So much ridiculous crap happens in this episode, and it's just so funny. Season 3 is off to a great start.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV Series)
Dennis and Dee's Mom Is Dead (2007)
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What was that?
Lambers-37 August 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I'm really torn about this episode...at first, I was shocked by the absolute macabre dealing of the Mom's dead. When I read the episode's title, I was very interested in how they would deal with such a theme but eventually it was great black humour and I have the feeling IASIP becomes darker and bolder from season to season which I like... But I was really disappointed by the storyline involving Dee and Frank pretending to be a couple. The biological father who wants to watch them having sex??? They could have just denied this for no particular reason. The same with the marriage...the didn't even ask if they would get the money without marrying each other. I have not seen such a dumb storyline in a TV series in a long time... On the other hand there was the really funny storyline involving the guys searching for a party crew...I really haven't laughed so hard at a TV series in a long time...The flyer shaped like a penis was totally hilarious. All in all a very strange episode involving both highlights and low points of the series so far.
I'm legitimately hard-pressed to see anything good in this one
yavermbizi24 August 2019
My overall rating of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"'s Season 3: 4/10
The beginning of the show's 3rd Season consists of very disappointing episodes; after some thought, I'm pretty certain this one is the worst. In "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby", bad as it was, Dennis' minor subplot was very entertaining; in "The Gang Gets Invincible", bad as it was, the Dennis&Mac vs Dee argument in the beginning was a bit of a highlight - in this episode I honestly can't think of a moment that would strike me as funny or clever.
I'd say the show is at its worst when the gang are written as explicitly moronic and as the most immoral, vicious people on the globe. The show's style - to me, at least - is in slightly exaggerrated (but not unbelievably so) self-centred, morally-flexible individuals dealing with somewhat-believable but comedic circumstances. When it becomes something cartoonish - and this episode wouldn't be out of place in "South Park" or "Family Guy" - it loses anything that makes it unique or appealing or even watchable.
The plot being so insanely dumb that it concludes with a - much better and funnier - idea that'd been expressed halfway into it really makes me wonder why did the authors want to waste my time so much.
The beginning of the show's 3rd Season consists of very disappointing episodes; after some thought, I'm pretty certain this one is the worst. In "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby", bad as it was, Dennis' minor subplot was very entertaining; in "The Gang Gets Invincible", bad as it was, the Dennis&Mac vs Dee argument in the beginning was a bit of a highlight - in this episode I honestly can't think of a moment that would strike me as funny or clever.
I'd say the show is at its worst when the gang are written as explicitly moronic and as the most immoral, vicious people on the globe. The show's style - to me, at least - is in slightly exaggerrated (but not unbelievably so) self-centred, morally-flexible individuals dealing with somewhat-believable but comedic circumstances. When it becomes something cartoonish - and this episode wouldn't be out of place in "South Park" or "Family Guy" - it loses anything that makes it unique or appealing or even watchable.
The plot being so insanely dumb that it concludes with a - much better and funnier - idea that'd been expressed halfway into it really makes me wonder why did the authors want to waste my time so much.
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