It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – Dee wants to make love to a boy

(Season 4, Episode 13 – “The Nightman Cometh”) – SEASON FINALE!

Frank rules! Danny DeVito is so brilliant in this role it’s hard to imagine the show working without him, though I know it did just fine its first season like that. Tonight, by simply changing the way he said “this boy’s soul” into “this boy’s hole,” he made funny hilarious. Ditto on him trying to argue why he should be the troll until it’s explained to him that … well … isn’t it obvious? His facial expressions are worth his weight in gold.

This was very much a Charlie-centric installment, with no B-storyline whatsoever. Out of nowhere, and probably because the original song became a bit of a viral success for the show, Charlie wrote a musical expansion of his “Nightman” song. I’m not really sure what he wrote or how because we were told there were no words, and I wasn’t really able to identify the object he was carrying that was supposedly the script at the beginning.

I loved how it came full circle at the end with him proposing to the waitress, off script. From the beginning Dee kept insisting that nobody writes a musical just because and apparently she was right. The musical itself was pretty funny, but mostly because it was Dennis, Dee, Mac and Frank acting like themselves within the lines. You’ve got Mac doing karate moves across the stage getting pissed off because everybody’s laughing.

Dee sounded like a Disney princess when singing, but was surprisingly adept at it. I guess her crippling stage fright really only applies during stand-up comedy routines? In fact, while Charlie suffered the same vomit-inducing terror at her open mic, he was also fine singing (horribly) and performing in front of a pretty large crowd here. Maybe we’re supposed to forget that. Sunny‘s not that kind of show?

It’s a shame that it’s going to have to go off the air for awhile. Testees, which comes on after it, has been hit or miss for me while Sunny has only really had maybe one sub-par episode its entire run. Where will I go for my “oh so wrong” humor now? The Sarah Silverman Program? According to Jim? At least FX was smart enough to sign these kids up for the long haul. I could easily see Sunny staying funny for ten years or more.

Clacked by Jason Hughes
on Nov 21, 2008 @ 21:59 EST5EDT