After a physical reveals Dennis has high blood pressure, he decides to take a day away from The Gang to de-stress at the beach. But life has other plans, and his day spirals into a string of mishaps until he can no longer contain his rage.
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“Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day” ranks #71 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.9 — Elite. The episode packs 50 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.8 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
Dennis: "D" as in "Deliver me from this!" "E" as in "Engage with human." "N" as in "nightmare"!
Dennis Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Charlie: diamonds are made under pressure. This is a pressure cooker. We're going to cook diamonds.
Charlie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mac Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mac: are-are we above or below sea level?
Mac Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: In my day, if you wanted to get out of work, you... you hit yourself with a hammer or you got gnawed by a shark or something simple.
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 50 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dennis: Pills are for old men.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dennis: If I wanted my blood pressure to be low, I would simply command my body to make it low.
Dennis Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: I'm chronically suffering fools who won't listen to me when I say that I can do things.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dennis: Now I'll have proof I can smash in that stupid doctor's face.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Dennis: Well, we can't be below sea level. Otherwise, we'd be underwater.
Dennis Deadpan/Understatement Observational Mac: You're telling me that you can't bring a pressure cooker onto a submarine? How do they feed the entire U.S. Navy?
Mac Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch What kind of cuckoo shit is that?
Dennis: It's like a sick day but for your brain, and if somebody calls it, you have to give it to 'em, you can't ask any questions.
Dennis Observational Setup/Punchline Mac: This could be a good way to find out whether or not we're, uh, underwater.
Mac Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis: That means stop. No!
Dennis Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: Wow. That's a lot of typing you're having to do there. You writing a novel?
Dennis Observational Cringe/Discomfort Dennis: keys are sort of a system that have existed for millennia. I don't know why we're trying to fix that
Dennis Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis: we got apps for everything, right? Even for things we already had things for.
Dennis: My good friend, Mr. Kratom.
Dennis Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Car AI: Rerouting to Teaspoon.
Car AI Observational Setup/Punchline Dennis: covert diabetes delivery mechanism
Dennis Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Boba employee: The system won't let me do that.
Dennis: Self-care, right? Isn't that what people call it whenever they need an excuse to do whatever the fuck they want?
Dennis Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: Of course you don't. Of course you don't.
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: One chewy sugar tea, please.
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis: I have cash, you have tea. Why don't we just streamline things?
Boba employee: There's no minimum on the app, though.
Dennis: we're both victims here, so...
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: That is rough. Oh. Ugh! Aah! It's so sweet.
Dennis Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Dennis: Key not found? Th-There is no key. The key is my... phone.
Dennis Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis: No, that French dip has been in the fridge for a month, dude. Do not eat it and do not call me!
Dennis Escalation Cringe/Discomfort We already ate it... It's been eaten.
Mac Charlie Escalation Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mac: I guarantee that the U.S. Navy is down on their submarine...
Mac Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis: I, uh... I can't because I don't have a key. Uh, well, technically there is no key. My phone is the key, and... I don't have a phone.
Dennis Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis: Right. You don't care.
Dennis Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: Hi. Good afternoon. Fine, and you? Thanks for asking.
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: Those aren't the phones? ... those aren't the phones, guys, so, you know, just so you know. Those are just boxes filled with phones that aren't the phones.
Dennis Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: Let's punish those people and give the phones that are right there to the new customers.
Dennis: the system isn't here for me to direct my frustrations at it
Dennis Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Charlie: diamonds are made under pressure. This is a pressure cooker. We're going to cook diamonds.
Charlie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mac Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Frank: In my day, if you wanted to get out of work, you... you hit yourself with a hammer or you got gnawed by a shark or something simple.
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dennis: Uh, let's try... 69-69.
Dennis Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Dennis: Why won't you talk to each other?! Talk! Talk! Talk! Talk!
Dennis Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: "D" as in "Deliver me from this!" "E" as in "Engage with human." "N" as in "nightmare"!
Dennis Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Dennis: My new phone won't talk to my car.
Dennis: Just you and me, Daisy, fighting the good fight against a broken system engineered to drive us both so crazy that we have to take days off for our mental health!
Dennis Escalation Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback when he gets back from the beach house.
Dennis: I was supposed to go to the beach today.
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Dr. Tsuma: You lowered your blood pressure by 20 points in less than a minute, but how?
Dr. Tsuma Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis: Well, just let off a little steam, all naturally.
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mac: are-are we above or below sea level?
Mac Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis Deadpan/Understatement Escalation ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
