🔴Making It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Chardee MacDennis Episode Was Miserable💥
1The gang had no relief while shooting Chardee MacDennis
Watching the cast of "Sunny" play Chardee MacDennis might have been a lot of fun for the audience, but it wasn't a very fun shoot for McElhenney, who plays Mac. Unfortunately for him, the episode gets brought up a lot to this day.
In the game of games, the gang releases their aggression between rounds by smashing their glasses and doing war-like dances. It's necessary catharsis for the characters, but McElhenney found this practice thoroughly exhausting. The nature of the bottle episode also set him up for nonstop action, whereas their characters are typically split into A and B plotlines. With all the weight he put on for season 7, McElhenney was not in any shape for a marathon shoot.
As the longest running live-action comedy series in American television history, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has been pushing the boundaries of taste, depravity, and hilarity for 15 seasons. If you're somehow still unfamiliar with its debauched genius, it follows a group of friends — Charlie (Charlie Day), Mac (Rob McElhenney), twins Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Dennis (Glenn Howerton), and the Reynolds' father, Frank (Danny DeVito) — who own a Philly pub. However, while Paddy's hosts many of the gang's antics, you're far more likely to find them embroiled in some deranged scheme than pulling pints behind the bar.
One of the biggest strengths of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is its ability to think up smart and unexpected storylines; the "themed day" episodes are perfect examples of this. In season 9, the gang had to endure Mac Day, during which Mac got to call the shots and no one could complain or do anything about it. When the third episode of season 14 arrived, it was Dee's time to shine.
If Dennis' secret tool stash weren't enough to convince you he might be hiding something sinister, this eerie threat aimed at his own sister certainly will. It pops up part way through season 10's third episode "Psycho Pete Returns." When one of Charlie and Mac's old pals suddenly reappears, the duo are disappointed to discover that he's lost some of his edge and is no longer the uncontrollable cannibal killer they once knew. While they try to reignite his old ways, Dennis, Dee, and Frank try to get "Psycho Pete" recommitted to a psychiatric ward.
Dennis' road rage is worth mentioning, as his frustrated yells of "fat pig" and "cow" and his inability to comprehend why anyone wouldn't "seize the gap" raise his emotional temperature. That said, it's poor old Wally (Steve Witting) who finally pushes Dennis over the edge, thanks to his incessant questions about how it's a "hot one today, huh?" With this, Dennis' anger finally breaks free — as does his body from its clothing — as he fantasies about what it'd be like to really give Wally a piece of his mind.
One of the show's most prestigious episodes, "The Nightman Cometh," proved so popular that it even spawned its own live show, which toured America briefly in late 2009. In it, Charlie announces that he has written a musical and wants to stage it in a local theater. After renting a space and recruiting their friends to help, the gang sets about trying to make Charlie's dream a reality, only to later learn that it was all just an attempt to win the heart of the Waitress.
After missing a boat party and driving his prized Range Rover into a river (apparently, it's a piece of "precision British land-to-sea craftsmanship"), Dennis decides that the gang has become too weird for its own good and decides to change things up. It's this type of character trait that makes Dennis so fun to watch; he's led by a blind belief that, somehow, he's not quite as bad, damaged, or strange as the people that he voluntarily spends all of his time with. It's also the reason why this episode's big payoff is so satisfying to watch.
There are many strong contenders for the top spot, but in the end, this brief but memorable exchange between Mac and Dennis during the season 6 classic "The Gang Buys a Boat" has to be the best Dennis Reynolds moment. As the title of the episode indicates, this outing sees the gang purchase a boat, and they quickly let their imaginations run wild with dreams of nautical parties, oceanic exploits, and adventures at sea.
For Dennis, these fantasies naturally revolve around seducing women. However, when he explains why owning a boat will help him score, things take a dark and sinister turn. Long story short, he believes that the women attending the gang's boat parties will have no choice but to sleep with him "because of the implication" that, if they don't, something bad may happen to them while they're alone on the open sea.