It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia had its season premiere last night and it was business as usual for the dumbest, most self-centered gang on TV. There was nothing particularly noteworthy about last night's episode, but it was so good to see the gang back together (it even appears to have added a new member).
Sunny benefits from what I call the hang-out factor: sometimes it's just good to hang out with Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Sweet Dee, and Frank. It means the show has to be incredibly bad for the episode to not be worth watching and can get away with a lot of stuff that doesn't work (The Hangover 2 had this quality in my mind which is why I wasn't disappointed). Last night there was nothing incredibly funny like the gang merging the ideas or Charlie's Musical. But there were some very good laughs. Mac gained 50lbs which he thinks is muscle. Dennis' "diet" almost kills him. Frank's hair. Charlie projectile vomiting fake blood all over his/Frank's date while attempting to pose as a millionaire. Dee becoming a foot hooker for "Tiger Woods" (played by serial sports impersonator and Cliff Huxtable's favorite son-in-law).
There were a few things that didn't quite work, namely Dennis' sudden urge to do crack again. It didn't really add anything to the humor of him realizing why Mac was smart for carrying around a garbage bag of Mexican food. At first I didn't quite get why the hooker was in the episode, but it quickly became clear she was the lynch pin for almost every subplot and it led to a very Sunny ending of just tossing her into the hall because it was too much of an inconvenience to call the ambulance.
Overall, a very solid episode that is on par with just about any average Sunny episode and a great re-introduction of the gang for another season of their usual idiocracy.
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