Delirious stand up comedy12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() So yes, the climax of this episode amounts to a deeply distressed Frank playing a game of chess with a buzzing sex toy inside him, which is kind of an average Tuesday for the Gang given all they’ve been through. So Dennis, being the man he is, thinks about Mac and gets an idea. (The episode ignores that fact that Frank’s cheating is obvious-on a show where the comedy is usually derived from the Gang’s insanely stupid schemes getting shut down by sane people, I was hoping they’d do something with that.) And surprisingly, Frank actually makes it to the final against the Russian, but realizes that his method of another person controlling his moves through a restaurant buzzer will be easily noticed. The less memorable (but still quite good) story of the episode is Charlie (Charlie Day) and Frank the out how to cheat their way through matches where most of their opponents are children. (Favorite joke of the episode: Mac simply does not understand that Dennis and his “boyfriend” aren’t two different people.) It’s obvious from the start that Dennis is enjoying this-at the beginning of the episode when Mac brings his relationship up, you can see Dennis smirking to himself knowingly. It’s a reveal that’s as bizarre as it is genuinely disturbing, so of course it’s something Dennis would do. Naturally, Always Sunny isn’t content with just letting Dennis fail-a running joke throughout the episode is that Mac has a relationship with some mystery guy that involves a remote-controlled sex toy, but it turns out that this is all a ploy by Dennis to make Mac get out of their apartment whenever he’s tired of him. Surprisingly, the dates he sets them up with actually go well, despite some hiccups, (“I used to fuck LeBron James,” Mac boasts to his date) but of course they both immediately drop their dates and go back to Dennis. Of course, it’s just Dennis projecting how he wants women to treat him, and the lesson is rife with maternal issues and Dennis’s need to control any situation he’s in. Tired of Mac and Dee constantly needing his help with men (“Aren’t you, like, sixty?” Mac asks when Dee brags about her sex life), Dennis sits them down and explains his system for attracting men to them. Russia” is my favorite episode of the season so far because of one simple reason: it’s really, really funny. Russia” is the story’s pacing-the in medias res opening immediately transitions to two days earlier, where most of the episode is then spent on Dennis trying to get Mac (Rob McElhenney) and Dee (Kaitlin Olson) dates. (In typical Always Sunny fashion, all of these turn out to be related.) Russia” chronicles the two days leading up to Frank’s big chess match against a Russian grandmaster, because of course the Gang’s idea of patriotism is “win against Russia.” In typical Dennis fashion, he finds a way to make this all about him, resulting in a lot of cheating, more of Dennis’s sociopathy, and a very significant misuse of sex toys. From the instant Dennis tells a delirious Frank (Danny DeVito) that “everything you need is already inside you” in the episode’s opening, I knew something was up. Russia” makes a real attempt at reviving the joke, and I’d say it works pretty well. ![]() But the joke feels like it’s run its course in the past few seasons. ![]() ![]() Howerton’s performance as Dennis has always been my favorite of Always Sunny‘s main characters-the way he can turn over-the-top anger into pure comedy will always impress me. The joke about Dennis’s long-standing need to control everything around him has been a recurring thing for almost thirteen seasons, and it usually takes up an entire episode every season. If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to Always Sunny, it’s that Dennis (Glenn Howerton) always gets at least one episode to be a complete and utter sociopath. ![]()
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