On the surface, the gang can easily be mistaken as some of the coolest guy’s on TV, but when you watch a beginning like the one on this episode, it just makes you realize how lame they actually are. After leaving Dee to get mugged, the gang take on boxing in two very different ways.
After being mugged, Dee decides to start learning how to box and has Frank teach her. When Frank goes to the gym, he’s confronted by an old, rival boxer who still holds it over his head how he beat Frank all those years ago. Frank’s training routine is too much for Dee to handle, but she ends up turning to steroids or “performance enhancers” as Dee was told. Due to the side effects from steroids, Dee develops an anger problem and is over aggressive. Olson is pretty hilarious as a steroid junkie and the writers threw in little things like when Dee is growing facial and has to shave that really just makes the whole situation funny.
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Mac and Dennis go to see an underground street fight and somehow come to the opinion that Charlie is the toughest guy they know. They decide to train Charlie into becoming a street fighter, only instead of working on offense, they work on Charlie being able to take blows. Sometimes it’s amazing how easily Mac and Dennis manipulate Charlie into doing things, but it’s also scary that in this episode Mac and Dennis weren’t trying to manipulate Charlie; like they weren’t purposely hoping that he’d get beat up; it’s scarier that they thought Charlie actually had a chance. Charlie’s training takes a weird turn when he starts using Dee’s steroids. It was funny because Charlie’s side effects seemed different then Dee’s. Dee wanted to fight and was overly aggressive and Charlie was hyped up and kept urging the guys to hit him with things. Charlie Day’s performance isn’t as good as Olson’s but still worthy of some laughs.
I thought this episode used Frank a lot better, the writers played off of Frank’s wanting to spend time with his children and while he wasn’t a main focal point, he still delivered a lot of laughs. The writers have also gotten very good at merging two separate storylines in an episode without it feeling forced.
This was a fun episode, which was obviously supposed to be a nod to boxing films and for the most part they do a good job honoring them or making fun of them; whatever you want to call it. If anything this episode should be watched for the ending; while I won’t ruin it for you, the ending scene with Frank running out of the ring was hilarious and it’s one of the great moments that just shows how good Danny DeVito is.
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