It’s Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaThe Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition
Original Air Date: 13 Nov 2008
Tom R. - Two Cents Staff Writer
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OK, so I think I missed a lot of the jokes here, since I’ve never seen Extreme Makeover. Not that it interferes with anything…I mean, come on. The recap and review could be the same every week: They acted like morons, I laughed like hell. The end.
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OK, so I think I missed a lot of the jokes here, since I’ve never seen Extreme Makeover. Not that it interferes with anything…I mean, come on. The recap and review could be the same every week: They acted like morons, I laughed like hell. The end.
ReplyDelete3:27 PM, on a Friday, and Dee has seen results from her self-help visualization program. The court has awarded her the house that belonged to her mother. Following her lead, the guys are creating “vision boards” to conceptualize what they want from life. They are Initially put off by the fact that the self-help program requires good deeds, but they realize that it plays into their love for Extreme Makeover.
The gang targets the Juarez family that just moved in. They break into their home late at night, with loud music blaring and Charlie yelling through a bullhorn. Instead of blindfolding them, they throw garbage bags over their heads. Unable to speak English and frightened by Dee’s attempts at Spanish (“Your house is no more! We are extreme!”), the Juarez family thinks they are being kidnapped.
Needless to say, the guys know nothing about home renovation. Mac wraps a chain around a bowling ball to make it into a wrecking ball, Dennis and Charlie assume the local hardware store will give them the tools for free, and Frank the Foreman goes to sleep in the “client’s” bed, waking up every time any attempt at a fix-up starts. When he is thrown off the job site, he helps to sabotage the renovation, which ends with the place being reduced to a pile of rubble. The court gives Dee’s house to the Juarezes, as the Gang laments, “You try to help people, you end up getting screwed.”
“The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell” was a hard act to follow, but this makes for a great follow-up. Last week was the best episode of the season, but this ranks up there in the top five. It’s an easy formula to follow…mistake after mistake after mistake, but the best thing about it all is the landing point. When the Juarezes close the door after that last line, it literally all comes home. Serious kudos to the writing staff. Kudos as well to the Juarezes, who have virtually no reaction throughout the episode, no matter what happens. Less is definitely more.
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