User Reviews

This episode is a lot like the previous and brilliant "the gang does a clip show," where on the surface it seems like a generic home alone parody, but after a deceptively long parody and recreation of Home alone, it soon becomes one of the goriest and most disgusting episodes of the show, with it soon turning into a parody of Saw. With a plethora of great physical humour and a really funny concept, this is an easily overlooked episode in a season that I think is over-hated. I can't say that about the next episode, which is my least favourite in the show. 13x9 isn't even that awful of an episode, a testament to how good this show is.

I was very confused and kept clicking on the newest episode...I had to watch it a week later because i thought the website was messing up..bUt no...It really has the same 5 minute opener as the last episode..with nothing different...I liked the rest of the episode.

Look, everyone here is entitled to their opinions, but I do feel like a lot of the negative reviews surrounding this episode come from people who are frustrated with the different feel of this season and looking to vent. Yes, this episode is very different for Always Sunny, and it is another bottle episode which some people seem to hate, however this was one of the strongest episodes of this season IMO, leagues better than the Ladies Reboot episode.

The Home Alone parody scenes are well done in context of the episode as a whole, they last just long enough to lure you into the idea that the whole episode is going to be a rip-off of Home Alone. That makes the part where Charlie steps in the bear trap all the more shocking, and the sudden shift in tone from lighthearted parody to brutal physical comedy felt like a classic Sunny moment to me.

The blood and bodily injury are crazy over the top, and people here are saying that like its somehow a poor choice for the show? What about the time they had Charlie dig down to his arm bone with an electrified pair of tweezers, had Dee's braid ripped out of her head by a carnival ride, or showed Charlie drench the back of a limo in projectile blood vomit? Blood and gore is nothing new for the Gang. The intense injury juxtaposed with Charlie's insane quest to keep the rituals alive was continuously, terribly funny, and also did a good job of poking fun at Home Alone by showing what things like a nailgun to the arm or paint can to the head would really feel like (Charlie's "WHO WOULD DO THIS TO SOMEONE?") was perfect.

Overall not in the best episodes of the show, but one of the high points of the season for me. Keep an open mind and wait for part 2 this week before writing this one off as a sign that Always Sunny is "dead".

I've been excited for this show since day one. I live near Philly and think it's awesome it's placed near here. Yes this episode was only Charlie based. Yes it had gross moments. However, did anyone realize the WHOLE season alludes to the Eagle's Superbowl win? I think they've mentioned it in every episode this season thus far. This episode isn't Sunny's greatest, but it's adding up to a GREAT season. There is a plot to this one. Charlie is left behind. Cricket stole his Greenman outfit. Stop hating the show you love, it doesn't have one foot in the grave.

Yeah this felt pointless. Charlie is dumb, but he isn't THAT dumb, like why would he think the people outside are burglarers other than because it's supposed to be a parody of Home Alone. This is probably the worst episode of the show yet, which to be fair is kinda impressive because 13 seasons in and there's really only been a couple stinkers, although season 13 as a whole has felt really off, both in terms of the characters and just the writing as a whole. It's not as funny as the previous seasons, with the jokes hanging on for far too long and the episodes becoming less and less inventive each week.

I was fine with the bickering between the gang in the beginning about rituals, pregaming, the Eagles etc.

Then we had the weird Charlie hallucination/Home Alone parody. This felt dated, random, awkward, and just wasn't as funny as this show used to be.

This episode featured a self-inflicted gorefest unlike anything seen on Sunny before. Charlie spends a majority of the episode crawling around the bar with a bear trap on his leg, which is bloody and gross. The whole thing is cringe worthy and the fact that there's a part two is horrific. It's supposed to be a parody of Home Alone but is much more like Saw for no reason. So far he's gotten caught in a bear trap, walked through broken glass, gotten hit repeatedly in the head by paint cans and drank his own urine. I'm a series-long fan of IASIP but this episode was awful and not at all the Sunny I know and love.