NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
This article contains spoilers for It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia season 15.
After a long wait for UK viewers, season 15 of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has finally arrived on Netflix in all its glory.
The cult favourite sees stars Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson and the legendary Danny DeVito return for more chaos, including a trip to Ireland where Charlie learns the true identity of his father.
Featuring a cameo from esteemed Irish actor Colm Meaney, the return of fan favourite Artemis, yet another ill-advised attempt to create Lethal Weapon without being offensive, and Frank Reynolds eating turd soup, season 15 didn’t disappoint.
Here are 10 of the best moments from the new season.
Is there anything better than Dennis screaming? From ‘I’ve got to have my tools!’ to his Irish road rage in the new season (‘GET F***ED!’), the Golden God is at his best when he’s wrathful.
And his reaction to Frank, Mac and Charlie deciding they want to visit the colour purple on vacation is peak Dennis.
Dennis being taken on at his then-father Frank’s business probably starts his descent into sociopathic madness. The Gang Buys a Roller Rink sees Dennis begging Frank to allow him to watch him ‘do business’, which Frank reluctantly agrees to.
Of course, it emerges that by ‘doing business’, Frank means ‘banging a prostitute’ – you won’t recover from that one.
In the first season, Dee seemed like the most normal of the group, sometimes even veering dangerously into ‘voice of reason’ territory.
Thankfully it didn’t take long for her to become possibly the most deranged person in the gang (Except maybe for Dennis).
Watching Dee revel in manipulating her vulnerable student for the sheer fun and power of it, before dropping the student completely when she lands a part in a show, proves just how far Dee has come.
The year 2020 was so unbelievably chaotic it’s hard to remember everything that happened.
Thankfully, the first episode of season 15 is there to remind us, and to reveal that the gang had a part to play in pretty much every disaster throughout the year.
In the height of lockdown, Frank opened a back-room barber shop, dyeing men’s hair with a product he created himself. And who comes in but Donald Trump’s top lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Remember that time Giuliani was making a live, televised speech, and his hair-dye was running down his face? Yeah. Frank had a little something to do with that.
For a long time it seemed Dee’s nickname ‘Sweet Dee’ was an intentional misnomer, as she is anything but.
But as The Gang Buys a Roller Rink shows, Dee was a genuine sweetheart, until she hits her head while rollerskating and undergoes an instant, manic change.
Dee immediately begins screaming at and mocking the gang, and declines to buy the bar with them – which she would come to regret later.
(Dee’s outburst after her traumatic head injury is incredibly explicit even by Sunny’s standards, so enjoy this video of her being Sweet instead.)
If you ever need to illustrate just how deranged It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia actually is, you just read the words ‘Frank eats turd soup’ and probably thought nothing of it.
Charlie’s sort-of-adopted-father is so jealous of his relationship with Shelly that he tries to trick him into eating actual poo, disguised as meatball soup. But it backfires and he has to eat it himself, which he duly does.
(As good as this scene is, watching Charlie Day descend into tears of laughter during the bloopers is even better.)
Everyone knows the agony of trying to hold in a cough, especially after the past two years (Ever got the urge to cough on a crowded tube with everyone masked up and ultra-cautious? Torture.)
And so watching a Covid-ridden Dennis try to stifle his cough in an office, in immense pain and still managing to call Dee a b***h throughout is a weirdly relatable experience – and a seriously good piece of acting.
(A bonus point from the same episode goes to Dennis descending into madness as he suffers from Covid, speaking to the haunted castle The Shining style and trying to murder Dee.)
The gang replace Dee with a monkey and, of course, find it is way better at serving beers than her.
They get drunk, black out, and awake to find the place covered in feces, they’ve been robbed, attacked, and assaulted by the monkey.
Classic, chaotic, disgusting Sunny.
Charlie is illiterate, right? They established that in the very first season, and it’s become one of the show’s longest-running gags.
Except, well, he’s not.
Charlie can read, write and speak the Irish language, and he does so perfectly in a scene when his Irish pen pal reveals that is, in fact, his father.
Day’s Irish is so well-spoken so that a clip of the scene went viral on Irish Twitter, and the country’s native language TV network, TG4, praised Day for his pronunciation.
Probably the most important reveal in Always Sunny since Mac came out.
An-fhear a Chathail ð pic.twitter.com/buoUvDi0nH
Every so often, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia will throw away the idea that their characters are untouchable, monstrous people with no feelings, punching viewers in the gut with a sudden emotional scene.
We’ve had it with Dennis deciding to leave and raise his son (Short-lived as it was), and with Mac’s incredible dance in coming out to his father.
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This season saw Charlie break down while carrying his dad’s dead body up a mountain, heart-broken and furious all at once, screaming at him that ‘You weren’t there, you were supposed to carry me!’
Followed by a weirdly sentimental showing from Mac, Dennis, Dee and Frank when they return to help their friend – before ending in true Sunny style with the corpse crashing down on to a beach, ready to be discovered by unsuspecting children.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is now streaming on Netflix.
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