god I'm sifting through the seasons I fell behind on, started with ten yesterday, and went to the group dating ep and was dying every time Frank blew the whistle and they aborted.
still nothing funnier than when Frank pulls out a gun tho
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
the group dating ep and was dying every time Frank blew the whistle and they aborted.
Haha, is that the one where he does a pep talk something like "all we gotta do is get our names right", then goes up to a girl and says "Hi, I'm Frack"?
― chap, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
hahaha yes
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
S11 was really top quality, I don't think there was really a bad episode in the bunch. And the 2-part finale is some kind of apex, esp the second half.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
I'm hard-pressed to think of a live-action show that has been as consistently good for as long as Sunny. Cheers, maybe?
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link
nah Cheers quality drops significantly after Long leaves imo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
S11 was really top quality, I don't think there was really a bad episode in the bunch.
Just looking through episode descriptions and you might be right. 9 and 10 were very patchy on the other hand iirc.
― chap, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link
can't contain my excitement at the upcoming episode entitled "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer"
though this is even more twisted:
"Wolf Cola: A Public Relations Nightmare" (Airs January 25, 10 PM ET/PT) Franks Fluids LLC is in big trouble after a news segment shows Wolf Cola has become the official drink of Boko Haram.
― evol j, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
i dont really like when they go high concept, the ski ep, the cruise ship etc, gets a lil schticky
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
no mention of macs out gayness yet this season
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
the revolutionary war one was good imo xp
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
iirc he went back in the closet as soon as the boat started flooding
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
yeah he was only temporarily "out" during brief period when he thought there was no god. But God then proceeded to sink the ship etc.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 1:16 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
some of the best eps are high-concept too, though maybe in a different way - like "dennis work" and "the gang tries to win an award" are both pretty high-concept
imo the show is consistently inconsistent. each season has a couple of duds, a couple of gems, and a bunch of pretty good eps.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
really appreciate the occasional reminder of how bad they are at running the bar, like the one from a recent season where Charlie steps up to the task of passing a health inspection despite the fact everyone else is trying to run some tainted meat scam
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
man the ski trip episode is a classic, for this scene alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL39ppkiOoE
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
that's "charlie work," which is what i meant to type before instead of "dennis work"
― na (NA), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
for some reason I thought a previous episode was Charlie Work! but yeah, a+
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
PARTY MOUNTAIN
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
feel like some of the earlier episodes that originated stupid recurring gags get shortchanged in lists. I have a soft spot for "The Gang Gets Invincible" even if the whole green man persona was gimmicky
the reveal that Frank's entire acid trip took place while he was standing in a trash can really established his whole unreliable narrator persona
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
kind of want them to bring back Lil' Kev again as a successful rapper
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
my favorite sunny moment is in the intervention episode when they tell frank the bar is on fire and he comes in with his gun out yelling "where's the fire!?!!?" that whole episode is great tho.
also someone pointed out in the comments section of that gawker list that pepe silvia is likely charlie trying to read pennsylvania. i had never thought of that before.
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
and "Carol" is "Care Of"
― evol j, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
yeh think one of the writers debunked that as coincidence
― nxd, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
you're just mashing it now
― swae lee rigby (||||||||), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
'the waitress is getting married' is at #83 on that list. that list is worthless.
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
The poop in the bed episode is way too high on that list. Probably my least favourite
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:34 (seven years ago) link
are we gonna have to poll all the episodes ourselves
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:37 (seven years ago) link
be up for that
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
oh i quite like that ep xp
― nxd, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Who Pooped the Bed would be in my top 10
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
"Who Pooped The Bed?" is funny, but doesn't quite live up to the episode title--kinda like "Mac and Charlie Die"
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
off the top of my head, top ranked would be the "Gang Goes to Hell" 2-parter, the high school reunion 2-parter, who pooped the bed?, the waitress is getting married, the Gang Gets Held Hostage, The Gang Dances Their Asses Off, The Nightman Cometh, Who Got Dee Pregnant?, A Very Sunny Christmas, Chardee MacDennis: Game of Games, Flowers for Charlie, the first Lethal Weapon one. Um, there's probably another dozen or so that I think are close to perfect...
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Mac is a Serial Killer, The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis, The Gang Wrestles For the Troops, Mac Day, The Gang Dances Their Asses Off, Dennis & Dee Go On Welfare, The Gang Runs For Office...
This is truly an all-time great comedy and I won't rest until everyone agrees.
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
The Gang Gets Invincible was a favorite of mine, I rewound and replayed every scene with Faizon Love losing his temper probably 100 times the night that ended.
think episodes are hard to rank cos it's so consistent that people's favorites can be drastically different for minor reasons. kinda what I love about it.
also caused me to say "Do I really need more episodes" for a while but catching up has made me reinvigorated by the show
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
I also found it interesting how much more conventional (by its own measure) the pre-Frank episodes were. Like in the first few episodes they actually gave a shit about running the bar and increasing profits and were more just socially awkward dudes, and Dee actually briefly gave a shit about Artemis, etc.
My brother got me the DVDs for one Christmas (I'd never seen the show), and he'd only seen post-Frank eps and he kept remarking, surprised at how it was so different than the ones he'd seen and how Charlie's voice was deeper and everything and he wasn't all that insane. it was still a weird show but way more confined.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
agree that Mac Day is way up there. RIP Country Mac.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
in the early eps Charlie could read, Mac was not gay, etc. Things took a little while to solidify.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
the Gang Broke Dee about killed me the other night, Lavell Crawford playing "Landslide", Dennis's Morbsian reaction to the infantile comedy around him.
oh and Charlie as Serpico in "Bums: Making a Mess Over the City" (except for the moments where they self-referenced it"), "To the Mare", his spin doctors mix tape....
"The Gang Sells Out", particularly for the one line:
"Gangsters don't sing!"'What are you talking about? you ever hear of gangsta rap?'
I think this poll might need to happen actually. after a 5-month nom process
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
xpost yeah - when Charlie was playing Bones and yelled some trash talk, my bro said "THAT'S more like the Charlie I'm used to". I still love all those early eps too, they were just funny for other reasons. Frank brought it to the next level tho. Sort of like he was their Douche Sensei, they all had this shitty behavior in them and he showed them how to use it.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
"We gotta definitely do a song about how we do NOT diddle kids...*sings*Do not diddle kiiiiids, it's no good diddling kids"
'There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than WRITING A SONG ABOUT IT!'
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
the image of Frank crawling out of a couch mostly nude is forever seared into my brain
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yporKyBYO3s
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
landslide was so good
― nxd, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
omg the timeshare one had me cackling cos of the recent attempt someone had of getting me into Amway
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 04:12 (seven years ago) link
i've tried to watch this show multiple times and never found it funny. what is wrong with me? or you?
― akm, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:58 (seven years ago) link
you don't associate with any of these characters?
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 19 January 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
I just watched the Gang Broke Dee yesterday. It was the only episode I missed that season.Is "Landslide" an actual comedian? He looked familiar.
― the ghost of lorax past (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 19 January 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
yes, he's Lavell Crawford. used to be on ComicView, and recently also Breaking Bad.
he was the dude who had one of my favorite bits on ComicView, where he was saying some woman came up to him and asked him if he was Men at Large, and he replied "BITCH, I ain't BOTH of em!"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 19 January 2017 04:02 (seven years ago) link