Tonight’s double season opener of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia begins with the greatest episode title you’re likely to find of any show this season: “The Gang finds a Dumpster Baby”. If you’re not familiar with Sunny, you should be made aware that this won’t be a metaphor dumpster baby, so consider yourself warned. Not only does the gang find a baby in a dumpster (relax, it’s still alive), they try to make money off of it by painting it with shoe polish to look like “a Mexican.” I don’t want to give away too much, but hijinks do ensue.
The second episode marks the first of three odd directorial cameos by former child star Fred Savage. You may have caught him in one of Sunny‘s recent, more obscene, viral promos. Fortunately, the Savage doesn’t make an actual appearance on camera tonight; that honor is left to The Cosby Show’s Elvin (Geoffrey Owens), who, in the greatest role of his illustrious career, plays himself playing a Donovan McNabb impersonator. You can’t make this shit up, but apparently the Sunny writing staff can.
Though not as good as Dumpster Baby, it’s a pretty stand-up episode – as are the first few of the third season. Sunny really shows no sign of slowing or ever failing to make me feel accepted for my inappropriate sense of humor. Check out my full review of the new season over at Metromix.
Season Three of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres Tonight at 10pm on FX
I’ve been looking forward to this for ages…I appreciate your bimonthly reminder on why I love this show so much. I gotta tell you – I like your “mikeylikestv” write-up more than the Metromix one. Still – - snazzy.
Garry returns from hibernation!