[7.5/10] This felt like an early episode of the show, where The Gang is split up into different adventures that end up folding onto one another by the end of the episode. And I really liked each of them! The theme of everyone in The Gang defining themselves by their vehicles really worked, and led to lots of funny moments.
I think my favorite of them has to be Mac and Charlie getting their old bikes. There’s definitely a childlike innocence to the two of them despite their raunchtastic ways, and seeing them experience the joy of riding bikes again, lamenting their old bully, was oddly sweet. Their interactions with today’s bullies and yesterday’s bullies had amusing banter, and the Godfather-esque beatdown of the kids is a nice amusing subversion of the “making peace with your childhood bullying tropes.”
Dennis’s story was very amusing as well. The idea that he reverts to being an “economy” guy without his range rover led to a lot of nice material for Glenn Howerton. The way that he lost his mojo and turns into a fantasy baseball playing, coors-drinking, economical dude is a nice twist on the usual sociopathic alpha version of Dennis. And the way he instantly reverted back to that once he found his new friend’s (nicely set up) range rover, and how everything in his life felt okay again once he had a range rover back, was outstanding.
The one story I didn’t really care for was Frank’s. There’s some inherent amusement at a 60 year old man being in a driver’s ed class with teenagers, and his bit at least set up a nice gag at the end of the episode about the “PC rules of the road.” But it’s one one of those “raunch for the sake of raunch” storylines.
That said, I loved how it tied into Dee’s storyline. Her rising above her station due to her new range rover, and then going insane over the smallest slight is classic Dee. The way that her overblown attempts to get back at her “frenemy” intersect with Frank leading his driver’s ed buddy around were fantastically bonkers in a characteristically IASIP.
Closing out the episode with everyone bopping along in Dennis’s range rover -- “Never Gonna Give You Up” blasting and balance restored -- was a superb way to go out.
Overall, another very funny and well-written episode of what’s shaping up to be one of IASIP’s best seasons.
again the show rickrolled me
such a good episode! dee turning into dennis, while dennis is so unlike himself was brilliant.
it also feels like it's been a while since we've had a good ep with a charlie and mac dynamic, and their story was as dumb and hilarious as they are.
the end made me so happy. first the boys are back in town was in the first ep, now never gonna give you up? i love the nostalgic song choices this season. this ep really felt like classic sunny
Best episode this season lol!!!!!! Love all of Dee's and Dennis' moments! Loved the whole epsiode!
Dennis: "Be gone from me now..."
"Be Gone you soy boy beta cock the transaction is complete."
Jonathan: "Dennis I don't understand"
"BE GONE!!!!!!!!"
Love the Never Gonna Give You Up song nostalgic as hell!
ps. "I think I killed a kid" "I saw!" "Shhhh doesn't matter... doesn't matter." "You're in the range rover now." lol
best episode ever! holy shit!
Those kids took it like champs
I’m just gonna say what we all are thinking: the boys had it coming!!!
At first I was like eyeroll, another comedy series episode where grown ass adults let little kids bully and humiliate them (this reminded me of a community episode) but they really went there and did what they had to do to those kids!! And I’m not even sorry for saying that was great and one of the most iconic scenes of television and I will forever cherish this moment.
I don't really care for the new episodes (Season 1-6 was when it was a classic). But this made me laugh. Classic Sunny.
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great fucking episode! felt like a classic sunny