#and it's giving me more kaitlin than dee but that's just me I guess

[trophywifemac]

they were serving so much cunt in this episode and for what

[dacergirl369]

s14 trailer breakdown!!!

okay so from the trailer there are six clear episode plot line we can see- a zoo episode, a laser tag episode, what i will refer to as the ‘melon episode’, dines out 2.0, a noir episode, and an episode where he whole gang seems to have a corporate meeting and then watch a movie at a private screening that they find *very* exciting. So, let’s go through what we can see about these plotlines from the trailer and what we can piece together from bts info, and then look at what’s missing from trailer and what this could mean. buckle in, because my ted talk is about to get started. in the essay i literally will. Let’s go.

So, we have an episode list, but only the description for the first ep, “tg gets romantic”. we know that in “tg chokes” the gang goes to guiginos at least once due to a scene rob leaked on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/B1NBx6-HOxM/?igshid=yg2ql5uyu4w1, https://www.instagram.com/p/B1zgApEHXhv/?igshid=1ge7qkgw5bm0d), so let’s start there.

We can see the entire opening scene for tg chokes on robs instagram, which shows us the gang are back at guiginos for a meal all together (which is also shown in the trailer). But the trailer has another guiginos scene (where dee appears to have a reaction and the waiter appears to use an epipen on her), where the gang (bar charlie and mac, who both only own one quote unquote “nice” outfit), are all wearing different outfits. So we know they visit guiginos at least twice this season. These more than likely happen in the same episode (what i called “dines out 2.0” before but we know is actually called “the gang chokes”).

Moving on to the laser tag episode. It’s... a laser tag episode. Unfortunately I don’t have much to say about it, but it’s a very clear plotline featuring the whole gang. It’s hard to tell if they wear the same outfits at another point because of the vests, but based on dees shirt i don’t think so. This plotline most likely takes up most or all of an episode (maybe dee day? my girl seems to be really enjoying the laser tag, so maybe?).

Then we have the noir episode, which we know is “the janitor always mops twice”. A whodunnit where the premise is to find out who diarrhoea poisoned frank. features the whole gang + the waitress, based on cast instagrams.

Then we have the screening episode (?) which i will go on record as saying i believe will be the thundergun episode (thundergun 4: maximum cool), but that is just personal speculation and not really based in any “facts” or “real world observations” or whatever pussies and people with small meat base their predictions on. we see the gang in a meeting in a corporate style office (the scene where charlie thinks the window is a two way mirror) and then later towards the end watching something on the big screen in an empty cinema and cheering (wearing the same outfits as before). Personal prediction: they’re gonna try convince a studio to let them make thunder gun 4 like they did with lethal weapon. i WOULD like to point out that in robs instagram pictures with dolph lundgren he is wearing a grey v neck shirt sleeve t shirt and in the shots i just mentioned he was wearing a baseball shirt with a print on it, so just keep that in mind when assessing the realism of this theory. But those might have just been backstage or after shooting pics. Anything is possible in iasip.

Okay, next I’m gonna talk about the zoo episode. This is the first episode i’m gonna discus where there are gang members missing from what i can figure out of the plotline. So, we have a very clear story in the trailer of mac and charlie going to the zoo, seeing the meerkats, charlie pisses on mac. Later in the trailer, frank is shown tormenting a gorilla. dee and dennis do not appear to be at the zoo with them, and kaitlin and glenn don’t seem to have been on set at the zoo based on social media posts. dee and dennis are only seen alone together in one scene during the trailer, which is this puppy (0:05), where they appear to be at some kind of fair/stand/protest or something? I’m not sure what it is, but dee appears to be texting while dennis laughs mockingly at her, so potentially (WILD SPECULATION ALERT) the zoo episode is the gang texts and dee and dennis have the main plot of this episode. this is the only dee and dennis solo scene in the trailer however we do have unaccounted for plotlines so this could be a part of that and their plot in this episode may not have a shot in the trailer.

Finally (not finally, but lastly out of the plotlines i have lovingly sherlock-ed together), we have the melon episode. This is probably the episode the trailer gave us the most information about, and we can out together almost a whole plotline from these shots. This seems from the trailer to be crickets only episode of the season, although there is a video of david hornsby on robs instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/B1zEOJjnPG8/?igshid=yfciekezwnc3) of him wearing a different outfit, so maybe there’s another episode in store for rickety cricks this season.

The gang appear to be watching a show in the bar, dennis tells them to shut up so he can watch, they gasp and remark how much they love the show, although dee says the plot is absurd. Dennis says humans are stupid and should be eradicated, which is met with agreement. Seems like we’re gonna have some good ol fashioned meta references this season, folks! Anyways, after this they somehow stumble across franks melon in a safe, ask him and it, and drop it from a ladder (from which cricket catches it). they also seem to be looking at the office computer while dee gags. this looks to be a classic “gang finds a thing and is surprised and intrigued by it so investigate but in an idiot way” episode, although we don’t know what frank is up to during this melon madness. he doesn’t seem to wear that shirt at any other point during the trailer. hmmmmmmm frank wyd

that brings me to the end of clear episodes in the trailer, but there are a few other things that, while they don’t really fit in with any specific plot, gives us a little info about what else is going on this season.

we have a plotline where frank is in the waiters house with him and his mother, not sure what the gang is up to but we see frank wear that shirt earlier in the trailer with charlie. we don’t not see charlie wear his shirt again in the trailer so it’s most likely a plot not in the trailer. there’s also a shot of frank and charlie in their pjs in their apartment, potentially from the first episode (tg gets romantic) as according the episode description it appears to be the episode this flyer is from (https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ZZB-PnDeB/?igshid=nta7myvov0t2), which would make sense for the boys in their pjs, although they could really do that at any point in the season. we ALSO see mac and dennis in their apartment, also in pjs, talking about lunatics. this is likely from the same episode as the charlie & frank pj shot to mirror them, which strengthens the argument that it’s from the first episode due to both sets of guys having the same set up and problem just in different ways (both advertise for a person to come live with them, it goes wrong). dee is also there in this macden shot. maybe she is the lunatic in question? idk. we have dee and mac on what looks like a basketball court, dee is dancing, and after that we also have mac and charlie in the macden apartment and mac tries to swipe charlie’s boaba. i have no idea about these, so i don’t have much to say. just thought i’d bring em up.

NOW, onto what we didn’t see in the trailer. we KNOW there is an episode with poppins because of this instagram post (https://www.instagram.com/p/B01Cqu4nwMK/?igshid=1cc2y1uvonml0). none of the outfits these three are wearing come up in the trailer, so i’m forced to believe this is an episode we have not seen any shots of yet. not sure what dee and dennis are doing. it could be that shot i mentioned before in the zoo section, but we can’t be sure. we didn’t seem to see anything about the global warming episode that has been teased, either.

so let’s recap what we know (or what i think i know). there’s ten episodes this season. we can deduce six coherent plots from the trailer (laser tag, noir, zoo, melon, chokes, potential thundergun). we know there’s an episode with poppins with mac charlie & frank, and the global warming episode. the first episode is tg gets romantic, which we have the description of and most likely those pj shots. so that’s nine plotlines overall we seem to have a grasp on right now. i believe the one we don’t have any info for right now is the finale, and that both the plot details and the shots are being kept under wraps so that the finale is more hard hitting when it comes out. i do believe they’re gonna go hard, we’re living post mfhp, anything is possible, and last seasons finale is an awful lot to top. i can’t even guess at the finale plot. i am so excited.

so that’s my official trailer breakdown and review, i hope this was coherent and if you know anything else or know that im wrong about something please tell me, i’m just so excited i want to have as clear a picture as possible bcs i can’t wait to know what the seasons gonna be!!!!!!

((thank you to @lesbian-mac for listening to my two hours of trailer related rambling and telling me to post this lmao <3))

[crazygaysex]

oh dudr Hellyeah firstly Baller Analysis Moment. sunny is like renowned anti-sitcom.. i would argue dennis is more a subversion of the “lovable emotionally stunted womanizer/misogynist” trope ie jeff from communty or i guess barnie from how i met ur mother, etc. cause he was portrayed pretty immediately on to be a manipulative womanizer or whatever with no convictions even before they started caricaturing his flaws more heavily from season 2 onward. and i would say serves to point out how a lot of methods the “player” types or whatever use in those shows range from pretty misogynistic creepy and predatory to straight up SA (ie getting a girl drunk to sleep with her! very nice himym that is Coercion babie...) especially with how they start amping up his downright unsettling and predatory tendencies more and more as the series goes on. they also portray him as being completely delusional in his perception of himself as well as like. chronically insecure and overall quite pathetic and ineffective. i actually can only vouch for barney being r*pey since i’ve seen more of that show (against my will) than community and dont know a lot about jeff except to me he is dennis but woefully unfunny because they seem to treat him as like. at least somewhat legitimate and unironic in his characterization and attractive to women for some reason? boring and stupid. he reads more like another self-congratulatory white dude wishful thinking self insert to me.

i would agree totally about dee being a subversive female lead but i think rcg really weren’t so clever or intentional about it at least initially and kaitlin should get all the credit for dee’s shift in characterization since when they startrd writing the show they were pretty fuckin stupid about women and claimed to “not know how to write women” (like Come On lol..) and kaitlin threatened to leave after s1 unless they write dee to be as depraved as the other three saying she didn’t wanna just be the voice of reason anymore which obviously not and the show benefits greatly from not boxing her into that role

i think one of my fav subversions they do is the trope of a dude wearing down the object of his affections until she Gives In is really well done with Charlie. he’s portrayed honestly as a straight up stalker who willfully ignores the reality of the object of his affection. when he finally gets what he wants he doesnt even want it anymore. so awesome

i don't know if anybody has pointed this out before but i feel like dennis reynolds is supposed to be a dark, exaggerated critique the trope of "cute white guy who gets lots of girls and charms everybody" in sitcoms (i'll call it the "leading man" trope for shorthand).

think jim halpert from the office for the example (or, if you would like, you can think of ben wyatt from parks and recreation or jonah simms from superstore - im sure you can find tons of other examples from other shows too). a lot of people like jim halpert because he's a goofball and he's endearingly funny and kind-spirited. he also has had attracted the romantic interest of girls just by being his charming self and ended up with a meaningful romantic relationship.

now, consider dennis reynolds. as we've seen in the past, he views himself as "the face of the bar". however, since this is the show it's always sunny in philadelphia after all, there's a twist on the aforementioned trope as dennis' "romantic" advances are unsuccessful and his constant pursuit of women where he deliberately and, in some cases, strenuously attempts to twist the perception of the situation. this results in meaningless and brief romantic relationships, which is exact of opposite of how typical "leading man" characters like jim seems to attract the attention of girls effortlessly and are able to maintain deep meaningful romantic relationships with women. dennis' desperate attempts at trying to get something out of his relationships with women highlight the reality that the "leading man" trope of easy romance for charming white guys is one that's highly unrealistic and ridiculous to expect.

dennis' god complex is also relevant when discussing this trope. oftentimes, the men in these "leading man" tropes are somewhat cocky and confident as they know they're charming and expect others to think that they are funny as well; therefore, they have a seemingly high perception of themselves. for dennis, this trait is exaggerated to show how it can be kind of ridiculous as dennis takes it to a whole new level, declaring himself to be a golden god and believing that others should perceive him as a god as well.

part of the reason why this trope came in mind is because i was thinking about the trope of "level-headed female character who often clashes with male characters" and how dee subverts that trope specifically since she's just as unhinged as the rest of the gang; iasip seems to address a lot of tropes and twist them to show the darker side so i figured that they probably did that with the "leading man" trope, one of the most common tropes / roles in traditional sitcoms.