"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass (2006)

Director:

Daniel Attias

Writers:

Rob McElhenney (developer) and
Glenn Howerton (developer) ...

TV Series:

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" (2005)

Original Air Date:

10 August 2006 (Season 2, Episode 9)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

To prove their patriotism, Charlie and Dee try to upstage the local anti-smoking group, while Dennis...

Plot Keywords:

Anti Smoking | Freedom | Beads | Immigrant | Vomit Scene

Cast

Charlie Day	...	Charlie Kelly
Glenn Howerton	...	Dennis Reynolds
Rob McElhenney	...	Mac
Kaitlin Olson	...	Dee Reynolds
Danny DeVito	...	Frank Reynolds
Jimmi Simpson	...	Liam McPoyle
Nate Mooney	...	Ryan McPoyle
Carla Alapont	...	Cute Girl #1
Sabrina Machado	...	Cute Girl #2
Artemis Pebdani	...	Artemis
Dennis Staroselsky	...	Junkie
Morgan Vukovic	...	Cute girl #3
Lucas Papaelias	...	Lucas (as Lucas Pepaelias)

Shaun Paul Costello

...

Dude

Runtime:

22 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

3 Arts Entertainment

Goofs:

Continuity: When Frank is at the corner of the bar talking to the guys about the Vietnamese gamblers, there are two orange circles on the bar that appear and reappear during the scene.

Quotes:

Dennis Reynolds: If you don't like smoke, then don't come into the bar.
Charlie Kelly: I *work* in this bar. I work here.
Dennis Reynolds: But that's because you have the freedom to choose to work here, okay? Smoking bans, they don't protect freedom, they strip it away from smokers
Frank Reynolds: Look, I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me.
Dee Reynolds: You went to Vietnam in *1993* to open up a sweatshop!
Frank Reynolds: And a lot of good men died in that sweatshop.

Movie Connections:

References Girls Gone Wild (1998) (V)

Another episode back on par

After a string of disappointing episodes they really picked up in time for the season finale (which is next week). In "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass," Dennis begins smoking in the bar, which upsets Charlie and Dee, who both think smoking should be illegal. As Charlie and Dee start campaigning to be pro-American and anti-smoking, Mac, Dennis and Frank decide to take advantage of the New Orleans disaster by opening a "New Orleans bar" - where anything goes and there are no restrictions on freedom.

But soon, as they realize, absolute freedom has a price when people begin going wild and Frank's Vietnam buddies start playing Russian roulette in the basement.

This is one of the better episodes. It's a satirical statement on blind American patriotism, but it also realizes that freedom can never be completely "free" or people will take advantage of it.

As a political comment it's surprisingly effective - if not as subtle as other episodes - and the jokes are very funny. Charlie running out into the street yelling "Attaca!" is going to go down as one of the season highlights.

I can't wait for the finale next week.