User Reviews

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! I was watching the episode and was like wtf is this garbage? The writing and dialogue was all off and was not nearly at the caliber of Sunny. Then, I saw that it had 8.7 stars on IMDB, which is pretty good, so I was really scratching my head. Then, BAM!!! BRILLIANT!!! It all came together in the absolutely meta fashion similar to episodes like "the gang tries desperately to win an award" and "old lady house." Popular sitcoms overstay their welcome and when one major cast member leaves, they just replace them. The writing gets stale and contrived, the dialogue gets awkward. Wtf was that crap with a plan to distract security guards with a tuba and change wine labels? No, not Sunny! Sunny, you trolled me big time!!! Sunny hasn't even BEGUN TO PEAK!

I thought of something else: In the episode "the gang tries desperately to win an award" they have a guest actor from The Office. This episode: guest star from: The Office. What show went to poop after losing a main character and replacing them?

Btw anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't get it. SAVAGE IDIOTS! Only brilliance can recognize brilliance!

Kaling wasn't funny but she never really was. The whole episode was an excuse to bring Dennis back. When the laughs landed, the laughs landed hard. The show doesn't work without him, and they knew it. So, he's back, for now... and his return was awesome

Many people dislike this episode because they don't think it feels right with Mindy Kaling's character and the chemistry between the characters feels wierd. NEWSFLASH, that's the entire point! This episode is a commentary on long running sitcoms that try to replace long running characters and end up feeling stale and unfunny. Intentionally the gang is not normal, they are actually succeeding and might actually pull off a plan, and it feels weird. Then Dennis' doll starts messing with them and everything starts going down the crapper, because that is what It's Always Sunny has always been about. When Dennis arrived at the end of the episode and everything felt natural again, I was grinning like an idiot. The point of the episode is to make it feel wrong and then give you the payoff at the end, and honestly, I really enjoyed it. I think the brilliance of this episode is lost on some people, which really is a shame.

Sunny returning and having Mindy Kaling guest star in the premiere? On paper everything seems to have been set up to work, but it just didn't.

Instead of limiting it to one scene, the episode revolved around a blow up doll. This was like a bad Joey Ryan sketch or something.

Not nearly as sharp or witty as you expect the show to be.

Wow, I was enraged for the first 95% of the show. No Dennis???!!! %#*%#@(%(@$^# I began Googling like a madman.'Sunny,,, uh, season 13, ..DENNIS.... God please help'

The new girl/replacement character was a disaster. Worst casting ever. I guess I never thought of the show w/o the five main, awesome, brilliant, beautiful, and magnificent gang members. I was in a panic, cursing FX and life in general.

(Archer went down the drain the last three seasons - now my Sunny??!! Waaaa!!)

The show stunk like Cricket after a month in the sewer, but only because I was obsessed with a missing Dennis. I don't even remember what the show was about. Then it happened. I think I screamed when Dennis appeared from no where! It was like scoring the winning TD on the last play of the Super Bowl. Moments later he uttered the words I needed to hear, "Shut up bird".

That was a close one. Life is good again!

This episode is just plain weird and Mindy Kaling being in it just makes the episode pure trash.

Totally gross and unfunny and apparently with no perceivable talent, her casting is beyond any kind of sense.

She bullies the other characters to the point I wish that the gang would get all cricket on her.

But this wasn't even the worst part. There was a scene near the end where what was done to the Dennis doll should have received a NC17 rating.

The only redeeming part of the episode was when Dennis returned and humiliated the Mindy character.

The show is often creative but this was the very worst episode ever. It was like the writers had a total creative block. I would give it zero stars if I only could.

I've been anticipating this season for a while, and this episode delivers in all the right ways that I needed it to. Everybody is as funny as ever, and they continue to be some of the most talented comedic actors on television. This episode was somehow more than I wanted it to be, and more than than I thought it could be.

Mindy's character is a welcome addition in this episode, and the way that she subverts our expectations in the opening scene is great. She holds her own, and is fortunately nothing like her character from The Office, even though I love that show.

The Denis sex doll works perfectly in this story, and the way that it affects everyone just allows for some absolutely wonderful hilarity. The scene when Charlie comes back to find that the waitress is cheating on him with Denis (although a sex doll), is just gut-busting.

Not to mention that Mac trying to inject his buff body into every part of the scheme is perfect, and the way that everyone reacts to him is priceless. This show clearly has a lot more in store, and this episode just proves that there are no signs that this show is giving up on us any time soon.

The worry for 'It's Always Sunny In Philidelphia' is that it will overstay it's welcome, running longer than any other live action comedy. The premiere episode for season 13 was an odd one. Filled with dark crude humour that the show is known for and also meta jokes that have been in the show since the beginning. In this episode, written by the brilliant David Hornsby, balances the combination of meta jokes and dark humour perfectly. I will admit, personally, the episode felt stale until the return of Glenn Howerton's character: Dennis Reynolds. Something felt off, even though I laughed at the crude humour of the sex doll and the reptition of "Is Mac shooting his loads into it?" The episode didn't feel right until the return of Dennis and the completion of the gang. Mindy Kaling does not fit in with the show. Her character felt forced, but this again is an example of the meta jokes in this episode. The fact that sitcoms constantly try to reinvent themselves by adding new characters but ultimately it goes downhill. The moment Dennis returned a smile clung to my face for the rest of the episode and a long time after that. His return was perfect. He fixed the episode. Without him, the episode would'nt be half the episode it was. I guess the boys are really back in town.

Oh! that time of the year when one cannot resist surrender to some vapid entertainment, but is It's Always Sunny that empty? The answer may-be subjective, however I think not, and with a long article I could prove it, or at least provide a good case in favour of this show's brilliance; yes I could justify the hypothesis (that the show is more than mere vacuous distraction).

Anyways... First the superficial: they all look great. They aren't young (that young) any-more, but look great. Mr. McElhenney finally look like those action heroes of which he seem to a fan. And Mr. Day - lucky as hell. And DeVitto is also in very good shape. And do I need to mention Olson? 43 years old - damn.

Okay. The episode, in my opinion, isn't all that It's Always Sunny can be, nonetheless it isn't bad. A low Sunny still higher than most. Like in last season the first episode have a gimmick (in this season's case the one that Dennis (continuing season 12 finale) is gone when we (the fans) can see he really isn't and also can see the reveal from many bloody miles away): with that said the episode still funny: it kind of works. Is it predictable? Yes. Is it a bit misguided? Yes. Does it have a familiar, generic (albeit vague) scheme and many characterization callbacks? Yes and yes. But I see no reason to detract.

There's a (supposedly) new member to the gang (an ethnic woman) and we're lead to believe that Dennis is gone forever and forget his sociopathic antics until Mac receive a package containing a sex-doll in the likeness of Dennis (complete with a blow-job mouth which Mac says is suppose to feel as though in the mid of a conversation, fooling no-one) which the new member urges to be thrown away. The new member can pull-off schemes with incredible skill, however the Dennis doll (in the minds of our favourite cast of miscreants) start to talk with them and soon berate and abuse and judge them, bringing everybody to their inglorious past - so, Dee is a bird and needs more make-up, Mac is fat, and everything Charlie and Frank do is stupid and wrong; and so goes the scheme to hell. But the scheme and its engineer are utterly unimportant, because all that matters is Dennis: and this is the failure of the episode: it should have made more of an effort to make us believe that Dennis was gone, the scheme should have been better used and the new character better developed.

Of course, when the Waitress get drunk and have sex with the doll we can't help but laugh. To me she was the episode's highlight and I hope she'll appear more in the remaining two seasons.

This is an average episode of a show that will always be anything but average or ordinary.