Always Sunny is easily my favorite comedy show ever & one of my favorite shows period. This was the best episode of what is, in my opinion, undeniably the worst season of the show. S13 & s14 were below the show's regular standards, but this season did not have a single great episode & had some of the worst episodes of the show (Gang Buys a Roller Rink is a particular low light).
As i mentioned, this is easily the best episode of this season. However, many of the jokes still fall flat or are absent. Funniest moment of the episode comes when the waitress is arguing with them in the bar. This scene is carried by Kaitlin, who was the best part of this episode despite dropping out first.
Moving on to the season as a whole, it's very bad. There's no other way to put it. The character-based humor that makes the show funny is completely absent. Rob's character did not make me smile even once, glenn's character is a complete shell of himself, & danny's character exists entirely for childish
/political humor now (see the poop meatballs & the piss canteens). Charlie's character doesn't for with the current events humor. Kaitlin's character was given absolutely nothing to work with all season. This decline was inevitable, this is season 15 after all. However, what shocked me most about this season was that the show tried to rewrite so much of its own history. Frank maybe being charlie's father is something that existed in the show for so many years now, but now it's a dead joke. Also, the gang buys the roller rink does a lot of rewriting, although somebody covered it in their own review for that episode so i won't rehash it here.
What i don't want to get lost in my negativity here is that i'm very happy for the show. They made tv history & filled their bank accounts in the process. I couldn't be happier for everybody involved & i'm fine with them milking the show as long as long as they want. It's their creation & it's their job after all. They deserve to make as much money as they possibly can off of the show.
However, that does not mean fans of the show can't be honest. The show is not good anymore. It's basically impossible to be good for 15 years, especially in comedy. At its best, this is the funniest show i've ever seen & there isn't another show that comes close. The show was legitimately good for 12 seasons, & i will rewatch those 12 seasons forever. 15 seasons is just too long. Glenn, charlie & rob all know this; the last two season finales have made that abundantly clear. I mean, they gang is literally dragging a corpse up a mountain. How much more obvious can you get?
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