banged Your Mom: In the cryptically-titled episode "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom," Mac bangs Dennis and Dee's mom, Dennis tries to bang Mac's and later Charlie's mom as revenge, and the Waitress bangs Frank to get back at Dennis. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: The flip-cup challenge at the end of "The Gang Reignites The Rivalry". The gang puts Dee at the beginning of their lineup against the frat boys, knowing that the frat boys would all finish before Dennis, Mac, or Charlie would have to drink, and poisoned all of the beers beforehand. Dee pulls off several in "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off" to get everyone eliminated so she can win the dance contest. It almost works, too, except that Rickety Cricket botches her last attempt. In "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby", Dennis gets into a rivalry with a local environmentalist trying to protect a tree from being bulldozed. So Dennis offers to chain himself to the tree, knowing that the guy would insist on doing it himself. Then, while the guy is chained to the tree all night in the rain, Dennis has sex with his girlfriend. To top it off, he comes back the next day, unchains the guy, and watches the tree get bulldozed anyway. Charlie, of all people, plans one in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom." It is almost entirely successful. In "Charlie and Dee Find Love," Charlie hatches a scheme where he seemingly abandons The Waitress for another girl. He was really using her to get The Waitress to beg him to come back out of desperation after a series of accidents makes her realize that she needs him. Charlie attempted one in the Season 1 episode "Charlie Has Cancer". He lied to Dennis that he might have cancer and explicitly requested that Dennis not tell anyone, secretly hoping that he would tell The Waitress, who Charlie believed would start dating him out of sympathy (as he noticed her wearing a "Live strong" bracelet). | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion In "Sweet Dee has a Heart Attack", Frank escapes a mental institution in the same manner as Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Danny DeVito played a minor character in that movie. In "Dennis and Sweet Dee's Mom Is Dead," Dennis and Dee's biological father Bruce mentions that he is a minister; Stephen Collins, who plays Bruce, was a pastor in his best-known role on 7th Heaven. However, see Harsher in Hindsight in the YMMV tab. In "Charlie has Cancer" Dee tells her friend Artemis that the bar has a Coyote Ugly thing going on. Kaitlin Olson had a very brief appearance in the film. In "The Gang Beats Boggs", Dennis gets off the plane in Fargo. Glenn Howerton played a recurring character on the series named after the city. Frank's makeup job from the mortuary in "Frank Reynolds' Little Beauties" makes him look like The Penguin in Batman Returns, one of Danny DeVito's more famous film roles. The scientist in "Flowers for Charlie" is played by Burn Gorman, who plays a scientist alongside Charlie Day in Pacific Rim. The episode was written by the showrunners of Game of Thrones, in which Gorman also had a recurring role. Da Maniac, played by Roddy Piper, almost always wears a black leather jacket similar to the one he often wore as a wrestler. Probably unintentional, but in the pilot episode, Dee at one point mentions having a weird dream the previous night about living in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to this series, Kaitlin Olson had a reoccurring role on The Drew Carey Show which was set in Cleveland, Ohio. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Deliberately defied. The gang never learn any lessons from their experiences. In fact if anything their morals and mental states degrade further with each passing season. Played straight in the Season 12 finale. Throughout the season, Dennis has been noticeably calmer compared to previous seasons and he outright says that he does have feelings. This becomes important in Dennis' Double Life, because he decides to help a one-night stand raise her son to try and prevent a cycle of hurting, which Frank started. This is, however, temporary. Played someone straight for Mac, who goes from homophobic ladies' man to closeted homosexual to openly gay and proud of it by the end of Season 13. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: In "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare", Frank somehow got stuck in a playground coil in nothing but his underwear. It's never revealed why this happened. | |
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Zany Scheme | |
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Zany Scheme: At least one per episode. It always goes horribly, horribly wrong. In The Gang Gets Trapped, the episode begins halfway through one of their zany schemes, the context of the situation revealed gradually. After acquiring an Indiana Jones costume, the gang argue about who should wear it and split it up. Dee tells them about a vase auctioned off to a family, and the gang decides to steal it back for the museum that sold it to them in the first place. | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: Frank is willing to waste God knows how much money just for the pleasure of mocking an animal rights group, but is simultaneously too greedy to pay a few cents for a toll road. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: It's hard to feel sorry for even the more sympathetic characters, since they're all assholes in one way or another, most of whom will lie to, manipulate, and/or hurt other people in a heartbeat to get what they want. The only unarguable exception is Ben the soldier, whose virtue and goodness really stand out amongst a cast full of sociopaths, maniacs, and bigots. | |
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Accidental Kidnapping | |
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Accidental Kidnapping: Happens a few times. Usually, the gang are just too stupid to notice what they're doing. | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto | |
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Every Car Is a Pinto: Subverted when Mac and Charlie try to blow up Dee's car, expecting it to easily go up in flames. They try ramming it into a wall, shoot the gas tank, and finally lob a grenade into it, but it never bursts into flames. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In "The Gang Misses the Boat" Frank tries to join a new "gang" and create the same situations the old gang went through. Whereas the real gang manage to keep running a bar even when they're doing things that should definitely cost them their license in reality, after one night with Frank, the new gang has not only lost their license but is facing a $75,000 fine. During the episode "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore", Charlie and The Waitress bond over a mutual love of the beach. They spend a night together, laughing and frolicking, and Charlie thinks he's finally broken through and earned her affections, thanks in part to the magical and romantic nature of the beach. Turns out she was high on ecstasy, and she immediately returns to the status quo of being repulsed by him. In "The Gang Broke Dee" we get to see what years of constant put-downs Dee suffered at the hands of the gang brings. It results in Dee suffering from self-esteem issues and clinical depression that reach to the point of her being suicidal. In "Gun Fever Too: Still Hot" Dennis and Dee attempt to prove the need for stricter gun laws by going to the local gun store and buying one. They give the owner their IDs to check... and are immediately denied purchase due to the records showing Dennis' criminal history and Dee having been institutionalized. | |
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Son of a Whore | |
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Son of a Whore: It becomes increasingly apparent that Charlie's mom was a prostitute throughout his childhood without him ever being the wiser. | |
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Sad Clown | |
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Sad Clown: Invoked in "The Gang Broke Dee." | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Almost everything Charlie writes is either completely illegible or completely insane, often both. The best example of this would be his song "The Nightman"—Charlie claims it is about the nightman filling him up and he becomes the spirit of the nightman, but the lyrics sound like they are more about a man breaking into his house and raping him. Later when Mac hands Dennis Charlie's lyrics, Dennis asks if it is a page from a coloring book. His musical, "The Nightman Cometh", is an equally strange tale, made worse by The Gang's poor acting and Dee's paranoia about being viewed as a pedophile. Throughout the series, The Gang attempts to make movies, video presentations, and commercials. Almost all of them are littered with bad acting and non-sequiturs, as well as sporadic snippets of clips from their previous ventures that they couldn't be bothered to erase. | |
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The Sponsor | |
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The Sponsor: Charlie's court-ordered AA meetings become a lot more voluntary when The Waitress offers to be his sponsor. Unfortunately she's only doing it to get closer to Dennis and drops Charlie when it doesn't work out. Frank becomes a sponsor, but he feels that his only responsibility is to support his charge's every whim to make him feel better. | |
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Smart Ball | |
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Smart Ball: All five of the main characters are insane idiots, but someone is bound to find the current scheme and/or actions of another character to be crazy, weird or stupid. Sometimes this goes hand-in-hand with the character saying or knowing something legitimately intelligent. In particular, Mac tends to bounce back and forth between being a bonafide Only Sane Man to the only member of the group capable of being less intelligent than Charlie. | |
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Power Dynamics Kink | |
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Power Dynamics Kink: Artemis mentions that she's slept with a lot of paraplegic guys because she "likes the power". | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Country Mac in "Mac Day". He falls from his motorcycle. He wasn't going particularly fast, or swerved or anything, he just tipped over the left some seconds after he started moving. The gang assumed he was probably going to be fine until it's revealed that it killed him. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Dennis comments that he and Dee are in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar In Philadelphia". Dee at the end of "Who Pooped The Bed?" where when Frank reveals he was the one who pooped the bed, and did so because "poop is funny". All the guys laugh about it while Dee can only shake her head and say, "I hate my life." | |
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Epic Tracking Shot | |
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Epic Tracking Shot: In "Charlie Work", Charlie has to deal with a health inspector, The Gang's new scheme and an insistent truck driver. It's an homage to True Detective. Dennis continually delivering "All right, all right, all right" in the style of Matthew McConaughey is a clue to this. | |
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Handing Over the Crap Sack | |
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Handing Over the Crap Sack: After learning his dad stole Christmas presents for him, Mac decides to apologize to one of the theft victims by returning a toy robot that had been a big fad... and now, 20 years later, is completely cheesy and outdated. Then it's subverted when it turns out Mac still wants to keep the robot, pissing the victim off even more. | |
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Beach Episode | |
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Beach Episode: "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore". Which, in true Sunny fashion, is hardly as sexy, sunny, or fun as any other show would have it. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: In "Charlie Has Cancer", Dennis and Charlie have an argument which culminates in Charlie telling Dennis that "sometimes you gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette": In the Season 12 episode "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer", Mac and Charlie try to explain why hard evidence of Maureen's death having nothing to do with Dennis was left out of an "Unsolved Mysteries" type crime documentary: | |
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Greaser Delinquents | |
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Season 3 episode "The Gang Sells Out": When a businessman offers to buy Paddy's Pub, but pulls the deal off the table after two minutes of dealing with the gang's insanity, Frank gets his "Yellow Jacket Boys" from the 1950s to help. First, they try to create the impression that there's a "seedy element" near the businessman's new prospective buy, which doesn't work because all Frank and the Yellow Jackets do is play jacks and sing. Then they try to intimidate the businessman at his house, and the allegedly "crazy" Hawky takes one step and immediately dies of a heart attack. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: The relationships on the show gradually devolve into a particularly twisted version of this, largely due to the Gang's increasingly toxic codependency. To wit: Mac is in love with Dennis, who finds him irritating but will occasionally take advantage of his feelings to manipulate him. Charlie and Dee had some Ship Tease in the early seasons, culminating in them sleeping together in "The Gang Misses the Boat" (though this is later revealed to have been non-consensual on Charlie's end). Charlie is obsessed with the Waitress, who hates him but has slept with Dennis (on whom she has an ill-advised crush), Frank and ex-Gang member Schmitty, as well as doing "hand stuff" to Mac. She does briefly enter into a relationship with Charlie while trying to get pregnant during the Time Skip between seasons 12 and 13, but breaks things off once Dennis returns. There's also plenty of Incest Subtext between both Dennis and Dee and Frank and Charlie, with the latter pair even getting married in one episode. Things are complicated even further once the parents are added into the picture. Dennis and Dee's mom Barbara had sex with Mac, leading Dennis to try and seduce both Mac and Charlie's mothers as revenge. The season two finale reveals that the twins' biological father isn't Frank but Bruce Mathis, with whom Barbara was having an affair some thirty years previous. Around the same time, Frank was also cheating on her with Bonnie Kelly, making him a likely contender for Charlie's absent father. Frank and Bonnie have an on-off sexual relationship throughout the series, and Bonnie also sleeps with Luther (Mac's dad) on at least one occasion, all while living with Mac's mom in a Les Yay filled relationship. | |
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Innocent Bystander | |
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Innocent Bystander: The unnamed guy in "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis" who constantly had bad things happen to him thanks to The Gang. | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture: In "The Storm of the Century", Dennis tries to woo a couple of attractive girls into coming to Paddy's during the titular hurricane. When they reveal that they have boyfriends, Charlie winces and turns away immediately, realizing that Dennis is about to rage at the two women, which he absolutely does. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Dennis, frequently, as he believes himself to be physically perfect and irresistible. Often pops off his shirt in order to seduce women — though frequently without success, as for example in "The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation" and "Charlie and Dee find Love". Mac has a very memorable one in the season 7 finale. Mac after getting ripped in Season 13. | |
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Date Rape | |
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Date Rape: A Running Gag for Dennis is his predilection for dates that get into a grey area for date rape. | |
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Eats Babies | |
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Eats Babies: Dee uses this as a threat in "The Hundred Dollar Baby," paraphrasing Mike Tyson. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arguably all of them. Although there's no doubt that they display extreme narcissism, they also seem to genuinely care for each other. Dennis's obsession with seeing Dee looked after when she's giving birth; Charlie and Mac wanting to step up to be fathers when they realise that none of the men Dee has dated seem to be fit parents; holding hands with one another before they think they're about to drown; their complete acceptance of Mac's homosexuality-it's rare, but sometimes they show the sliver of possibility of good nature. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Mac and Charlie spend an episode getting bullied by a pack of middle schoolers, only to finally snap and unleash a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on them. After fleeing, they suspect that they killed at least one of them. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Eventually, Mac himself. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Frank is basically this to the rest of the Gang, especially Charlie. Regardless of the few moments they crap on Frank (as they do on each other), it is unquestionable that he is a core member of the Gang and he probably has the most non-confrontational interactions with the others as a result. Especially with Charlie, with whom he both lives, is best friends with and with whom they both have their own strange little act going on. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Sweet Dee in the first season usually plays this role. Actress Kaitlin Olson managed to remove the characterization by the second season, and since then Dee has been just as dumb, belligerent and crass as the rest of the gang. But due to being the Butt-Monkey of the group she is slightly more likely to call the others out on bad behavior, but in later episodes any member of gang can play this role depending on the subject of the episode. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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"Frank's Brother" has people doubting Frank's age in the flashbacks, saying he looks much younger while it's obvious Frank looks as usual with no different makeup, just a different wig. | |
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Sleeves Are for Wimps | |
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Sleeves Are for Wimps: Nearly all of Mac's shirts are either sleeveless or made sleeveless so as to show off his guns. | |
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Hanging Around | |
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Hanging Around: Played for Black Comedy in "The Great Recession." The Gang finds Frank has hanged himself in Paddy's Pub after losing all his money in a Ponzi scheme. Not only do they not care, but his neck is too thick to break so he's just dangling there. Later, after failing at door-to-door sales he tries it again and only manages to break a light fixture. | |
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"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate | |
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"Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: Frequently employed. The Rat vs. Scorpion argument from the Cold Open of "The Gang Gets Invincible." In "The Gang Solves the Bathroom Debate," the gang spend an entire afternoon arguing about who's allowed to use which bathroom in the bar. "Reynolds v. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense" finds the gang first arguing in a mock trial set in the bar. Frank crashes into Dennis's Land Rover, and causing him to spill a bowl of cereal he happened to be eating on the dashboard; Frank argues that eating a bowl of cereal in a car is irresponsible and Dennis therefore has no right to demand reparation. They are quickly sidetracked by Mac into yet another debate on whether or not Natural Selection and Evolution is real. | |
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Of Corpse He's Alive | |
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Of Corpse He's Alive: In "Dee Gives Birth", Dennis and Dee try to get rid of an apparent corpse that gets put in Dee's hospital room by sticking sunglasses on him and tying his and Dennis's wrists together so that they wave in unison. The similarity to Weekend at Bernie's is acknowledged. Attempted with Rickety Cricket in order for the gang to save their own asses in "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell". The gang stick the headless corpse on a horse and top it with a jack o'lantern to ride casually through the town, which startles two passersby badly enough to drop the Liberty Bell. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award" is about the gang trying to get an award for their bar, but it's also about how the show has never won an Emmy. There are a number of meta-references to the show itself and the sitcom genre: Dennis suggests that Mac and Dee get some sexual chemistry, which they both find revolting. The two actors married each other behind the scenes. The gang states that Dee should be less funny and instead be boring and wholesome, because people hate funny women. This is a reference to how Dee was originally intended to be the voice of reason until Kaitlin Olson protested and made the character funnier. Charlie decides to write a song for the bar, because the bar has no song. The show uses stock classical music as its theme. Also referencing "The Nightman Cometh", where Charlie writes a musical, which is generally considered the show's best episode and the one most deserving of an award. The characters discuss the behavior of rival bars, which are all generic tropes used by mainstream sitcoms, and note how the gang does not conform to them. The gang notes that the colors are far too bright in one of the rival bars. Its patrons also react to the bartenders' goings on, laughing or saying "Awwww" in unison, and Dennis notes the weirdness of the fact that they have one black bartender surrounded by whites. Related, the Gang tries to emulate the award-winning bar by getting one Black guy, but they remind each other not to get too many, or they'll become a "Black bar." Dennis and Dee are challenged to do a Philadelphia accent and cannot do it. Neither actor is from Philly or puts on a Philly accent for the show. In fact, only Rob McElhenney actually grew up in the city, and his accent is barely discernible, having spent much of his adult life burying it. "Frank's Brother" has people doubting Frank's age in the flashbacks, saying he looks much younger while it's obvious Frank looks as usual with no different makeup, just a different wig. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: Everyone in the main cast is...pretty horrible to say the least... | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Matthew Mara (Rickety Cricket) goes from a clean-cut, mature, and successful priest to a crack-addicted street rat who has lost his mind, full use of his legs, half his larynx and his right eye. All thanks to Dee. In "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom", Charlie's plan to get revenge on Dennis and have sex with the Waitress causes her to completely break down emotionally. At the end of the episode, she enters Paddy's in a state of total hysteria (compared to the start of the episode, when she was amicable even towards Charlie), and, in a fit of manic rage, delivers one of the most infamous monologues in the series' history ("IT JUST FALLS OFF!!!!"). In a later episode, the gang tries to drive the waitress crazy so that she allows Charlie to stalk her again. | |
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Uncanny Valley Makeup | |
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Uncanny Valley Makeup: Frank gets stage makeup done by a mortician in "Frank Reynolds' Little Beauties" to hide his excessive bruises. He overdoes it, making Frank look like a living corpse. | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism | |
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Acquired Situational Narcissism: "Flowers for Charlie". The titular character falls into this trope to such an extent that he actually begins to find The Waitress unattractive. | |
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Formerly Fat | |
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Ingrid Nelson, a former friend of Dee's from school was nicknamed "Fatty Magoo" because of her obesity. Sometime between high school and her debut episode, she lost it all. Dee still desperately tries to keep the nickname going but is usually shot down by other people lampshading how it no longer makes sense. | |
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Long Song, Short Scene | |
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Long Song, Short Scene: Most of the stock music is relegated to scene transitions, only playing for a few seconds. The full songs are typically 2-3 minutes in length. | |
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It's Always Spring | |
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It's Always Spring: It's always a sunny, warm day outside, despite the fact that Philadelphia can get quite cold. The pilot for the show was titled "It's Always Sunny on Television," referencing this trope directly. Notable lampshading and subversions include: In one episode, the city braces for a huge storm bearing down on them, but the weather is still perfect, and Frank notes, "It's warm as shit!" The direct-to-DVD Christmas episode has the cast actually start wearing winter clothing, but even then the weather is still sunny. In "The Gang Beats Boggs," the gang arrives in the famously sunny Los Angeles only to note how dreary and overcast it is. So the sunny weather really is specific to Philadelphia. | |
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Incestuous Casting | |
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Incestuous Casting: Invoked a few times in-universe. Dennis and Dee play the Dayman and his love interest, respectively, in "The Nightman Cometh" (Charlie originally cast Dennis as the Nightman in an attempt to avoid this, but Mac begged him to switch parts because the Nightman gets to use karate moves). Dee and Dennis also play extras who are husband and wife in "Mac and Charlie Write a Movie," and when the Gang film Lethal Weapon 6, Dennis plays the character Riggs, who is engaged to Murtaugh's daughter, played by Dee (but Mac takes over the role before the two characters must kiss during their wedding). | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: In "Hero or Hate Crime?", the gang goes into arbitration over who gets to claim a lottery scratch-off prize; the title refers to Frank saving Mac (who was holding the ticket at the time) from a falling piano by screaming "LOOK OUT, FAGGOT!", alerting him to the danger. At the end of the episode, the lawyer hearing the case makes her decision: Mac's entitled to the money, but only if he's actually gay. He eagerly comes out and claims the winnings, and the Gang assumes that he'll go "back in" now that he has the cash. And then Mac drops a line that changes everything: "I don't know. Maybe...maybe I'll stay out. Yeah. I'm...I'm gay." | |
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Implied Rape | |
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Implied Rape: Dennis has a strategy in which he puts a girl in a situation that forces her to have sex with him and she won't say no because of the "implication". While portrayed as very creepy, this is never once referred to as rape through intimidation. Dee also has her own version of the "implication" that has her threatening her dates of False Rape Accusation unless they have sex with her. But she never uses the word rape. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Early episodes had No Budget, heavily using Paddy's and the back alley for most of the story as well as relying a lot more on conversational humor. By the second season they were doing a lot more location work with large crowds of extras as well as visual gags with props and signs. Charlie was more of an awkward loser than a semi-literate lunatic, Dee is the Only Sane Man, Dennis is vain but not a borderline sexual offender, and Mac is unambiguously heterosexual. The Episode Title Card appeared after the show's title, making one of the show's signature kind of gags practically impossible. Frank wasn't introduced until the first episode of season two. The first season had the characters more plausibly flawed individuals who find themselves getting into increasingly uncomfortable but semi-natural situations. By the third season they had ramped up into ridiculously awful behavior that makes other criminal types uncomfortable. By season six, "flawed jerks" morphed into "the most immoral and pathetic people possible" with episodes like "A Very Sunny Christmas", "Dee Gives Birth" and "Charlie Kelly: King Of The Rats". | |
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Tastes Like Disdain | |
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Tastes Like Disdain: In "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs," a montage shows Dennis throwing away a plate of Mac's "Famous Mac and Cheese," which he had cooked for every meal. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: In spite of being a perennially-intoxicated weirdo, Charlie gets several very attractive girls interested in him, but he cruelly spurns them all, usually to continue stalking the Waitress. | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation: The gang will easily get sidetracked and discuss in detail the most bizarre things, such as the difference in the gay community between bears, twinks, and "power-bottoms." Lampshaded in an episode where a reviewer describes how customers in the bar often have to serve themselves because the Gang is too busy arguing. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: A frequent occurrence within the gang as any slight against them can and usually will be met with an enormous overreaction: In "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry", Dennis gets in a fight with a local frat boy resulting in him getting tased, so he and some of the others vandalize his house, set his yard on fire, and poison him and his friends (with Dee being collateral damage on the last one) In "PTSDee", after a stripper she slept with ashamedly admits that doing so was his rock bottom, Dee feels supremely insulted. She arranges for him to give a lap dance in nothing but a thong to a young woman on her birthday, ensuring both of their faces are obscured. Midway through the dance he realizes the young woman is his daughter. Dee claims she wanted him to know what rock bottom really felt like. "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer" has Frank convincing Dennis and Dee that their mom faked her death and hid some valuables away, sending them on a search that culminates in them digging up her supposed grave to find them. Her grave does indeed contain her rotting corpse, traumatizing them both, especially Dennis. His reason for all this? They both implied earlier that he was going senile. In "The High School Reunion Part 2: The Gang's Revenge", Dennis is insulted by one of the former "cool kids" who stole his prom date, and after his attempt to sleep with the man's current wife fails spectacularly, he furiously leads the gang out to his car to retrieve his "tools" (gloves, zip ties, and duct tape) so he can get revenge. Whatever he's planning doesn't come to fruition, but the imagination runs wild given the context. "The ANTI-Social Network" has the gang get shushed by a man at a bar when having one of their trademark public arguments. Dennis and Charlie both express umbrage at this the next day and spend the entire rest of the episode trying to identify and track down the man. He happens to come into Paddy's at the end of the episode, but we never get to see what happens to him, only having Dennis tell Charlie to "lock all the exits" before the credits roll. "Dee Sinks in a Bog": When Charlie finds his real dad in Ireland, Frank becomes jealous of them spending time together. He invites the two of them for dinner, serving stew with meatballs. Charlie, suspicious that only his dad's bowl has meatballs, makes Frank try one first, being proven right when Frank spits out the turd he was attempting to make Charlie's dad eat. | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
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In "Charlie Work", Charlie for some reason keeps taking the time to slam a particular stool on the ground several times each time he walks past it. At the end of the episode, it provides a final proof of Charlie's Crazy Preparedness by falling apart when Dee sits in it—he knew she would sit on that stool. | |
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Sexy Backless Outfit | |
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Sexy Backless Outfit: Dee attempts to invoke this in "The High School Reunion" to point out the fact that she no longer has a back brace. | |
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Sassy Black Woman | |
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Sassy Black Woman: The nurse Dennis has to deal with in "Dee Gives Birth". The case worker in "Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare". | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: Mac becomes one in Season Seven, although he deludes himself into thinking he's "cultivating mass" and later drops the weight. Bill Ponderosa is a classic example, being a lazy, overweight Jerkass. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Mac imagines he obliterates ninjas with his karate while struggling to insert puns in his Bond One Liners, then ascends to a homoerotic heaven. | |
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Beauty Contest | |
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Beauty Contest: "Frank's Little Beauties" is about the eponymous child beauty pageant. | |
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Delusions of Eloquence | |
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Delusions of Eloquence: Charlie when he pretends to be a lawyer. | |
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Culturally Religious | |
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Culturally Religious: Mac is Catholic, but only so far as he gets to judge and impose his faith on others. The gang frequently call out how his own debaucherous lifestyle is not befitting a Catholic either. | |
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Multi-Part Episode | |
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Multi-Part Episode: "Mac and Charlie Die Parts 1 and 2", "The Gang Gets Whacked Parts 1 and 2", "The High School Reunion Parts 1 and 2", and "The Gang Goes to Hell Parts 1 and 2". | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker | |
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Strange-Syntax Speaker: Frank tries it in "CharDee MacDennis: The Game of Games", as part of the titular game's rules is that no one is allowed to ask questions during the game; however, there are clock stoppages where this doesn't apply: | |
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Wet Blanket Wife | |
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In the first season, Dee is more often the voice of morality and reason, at least suggesting the moral option and trying to be helpful and supportive. By the second season she becomes just as deranged and pathetic as the guys. This was amended after Kaitlin Olson wanted to do more of "the fun stuff" the boys did and not just have her character boiled down to "Awww, you guyyyys...." | |
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And Call Him "George" | |
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And Call Him "George": In "The Gang Gets Analyzed," Charlie reveals that he's carrying a dead pigeon in his coat. It wasn't dead when he put it in there, but he "might have hugged it too hard." | |
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Serial Killer Baiting | |
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Serial Killer Baiting: Played for laughs in "Mac Is a Serial Killer": Fearing that Mac is sneaking out to murder local blonde women (he's actually in a secret relationship with Carmen, a transgender woman), Dennis and Dee decide to try catching him with Dee posing as a prostitute... which ends with her nearly being recruited by a strange pimp named Pepper Jack, and Dennis having to trade a Fraggle Rock Thermos to get her back. | |
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Le Parkour | |
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Le Parkour: Rickety Cricket, of all people, has become a parkour expert after being relegated to living on the streets, for no reason that's made obvious to the viewer. | |
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No Animals Were Harmed | |
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No Animals Were Harmed: Played straight with Dennis' cat Agent Jack Bauer and Mac's dog Poppins, who seem to be immortal. | |
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Centipede's Dilemma | |
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Centipede's Dilemma: Dee has a real problem with choking during flip-cup in "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry". | |
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Mystery Meat | |
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Mystery Meat: Charlie and Dee become obsessed with the incredibly delicious meat Frank gives them. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: In the pilot, Dennis deliberately ramps up his Camp Straight tendencies in order to get more tips and attention from Paddy's gay customers. In "Charlie Has Cancer", a woman at the free clinic assumes Dennis is gay and waiting for his HIV results. In "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell," Dennis and Mac's Colonial counterparts are mistaken for "sodomites." In "The High School Reunion Part 2: The Gang's Revenge", Dennis is mistaken for gay by the woman he tries to seduce due to his makeup, girdle, and his use of an accelerated version of the D.E.N.N.I.S. system. In "Charlie and Dee Find Love," Mac is revealed on video to be greased up and wrestling with another man in a position that looks like he's being anally penetrated. Mac tries to protest, but the gang says that there's really no other way to interpret the video. | |
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Game Show Appearance | |
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Game Show Appearance: "The Gang Goes on Family Fight." | |
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No Bisexuals | |
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No Bisexuals: As Mac's Transparent Closet becomes more and more obvious, the rest of the Gang unanimously agree that he's gay. Despite him showing interest in and having sex with women in the early seasons, the possibility of him being bisexual isn't even considered. When Mac finally comes out of the closet, he's gay and not bisexual. | |
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Human Notepad | |
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Human Notepad: Charlie in "The Gang Gets Held Hostage". It's a ruse just so he can fart in Mac's face. | |
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Didn't We Use This Joke Already? | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_56c63b42 | comment |
Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: The Cold Open to "The Gang Recycles Their Trash", which is very similar to the dialogue that opens "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis". Dee even lampshades, "All of this, I've heard all of this before." This was done deliberately by the creators, who got annoyed when a few fans thought they were running out of material. | |
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Aren't You Going to Ravish Me? | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_571833a | comment |
Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Mac takes offense because their PE teacher didn't molest him. | |
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Internet Stalking | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_57a0fe29 | comment |
Internet Stalking: In season 7, after being shushed by a stranger in a local bar, Dee and Mac attempt to find him online. Dee friends him on Facebook and uses his status updates to track his whereabouts, which is an example of social media being used to actually stalk someone. | |
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Delinquents | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_59af9477 | comment |
Delinquents: Mac and Charlie were this throughout their childhood / teenage years. Flashbacks to them at the age of 8/9 show their main hobbies as throwing rocks at trains / cats and burning trash. | |
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You Are Fat | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_59b9f4df | comment |
You Are Fat: In "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore", regarding Mac: | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: In "The High School Reunion", the fact that everyone has to wear name tags means we finally find out Mac's full name. However, the high school didn't even make a name tag for the Waitress. When the Waitress calls Dennis, he asks who it is and says that he doesn't recognize the name. We cut to the Waitress talking to him, but she does not repeat her name, so it remains a mystery. | |
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Disrupting the Theater | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5a8c9252 | comment |
Disrupting the Theater: The episode "Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life" has a scene where Mac and Frank are sitting in a theater after part of their scheme to make Dennis appear to be Jon Bon Jovi's sexual advisor where they talk loudly, point a laser pointer at the screen, argue with each other, fight with another theater goer, and answer calls from Dennis to get him out of rehab. In "Charlie Kelly: King Of The Rats," Dee takes Charlie to a 3-D movie, where he spends most of the time loudly eating spaghetti and complaining that he can't understand the movie (which he's not even paying attention to). Dialed up to eleven in "Thundergun Express." When the Gang finally get to the movie, they intentionally shout and annoy other theater patrons to get them to move. Dee smells terrible from a trip through the sewers, Mac loudly brags about "hanging dong," and Dennis is busy getting a handjob from a woman he just met. Then Frank calls in a bomb threat and gets the entire movie cancelled. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: Paddy's Pub has one. The gang has used it to hide in a couple of times. It's apparently so complex that only Charlie knows his way around in it. | |
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Eyepatch of Power | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5c5d0032 | comment |
Eyepatch of Power: Discussed by Mac and Dennis who don't understand why Liam doesn't just get a regular eye-patch. | |
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Chainsaw Good | |
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Chainsaw Good: When the Gang discover Dee's neighbor has a refrigerator full of human heads, they freeze up when the fellow comes home... except for Frank, who ends the episode by revving up his chainsaw. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5d3e7c6 | comment |
Kangaroo Court: The gang seems to be under the impression that you can "call Kangaroo Court" to invalidate a trial. | |
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Sleeps with Everyone but You | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5ec27210 | comment |
Sleeps with Everyone but You: The Waitress will sleep with anyone but Charlie. It's not until the season 13 finale when they finally cross that barrier. | |
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Dissonant Serenity | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5f146203 | comment |
Dissonant Serenity: The soundtrack including the main theme is deliberately some cheery sitcom-style jingles that contrasts the insanity that goes on any given episode. The opening credits are a rather peaceful drive through the city which always follows a really depraved opening scene and setup. | |
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Courtroom Episode | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5f207a1a | comment |
Courtroom Episode: "Reynolds v. Reynolds: the Cereal Defense" (set in a fake court held in Paddy's). "The World Series Defense" and "McPoyle v. Ponderosa: Trial of the Century" (both set in an actual Courtroom). | |
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Single-Target Sexuality | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5f49ac76 | comment |
Single-Target Sexuality: Charlie feels attraction towards the Waitress and only the Waitress. He only ever pursues other women in schemes to try to make her jealous, which fail miserably. | |
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin' | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5f6c6cc1 | comment |
Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Despite blatant sabotage within the referee's field of view, anyone who hits the floor for any reason is disqualified during the dance marathon in "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off". | |
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Ski-Resort Episode | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_5f7bf4be | comment |
Ski-Resort Episode: "The Gang Hits The Slopes", as the title states, has The Gang go on a skiing vacation in the Poconos, where they find Frank's plans to buy the mountain and turn it into an exclusive resort for rich CEOs unless his old rival can beat Dennis in a race. The two subplots have Mac and Dee attempting to relive the resort's '80s glory days and Charlie hitting it off with an European model, parodying raunchy ski films of that decade. | |
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Bumbling Sidekick | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_605b8f40 | comment |
Bumbling Sidekick: Charlie, who also looks the part. | |
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Parental Incest | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_606244c2 | comment |
Parental Incest: Frank, who is probably Charlie's biological father, marries Charlie in season six (as part of a scam). Thankfully, they don't have sex. Invoked by Dee, who hires a male stripper to give a lap dance to his daughter. | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_60f992e8 | comment |
Florence Nightingale Effect: Both Dennis and Dee use this one, with Dennis telling Charlie he should let the Waitress get stabbed so he can nurse her back to her health, and Dee teaching Mac how to get Dennis dependent on him. | |
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It Tastes Like Feet | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_6159beb1 | comment |
It Tastes Like Feet: In the episode "How Mac Got Fat", a customer at Paddy's complains that his drink tastes like bleach. And it's not a case of simply using an example of something that would presumably taste bad; he's actually correct, as Charlie confirms that he is indeed dipping the glasses in bleach "to clean them faster." | |
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I Take Offense to That Last One | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_61b576af | comment |
I Take Offense to That Last One: In "The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation" when Mac walks into the bar wearing a new coat: In "The Gang Group Dates": In "The Gang Spies Like U.S.": From "Charlie Rules the World": "Charlie Gets Crippled": | |
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Car Hood Sliding | |
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Car Hood Sliding: In "Shaping Americas Youth", the gang has made a homemade Lethal Weapon sequel that contains a scene where Frank's and Dennis's characters both perform a hood slide on a car in succession. | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Dennis. | |
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Pædo Hunt | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_6220c00d | comment |
Pædo Hunt: Frank accidentally ends up agreeing to host a child beauty pageant and spends the whole episode trying to make it clear that he isn't a "diddler." It turns out the real diddler is the inspector investigating the pageant, who is arrested by the FBI at the end of the episode. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: Every one of the gang undergoes significant mental deterioration over the course of the series. Too much exposure to the gang also does this to Rickety Cricket and Maureen Ponderosa, and, to a lesser extent, the Waitress and the Lawyer. | |
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Bottle Episode | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_62907b90 | comment |
Bottle Episode: Many "CharDee MacDennis: The Game of Games" and "The Gang Solves the Bathroom Problem" are filmed entirely within the pub and with no additional characters outside of the gang. Season 10's "Charlie Work" is filmed entirely in, in front of, and behind Paddy's Pub, though with additional characters. Season 7's "The Gang Gets Trapped" is filmed almost entirely in a strange family's house that the Gang broke into in hopes of stealing a vase. Season 8's "The Gang Gets Analyzed" is filmed entirely in a psychologist's office. Season 8's "The Gang Dines Out" is filmed entirely in a restaurant. Season 11's "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century" takes place entirely at court. Part two of season 11's "The Gang Goes to Hell" takes place almost entirely in one room on a ship. Season 13's "Charlie's Home Alone" is filmed almost entirely inside the pub and on the front walkway. Season 14's "Waiting for Big Mo" takes place in only one room, the Gang's laser tag base. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: In "The Gang Saves the Day", each of the main characters imagines how they would ideally react during a convenience-store robbery. Dee's segment sees her become an acclaimed actor as part of her witness protection. We see a short clip of what is apparently the highest-rated sitcom of all time, Covington's House, and during the credits, two men are listed as "Load wipers". | |
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I Think You Broke Him | |
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I Think You Broke Him: "The Gang Broke Dee", right as Dennis is about to tell them what he thinks happened to Dee, it cuts to the episode's title card. Later in the episode, it is suggested that gang ended up breaking Dennis as well. | |
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Shoot the Fuel Tank | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_63b3597 | comment |
Shoot the Fuel Tank: Subverted when Mac and Charlie attempt to blow up Dee's car this way (or more accurately, by shooting the fuel cap) and it doesn't work. | |
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You Go, Girl! | |
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You Go, Girl!: Dee joining in on the football try outs just to prove that a girl can be more fit and capable than Mac and Dennis. She gets farther than either of them, but it didn't change their opinion of her at all. Of course, it doesn't help that she broke her foot right after revealing herself to be a girl. | |
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Politicians Kiss Babies | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_6406a19c | comment |
Politicians Kiss Babies: Parodied in an episode, where Mac tries to get a woman to give her baby to him so that Dennis can kiss it. Naturally, she's a little weirded out. | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down: Happens to Charlie. Multiple times. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: It varies between episodes, but for the most part, Charlie is sanguine, Dennis is phlegmatic, Mac is choleric, Frank is leukine, and Dee is melancholic. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: In-universe, Mac fills Lethal Weapon 5 and 6 up with so much homoerotic subtext that it gets mistaken for a gay porno. | |
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Only One Name | |
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Only One Name: Until season 7, we don't find out Mac's complete last name, much less his first. Even in the credits to "Lethal Weapon 5" he's only listed as "Mac". It's finally revealed in "The High School Reunion" to be Ronald McDonald, which explains why he prefers "Mac." | |
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Nazi Grandpa | |
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Nazi Grandpa: In "The Gang Finds a Dead Guy", Dennis and Dee's grandpa asks Charlie, whom he mistakes for Dennis, to get his old army uniform while spouting antisemitic curses. He shows up again in "Pop-Pop: The Final Solution", when Dee and Dennis find old home videos of him bringing them to the summer camp they attended every year, realizing it was a summer camp for neo-Nazi children. | |
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Balloonacy | |
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Balloonacy: Charlie fantasizes about having his house getting lifted up by balloons in "The Gang Saves the Day." | |
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We Hardly Knew Ye | |
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Hawkey of the Yellow Jacket Boys. | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm | |
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Charlie's preferred solution to dealing with a journalist he kidnapped — knock him out with a bottle, inducing Easy Amnesia about the whole thing. The rest of the gang aren't convinced that that's how it works. It isn't. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: In "Mac and Charlie: White Trash", with the entire gang (save for Frank, who's fine being lower class) becoming obsessed with coming off as classy and sophisticated. At the public pool, Dennis and Dee are trying to relax: In the episode "Frank Sets Sweet Dee On Fire", Dee is trying to become famous for being a "dirty drunken whore [like Paris Hilton]" by club-hopping every night. Dennis, however, is the one who builds a reputation around the Philadelphia clubs, and thus proposes to use his connections to make Dee famous: Several episodes incorporate a Gilligan cut as a Smash Cut to the title card after the Cold Open: | |
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Coax Them Out of the Closet | |
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Coax Them Out of the Closet: Mac is an Armored Closet Gay who sometimes seems to be trying to coax himself out with his constant double entendres and euphemisms. The rest of the Gang tries to get him to admit it for years. In "The Gang Goes To Hell Part 1," he tries to tell a gay couple that being gay is a sin and they manage to coax him out in about five minutes (though he goes right back in the next episode before coming out once and for all in "Hero Or Hate Crime?"). | |
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Room Full of Crazy | |
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Room Full of Crazy: Charlie pulls one together when he goes crazy working for an office in "Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack". | |
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Episode Title Card | |
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Episode Title Card: Often used for gags, as the title will either quote the preceding dialogue almost verbatim ("Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass") or reveal the Foregone Conclusion to what the gang has just discussed. | |
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Hidden Wire | |
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Hidden Wire: Charlie wears one during his Serpico shtick in "Bums: Making a Mess All over the City". The problem is that it's just a normal, full-size tape recorder with a normal, full-size microphone attached to it. | |
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Death by Falling Over | |
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Death by Falling Over: When Frank sucker-punches Bobby, his old boxing rival, Bobby's fall knocks over his own daughter, and she lands neck-first on a wooden stool (with a loud cracking sound), presumably ending up paralyzed at best. Country Mac ends his appearance by taking a swig of his beer and riding into the distance on his motorcycle before tipping off the bike and falling to the ground. He's going slow enough that the gang speculate out loud that he seems to have taken a bit of a spill, but he should be okay. Smash Cut to his funeral... | |
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Ivy League for Everyone | |
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Ivy League for Everyone: Dennis and Dee went to University of Pennsylvania. Dennis graduated. Dee did not. "The Lawyer" attended Harvard Law. | |
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Wearing a Flag on Your Head | |
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Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Charlie wears an American flag bandana in "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass". | |
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Fake Band | |
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Fake Band: Electric Dream Machine and Chemical Toilet from "Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person". | |
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Deconstructive Parody | |
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Deconstructive Parody: Of the traditional Sitcom. A notable example is the Flanderization, which is justified in-universe as every member of the Gang is a delinquent at best and are so co-dependent on one another that their terribleness feeds into one another, further degenerating their characters. It doesn't help that they all have drug problems, mainly alcoholism. The usual sitcom jokes that rely on Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male and Double Standard Rape: Female on Male are averted and occasionally deconstructed. Dee is as frequent a victim of Slapstick shenanigans as her male friends, and her sexual offenses, along with those of her male counterparts, are not excused at all. Also, the double standard of victimization are treated seriously for some of the characters, such as Charlie and Dennis. Episodes such as "The Gang Tries To Win An Award" and "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" are more direct shots at stereotypical sitcoms and mock Laugh Tracks and other sitcom clichés. Charlie's pining for the Waitress can be seen as a deconstruction of the standard Will They or Won't They? subplot in sitcoms. The relationship itself is one-sided on Charlie's part as the Waitress genuinely hates Charlie, and Charlie, not getting the hint, goes out of his way to stalk the Waitress and even invade her home. When they do get together in Season 12, it is incredibly short-lived because Charlie is unwilling to invest time in raising a child, which implies that his love for her is rather shallow. Of Status Quo Is God and Negative Continuity. The status quo will be enforced no matter what, but the characters either can’t stand it or find some relief that they don’t have to try/be on their own, and the bad events aren’t actually forgotten. Cricket’s life gets worse and the Gang don’t take responsibility for it ever, Maureen and Bill get their own Sanity Slippage after coming into contact with them, Dee is still suicidal even after season nine, the twofer of Rape as Backstory revealed and nightmare with Mac in the suburbs makes Dennis dissociate more, Charlie increasingly resents his mom for smothering him while she ignores Uncle Jack’s creepiness, and Mac gets needier as he struggles with his sexuality and religion. | |
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Drama Bomb Finale | |
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Drama Bomb Finale: Since season eleven, the finale for each season tends to showcase the Gang’s tragic side. “The Gang Goes To Hell� with them all deciding to die together, “Dennis’s Double Life� with Dennis’s failed attempt at being a better father than Frank, “Mac Finds His Pride� with Mac’s dance, “Waiting For Big Mo� retaining the melancholy of Waiting for Godot, “The Gang Carries A Corpse Up A Mountain� with Charlie crying and “Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day� with Continuity Porn over Dennis’s systems and sexual trauma. | |
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Like an Old Married Couple | |
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Like an Old Married Couple: Mac and Dennis are described this way In-Universe. In "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs", the two get a house together and act like a couple who's marriage is crumbling. There's even a scene when Mac confronts Dennis on where he was during the day, not unlike a spouse accusing the other of cheating on them. | |
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Heroic Comedic Sociopath | |
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Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The entire group, with Dennis in particular. Though, the "heroic" part is usually accidental. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
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Extreme Omnivore: Mac's old dog Poppins eats cigarette butts, shampoo and cough syrup, and Dennis wouldn't put bronzer past him either. Frank and Charlie eat newspapers, credit cards and wolf hair. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag: Mac is portrayed as an Armored Closet Gay who uses homophobia in a flimsy attempt to deny his own homosexuality. Rob McElhenney's mother is a lesbian and his childhood was split between being raised by his father and his mother and her partner. His two younger brothers are also gay. Dennis is a sociopathic, vain narcissist whose self-worth outweighs any actual intelligence. Glenn Howerton is a Juilliard graduate who considered a career in Aerospace Engineering before deciding to go into acting. Frank is a greedy, gun-happy, cutthroat Republican businessman. Danny DeVito is a Bernie Sanders-supporting progressive who's consistently endorsed him in all of his runs for public office and has frequently been a campaign surrogate for him, in addition to his philanthropy for small theatres. One character called the Waitress is Charlie's single-minded obsession; he's a Stalker with a Crush who constantly badgers her for dates. The Waitress, in turn, is rude, sarcastic, and dismissive of Charlie, often openly flirting with his friends to get revenge on him or simply treating him like dirt, although he never gets the hint. Charlie is played by Charlie Day, and the Waitress is played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis. The two have been Happily Married since 2006 (a year after the show began) and have a child together. In a similar vein, Mac (played by Rob McElhenney) often bullies Dee (played by Kaitlin Olson), the Butt-Monkey of the Paddy's Pub gang, and the two of them are frequently at each other's throats. When they're asked to act out a Will They or Won't They? scenario to entice customers they very adamantly have no chemistry. In real life, the pair started dating while appearing on the show together and have since gotten married and have had two children as well. Charlie is a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan while Charlie Day himself is actually a fan of the New England Patriots, making the events of "Charlie's Home Alone" and "The Gang Wins the Big Game" very ironic. | |
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Oddly Small Organization | |
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Oddly Small Organization. The foursome plus Frank appear to be the only employees of Paddy's. Somewhat justified by their Perpetual Poverty and the bar is said to never turn a profit, any reason they are still in business is explained by Frank's Arbitrarily Large Bank Account. | |
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Coming-Out Story | |
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Coming-Out Story: Subverted in "The Gang Goes To Hell". Played straight in "Hero or Hate Crime?" | |
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Visions of Another Self | |
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Visions of Another Self: The gang's made-up story of themselves in revolutionary times in "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell." Among other things, Dee is enslaved to Dennis as a witch. | |
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Stealth Hi/Bye | |
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An executive for the chain restaurant trying to buy out Paddy's Pub. After learning his orientation, the gang concludes that he must be a "bear" and then launch into a graphically detailed discussion of gay culture, leading to a Stealth Hi/Bye on the part of the executive. | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
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One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Occasionally the show will get some mileage from a sustained misunderstanding that continues during a conversation and persists long after a conversation has concluded. In "The Gang Gets Racist", Terrell gets a whole monologue about an experience he had at a club, in which he met a Latino man who was giving "the crazy eyes", so Terrell "made the first move", took him to the back alley, and "tore his ass apart". The gangs walk away thinking that Terrell is a Scary Black Man, when really Terrell is just describing when he had sex with a strange man in an alley. In "The Gang Spies Like U.S.", Charlie knows neither that Mac and Dennis are stealing the Chinese fish factory's Wi-Fi, nor that "cream pie" is also a name for a sex act (and therefore a search term for pornography). He therefore comes to the conclusion that Mac and Dennis are planning on starting a bakery with the Chinese and asks them why they haven't asked them to make cream pies with him instead. Then he starts talking about feeding his cream pies to children... | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: An elderly, African-American bit character debuts in Season 11, and since no one knows his name, Dennis calls him "Old Man" and Mac calls him "Black Man". Eventually, the name "Old Black Man" sticks. Artemis accusing Dee of being the culprit in "Who Pooped the Bed?": | |
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In-Series Nickname | |
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In-Series Nickname: "Sweet Dee" for Dee. Charlie gets a janitor job at a local high school in season six; the students take to calling him Professor. Mac is a nickname; his real full name is Ronald McDonald. Mac, Charlie and Dee had derisive nicknames from the popular kids in high school; Mac was Ronnie the Rat (because he was a "narc"), Charlie was Dirtgrub (because of his poor hygiene), and Dee was the Aluminium Monster (because of her back brace). "Rickety Cricket" came about due to his having had loud, rickety leg braces as a kid; the gang are naturally the only people who still call him this, to the total exclusion of his real name, Matthew Mara. Ingrid Nelson, a former friend of Dee's from school was nicknamed "Fatty Magoo" because of her obesity. Sometime between high school and her debut episode, she lost it all. Dee still desperately tries to keep the nickname going but is usually shot down by other people lampshading how it no longer makes sense. | |
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Jerkass Ball | |
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Jerkass Ball: Charlie at the end of "Charlie and Dee Find Love". After revealing his romance with Ruby was a gambit to get the Waitress to lift her restraining order, which is in-character for him, he then, for no real reason, kicks the sobbing Ruby while she's down by high-handedly berating her for acting like a rich slut in front of all her family and friends. Not only was Ruby the picture of sweetness, Charlie's usually portrayed as the most moral and compassionate of the group by far. | |
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Token Minority | |
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The very first episode ("The Gang Gets Racist"), after Mac, Charlie, and Dennis meet Dee's friend Terrell, who is a promoter: | |
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Arc Words: "The joke's on me" in "The Gang Broke Dee." | |
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Herr Doktor | |
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Herr Doktor: Dr. Albert Zimmerman in the episode "Psycho Pete Returns", who treated Frank at the "nitwit farm", speaks with a German accent and exhibits many qualities of this trope. | |
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Tar and Feathers | |
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Tar and Feathers: "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell". | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Even Danny Devito pointed out how much sexual tension is between Dennis and Dee, and notably in season six, the squick about sleeping together turns into both treating him like he’s the father anyway. | |
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All-American Face | |
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All-American Face: Invoked in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops"; Mac, Charlie, and Dennis plan to go on stage as eagle-men or "Birds of War" and defeat Foreign Wrestling Heel terrorist, Talibum. The audience is underwhelmed by their performance, and Cricket manages to defeat them all. The audience does get behind Frank when he appears as a literal Garbage Wrestler and defeats Talibum. | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Dennis also tries to use it in "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" between Jack and Bonnie Kelly (the fact that they're siblings does not deter him). He tries to turn it into a Love Triangle once Frank gets involved. Needless to say, Dennis seems to be a big fan of this trope. | |
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People's Republic of Tyranny | |
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In "Sweet Dee has a Heart Attack", after learning that the government doesn't pay for health care, Charlie and Mac remark that they might as well be living in a Communist, Socialist dictatorship, because free healthcare has always been a totally American concept? | |
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Phrase Catcher | |
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Phrase Catcher: Nearly everyone in the Gang has shouted "Goddamn it, Charlie!" during his inevitable moments of stupidity. Likewise, anyone who's upset at Dee (even for something that's clearly not her fault) is quite likely to say something along the lines of "Dee, you bitch!" | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: According to The Other Wiki, the character of Green Man and the setting for his introduction in "The Gang Gets Invincible." Rob McElhenney said that the idea for Green Man came about when, after attending a Philadelphia Eagles game, a friend of his suddenly stripped down and donned a green lycra bodysuit in the middle of the parking lot. He ran around the lot and gave everyone he came across a high five, which created a huge outburst of excitement, as everyone wanted to be photographed with the man. This event prompted chants of "Green Man! Green Man!", which supposedly went on for several hours, and inspired McElhenney to incorporate the character into the show somehow. Kaitlin Olson's pregnancy was explained as Dee reviving her effort to become a surrogate mother for cash. | |
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The Oldest Profession | |
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The Oldest Profession: Dennis temporarily works as a prostitute in "The Gang gets whacked" Dee is mistaken for a prostitute by a pimp named Pepper Jack in "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire". Charlie's mom is a (former) prostitute. Frank frequents prostitutes (or, as he pronounces it, "hoors") and attempts to marry one of his prostitutes in "Frank's Pretty Woman." | |
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Stout Strength | |
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Stout Strength: Asserted by Mac in Season 7 when he gains 70 pounds of fat and says that the extra bulk makes him more powerful. He claims to be "cultivating mass." In Season 8, he's very disappointed to have lost the weight. | |
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Sanity Ball | |
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Dennis probably takes on this role most often while Charlie is least likely to get the Sanity Ball. | |
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Mistaken for Racist | |
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Mistaken for Racist: "The Gang Gets Racist" has the gang encounter Dee's new black friend and constantly blunder into racially insensitive statements, only to immediately cringe at the realization. In "The Gang Goes Jihad," the gang constantly police each other's statements so that they don't come across as anti-semites, even though there's no one else around to hear them. The B plot in "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" Dee and Charlie are trying to decide which body to eat at the morgue and they worry about being racist because they both think the white guy looks tastier. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
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All Love Is Unrequited: Charlie loves the Waitress who couldn't care less about him. The Waitress has a crush on Dennis who couldn't care less about her. Rickety Cricket loves Dee who couldn't care less about him. Sense a pattern here? | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: The episode "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops" opens with the gang watching a WWF wrestling match and expressing their fandom for the wrestlers of the '80s, mentioning many real-life WWF wrestlers. Later in the episode, Dennis, Mac, and Charlie attend a local amateur wrestling show and hire the star of the show, Da'Maniac, to be in their own show. Da'Maniac is played by professional wrestler Roddy Piper, who was very big in the '80s. Despite this, he is treated like a completely different person. In the Season 6 Episode "The Gang Buys a Boat," Mac and Dennis want to throw some "P Diddy-style parties" on their boat. Dee creates a "P Diddy boat dance" while listening to the Notorious B.I.G. song "Mo Money Mo Problems," which Diddy (then known as Puff Daddy) was featured in. However, in the Season 8 episode "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer," Sean "Diddy" Combs appears as a guest actor, playing Dr. Jinx, a church gardener who claims to be a practitioner of homeopathic herbal medicine. The tie-in book has Mac mention how awesome Arnold Schwarzenegger was in "that movie where the weird-looking little guy played his twin brother". That "weird-looking little guy" plays Frank. | |
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"Rashomon"-Style | |
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In "Who Got Dee Pregnant?", the gang tries to find out the answer to the title by a recalling events from Halloween night, leading to a "Rashomon"-Style series of stories. Mac remembers being more of a badass who helped Charlie beat up on a dude. Dennis remembers the peacock lady being more interested in him and scoring with her and Charlie thinks he made out with The Waitress. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Dee, in her mother's eyes. She claims in her will that Dee was "a mistake," while the same will speaks highly of Dennis. Dee lampshades the fact that this makes no sense, since she and Dennis are twins. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Frank insults Dennis' nose: | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: The waitress really has a drinking problem. Presumably Artemis, who says that she doesn't remember most evenings in "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" Dee's high school drama teacher. The only reason he was so inspirational back then was because he was drunk all the time, and he's lost any charm or drive he used to have, as Dee discovers. The gang notes that Country Mac is never without a can of beer in his hand that he drinks from. They suspect that's probably why he fell from his motorcycle which ended up killing him. The entire gang, minus Frank, realize that they're alcoholics who will go through terrible withdrawals if they stop drinking. Being drunk is their normal state. | |
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Wacky Marriage Proposal | |
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Wacky Marriage Proposal: Charlie's musical "The Nightman Cometh" turns out to be one of these (to the Waitress, of course). Three guesses as to how she answers. | |
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Outlaw Couple | |
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Outlaw Couple: Dee and Dennis have dressed up as serial killers to stalk the waitress (he wants to actually kill and she admits just stalking is not as fun), kidnapped, terrorised and robbed people (accidentally, but neither feel guilty about it) and have a few twisted Friendship Moments about both being rapists. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Dee Gives Birth:" | |
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Air Quotes | |
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Air Quotes: The very first episode ("The Gang Gets Racist"), after Mac, Charlie, and Dennis meet Dee's friend Terrell, who is a promoter: Mac, in the Season 1 episode "Underage Drinking: A National Concern", attempting to justify serving alcohol to teens at Paddy's: | |
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Continuity Cavalcade | |
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Continuity Cavalcade: "The High School Reunion" is just wall-to-wall references to past episodes, bringing back a lot of one-off characters and referencing things that happened before the series and the like. In "Thunder Gun Express," Frank tells a number of stories of events from previous episodes to a boat full of Asian tourists. "The Gang Recycles Their Trash" is entirely based on continuity nods. The gang starts rehashing their old jokes, causing Dee to keep asking, "Haven't we done this before?" In response, the the gang starts actively recreating some of their past schemes. Many of the jokes from past episodes are recreated with a new twist. "Frank Falls Out the Window" features a range of references to previous episodes. Frank and Charlie make Grilled Charlies and Rum Ham before Frank falls out the window and thinks that it's 2006. The gang tries to reenact scenes from early episodes with a new twist to convince Frank that it's still 2006 and get him to give them all his money. Frank gets flashbacks to the original scenes until he finally figures out that it's the present day. | |
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Extreme Omnisexual | |
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Extreme Omnisexual: Frank is now attracted to pumas, but is no longer attracted to mules. | |
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Foreign Wrestling Heel | |
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Foreign Wrestling Heel: In "The Gang Wrestles For The Troops," Rickety Cricket gets the persona of "America's most hated terrorist, the Talibum!" He quickly Becomes The Mask, knocking Dee down with a chair as she sings a pre-match song and taking down Dennis and Charlie by throwing handfuls of sand in their eyes. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Dee's theater friend, Artemis, normally and while acting. This causes Dee to initially mistake a melodramatic but real breakdown for a line-reading. Charlie: "The Nightman Cometh" is just a smorgasbord of ham. Especially with Mac — he doesn't chew the scenery as much as devour it. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The season 10 finale, "Ass Kickers United," ends with Jojo floating through space on the back of a giant turtle, a Call-Back to the season 8 episode "Charlie Rules the World" in which Frank states that we could all just be "a turtle's dream in outer space." | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
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Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: All of the main characters have Skewed Priorities to the extreme, and will go down wild tangents based on how it affects them. You feel sorry for the serial killer who crosses paths with the gang. The only positive side is that they are generally horrible to each other and the mistreatment of innocent people is framed as horrible too, and more often the main characters end up the butt of the joke. | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay: Dee's friend from acting class who acts as Paddy's promoter in the pilot. An executive for the chain restaurant trying to buy out Paddy's Pub. After learning his orientation, the gang concludes that he must be a "bear" and then launch into a graphically detailed discussion of gay culture, leading to a Stealth Hi/Bye on the part of the executive. Mac's cousin Mac turns out to be gay, much to the collective acceptance of The Gang. Well, everybody except Mac. Eventually, Mac himself. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: At least 80% of the episode titles. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
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Inherently Funny Words: "RUM HAM!" Whenever child molestation comes up, the show tends to use the word "diddle". Supposedly to undercut how heavy the topic is. | |
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Dramatic Thunder | |
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Dramatic Thunder: In "The Gang Goes to Hell", Dennis pursues a young woman on a cruise ship, but he comes off more as a stalker/rapist than anything. When he finally talks to the girl, he flirts with her in a hallway and tells her things like "I've been watching you" and "There's nowhere to go", all while a violent storm punctuates everything he says. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: In "Mac and Charlie Die" (part 1) the two characters attempt to destroy a car with a hand grenade. It doesn't even come close, as hand grenades are for anti-personnel purposes, not high-yield explosives. They then buy a handgun and try to Shoot the Fuel Tank, which they are stunned to see has no effect other than leaving a few bullet holes in the car body. | |
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Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight | |
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Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Mac argues that his sword is a better weapon than a pistol because he will dodge incoming fire as he approaches for a slash. Charlie shows that he can defeat that tactic simply by moving his pistol slightly. | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug | |
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Incredibly Obvious Bug: "Is that a baby monitor?" Charlie's Serpico-inspired wire is a tape recorder duct-taped to his chest and a full-size microphone sitting in front of him. It fools precisely nobody. | |
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Badass Biker | |
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Country Mac ends his appearance by taking a swig of his beer and riding into the distance on his motorcycle before tipping off the bike and falling to the ground. He's going slow enough that the gang speculate out loud that he seems to have taken a bit of a spill, but he should be okay. Smash Cut to his funeral... | |
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Super Identikit | |
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Super Identikit: A police sketch artist draws a perfect picture of a guy Dennis and Charlie are trying to track down in "The ANTI-Social Network". The astonishing thing is that the pair were describing the guy with blurbs like "He had an annoying nose. It was the kind of nose you just want to smack." | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: The episode "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore", made during the height of Jersey Shore, immediately sets up the viewer to believe there will be several Take Thats at the guido lifestyle portrayed in the aforementioned show. In fact, the actual episode has nothing to do with this and actually portrays guidos as heroic, friendly and good-natured in their sole appearance in the episode, instead focusing on all the other horrors of the Shore. In "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre", it looks like Ryan McPoyle is giving Liam McPoyle oral sex, but it turns out he was just groveling. | |
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer: In "Thunder Gun Express". Dee gets trapped and ends up being drenched in shit. Referenced in "Dee Gives Birth" when Frank and Charlie admit to going in the sewer frequently to look for treasure, grossing out Dennis and Mac. In "The Gang Gets Held Hostage" we see the air ducts above Paddy's Pub are incredibly complex, even containing Charlie's hideaway the 'Bad Room'. | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: In an isolation tank, Dennis has a vision of a British version of himself imparting wisdom. A scene later, he bursts into Dee's apartment using a different and really awful British accent. The rest of the gang stop him and ask what accent he's trying to do. Dennis admits that it sounded better in his head. In "Char Dee Mac Denis 2: Electric Boogaloo," Level 2 requires the players to spin a globe and speak in the accent of wherever they land for the entire round. Mac and Charlie land on Brazil and can't do it so they end up doing one that sounds more like Los Angeles Mexican. Dennis and Dee get Philadelphia and not only is Dee's accent not even close to Philadelphia, it doesn't sound like anything real. | |
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Fetishes Are Weird | |
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Fetishes Are Weird: Subverted in the season seven premiere. Dee hangs outs with Frank's fiancee, a hooker named Roxy, and is extremely impressed to find out that Tiger Woods is a client of hers. Then, Dee finds out that the client isn't actually Tiger Woods, and is just a random black guy who likes "foot shit". Dee's disgusted at first... until Roxy reveals how much "Tiger Woods" pays her just to rub her feet. This makes Dee instantly decide to become a "foot girl", which she proudly says to the Gang at the end. They more or less react like they would to anything Dee says. | |
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Make the Dog Testify | |
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Make the Dog Testify. In "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century", Charlie calls the McPoyle family bird to the stand to prove it's the true culprit. His attempts to make it testify fail, but it does get the case thrown out when it attacks The Lawyer in the middle of the courtroom. | |
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Sucks at Dancing | |
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Sucks at Dancing: Dee in "The Gang Buys a Boat" when she shows off her P. Diddy boat dance and Mac tells her she looks like an inflatable tube man at a used car lot, but she thinks it's awesome. | |
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Finger-Snapping Street Gang | |
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Finger-Snapping Street Gang: In the episode "The Gang Sells Out", after Frank gets back together his childhood gang to try to dissuade a restaurant chain from buying a rival property, they are shown snapping their fingers in unison a few times. Rather than making them look intimidating, it's done to highlight how out-of-touch and old the gang members have become, to the point that families mistake them for performers and give them cash. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: The Gang consist of incredibly mean-spirited, selfish, sociopathic assholes who make everyone they interact with miserable and engage in depraved schemes for their own benefit or amusement. Dennis in particular stands out, being a implied Serial Rapist. | |
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Chemically-Induced Insanity | |
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Chemically-Induced Insanity: Frank ODs on a number of mental medications, leading to him wandering the street in soiled pants. He then gets taken to a mental ward (an Actor Allusion, as Danny DeVito was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Once the medication wears off, he breaks out. | |
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Cerebus Retcon | |
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Cerebus Retcon: Dennis getting pimped out by Frank was already a Black Comedy Rape in-episode, but later seasons show it was a re-traumatising experience for him, having a fear of older women in sexual situations, making the stripper music as his bedroom prison music, and already being at least groomed by one parent. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Charlie, for the Waitress. The Waitress herself, for Dennis. He says that he has to keep changing his number but she always finds out his new one. | |
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Underdressed for the Occasion | |
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Underdressed for the Occasion: The gang shows up at a funeral in their everyday casual wear because Frank told them they were going to a barbecue. Mac's idea of formalwear is to wear a tie over a short-sleeve polo shirt. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
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Creepy Doll: The life size Sex Doll which Mac purchases and dresses to resemble Dennis after he leaves the show between seasons. In spite of its unblinking eyes and constantly agape mouth, several characters overcome their repulsion toward it and engage in sexual relations with it or hallucinate conversations with it. | |
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One-Hour Work Week | |
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One-Hour Work Week: Throughout the show, the Gang is often outside the pub to pursue their various shenanigans, leaving the viewers wondering who is running Paddy's. The answer comes with "The Gang Sells Out", in which the executive mentions he was in the pub, but the owner's weren't, and the guests seemed to be pouring their own beer. Dennis confirms this is what they do because they are very busy. | |
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Holy Burns Evil | |
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Holy Burns Evil: In "The Gang Goes to Hell," Frank's cross necklace burns his skin, causing the gang to wonder whether he's pure evil. It turns out that Mac put battery acid on the back to convince Frank to change his godless ways. | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: Pepper Jack, a pimp that appears in "Mac Is a Serial Killer". | |
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Chaotic Stupid | |
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Chaotic Stupid: When the gang determined that Charlie is the "Wild Card" of the group, Charlie took it as a cue to go completely insane. Not that he had far to go. | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: Charlie, who often comes off as the nicest/most innocent member of the Gang, at the end of "Charlie and Dee Find Love," reveals that he was only dating a girl to make the Waitress jealous, and does so very publicly and insults her considerably. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Dennis' Double Life Charlie sleeps with the waitress and realizes it's not everything he hoped for. Dennis may be gone from the gang for good after leaving to raise his son. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: On the odd occasion the gang pulls off any kind of win, it's almost always against someone who's even more loathsome than they are. | |
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Booze Flamethrower | |
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Booze Flamethrower: In "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis", Mac and then Charlie do this with mouthfuls of gasoline. | |
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Lies to Children | |
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Lies to Children: "A Very Sunny Christmas" reveals that Mac's and Charlie's families had very interesting "Christmas traditions". Mac's family would have to go to a strange house and open all the gifts and leave before the family who lived there could catch them (this was Mac's father's rationalization for why there were never presents at the Mac household—another family had stolen theirs in a big loop) and several Santas would come to cheer up Charlie's mother on Christmas morning (read: customers seeking Mrs. Kelly for her services as a prostitute). | |
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Self-Serving Memory | |
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Self-Serving Memory: In "Who Got Dee Pregnant?", the gang tries to find out the answer to the title by a recalling events from Halloween night, leading to a "Rashomon"-Style series of stories. Mac remembers being more of a badass who helped Charlie beat up on a dude. Dennis remembers the peacock lady being more interested in him and scoring with her and Charlie thinks he made out with The Waitress. Dennis wasn't as popular back in high school as he thought he was, mainly because he'd claim to be a golden god (metaphorically speaking) while having nothing to back up his claim. In "Underage Drinking: A National Concern", he calls the rest of the gang out for over-romanticizing their high school experiences. The gang dances at the end of "High School Reunion 2". At first, we see a choreographed dance number. Then it cuts to how they're actually dancing and it looks like a chaotic mess. They are later surprised that no one else liked their dance. | |
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Theme Twin Naming | |
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Theme Twin Naming: Dennis and Deandra Reynolds. According to Frank, there was a third twin named Donnie, but Dee and Dennis absorbed him in the womb. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: On "A Very Sunny Christmas," Frank blacks out after crashing his car and imagines himself in a Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas special world. Again in "The Gang Saves The Day": Charlie's fantasy is completely animated, inspired by Pixar and parodying Up. | |
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Five-Man Band | |
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Five-Man Band: Lampshaded throughout "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis" as the gang argues over which role they fill in the band. The final version: Dennis is The Looks, Charlie is The Wild Card, Frank is The Muscle, Mac is The Brains, and Dee is The Useless Chick. | |
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You Keep Using That Word | |
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You Keep Using That Word: Dee accuses Charlie of this in "The Nightman Cometh," regarding his use of the word metaphor. The live version of their dialogue had her saying this verbatim. | |
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Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim | |
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Beautiful Sexual Assault Victim: Zig-Zagged in "Charlie Got Molested." Mac is offended when he learns that Charlie and the McPoyle twins were molested by their Creepy Gym Coach, but he was "passed over," since he was way cuter than any of them as a child. He even goes as far as trying to seduce the coach as a way to validate himself. However, Mac does some research and learns that sexual abuse often has far more to do with power and vulnerability than the victim's attractiveness. The gang later finds out that the whole molestation story was a Blackmail scheme created by the McPoyles—not that anyone would have wanted to molest Charlie, who was rather deranged and off-putting as a child. In "The Gang Buys a Boat," Dennis describes how he'll seduce women with his new boat, but his plan is just increasingly blatant Sexual Extortion. An old woman standing nearby looks on in horror, causing him to scoff and say "Don't you look at me like that. You certainly wouldn't be in any danger." | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Dennis experiences these a few times. When he's rejected by his old fraternity, he becomes increasingly unhinged, screaming in harsh falsetto that they're all "idiots!" and he's "a goddamn legend!" When he's rejected by the wife of the man who had sex with his prom date at his high school reunion, he rushes out to his car fetches items including ropes and duct tape. When questioned, he begins screaming that he needs his "tools" and that he needs to "bind and be bound." When he discovers that he's getting lower and lower rates in a dating website, he increasingly becomes obsessed in a quest of affirmation as a “five-star man.� He coaxes his dates into giving him good rates (effectively scaring them away), tries to apologize to the waitress (and ends up insulting her), and finally storms at Paddy's like crazy, shouting all the girls out since he doesn't need their approval. Reaches its terrifying apex in "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs." The titular scenario eventually drives Dennis to utter insanity, to the point where he is genuinely prepared to kill Mac in a blind rage because he can't deal with him anymore. | |
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Heel Realization | |
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Dennis has one after he decides to abandon his child. He then realizes that he would just be perpetuating another cycle of hurting and decides to leave Philadelphia to raise his son. | |
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Wild Card | |
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Wild Card: Charlie. Made explicit in "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis." | |
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Tuckerization | |
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Tuckerization: Many characters in the initial seasons were named for friends and acquaintances of the creators: Dennis Reynolds was named in honor of several friends of Rob McElhenny, two named Dennis and one with the surname of Reynolds. The McPoyles were named after a friend of Charlie Day. He's expressed remorse that the characters have become so infamous and sullied the name. Sweet Dee's name was taken from Tom Morello's nickname for his wife Denise, whom McElhenny met at a party. The real Sweet Dee was not happy about it, and McElhenny has said he had no idea the character would become so famous and has felt years of regret for stealing her name. | |
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Vulgar Humor | |
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Vulgar Humor: For a while their ads for the show featured people simply listing off every single offensive and taboo topic that has been shown on the series, ending with the reader saying that they most certainly would never want to watch it. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare" has Frank who's managed to get stuck inside of a playground coil that he can't get out of (which everyone understandably asks how that happened), but never has it explained just how he got into it. What is the Waitress's real name? Or the Lawyer's? Or the waiter at Gugino's? | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: No one in the gang willingly admits their mistakes, often resulting in Insane Troll Logic to dance around it. The episode "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" has the group attempt to resolve lingering rivalries and conflicts with other characters, which had somewhat good intentions but trying to do it with so many people at once and insisting that all their encounters were equal resulted in chaos. | |
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Idiot Savant | |
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Idiot Savant: Charlie in many episodes. It's occasionally revealed that underneath Charlie's dopey exterior is a Jerkass Magnificent Bastard. In "Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person," he's a musical prodigy. He writes an entire musical in a later episode. He engineers a series of gambits in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom," "Charlie Has Cancer" and "Charlie and Dee Find Love" in efforts to bang the Waitress. In "The Gang Exploits a Miracle," he becomes an effective Charismatic preacher. In "Charlie Rules the World," Charlie becomes the most powerful player in an MMO, turns Dee into his personal slave and nearly takes control of Paddy's Pub. In "Charlie and Dee Find Love", Dennis—in what seems to be one of the few benevolent moments in his character arc—keeps an eye on Charlie's budding relationship for fear that the rich girl Charlie met is using him for some cruel prank, when it turns out she honestly loved Charlie, and Charlie was actually using her as part of an underhanded plan to get with the Waitress. In "Charlie Work", he manages to figure out the Gang's newest overly convoluted scheme just based on context clues and past experience with them, after which he manages to get a near-perfect score for the health inspection despite the state the bar is in thanks to the current scheme, help them accomplish their scheme, as well as give Dee payback for ruining the perfect score all at the same time. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
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Rewatch Bonus: In "The D.E.N.N.I.S. System", Dennis tells Charlie to win a prize at the Waitress' carnival booth (where she works) and give it to "the bustiest woman [he] can find" (on the grounds that "[his] indifference to the Waitress will only make [him] more attractive to her"). When they get to the fair, it turns out that there are no prizes at her booth, and we find out that Charlie instead, again at Dennis' behest, paid a carny to stab the Waitress so he could save her. It's possible to miss the fact that the Waitress having a booth with no prizes forced Dennis to make an adjustment to the plan, presumably off-screen, on one's first view of the episode. "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" is even funnier upon rewatch because you know that Dee's lying about one of the Gang being the father of her child. In "A Cricket's Tale", Rickety Cricket hallucinates that a full grown dog is a beautiful human woman named Belle. He falls in love with her, and at the end of the episode, makes out with "Belle" in front of his brother and father, much to their disgust. Watching the episode a second time makes some of Belle's dog-like qualities more obvious; for example, she claims that Danny kicks at her if he catches her sleeping at work and calls her a bitch. The way she puts her hands on Cricket's chest when they make out is also very similar to the way a dog does when playing with a human. | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone: Mac becomes a Butt-Monkey in the later seasons of the show, and in particular the contradiction between his sexuality and religion is a common punchline. That is, until it's time for him to come out to his homophobic father, which results in an incredibly emotional dance routine for Luther, Frank, and other prisoners. It's treated 100% seriously and becomes one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the entire show. | |
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Cross-Cast Role | |
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Crosscast Role: Kim, the owner of the North Korean bar, is played by a female actress, lampooning Kim Jong-il's effeminate appearance. The gang directly asks him if he's a man or a woman. | |
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Money, Dear Boy | |
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Money, Dear Boy: An in-universe example. One episode has Frank getting mugged and chasing off his would-be attackers with guns. He's invited to go on TV and tell his story, which turns him into a minor Philadelphia celebrity when he insists that everyone buy as many firearms as possible, whipping up the city (and the Gang themselves) into a frenzy about their Second Amendment rights. It all culminates with Frank organizing a major rally at City Hall, with everyone marching with their new guns. At the end of the episode, Frank tells the others that he has no intention of going to the rally. He then reveals that he doesn't care about the Second Amendment at all—it turns out that he had bought a stake in Gunther's Guns, and deliberately manipulated everyone by playing on their fear to make himself a fortune. The show concludes with Frank, having recently purchased hundreds of water filters, parlaying his celebrity to hawk them by claiming that Philly's water is "90% toxins." | |
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Dumb Is Good | |
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Dumb Is Good: Charlie is the stupidest member of the gang but also the nicest. However, the gang as a whole are simultaneously among the worst people on the show and the dumbest. | |
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Summation Gathering | |
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Summation Gathering: In "Who Pooped the Bed?". It is deliberately played up by Artemis and subverted by Frank's admission he acted alone and did it for purely for comedy. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Some examples include: "High School Reunion 1 & 2" Old high school friend Schmitty is mysteriously absent at the high school reunion, but Mac remarks that he'll probably show up at the last possible second to take the most disgusting girl present home. Guess what happens. Mac tries to tell Charlie they're not going to get wedgied because they're adults now. They get wedgied. After Dee sings "Baby Got Back", showing off her actual back, the Gang point out that the song is about "big black female booty" and talk about how awesome they think black butts are. Dennis later tries to sleep with a black woman and comments on her butt. "The Anti-Social Network," Dennis says, "I could be a man with a fistful of hammers, a trunk full of duct tape and zip ties." In "The High School Reunion part 2", he reveals he actually has a trunk full of duct tape and zip ties. In a flashback in "Charlie Has Cancer", Mac punches Dee in the face when she grabs him from behind. This is foreshadowing for him doing the same thing to Carmen in public. In "Hundred Dollar Baby," Dee, in a steroid-induced rage, says "I'm going to paralyze that bitch!" about the girl she is set to fight against (the daughter of Frank's old boxing rival). At the end of the episode, Frank ends up punching his rival, who falls into his daughter; when she falls, her neck directly lands a stool and a snapping noise is heard, heavily implying that she ended up paralyzed after all. In the season fifteen finale, while Dennis partakes in the Friendship Moment, he’s also apart from the walky group hug that the others do. “Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day� shows his fears that they’re family enough without him, but goes to be with them anyway. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Poppins, Mac's dog, seems to have been on death's door for a decade. Agent Jack Bauer, the indestructible junkyard cat that Dennis briefly adopts. | |
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Whole Episode Flashback | |
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Whole Episode Flashback: "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" consists largely of flashbacks as the Gang tries to piece together what happened on Halloween. Most of "2020: A Year in Review" consists of flashbacks as the Gang retells what they have been up to the past year. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Given a subtle continuity nod in "A Very Sunny Christmas" when Mac, whilst attempting to pry Charlie off of a shopping centre Santa Claus, elbows a woman in the face on instinct when she runs behind him. | |
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Reunion Revenge | |
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Reunion Revenge: Zig Zagged. Dee uses this as justification for hanging out with the old cool clique in "The High School Reunion" when she really just wants to be on their good side. So the rest of the gang try to get their revenge without her. They later kick her out of the clique because they thought she slept with Cricket. And the whole gang plot their revenge together; all for different reasons and fail miserably twice, one time without even realizing it. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Charlie, towards Santa, in "A Very Sunny Christmas": | |
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Arbitrarily Large Bank Account | |
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Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Frank is at least a multi-millionaire from shady business deals, and in principle could solve most of the gang's problems with some cash. But he can be quite stingy and will hold it over the others when it suits him. Compared to the first season that didn't have him while utilizing Perpetual Poverty, this serves to allow the money to serve a purpose when needed without changing the working class nature of the setting. | |
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We Should Get Another Tape | |
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We Should Get Another Tape: the Gang apparently owns only one tape for use in their camcorder. Bits and pieces of previous videos they've recorded appear in the blank spots between cuts or after the tape plays through, including: The Jihad Tape, Mac's Public Access News Show, Dennis's Election Campaign Speech, Dee getting set on fire, the Fight Milk Advert, Dee's Leprechaun Impression, Project Badass, etc. It's especially funny considering that Dennis has an entire wardrobe full of hundreds of home-made sex tapes on VHS. | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead | |
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead: In "A Very Sunny Christmas", Frank says this of the business partner he embezzled his fortune from, although he doesn't know that the guy is actually alive and Dee was speaking ill of Frank in any case. Charlie yells out in anger in "Mac and Charlie: White Trash" when Dee says she hopes that Mac and Charlie die like trash bags like a kid from their childhood did. Played straight and then subverted for Shelley, Charlie's estranged dad. After he dies Charlie tries his hardest to honor his memory and complete his arduous Last Request for his remains, despite his complicated feelings about him. After it proves too difficult he has an angry crying rant at him for never being there. Charlie says he's glad he's dead because now he won't have to wait for him to show up anymore. He later tells the rest of the gang the guy was a deadbeat and he wants to forget about him and go home. | |
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Digital Piracy Is Evil | |
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Digital Piracy Is Evil: On the second season DVD extras, Rob McElhenny jokingly asks viewers to neither pirate the episodes nor lend the DVD to their friends, but to make their friends buy their own copies. So he can get really, really rich. | |
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Genuine Human Hide | |
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Genuine Human Hide: It's hard to hear since the main characters constantly yell over one another, but in the episode "Hundred Dollar Baby", Dee threatens to rip Charlie's face off, make a shirt out of it, and wear it. One episode has Dennis commenting on the joy of, "wearing another man's skin". | |
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Samus Is a Girl | |
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Samus Is a Girl: Many years after Mac's dog Poppins is introduced, he's revealed to be pregnant. Even after learning this fact and repeatedly being corrected, Mac continues to refer to Poppins as a male dog. This is ultimately subverted: the pregnant female dog isn't Poppins and just looks like him. The real Poppins arrives and steals the blanket that the female dog is lying on. | |
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Bindle Stick | |
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Bindle Stick: Charlie attempts to construct one, with no success. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": The password to the orgy is "orgy" (though, from the bathrobe-buffet-party looks of things, no one was getting turned away). Dennis correctly guesses that the entire gang uses "Paddy's Pub" as their password. | |
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Contraception Deception | |
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Contraception Deception: Whilst trying to figure out who got Dee pregnant, Mac and Charlie interview all the men she slept with in that time frame, including Bill Ponderosa. Bill reveals that it could be him as he lies to every women he sleeps with that he had a vasectomy simply because he doesn't like wearing condoms. Whilst Bill finds it hilarious it causes Mac and Charlie to stare at him in utter disgust. | |
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Stockholm Syndrome | |
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Stockholm Syndrome: Referenced in "The Gang Gets Held Hostage," when most of the gang mistakenly believe that it's a physical illness. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
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Rule of Funny: Characters will tend to pick up or drop the role of Only Sane Man to suit an episode's premise. For example, Dee has no problem playing extremely racist stereotypes and dons yellowface in season 4, horrifying the rest of the gang. In season 5, Dee joins the rest of the gang in criticizing Mac's use of blackface. In season 6, Dee dons blackface herself. | |
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Gratuitous Ninja | |
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Gratuitous Ninja: Mac's fantasy in "The Gang Saves the Day" includes an inexplicable ninja attack. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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As revealed in "Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down", Mrs. Kelly has a habit of flicking lightswitches, locking doors, et cetera in sets of three before she goes to bed "so Charlie doesn't die". It's apparently infectious, as Charlie and Mac find out. | |
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Large Ham Radio | |
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Large Ham Radio: Dennis and Dee in "Mac's Big Break", of the Dumbass DJ variety. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Of Status Quo Is God and Negative Continuity. The status quo will be enforced no matter what, but the characters either can’t stand it or find some relief that they don’t have to try/be on their own, and the bad events aren’t actually forgotten. Cricket’s life gets worse and the Gang don’t take responsibility for it ever, Maureen and Bill get their own Sanity Slippage after coming into contact with them, Dee is still suicidal even after season nine, the twofer of Rape as Backstory revealed and nightmare with Mac in the suburbs makes Dennis dissociate more, Charlie increasingly resents his mom for smothering him while she ignores Uncle Jack’s creepiness, and Mac gets needier as he struggles with his sexuality and religion. | |
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Lonely Rich Kid | |
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Lonely Rich Kid: Spoiled Brats as well, but Dee and Dennis had a pretty shitty childhood despite being rich. Barbara kept humiliating Dee and crushing her dreams/telling her that she was a mistake while Dennis had it drilled into him that he was both a god and helpless, Frank emotionally terrorised them both, neither got help for decreasing mental health, Dee is clearly nervous claiming they had a normal childhood, and even when they’re adults and are deeply toxic to each other (and all but actively incestuous), they’ll still cling like little kids if they’re distressed. It’s telling that they both think the Jersey Shore vacations were the happiest days of their lives, and even then Word of God had their first kiss with each other.. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Just about anyone who's even more of a Jerkass than the gang and succeeds in screwing one or more of them over. The gang themselves arguably apply when they ruin any character who has an even bigger Butt-Monkey status. | |
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First World Problems | |
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First-World Problems: Dennis and Dee grew up fairly wealthy because of how rich Frank was, which gives them a specific type of entitlement and arrogance over Mac and Charlie. Mac in particular was quite angered that Dennis and Dee were looking to manipulate the system to get on welfare, saying it's for the handicapped or those addicted to drugs. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: Dennis has one in "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs"; he confronts his friendly neighbor by stripping nude and shouting in his face. Turns out it was just a daydream, and that the neighbor wasn't actually there when he comes back to reality. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Mac was only known as Mac for a long time in the show. It wasn't until the seventh season finale "High School Reunion" that his full name was revealed, Ronald McDonald, complete with dramatic name tag placement. It is an Embarrassing Name for him, one he was hoping to never go by again. Rickety Cricket, which he hates. When Charlie and Dee are waiting impatiently for him to come back from selling their cocaine, and he knocks on the door saying "It's Matt... Matthew Mara!" they don't even recognise the name. The Waitress is only known by the gang as The Waitress. In "Charlie and Dee Find Love" Dennis gets a phone call but doesn't recognize the name, asking "Who?" about three times before exasperatedly shouts, "Next time, just call yourself 'the Waitress'!" | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In the episode "The Gang Gets Held Hostage" Frank shoots at the McPoyles at near point-blank range without hitting anyone. | |
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LesYay | |
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Things are complicated even further once the parents are added into the picture. Dennis and Dee's mom Barbara had sex with Mac, leading Dennis to try and seduce both Mac and Charlie's mothers as revenge. The season two finale reveals that the twins' biological father isn't Frank but Bruce Mathis, with whom Barbara was having an affair some thirty years previous. Around the same time, Frank was also cheating on her with Bonnie Kelly, making him a likely contender for Charlie's absent father. Frank and Bonnie have an on-off sexual relationship throughout the series, and Bonnie also sleeps with Luther (Mac's dad) on at least one occasion, all while living with Mac's mom in a Les Yay filled relationship. | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver: Dee in "The Gang Gets Invincible." Of course it doesn't end well. | |
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Soft-Spoken Sadist | |
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Soft-Spoken Sadist: Dennis during his creepiest moments. | |
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Juggling Loaded Guns | |
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Juggling Loaded Guns: The gang in general, but Frank in particular. | |
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Bait-And-Switch Performance | |
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Bait-and-Switch Performance: A non-singing variation: In part 2 of the season 7 finale, the gang implements "Plan B" of their plan to get back at everyone who treated them as losers in high school at their high school reunion. It is an elaborate dance sequence that they break into in the middle of the dance floor. It first seems to be going really well and the crowd seems to be loving it, only for the show to quick cut to reality, revealing that the good performance was all in their heads, and that the gang is actually drunk, barely moving, uncoordinated, and only embarrassing themselves further. | |
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Garbage Wrestler | |
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Garbage Wrestler: Frank, literally, in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops". | |
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Old Friend, New Gender | |
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Old Friend, New Gender: Parodied in "The High School Reunion", where Frank steals a woman's name tag. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance: All the theme music is easy listening production music. At the end of "Frank's Pretty Woman", Roy Orbison's song plays over the gang dragging a dead prostitute into the hallway and ditching her. In "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore", Dennis and Dee are forced at gunpoint to participate in an armed robbery and to bury a doctor killed in cold blood while The Go-Go's "Vacation" plays in the background. "The Gang Saves The Day" sees Dennis smother Jackie Denardo with a pillow, killing her to the sound of "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves. On more than one occasion, Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" plays over a dramatic scene. The ending to "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer" has Dennis and Dee digging up their dead mother's grave to find some supposed money, only to open the casket and merely find their mom's skeleton. The two break down upon seeing her while Frank gloats that he got them back for calling him senile. The cheery, upbeat "Clique Chic" plays over this. | |
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Harmful to Minors | |
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Harmful to Minors: "Charlie Wants An Abortion" and "Underage Drinking: A National Concern". | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile: Frank in "Mac Is a Serial Killer" regarding interrogating Mac with a chainsaw: | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Episode names are usually excessively blunt in describing the plot of the episode, usually with "The Gang..." (ex. "The Gang Dines Out") or specifying the key character(s) in focus (ex. "Mac and Dennis Break Up"). This is often used as a joke, where the first act break will have a character say something related to the title, if not the actual title, and then cut to the title card. | |
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Armor-Piercing Response | |
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Armor-Piercing Response: In the Season 12 episode "Dennis' Double Life", Charlie tries, for what seems like the millionth time, to get in the good graces of The Waitress. He invites her to his apartment (and she's literally making him pay for her time) and explains to her how great her life could be, in his view, if they were together. But he does so by hurling insults at her about her current life situation, and essentially telling her "You wouldn't be a piece of shit anymore if you hooked up with me": | |
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The Gang's various childhood trauma is played with actual tragedy (Dennis's and Charlie's respective CSA, Mac's internalised homophobia and abandonment history, Dee's relentless abuse from her family) but they still choose to deal with it in terrible ways, never grow or learn, and constantly hurt and stalk and assault everyone else. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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In "The Great Recession", Mac and Dennis are inspired by a restaurant they frequent to start "Paddy's Dollars", an incentive to get customers to use real money to buy Paddy's Dollars that only work at Paddy's Pub. The plan backfires when Mac and Dennis forget to charge the customers for buying more Paddy's Dollars, and the customers just keep recycling the Paddy's Dollars without actually spending any real money. The look on Mac and Dennis's faces when they realize they screwed up is definitely Oh, Crap!. | |
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Dead Air | |
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Dead Air: Occurs during Dee and Dennis's podcast recording in "Mac's Big Break", prompting Frank to call in guest Rickety Cricket. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: The McPoyles have the strangest fascination with milk, going as far as to pour it over their wounds. They also pour it on one another and themselves in celebration at parties, as if it's champagne. There are a few references to Charlie's favorite food being "milk steak," which is apparently a steak boiled in milk. He also appears to be addicted to cheese, to the point where if he's near any, he can't stop himself from eating it. Frank seems to like eggs (usually hardboiled) and is referenced in a few episodes. His interest in eggs occasionally goes beyond him just eating them; for example in "Paddy's Pub: Home of the Original Kitten Mittens", he creates a green-painted "Paddy's Pub" egg as merchandise for the bar. | |
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All Women Hate Each Other | |
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All Women Hate Each Other: Deandra doesn't really have close friends, only Artemis whom she hangs around with to make herself look prettier when trolling bars, and "the Waitress" who she only uses in her cruel manipulations. Meanwhile, Charlie, Mac, and Dennis are often locked in battles and rivalries to prove who is a better friend to whom. | |
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Sexual Extortion | |
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Sexual Extortion: The end result of Dennis's "implication" and Dee's "insinuation." In the former, Dennis implies that women he's on a boat with would always have sex with him because he implies he'll murder them otherwise. In the latter, Dee insinuates that she'll make a False Rape Accusation against any man who flirts with her but isn't willing to go all the way. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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Viewers Are Morons: A Discussed Trope in "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6." Mac keeps improvising As You Know dialogue and has to be repeatedly told that the viewers aren't as dumb as he is. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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"Paddy's Pub: Home Of The Original Kitten Mittens": Charlie and Dee, Mac and Dennis, and Frank separately try to come up with merchandising ideas for the bar, constantly trying to one-up each other and stealing ideas back and forth. It ends up All for Nothing when the Lawyer they've been irritating tricks them into signing all the merchandising profits over to him. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: As part of a scheme to get Dennis and Bon Jovi in the same place at the same time, Frank pretends to be an entrepreneur who wants to buy the Philadelphia Soul (an arena football team of which Bon Jovi shared ownership at the time). During the meeting, Frank refers to him as "Von Joni" and then "Bovine Joni." In "The Gang Beats Boggs", Dee repeatedly confuses baseball legend Wade Boggs with Dukes of Hazzard character Boss Hogg. In "Who Got Dee Pregnant?", Mac describes his costume as "That character from The Lord of the Rings, Viggio Morgenstein." | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In "The Gang Gets Quarantined", the main characters plan to enter a singing contest being judged by Boyz II Men. In order to increase their chances of winning, they come up with a fake backstory for themselves, which involves them being "religious, stuttering army carnies" (who also sing). | |
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Stupid Evil | |
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Stupid Evil: The gang is basically this. Dennis thinks that he's a Magnificent Bastard, but in reality he's just as idiotic as the others. invoked | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Dennis imagines he's shot, and is then nursed back to health by Jackie Denardo, until she herself gets crippled and he Mercy Kills her rather than return the favor, mainly because her boobs got smaller. | |
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Selective Obliviousness | |
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Selective Obliviousness: in "Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang", Mac, Charlie, and their mothers visit Mac's uncle to get some old family letters because Mac is looking to feel connected to his roots. It becomes obvious that his uncle is not only gay (giving he and Mac something personal in common), but he dotes on him and all but states he would like to spend more time with him. Mac, someone who's always been desperate for parental approval, but previously rejected by his dad for his sexuality and constantly ignored by his mother, distractedly rebuffs his uncle's attempts at connection. Charlie, having a rare turn with the Sanity Ball, expresses increasing bafflement at Mac's repeated rejection of the very thing he's always been after, though without actually directly confronting him about it.note To really drive the joke home, Mac's uncle is played by the same actor as his dad, just with some makeup and hair dye to differentiate them. | |
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A Simple Plan | |
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A Simple Plan: Always, always goes horribly wrong. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
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Tap on the Head: Charlie's preferred solution to dealing with a journalist he kidnapped — knock him out with a bottle, inducing Easy Amnesia about the whole thing. The rest of the gang aren't convinced that that's how it works. It isn't. In "Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life", Frank knocks Dennis out. He spends the next 24 hours hallucinating. | |
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Real Is Brown | |
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The gang notes that the colors are far too bright in one of the rival bars. Its patrons also react to the bartenders' goings on, laughing or saying "Awwww" in unison, and Dennis notes the weirdness of the fact that they have one black bartender surrounded by whites. | |
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Pink Is Erotic | |
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Pink Is Erotic: In The Gang Buys A Roller Rink, Dennis is called to bring a briefcase to Frank for business purposes and the two get into a misunderstanding as Dennis wanted to see Frank doing "what he does at work" so they can work together, but Frank was actually using a prostitute and needed Dennis to provide viagra. The scene cuts to a very happy Frank paying the prostitute and a traumatized Dennis sitting in a pink chair next to pink flowers, having watched Frank and the prostitute the entire time because he thought Dennis wanted to watch him "doing what he does at work". Before the scene, there's a painting behind Dennis that has shades of pink and there are pink napkins in Frank's hotel room. | |
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Bottomless Magazines | |
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Bottomless Magazines: In "The Gang Gets Held Hostage", Frank fires his revolver (which is a Smith & Wesson Model 19 with a six round capacity) about 12 times without reloading. | |
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Satire | |
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Satire: Much of the show's humor comes from ruthlessly mocking the worst aspects of human nature and society, with the main characters frequently serving as proxies for broader cultural ideas. | |
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AxeCrazy | |
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Axe-Crazy: The leader of Charlie and Mac's old gang, Psycho Pete, who Charlie describes as "dark and mysterious," murdered and ate his family. It's eventually subverted when it's revealed that Pete had social anxiety and depression. He never killed or ate anyone, and his fearsome reputation is a product of the gang's gossip. | |
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Misery Poker | |
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Misery Poker: Played with in “PTSDee�, as neither Dennis or Charlie actually admit they’re traumatised from their respective Rape as Backstory, but still complain that Mac, the stripper and Dee haven’t experienced “real trauma�. | |
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Genius Serum | |
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Genius Serum: Subverted when Charlie, known for being the least-intelligent of the main cast, gets involved in an experiment to test an intelligence drug. He suddenly seems to develop extreme intelligence overnight, reading tons of books in all sorts of language despite normally being illiterate, all while also becoming a Jerkass in the process. However, it's then revealed that the drug did nothing- Charlie was under the Placebo Effect, and not only did he not comprehend anything he read or said, but the only real effect it had was making him look down on his friends and family. | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: The gang specializes in having their plans fall apart in spectacular fashion. Season 3 episode "The Gang Sells Out": When a businessman offers to buy Paddy's Pub, but pulls the deal off the table after two minutes of dealing with the gang's insanity, Frank gets his "Yellow Jacket Boys" from the 1950s to help. First, they try to create the impression that there's a "seedy element" near the businessman's new prospective buy, which doesn't work because all Frank and the Yellow Jackets do is play jacks and sing. Then they try to intimidate the businessman at his house, and the allegedly "crazy" Hawky takes one step and immediately dies of a heart attack. | |
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Terrified of Germs | |
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Terrified of Germs: Frank, oddly enough, becomes extremely afraid of germs in "The Gang Gets Quarantined" after an acquaintance dies from the flu. Miss Kelly used to have her and Charlie wear bubble boy suits every flu season and had him get vaccinations every month. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Dennis and Mac deal pretty vicious jabs to Sex and the City in "Who Pooped the Bed?". "The Gang Desperately Tries to Win an Award" has some jokes regarding award shows and the stereotypical sitcoms that get nominated. "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" is yet another mockery of traditional sitcoms. The episode ruthlessly takes apart traditional three-camera sitcoms, demonstrating how they utilize laugh tracks and musical cues to manipulate audiences into laughing at situations that would otherwise seem boring or even disturbing. The other sitcom conventions, such as Drop-In Character and "Everybody Laughs" Ending, are cruelly subverted with Dee's bad luck and need for attention. Dennis is one big insult to pick-up artists and guys who cover up their abuse in “acceptable� language, showing how fucked up, pathetic and creepy they really are. | |
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ColdOpen | |
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On an episodic basis however, almost every episode drops its title during the Cold Open before playing the opening credits. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Country Mac is the inverse of Mac, turning all of Mac's flaws into positives. | |
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TheStraightMan | |
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Often Dee when she's paired with Charlie, because Kaitlin Olson is the most successful at remaining deadpan when Charlie Day starts improvising off the cuff. Though Charlie has also been The Straight Man to Dee ("The Gang Solves Global Warming"). | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family: It’s a frequent joke in fandom that the Reynolds are funhouse Roys, right down to the respective children being doomed from birth. The book has Frank with an Oedipus complex, resenting a father that hit him and claiming his mother was his first love. Pop Pop was a Nazi Grandpa who groped Dee. Barbara treated Dee as worse than the pet, and Dennis has a Trauma Button of older women in sexual situations partly because of her. Frank emotionally tortured both of his kids, and exploited them as adults. Dennis and Dee are both serial rapists who are intensely codependent, with Dennis conditioning Dee to be his other half, and Dee mothering Dennis to keep power over him. | |
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Twofer Token Minority | |
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Twofer Token Minority: Tyrel, Dee's friend from her acting class in "The Gang Gets Racist" is a gay black man. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: A frequent source for laughs. In "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry", Dennis loudly rants about how other people have no respect as he destroys a near-stranger's house, and reprises his rant after the person whose house he destroyed comes back upset. Mac accuses Carmen's husband of being gay because he married a post-op transgender woman, when he himself had sex with Carmen pre-op. In "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off", a hobo tells Rickety Crick (also homeless) to "Shut up, street-rat!" In "Mac and Charlie: White Trash", Mac and Charlie declare the public pool to be full of disgusting people while chugging beer in public, burping, and throwing the cans all over the place. Mac and Charlie suspect a kid is a threat to the school because he wore all black and was playing a violent video game. Later they remember that they like violent games and movies and don't want to kill people. During a flashback in "Frank's Brother", Frank talks about opening an integrated Jazz club where "blacks and whites can get along". He then adds "No Orientals, though". In "Reynolds v. Reynolds", the Catholic Mac's desperate attempt to prove evolution isn't real involves Aristotle being labeled a 'bitch' by Gallileo for proving geocentrism wrong. Gallileo rather famously was tried as a heretic for this belief (among other reasons) by....the Catholic Church. | |
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Class Reunion | |
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Class Reunion: "The High School Reunion". | |
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Smash Cut | |
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Smash Cut: In "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off", whenever someone is challenged to a dance-off, we only see the first few seconds before a smash cut to the results. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Charlie is obsessively in love with the Waitress, who despises him. She in turn has a crush on Dennis, who is aware of it and uses it to manipulate and degrade her as well as Charlie. Given the Crapsack World the show takes place in, these crushes are manipulated by the participants and outsiders constantly. | |
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And Show It to You | |
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And Show It to You: The final fate of the Nightman. | |
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Blood from the Mouth | |
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Blood from the Mouth/Bloody Hilarious: In "Frank's Pretty Woman", Charlie acts like a southern millionaire and for "realism" tries to cough up blood. Too bad he swallows "like, a hundred" blood capsules and projectile vomits blood all over his date. | |
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Accidental Innuendo | |
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Accidental Innuendo: invoked From "Mac and Charlie Die": "Whack off" is constantly used in "The Gang Gets Whacked". In the same episode Mac claims that he's hard and he'll explode all over anyone who crosses him. Charlie and Mac discuss getting cream all over Dennis's face in "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off". Lampshaded in "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis", where Mac refers to the trio of guys getting "plowed in the ass" (i.e. screwed over by gas prices) several times and has to clarify that he's not talking about gay sex. In "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad" Charlie and Mac talk about getting hard (tough) without having to get stuff (heroin) shoved up their asses. Frank is understandably confused. In "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare", we get this: The whole "creampie" discussion at Gugino's. In episodes like "The Gang Dines Out" and "Thundergun Express", Frank obliviously tells people about how he and Charlie enjoy sleeping together. Any of Charlie's songs involving The Nightman are written to be an expression of Charlie overcoming fears, and becoming confident. That's not usually how others hear it. | |
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Wanting Is Better Than Having | |
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Wanting Is Better Than Having: Charlie realizes he doesn't love the waitress and she's "a bitch" after they sleep together. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality | |
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Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: Dennis is Camp Straight, and consistently shown only attracted to women... except for the pilot when Mac gets him blackout drunk and he apparently has a threesome with two other men. | |
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Mirror Character | |
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Mirror Character: Dennis and Dee. Even they see themselves as a complete set, there are multiple episodes where they have separate plotlines but do the same things/get punished the same way, they know how to dig in at each other in a way that nobody else can but will also only ever choose each other when there’s actual danger, she has her insinuation and he has his implication, he has his DENNIS system and she browbeats men until they sleep with her, she’s been institutionalised and he didn’t get diagnosed with BPD until late thirties, they’re both arrogant with god complexes but also deep insecurity and intense rage, even the Waitress really damn drunk mistakes Dee for Dennis, and the season nine promos lampshade that she’s his mirror. | |
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Amplified Animal Aptitude | |
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Amplified Animal Aptitude: Agent Jack Bauer, Dennis's cat in "Bums: Making a Mess All Over The City". | |
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Drop-In Character | |
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"Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" is yet another mockery of traditional sitcoms. The episode ruthlessly takes apart traditional three-camera sitcoms, demonstrating how they utilize laugh tracks and musical cues to manipulate audiences into laughing at situations that would otherwise seem boring or even disturbing. The other sitcom conventions, such as Drop-In Character and "Everybody Laughs" Ending, are cruelly subverted with Dee's bad luck and need for attention. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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In a flashback in "Charlie Has Cancer", Mac punches Dee in the face when she grabs him from behind. This is foreshadowing for him doing the same thing to Carmen in public, causing a couple of guys to chase him over what they think is a hate crime. A conversation with Dennis suggests this is a common problem. | |
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No Social Skills | |
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No Social Skills: The Gang in general. Known sociopaths are better at socializing than these people: "Dennis and Dee's Mom Is Dead" demonstrates that Dennis, Charlie, and Mac seem to think that male camaraderie mainly encompasses a combination of the physical abuse of Jackass and the very worst college fraternity initiations, up to eleven. In "The Gang Gets a New Member", the guys treat something as simple as adding a new member—their old high school friend Schmitty—to the group with the gravitas of inducting him into some kind of creepy secret society, not to mention expecting him to show up to the bar to hang out all day by some specific time. Schmitty finds it very strange. And than there's Frank, who hangs out with the Gang for the express purpose of being a complete psychopath. | |
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Negative Continuity | |
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Negative Continuity: Subverted. The Gang distinctly believe that the world works like this, and while episodes are all mostly stand alone, it becomes increasingly apparent that every bad decision the Gang makes has lasting effects that they seemingly subconsciously remove from their memories. In reality, the series has incredibly tight continuity, and builds up countless Call Backs and Continuity Nods over time. | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
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Did They or Didn't They?: Charlie and Dee in "The Gang Misses the Boat." They make out, we cut to commercial, and their next scene together is painfully awkward. It’s revealed in a later season that they did, in fact, sleep together, but it wasn’t entirely consensual on Charlie’s part. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
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Teased many times with Dennis and Dee. Becomes somewhat canon in "The Gang Broke Dee" where the gang also inadvertently breaks Dennis, who confesses his love to Dee and says that he is the right one for her. Played with in the Night Man musical, which casts Dee and Dennis as lovers resulting in a kiss being modified into an erotically-charged hug. Dee's also quite concerned that it makes her look like a pedophile. Played for laughs in the live shows, as they either go in for the kiss before getting interrupted, or end up just groping each other. And even in the episode, Dennis really doesn’t want the song to be cut, and Dee’s main concern is looking like a child molester instead of it being an Intercourse with You song with her brother. In the aptly titled "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" Dennis becomes convinced, to his horror, that he's the father. The McPoyles respond by telling him to "savor it." Turns out that he's not. In "Frank's Back in Business," Dennis wants to help Dee "get off" with him by committing identity theft, and both of them apparently got "jerked off" at a massage parlor. Accused of by Frank in "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad". When Dennis and Dee meet up with Frank in order to ask him if he might not be their father, he immediately assumes they are banging. On the whole, Dennis will go in for a lot of blondes with his sister’s hairstyle (including the filmed memoirs on the season four extras where he date rapes someone who looks like Dee, plus the similarities between her and Jackie) and Dee really likes skinny men who wear a lot of flannel and have brown wavy hair. In “The Gang Gets Quarantined�, Dennis somehow thinks detailing how he can go from flaccid to erect in front of people including his sister and stepdad will help prove he’s not sick, and Dee is staring stunned harder than anyone. In following episodes, she’s nearly always the one noticing when he has a boner. Dennis is extremely possessive of Dee, claiming her hair is as much as his as well as hers and not letting her do anything innocently fun without him, and Dee finds it a turn on to emasculate or humiliate her brother and show how pathetic he really is, while also having sex fantasies of torturing him. They also seem to make it a point to TMI brag to each other about at best slutty exploits, or at worst, sexually extorting someone with the threat of violence or False Rape Accusation. Both of them have No Sense of Personal Space with each other, whether it’s clinging out of distress, calming each other down or just because they feel like it. Their high school reunion also implies people thought they were fucking even back then. The promos tend to go wild in this respect too, one where they’re chained together with her holding the chain, and the series nine promos (parodying Les Enfants Terribles) with them being Mirror Characters, her holding a cigarette in his mouth, and him submissively putting his head on her hand. Funnily enough, both of these have the rest of the Gang hanging around and acting like this doesn't faze them anymore. Coupling with Parental Incest, “Make Paddy’s Great Again�, both Dee and Frank partake in an orgy (Frank eating out the asshole and Dee getting off by watching) with the Dennis sex doll to get out all their codependent psychosexual issues with him, and Dee both would rather her actual brother back than a nice woman, and gets distracted by the Cindy plan by being interested in the blowjob mouth. | |
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Tragic Dream | |
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Tragic Dream: Dee in the first few seasons was obsessed with trying to become a famous broadway actress. Eventually she is told she's too old and to give up and become a drama teacher instead. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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In early seasons, Dennis is characterized as someone who peaked in high school and likes to think he's still a legend, but later seasons establish that he was just as much as loser as the rest but deluded himself into thinking that he was popular. He was also extremely vain and would take any slight against his appearance with unhealthy obsession, while later he was more about sleeping around with his sexual experiences very toxic if borderline non-consensual. | |
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Snooty Sports | |
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Snooty Sports: When the gang has bugged someone's apartment with a baby monitor they hear nothing but TV coverage of golf tournaments so they all think that there must clearly be something wrong with someone who voluntarily watches golf games endlessly on TV. | |
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When All You Have Is a Hammer… | |
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Frank has a Smith & Wesson Model 19 Snubnose that first appeared in "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass" and has popped up randomly ever since. Whenever he whips it out something or worse, someone, is going to get shot. A lot. Except when he misses every shot in "The Gang Gets Held Hostage" in his one-sided gunfight against the McPoyles. | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment | |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: In "Mac & Dennis: Manhunters", Mac and Dennis hunt down Rickety Cricket with the intent of teabagging him or gluing pubes to his face. | |
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Female Groin Invincibility | |
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Female Groin Invincibility: Averted in the "Charlie and Dee Find Love" episode. Dee and Mac are wrestling for Trevor's amusement. Mac throws Dee to the floor, proclaiming his victory, only for Dee to sucker-punch his dick, taking him down, when Dee stands up to gloat Mac retaliates and she falls over in pain. | |
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Europeans Are Kinky | |
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Europeans Are Kinky: The episode "Mac and Charlie Die" is heavy on this trope. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
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The usual sitcom jokes that rely on Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male and Double Standard Rape: Female on Male are averted and occasionally deconstructed. Dee is as frequent a victim of Slapstick shenanigans as her male friends, and her sexual offenses, along with those of her male counterparts, are not excused at all. Also, the double standard of victimization are treated seriously for some of the characters, such as Charlie and Dennis. | |
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Character Check | |
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Character Check: In "Frank Falls Out the Window," where Frank's titular incident leaves him with an injury that erases his recollection of the last 10 years of his life. Frank is seen revisiting his short-lived "new leaf" behavior from season 2, where he weakly attempts being a morally upright father figure, before his time spent with the gang steers him back towards his deeply entrenched depravity. In this sense, the real "Character Check" is Frank behaving the way that we've come to expect him to. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Dennis tries to invoke this trope between Mac and Dee in "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win An Award," in order to increase their chances of winning the Best Bar in Philadelphia award. Subverted in that neither Mac nor Dee are particularly enthusiastic about enacting this trope, ultimately ending with them yelling at each other and Mac nearly strangling Dee because she cracked a joke about his mother. | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Mac and Dennis decide to go with the Good Realtor/Bad Realtor routine when trying to sell a house. They lampshade their strategy by assuming the names Hugh Honey and Vic Vinegar. The results are predictably disastrous. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: At the end of Charlie's play in "The Nightman Cometh". | |
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UnluckyChildhoodFriend | |
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Unlucky Childhood Friend: Rickety Cricket, who really wasn't Dee's friend at all but rather the only person in school pathetic enough to allow her to manipulate him. | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male | |
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Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Deconstructed, as while the characters believe it, the narrative doesn’t. Dee’s brand of Serial Rapist (browbeating men as a way of coercion) is seen as just as fucked up as her brother’s, plus after the reveal that she sexually assaulted Charlie he doesn’t want to be alone with her anymore. Also Dennis was raped by his high school librarian, with some kind of abuse from Barbara, and while he says repeatedly women can’t rape men, both have clearly warped him terribly. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Liam McPoyle, several times. | |
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Show Some Leg | |
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Show Some Leg: Dee seduces the city comptroller in an attempt to get bribe money. She also seduces Rickety Cricket in an attempt to get the gang's wall stain blessed as a miracle. In a rare male example, Dennis often tries to seduce his way through life, with varying degrees of success. He successfully seduces Margaret McPoyle when she and her brothers take the gang hostage, but it doesn't help; due to her deafness she has no idea that the sex is a ploy for his freedom. Charlie and Mac compete with Dennis trying to seduce a bank executive into giving them a loan. | |
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten | |
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: How they operate. They’ve all done terrible things to each other, and that’s not forgotten as well as if there’s a chance for payback they’ll take it, but they will still happily hang out because genuine if warped love and nobody else wants them. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: Dysfunctional ones but a fellowship nonetheless. | |
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Faked Food Contaminant | |
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Faked Food Contaminant: In "Charlie Work," part of the Gang's scam involves buying a huge amount of steaks and contaminating them with chicken feathers so they can get a refund. | |
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No, You | |
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No, You: Every single one of the main characters is immature and poor at thinking on their feet, so they often can't muster a comeback better than "No, you are". Dee towards Dennis, while both are robbing Frank's house in Season 1's "Charlie Gets Crippled": Charlie, in "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off": The Waitress, drunk, towards Dee in two separate scenes from the episode "Who Pooped the Bed?": | |
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Schemer | |
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Schemer: Frank is a self-styled schemer, but the entire gang hatches plots in virtually every episode, usually with dismal success. | |
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ZigZagged | |
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Zig-Zagged in "Charlie Got Molested." Mac is offended when he learns that Charlie and the McPoyle twins were molested by their Creepy Gym Coach, but he was "passed over," since he was way cuter than any of them as a child. He even goes as far as trying to seduce the coach as a way to validate himself. However, Mac does some research and learns that sexual abuse often has far more to do with power and vulnerability than the victim's attractiveness. The gang later finds out that the whole molestation story was a Blackmail scheme created by the McPoyles—not that anyone would have wanted to molest Charlie, who was rather deranged and off-putting as a child. | |
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Kiss Diss | |
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Kiss Diss: Mac tries to kiss Dennis on two separate occasions, only for Dennis to move out of the way both times. | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls | |
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For Doom the Bell Tolls: In "A Very Sunny Christmas" when Charlie goes berserk, and in "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" when Dennis thinks he's the father of Dee's baby. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: Both Played for Laughs and Played for Drama in “The Gang Gets Whacked�, as Dennis’s Janes are heavily implied to be pegging him and the joke is Frank telling him there can be rules while telling the Janes “he’ll do anything with the ass�. But he’s so low on the totem pole that they’re damaging him to the point of needing a doctor, and it contributes to his feeling of being raped. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: In "The High School Reunion Part 2: The Gang's Revenge", the Waitress is so drunk and depressed that she says she'll have sex with whoever talks to her next. Charlie is right in front of her and is about to speak...and then Schmitty appears out of nowhere and says "hi". Dee in "The Gang Broke Dee". Dee overcomes her depression to become a successful local comedian, eventually getting offered a gig on Conan. Turns out the whole thing was a Xanatos Gambit by Mac, Charlie and Frank, just to show that it could get worse. In "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry", Mac and Charlie are approached by two college women at a "paint party"- that is, both couples paint each others' scantily clad bodies and then take a shower together to wash it off. Mac and Charlie get done being painted by the two women and are set to paint them in return, but are approached by two of the frat guys who force them to leave, since they're not in the frat. | |
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Cringe Comedy | |
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Cringe Comedy: The show relies on a lot of this. Particular examples include the Birds of War in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops," the beauty pageant in "Frank Reynolds' Little Beauties," and "The High School Reunion Part 2: The Gang's Revenge." | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: Displayed prominently whenever Dennis talks about relationships, whenever Mac talks about toughness or being a badass, whenever Frank talks about business, and whenever Charlie talks about anything. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Mac has a very memorable one in the season 7 finale. | |
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You're Not My Type | |
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You're Not My Type: In "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom", Dennis tries to seduce Mac's mom and later Charlie's mom to get back at each of them for two different transgressions. He fails both times because neither woman finds him attractive, and they each tell him so as plainly as possible. | |
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Company Credit Card Abuse | |
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Company Credit Card Abuse: Dennis possesses the Paddy's Pub "company credit card" and, in several episodes, uses it to pay for lavish meals under the guise of using them to discuss bar business with Frank and Mac. (Charlie and Dee are never invited.) | |
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Cast Full of Writers | |
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Cast Full of Writers: Rob McElhenney (Mac) created the show with the help of Glenn Howerton (Dennis), and the two of them plus Charlie Day (Charlie) have been writing on the show from the beginning. Another staff writer (amongst other things), David Hornsby, plays Rickety Cricket. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage Breaking Point: The gang has an innate ability to quickly and effortlessly drive even the most friendly, non-confrontational people to their emotional limits. In Season 14's "Thundergun 4: Maximum Cool", the moderator of a focus group tries her best throughout the entire episode to deal with the gang in a calm, professional manner, even though they're acting absolutely insane. Eventually, it's too much for her, and she snaps at Charlie: Mac gets to one hilariously quickly in, of all things, a debate over how they should slice limes for the bar: | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Bruce Mathis fulfills this trope when he tracks down Dennis and Dee on MySpace. Of course, they quickly alienate him by being their completely terrible selves. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: Mac's father was a meth dealer who was in prison for most of Mac's life and his mother did not care about him at all. He constantly seeks approval and attention. Charlie was an abortion survivor (may or may not have contributed to his impaired mental faculties) with no father (though Frank may be Charlie's missing father), an OCD, overbearing and sexually promiscuous mother, and was most likely molested as a child by his uncle. However, Bonnie (his mother) was overbearing out of genuine and misguided love for her son, which is far better than the other parents. Dennis has a completely amoral father figure (Frank) and a mother who believed he could do no wrong and openly and heavily favored him to Dee. "Frank Vs Russia" heavily implies she groomed and isolated him. At the age of fourteen, the school's librarian raped him, and it's implied he started shoving down emotions after this. He's finally diagnosed with BPD after bragging for ages that he's a sociopath. Dee also has Frank as a father, and her mother criticized everything about her, made it known that Dee was unwanted (despite the fact that she and Dennis are fraternal twins) and favored Dennis over her. She has very poor self esteem (aided by way of having to spend most of her teenage years walking with heavy braces due to Scoliosis) and a laundry list of neuroses. The gang considers it their duty to beat her down emotionally. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: The guys making fun of Dee's appearance is a Running Gag, though Dee looks exactly the same as her actress. In the season where Mac gets fat, the cast repeatedly mock his disgusting appearance, which was the whole point. Before the 8th season, the ad campaign portrayed the cast as having in fired and replaced by some b-grade celebrities and wash-ups. In the extended promo, each cast member is shown desperately trying to cling to their old job, having nothing else to do. The promos end with the cast watching the new cast and saying how much they prefer their replacements. | |
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Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery | |
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Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Charlie as a real (temporarily) handicapped individual attempting to be a loud, angry handicapped war veteran, hoping they'd respect the war veteran part. | |
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Heteronormative Crusader | |
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Heteronormative Crusader: Mac is outspokenly against homosexuality, despite increasingly apparent hints that he's Armoured Closet Gay. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: Used occasionally, usually with the cast being herded into Dennis, Mac & Dee and Frank & Charlie. Lampshaded at the beginning of "The Gang Exploit the Mortgage Crisis", when Dee comes in to the bar talking about her plans to surrogate a child and Frank comes in talking about the house he just bought. The rest of the gang vote on which issue they're going to pay attention to, with Dennis mentioning that focusing on one would be "cleaner" considering that it would be difficult to "work the two together". | |
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Power Trio | |
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Power Trio: Many attempted invocations in "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis." | |
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No Name Given | |
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One character called the Waitress is Charlie's single-minded obsession; he's a Stalker with a Crush who constantly badgers her for dates. The Waitress, in turn, is rude, sarcastic, and dismissive of Charlie, often openly flirting with his friends to get revenge on him or simply treating him like dirt, although he never gets the hint. Charlie is played by Charlie Day, and the Waitress is played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis. The two have been Happily Married since 2006 (a year after the show began) and have a child together. | |
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Word of God | |
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Originally the voice of reason, Dee's insecurity, shrillness and alcoholism are all played up in later seasons. The Gang's abuse of Dee also ramps up over the seasons, abusing her to the point of apparent psychotic breaks. Word of God is that this was done deliberately, as the only reason Dee would continue to hang out with such sociopaths is if she were equally sociopathic herself. | |
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Ballistic Discount | |
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Ballistic Discount: Dennis and Dee do this at a gun show when the seller decides to jack up the price. In response, the seller and everyone else points their guns at them. | |
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No Sense of Personal Space | |
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Both of them have No Sense of Personal Space with each other, whether it’s clinging out of distress, calming each other down or just because they feel like it. Their high school reunion also implies people thought they were fucking even back then. | |
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Dancing Is Serious Business | |
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Dancing Is Serious Business: In the episode "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off", where Paddy's Pub hosts a dance-athon open to all of Philadelphia. The Serious Business is justified in that Charlie accidentally advertised the prize of the contest as ownership of the entire bar. Alliances, sabotage, and broken kneecaps ensue. | |
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Spiritual Antithesis | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_ce2969d8 | comment |
Spiritual Antithesis: The show in general is a Deconstructive Parody of sitcoms, with viewers and critics commenting on how it dismantles many of the tropes established by Cheers and Friends, with the main characters being self-centered jerks who stick together only because nobody else can tolerate them. Rob McElhenney said the series tries to go the opposite direction, an example being that Mac's weight gain in season 7 came from how the Friends cast looked more attractive over time because the actors were wealthy and could afford trainers, beauticians and nutritionists. Some episodes, such as "The Gang Tries To Win An Award" and "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy," are more over Take Thats at regular sitcoms. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Charlie's song "Day Man", when compared to "Night Man". | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic | |
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Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Averted. The show features a great deal of overlapping and shouted-over dialogue, some of it improvised, some awkwardly disjointed or repeated. | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: One of the show's favorite tropes. Mac's traditional greeting is "What's up, bitches?" In "The Gang Gets Held Hostage": Viet-GODDAMN-NAM'S WHAT HAPPENED! NOW GET ME A BEER, BITCH! In "The Gang Solves The Gas Crisis": Dee in "Hundred Dollar Baby" when threatening a rival boxer. The Lead Boy/Dayman (Dennis) in "The Nightman Cometh" before killing Antonio the Troll (Frank) with a gun. | |
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Horror Hunger | |
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Horror Hunger: Charlie and Dee get "The Hunger" in "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" after eating human meat. Frank later reveals it was raccoon meat, and their inexplicable hunger probably means they have tapeworms. | |
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Opaque Lenses | |
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Opaque Lenses: In "Pop-Pop: The Final Solution", Mac's sunglasses allow him to look at someone without them seeing his eyes. He uses it to assess threats. | |
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Badass Longcoat | |
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Badass Longcoat: Spoofed. The male members of the gang love trenchcoats and dusters. Mac owns a black duster that the other guys covet. | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
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Big "SHUT UP!": In the Cold Open of "The Gang Gets Invincible," the cast is engaged in a vitriolic argument over whether a mouse or a scorpion would win in a fight to the death. Charlie lets out a big one of these to end the pointless bickering. | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
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Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: In the episode "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters", Mac and Dennis... are manhunters. Their quarry is Rickety Cricket. | |
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Lampshaded | |
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In "The Aluminum Monster Vs. Fatty Magoo", the slave labor conditions are even described as like a concentration camp, with the loud speaker blaring German propaganda, and the workers being described as Eastern Europeans. This is sort of Lampshaded when Mac says "The German war propaganda was a nice touch." | |
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Non-Fatal Explosions | |
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Non-Fatal Explosions: Charlie and Mac are disappointed that a hand grenade can't blow up a car. When Charlie tells Mac to walk up to it to shoot the fuel tank, he explains that any explosion "will just push us out of the way". | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: Invoked in "Who Pooped The Bed?", The culprit repeatedly pooped the bed simply because "poop is funny." The rest of the gang agrees, much to Dee's disgust. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: The defining quality of the humor. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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The Chessmaster: Charlie, surprisingly enough, in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom," "Charlie and Dee Find Love" and "Charlie Work." | |
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Last Request | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d6618014 | comment |
Played straight and then subverted for Shelley, Charlie's estranged dad. After he dies Charlie tries his hardest to honor his memory and complete his arduous Last Request for his remains, despite his complicated feelings about him. After it proves too difficult he has an angry crying rant at him for never being there. Charlie says he's glad he's dead because now he won't have to wait for him to show up anymore. He later tells the rest of the gang the guy was a deadbeat and he wants to forget about him and go home. | |
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Driven to Madness | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d6b5863 | comment |
Driven to Madness: Mac and Dennis, when they briefly move to the suburbs. | |
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Friendship Moment | |
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Friendship Moment: The entire group trying their hardest to be less cynical for just one day and coming together in "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats" to give Charlie a good birthday. The Christmas special ends with the gang all commiserating their terrible holiday by throwing rocks at trains together. The episode ends with a flashback of Mac and Charlie as kids walking off arm-in-arm. The end of "The Gang Dines Out" almost involves a Frank and Charlie vs. Dennis and Mac brawl, but they become distracted when a waiter falls over due to Dee tying his shoelaces together. While the waiter writhes on the ground in pain, the gang all exchange compliments and toast each other. Very twisted version with Dee and Dennis in “The Gang Goes To Hell�, as it goes from him promising to not shit on her to her instantly getting (and having no issue with it) his implication, and him being impressed that she has her own version. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d7b34c31 | comment |
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Waitress. No one in the gang knows her name, even her Stalker with a Crush Charlie. Dennis labels his sex tape "Waitress (Coffee Shop)." Dee calls her "Waitress" to her face. She reacts with disgust each time this happens. It's later revealed that they all went to high school with her, and Dee was in some of her classes. Even the guy who was engaged to her refers to her as "that coffee shop waitress". The Lawyer. No one ever calls him by name, though the gang has fewer interactions with him. The Waiter/Flight Attendant/HR manager. He doesn't even have the dignity of a consistent job, much less a name. | |
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Racist Grandma | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d85c505 | comment |
Racist Grandma: In "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire", Mac, Charlie and Frank go to a nursing home looking for scandal. What they find is a sweet, slightly loopy old woman. Who hates the blacks. | |
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Rock Opera | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d96e8b29 | comment |
Rock Opera: The Nightman Cometh, written by Charlie. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d9cf40fa | comment |
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Mac in "Frank's Back in Business": Mac has also done this at least twice (episodes "The Gang Runs for Office" and "The Gang Exploits a Miracle") by loudly exclaiming that he's "washing [his] hands" of the situation. Mac again in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops". Notable in that Mac had a hand in creating every aspect of this situation—being a Face wrestler representing America against a Heel wrestler representing the Taliban in front of an audience of veterans—and he still announces that he is too afraid. In "Frank's Pretty Woman", The Gang attempts to give a makeover to Frank's new girlfriend. They take a genuine interest in helping her, even though she's, in Dennis' words, "unspeakably crass." However, the minute she calls Dennis "baby dick," he decides he's done. | |
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I'm Standing Right Here | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_d9fe8277 | comment |
I'm Standing Right Here: While bored in the waiting room at the hospital in "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore", Dennis and Dee construct a painstakingly detailed narrative involving a teenage part-time job giving way to a downward spiral of cocaine habits, studio apartments, single motherhood, and HIV infection all based on a somewhat frumpy-looking woman sitting in there with them. She points out that she can hear everything, but admits that their assessment isn't totally inaccurate. | |
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Mondegreen Gag | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_db99b292 | comment |
Mondegreen Gag: Invoked. Frank's song in "The Nightman Cometh" has the line "You gotta pay the troll toll to get into this boy's soul." Frank's pronunciation sounds more like "boy's hole," and he refuses to enunciate any better. In "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis", Dennis, Mac, and Charlie attempt to sell gasoline door-to-door. Charlie, for no good reason, adopts a southern accent during their first attempt at a sale. When he tells an older woman that they wanna "fill [her] up," his accent causes her to believe he's saying "feel [her] up," and she calls the police. When the gang decides to sell Paddy's, Frank tells them that before they do so, they need to be "wooed" by the potential buyer. Charlie thinks he's saying they should get some "wood." | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Alone" by Heart plays whenever well-endowed news woman Jackie Denardo appears on-screen to signal Dennis' lust and ecstasy in having a chance to get with her. Even though it has some relevance in that the lyrics of the song is about the narrator who doesn't know how to confess their aching love for someone, which links with Dennis' tongue tied state in trying to talk to her, it still has an infinitely more tragic tone to it than Dennis' trying to talk to a woman he merely finds hot. | |
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Intercourse with You | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_dbfe8427 | comment |
Intercourse with You: Charlie denies that the lyrics to his song "Night Man" have anything to do with a guy coming into his room in the middle of the night and raping him. Though given how the show has strongly implied that he was routinely sexually molested by his uncle, the song takes on a dark overtone. | |
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A God Am I | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_dc1761bd | comment |
Dennis wasn't as popular back in high school as he thought he was, mainly because he'd claim to be a golden god (metaphorically speaking) while having nothing to back up his claim. In "Underage Drinking: A National Concern", he calls the rest of the gang out for over-romanticizing their high school experiences. | |
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Armoured Closet Gay | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_dc2912f | comment |
Armoured Closet Gay: It's increasingly implied that Mac is this. The Gang flat out lampshades it in "Mac Day" and as far as they're concerned Mac is definitely gay. As of Season 12 episode 6, Mac is no longer in the closet. | |
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The Scapegoat | |
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The Scapegoat: When in doubt, blame Sweet Dee. | |
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Ship Tease | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: In "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore", Charlie runs into the Waitress on the beach. Not only does she not insult him, they actually spend a fun, romantic night together. She was on ecstasy and has no love leftover in the morning. Dennis tells Dee that after looking through a series of guys, he's found out that he is really the perfect guy for her despite being her twin brother. She responds by telling him to "suck a dick" and kicking him down the stairs. Charlie and Dee get teased a few times, most notably when they make out and sleep together in "The Gang Misses the Boat", but "Time's Up For The Gang" sinks them by revealing that their encounter in the former episode was nonconsensual on Charlie's end. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: In "The Gang Exploits a Miracle", Dee repeatedly attempts to make Rickety Cricket fall in love with her, because the other members of the Gang said she wasn't attractive enough for him. She addresses him as "Matty" during her last attempt to seduce him. | |
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You Wanna Get Sued? | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_ddc66c9a | comment |
You Wanna Get Sued?: The "Philly Phrenetic" in "The World Series Defense". At the very end of the episode, Charlie states that it's really the Phanatic, and that he's only saying "Phrenetic" to avoid a lawsuit from MLB. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: Subverted in the episode "Who Pooped The Bed?" where Artemis believes that the whole gang is involved in one of these to frame each other for pooping in Frank and Charlie's bed. Frank then reveals that he did all of the poops, because "poop is funny!" Played straight in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom". | |
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The Shameless | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_ded51fd1 | comment |
The Shameless: All of the main characters have a particular area in their lives where they lack the self-awareness required to have shame, but it is possible to shame Dee, Dennis, Mac, and Charlie into trying to conform to more normal forms of behavior (even if it's just for appearances) if you can target the one thing they each are deeply insecure about. This is not the case for Frank. Frank has no delusions about the fact that he's a mean, gross, bigoted Jerkass. He's a proud hedonist who doesn't really care what others think of him, likely because he's so independently wealthy that he doesn't need to. | |
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Innocent Means Naïve | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_df5b972a | comment |
Innocent Means Naïve: Ben the soldier is the only truly decent and kind character in the entire show, innocent almost to a childlike degree. He's also dumber than a bag of bricks and can be counted on to fall for the Gang's various scams (including a pyramid scheme and Dee's controlling behavior when they date). However, he usually ends up on top simply by virtue of his obliviousness. | |
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Criminal Doppelgänger | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_e0443d9a | comment |
Criminal Doppelgänger: The self-explanatory episode "Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender." | |
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Your Head A-Splode | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_e0789c2a | comment |
Your Head A-Splode: Happens to Colonel Cricket when Frank manages to get the blunderbuss unjammed in "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell." | |
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Disposable Vagrant | |
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Disposable Vagrant: Charlie and Dee, looking for someone they can kill in order to find out what human meat tastes like but without getting in trouble, happen upon a homeless guy and invite him back to Charlie's apartment. | |
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Musical Episode | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_e1f59bf0 | comment |
Musical Episode: "The Nightman Cometh". The first half is about the making-of, while the second half is the performance. "The Gang turns Black" has the gang turning into black people after watching The Wiz and constantly bursting into song. However, they are the only characters other than Scott Bakula to do this, which just makes them look like weirdos to others. | |
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Body Sushi | |
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Body Sushi: After Frank gets his job back as an executive at Atwater Capital in the "Frank's Back in Business" episode, he meets some potential Japanese investors over a nyotaimori meal. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Ben the Soldier is a real idiot. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: "Flowers for Charlie" is a whole plot reference to Flowers for Algernon. Fittingly, the main character in the book is also called Charlie, and the film adaptation is called Charly. "The Gang Gets Held Hostage" is Die Hard in the bar. "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer" is one to Making a Murderer, with Dennis as Steven Avery and Charlie as Brendan Dassey. The scene in which Frank blurts a confession into a hot mic while supposedly using the restroom is a reference to The Jinx, another True Crime documentary series that came out around the same time. | |
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Award Snub | |
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Award Snub: invoked "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award" is a commentary on the show's lack of Emmy nominations (although events of the episode would imply that the crew doesn't submit material for nomination) and throws barbs at the shows that, for some reason, do win awards, despite things like tired will-they-or-won't-they plots and laugh tracks. | |
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The Face | |
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The Face: Dennis is this, relative to the rest of the group. He frequently proves himself to be the only member of the group who can function in certain social situations, though he is hardly a social person. | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Subverted. Charlie thinks he's speaking Mandarin, but it turns out to be complete and utter gibberish. | |
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Makeup Is Evil | |
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Makeup Is Evil: In Charlie's musical in The Nightman Cometh, Mac (as the Nightman) and Frank (as the Troll) are the most heavily made-up of the actors on stage. (Frank has prosthetic ears and nose, and Mac has some killer winged eyeliner). | |
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Attending Your Own Funeral | |
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Attending Your Own Funeral: Mac and Charlie in "Mac and Charlie Die". It's what tips Dennis off that they aren't really dead, as he hears them banging around on the roof and talking. They were watching the funeral through the air vents and speaking at full volume, according to Dennis. | |
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Camp | |
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Camp: Electric Dream Machine◊, the band Charlie and Dennis form in "Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person". | |
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Mac again in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops". Notable in that Mac had a hand in creating every aspect of this situation—being a Face wrestler representing America against a Heel wrestler representing the Taliban in front of an audience of veterans—and he still announces that he is too afraid. | |
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Narm | |
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Narm: In-universe example with "The Nightman Cometh". Charlie's musical got a lot of laughs, much to his dismay. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: In the first part of "The Gang Gets Whacked", the Gang has to make $25,000 in less than a week to pay the mafia for drugs that Charlie and Dee unknowingly stole. Dennis' role involves selling his "services" to old women at a country club: | |
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No Budget | |
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Early episodes had No Budget, heavily using Paddy's and the back alley for most of the story as well as relying a lot more on conversational humor. By the second season they were doing a lot more location work with large crowds of extras as well as visual gags with props and signs. | |
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Innocent Inaccurate | |
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Innocent Inaccurate: The Christmas "traditions" of Mac's and Charlie's family. Mac doesn't realize that his father was burglarizing neighbors, while Charlie doesn't realize that his mother was a prostitute. | |
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Instant Illness | |
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Instant Illness: Shelley dies of COVID a day after catching it from Frank, which should be impossible. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: Every member of the gang gets more extreme in their characterizations. Justified, as their continuing mental degredation and violent, destructive, co-dependent relationships are accentuated by their alcoholism. Charlie, the dim-witted loser with a crush, becomes an illiterate and completely insane stalker prone to screaming inappropriately. The fact that he's constantly ingesting hazardous materials might justify his deteriorating mental state. Mac started out as a fairly normal Irish Catholic wanna-be bruiser, but his fixation on karate and fitness, as well as his homoerotic undertones, have become very exaggerated. Mac's Flanderization seems to be due to the mounting pressure to appear straight, which nobody buys for a moment. Dennis starts out as a vain prep, but has become Flanderized into a sociopathic and narcissistic sexual deviant and borderline rapist. Originally the voice of reason, Dee's insecurity, shrillness and alcoholism are all played up in later seasons. The Gang's abuse of Dee also ramps up over the seasons, abusing her to the point of apparent psychotic breaks. Word of God is that this was done deliberately, as the only reason Dee would continue to hang out with such sociopaths is if she were equally sociopathic herself. Frank has intentionally Flanderized himself over the course of the show. At his introduction, he's a shady businessman who wants to live the gang's depraved lifestyle. His hair becomes increasingly wild between each season, and his behavior becomes more depraved. By Season 5, he's a complete mess. Possibly lampshaded by Dennis in "The Gang Misses the Boat" when ranting about how bizarre the gang has become. "By the way, all of us have become so goddamn weird!" | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Even on a show starring five delusional jerks, Barbara Reynolds (mother of Dennis and Dee and Frank's ex-wife) stands out as a heinous bitch. She spends of her screentime being malicious (calling Dee a mistake and insulting her appearance), manipulative (lying that Frank fathered their children when she learned he had more money than their biological father, seducing Mac just to irritate Frank before tossing him aside), and vain (nobody particularly cares when she dies from a "botched necklift"). | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "Frank's Little Beauties", Frank obliviously invests in a child beauty pageant that's under investigation— the former investor was accused of sexual misconduct towards the contestants. As a result, Frank is overly paranoid about being seen as a pedophile and naturally dips into this trope more than once. Lampshaded by Mac: In "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6", there's a scene with Riggs (Mac) and Murtaugh (Dennis) in a strip club: | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Very often discussed and lampshaded. Mac starts calling people "bozo" in "The Gang Hits the Road," saying it's his "new thing," then asks Charlie if he thinks it's cool. In "Mac's Big Break," Mac becomes fixated on calling people "jabroni," which Charlie thinks is awesome. After Franks asks "What's the action?" a few times, Mac derisively asks if he's trying to make it his new catchphrase. Mac often says, "Guys, I've got big news!" or some variation thereof when he walks into Paddy's Pub. This is lampshaded in "Chardee MacDennis," when Mac arrives at the bar with no plot hook to deliver, and the gang notes how unusual this is. People in the gang often shout "Eyyoooo!" whenever they arrive at Paddy's midway through a scene. Charlie invokes this in "Charlie Work," making Dennis say "Alright alright alright" literally every time he sees the health inspector. As the series progresses, the main cast grows increasingly prone to say that they're "moving past" some topic or setback while charging heedlessly forward in defiance of any caution or reflection. | |
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Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That! | |
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In a flashback in "Charlie Has Cancer", Mac punches Dee in the face when she grabs him from behind. This is foreshadowing for him doing the same thing to Carmen in public. | |
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Blackface | |
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Blackface: In "Lethal Weapon 5" and "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6," Mac uses makeup to play the role of Murtaugh. The rest of the gang argue that he's donning blackface and point to the trope image of Al Jolson to back criticize him. His makeup starts washing off in one scene filmed in a shower. Dennis refuses to darken his skin and only wears a mustache, though he does do a "black voice." In another scene, Dee also uses makeup to portray Murtaugh's daughter. The trope got these episodes kicked off of Netflix in 2020. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: "Charlie Work" features an extended single shot of a Crazy-Prepared Charlie expertly directing Dee, Dennis, Mac and Frank around the bar in order to successfully hide problems from a health inspector during a surprise visit right before she can notice them and pull off a Zany Scheme involving a steak delivery man. There are a few cuts disguised by a closing door, but each single shot is still reasonably long. | |
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Obsessively Organized | |
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Obsessively Organized: As revealed in "Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down", Mrs. Kelly has a habit of flicking lightswitches, locking doors, et cetera in sets of three before she goes to bed "so Charlie doesn't die". It's apparently infectious, as Charlie and Mac find out. Miss Kelly made Charlie get vaccinated every month and wear bubble-boy suits every flu season. | |
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The Plan | |
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The Plan: Charlie tries one in the episode "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom". | |
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Funny Flashback Haircut | |
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Funny Flashback Haircut: In flashbacks to 40+ years in the past, the showrunners make no attempt to make Danny Devito look younger, nor cast anyone else as a younger Frank. Instead, they just slap on an obvious unkempt toupee to cover his baldness. | |
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Never Learned to Read | |
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Never Learned to Read: Charlie's reading and writing skills are almost non-existent. It's often suggested that he has a learning disability. In "The Great Recession," Charlie reveals that he turns on the "Closed" sign in the bar every morning, believing it to say "Coors." Charlie's script for Dennis's commercial in "The Gang Runs For Office" hardly counts as English. Charlie reads the "Private" sign on a door as "Pirate" and wonders if a pirate lives behind it. Charlie's lyric sheet for "Night Man" seems to be a rebus of simple pictures and chicken-scratched words. Charlie unknowingly signs a contract agreeing to give Paddy's over to the winner of a dancing contest (mistaking the word "prize" for "pride" while signing the pub up to host the contest). At the end of the episode, Mac proclaims that Charlie really needs to learn how to read. | |
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Prisons Are Gymnasiums | |
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Prisons Are Gymnasiums: In "Mac and Charlie Die", Mac's dad is doing pull-ups Sarah Connor style when the guards come to let him out. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: In "The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation", Charlie and Dennis meet a Korean girl who they eventually discover is only 12 years old. The actress portraying her was 24 at the time. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: When the Gang reads Charlie's "fantasy" book to see what he may want for his birthday, they struggle with what he means by "worm hats". In the end, they go for three different possibilities — a hat made of worms, a hat that makes him look like a worm, and a hat for a worm. | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: In "Mac and Charlie Die," Dee mentions that she ran down Spring Garden Street through Fairmount Park to get back to Paddy's, which is in South Philly. If you look at a map of the city, it becomes obvious how wrong this is, as Spring Garden Street runs east-west through Center City and is already south of Fairmount Park. It's a little surprising that this mistake wasn't caught since Rob McElhenney is actually from Philadelphia in real life. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: Lampshaded in "Charlie Rules the World." Dennis states, "Sometimes things just... end." The show then cuts away to credits. | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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One episode has the Mac and Dennis visiting Dave and Busters and trying to emulate its Power Card system. There's some Biting-the-Hand Humor about how Mac and Dennis think it's a classy place, ordering red wine and saying, "You can't get a better steak in an arcade environment!" | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: Mac's centre-ice slapshot in "Mac's Big Break". Similarly, the end of the Reunion episode, where a big triumph turns out to be a drunken delusion. A good chunk of the plot in "Dennis Reynolds: A Erotic Life." Naturally, it's a much darker spin. The ending of "The Gang Turns Black" turns out to be a dream of Old Black Man. However, upon looking into a mirror, he sees Scott Bakula's face. Dennis Takes A Mental Health Day is almost entirely a fantasy created by Dennis to lower his blood pressure. | |
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Sequel Episode | |
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Sequel Episode: there's quite a big number of those: "Gun Fever 2: Still Hot" (season 9) to "Gun Fever" (season 1). "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6" (season 9) to "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth" (season 6). "The Nightman Cometh" (season 4) to "Sweet Dee is Dating a Retarded Person" (season 2). "Pop-Pop: the Final Solution" (season 8) to "The Gang Finds a Dead Guy" (season 1). "The World Series Defense" (season 5) and "The Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods" (season 6) both deal with the Gang's fondness for the Philadelphia Phillies. "The Gang Gives Back" (season 2) is a sequel to "The Gang Goes Jihad", which precedes it by a couple of episodes. | |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy | |
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy: L'il Kev from "Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person". However, he is portrayed much more sympathetically than the main cast. | |
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Quirky Work | |
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Quirky Work: In-Universe, the Dancing Man's public-access TV show, which is just a man dancing shirtless on green-screened backgrounds. The gang finds it oddly fascinating. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: All the main characters are combative, petty and cruel to everyone. Colin, a guy who Dee dates for a bit. Dennis describes him as an '80s movie stereotype. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: Charlie's mom is attracted to men who treat her like crap. Even Frank admits that he's a little ashamed at how bad he has to treat her to keep her interested. Rickety Cricket to Dee. | |
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Snap Back | |
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Snapback: While the show usually features a surprising amount of continuity for a sitcom, there is some snapback. "Dee and Dennis Go On Welfare" ends with Dennis and Dee addicted to crack. They're fine by the next episode, though there have been a handful of callbacks. Mac's seventh-season weight gain snaps back in beginning of season eight, in which he makes reference to his sudden and disappointing weight loss. Lampshaded in "The Gang Gets Analyzed" when Mac and the therapist discuss his sudden weight loss. It turns out Dennis secretly gave him pills that made Mac lose his appetite so he'd get thin again. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
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Dwindling Party: "Thunder Gun Express." First Dennis gets abandoned in traffic. Then Frank can't make it onto the train. Mac is too fat to fit into a storm drain. Finally, Dee gets her shoe stuck in a grate in the sewer, leaving Charlie all alone. However, all of them (except Frank) get to the movie theater anyway. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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Mac's cousin Mac turns out to be gay, much to the collective acceptance of The Gang. Well, everybody except Mac. | |
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A Handful for an Eye | |
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A Handful for an Eye: Rickety Cricket throws sand into Dennis and Charlie's eyes during the wrestling match in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops". Dee uses a similar strategy to get herself and Dennis away from violent criminals in "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore." Bonus points for using sand she and Dennis were being forced to dig for a grave at the time. | |
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Fantasy Sequence | |
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Fantasy Sequence: The premise of "The Gang Saves the Day". The Gang is caught in a convenience store robbery, and imagine how they'd save the day. Mac imagines he obliterates ninjas with his karate while struggling to insert puns in his Bond One Liners, then ascends to a homoerotic heaven. Sweet Dee imagines she kills the whole gang, blames everything on the robber, gets into witness relocation and becomes a huge star. Dennis imagines he's shot, and is then nursed back to health by Jackie Denardo, until she herself gets crippled and he Mercy Kills her rather than return the favor, mainly because her boobs got smaller. Frank imagines that he gorges on free hot dogs while the robber kills the rest of the gang. Charlie imagines he protects The Waitress, making her fall in love with him. They live out a happy life closely modeled on Up, only with more janitors and rats. | |
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Poking Dead Things with a Stick | |
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Poking Dead Things with a Stick: In the Cold Open for "The Gang Finds A Dead Guy", Mac and Dee discover a body in the bar that they think is asleep and try nudging awake with a pool cue before they realize it's dead. | |
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Your Other Left | |
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Your Other Left: "A Very Sunny Christmas": | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: One of the first conversations in the series involves Mac, Dennis, and Charlie tripping over themselves to prove they're not racist to a black man that Dee's hired. A brilliant one in "Frank Reynold's Little Beauties", when he realizes his mic is on backstage while he's talking about necrophilia: | |
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Distracted by the Sexy | |
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Distracted by the Sexy: "Storm of the Century" has Mac, Dennis, and Charlie completely disregarding the Weather Report's warnings of a Category 5 snowstorm due to their wandering eyes focusing entirely on the well-endowed meteorologist Jackie Denardo. The guys subsequently channel surf to the Spanish station, where they fixate on the equally-chesty weather girl Evita Sanchez. Then they spend a bit of time flipping back and forth between forecasts. Naturally. | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Charlie in particular, but everyone in the gang is prone to shouted arguments in public places. | |
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Trying Not to Cry | |
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Dennis might get the most, mostly to do with him being a very dark depiction of someone broken by childhood sexual abuse; sadly telling Frank he has a massive god hole that he can only fill with sex, choking down tears as he mixes "cougars" up with "librarians", Trying Not to Cry as he admits to the others he has emotions that hurt him, and multiple dreams where he either desexualises himself to get looked after or realizes his Implication/Systems were how he felt as a kid. | |
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Unconventional Food Order | |
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Unconventional Food Order: In "The Waitress Is Getting Married," Charlie's already-imploding blind date only gets worse when he asks the waiter for "Milk steak, boiled over hard, with a side of your finest raw jellybeans." | |
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Female Misogynist | |
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Female Misogynist: Sweet Dee in spades. She lashes out at most female characters and tries to outdo them at everything, usually failing miserably. She only calls up her few female friends (Artemis and the Waitress) if she needs to use them for something, and usually insults them in the meantime. In "A Woman's Right To Chop," she ostensibly seems to defend short-haired women but mocks their appearance just as much as the guys do. | |
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Unconventional Food Usage: When Frank and Artemis have sex, they like to get into "food stuff." Frank puts bacon bits in Artemis's hair so she "feels like a Cobb salad." They also use a hamburger bun for unspecified purposes. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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In "The Gang Spies Like U.S.", Charlie knows neither that Mac and Dennis are stealing the Chinese fish factory's Wi-Fi, nor that "cream pie" is also a name for a sex act (and therefore a search term for pornography). He therefore comes to the conclusion that Mac and Dennis are planning on starting a bakery with the Chinese and asks them why they haven't asked them to make cream pies with him instead. Then he starts talking about feeding his cream pies to children... | |
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Eyeball-Plucking Birds | |
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Eyeball-Plucking Birds: A swallow named Royal owned by Pappy McPoyle pokes out Liam's eye at his wedding. The same bird also gouges out the Lawyer's eye. | |
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Too Much Information | |
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Too Much Information: Artemis, to some guys she wants to impress: "I have a bleached asshole!" | |
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Lower-Class Lout | |
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Lower-Class Lout: The whole gang, including the Ivy League-educated Dennis and Dee (although Dee dropped out while Dennis graduated). Frank is actually incredibly wealthy, but chooses to live this way because it's fun. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
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Dumbass Has a Point: In "Charlie Work", while preparing for a visit from the health inspector, Charlie discovers the Gang in the midst of a scam involving live chickens, prompting Charlie to tell them to move the chickens away from the front of the bar. When they ask him why they should do it, he tells them that even if they don't care about the inspection, it's still not a good idea for a government official to see a scam happening in plain sight. The gang quickly acknowledges he has a point and moves the chickens. In "Reynolds v. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense", the topic shifts to the subject of creationism. Mac, The Fundamentalist, is generally framed as foolish for his refusal to believe in evolution, but he manages to make a persuasive argument against Dennis by arguing that because Dennis doesn't personally know how evolution actually works, his "faith" in the work of scientists is no more valid than Mac's faith in Creationism, especially since scientists can be wrong. Mac's argument sounds cogent, and Dennis is at a loss to refute it. | |
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Deck of Wild Cards | |
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Deck of Wild Cards: The Gang are each other's only friends. That doesn't stop them from constantly backstabbing each other in their various schemes, sometimes for no reason at all. In "Frank Retires," Charlie squabbles with Dennis and Dee over who will inherit Paddy's Pub from Frank. Mac loudly announces every time he switches sides, Dee betrays Dennis and joins Charlie, and Dennis tries using a fake heir as a bid to take everything for himself. "Paddy's Pub: Home Of The Original Kitten Mittens": Charlie and Dee, Mac and Dennis, and Frank separately try to come up with merchandising ideas for the bar, constantly trying to one-up each other and stealing ideas back and forth. It ends up All for Nothing when the Lawyer they've been irritating tricks them into signing all the merchandising profits over to him. | |
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Glad I Thought of It | |
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Glad I Thought of It: Dennis does this on more than one occasion. | |
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Creepy Uncle | |
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Creepy Uncle: Charlie's Uncle Jack, who is heavily implied to be a child molester, as well as sexually attracted to Charlie. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Kicks in after a few seasons. The bar suddenly has a bunch of Coors promotional items. There's a joke about Charlie turning on the "Coors" sign, which turns out to be a "Closed" sign. One episode has the Mac and Dennis visiting Dave and Busters and trying to emulate its Power Card system. There's some Biting-the-Hand Humor about how Mac and Dennis think it's a classy place, ordering red wine and saying, "You can't get a better steak in an arcade environment!" Dee shows up with a bag and beverage from Subway. Another episode has a scene taking place in a Subway. In "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs", there's an FX display in the opening scene, with the company logo and a Sons of Anarchy poster. Anheuser-Busch signed on as a sponsor before the show’s premiere, only to pull out following the airing of the first episode. The rest of season one has Bland-Name Product logos digitally superimposed over all A-B signs and products. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
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In "Reynolds v. Reynolds: The Cereal Defense", the topic shifts to the subject of creationism. Mac, The Fundamentalist, is generally framed as foolish for his refusal to believe in evolution, but he manages to make a persuasive argument against Dennis by arguing that because Dennis doesn't personally know how evolution actually works, his "faith" in the work of scientists is no more valid than Mac's faith in Creationism, especially since scientists can be wrong. Mac's argument sounds cogent, and Dennis is at a loss to refute it. | |
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Trunk Shot | |
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Trunk Shot: POV from the critic Charlie kidnapped in "Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar In Philadelphia", and his neighbor. | |
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Unnecessary Roughness | |
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Unnecessary Roughness: In "The Gang Gives Back." | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: Subverted when Mac and Charlie do this to supposedly escape Mac's dad, who they think is out to kill them. Later it's revealed that Mac's dad wanted nothing to do with them and no one but Frank actually thought they were dead. | |
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The guys making fun of Dee's appearance is a Running Gag, though Dee looks exactly the same as her actress. | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits: Well, mother. Played Straight with Dennis in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom". Dennis is enraged when he discovers Mac has slept with his mother. He eventually ends up telling Mac off and fighting with him. Inverted with Charlie in "Dennis Looks Like A Registered Sex Offender". When Frank moves out to shack up with Charlie's mother, Charlie is mad at his mother for stealing his Heterosexual Life-Partner away from him, even though Frank treats her horribly. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: In "Charlie Has Cancer", Charlie has a cancer scare. Dee fixates on how awful he'd look without his hair. Charlie seems to think the twist of The Sixth Sense is that Malcolm Crowe was played by Bruce Willis the entire time. In "Sweet Dee has a Heart Attack", after learning that the government doesn't pay for health care, Charlie and Mac remark that they might as well be living in a Communist, Socialist dictatorship, because free healthcare has always been a totally American concept? | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Mac plays with this more than once with phrases like "More better" and "More bigger." | |
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Special Edition Title: "A Very Sunny Christmas" features the exact same shots of Philadelphia, but with the scenery decked out for Christmas. The eighth season Halloween episode features scary music and red titles over a black screen instead of the standard title sequence. Season 11 gets two variations: "The Gang Hits the Slopes" references 80's films with block text over a shot of people skiing as electric guitar plays, and "Being Frank", with the credits appearing over Frank's reflection as he gets reading for the day, with delicate piano music playing rather than the usual tune. Season 14's "The Janitor Always Mops Twice," in keeping with its 1940s aesthetic, has special art deco style credits and tinny background music. Due to the shift in locale, the entire second half of Season 15 has an opening sequence showing rolling Irish hills and set to a jaunty Celtic punk tune. | |
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Fell Off the Back of a Truck | |
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Fell Off the Back of a Truck: $25,000 worth of cocaine belonging to some mobsters in "The Gang Gets Whacked". | |
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With Friends Like These... | |
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With Friends Like These...: One wonders why the gang stays friends despite all the times they've screwed each other over. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Dennis tries to invoke this trope between Mac and Dee in "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win An Award," in order to increase their chances of winning the Best Bar in Philadelphia award. Subverted in that neither Mac nor Dee are particularly enthusiastic about enacting this trope, ultimately ending with them yelling at each other and Mac nearly strangling Dee because she cracked a joke about his mother. Dennis also tries to use it in "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" between Jack and Bonnie Kelly (the fact that they're siblings does not deter him). He tries to turn it into a Love Triangle once Frank gets involved. Needless to say, Dennis seems to be a big fan of this trope. Later seasons, however, seem to play this trope straight between Mac and Dennis, with Mac explicitly being in love with Dennis, and Dennis' feelings for Mac being relatively ambiguous. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Frank's rum ham, which is lost and then turns up at the end of "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore." Early in the episode "The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation," Mac and Charlie remark briefly that they have a hard time determining the age of the Koreans, which becomes a huge plot-point later when the Korean "woman" Charlie proposed to turns out to be twelve years old. In "Charlie Rules the World," Frank says "We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!" The end credits just show a giant sea turtle floating in outer space. In "Charlie Rules the World," Dennis proclaims that if Charlie ever rules the world, he'll blow himself. Toward the end of the episode, Charlie has become the most powerful player in an online video game world, and Dennis blows another version of himself in an isolation tank-inspired vision. In the Season 1 episode "Charlie Has Cancer," Mac punches Carmen the transgender woman on accident and is chased down by two men for committing what they perceive to be a hate crime. Five seasons later, in "The World Series Defense," they beat up Charlie for attacking the "Philly Phrenetic." In the first part of the two-part high school reunion finale, the gang sees Schmitty's (a former member of the gang played by Jason Sudeikis) name tag and comment that he'll probably skip the whole thing and only show up at the end to "swoop in and bang the grossest chick here." At the end of the second part, right after a very drunken Waitress states that she will have sex with the very next person who speaks to her, Schmitty pops up out of nowhere and says hi to her. She leads him off to have sex, ruining Charlie's chance to finally bang her. In "Charlie Work", Charlie for some reason keeps taking the time to slam a particular stool on the ground several times each time he walks past it. At the end of the episode, it provides a final proof of Charlie's Crazy Preparedness by falling apart when Dee sits in it—he knew she would sit on that stool. In Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life, Charlie forbids Dee from using his bathroom, with a vague warning of "You do NOT want to go in that bathroom." 12 seasons later, it's revealed that the bathroom...is a bit noisy. | |
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The Corrupter | |
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The Corrupter: The gang's terrible influence has a habit of ruining the morals of anyone else who crosses their path. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: As awful and narcissistic and possibly psychotic as he is, Dennis has been praised for an accurate depiction of BPD: the hypersexuality, the feeling dead inside, dissociating, creators have said many times he’s probably the most fragile of the Gang, is the worst off when he’s alone and freaks out when he might get abandoned, constantly self harms and harms others with his awful views on sex coming from trauma when young, and is very impulsive and desperate for validation though he won’t admit it. It also helps that his terrible behavior isn’t due to his BPD, he’s just rape culture in a nutshell and knows he can get away with it. | |
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