Rejected from a pool club, Mac and Charlie set out fix an abandoned pool to help cope with the Philly heat wave. Meanwhile, Dennis and Dee go about dealing with the heat in a different way.
WAR
47.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Mac and Charlie: White Trash” ranks #131 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.0 — Great. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.6 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: There hasn't been chlorine in here since Jamie Nelson.
Charlie Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: I put the phone in my front pocket.
Charlie Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: I cut them off 'cause they were overshooting the bottom of my shorts.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: Don't you understand? This pool is our bootstraps... and it's lifting us up into the middle class, dude.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: The attendant, you know, he just walked off with my shoes... and - it made me mad because he didn't ask. But it's great because in the end I'm gonna end up with polished shoes.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Mac: Heat wave!
Charlie: Heat wave!
Mac: Heat wave!
Pool Attendant: We're in the middle of a terrible heat wave... and you happen to be at capacity- for us.
Mac Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Mac: Don't you get it? We got big-timed, dude. He called us lower class.
Mac Character Comedy Observational Mac: Ugh! Gross, dude. I will not go to that disgusting public pool. People there are gross.
Mac Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Charlie: 'Cause Jamie Nelson drowned in it.
Mac: Man, I'm gonna have to keep tinkering with the A.C. 'cause I can't feel it at all.
Mac Visual Gag Character Comedy Mac: That's why I got the gold chain.
Mac Visual Gag Character Comedy Mac: Don't do airplane noises. Just give him the beer.
Mac Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Mac: Because you're not even supposed to be here. Frank is the audience. Just keep your mouth shut.
Mac Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Mac Visual Gag Character Comedy Frank: Pass. ... Just let me finish. Pass. It's too much work. What else you got?
Frank Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dennis: You're born into class. It's about pedigree. It's about upbringing. It has nothing to do with your present circumstances.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Frank: I quit on that shit. You understand? I quit on it. I don't give a rat's ass about class. I live on the fringe. Fringe class is where I am.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank: We could go pop a hydrant.
Frank Character Comedy Visual Gag Dennis: Well, we know you. You could sponsor us. I don't know what kind of idea you have about us, but we, sir, are like you.
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Want a little something sweet?
Dee Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Dee: Well, good for you. You keep a couple of token ones around, do you? Parade 'em around like dancing monkeys?
Dee Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Dennis: And having class means being able to mix with people that are beneath you.
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Dee: Your shirt doesn't even fit, by the way. If you wanna be an elitist, get yourself a tailor.
Dee Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dennis: Oh, Jesus Christ. This is like a goddamn zoo.
Dennis Character Comedy Observational Dennis: That girl just jumped in with her sneakers on. These people all have sneakers on.
Dennis Observational Character Comedy Frank: I bartered fringe style with that guy over there. I gave him a bite of my hot dog, he's letting me use his towel.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Mac: We could be, like, 'That's where the swim-up bar is.'
Mac Visual Gag Character Comedy Mac: Well, I was thinking we'd be at capacity for Dennis...
Mac Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Mac: I don't wanna put a tin can in the water with a string 'cause we're not eight.
Mac Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Charlie: There hasn't been chlorine in here since Jamie Nelson.
Charlie Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie: I was climbing up the mattress - sort of like a ladder-type situation.
Charlie Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Charlie Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Dennis: I just stepped on broken glass. Ow! Oh, my God. There are shards of broken glass all over the bottom of the pool.
Dennis Physical/Slapstick Escalation Dennis: Well, now I know why people are wearing shoes.
Dennis Observational Callback Callback Frank: You grease the watermelon up, you throw it in the pool. Everybody goes crazy trying to grab it. They can't grab it. Greased watermelon!
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Dennis: Which one of you little shits stole my shoes? Goddamn it!
Dennis Escalation Character Comedy Mac: I'm putting out a feeler call. Stride, stride, stride, stride, execute.
Mac Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Mac: Charlie, I do back flips every single day of my life.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist Mac: Well, I need to stay focused and conserve energy, and that's, you know- Come on.
Mac Character Comedy Misdirection Mac: What if I need to do a back flip later?
Mac Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: You've had a cell phone this entire time, dude? Are you kidding me?
Mac Character Comedy Misdirection Mac: Because getting stuck in an abandoned pool is extremely low class. Dennis will sink his teeth into it.
Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Charlie: We're stuck in a pool!
Charlie Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Dennis: Is that Mexican music?
Dennis Character Comedy Observational Mac: It's one of the attendants. He's walking around with... a ghetto blaster... serving us drinks and just making us comfortable, giving us hats.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist Mac: The attendant, you know, he just walked off with my shoes... and - it made me mad because he didn't ask. But it's great because in the end I'm gonna end up with polished shoes.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: I buy 'em all the time. You prepay for it, and then you buy it and you throw it away. There's a name for it.
Charlie Character Comedy Observational Mac: This is like felon class.
Mac Character Comedy Callback Callback Charlie: Yeah, we probably shouldn't get Chinese though... because those delivery guys are always Chinese... and he won't understand a word we're saying... And plus, he's probably gonna be too short.
Charlie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Charlie: It'll be some big Italian lug, and he'll fish us out of here.
Pizza Delivery Guy: Hey, you guys order a pizza?
Charlie: You gotta be kidding me. He's Chinese.
Charlie: I cut them off 'cause they were overshooting the bottom of my shorts.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Pizza Delivery Guy: Hey, this chain's fake as shit, man.
Mac: Don't you understand? This pool is our bootstraps... and it's lifting us up into the middle class, dude.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: Well, just accept the fact that you're white trash, all right? Take a look at yourself. You can't do back flips. You don't know karate. You're white trash!
Charlie Character Comedy Escalation Callback Mac: Do not call the shorts white trash. Dennis told me about these shorts. They're not white trash.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist Charlie: I put the phone in my front pocket.
Charlie Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Frank: This Filipino lady went crazy on me. She started scratching me like a velociraptor.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Dennis: We're not at capacity, 'cause I can see the pool from here.
Pool Attendant: We are at capacity, sir!
Dennis: I'm jumping in the pool!
Dee: Yeah. Plus I'm gonna piss in it.
Mac: Lamb of God who takes away
Charlie: What is that? There's a lamb?
Charlie: Alligator tooth and snakeskin -
Mac: Don't undermine my prayer with voodoo.
Mac: Admit that you are low class, just like us.
Mac Character Comedy Escalation Dennis: I hope you trash bags die at the bottom of this pool like Jamie Nelson did.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Escalation Callback Frank: I think I have a way for us to beat the heat tonight... Philly style.
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