It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005 - 2011): Review By Raoul Duke

So, it's taken a solid week for me to fullly calm my happiness down enough to actually talk about how stoked I am that Sunny is back on the air. Right off the bat I was reminded of how superior a show it is. To see this talent go unrecognized year after year by every major awards show is insulting. They give award after award away to the same crappy shows and crappier performances. Jon Cryer gets an Emmy nomination while Charlie Day gets a supporting role in a Justin Long comedy? Are you serious? Speaking of Jon Cryer, thanks a bunch FX for picking up reruns of Two and A Half Retarded Men. Now I get to struggle through commercial after commercial for a show that isn't funny just to get to Sunny. Awesome.

But, I won't let it ruin my fun. And what fun I had last week. Mac found out that the tranny finally got her dick cut off when he ran into her at the gym. He was a bit confused that she didn't call him as they had planned, and even more confused when the trannies husband walked up and introduced himself. This was all it took to set Mac on a jealous and confused quest against gay marriage. He heads to Paddy's to try and plead his case against gay marriage to The Gang, using the Bible to back his poorly formed opinion. He even demonstrates the futility of gay marriage by pounding two electrical plugs into each other.

So, with Mac taking the "ANTI" stand, we get some "PRO" from Frank and Dee. Dee believes marriage is a romantic thing and it's for two people who fall in love and that everyone should have the right, blah blah blah blah. Frank, as he so eloquently put it, believes that if, "gay people want to get married and be as miserable as everyone else, then go ahead." Mac, unable to prove his point or convince anybody otherwise, storms out of the bar, leaving Dennis and the rest of The Gang pondering their own marital situations.

"Mac Fights Gay Marriage," provides terrific satire on Gay Marriage laws and marriage in general in this country. At one point in the episode, Dennis marries his high school sweetheart at the County office. At the same time in the same building, Charlie and Frank are looking into a Domestic Partnership. Charlie and Frank are handed an entire stack of papers, forms, and hoops for them to fill out and jump through, while Dennis and Maureen skip through the Court house and get married like they took a ticket and waited for their number to be called.

And then we have Dee...Ms. "marriage is for two people who love each other deeply." She's off screwing a married man of course, putting in jeopardy for another couple all that she so wholeheartedly believes in, just to boost her own ego.

Charlie and Frank are as innocently hilarious as ever as they try and manipulate Domestic Partnership laws in exchange for medical benefits. And in times like these, that really doesn't seem like too far fetched of an idea. It'll probably pop up as a hot button issue on Anderson Cooper or some sh*t in a couple of months. I can see the headline now..."STRAIGHTS GO GAY FOR HEALTH CARE!"

The Gang hasn't lost their touch during their year long hiatus. The writing, directing, and acting remain as sharp as it ever has been. And their ability to satire a relevant and serious topic and make it hilarious hasn't faded at all. This is still the same dominant force in television that it was last year and has been since 2005.

This is the funniest show on tv. Whatever else you think is wrong. Get over it, bitches.

Part 2 tonight.

Divorce.

Later, boners.