Always Sunny 7.07

Stolen from Handlebar Magazine entertainment write-up:

If you're a fan of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' you remember a few specific episodes.  You remember 'The Night Man Cometh,' an off-the-wall theatrical production that plays out Charlie's deep-seated homosexual issues.You remember Mac and Dennis trying to make the Philadelphia Eagles while Frank trips on LSD in 'The Gang Gets Invincible.' You remember 'The D.E.N.N.I.S. System,' 'Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person,' and other episodes that executed the awkwardly incorrect humor and eventual screaming matches that drew you to 'Always Sunny' in the first place.

If this all sounds correct, then you're going to remember this week's episode for a long, long time. In Thursday's seminal episode 'CharDee McDennis: The Game of Games,' the gang brandish every weapon in their arsenal. The Paddy's crew invented their own game long ago, a game involving *gasp* drinking and *whoa* incorrect answers to subjective questions. It also incorporates 'Always Sunny's' best gimmick: pitting the conniving Reynolds siblings against the basically retarded duo of Mac and Charlie. The latter team has never prevailed in this battle of wits and stomach capacities, mainly because Dee and Dennis cheat in every possible way: They fill their liquor glasses with colored water, they lie to win questions, and, worst of all, they stick Frank on the opposing team.

Frank understandably doesn't comprehend the flow of the game. He doesn't get how it starts as a classy affair involving four-fingered wine glass holding, how it quickly devolves as everyone shouts in each other's faces, and how the winners get to destroy the opposing team's avatars (Due to Mac and Charlie's career-long oh-fer, their avatars are quite smashed up). But Frank does understand how to manipulate rules, and so after reading the rule book while being locked in a dog kennel, a situation that explaining fully would put me way over my word limit, he finds out that if the time expires (Oh yeah, forgot to mention there's a timer), they have to draw the black card. And so, after hours of excessive drinking and cruel verbal warfare, it comes down to the black card, which says that they have to... flip a coin to decide the winner. If this sort of lazy plot resolution isn't familiar, you don't love 'Always Sunny.' And if you don't love 'Always Sunny,' you wouldn't anticipate the cut to a shot of Dee and Dennis mercilessly breaking their opponents' avatars to end the episode. But I do love 'Always Sunny,' and this episode reminded me why.