Your regular It's Always Sunny recapper, Maske, is away at some unholy incestuous civil ceremony, probably, so I'm taking over for this episode — and what an episode it was. "Maureen Ponderosa's Wedding Massacre," only the show's second true Halloween episode, after season six's "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" (or am I misremembering something?), was a straight-up horror movie...well, not quite parody; more like an homage, to zombies and bats and scary close-ups of bears and that terrifying episode of The X-Files, "Home."
Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney have been having fun playing with the boundaries and expectations of what makes an It's Always Sunny episode this season, which is why I liked "Wedding Massacre" as much as Dennis liked Maureen's boobs, before he really saw them. Having it air around Halloween allowed for a convenient (and ingenious) way of trying something new, in the way the horrific Ponderosa/McPoyle milk-only wedding was written and filmed, with the bloody title sequence, time-jumps, and scenes straight out of a found footage film (yet enough Sunny-isms, like Charlie and Mac's hilarious Batman chat and failed car escape, to keep it from being too out there). That's how a show that's been on for eight seasons remains a must-watch every week.
Plus, Guillermo del Toro played a crazy man who screamed about eating babies. That's a major plus.
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I love this show, and it is hard for me to decide which character I liked best from this episode. But, I gotta say, when Dennis confronted McPoyle about marrying his ex-wife and McPoyle said “I’m so happy”, his grimacy face made me lose it. Just a ridiculously funny character.
Maureen Ponderosa + fixed dead tooth + big ol’ tities = hot as all hell
Yeah totally
fuck even with her og titties i was attracted to her. you couldn’t smell the dead tooth through the tv screen… until they invent smell-o-vision, that is.
I was dying when the crashed the car in front of Dee and then blamed their injuries on zombies.
I always enjoy that McPoyle women are basically eldritch horror versions of Frida Kahlo.
If your name is referring to Revis Island, I don’t like it.
But +1 for the comment.
I forgot del Toro was going to be in it. Didn’t recognize him at all. He was pretty damn funny, though.
Here’s Guillermo del Toro talking about being PAPPY MCPOYLE
I’d be terrified of a Del Toro McPoyle spin-off
Hey look it’s cousin Fred.
Not a chance, there’s no unibrow.
I had no idea that was Del Toro when I was watching the episode. I didn’t think the episode could get any better, but that did it.
My god, this episode was fantastic.
Finding out that was Del Torro makes the episode retroactively even better.
Am I a bad person for thinking this was the best episode they’ve done since The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore? Everything about this was incredible, and sets up for next week deliciously well, too.
Yes, it was fantastic
Though I would put the one where they play the board game (Can’t remember the name) in there too. That one was brilliant.
CharDee MacDennis the Game of Games
To the Game of Games!
Yes, ChardeeMacDennis was also fantastic. SO CONFLICTED.
/This was supposed to be here. I suck.
I’m pretty sure all my favorite episodes involve the McPoyles. #1 is The Gang Gets Invincible…which birthed Greenman.
Charlie doing Jaws was brilliant, even if they didn’t have time for it.
To the Game of Games!
Yes, ChardeeMacDennis was also fantastic. SO CONFLICTED.
Easily my favorite part of the episode… they let him do Quint’s story about the Indianapolis for what seemed like a solid 2 minutes. Awesome.
Also that story Quint tells from Jaws is basically true. Horrifying.
Dare I say the McPoyle wedding was far more frightening than whatever American Horror Story did.
Yup…
Thanks to Ghostpilot from the Something Awful forums!
Dee’s faces are the best faces.
Thank you for that. Tumblr’s been down, so I wasn’t able to scrounge up any GIFs.
it would have been better if my comments were flipped.
Nightmare fuel.