The gang's in Dublin where Dennis ends up helping Frank with some of his business's dirty work. Mac and Charlie learn about their Irish heritage. Dee rushes to the set of an Irish soap opera, where she will play an "Obnoxious American MILF."
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“The Gang Goes to Ireland” ranks #77 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.8 — Elite. The episode packs 50 scored jokes at 1.7 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Mac landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Mac: You're not Irish. I'm not Irish? My last name is McDonald. No.
Mac's mom: Are you telling me that Dad changed his last name?
Mac's mom: Yep.
Mac: What's Dad's last name?
Mac's mom: Vandross.
Mac: Dad's name is Luther Vandross?
We took that one first-class ticket, divided it into five coach tickets. And then gave you just enough sleeping pills to keep you blissfully asleep
Mac: What are you?
Mac's mom: Dutch.
Mac: What's Dad?
Mac's mom: Dutch.
Mac: Am I Dutch?!
Mac's mom: Yeah.
Frank: Everybody was on the island that weekend. Jizzaline... the computer guy with the little weird glasses? He didn't do anything with the kids. But he was really into the manatees.
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank: No, look, 95% of what went on down there was not pedophilia. No, the other five percent, that sullied the whole operation.
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Show all ↓ Hide ↑ All right, try to get it all the way up under her nose. All-all the way... I'm just trying to stick it in her mouth.
Mac: Good, because I'm getting sick of trying to keep the hair out of the soup.
Dennis: It's not soup, it's stew, okay
I don't think stew has any arousing components.
We took that one first-class ticket, divided it into five coach tickets. And then gave you just enough sleeping pills to keep you blissfully asleep
Because we wanted to be supportive. Because we are always there for each other.
Hey, be sure to look to the right if you go in the road! 'Cause they drive on the other side here!
Do you know how hard it was to get you through customs? It was wicked hard, yeah.
Mac: Yeah, I'm back in the motherland finally! I've always wanted to trace back my family lineage. I mean, as the most Irish person here
Mac Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Mac: Charlie, I have a shamrock tattooed on my thigh. I'm gonna show it to you! You want to see it?!
Why did you have to get the teeny, tiniest car possible?
Dennis: Did you want me to rent a big obnoxious American truck like that one over there?
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dee: Here I am! 'Obnoxious American MILF' reporting for duty, sir!
Dee Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dee: I feel like the character would be late, too, so it's not really that big of a...
Dee Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dee: It's makeup left over from the show I did this morning.
Dee Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dee: I'm one wet wipe away from being your MILF.
Dee Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dee: Oh, you're gonna want to F this so bad!
Dee Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: You got drunks, you got Irish people, you got, um... I guess that's the same thing
Charlie Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Charlie: And Shelley! Shelley's here, which is pretty cool.
Mac: All of those things are made up, including Shelley.
Charlie Mac Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: Dude, he's not my imaginary friend, he's my pen pal, okay? And he's Irish, that's why his name is Shelley.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: Number one, Irish. Number two, gay. Number three, badass.
Mac Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch You're none of those things, so you should be talking of none of them.
Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mac: And I can have you canceled for even suggesting otherwise. I have the power to do that. Because I'm a gay man and you're just a straight white, cis male.
Mac Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Mac: Wow. Yeah, nailed it.
Mac Reaction Beat Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Charlie: Maybe you are, like, from the McDonald family? Like, like, are you the Ronald McDonald? Like, is the hamburger clown named after you?
Charlie Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank: You want an authentic Irish experience? There's nothing more Irish than a corporate tax shelter.
Frank Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Frank: Oh, it's Ralphie. Must've got trapped in here. Looks like he's fused to the carpet. It was.
Frank Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Frank: Frank's Fluids supplier of Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah. Yeah, but before you judge me, know this: yes, I was on the sex island, but only for the snorkeling!
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank: No, look, 95% of what went on down there was not pedophilia. No, the other five percent, that sullied the whole operation.
Frank Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: So you're telling me that you can't read English, but you can speak and read an entirely different language?
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: I don't know, it's the mystery of the magic, I don't know. Plus, you know, these are Irish words, and my mouth is made for American words naturally...
Charlie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: I'm sorry, your pen pal's name was Shelley Kelly? Have you ever thought maybe you were related? Because you have the same last name.
Mac Charlie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: Your mom was a giant whore, right?
Charlie: Yeah.
Mac: So maybe she banged her way through Ireland sometime in the '70s
Mac Charlie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: You're not Irish. I'm not Irish? My last name is McDonald. No.
Mac's mom: Are you telling me that Dad changed his last name?
Mac's mom: Yep.
Mac: What's Dad's last name?
Mac's mom: Vandross.
Mac: Dad's name is Luther Vandross?
Mac: What are you?
Mac's mom: Dutch.
Mac: What's Dad?
Mac's mom: Dutch.
Mac: Am I Dutch?!
Mac's mom: Yeah.
Frank: Everybody was on the island that weekend. Jizzaline... the computer guy with the little weird glasses? He didn't do anything with the kids. But he was really into the manatees.
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank: The following year, he doesn't show up, the manatee's all bent out of shape.
Dennis: Frank, can you please stop? I mean, this manatee was so depressed, she actually swam into a boat propeller. Boom! Blammo! Mantacide.
Frank: The computer guy with the little weird glasses? He didn't do anything with the kids. But he was really into the manatees.
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation Dennis: I've always noticed that redheads have a distinct odor. A pleasant odor, to be clear. But, um, a peculiar scent that is quite different than all other hair types.
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: There's no smell at all to you. Am I to believe that you're a natural redhead and yet there's no odor? No odor at all? No, I don't believe you.
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Irish woman: Are you okay, hon? You seem a little nutted.
Irish woman Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Irish woman: Have you got a temp check yet?
Dennis: Don't-don't point that thing at me.
Irish woman: Jesus. You have a fever.
Dee: Yeah, yeah, it looks as though the makeup did redistribute down into my, my eye area.
Dee Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Waitress: I've just been backpacking across Europe. About an hour ago, some guy approached me, said I'd be perfect for an obnoxious American MILF.
Waitress Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Dee: Oh, goddamn feminists ruin everything.
Dee Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: See, the Irish are so accommodating. They don't want to drive headfirst into a maniac. They will simply move to avoid us.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dee: Oh, my God, I'm on a call sheet! That's my name! I can't believe this! I'm gonna be an abused wife!
Dee Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dennis: Well, she looked right.
Mac: Well, you got to look both ways. I mean, that's standard shit, man.
You definitely have COVID, man. You're the only one that didn't get vaccinated.
Frank: Pick her up? I mean... she's all gangly and then I'm gonna be crammed in the backseat with an unconscious person.
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