[6.8/10] Not a bad episode by any stretch. The premise is outstanding, and poking fun at the conventions of T.V. sitcoms and how they make awkward or uncomfortable stuff easy to swallow with laugh tracks and musical stings is fertile territory. Melding that Full House-esque sensibility with IASIP’s own demented style definitely gets some humor from the contrast.
But the episode is fairly jumbled, and just keeps stacking bit on top of bit, whether it’s Dee trying to be the wacky neighbor and getting faux-flatulently stuck in the bannister, or Mac trying to keep his mom in every shot so she doesn't get written off, to Charlie trying to defend his mother’s virtue from Frank. They’re amusing enough ideas, but none of them’s really enough to sustain the episode on their own, and while the show is going for a certain chaotic energy as usual, it doesn't quite click.
I do appreciate Dennis as the Truman Show-esque master control guy, and all the meta-humor and inside baseball jokes about making a sitcom, but the meat of the episode is a little thing. Still a neat concept though, and that makes this one mildly amusing, if not a great outing for It’s Always Sunny.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-06-09T15:38:44Z
[6.8/10] Not a bad episode by any stretch. The premise is outstanding, and poking fun at the conventions of T.V. sitcoms and how they make awkward or uncomfortable stuff easy to swallow with laugh tracks and musical stings is fertile territory. Melding that Full House-esque sensibility with IASIP’s own demented style definitely gets some humor from the contrast.
But the episode is fairly jumbled, and just keeps stacking bit on top of bit, whether it’s Dee trying to be the wacky neighbor and getting faux-flatulently stuck in the bannister, or Mac trying to keep his mom in every shot so she doesn't get written off, to Charlie trying to defend his mother’s virtue from Frank. They’re amusing enough ideas, but none of them’s really enough to sustain the episode on their own, and while the show is going for a certain chaotic energy as usual, it doesn't quite click.
I do appreciate Dennis as the Truman Show-esque master control guy, and all the meta-humor and inside baseball jokes about making a sitcom, but the meat of the episode is a little thing. Still a neat concept though, and that makes this one mildly amusing, if not a great outing for It’s Always Sunny.