Charlie and Dee have been stealing Frank's delicious meats, so Frank leaves out human meat to get back at them. Driven by their cannibalistic needs, Charlie and Dee go in search of human flesh. Mac and Dennis harass Frank for hunting defenseless animals and think it would be much more badass to hunt something that could fight back ... like a human.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“Mac and Dennis: Manhunters” ranks #141 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.9 — Solid. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 1.8 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 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
Frank: You ate raccoon meat. I told you it was people, because I wanted to freak you out, because you're stealing my food.
Frank Misdirection Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: By the way, you know what you've just eaten, right?... That, which you have just eaten, that, which your teeth have just torn apart. Your taste buds have savored, that was human meat.
Frank Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Dee · Charlie: Yeah, ok... You're so stupid!... Well, thank you for the human meat, Frank. Thank you for our human meat... It was delicious.
Charlie: Well, then I guess Jaws IV is stupid, ok? 'cause that's exact same plot.
Homeless Person: [Homeless person appears begging] Small change? Hungry Please help.
All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dennis · Mac: Would you describe these pieces more savory or succulent... It's definitely way too over cooked to be succulent, but it's still pretty delicious... Now, what if we insert it in beer? Do you think that would help like regain it's succulence.
Dennis Mac Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dee Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Dennis: Someone who sweats as much as you should not work with food.
Dennis Character Comedy Observational Frank: Spit it out! Spit it! Spit it out! Now! You too. Spit! Come on. Right there.
Frank Physical/Slapstick Escalation Frank: I killed the dear, I should get to eat it. That's the natural order.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Frank: 10 point buck. Ping! Right between the sorrowful little eyes.
Frank Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Mac · Dennis: You know, a really great hunter would go after something that can hunt him back... Like a man!
Mac · Dennis · Frank: Like a man! Hell yeah, dude, a man? Don't even joke about hunting a man
Frank: Yeah? I was hunted once. I just came back from Nam. I was hitching through Oregon and some cop started harassing me. Next thing you know, I had a whole army of cops chasing me through the woods. I had to take 'em all out. It was a bloodbath.
Frank Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac · Dennis: That's Rambo, dude... You just described the plot of Rambo.
Mac Dennis Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dennis: That's not the first time you've described your life in the way of John Rambo's like.
Dennis Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Dee: I can't believe that dick horrible put the lock on the refrigerator.
Dee Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Charlie: What I did, I slopped through the radiator for minute... not warmed it.
Frank: By the way, you know what you've just eaten, right?... That, which you have just eaten, that, which your teeth have just torn apart. Your taste buds have savored, that was human meat.
Frank Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Dee · Charlie: Yeah, ok... You're so stupid!... Well, thank you for the human meat, Frank. Thank you for our human meat... It was delicious.
Frank · Charlie: I got a guy... You got a human meat guy?... I got a guide for everything, Charlie.
Charlie · Dee: That wasn't human meat though, right? No~~~!
Dennis: Check out his legs. See how they're almost tierd? They're like pretty much back to perfect... And check out his cane. Looks like he's whittled it into some sort of defensive tool.
Dennis Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Cricket: You're gonna harvest my organs, aren't you?... You're gonna rope me and you're gonna harvest my organs.
Mac · Dennis: Yeah, we are. Stack on 'em... No, we're gonna hunt you.
Cricket · Mac: Why?... Uh.. I'll spend a lot less time asking questions, more time running.
Dennis: Well, I suppose we do some tea-bag related.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Charlie · Dee: I couldn't sleep last night, could you?... And I'll tell you why... Yesterday.
Dee: The taste! The taste, Charlie, I tried everything... I can't get the taste out of my mouth!
Dee Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Charlie · Dee · Butcher: Hey. We got monkey. Oh. Well, we'll look at that. Great! Uh, one monkey also then, please.
Mac: I'm so exited, feel my nips... They're, like, super hard, right? You can cut glass with these bad boys.
Mac Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Frank: You know you hunt a man, he can snap like a toig. Next thing you know, he's up at night, he's burning down a village of Nam, he's killing everything that moves, everything that lives!
Frank Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mac · Dennis: You're talking about Rambo again... You're thinking about John Rambo's life, every time.
Mac Dennis Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Charlie: That's how you become a cannibal, Dee. Like, you get one taste of delicious, delicious human meat, none of these stuff ever satisfies you, ever again for the rest of your life.
Charlie: Well, then I guess Jaws IV is stupid, ok? 'cause that's exact same plot.
Dee · Charlie: I think we need to try a piece of human flesh... The morgue? Hear me out... I got a hot plate.
Mac: It's just like our normal lives, except at the end of it we get to put our nuts in some dude's mouth.
Mac Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Mac: What's a gorilla mask? You put some sticky over his face, and then sprinkle it with shaved pubes.
Mac Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Dennis: I laser. It's like a turtle shell down there.
Dennis Character Comedy Visual Gag Mac · Dennis: Ok, how did his legs just do that? I'm not doing that, Dennis. No, that was incredibly dangerous.
Charlie · Dee · Morgue Worker: The hot plate is.. because.. our friend was a.. a chef... of small.. many small items on hot plate... Right, right, right. Look, I respect the act. I'll give you guys the same deal like I gave every else. 15 bucks get you 10 minutes alone with the bodies.
Morgue Worker: I must say thought, I've never seen a guy and a girl bang one of these taste at the same time.
Morgue Worker: I like yogurt up my ass and a popsicle stick in my mouth, that's all.
Dee · Charlie: It's not because he's black, though, right?... No! What, no! I still think so, no!... It's because he's dead, right?... Good, good, good. Now, I got a question for you. We're racist if we don't eat this guy?
Charlie · Dee: I generally, I don't eat dark meat. No, I've preferred the white meat. I always have... The problem is I'm gonna have a really hard time for both cannibals and racist.
Charlie: Cannibalism? Racism, Dee? That's not for us. You know, those are the decisions that're best left to the suits on Washington.
Frank: They drew first blood, not you. They drew first blood!
Frank Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Cricket · Dennis: Tag! You're it!... Tag, you're it? And a knife? What the hell is this, man?
Dennis · Mac: You gorilla masked me?... Yes! Bro, you gotta admit. I had so much more awesome than tea-bagging.
Dennis · Mac: You put your balls in my mouth while I was sleeping?... Yeah, man, twice... That's rape... Yeah, I know... That is borderline rape.
Charlie: Dee, would you calm down? You're eating that cheese steak like a some kind of giant bird, you know?
Charlie Character Comedy Observational Charlie: We gotta find a guy. We gotta kill that guy, and we gotta eat it. Somebody, little rotten maybe... Someone no in the world could ever care about.
Homeless Person: [Homeless person appears begging] Small change? Hungry Please help.
Dennis · Mac: I can't do this. They're not coming off, seriously... I used airplane glue, bro. That's gonna be your look for a while.
Dee · Charlie: If we don't eat this kid, we're gonna die. You know it... but it's wrong to do it... Damn it! Damn it! So, you're gonna eat that kid.
Frank: You ate raccoon meat. I told you it was people, because I wanted to freak you out, because you're stealing my food.
Frank Misdirection Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: You probably got a tapeworm. Raccoon meat is lousy with parasites.
Frank Deadpan/Understatement Observational Frank: I just don't understand your generation... you guys are always touching each other's nipples, putting your balls in each other's mouths.
Charlie: I gotta chop off that pieces of that fellow calf muscle of yours, Frank. And I'm gonna eat it.
Mac · Dennis: Guess it's just us. It's just you and us, and a.. couple pairs of sour sweaty balls.
Mac: It's just you and us, and a.. couple pairs of sour sweaty balls.
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