Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs for cheaper rent but find it hard to adjust.
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“Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs” ranks #92 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.6 — Elite. The episode packs 71 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with DENNIS landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
MAC: Well, of course Dennis would like Dennis. What? It's Dennis! What are you talking about? You're eating the dog!
Dennis: But you don't really know what hot is, do you? Hot's a storm. You ever been in a storm, Wally?
Dennis Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch DENNIS: raining down on your head. Blasting you in the face. Pummeling you in the stomach. Hitting you in the chest so hard you think your heart's gonna stop.
DENNIS Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch MAC Reaction Beat Escalation ★ Rewatch DENNIS: News flash, asshole! I've been hearing it the entire goddamn time!
DENNIS Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 71 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ DEE: It's not your bed, okay? It's my goddamn floor!
DEE: You're turning this place into the Superdome.
DENNIS: Superdome? That's, like, six years too late. That's a super lame reference. And it's kind of offensive.
DENNIS Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch MAC: Oh, I take that as a compliment.
DEE: It's not a compliment.
MAC: Well, it's biblical, so it's a compliment.
MAC DEE Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dennis: I wish we hadn't burned down our rent-controlled apartment.
(both laugh)
MAC DENNIS Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch CHARLIE: The one where the family was murdered? Brutally murdered.
MAC: Pass.
Dennis: And we don't have to worry about getting ringworm.
Dee: You brought the ringworm.
Frank: These are city scum. They can't hack it out here.
FRANK Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm FRANK: And if you don't, you have to sleep in bed with an old man for a year.
DENNIS: (laughing): Gross! What?
DENNIS: You already sleep with an old man, and for no reason other than you seem to enjoy it.
DENNIS Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch MAC: I call it Mac's famous mac and cheese.
MAC DENNIS Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch DENNIS: I don't really know how famous it is. I mean, I'm your roommate, and I've never heard of it.
DENNIS Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch ENVIRONMENTAL: (crickets trilling)
ENVIRONMENTAL: (smoke detector chirping)
MAC: Pool filter?
DENNIS: Oh, my God. It was like a jet engine.
DENNIS MAC Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch MAC: Yeah, it's a long commute, so...
DENNIS: Yeah, I was thinking more, like, Bryan Adams.
Wally: Name's Wally Schmidt. No relation to Mike. But don't tell my wife. (chuckles)
WALLY Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch WALLY: Boy, it sure is a hot one today, huh?
WALLY Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch DENNIS: Just comes up and starts talking to us? Right, some guy comes up to me, I don't know what he's... I don't know what he's up to.
DENNIS MAC Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch DENNIS: I'm staring at him, I'm thinking, does he have a knife? Are we gonna have to take this bitch out right now?
DENNIS Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch DENNIS: Come on, you got, you have to seize the goddamn gap! People are so goddamn inefficient!
DENNIS Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch DENNIS: You old fat bitch! You fat bitch!
DENNIS Escalation Character Comedy MAC: But it turns out, it's actually really complicated, and I didn't go to school for that, you know?
MAC Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch MAC: It took a little while to find a stud.
MAC Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Dennis: Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!
Dennis: Aw, damn it! What is that?
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback DENNIS: Use your signal, you cow! (tires screech) Goddamn it.
DENNIS Escalation Character Comedy DENNIS: Slow down! Children play here, you fat cow!
DENNIS Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch WALLY: Hot one today, huh?
DENNIS: Yeah?!
DENNIS: Oh, that Wally loves to say 'It's a hot one' when I already know it's a hot one. 'Cause I'm standing outside in the hot one.
DENNIS Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch DENNIS: Tell me about future weather. Don't tell me about present weather...
DENNIS Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch MAC: This is Jimmy-- he's the pool guy. I invited him over for dinner.
MAC Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch DENNIS: You gonna invite some guy over to my house that I don't even know.
DENNIS Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch DENNIS: If he knew shit that I was interested in, he wouldn't be a (bleep) pool guy.
DENNIS Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch DENNIS: Here I am thinking that we got a pool that's outside. I didn't realize that we had an indoor pool.
DENNIS Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch DENNIS: And yet we don't have enough money for a recipe book, 'cause here we are eating mac and cheese again.
DENNIS Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback MAC: You don't know how hard it is to be cooped up in here all by myself, okay?
MAC Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy DENNIS: I get to go to work? Oh, everybody, hey, I 'get' to go to work. I 'get' to have a job.
DENNIS Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch MAC: I'm pretty sure it's a cricket.
MAC Callback ★ Rewatch Callback DENNIS: How are they gonna find an old man that's gonna go along with it?
MAC: Right. Exactly.
DENNIS MAC Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Frank: Mac and Dennis, old man. Old man, Mac and Dennis.
FRANK Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch CHARLIE: And it is famous. In my stomach.
CHARLIE Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback DEE: I mean, we're your friends, I've never heard of it.
DEE Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Dee: I'll take that California king bed for myself.
DEE Character Comedy Escalation FRANK: Fine, and if they lose, the three of you got to sleep with the old man.
FRANK Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch DENNIS: I have to piss. Out of my penis.
DENNIS Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch MAC: Look, dude, I don't want to sound racist, but can we just discuss the fact that it's an old black man?
MAC Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch MAC: That's two things, it's two things.
MAC Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch MAC: Why am I in the middle? Black man should be in the middle.
MAC Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch MAC: Old man is down at the bottom, sideways, like a dog.
MAC Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch DEE: You guys are cracking, aren't you?
DEE Character Comedy ★ Rewatch MAC: It's soul-crushing, Dee! Oh, my God, I can't make this house into a home. I didn't go to school for that.
MAC Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback MAC: You got me a dog?
DENNIS: Yeah.
MAC: Oh, my God, he's so cute!
MAC DENNIS Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch MAC: I'm gonna name him Dennis.
DENNIS: Huh?
MAC: You're Dennis. He's Dennis Jr.
MAC: I'm gonna raise this guy like he was our own son.
MAC Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: But you don't really know what hot is, do you? Hot's a storm. You ever been in a storm, Wally?
Dennis Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch DENNIS: You ever been in a storm, Wally? I mean, a real storm? Not a thunderstorm, but a storm of fists
DENNIS Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch DENNIS: raining down on your head. Blasting you in the face. Pummeling you in the stomach. Hitting you in the chest so hard you think your heart's gonna stop.
DENNIS Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch WALLY Reaction Beat Escalation ★ Rewatch DENNIS: No one.
MAC: What's that?
DENNIS: Dog grave.
MAC: everything I do, I do for you!
MAC Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch MAC: Sleeping in your car. Eating at Applebee's.
MAC Character Comedy ★ Rewatch DENNIS: You put meat hunks in it! Wow! Hunks of meat! Mmm!
DENNIS Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch MAC: Well, of course Dennis would like Dennis. What? It's Dennis! What are you talking about? You're eating the dog!
MAC Reaction Beat Escalation ★ Rewatch MAC: I don't know! I guess it was just a cry for attention!
MAC Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Mac: You didn't even blink twice when I told you that the dog was dead!
Mac Character Comedy Escalation MAC: I called it my famous mac and cheese as-as a joke. But then it seemed like you like it. You like that it was Mac's famous mac and cheese.
MAC Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback MAC: You're the one that's sitting at Applebee's eating pot stickers all by yourself. You're the one that's pathetic!
MAC Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch DENNIS: News flash, asshole! I've been hearing it the entire goddamn time!
DENNIS Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback MAC: We're gonna win the bet! Free rent for a year! We did it!
DENNIS: Free rent for... Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Free rent for where?
CHARLIE: Sorry, black man. Old man. Old man. Sorry, old black man. Goddamn it.
CHARLIE Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
