Molestation is the word of the day when Mac and Charlie find out that their elementary school teacher has been accused of molestation around the same years that Mac and Charlie attended. After hearing this news, Charlie acts a bit strange leading Dennis and Dee to think that Charlie got molested. All of this made for one of the funniest episodes of the season.
Dee and Dennis teamed up this episode to try to get Charlie to come clean about getting molested. Dee and Dennis teaming up is always something to look forward too, because they argue like little siblings do, but they’re adults so it’s a lot funnier. It was also funny as they kept berating Mac for his lack of knowledge of the subject. The two also seem to be really proud of themselves that they took psychology in college, sure Dee majored in it, but she also flunked all her classes and Dennis did psychology as his minor, but passed all of his; like Dee said though ¾ and a quarter of her major beats whole minor any day. Watching the two use their schooling to come up with ways of getting Charlie to come forward just got funnier as the episode went along.
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During a party where Charlie got drunk, he came up with the plan to accuse the teacher of molestation and sue the school board for money. Unfortunately, the McPoyle brother’s took it literally and actually went through with it. Charlie goes to visit them and let’s just say they might be a little too close and they’re a bit weird. Charlie tries to talk them out of it, but they blackmail him into going along with them, because if he doesn’t, they’ll tell the cops it was all his idea. Charlie goes along with the plan and has to act like he got molested. Meanwhile, Dee and Dennis have gotten together Charlie’s family to stage an intervention.
The intervention goes off well and with the McPoyle’s there, Charlie has to tell his whole family that he was molested, even though he wasn’t. Charlie turned it around on the brothers pretty well in the end though when he makes it seem like he’s going to go along with the plan, but instead turns them in. They weren’t planning on cutting him in on the money anyway.
Mac wasn’t the star of the episode, but he was doing his own little thing because he became jealous that he didn’t get molested. Mac is such a narcissist, so it totally feels in character when he goes to see the coach in tight shorts and tries to get him to show some interest. Mac had the unfortunate time of being told he’s going to hell, but then again with this group of four, if one is going to hell, then they’re most likely all going.
This episode was funny from beginning to end and I think it benefited from only have one storyline revolving around Charlie’s molestation. In a thirty minute time frame, a single storyline works better then if you have more because you can really develop the jokes and the plot line better. Molestation is such a controversial topic, but Sunny in Philadelphia used it and turned into a hilarious episode. Sure this episode and many other episodes of Sunny in Philadelphia aren’t for everyone, especially victims of any of these topics. For the rest of us who can find humor in anything in this world, this episode works. Sunny in Philadelphia apparently doesn’t do cliff-hanger season finale’s, well this episode was arguably the funniest episode of the season and is a great send off for the first season.
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