Watching Sunny in Philadelphia, I can count on one thing in the episode and that is by the end of the episode, one or more of the four main characters will take a bad situation and use it to their advantage to gain something. The bad situation this week was a dead man.
The gang comes into Paddy’s to find a dead man in one of the booths. His granddaughter comes to visit the bar to just see where her Grandpa spent his last moments. Mac and Dennis each compete to impress the girl, by pretending to know her grandfather and pretending to know his friends. It was fun to watch Dennis and Mac compete and usually Dennis seems like the underdog in the group, but he’s able to match and exceed Mac when it came to sweet talking the granddaughter. Dennis played it perfectly at the funeral by having something prepared for the eulogy and then when getting to the stand, not using the paper at all. It was very impressive. It was a neat story that showed that Dennis can hold his own.
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Seeing the dead guy at their bar reminds Dee of her “Pop-Pop” who’s in a nursing home. She takes Charlie along with her, because of her fear of dead people. Dee’s fear wasn’t just something she disliked either, she was honestly afraid of old people. Dee’s mannerisms in the nursing home were funny and little things like her going against the wall so a lady in a wheelchair didn’t touch her were the funniest moments. Charlie gets mistaken for Dennis by Pop-Pop who gives him the task of getting his suit from storage so he could be buried in it. What Charlie finds isn’t a normal suit though at all, but a Nazi suit, one that Charlie has a little fun dressing up in. Only Sunny in Philadelphia would be as controversial as to have Charlie answer the door wearing it. It was interesting how even though Charlie was having fun with the suit, he decided against bring it to Pop-Pop, because he thought Pop-Pop deserved to burn in hell, which means that Charlie thinks it’s okay to wear the outfit as long as he isn’t doing the killings. I didn’t know that selling authentic Nazi material was against the law, but apparently it is, because Charlie and Mac couldn’t get any money for it. You would think that a museum would want to have it in their, but I guess not.
The guys trying to sell the suit wasn’t that funny and in the end, Charlie got to burn something. The funniest parts with Charlie was with him visiting Pop-Pop, but after the first time, he doesn’t go back. There also should have been more Pop-Pop because he was hilarious in his own right.
All of the Dennis and Mac competing was hilarious, and Dee being scared of old people was nice add to the show, but Charlie’s Nazi day didn’t really pan out into anything too interesting. A good episode, but one that wasn’t great all around.
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