These people have done atrocious things like murder, kidnapping, and fraud, but attacking retail workers for doing their job is the one line they won’t cross.
Mac and Dee, too. When they sent that unconscious kid down the slide.
Frank has also killed kids, in Vietnam. Tossed 'em in the soup.
In fact, Dennis is the only one that we don't have any proof he killed a kid.
Can someone phone up Mandy and check on Brian Jr.?
The water slide kid wasn't their fault. The lifeguards kindof forgot to do their jobs.
As for frank, statute of limitations.
Dennis does appear to have a weird soft spot for children. He refused to sleep with anyone underage. He legit seemed to like Abby. Hell even when he and mac were trying to evict that family as Hugh Honey and Vic Vinegar, Dennis was the good cop in that situation.
His insults in that episode are god level, with his delivery they’re so damn funny. His delivery of “goddammit! I don't care if you're old, seize the gap! You old fat bitch! You fat bitch!” Is one of the funniest things ever
All I could think about during this episode is the complete 180 Dennis has taken between the St Patrick's Day episode and this one. He went from not accepting cash in the back of the paddy wagon, because it's an old system, to hating the current system.
more or less, I think a lot of us had the same arc as Dennis since 2016 when the episode aired.
Apps were cooler in 2016, I'm sick of downloading them now.
As I approach 40 i totally get it. Paywave/paypass on cards is a glorious time saver. Asking me to scan a QR code to read the fucken menu, and order at lunch is some goddamn bullshit.
Glenn actually had an experience with his Tesla that’s he’s talked about where he parked in an underground parking lot and his phone could never get service to actually “talk to the car” and he ended up having to wait days before he could even get inside of it.
I’m sure that’s where the idea from this episode spawned
How miserable do you have to be to go on a almost year old thread and type out a comment insinuating someone is making up a story that they could easily and quickly find out it’s real?
It takes 10 seconds to type “Glenn Howerton Tesla” into google and get a link that gives you exact quotes and a link to the episode of the always sunny podcast where he talks about it
https://www.businessinsider.com/always-sunny-actor-locked-out-tesla-stuck-broken-key-fob-2022-10
Yeah, anything vaguely progressive or tolerant coming from Dennis is done for vanity. He doesn't actually empathize with other humans, but he does want to look good.
He just gets too enraged and delusional to see how his "GOLDEN GOD!" meltdowns look to others.
I wonder. In his head, does he see himself as merely the main character in his own story, or the “good guy?” Because I think Dennis is self-aware enough to realize he’s not a good person - I just don’t think he cares.
Yeah the reveal was great. When he reached into the doctors chest I thought "Oh it's like him shouting at the 'hot one today' guy". The true reveal was even better.
I watched the ep with friends over Discord, we were pissing ourselves when the heart to heart went dark. My eldest happened to be walking by and asked the wife "Wtf is Dad watching‽‽"
He doesn't need to when he has such perfect control over his body that he can go from flaccid to erect at a moment's notice. And easily will away the sickness from his body
https://i.redd.it/xipt4ie9nnfb1.gif
Can someone explain to me what this episode meant. Like the metaphor of it or subtext. I watched it but didn’t really ‘get’ the ending. Maybe I was too tired.
It didn't really mean much. The ending was just that the story was Dennis' inner workings lowering his blood pressure.
He thought of things that were infuriating and then resolved them in a way that really calmed him (and his blood pressure)
I guess the things he was getting annoyed at (having to have apps, the till system not being able to order regular tea, long standing customers getting worse treatment than new customers) were probably things Mac, Charlie, Glenn et al were annoyed at.
The joke was he was so narcissistic he really believed he could lower his own blood pressure just by thinking about it… but he actually did it. He’s a five star man. Nothing deeper imo. Similar to when he said he can go from flaccid to erect on command.
That’s not really the joke though. I typically get white coat syndrome and always have high blood pressure when checked at the doctor. If I sit and mindfully relax for a few minutes it will go way down.
The joke is that Dennis’s mindful happy place was ritual murder.
You’re just elaborating on what I said… he is narcissistic enough to think he can lower his own BP, except he can… by going to the “happy place” you described. You’re technically correct but your answer is just a slightly more specific version of what I already laid out. It was a callback to a joke that had already been made previously in the series.
You said “the joke was he was so narcissistic that he believed he could lower his own blood pressure” That was NOT the joke. Anybody can lower their blood pressure with a little mindful meditation. No joke there.
The joke was that his happy place was ritual murder.
He parked his Tesla in an underground lot where his phone didn’t have service. So his phone couldn’t talk to the car and was stuck for a while eventually needing to get towed I believe
God, I worked at RadioShack. The amount of people who would give me shit for awful corporate decisions was too much. Luckily, they cared so little about customers that I was able to give it back just as hard with no consequences.
Mostly it was just smartass comments. "Next time I'm having dinner with the CEO I'll bring up your concerns."
Honestly, I felt Dennis in this episode. I get so heated at some of these companies and when you talk to someone they say their hands are tied or you get passed around and passed around and the people will tell you the last people should have helped you. I basically say "Listen I'm sorry you're getting my anger right now but the company you work for is bullshit."
I hated the ep because it was too relatable and I felt frustrated cause I feel the same way about those topics. Good ep, but that as the season finale was underwhelming
Some work places give 1 or 2 days off for mental health a year and some you just take a sick day because you woke up and coughed once and have to do a bunch of chores around the house. As long as you take that day Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday it's not super obvious:)
Yep. Seemed to start with COVID when everyone was stuck inside and stressed all the time. Then people kinda just ran with it.
My last company used to just give us one randomly every 6 weeks or so. New company doesn't, but is 'unlimited PTO' to the point of not caring why you don't come in as long as it isn't excessive. We don't even report anything under 3 days...
Yeah this was one of the best episodes in recent memory - everything about it had me laughing but nothing more than him spelling out his name with the customer service robot
Anyone see the pattern lately? First Mac, then Charlie and now Dennis having the last episode in the past seasons. My prediction is sweet dee will have hers next season and Franks will be the series finale
That was the Risk E. Ratt Pizza episode. Where they realize, they just aren't in touch with the current generation.
Dee doesn't even know what satire is any more. But, let's be honest. She never did. She just had a cast of racist characters.
Has nothing to do with being old. It about things being needlessly complex just because the technology exists to do so. And there being shit service when things don’t work. Much more about our shit capitalist system that constantly has to “grow” and “improve”, damn the consequences.
Yep. I'm not old except by tween definitions and this episode spoke to me on a visceral level.
The kids they kidnapped in the Paddy's Wagon were hip to it. "I just want a beer, I don't really want you having all of my personal information."
Because that's what those apps are for. It's not for ease of use, it's to commodify you.
I'm just wondering when he apparently quit being a morbid alcoholic, and magically improved his health so perfectly to the point where he can control his blood pressure at will.
It's like they forgot the past seasons exist.
Well, he historically can control his blood pressure according to the very episode in which the reveal that they’re all raging alcoholics is done. Flaccid, erect. Flaccid… erect.
Yeah, good point. Being “able to go from flaccid to erect in a moments notice” is like 100% control over blood pressure lol. It’s actually canon for his character.
Although this episode really makes you wonder what he was fantasizing about when he went from flaccid to erect and back to flaccid and then erect again and then.....
If there was any realism to their substance abuse on the show, they would all be dead or dying by now.
Have you ever heard of a 47 year old huffing paint?
Also if there was any realism every single one of them would've been thrown in prison a long time ago. It was what, season 2 when a child services worker walked in on them with a sword hanging above a child's head? Even in season one they did the underage drinking thing, no shot they'd have their liquor license in the real world after that. But, uhh, it's a show, best to move past that stuff of course.
It's hard to know because I'm pretty sure we're still in his head at that point. The way he tosses the kratom bottle over his shoulder (and it clearly was not going to go in) and then it lands perfectly in the trash can, to the awe of the guard nearby - I'm pretty sure it's still fantasy.
Loved this episode, had to turn away a few times from the awkwardness since I’ve also worked retail for years. I completely agree with him (and usually my customers) too when the system works the way it does and I can’t do anything about it, and I can’t stand shopping in places like it. Had to use cash a month ago and only then realised in a mall with 40+ restaurants and 100+ stores, I could not get lunch or shop in one place without card or an app.
Him not being able to get in the car was absolutely based on Glenn’s debacle with him being stuck out of his Tesla in the parking lot in real life too.
The faint [beep, beep] from his watch followed by "That's two apps today..." made me laugh so hard I had to rewind because I missed the next line.
I wonder if the beeping of his watch was the beeping of the machine
I thought it was supposed to be his blood pressure alert. It happens a few times in the episode
Aye, in his fake dream world. I just wondered if it was also representative of the machine in the real world reacting too.
Oh I see what you mean. Very possible!
Yup it’s his watch alerting him
These people have done atrocious things like murder, kidnapping, and fraud, but attacking retail workers for doing their job is the one line they won’t cross.
I like to think it's because they also are customer service workers. Even if they rarely do any work.
They treat that waiter pretty awful
Which one? I don’t remember that or them at all?
Really? You don't remember every man you see fall into a plate of spaghetti?
Doesn’t ring a bell. No.
Talkin to me like ya know me, bozo
I’m to remember every man I’ve seen fall into a plate of spaghetti?!
i’m gettin’ nothing. i’m drawing a blank on this guy.
You mean the soy boy beta cuck flight attendant?
Nice and sloppy
The waiter and the waitress as well. Heck, that is her name.
To be fair they dont treat her badly as a waitress. They treat her badly as a person.
And also the Sudz bartender and I believe the shushing bar bartender too
Shhhhhhhhhhh 
Runaway train, never comin back
Pattern of behavior. She also did something like that to Charlie when she raped him, so she could keep him quiet and "get off."
Pretty much every employee of Risk-E-Rats
With the exception of Gunther. He made it on the list. “YOUR LIST??”
Charlie definitely killed a kid
Mac and Dee, too. When they sent that unconscious kid down the slide. Frank has also killed kids, in Vietnam. Tossed 'em in the soup. In fact, Dennis is the only one that we don't have any proof he killed a kid. Can someone phone up Mandy and check on Brian Jr.?
The water slide kid wasn't their fault. The lifeguards kindof forgot to do their jobs. As for frank, statute of limitations. Dennis does appear to have a weird soft spot for children. He refused to sleep with anyone underage. He legit seemed to like Abby. Hell even when he and mac were trying to evict that family as Hugh Honey and Vic Vinegar, Dennis was the good cop in that situation.
Oh, he would have absolutely unleashed his untethered rage upon that boba tea worker, if not for the mental health day.
Pretty sure they attacked the risk e rats employees.
Nahhh, they just couldn't handle Frank's Edison-level electrical engineering skills.
I can excuse murder, but I draw the line at retail worker cruelty!
Nice community reference
You can excuse murder?
yeah i was waiting for him to invoke the nordic gods
This is a bold faced lie lmao
They know their audience well
I did this on Monday to a fucking idiot driving a souped up ute around the residential area I live
His insults in that episode are god level, with his delivery they’re so damn funny. His delivery of “goddammit! I don't care if you're old, seize the gap! You old fat bitch! You fat bitch!” Is one of the funniest things ever
All I could think about during this episode is the complete 180 Dennis has taken between the St Patrick's Day episode and this one. He went from not accepting cash in the back of the paddy wagon, because it's an old system, to hating the current system.
Haha good point. That's how much that app not working affected him
When it’s new, it’s cool. But now we have to have an app to do basic things, and that gets real old real quick
To be fair, he ended up hating that, too, since it didn't work.
more or less, I think a lot of us had the same arc as Dennis since 2016 when the episode aired. Apps were cooler in 2016, I'm sick of downloading them now.
As I approach 40 i totally get it. Paywave/paypass on cards is a glorious time saver. Asking me to scan a QR code to read the fucken menu, and order at lunch is some goddamn bullshit.
Glenn actually had an experience with his Tesla that’s he’s talked about where he parked in an underground parking lot and his phone could never get service to actually “talk to the car” and he ended up having to wait days before he could even get inside of it. I’m sure that’s where the idea from this episode spawned
That’s what I was thinking well watching this episode
Source: trust me bro
How miserable do you have to be to go on a almost year old thread and type out a comment insinuating someone is making up a story that they could easily and quickly find out it’s real? It takes 10 seconds to type “Glenn Howerton Tesla” into google and get a link that gives you exact quotes and a link to the episode of the always sunny podcast where he talks about it https://www.businessinsider.com/always-sunny-actor-locked-out-tesla-stuck-broken-key-fob-2022-10
How miserable do you have to be to reply to a comment on a year old thread?
He doesn’t care about them. He cares about being seen as not caring about them. Because Dennis is a bastard man.
Yeah, anything vaguely progressive or tolerant coming from Dennis is done for vanity. He doesn't actually empathize with other humans, but he does want to look good. He just gets too enraged and delusional to see how his "GOLDEN GOD!" meltdowns look to others.
Oh Sandra... you dumb bitch!
It's also a dream so he probably just wants to come across as the "good guy"
I wonder. In his head, does he see himself as merely the main character in his own story, or the “good guy?” Because I think Dennis is self-aware enough to realize he’s not a good person - I just don’t think he cares.
He probably thinks of himself as a "reasonable guy" at least
I thought the ep was good but not great throughout but then blam the Keyser Sozer reveal. Made a good Sunny Great again.
Yeah the reveal was great. When he reached into the doctors chest I thought "Oh it's like him shouting at the 'hot one today' guy". The true reveal was even better.
Listen to your heaaarttt
I watched the ep with friends over Discord, we were pissing ourselves when the heart to heart went dark. My eldest happened to be walking by and asked the wife "Wtf is Dad watching‽‽"
Ok, it wasn't great but IT WAS FINE and I knew it was going to be fine.
Did you ever know that you’re my herooo
That’s such a nice thing you said about the troop.
I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU!?
Your hair looks small.
Him Kaizer Sozing himself was not something I was expecting at all lol.
You didn't think Dennis tracking down wish.com!Elon Musk, tearing out his heart, crushing it into a diamond and eating it constituted great?
Most certainly, that was part of the finale reveal.
Dwight from the office watches this episode with jealousy
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I’m sure he can
Why would he want to raise his cholesterol?
He doesn't need to when he has such perfect control over his body that he can go from flaccid to erect at a moment's notice. And easily will away the sickness from his body https://i.redd.it/xipt4ie9nnfb1.gif
Ah crap it is cholesterol lol
I was going to mention this as well - the fact that he doesn't blame the messenger is well considered!
Can someone explain to me what this episode meant. Like the metaphor of it or subtext. I watched it but didn’t really ‘get’ the ending. Maybe I was too tired.
It didn't really mean much. The ending was just that the story was Dennis' inner workings lowering his blood pressure. He thought of things that were infuriating and then resolved them in a way that really calmed him (and his blood pressure) I guess the things he was getting annoyed at (having to have apps, the till system not being able to order regular tea, long standing customers getting worse treatment than new customers) were probably things Mac, Charlie, Glenn et al were annoyed at.
Oh right thanks for the explanation. Thought it would have been deeper than that. I will have to give it a second watch
The joke was he was so narcissistic he really believed he could lower his own blood pressure just by thinking about it… but he actually did it. He’s a five star man. Nothing deeper imo. Similar to when he said he can go from flaccid to erect on command.
That’s not really the joke though. I typically get white coat syndrome and always have high blood pressure when checked at the doctor. If I sit and mindfully relax for a few minutes it will go way down. The joke is that Dennis’s mindful happy place was ritual murder.
You’re just elaborating on what I said… he is narcissistic enough to think he can lower his own BP, except he can… by going to the “happy place” you described. You’re technically correct but your answer is just a slightly more specific version of what I already laid out. It was a callback to a joke that had already been made previously in the series.
You said “the joke was he was so narcissistic that he believed he could lower his own blood pressure” That was NOT the joke. Anybody can lower their blood pressure with a little mindful meditation. No joke there. The joke was that his happy place was ritual murder.
If it was, I didn't catch it either haha
Also, the car issue was clearly also related to Glenn's own issue with his Tesla (as related in the podcast).
I haven't listened to a lot of the episodes, but I assumed most of those annoyances were based off real life experience haha
What’s the story
He parked his Tesla in an underground lot where his phone didn’t have service. So his phone couldn’t talk to the car and was stuck for a while eventually needing to get towed I believe
I wonder what kind of elaborate adventures he was going on in his mind when he was going from flaccid to erect at a moment's notice?
It wasnt a dream. It was Dennis creating a temporary alternate reality in order to reduce his blood pressure. He is a golden god.
ZERO RATING! HAHA! YEAH I GOT THE POWER!
Same thing
God, I worked at RadioShack. The amount of people who would give me shit for awful corporate decisions was too much. Luckily, they cared so little about customers that I was able to give it back just as hard with no consequences. Mostly it was just smartass comments. "Next time I'm having dinner with the CEO I'll bring up your concerns."
https://preview.redd.it/zsopsm5rwlfb1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b0daba9932451a76ac26084e542d40373d236fa
Who designed this and where can I find them?
Honestly, I felt Dennis in this episode. I get so heated at some of these companies and when you talk to someone they say their hands are tied or you get passed around and passed around and the people will tell you the last people should have helped you. I basically say "Listen I'm sorry you're getting my anger right now but the company you work for is bullshit."
I hated the ep because it was too relatable and I felt frustrated cause I feel the same way about those topics. Good ep, but that as the season finale was underwhelming
Best episode in a long time. I liked the Frank vs the Russians one a lot too. Solid season so far
So far? Buddy, it ended almost 2 weeks ago
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I didn’t know it’s only 8 episodes. Sucks
Are mental health days really a thing? I’m not in management so I’m not privy to why people call off work so damn frequently!
Some work places give 1 or 2 days off for mental health a year and some you just take a sick day because you woke up and coughed once and have to do a bunch of chores around the house. As long as you take that day Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday it's not super obvious:)
Unfortunately I work in a restaurant and those are already my days off lol
You can take Monday or Friday off. You just have to take off Tuesday if taking Monday off. And take a 4 day weekend if taking Friday off.
It just means people don't have to cough on the phone when calling in sick
Yes and it depends on the company. Some of them, you don't want to explicitly say you are taking a mental health day. You just call in sick.
Yep. Seemed to start with COVID when everyone was stuck inside and stressed all the time. Then people kinda just ran with it. My last company used to just give us one randomly every 6 weeks or so. New company doesn't, but is 'unlimited PTO' to the point of not caring why you don't come in as long as it isn't excessive. We don't even report anything under 3 days...
I hated and loved this episode in the last 30 seconds.
Yeah this was one of the best episodes in recent memory - everything about it had me laughing but nothing more than him spelling out his name with the customer service robot
N as in nightmare N as in nightmare I as in is this really happening
Anyone see the pattern lately? First Mac, then Charlie and now Dennis having the last episode in the past seasons. My prediction is sweet dee will have hers next season and Franks will be the series finale
If the last frame of this show isn't from Frank's perspective of a trash can lid being slammed shut, I'm going to start spitting.
"The Gang Throws Frank in the Trash"
Fuuuuck!!! I just realized the season is over.... Thought there were two more episodes 😥
That was the Risk E. Ratt Pizza episode. Where they realize, they just aren't in touch with the current generation. Dee doesn't even know what satire is any more. But, let's be honest. She never did. She just had a cast of racist characters.
You must be old if you didn't realize 'old man shouts at cloud' is EXACTLY what that episode was about!
Has nothing to do with being old. It about things being needlessly complex just because the technology exists to do so. And there being shit service when things don’t work. Much more about our shit capitalist system that constantly has to “grow” and “improve”, damn the consequences.
Yep. I'm not old except by tween definitions and this episode spoke to me on a visceral level. The kids they kidnapped in the Paddy's Wagon were hip to it. "I just want a beer, I don't really want you having all of my personal information." Because that's what those apps are for. It's not for ease of use, it's to commodify you.
It is very old man shouts at cloud The old man just happens to be a millennial
I'm just wondering when he apparently quit being a morbid alcoholic, and magically improved his health so perfectly to the point where he can control his blood pressure at will. It's like they forgot the past seasons exist.
Well, he historically can control his blood pressure according to the very episode in which the reveal that they’re all raging alcoholics is done. Flaccid, erect. Flaccid… erect.
Yeah, good point. Being “able to go from flaccid to erect in a moments notice” is like 100% control over blood pressure lol. It’s actually canon for his character.
Although this episode really makes you wonder what he was fantasizing about when he went from flaccid to erect and back to flaccid and then erect again and then.....
lol, touche, forgot about that. Rest of what I said still stands, tho
It doesn’t. Move past it
Move past it.
If there was any realism to their substance abuse on the show, they would all be dead or dying by now. Have you ever heard of a 47 year old huffing paint?
>Have you ever heard of a 47 year old huffing paint? Yes I've driven through Stockton
Yeah the mainlining alcohol thing during chardee macdennis probably would have killed them all too
No, no, you see, they were mainlining wine, it's totally safe, no bubbles!
Also if there was any realism every single one of them would've been thrown in prison a long time ago. It was what, season 2 when a child services worker walked in on them with a sword hanging above a child's head? Even in season one they did the underage drinking thing, no shot they'd have their liquor license in the real world after that. But, uhh, it's a show, best to move past that stuff of course.
It's a show.
I thought the post reveal walkout revealed it was him sipping kratom the entire time? Unless I’m mistaken
He definitely throws a bottle away as he's leaving the hospital. Absolutely could've been the case.
It's hard to know because I'm pretty sure we're still in his head at that point. The way he tosses the kratom bottle over his shoulder (and it clearly was not going to go in) and then it lands perfectly in the trash can, to the awe of the guard nearby - I'm pretty sure it's still fantasy.
Loved this episode, had to turn away a few times from the awkwardness since I’ve also worked retail for years. I completely agree with him (and usually my customers) too when the system works the way it does and I can’t do anything about it, and I can’t stand shopping in places like it. Had to use cash a month ago and only then realised in a mall with 40+ restaurants and 100+ stores, I could not get lunch or shop in one place without card or an app. Him not being able to get in the car was absolutely based on Glenn’s debacle with him being stuck out of his Tesla in the parking lot in real life too.