After years of being mistreated by Frank during the holiday season, Dennis and Dee decide to teach him a lesson. Meanwhile, Mac and Charlie reflect on their childhood Christmases, and realize that they were not as joyous and wonderful as they remembered.
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“A Very Sunny Christmas” ranks #59 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.9 — Elite. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 0.9 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 7.3 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: Did you fuck my mom?
Charlie Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: Did you fuck my mom, Santa Claus? Did you fuck my fucking mom?
Charlie Escalation Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Who's down there?
Time to go, time to go!
Charlie: Charlie's Santa tradition: Multiple Santas visiting his mom, giving him presents, then going upstairs to 'cheer her up'
Charlie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Frank: When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Charlie: What would that expression be for someone who has two lefts?
Charlie: Your left and my left are the same cause we're facing the same direction. We're two different people. We can't have the same left.
We drink a lot of eggnog, we pass out. And then we don't put anything up, so we do it all last minute.
Christmas morning tradition: 'Then we wake up Christmas morning and throw rocks at trains.'
Dee: Why would grown men throw rocks at trains?
Mac: Why wouldn't we throw rocks at trains?
Dee Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm He would find out whatever Christmas presents we wanted that year and he would buy 'em for himself instead of buying 'em for us.
Dennis Dee Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: Goddamn it! Merry Christmas, bitches!
Frank Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: You wantee? Fake-out! It's mine.
Frank Dee Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Frank: And I use it to keep in my Cheesy Loops and chocolate-covered malted milk balls.
Frank: Do not speak ill of the dead.
Dennis: She's speaking ill of you!
Dee: Who puts cheesy snacks and chocolate in a designer bag? Oh, Dennis, he's gonna ruin the lining.
Dee Character Comedy Observational Eugene: I had a near-death experience and I saw the light and I saw the truth of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Eugene Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Dennis Dee Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dennis: Frank's gotten nowhere near the Lord
Dee: end up old and alone like yourself
Charlie: I found that in the street.
Mac: Remember when we would shave the neighborhood dogs and glue the fur to our faces and pretend we were him?
Mac Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: And then we would bash away at him and we'd bash the dogs to pieces.
Mac: Goddamn it! Can I goddamn go? This is taking forever!
Mac Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Young Mac: Young Mac screaming about getting a Cabbage Patch Doll
Who's down there?
Time to go, time to go!
Mac: That was the Christmas tradition where you go from house to house collecting your presents.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: That's why there were never any presents at my house when I got back. The neighbors took them.
Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Charlie: Your dad is like a thief and a murderer who eats people, so he's not really trustworthy.
Charlie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Frank: Fire! Fire! Fire! We're gonna die!
Frank Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Dennis: You do not make modifications on a Countach. That car is perfect.
Young Dennis: There's nothing in there.
Frank: Fake-out! There's nothing in any of 'em!
Charlie: Charlie's Santa tradition: Multiple Santas visiting his mom, giving him presents, then going upstairs to 'cheer her up'
Charlie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Charlie: I didn't always understand the presents... one year, Santa even brought one of his elves.
Charlie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mac: I think your mother was a prostitute.
Mac Deadpan/Understatement Mac: I'm fairly certain that those Santas were running a train on your mom for money.
Mac Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Charlie: They would just give my mom money and go in the-
Charlie: Let that settle in.
Frank: That's what I do at home all the time- hide in the couch. I catch Charlie pounding off all the time.
Frank Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: Why do you wanna catch Charlie masturbating? No, I don't care!
Dennis Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Dennis: We're consultationists.
Dennis: We pop around here. We consult across the street too.
Frank: It's too hot in the couch.
Dennis: Why are you naked, Frank?
Charlie: I buried it down deep. And two: I'm deciding I might not believe that that actually happened.
Charlie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Omnibot: When you were a little boy, I was stolen from you on Christmas day. It was a big misunderstanding. I miss you. I love you. I'm sorry.
Charlie: At this point, I believe the robot's falling under the finders-keepers law of America.
Store Employee: Who is Mike Schmidt?
Mac: Who's Mike Schmidt! Have some respect here, man.
Mac: Next youre gonna tell me you don't know who Von Hayes is or Steve Bedrock Bedrosian.
Mac Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Charlie: Did you fuck my mom?
Charlie Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: Did you fuck my mom, Santa Claus? Did you fuck my fucking mom?
Charlie Escalation Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dee: If you think Jesus and the Lord are so great, why dont you have them swing by in their Lamborghinis and take your ass home!
Dee Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Christmas Elf: I heard you've been a grumpy-Gussy Christmas grouch.
Christmas Elf: Elf's violent song about gouging eyes and chain-sawing knees
Frank: I didn't say the elf had no pants on.
Dennis: Oh. I might have added something in my brain there at the end.
The best part of Frank's story was how the four of us came together as a group to mercilessly slaughter him.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: Oh, you go fuck yourself in your fat fuckin' ass.
Charlie Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mac: We're trying to give you the Christmas spirit, dick-hole!
Neighbor: I don't want it!
Mac: You're gonna get it anyway!
You stole a lot of money from me. You wrecked my career. You left me all alone to rot in a shit-hole apartment. Now it's time for payback!
Eugene Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dee: What happened to all the God stuff?
Eugene: I'm still a liar and a thief.
Dennis: That ain't gonna work.
Mac: Yeah, it's from the '70s, dick. It's not gonna work.
Dennis Mac Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Mac: Just throw rocks at trains. You're gonna feel better. That's it! Merry Christmas, everyone!
Mac Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
