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I feel it's necessary I preface this with the fact that i've never done a review before, so bear with me.

For starters, I sense this episode won't get the praise it deserves because of how much of a sharp left turn it takes halfway through. The whole "Inception" concept was just brilliant in my opinion mainly due to how they managed to take the antiquated premise of a clip show and basically ripped the trope to pieces. I had no idea where things were headed the further down the rabbit hole I was led but loved every second of the journey.

The Seinfeld bit felt a little contrived, but not so much like a shark jump. It was done decently enough to not pull me out of the episode if that makes any sense. I thought the ending was really good too knowing that the show's coming to an end soon. In other words, if they did something like that earlier in the series, it would probably make every following episode seem like a weird fantasy universe that exists only in Charlie's head.

Also, I love how they continue to highlight just how detached from reality the gang is becoming year after year. They're so wrapped up in their delusions and mild insanity and it's more prevalent now than ever before.

Overall though, a really creative and ambitious episode and definitely one of my favorites this season. I'd put it right below episodes 4, 5, and 6 but that'll likely change once I can rewatch the whole season.

I can almost hear the cries of those thinking this season is uneven at best or just plain bad and that this episode demonstrates exactly that. Well, I disagree. What a shock.

I thought I died. When they said they remembered The Contest my heart went faster, because I knew, instinctively, about what they were talking, and the whole scene made me die. I laughed so much, so much, I couldn't feel my face for a while.

As the title of the episode suggests: it's a clip show: something lazy and boring which show-runners do when they are out of ideas and want simply to cash in on their past glory. Not the case with It's Always Sunny. Why? Because, as has been proven time and time again, IASIP doesn't abide to cliches, the show subverts them, usually with high meta-fictional bravado, and so it is with this episode.

While waiting for their phones to update the software which will take about half an hour in which, as Dennis put it: "What are we gonna do without our phones for 30 minutes", they are lost in existence without nothing else to do as in most of our tech-enslaved society - anyway... they decide to remember the good auld times, even though Dennis protests, seeing as something only old people past their prime do. And so a typical clip show begins, they want to remember something and the show cuts to said memory, making a collage of old episodes. Pretty basic and lazy and boring, after all viewers and admires and fans can watch clips on YouTube at any time. But, in this case, is it lazy?

As always, with this wonderful show, even this seemly simple concept is turned on its head when they start to mess with each others memories, from small details all the way to complete fictional accounts, giving us the greatest Seinfeld reproduction scene (I've always wished that they would do a full-blown Seinfeld reference, of course I liked the small ones: Frank's tight jeans, yada yadas thrown here and there, Mac saying Frank with the same inflection Jerry says Newman, etc., but I wanted more, and I got it in spades).

The pastiche alone in this episode deserves the highest of commendations, it is simply divine, add to this the magnificent ending which can give birth to some pretty wild hypothesis of the reality of the show and its characters (for those who like theorise about such things) and one gets an episode that goes fast and hits hard and makes one think and enquire. Deeply satisfying.

In "The Gang Does a Clip Show", while everyone waits for their phones to finish a software update, the gang reflects on the good times they've had over the years. They soon discover however that a lot of their memories have conflicting viewpoints and they start to struggle to figure out what's real and what's fake.

The dreaded clip show episode comes for every sitcom if the show lasts long enough and apparently IASIP is no exception. I like the little twist they put in this one though as they poke fun of both themselves and other comedies. Probably my favorite moment is them misremembering an episode of Seinfeld as something their gang did. Charlie as Kramer is something I didn't realize I needed in my life.

We've had a strong little group of solid episodes here in the midst of Season 13. I hope it continues.

Even if Sunny is not what it once was, the show has had a remarkable run and there is nothing wrong with a 55% clip show.

We did get some fresh stuff though like recreating a clip from the episode The Contest of Seinfeld. One of my all-time favorites, and it is good to honor the classic program.

I get that this will be polarizing, but overall it was okay. I wouldn't advise doing something like this again though when the show finally does wrap.

This episode, while taking from classic tv shows, added a new twist on what we know to be a clip show.

The beginning was a bit long and drawn out, but we did get to look back at memorable moments like naked couch frank and dennis' implication.

I think the episode was great when they took the time to misremember things, and we got some good bits of humor from that. Classic daddy long legs frank, and the bit with the two charlies becoming self-aware of their voice was incredible.

Overall, this episode was not incredible, like the last three had been, but episode 8 looks promising and Its Always Sunny hasn't even begun to peak.

Ah yes, the good ol tv clip shows! Sunny's hilarious take on clip shows is so refreshing. How they go to extremes to change their perception of events is absolutely brilliant. The Seinfeld bit killed me, also tongue in cheek because they had done like 3 of them during their run ;-)

This is not a good episode. It is not what it first seems to be. I respect that they tried to do something different, but, it really did not work. It was more like bad science fiction than an episode of comedy. This season has been very inconsistent. It has had some of my favourite ever episodes, but, there have also been a few of the worst. This is one of the worst.