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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season premiere

I liked the episode, but I tend to like the character-based stories, especially the ones that deal with the frakked-up-ness of the characters' families, and how oblivious they are to it. Mac's mom is my favorite character on the show! :D
 
Yeah, I liked the Mac and Charlie plot (though Charlie's mom is really a pretty terrible actress...). It's a bad sign though that 18 hours after watching it, I can't for the life of me remember what the Dennis/Dee/Frank plot was about at all. I remember Josh Groban and Dee being tied to the sofabed, but that's it. Overall not one of the better eps so far this season, but still ahead of S4-5 quality.
 
Frank was worried that neither of his alleged kids will care for him in his old age so Dennis helpfully drugged Dee with some nasty substance (not sure what, it could have been a bottle of cough medicine?) so that Frank could take care of her and make her feel obligated to him, or something along those lines.

They should do more plotlines involving the ever-fascinating Reynolds family dynamic. Whatever happened to their family fortune, anyway? Maybe it's time for them to scheme to get it back (or rather, Dennis and Dee scheme, since Frank seems to enjoy his hobo lifestyle).
 
He just hopped her up with Nyquil. I know from experience, if you take that when you're not sick, it really effs you up!
 
Alright, so the Halloween episode sucked unfortunately. It was good to see the McPoyle brothers for the first time in three years though, and the scene with the chirping ostrich in Mac's flashback had me rolling on the floor for a few minutes, but there weren't really any laughs in the rest of the episode. Ah well.
 
You didn't like the Halloween episode? I thought it was the funniest one they've done this season (perhaps it's the only one this year that I laughed through from beginning to end).

A nice and twisted take on ROSHOMON--and of course it (almost) ends with incest!
 
I'm very disappointed that Dennis or Frank didn't impregnate Sweet Dee :mad: Boo! That would have been so perfect for a running storyline!

I kept expecting that she didn't have sex with anyone and just got something "dripped" on her, like when that glass of milk spilled all over her dress.
 
I've been wondering since this show started when they were going to play the inevitable Dennis/Dee incest card. :rommie: I think they waited for a pretty funny episode to do it, although did anyone not where it was all headed from the minute Dennis asked "which one of YOU guys knocked up my sister?"

If Dee had wanted to be extra-mean, she could have just allowed the guys to continue in their assumptions for a while, and declared her intention to keep the baby (hey, wouldn't a monstrously deformed kid be good for extra welfare benefits?) But I guess that's beyond the pale even for this show, and not really a fair come-back for the nyquil cocktail.

Is this the beginning of a plot arc of sorts?

-So, what were Dee and Dennis doing in the office, then?
-And who is the daddy?

I'm very disappointed that Dennis or Frank didn't impregnate Sweet Dee :mad: Boo!
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Frank isn't her biological father, so that would have been a hilarious idea. But they never in a billion years would have gone for the Dennis option. That's way beyond the pale, even for this show.

I don't even think Dee prolonging the agony under false pretenses would be within bounds...there's a point at which even brutal comedy becomes just unappealingly awful. The trick is knowing how far is too far.
 
But Frank is almost certainly Charlie's biological father, which makes Charlie sort of a half-stepbrother to Dennis and Dee. That means of all the possibilities, the only guy she wasn't arguably related to was Mac (and weren't Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson expecting their first child when these shows were shot, so that's the reason they had to invent the pregnancy plotline to begin with :rommie:)?
 
She's pregnant for real? I was wondering about that, because I don't remember noticing any baby bump in the episodes before this.
 
I read that she had a baby in August, so I guess they were filming eps last spring? They may be padding the bump to get the timing right for her to give birth by the season finale or some such...

No idea who the heck the father is going to be. Not Cricket!!! :rommie:
 
The bump has been pretty evident since the beginning of this season, I think. The AV Club reviewer mentioned it after the first episode. They've certainly been going through all the tricks used by films to hide her pregnancy, which made me a little surprised that they ended up incorporating it into the story.
 
Not a lot of laughs this week, in my opinions, but great guest turns from Jason Sudeikis, Dave Foley, and the great Rene Auberjonois! I was never expecting to see Odo on this show. :lol:

I'm a little disappointed we didn't get the answer about the father of Dee's baby, but it looks like this week was just setup for next week. I'm kind of enjoying the mini story arcs they're doing this season, rather than being purely episodic.
 
I have to say, I think the tone of the mini-arcs is all wrong for this series. Charlie walking off into the distance to become a janitor just didn't have the big laugh that most episodes go out on. It's not the only time that's happened this year, either.

Having Rene Auberjonois around was fun, surely, but I the laughs were thin there, too.
 
I thought at the end of the episode we would hear the bell ring and the students start coming out of the classrooms and hit that slippery waxed floor,now that would have been funny.:lol:
 
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