It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life”
Original Air Date: Oct 23, 2008
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
Leave it to this show to make incredibly bizarre use of their guest stars. After abusing Fisher Stevens last week, Sinbad and Rob Thomas arrive as mental patients. Something like that. I’m still not sure. Seems like every time I write about this show, it seems like I’m reliving some weird dream. But what an episode…A little more confusing than usual, and that’s saying a lot. Still, they can pull this off better than most shows.
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Original Air Date: Oct 23, 2008
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
Leave it to this show to make incredibly bizarre use of their guest stars. After abusing Fisher Stevens last week, Sinbad and Rob Thomas arrive as mental patients. Something like that. I’m still not sure. Seems like every time I write about this show, it seems like I’m reliving some weird dream. But what an episode…A little more confusing than usual, and that’s saying a lot. Still, they can pull this off better than most shows.
11:00 PM, on a Monday, and Dee confronts Charlie about eating cheese from the rat traps. (“The old cheese! To figure out why the rats aren’t eating it!”) After a discussion about Charlie’s weird behavior, he dares Dee to walk a mile in his shoes. He starts with his sleeping regimen of eating cat food and huffing Elmer’s glue in order to fall asleep before the cats start howling. As she berates his method, Frank comes in, follows the same regimen and passes out. Looking for a bathroom, Dee wanders the hallways and has a “Shining” moment with a pair of twins that sends her back to Charlie’s for the cat food.
Meanwhile, Charlie has found Dennis’ memoirs. After reading them aloud to Frank and Mac, they feel a book deal is in the works, although they have to squelch some of Dennis’ more outlandish claims, such as pimping for Bon Jovi, making it through rehab, and developing stigmata. Rather than remove these selling points from the book, Mac thinks it better to arrange things so no one can disprove the stories. They take him to a rehab clinic and leave him outside, while Frank and Mac argue about how to recreate the stigmata: with Frank’s nail gun, or Mac’s cigar.
Waking up the next morning, Dee tells Charlie that now, he has to live her life. They end up at a comedy club where she has been performing. She goes onstage and nearly dry-heaves from nervousness. She sends Charlie up next, who tries to wing an act, incorporating Dee’s near-vomit experience.
While Dennis wakes up in the clinic with Sinbad and Rob Thomas bullying him and taking his stigmata angle, Frank and Mac take separate routes to Bon Jovi. Frank offers to buy the Philadelphia Soul arena football team from Bon Jovi (whose name he can’t pronounce), while Mac buys a bald cap to make people think he is dying of cancer, hoping for a benefit concert. He feels this will play on their sympathies, until the Soul executive points out that chemo would have knocked out his beard as well.
All five meet at a fountain where they have been coming daily: Dee has been throwing in wishing pennies; Charlie has been scooping out change for the spy he hired to follow The Waitress; Frank pees into it as revenge on an old grudge; Dennis thinks it has rejuvenating properties. (Sorry…I missed Mac’s reason. Yes, it’s a lot to follow.) Dennis drags them all back to the rehab center, but he claims he was taken to a clinic across the street. When they enter, it’s an abandoned building with janitors that look suspiciously like Sinbad and Rob Thomas. After some confusing flashbacks, Dennis walks out, determined to see a doctor.
There’s my two cents, laundered and sterilized as clean as I can get them. What do you think? Drop them in the comments or drop me a line at: tom@thetwocents.com .
Rob Thomas played a great crazy guy! Loved the way he sniffed Dennis!
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