Mac teams up with Frank and Charlie to create a public access newscast after he misses his chance at fame in the news. Meanwhile, Dennis and Dee try to make it big in the club scene.
WAR
44.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Frank Sets Sweet Dee On Fire” ranks #80 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.4 — Elite. The episode packs 47 scored jokes at 1.6 per minute, averaging 7.0 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
Charlie: The cat's dead. I don't see any problems with that other than the fact that the camera might see my hand killing the cat.
Charlie Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mac · Frank · Charlie: Are you gonna set the building on fire? / No! Charlie, are you gonna set the building on fire? / Yes. Goddamn it!
Charlie · Frank: How are you sweating so much? It's freezing! / It's freezing! Yeah. They try to keep them alive. Because meat spoils slower in a fridge. So they keep it cold.
Dennis: Don't make me into the bad guy. I'm going out of my way to make us both famous. / It's not my fault if you're not living up to your end.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dee · Mac · Charlie: I'm on fire! I'm on fire! / Well, I do look really heroic. / No, you do not look heroic! You threw the box of kittens.
All Jokes — 47 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Frank · Mac · Dennis: What the hell are you reading? In Touch. / In Touch? Why would you read that crap? / We are trying to stay 'in touch' with what's happening in the world.
Dennis · Mac: Plutonium smuggled into Syria. That's gonna change my life drastically. / That's gonna change everyone's lives! No one can go to Syria anymore for vacation!
Frank · Dennis: Don't you guys get tired of doing nothin' except sitting around drinking? / What does that mean? Is that a joke? How could you get tired of that?
Mac · Dennis: I totally popped. / Oh, you popped. You're gonna be famous.
Mac: It was absolutely crazy. / [News cuts immediately after this brief soundbite]
Mac Visual Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Mac: I talked for, like, 20 minutes about how the traffic system sucks. And the lights... And that we should only have yellow lights... because then we can be very cautious but not get stuck in traffic.
Mac Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis · Mac · Charlie: You guys were burning G.I. Joes and throwing rocks at cats. / That was what was happening! That's what was going on in the world, man! That was the truth. We'd been throwing rocks at cats for years, Dennis.
Dennis · Frank: Usually when you get involved, somebody gets hurt. / That's ridiculous. I'm just palling around with the guys. How's anybody gonna get hurt?
Mac · Dennis · Charlie: God, that is so strange. Ew. Should I turn it off? No! Well, don't jump to... We'll just keep it on for a little bit.
Frank · Charlie · Mac: We're gonna go down to the power plant and talk about how it's giving the whole city cancer. / Holy shit, dude! I didn't know that! / He's making it up, Charlie.
Frank: People don't care about that shit. They want glitz and glamour, celebrities. They want to read about shit that's gonna help them forget how miserable their lives are.
Frank Observational Dark/Subversive Frank · Dee: Look at Paris Hilton. She's just a dirty, drunken whore. / You could be famous for being a dirty, drunk whore. You're a dirty, drunk whore already.
Frank Dee Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Charlie · Frank · Mac: Lots of shady shit goes down in nursing homes, Frank, okay? These places are like prisons. / Like people getting assraped? / What? Oh, my God, dude. No, not like people getting assraped.
Mac: Nobody's getting assraped, Frank! God, man. Stop saying 'assraped.'
Mac Escalation Character Comedy Mac · Irvene · Charlie: Is there anything about this place that you don't like? / The blacks. / Cut! Cut that!
Charlie · Frank: How are you sweating so much? It's freezing! / It's freezing! Yeah. They try to keep them alive. Because meat spoils slower in a fridge. So they keep it cold.
Charlie · Mac · Frank: Let's set this place on fire. Let's burn it to the ground! / We're not setting a nursing home on fire! / Those curtains would go up like a snap.
Mac: Everyone keep their eyes peeled for drifting. People here, they love to... Look. Look at this guy. He's definitely a drifter. He's going to his car and he's gonna slide it sideways.
Mac Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac · Charlie: Which eventually will lead to dudes flying from window to window and treetop to treetop. Shooting lightning bolts out of their fingers. / There's the guy that shoots the lightning bolts out of his hands! He wears the big, straw hat.
Charlie: They're just trading fish for other fish is what it looks like. They're not even bickering. This isn't gonna lead to karate.
Charlie Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank · Mac · Charlie: A pandemic. Bird flu! Bird flu! / I think he's choking, guys. / What? He is choking! / Frank, give him the Heimlich! / I'm not gonna touch him. I don't know what he's got.
Frank · Mac: I saved your life! I saved your life, bitch! Whoo! Yeah! / That is exactly the kind of stuff we should be filming.
Frank · Charlie: You got that, right, Charlie? / Yeah. Yeah. I did and I didn't, Frank. / I did point the camera at it. But you know what? I did not put a tape in here.
Charlie: The problem was that I got the flashlight on. And I taped the whole deal up. I realized I'd have to cut all the tape off to get the tape in. I didn't have much more duct tape. So I figured, stick with the flashlight while we got it.
Charlie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis · Dee: You were supposed to wait and get drunk inside the club, not outside the club. Nobody gives a shit about a stupid, drunk whore outside of a club. / That's a lot of talking you're doing. I gotta lay down.
Dennis: Don't make me into the bad guy. I'm going out of my way to make us both famous. / It's not my fault if you're not living up to your end.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dennis: You're not famous yet. You're just some stupid, drunk chick who slept in her own puke.
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Dennis · Dee: Famous, drunk whores, they don't wait in line. They shove their way to the front and they take a shit all over the bouncer. / Don't know if I feel comfortable taking a shit on that bouncer.
Dee: You piece of dirt. Who are you? I step on you. I clean you off of my shoes at night. I step on you, and then I throw away the shoe. That shoe that I just threw away, that's worth more than your worthless life, mister.
Dee Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dee: That shoe that I just threw away, that's worth more than your worthless life, mister. And I am pissed because I loved that shoe.
Dee Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dee: I'm gonna have you fired, dick hole. Do you know who I am? Do you have any idea? Or is your brain too tiny to have ideas? Is there any kind of thought roaming around in that thick, shit skull of yours?
Dee Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Dee: Is there any kind of thought roaming around in that thick, shit skull of yours?
Dee Escalation Character Comedy Bouncer · Dennis · Dee: Dennis Reynolds? Well, what do you know, Dennis Reynolds? You're on the list. / No, no... Oh, wow. That's awesome. / What? But you're not gonna go in without me, right? / Uh...
Charlie: Hey, who's that sexy news guy It's Mac / Yes, it's Mac It's Mac. / And he's on the channel whatever we make it on news
Charlie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac · Frank · Charlie: Are you gonna set the building on fire? / No! Charlie, are you gonna set the building on fire? / Yes. Goddamn it!
Mac: It smells overwhelmingly like kerosene in here!
Mac Visual Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Dee · Mac · Charlie: I'm on fire! I'm on fire! / Well, I do look really heroic. / No, you do not look heroic! You threw the box of kittens.
Dancing Guy: What's the time? Diaper Time!
Dee · Frank · Dee: Who gets stuck in a well anymore? / Kittens do. / Kittens? You guys put those kitties in there?
Frank · Charlie: Hey! There you go. She throws the kittens in every take. / Oh, she loves to ruin and ruin and ruin and ruin.
Frank · Charlie: Put the cats on that. And then at the end of it, a chopping mechanism. / Oh, yeah! Let's chop cats! / We'll chop a couple cats so that you know it's real.
Dee · Dennis: I can't believe how famous I'm about to be! / Run off to the bathroom and cram a couple fingers down your throat. Bulimia's really big with this crowd.
Dee: I can't believe how famous I'm about to be!
Dee Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: Notice how disgustingly skinny she is. Isn't it weird?
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Charlie: The cat's dead. I don't see any problems with that other than the fact that the camera might see my hand killing the cat.
Charlie Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dancing Guy: What's the time? Diaper Time! What's the time? Diaper Time!
Dennis: Congratulations, guys. You're famous.
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