Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Gang Gets Invincible



This episode was the second part in the hour-long season premiere and aired right after “The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby.” The first part was a laugh-riot and I expected myself to continue rolling on the floor for the next 30 minutes, but instead what I felt was….Ehhh….
The Philadelphia Eagles decide to hold tryouts for the public like in the movie Invincible. The gang keeps referring to it as “that movie where the guy from New Kids on the Block makes the team,” even though that was Mark Wahlberg, not his brother Donnie.
Sweet Dee dresses up as a guy to tryout for the team, despite the fact that her bones are “like glass” and her body is “90% scoliosis,” to prove to Mac and Dennis that she can make it farther than them. Mac and Dennis pee and smash beer bottles in unison, and Frank and Charlie tailgate the tryouts and drop acid next to the McPoyle trailer.
Considering the McPoyle family is based off incestuous relations and they all share matching unibrows, dropping acid would be an insanely frightening experience around those people. The funniest parts of this episode revolve around Frank and Charlie’s LSD P.O.V. experiences. Frank poops in a trashcan thinking he is locked in the McPoyle family bathroom, and Charlie puts on his Green Man suit—something that a loyal “It’s Always Sunny” watcher has been waiting to see. His erratic dancing as Green Man with the hillbilly McPoyle family was hands down the most laughable part of the episode. DeVito and Day were the most convincing druggies I have seen on television.  
The audience of this show tunes in to see their beloved characters act like miscreants and behave badly, and this episode lacked much of that behavior. Although there were some chuckles during the tryouts (Dennis’ inner, conceded monologue and Dee’s field goal kick) the characters weren’t their typical vile selves. Sure, Frank stands in his own filth, and that is disgusting, but we are used to seeing the gang continually screw people over to benefit themselves.
With that in mind, it was nice however to get a break from their over-confidence and screwball schemes. We saw, for once, the boys genuinely jealous of Dee when typically they just make fun of her mercilessly. Dee is a character I always root for because she is put down so often, so to see her succeed was a welcomed change. However, that didn’t last long. When the Eagles coach came to watch her kick she screwed up and broke every bone in her foot. Mac and Dennis didn’t even have to lift a finger this time to knock Dee back down to the bottom.
Overall, this episode is worth watching because it shows a different side of the five characters but it is not an episode full of loose morals and harebrained schemes. It may take a few episodes for season three to get back onto its evil feet.
Stray Observations:
·      “Want to drop acid with me? I’m gonna trip balls!”
·      “Lizard, am I standing in poop?”
·       “I’m feeling like I have to take a dump” -- “That’s what happens when you take a lot of acid.”
·      “I should’ve popped my shirt off.”
·      “I just want to get black out drunk and relax.”

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