The Gang Gets Ready for Prime Time

I laughed so hard through out the entire episode. This is why I love this show! Classic Sunny, classic characters, classic comedy. I loved every minute of this episode. This is the best episode of the season and maybe the best of the last couple seasons. This will go down as a classic Sunny episode.

Actually my favorite episode of this season, and in general a while!

Has all the good things, Dennis crashing out, the others playing so heavily into their own bits, an audience to watch it unfold, costume bits, and in general just really funny stuff!

Macdennis is the world's longest situationship WHATTT WHO SAID RHAT??

Anyways, I'm excited for the next frank centric episode!! >:)

Glenn Howerton has deserved an acting Emmy for a long time now but this might be the episode that finally pushes him over the finish line. Just a truly incredible performance, peak Dennis, pure psycho. Amazingly written, shocking, funny- Always Sunny back in all time form. The characters all seemed a little Flanderized last season but this season they're happily back in their prime.

I'm old enough to have been watching the show since 2006. I've missed the old gang for so long, but this episode is as close to old school as you can get. They finally figured out how to bring back angry Dennis without turning him into a one dimensional fire demon. Even Mac is acting (mostly) like the character we all know and love. Would love to see Dee make a comeback too, but this episode is funny.

This was an instant classic. Definitely one of the series' most brilliantly written episodes.

On the surface, it follows Dennis hiring focus groups to critique the Gang's rehearsal for a prime-time appearance. Beneath this lies a sharp satire on the creative bankruptcy of trying to please everyone. The episode skewers the studio mindset Dennis embodies when he declares that endless focus group feedback guarantees a final product "that will appeal to the widest possible audience and offend no one. That is how you make great art."

The audience feedback likely mirror some of the critiques the show itself has received (the jabs about Dennis "looking old"). When the gang ditches the safe play to embrace their chaotic roots (Badass Mac makes a long overdue return, as does the iconic duster!), its clearly a statement from the creators.

But the real star is Dennis. His psychotic need for control drives the story. The inevitable meltdown, when it comes, leads to the greatest monologue in Sunny history, one that is sure to be quoted by fans for a long time.

Glenn Howerton STEALS IT. He turns the "Glenn is looking old" comments into props for comedy. The monologue is such a perfect tightrope walk--hilarious yet almost touching.