It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia had a very successful first season. Going into its second season, it was unclear whether they would change anything or not. Well the good news is that it hasn’t changed much, but I have to say that after last season’s finale, I was hoping for something better.
Don’t get me wrong; the second season premiere has it’s funny moments and even introduces a new character to the show with Dee and Dennis’s father Frank (Danny DeVito). The relationship between the three is every bit as messed up and the same as the relationships between the four friends. Danny DeVito fits right in with the rest of the cast and it’ll definitely add to the show this season. Hopefully, they will use him sparingly and we don’t have to see him in every episode.
Even though this episode was titled “Charlie gets Crippled” I was still shocked when Dennis backed over him with the car. So we have Charlie in a wheelchair the whole episode; he goes to the strip club, where the strippers give him free lap dances and hang out with him. Frank tags along with him though, but seems to stealing all of Charlie’s thunder and it’s not just fooling around with the strippers they picked up, he literally seems to be copying Charlie, but doing it better. For some reason Charlie being handicapped gets the other three to pretend like they’re handicapped. Mac and Dennis both pretend to have Polio, which if they were smart knew that it’d be pretty rare nowadays to get it. Even though Dee pretended to be disgusted at the idea, she herself pretends to be handicapped too, walking on crutches and really nailing the walk.
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Sunny in Philadelphia loves to take on controversial subjects and they did it again with taking on the whole handicap subject. The problem was that while there were funny moments the story itself was a bit weak. It also didn’t feel like this episode took it too far with the topic; it just felt like they could have done a lot more with it.
There were so many plots in this episode that there wasn’t enough time dedicated to the good ones. I would have liked more of the Dee and Dennis arguing over dad’s stuff, but that and Frank giving his money away just started to seem like a non-topic by the end of the episode.
There were lots of things to like in this episode and it was good, but after last season I think my expectations were just a little too high. I’m still looking forward to the rest of the season though and I have no doubt there are some good episodes ahead. It should be interesting to see what new topics Sunny in Philadelphia decides to attack.
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