After discovering Dennis' erotic memoir, Mac and Frank attempt to make some money off of it. Meanwhile, Dee and Charlie decide to spend a day in each other's shoes.
WAR
41.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life” ranks #93 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.5 — Elite. The episode packs 43 scored jokes at 1.4 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Charlie landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Charlie: There's some sort of weird chemical reaction that happens when you combine cat food, beer and glue. It makes you feel, like, extremely sick and tired.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank: I've been pissing in the fountain for 50 years. To get back at their kids.
Frank Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mac: And you never woke up in a rehab facility with the wounds of Christ miraculously appearing on your hands and feet!
Mac Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Charlie: I have 50 cats howling outside my window because I have 10,000 rats running around my building, Dee, okay?!
Charlie Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: No! Well, yes. I mean, I was eating the old cheese to test it, see why the rats weren't eating it.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 43 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Charlie: I was also trying to do a little light reading, and then I was putting some cheese in the rat traps.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch You were eating the cheese, weren't you, out of the rat traps?
Charlie: No! Well, yes. I mean, I was eating the old cheese to test it, see why the rats weren't eating it.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch I caught you stealing a bunch of coins out of the fountain at Logan Circle.
Charlie: I was acquiring a little bit of cash to pay my spy, Dee.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: To spy the waitress.
Dennis: I've been keeping track of all my sexual exploits, and I was going to unleash them on the world in a fiery blaze of eroticism.
Dennis Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Well, since he can't read, I'm guessing he was masturbating to your pictures.
Unknown Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Charlie: You don't know how hard I got it, Dee. You've got it pretty tough? Your life is pretty hard?
Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life
Dennis Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: I removed my robe and stood before her... taut, nubile, proud.
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: I felt reborn, baptized in erotic majesty.
Dennis Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: This is some sweet smut! I'm all boned up over here.
Mac: Dennis, you were never the personal sexual adviser to Jon Bon Jovi!
Mac Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: And you never woke up in a rehab facility with the wounds of Christ miraculously appearing on your hands and feet!
Mac Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mac: We make them true so that people can't prove that they didn't happen!
Mac Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Charlie: I don't have any heating ducts in this apartment. It gets freezing in here at night, all right?
Charlie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Charlie: Frank was supposed to empty that.
Dee: Totally, no wonder! It reeks in here!
Charlie: There's some sort of weird chemical reaction that happens when you combine cat food, beer and glue. It makes you feel, like, extremely sick and tired.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: I have 50 cats howling outside my window because I have 10,000 rats running around my building, Dee, okay?!
Charlie Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: It's starting right on time. If I were you, I'd start wolfing that shit down.
Charlie Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Charlie: Well, that's probably way too much glue for you, Dee.
Charlie Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: Those are solutions to problems.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dee: Oh, God! There's evil twins in the hallway, and a twitching junkie in...
Dee Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Mac: What? What do you mean? He's from New Jersey.
Mac Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Frank: I brought a nail gun.
Frank Dark/Subversive Escalation Dee: It's, like, 'Hey, everybody, look at me. I'm one part robot, three parts asshole'.
Dee Observational Wordplay/Pun Audience Member: Jesus Christ!
Charlie: Dee, what are you doing to yourself? That is terrible! Why would you do that?
Charlie Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Charlie: Cheese is funny thing. Cheese is a strange thing. I always wonder, like, 'What is cheese? Where does it come...?
Charlie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Fake Sinbad: My name is Sinbad. This is Sinbad's house! When you in Sinbad house, you my bitch!
Fake Sinbad: That's Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20.
Frank: I just offered to buy it.
Mac: Awesome! All right, now I'm gonna pretend that I have terminal cancer and get him to do an acoustic set on my deathbed.
Frank Mac Escalation Dark/Subversive Callback Frank: I will put my foot down right now. You are not going in there with that cancer thing!
Frank Escalation Irony/Sarcasm Frank: Mr. Bovine Joni himself.
Frank Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: Ma'am, I am dying of very terminal cancer, and I would like to request a private bedside concert from Mr. Bon Jovi.
Mac Cringe/Discomfort Escalation For the record, when you go through chemo, your beard hair falls out, too.
Dennis: Not only do I consider it magnificent, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's pretty good.
Dennis Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank: You don't know how tough it is being me. Try walking a mile in my shoes once in a while and then talk to me.
Frank Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: I've been pissing in the fountain for 50 years. To get back at their kids.
Frank Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Frank: Memoires are back. The story with the doush bag, the public eats that shit.
Frank Character Comedy Callback Callback This dude broke in here, running around, talking about memoires and Sinbad.
Fake Sinbad: No, you don't, bitch! Wake up! Yeah, you in hell, all right! I'm Jesus.
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