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Dee Becomes A Famous Actress

Ok so obviously Dee does not become a famous actress, but I’ve had an idea that ever character gets an episode on what they’re lives would be if they never met each other.

It’s Dee and Dennis birthday, and Dee is celebrating her birthday, alone. She bought a bottle of wine and cake from the Wawa and put a candle in it for herself. She wishes that things could’ve been different. She blows out her candle, takes a heavy drink of the bottle of wine, and snuggles in her blanket on her couch while a movie plays in the background, preferably The Notebook with Rachel McAdams.

When Dee wakes up, she is in a gorgeous house, in an expensive silk kimono, and The Notebook is playing on a huge flat screen TV with Dee playing Rachel McAdams’s role. A butler, who is played by Glenn Howerton, gives her a schedule for the day. Dee is so confused. She begins calling the butler Dennis but he explains that he’s not Dennis.

“You must’ve had too much to drink last night, Mrs. Reynolds,” assistant Dennis says.

“Mrs. Reynolds?” Dee asks. “I’m married?”

At that moment, a famous actor, like Chris Hemsworth, walks in a gives her a kiss on the cheek. (It would be funny if it was Josh Groban just to bring him back. One of the two guys.) Dee is beside herself.

Her abnormal day goes on, and she meets with her agent, who is played by Danny DeVito. Once again, Dee is very confused. She calls him Frank and says that you’re the guy who raised me. Agent Frank ignores this and brushes it off. Dee’s next appointment is with her manager, who is played by Charlie Day. At this point, Dee has accepted that no one is who they are and that this is her new lifestyle. Manager Charlie calls Agent Frank, and they talk to her about this new superhero movie and how Dee is the top choice for the role. They offer her the part, and she gladly accepts.

The rest of Dee’s day includes shopping, photo shoots, press interviews, and paparazzi. It’s everything that the regular Dee Reynolds would’ve wanted and more. She goes home to her handsome husband and finds Mac in the kitchen. He introduces himself as her personal trainer that the studio sent over to get her in shape for the superhero role. He goes over her new diet and exercise routine, and Dee’s eyes widened in fear.

“It’s a lot,” she laughs. “Is it really all necessary?”

“Hey, don’t shoot the messenger, Mrs. Reynolds, but from what the studio told me is that your acting chops are right for the role but I gotta help get you in shape,” he shrugs. “Just doing what they told me.”

“But I don’t want to do all that,” she hisses.

“It doesn’t matter if you want to do it or not. The studio needs you to look a certain way for the role,” Trainer Mac argues.

“Even in this reality, you’re a dick,” Dee mumbles. “Ok fine. Let’s do it.”

“Great. So first things first no more alcohol.”

Dee agrees to the studios crazy demands for the movie. It’s burning her out but she’s getting paid big bucks for it. She gets little sleep and is constantly tired. She is eating less and what she does eat she doesn’t enjoy. She’s sneaking in drinks because her alcohol withdrawals were getting so bad. She can’t talk to anyone about her issues. Usually, she could vent to Dennis or Charlie, but the real Dennis and Charlie don’t exist in this universe. Her depression worsens in her new glamorous lifestyle. Dee’s miserable. “Somethings never change,” she mutters as she takes a swig of a martini from a broom closet.

There’s a knock on the door. She hides the drink and opens it. It’s Assistant Dennis. “No offense, you look tired.” He gives her hand and gets her out of the closet.

Cut to Assistant Dennis and Dee on the couch watching one of Dee’s movies.

“Are you ok?” He asks softly.

She nods. “I have everything I could have ever wanted. I got the perfect life. I got money. Clothes. Fame. Fans. I don’t have four annoying friends who bug and make fun of me every waking moment.”

“What?”

“Nothing,” she quickly responds.

“I didn’t ask if you had everything you ever wanted, Deandra. I asked if you’re ok.” Dee stays silent. “Are you happy?”

Dee looks at him. It looks like Dennis, but it’s not. Everyone looks like who they are supposed to be, but they’re not. Nothing is how it’s supposed to be. “No,” she says with a sad smile and teary eyes.

“I thought that this is what I wanted, but it’s not. I hate all of this. I’m not happy anywhere. Nothing is going to solve this, Dennis,” she screams.

“I’m not Dennis, Deandra.”

“But you’re supposed to be!” She cries. “If you were Dennis, you’d be calling me a stupid bird right now and then the other three would join in and laugh. If you were Dennis, you would tell me to get my shit together and start acting like an adult.”

Assistant Dennis frowns. “A bird? That’s so awful.”

She begins to laugh. “Yeah, it is awful, and it’s mean but I’m ok with that but I’m also not ok with that. But that’s how we function. The Gang. We function dysfunctionally and it’s ok in its own fucked up way.”

“Maybe, therapy or yoga would be good. I could call you’re trainer and see if he has any good meditational yoga that we could try with you.”

“I don’t want yoga or a trainer or a any of this! I want my brother and for him to tell me to get my shit together and call me a bird..” She yells. “I want to go back to my shitty apartment and my shitty friends who are always there for some reason because we have each other.”

Dee wakes up in her apartment and it’s the next day. Her phone is filled with messages from The Gang. She opens the oldest message. It’s a text from Dennis.

Happy Birthday, Bird 🐦❤️

She rolls her eyes with a smile and quickly types back.

Happy Belated Birthday, Dickbag ❤️

Everything is back to the way it was.

#dee reynolds #iasip

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meralee727 · 6 years ago

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Dear Rob, Glenn and Charlie,

I am writing this very professional pitch in hopes of being part of the writing staff for season 14 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. No idea if you’ve thought about next season yet but seeing as I have done extensive Sunny research, I have some ideas and also feelings.

Here is my one ask for season 14. The one thing I beg of you not to do:

Please do not press the reset button

Pressing the reset button has become an expected plot device within Sunny universe. In the thirteenth season alone, Dee falls off the side of a building and Charlie gets his leg caught in a bear trap and neither one dies. Mac and Charlie severely beat up children to such a degree that there was a possibility that one died and there were no consequences. Sunny does take place in an alternate universe where we’ve come to expect that things like logic and prison time will simply have no place in the Sunny world.

And that’s fine.

But that being said…

I beg of you to please, please step away from the button.

I don’t have to explain what happened in the finale. You were there and Rob, I hope you treated yourself to a box of doughnuts when it was all over. A box of doughnuts that you did not share with your wife and sons. It was powerful, beautiful and perfect from top to bottom. The risk that it took to go against what everyone expected from a Sunny episode just to simply let the struggling and lost know that it’s okay was extraordinary and for that reason, the reset button is not an option.

At least not for the first episode of season 14.

You ended on a peak of sorts and to leap all the way back to the bottom and kick off the fourteenth season doing an episode where the gang does something like solves the North Korea gas crisis would be doing a disservice to Mac finding his pride. That dance, that moment was so spectacular that pretending it never happened in season 14 just sounds disrespectful to Mac.

If I can, I would love to give my pitch for season 14.

Here it goes:

Instead of an episode where the gang spoofs a movie or does their take on a social/political issue, maybe the first episode of the fourteenth season can kick off with the gang finding Mac’s pride?

Go with me on this….

We can open on Frank and Mac coming back to the bar after having left the prison. Mac tells Frank not to tell Charlie, Dee and Dennis about his dance.

Frank, being Frank, has already forgotten the dance ever happened in the first place.

Despite this, Frank begins to take on a fatherly, almost protective role with Mac.

Almost.

Of course I mean Frank’s version of fatherly. The man’s not Danny Tanner. Maybe it should be “fatherly” not fatherly. Frank begins to treat Mac how he treats Charlie. Maybe Frank invites Mac to play Nightcrawlers with him and Charlie or brings Mac boiled denim so he can change out of his wet jeans? This could cause Charlie to get jealous and as seen in episodes like The Gang Tends Bar, Charlie doesn’t handle jealousy well.

Maybe at this pride parade, Mac meets a guy? A nice guy. A guy who actually likes Mac which I think would especially throw Dennis for a loop. Someone who actually treats Mac with respect. Someone who will take Mac’s attention away from Dennis. Oh and what if this guy has an actual blackbelt in karate?

While Charlie is jealous of how Frank is being towards Mac, Dennis’ neediness starts to emerge as Mac starts spending time with Karate Man. Remembering what happened when Mac and Dennis broke up, Dennis starts to rely too heavily on Dee again.

Dee and Charlie ultimately team up to restore order to the gang. A gang as codependent as this one descends into chaos when the roles change. Frank and Mac coming together throws everything off balance. Charlie needs Frank relying on him just as much as Dennis needs Mac. With this gone, Dee will most likely get more of everyone’s abuse as Dennis and Charlie start losing control. So order needs to be restored so everything can be back to normal or whatever is considered normal for the gang.

Of course, Mac, being Mac, ultimately ends up destroying the relationship with Karate Man. Maybe Karate Man suggests that Mac take karate lessons? Mac’s delusions about his sexuality may be gone but his delusions about his ability to do karate are still alive and well. I could not see Mac reacting well to someone telling him he should take a beginning karate class and actually trying to teach him some moves. Mac being taught contemporary dance is one thing….but karate? Well, that’s another story.

These characters are all so severely broken and damaged anyway that while Dee and Charlie could work to sabotage the relationship, Mac will ultimately destroy the relationship on his own just by being Mac.

Now, maybe the ending could take place between Mac and Dennis?

Last season, there seemed to be a shift in the Dennis and Mac relationship. Dennis seemed annoyed by Mac though I’m not sure that was the intent. There was also the mystery as to what might have happened to Dennis? I liked the idea that you had briefly mentioned in The Gang Makes Paddy’s Great Again where the joke was that Dennis had given Mac the number to a mental health clinic. Given how Dennis was able to put together an entire sexual harassment seminar for the sole purpose of calling out the gang, this almost seems plausible that Dennis would have concocted this huge scheme so he could leave town and perhaps check into a mental health facility?

I feel like there’s some sort of fight or show down of sorts coming with regard to Mac and Dennis. Maybe when Mac comes back to the apartment after things end with Karate Man, Mac tries at first to tell Dennis what happened but instead Dennis goes off on one of his signature rants. Maybe in this rant, where he goes off on all of the things Mac does that annoy him and how that affects him, he inadvertently reveals where he was when he left the gang. Mac watches in silence and when Dennis is done, Mac approaches him, punches him in the face and says, “you left me, asshole” before turning and walking out of the apartment.

I like the idea of Mac fighting back. Mac found his confidence at the end of the thirteenth season. He found his strength. He found the ability to stand up for himself. So maybe the idea of simply punching someone in the face and leaving is enough?

The end of the episode could take place at the bar? Dee, Charlie, Frank and Mac are there downing shots of whiskey. Charlie and Frank are back as the gruesome twosome talking about a large sewer rat while Dee and Mac offer their own opinions when Dennis walks in. Dee asks what happened to his face, Dennis responds by insulting her instead and conversation turns back to sewer rats which leads to a scheme. Mac pours him a shot, Dennis thanks him, maybe pats Mac on the back. The episode ends with the five drinking at the bar planning their next scam.

Then episode two could be, I don’t know, The Gang Takes on Sliding Doors or The Gang Fixes the Border Crisis.

So how’s that?

See, I think setting the reset button will cause fandom whiplash. Right now, to paraphrase Dennis, season 13 ended with you guys as the proverbial kings of the mountaintop. To get down from top of the mountain, you don’t just jump and hope you land safely but instead you move yourself slowly back down to the ground. Back down to the world of schemes and where actions really have no consequences.

So that’s my pitch. I’d love to hear back from you regarding your thoughts.

Sincerely,

Meredith

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9859077an) Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Charlie Day Glenn Howerton, Jill Latiano. Rob McElhenney, from left, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Charlie Day Glenn Howerton and Jill Latiano attend the LA Premiere of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Season 13 at the Regency Bruin Theatre, in Los Angeles LA Premiere of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Season 13, Los Angeles, USA – 04 Sep 2018

IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA — “Dee Made a Smut Film” — Episode 1104 (Airs Wednesday, January 27, 10:00 pm e/p) Pictured: (l-r) Rob McElhenney as Mac, Danny DeVito as Frank, Glenn Howerton as Dennis, Kaitlin Olson as Dee, Charlie Day as Charlie. CR: Patrick McElhenney/FX

Season 14: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Pitch Dear Rob, Glenn and Charlie, I am writing this very professional pitch in hopes of being part of the writing staff for season 14 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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wbwest · 8 years ago

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West Week Ever: Pop Culture In Review - 3/10/17

In movie news, a lot is going on with the Deadpool sequel. At the beginning of the week, it was reported that David Harbour of Netflix’s Stranger Things was being sought after for the role of Cable. While fans have wanted a bigger name, like Ron Perlman, Harbour is definitely gonna be cheaper, fitting right in with the movie’s budget. Meanwhile, it was reported that actress/singer Janelle Monae was the studio’s frontrunner for the role of Domino. Yesterday, however, Ryan Reynolds tweeted the above image, confirming that Atlanta‘s Zazie Beetz had gotten the role. I swear, with Donald Glover off Lando-ing in the Han Solo movie, and Zazie in Deadpool 2, Atlanta ain’t ever coming back. It’s already “on hiatus”, and I fear that it’s gonna be like Curb Your Enthusiasm – something Glover comes back to when he gets bored and has the time to do it. So, look for Atlanta season 2 in 2025.

In other movie news, the Valiant comic universe is getting closer to the big screen, as Dave Wilson has been tapped to direct the Bloodshot movie. Wilson comes from Blur Studio, known mainly for video game trailers, and co-founded by Deadpool director Tim Miller. If you don’t know anything about Bloodshot, you’re not alone. He looks like some kind of albino madman. From what I’ve read, he’s basically a zombie soldier who’s animated by nanites. I’ve never read a Bloodshot comic, though, so what do I know? Here’s where it gets interesting: there’s currently a webseries being made by Bat in the Sun called Ninjak vs The Valiant Universe. Starring Michael Rowe (Deadshot from the Arrowverse), the webseries pits the character of Ninjak against other characters in the Valiant Universe – where Bloodshot just happens to be portrayed by original Green Ranger, Jason David Frank. Now, JDF used to go to all of his convention appearances promoting the Power Rangers brand, but lately has been doing it dressed as Bloodshot. This project isn’t big enough to warrant that kind of dedication. No, I’m convinced he’s lobbying for the role in the big screen film. This is like when Sean Young used to go out in public dressed as Catwoman just so she’d get the role in Batman Returns. I don’t know whether to be impressed or saddened. I mean, he’s lobbying hard, but there’s no way he gets that role.

Though the news got sort of lost in the cycle last week, Nickelodeon announced that the new season of the 3D Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, premiering March 19th, would be its last. After five years, the show is ditching its serialized approach and is rebranding into an anthology format with the new title Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Once the series ends, a new 2D cartoon, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is slated to premiere in 2018.

In other TV news, folks are wondering if Glenn Howerton is leaving It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. The show aired its 12th season finale this week, where we learned that Dennis had a son from a layover in North Dakota. At the end of the episode, he decides that he can’t carry on as he’d been doing the past 12 years, and that he needed to leave and go be with his son. This episode aired the same day it was reported that Howerton and Patton Oswalt had been cast as leads in an NBC pilot where Howerton plays an Ivy League professor who loses out on his dream job, and ends up teaching high school science. Currently known as AP Bio, the series is produced by Seth Meyers and Lorne Michaels, so I think it’s likely it’ll be picked up. Now, Kaitlin Olson currently juggles working on Sunny and The Mick, but Howerton has a bigger role on Sunny, as he also writes and produces. In an interview with Uproxx, though, Howerton said that he wasn’t sure if he was coming back. He said the decision doesn’t have anything to do with his relationships with the other cast members. Sunny still has two seasons ahead of it, but even Danny DeVito recently mentioned that he might be done soon, too. The show really matured this season, as a lot of plotlines came full circle. I don’t even know what they’ll do with 20 more episodes (their seasons tend to be 10 episodes long), but I definitely don’t know how they’d do it without the character of Dennis.

In comic news, Marvel announced that Astonishing X-Men would be returning in July, written by Charles Soule, with art by…unknown at the moment. If you remember, Astonishing X-Men debuted as a miniseries during the “Age of Apocalypse” story in the mid 90s, but its claim to fame was the ongoing series written by Joss Whedon in the early ’00s. This incarnation of the team stars Old Man Logan, Archangel, Rogue, Gambit, Mystique, Psylocke, Bishop, and Fantomex. This, combined with the previously announced X-Men Gold, just proves that Marvel is trying to initiate a 1991-style refresh of the X-Men franchise, and I am here for it! This Astonishing team is basically a refresh of the 90s Blue Team from “adjectiveless” X-Men, while the team in X-Men Gold is pretty much a refresh of the 90s Gold Team from Uncanny X-Men. I love the Old Man Logan character, though I fear he’s approaching typical Wolverine levels of overexposure. Meanwhile, it’ll be interesting to see how Bishop redeems himself considering he spent the bulk of the last Cable series trying to kill a little girl. And it’ll be an interesting dynamic between mother and daughter Mystique and Rogue, as well as starcrossed lovers Rogue and Gambit. I still hate Fantomex, though, and I wish Marvel would stop trying to make him “happen”. Anyway, I don’t get excited for much, comic-wise, but I’m really looking forward to this book.

In sports news, Jay Cutler was cut from the Chicago Bears after 8 seasons. Now, if you know anything about me, you know I don’t give a shit about sports. Still, there’s a funny anecdote here. You see, when Lindsay and I first started dating, Cutler was the starting quarterback of her beloved Denver Broncos. She bought me my first NFL jersey, which happened to be a Cutler jersey. After all, there was no way he was going anywhere, right? Well, he got cut after that season, and I couldn’t really wear the jersey anymore. He ended up going to the Bears, who had the same color scheme. I thought that meant I could still wear the jersey, but apparently that doesn’t fly with sports fans. Anyway, he’s also married to Kristin Cavallari of Laguna Beach/The Hills fame, so I guess there’s your pop culture connection to justify my mention of him.

Things You Might Have Missed This Week

Director Joe Carnahan has exited the third Bad Boys film, Bad Boys For Life. Maybe I’ll get around to finally watching the first two before this thing gets made.

Jason Isaacs was cast as Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery. I…don’t know who that is, so it’s done nothing to get me excited about this show.

It was a week packed with renewals, as One Day At A Time was renewed by Netflix, Riverdale was renewed by The CW, and Baskets was renewed by FX. I pretty much only have interest in one of those shows. Can you guess which one?

Emma Dumont was cast as Polaris in Fox’s untitled mutant series, which will be interesting since she’s Magneto’s daughter and all…

The embargo for reviews of Netflix’s Iron Fist was lifted, and they weren’t pretty. It seems the problems are with the structure and not necessarily the casting, so it looks like the folks lobbying for an Asian American lead dodged a bullet there.

Who knew Josh Radnor had been working since How I Met Your Mother ended? Well, he’s not anymore, as his PBS series Mercy Street was canceled yesterday.

Now, I know Logan had a great week. It came out to rave reviews, and it opened to $238 million worldwide. Still, I kinda got things off schedule. You see, it got the West Week Ever last week before it had even performed. I don’t really want to start this trend of the same thing getting the WWE two weeks in a row just because I just had to see it opening night, hours before pushing “Publish” on the next post. So, yeah, Logan had a great week, but it was the best thing I experienced last week. Now, I’m gonna talk about the best thing I experienced this week.

Since its debut in 2015, I’ve been a big fan of the FXX series Man Seeking Woman. Starring Jay Baruchel (you know who he is, even if you don’t know his name), it follows Josh Greenberg, a down on his luck Millennial who tries to navigate the waters of modern day dating. Like a less contrived version of How I Met Your Mother, the first two seasons saw Josh go on date after date, trying to find The One, but always coming up short. That all changed this season, however, as he met Lucy. He meets Lucy in the season premiere, marries her in the season finale, and their courtship fills out the middle. Lucy’s not only perfect for him, but she also helped the show take on a new direction. We started seeing things from a female perspective, as the show became as much about her as it was about Josh. We got to see her deal with having to give up her fun party life to settle down. We see her deal with the temptation of another possible suitor. But in the end, she chose Josh. This season, it was as much Man Seeking Woman as it was Woman Seeking Man.

This week saw the season finale of the show and, as I mentioned, it focused on Josh and Lucy’s wedding. The show hasn’t been picked up for a fourth season yet, and I’m hoping it doesn’t. As much as I’ve loved it, it has served its purpose. Over the course of 30 episodes, it set forth a goal and it achieved it. Sure, there are a lot of shows that evolved past their initial concept (looking at you, Cougar Town), and I’m sure the show could keep going as we see Josh and Lucy navigate married life, have a kid, etc. But I think I like it where things ended up. We don’t have to see all of that to know it happens, and I don’t think the show as a whole would be any stronger if we did see all that. Instead of overstaying its welcome, I’d prefer it take the British approach of “less is more”. Three seasons is a good run, and it did what it set out to do. It found Josh a woman. Now, if they did want to continue the show in some capacity, I would love if they flipped it to Woman Seeking Man. You see, every season, there’s one episode that stars Josh’s sister, Liz, as we get to see her life in contrast to Josh’s. While Josh is an unlucky in love office manager who lacks ambition, Liz is a driven workaholic attorney – who also happens to be unlucky in love. The Liz episodes tend to be the strongest of an already strong season, and it’d be great to see more focus on her. Josh and Lucy could still pop up as supporting characters, but the focus would now be on Liz.

With all of this gushing, I haven’t really explained what’s so great about the show. After all, it probably sounds like a run of the mill sitcom, but it’s far, far from that. There’s a streak of absurdity to the show that really lends to its tone. For example, in the pilot, Josh’s girlfriend, Maggie, leaves him to date Adolf Hitler. Last season, Liz had an affair with Santa Claus, while Josh dates a girl whose ex-boyfriend was Jesus Christ. Yeah, it’s not your run of the mill comedy. You’ve got to see it to fully experience it, but I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

The season finale ends with a scene that brings the show full circle to the pilot. If there is another season, I hope they don’t fuck it up. If there isn’t, though, I love what they did, and how they did it. Everything was wrapped up with a nice bow, and it’s a strong series from beginning to end. That’s why Man Seeking Woman had the West Week Ever.

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