Dennis’s delivery of this line couldn’t be more perfect: “We don’t want wild girls. We want real girls going wild.” The camera zooms in closer. “It’s important to see the transition. You want to—“ - Dennis physically moves closer to Mac - “—watch the process.”. Brilliantly hilarious. I have to rewatch that scene every time!
This show is insane! I'm still at awe with how easily and naively they criticise the American society without making too much fuss about it. It all comes out so natural it's almost creepy. This show is like Seinfeld on crack.
And I love Frank and the Asian gamblers! This show has so much random but hilarious stuff!
This along with Hundred Dollar Baby are by far the weakest of the episodes of It's Always Sunny so far. It just fails to be funny, this specially, because it lacks focus on all its narrative threads. Charlie Day is one of the best things of this show, but somehow here and in that episode I mentioned, his rhytmn fails and drags.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-04-17T01:57:34Z
[7.3/10] Fun episode about Freedom gone mad. My favorite of the storylines was Mac and Dennis treating the bar as a lawless free-for-all and blanching at how quickly it goes from a Girls Gone Wild-style fantasy to miserable den of weirdos shooting up and stabbing one another. It’s a really funny illustration of how quickly the notion of unfettered freedom starts to run aground when others want to exercise the same thing in a way you don’t like, and suddenly the notions of rules and order don’t seem so insane.
I have to admit, the McPoyle stuff grossed me out a little and seemed to exist only for shock value (though them showing up randomly behind people had a certain comedic charm to it.) And them stabbing Charlie with a fork had a weird bit of closure to it after their last appearance. Plus Dennis’s creepiness about it being important to see the transition from “real girl” to “wild” had a deranged but funny quality to it.
I was less on board with Charlie and Dee’s story. Charlie going whole-hog, undirected jingoism paid some comedic dividends. The actor has a certain fun energy that brings the comedy when he busts into something like a song about kicking people’s asses. That sort of manic charge he brings to things makes them funny even when the material sags.
And the material sagged with Dee’s attempts to parlay protesting the smoking ban into acting. The bit with Charlie freezing up and vomiting just like she predicted had some comedy, and her disbelief at the rest of the gang’s nonsense is usually good for a laugh, but the whole bit with her and Artemis just didn’t go anywhere beyond Mac and Dennis’s conversation that now she’s a failed actress.
Last but not least, Frank returning to his Vietnamese gambling buddies, and eventually going full Deer Hunter was an amusing coda to the episode. Overall, this was a fun idea for a main story that drove the episode, with the stuff around it being less strong.