What is my least favorite episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? How am I supposed to come up with that? I have seen every episode over eight times. Yes, I have actually marks the amount of times I have watched each season. Does that make me pathetic? Maybe, but to me, I am a fan. Being a fan doesn’t just mean you love every episode. There has to be at least a couple, that don’t live up to regular standards. For me I can think of three of four episodes that weren’t strong, but there weren’t episodes that I down right didn’t like, or thought was bad. I looked over my various seasons, and episodes of It’s Always Sunny. Finally I came up with three episodes that I thought were the poorest. Who pooped the bed? Mac fights gay marriage, and Charlie Kelly king of the rats. Even coming up with these three was very hard. Deciding which I thought was the worst was even harder.

I finally realized that there was one episode that I barely laughed during when it premiered. This episode was Mac Fights Gay Marriage. It was the premiere episode for season six, and one of the only that didn’t make me laugh hard. The basic story of this episode is that Mac sees the “tranny” at the gym. She got married to a man, and Mac does not believe it is right. When he talks to the gang about the marriage it sparks up different side stories for the rest of the group. Dennis calls an old high school girl friend and he marries her. Charlie, and Frank end up pairing up so Charlie can get on Frank’s health insurance. It sounds like it would be comedic gold, but sadly it wasn’t. This is not to say that I did not laugh. In fact, there were some instance where I did; Mac saying “sex in the butt”, not the line but the deliver, his reaction when the tranny’s husband calls him gay “no, no, no, no”, and when Frank says that Dennis’s wife’s breath smells like “she’s been nibbling on little pieces of shit”.

 

For all the funny parts, there were still a lot of problems. The first being the main storyline. Mac is fighting gay marriage because in the bible it says it is wrong. Okay, that is fine if that is what you believe. The problem is that Mac hasn’t talked about religion, or him being religious since season three. For those that haven’t seen that far back, they would be confused. Some of the jokes, and conversations felt very forced, which hadn’t happened yet. An instance of this was the conversation between Charlie, and Frank about cooking jeans. After I watched the episode I looked up the writing credits. The writers were two women. The only wrote one episode since Mac fights gay marriage. That episode they only helped write. Those were the only two they wrote on. I believe this was because the episode was rated so low amongst fans.

As a longtime fan of Sunny, I know that Mac always talks about going to the gym, muscles, bulk muscle, and other men’s body mass. This is why I was disappointed when they actually showed him at the gym. I always had it in my head that Mac actually never worked out, but just liked to think he did. I thought it would’ve added to his character, and made him seem even more pathetic. This is more me nitpicking than having to do with the production of the show. Which, had not changed besides switching to 720p HD cameras. The whole episode seemed very uncharacteristic for the characters. An example is Dennis saying how he thought he would be married by now. This goes against his character, who is a womanizer, as seen in The D.E.N.N.I.S. System. This was an episode that chronicled how Dennis gets girls to fall in love with him so he can have sex with them, and play mind games. Dennis also has, what he calls, “hundreds of sex tapes”. Dennis saying how he believed he would already be married is just to out of character. He was not the only person doing something that seemed to far fetched for his character. Frank and Charlie decide to become “partners” so Charlie can be put on Frank’s health insurance. There is a problem with this that any die hard fan knows; Frank and Charlie are father and son. This just makes it creepy, even though it is not sexual. It is also so far fetched that it makes it stupid, and not believable. Even after everything I’ve said, I can honestly say I would never have them not release that episode. Even though it may have been one of the worst, it is still better, funnier, or more original than a lot of what is on television.