Besides a beginning that wasn’t too funny, “The Gang Goes Jihad” was a pretty good episode. This week the gang is faced with having to get rid of their bar when the owner of the building next door purchases the land that the bar sits atop of.
The guys go to a lawyer who tells them that there’s no legal way out of it, they accidentally mistake this for the lawyer telling them that they should do something illegal to get the new guy out of his building. The rest of the episode had the gang coming up with different plans, each one being as stupid as the next. Most of them were funny, but the funniest one where the guys make a terrorist tape is something that has to be seen to be believed; You won’t be able to stop laughing.
One of the funniest things about this episode was that the guy next door was Jewish and throughout the episode, each one of the guys said the word “Jew” while the other two would think that was a bit out of control. It was funny listening to the discussions that they were having about in what context they were able to use the word. It’s always obvious that these guys never know what they’re talking about, but it’s still fun to listen to them argue. This episode also served to make fun of people who don’t know what’s going on in the world, because even though the guys knew there was something going on in Israel, they really had no idea specifically what was going on.
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Frank was back again and he seems set on trying to join the gang. It’s funny having Frank on this show, because on one hand he tries really hard to be one of the guys, but then there’s times when he acts like a father like when Dennis doesn’t include Dee as part of the gang and he’s sitting there telling Dennis to include her. It’s weird, but it totally works in this show. Frank’s wife comes and she’s unfortunately every bit as mean as Frank has said about her; the slap she gives Charlie speaks for herself. It was disappointing that there were no scenes of Dennis with his mom, but it’s apparent that Dennis is her favorite and it’s almost sad how mean she was to Dee; She didn’t even care that Dee was wearing a neck brace.
Another thing this episode did well was carry things over from last episode like Dee and Dennis stealing from the house came back up and it was also very cool that Dee was still wearing her neck brace and Charlie was just now getting his cast taken off. It doesn’t make since though why Dennis seemed to be recovered, but there was something a little off on his face that would indicate that he hadn’t fully recovered. Things like this are really cool to see in the show.
In the end, it looks like Frank finally found his way into the gang by buying the land under the bar and threatening to change the bar unless he can join the gang. So it looks they’ve added another member to the gang and I’m somewhat happy about it. On one hand, we’ve only had seven episodes with just the original four, so there doesn’t seem to be another point of adding another character, but on the other hand, Frank is a great addition to the show, I just hope that they don’t use Frank in every episode from here on out and give us some episodes with just the original four.
This episode was better then the season premiere and it was very funny and cleverly done. Even the gang’s acapella version of “More Then Words” was for some reason. I knew Sunny in Philadelphia would come back with a better episode and thankfully they did.
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