Mac finally gets his big break after correctly answering a trivia question on the radio. While Frank, Dennis, and Dee take their bar-banter to the internet with their own podcast.
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“Mac's Big Break” ranks #100 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.1 — Elite. The episode packs 49 scored jokes at 1.7 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 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
Cricket: Does my scar look like a dog's vagina?
Cricket Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Cricket: I wake up, I find a dog sniffin' at my wound. He's fully aroused, mind you.
Cricket Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Mac: Bro, when you tack on mass you sacrifice flexibility. That's just a straight-up fact!
Mac Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Cricket: Not since that Chinaman stole my kidney.
Cricket Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Mac · Charlie: [Push it to the Limit montage while Mac learns to skate]
All Jokes — 49 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dennis: Who would want to spend a weekend at a beach house with these idiots?
Mac: Where's the 'H' key? There's no 'H' key!
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: I gotta think like that guy that sits on the rock... The Thinker...
Charlie: Oh, the Hulk! The Incredible Hulk!
Mac: Hulk doesn't think at all!
Mac Character Comedy Observational Mac: You guys can't censor me. I'm a bit of a badass.
Mac Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: This is my chance to finally sow myself into the inner circle.
Mac Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: Frank, nobody gives a shit about minutes anymore.
Dennis Character Comedy Observational Dennis: Actually, you know what? I do give a shit about minutes. I know I shouldn't and I'm just probably buying into the phone company's propaganda. But there you go.
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank: Because they got great banter. They jib-jab. Jib-jab, jib-jab, jib-jab.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dennis: We have voices. We talk about the issues.
Dennis Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Frank: Do not speak until I turn my tape over... I taped over my Luther Vandross mix!
Frank Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: We are not men who get a lot of opportunities, Charlie... We've squandered 'em all.
Mac Charlie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mac: All of my instincts and my training tell me to use this as a weapon.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: You look like a G.I. Joe action figure. Loosen up.
Mac: Bro, when you tack on mass you sacrifice flexibility. That's just a straight-up fact!
Mac Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: What am I, a gymnast?
Mac Character Comedy Escalation Charlie: like a tiny bowl of cream you don't want to spill
Charlie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: Otherwise I go out there, I look like a jabroni.
Mac Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Mac: Gliding like a jabroni is what I'm gonna be doing.
Mac Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: What the hell is a podcast? Why don't you just tape it?
Frank Character Comedy Observational Dennis: So, Dennis and Dee Reynolds here. Inaugural podcast. We're talking technology today. The big 'T.'
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dee: [Long pause after 'My opinion?']
Dee Awkward Silence Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: Dead air! Could you ease up on the crackers?
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Cricket: It's from when Frank hit me with the trash can. Wound got infected. It was a whole ordeal.
Cricket Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: I lied about the chicken, Crick.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: Lemons? You suck on 'em.
Frank Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Cricket: I wake up, I find a dog sniffin' at my wound. He's fully aroused, mind you.
Cricket Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Cricket: Does my scar look like a dog's vagina?
Cricket Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Cricket: Not since that Chinaman stole my kidney.
Cricket Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Dee: A dog banged your neck the other day!
Dee Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Callback Charlie: U.S.A! U.S.A!
Mac: Not like that. Make it classy.
Mac: Next thing you know, I'm wearing a wig for the rest of my life just to keep up appearances. Yeah, like Andre Agassi, huh?
Mac: All right, well, that would have been cool if I was standing backwards.
Mac Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Only a couple of jabronis come out here without skates on.
Mac Running Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Mac: I think it's some dago word, but it sounds like a hockey word.
Mac Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Dennis: That was a duck. Why would you make a duck noise right in the middle of my thing?
Dee: I thought I'd up the production value, add some sound effects.
Dee Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Frank: How 'bout if we talk about how you used to bang each other?
Frank Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Charlie: Do you not know how to ice skate?
Mac: No, not at all.
Mac: But I figured you would teach me, 'cause we got plenty of time.
Charlie: We don't have time! It's tomorrow night, man!
Mac · Charlie: [Push it to the Limit montage while Mac learns to skate]
Frank: You're gonna pay me $500 to drink soup out of a shoe. And take your top off.
Waitress: Fine. I'll do it. But I am not taking my top off.
Cricket: Couldn't find soup, but I found some dirty dishwater.
Mac: The future of radio, you jabronis.
Mac Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Radio Host: Jabronis. Cool word.
Charlie: No. You fell on your face almost immediately, man.
Charlie: Who took the shot?
Charlie: I took the shot.
Charlie: Yeah, I missed wide right by, like, a mile.
Charlie Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: Look on the bright side, dude. I think you're gonna be a sports celebrity after all... 'cause they're definitely gonna play that shit on ESPN.
Charlie Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
