I’ve never seen so much complaining and whining about a free product before.

You guys, they aren’t your friends. They aren’t your colleagues and they certainly don’t owe you anything.

If you don’t like the podcast, don’t listen to it/watch it, but the stuff you guys come up with to complain about every week is, frankly, tiresome.

One of the things I love so much about this show are the one-offs that are so out of the norm from the rest of the series’s episodes. This one in particular, Mac finds his pride, is such a gorgeous ending to season 13. It’s beautiful.

Also, holy hell, Mac is jacked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J6urFp8YZ0

Like how the fuck are we supposed to believe that the Waitress just happened to be strolling through a bog in Ireland? ITS TOO MUCH!

I recently saw a post with a user trying to theorize that Mac is actually bisexual, explaining his attraction to women in the earlier seasons.

Hes literally a character. Writers were not planning on making him gay at the start, but as a decision made a bit later on. They’ve stating that Mac is plain gay for so many times that it confuses me why people try to come up with another answer.

Even if they were planning on making him gay from the start, (which they were not) it’s normal for gay guys to sleep with women before realizing or admitting to themselves that they’re gay.

Mac is seen as a delusional character from his relationship to his parents, to thinking he’s a badass karate expert. His attraction to women in the earlier seasons would be explained by this, if you’re seeking an explanation.

It has never once made me laugh or even chuckle.

I didn't watch the Holiday Spectacular because with fees and taxes, it was about $26, which is a lot of money to me during this economic downturn. TBH, I was super disappointed that the Gang would charge that much for an event (and I assume more for the afterparty). I would have given what I could have to charity, but $26 for a non-interactive event, I mean, I felt like a sucker just being asked to do that.

The only winner here is that website Moment who hosted it. I would gladly pay $50 or $100 even to see an event live in person, but I would rather you all just film something, stick in a bunch of adds and then give us the option to donate. Essentially you could have a raffle with some prizes and the more people donate, the more raffle ticket points they get, etc.

I love Meg, I love the gang, and I know this was for charity, but, right now, a lot of us could use charity, let alone give money out to one. I feel like this event was for those fans who are willing to eat spam for a few days to offset the cost, or the wealthier fans. I feel like you left out your primary audience by charging that much to just watch a video online. Sad / Disappointed I am going to miss it. This whole event and not being able to go was just a reminder that life is tough now.

Edit: Sorry to add this, but this whole event made me feel like the gang has gotten so successful that they are just out of tough with average America. $26 to watch a video online when youtube videos are free? That is outrageous and insulting. This makes me wonder if success has just put the gang in the Hollywood bubble where $26 is pocket change, especially during xmas when people are using their savings to buy gifts for family. I think the gang needs to each rent an apartment in a lower class neighborhood, live there for a few months with just $10 to spend on food a day (which is a lot for one person) and understand the struggles of every day Americans.

Danny's acting in this episode is some of his best in the series, he threads the needle between the hilarious running nose bleed gag ("I'm using lemon juice and hot glue to close up the wound!"), and being the unsuspectingly best person to motivate Mac to come out to his father on his own terms.

I think the writing is quite clever too, for a mostly "bro" style show, the fact that they were able to get their audience (dense, emotionally unintelligent jabronis like myself) to relate and understand Mac's inner demons was fucking fantastic. It's so incredibly easy to do a lazy or predictable job writing a "main character comes out" story line, and we see it on TV and in movies all the time, but none of them really punch you in the gut like this episode.

And this is to say nothing of the raw, beautiful dance sequence, the epic makeup on Danny, as well as the big step up of their normal sitcom cinematography.

Goddamn.

So I just finished the season. I really enjoyed it. I think season 17 was a little stronger but I’d still give this season an 8/10. Glad it was two episodes longer than season 17. That was really nice.

My favorite episodes this season were Dennis and Dee Don’t Get Rich, The Gang Gets Tested, The Gang Goes to the Renaissance Faire, The War on Alcohol, and The Guys Have a Sleepover.

I also enjoyed Gilligan's Island A Conspiracy Theorist's Paradise as well. It reminded me of Community which is one of my other favorite sitcoms. I know people didn’t enjoy it but I did. This was the first I’d ever heard of Gilligan's Island too. It came out before my parents were born lol. But yeah really good season. Looking forward to season 19.

The Abbott version was meh but the Sunny version was one of the funniest episodes of the last few seasons. What did y’all think?

I’m not saying this as a bad thing or anything. I started watching the show last week. I’ve watched the first 4 episodes and I think it’s brilliant (right up my alley as I love Seinfeld and community with their unique humour). It’s pretty funny and it does “edgy” humour without making fun of the communities involved in the jokes. I hate when people say that the world is going too woke and people can’t make jokes anymore. You can still make jokes while simultaneously not being racist/homophobic and sunny and community are examples of that. Anyways I got sidetracked, how has it gone on for 16 seasons? Usually popular sitcoms end up shooting them selves in the foot after the season 7-8 mark (community & Seinfeld being the exception). Look at what happened to the office, that 70s show, B99, Friends. Has this show just never gotten bad? I’m so confused by this.

Fool's Paradise "released" on June 2nd.
The final podcast episode was July 10th.
It always seemed like Charlie Day disliked the podcast format and talking about his work in general. I wonder if the failure of Fool's Paradise was the last straw for him.
Presumably other issues would be Rob starting to travel more for Wrexham and Charlie wanting to get his PGA pro tour card.
Of course it could just be that DENNIS IS A BASTARD MAN!

What do you think?
Will the podcast ever return?

We know City Mac had his Country Mac (played by Sean William Scott), and that Country Mac was basically everything that City Mac wished he could be but 10x more so. With that in mind, please describe in 1 sentence and cast your ideal Country Charlie, Country Dee, Country Dennis and Country Frank.`

For example:

• Country Charlie (John Magaro) is a musical theater composer who speaks seven languages but reads none. Shares City Charlie's intense hatred for rats but has extended it to squirrels. He maintains and lives in a barn in Milwaukee.

• Country Dee (Michelle Williams) IS actress Michelle Williams, birthname Shelly "Dee" Williams. Though even more angular, bony and birdlike than City Dee,she is considered one of the sexiest actresses alive.

• Country Dennis (Josh Lucas) is a current inmate at Folsom Prison, serving two life sentences for skinning a fellow attendee at a BDSM skiers' retreat in Aspen.

• Country Frank (Stephen Root) is a billionaire oil magnate, though you'd never know from looking, and lives with Country Charlie in their Milwaukee barn.

I came across this spec script on twitter written by Los Angeles based comedian Alice R Hamilton, and it's VERY funny. She nails the tone of the crew perfectly I think. I didn't see it posted here and thought I'd share!

Mines definitely when he danced with the McPoyles 😂🤣

Season 18 has been a good season so far. But according to IMDB, it’s tied for the lowest rated season. (Season 13 is the other one)

This season has had some great episodes like “Frank Marries a Corpse”, “Dennis and Dee Don’t Get Rich”, “The Gang Goes to the Ren Faire”, “The War on Alcohol”, and “Mac and Dennis Tear Their ACL’s

The people of IMDB have been ripping this season to shreds. I just don’t understand. Some great episodes have come out of this season. I’m just not sure why it bothers me so much.

Here is the current IMDB rating for each episode.

1. Frank Marries a Corpse - 7.9/10

2. Dennis and Dee Don’t Get Rich - 8.0/10

3. The Gang Gets Tested - 8.0/10

4. 2026: A Virtual Insanity - 7.4/10

5. The Gang Goes to the Ren Faire - 8.3/10

6. The War on Alcohol - 8.2/10

7. Gilligan’s Island: A Conspiracy Theorist’s Paradise - 6.7/10

8. Mac and Dennis Tear Their ACLs - 7.8/10

(The Gang Goes to the Ren Faire should be at least a 9.0/10)

but the prisoners (other than Luther) enjoying the show didn’t really bother me. If I was in prison I’d be bored as shit

Edit: Wording unclear. I’d be entertained even if I was some tough homophobic prison guy