I remember watching this as a kid and laughing but when you watch it now it just better season 14 Amazung but this episode was genius
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV Series)
The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby (2007)
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Probably the best episode
mkayseryan25 November 2019
The Dumpster Baby Bits are (Mostly) The Least Funny Jokes
mbficas9 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I really love this episode. It's got three subplots: Dee and Mac in a pseudo-parental relationship trying to raise/exploit a child, Charlie and Frank going out and hoarding garbage while living on the streets because their apartment is too full of junk, and Dennis getting complete and total revenge on a hippy who 'punks him out.'
The pacing here is incredible, showing you just what you want to see when you want to see it. In classic Always Sunny style, the plots start reasonable, with the gang all grouped up talking about global warming in very stupid ways and visiting a garbage dump to do their thing, but quickly start descending into absolute depravity. I love that the stupidity compounds over time.
The dumpster diving plot starts with Charlie finding a sword at the dump, continues escalating into showing off alley dumpster hoarding, then leads into the mounds of garbage in Charlie's apartment being stacked floor to ceiling. Things get clever when the subplot from previous episodes between him being Frank's son, possibly start getting tied in, leading to one of my favorite moments in the series when Charlie realizes he was almost a dumpster baby himself, which of course resonates with his current obsession with trash.
Charlie's dumpster baby revelation comes hot on the heels of another one of my favorite moments in the show full stop late in Dennis' plot. This episode really shows off Dennis as a smooth talking, girlfriend stealing, manipulative sociopath better than The D. E. N. N. I. S. System episode. Watching him with a real goal beyond just having sex using abusive methods is a lot of fun, as is watching the hippy guy get torn down from his leading place in his hippy clique piece by piece. The Riders on the Storm sequence is absolutely incredible, and beautiful in the janky, slightly disgusting but very hilarious way the show's beloved for.
Dee and Mac's whole plot is fairly boilerplate child abuse humor, which is fun but not as outstanding as the rest of the episode. It's just kind of necessary filler, and I'm very glad it wasn't the focus of the episode despite being the titular plot.
Overall, this perfected the sort of carefully plotted comedy the show very much wants to have for all of its characters more than episodes specializing in a single character's bit. It has better Dennis moments than The D. E. N. N. I. S. System, better depraved Frank moments than the more memeworthy later attempts to show him as uniquely depraved, and uh, pretty average Charlie moments. In hindsight, it's amazing how crucial Charlie is for the balance of the show, and how reliably funny he is.
The pacing here is incredible, showing you just what you want to see when you want to see it. In classic Always Sunny style, the plots start reasonable, with the gang all grouped up talking about global warming in very stupid ways and visiting a garbage dump to do their thing, but quickly start descending into absolute depravity. I love that the stupidity compounds over time.
The dumpster diving plot starts with Charlie finding a sword at the dump, continues escalating into showing off alley dumpster hoarding, then leads into the mounds of garbage in Charlie's apartment being stacked floor to ceiling. Things get clever when the subplot from previous episodes between him being Frank's son, possibly start getting tied in, leading to one of my favorite moments in the series when Charlie realizes he was almost a dumpster baby himself, which of course resonates with his current obsession with trash.
Charlie's dumpster baby revelation comes hot on the heels of another one of my favorite moments in the show full stop late in Dennis' plot. This episode really shows off Dennis as a smooth talking, girlfriend stealing, manipulative sociopath better than The D. E. N. N. I. S. System episode. Watching him with a real goal beyond just having sex using abusive methods is a lot of fun, as is watching the hippy guy get torn down from his leading place in his hippy clique piece by piece. The Riders on the Storm sequence is absolutely incredible, and beautiful in the janky, slightly disgusting but very hilarious way the show's beloved for.
Dee and Mac's whole plot is fairly boilerplate child abuse humor, which is fun but not as outstanding as the rest of the episode. It's just kind of necessary filler, and I'm very glad it wasn't the focus of the episode despite being the titular plot.
Overall, this perfected the sort of carefully plotted comedy the show very much wants to have for all of its characters more than episodes specializing in a single character's bit. It has better Dennis moments than The D. E. N. N. I. S. System, better depraved Frank moments than the more memeworthy later attempts to show him as uniquely depraved, and uh, pretty average Charlie moments. In hindsight, it's amazing how crucial Charlie is for the balance of the show, and how reliably funny he is.
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