Motivated by the drama teacher who inspired her, Dee takes a job as a substitute teacher, and exposes her students to the culture of Paddy's with a field trip to see the Gang's take on the Lethal Weapon series: Lethal Weapon 5.
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“Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth” ranks #164 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 70.1 — Solid. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 2.4 per minute, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.5 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: He's bathing himself, and I'm watching.
Charlie Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Frank: Yeah, and you got to make the lips funny. Oh, no! No, no, no. What? They have to be funny. The lips have to be outlined.
Mac: In The Lord of the Rings movie, Ian McKellen plays a wizard. Do you think he goes home at night and shoots laser beams into his boyfriend's asshole?
Charlie: Tell you what. I'll take him to the locker room, lather him up real good. I'll strip all these silly-ass clothes off him, and I'll clean him sparkling clean.
Dee: Now, I know you're all super stoked about watching a movie in a bar... but we're just gonna keep it on the down low. You know what I mean? We don't need your parents and the principal finding out. It's just our little secret.
Dee Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Charlie: Here comes my main man, Matty! Time for a haircut, Matty, though. Don't make me give it to ya.
Charlie: This orange- it belong to you?
Student: Uh, no.
Charlie: Looks pretty good. Not too peeled. Pretty intact here. You want it?
Student: No, thanks. I'm cool, Professor.
Dee: Did you get that orange out of the garbage?
Charlie: I sure did. Can you believe that? Someone threw this away. Perfectly good orange, you know?
Dee Charlie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Your belly's so fat, you make John Candy look like Lara Flynn Boyle.
We've been on a snap-joke kick about your pregnant body... but since you're not around, we decided to call you.
Dee: Goddamn it, you guys! I am a teacher now, okay? Don't ever call me here again! I don't have time for your shit, you dumbass dickbags!
Dee Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dee Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Dee: he's taken a turn for the worse... and he's died. Now, while we all feel robbed of him here on Earth... heaven above... has just received another angel.
Dee Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dee: And that... is what you call... a monologue!
Dee Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Dee: Now, they're not gonna be as good as mine just was, but listen... I don't want you to beat yourselves up for it
Dee Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dee: One minute dead, the next minute alive- resurrection. It's all acting! Everywhere there's acting.
Dee Absurdist Character Comedy Dee: Seriously? Are you kidding me? All right. That's it. I am taking you guys on a field trip to Broadway!
Dee Escalation Character Comedy Hey, fat bitch, how you doing today, Richard?
Student Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Charlie: He's a dumbass Juggalo. Juggalos for life, bitch!
Charlie: I've sized you up. I've stripped you down. I don't like what I see. I'm not impressed. Big tough guys, huh? Big tough guys!
Charlie: I don't know what that - You have a posse? Well, good. Stick with your insane clown people, and you won't get jumped.
Richard: I lost all my friends.
Charlie: Aw, shit, man. I lost all my friends too.
Charlie: 'Cause the professor just took an interest in ya!
Mac: Let's see, we've got the great C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man. We've got the Wayans brothers in White Chicks. That was a very tasteful example of reverse blackface.
Mac Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: Laurence Olivier in Othello. Perfect. That's the classiest actor of all time.
Mac: Yeah, but I guarantee you there was some black people that were working on that movie... that were, like, 'Man, what dat white man doing? Dat ain't right. Get a black man.'
Mac Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: You're doing a black voice, and that's not racist?
Mac: I'm just saying that's how black people talk. That's not racist.
Frank: Yeah, and you got to make the lips funny. Oh, no! No, no, no. What? They have to be funny. The lips have to be outlined.
Principal MacIntyre: So I really don't think you should be hauling students across state lines. Secondly, the funding for arts programs here is pretty much - It's pretty much nonexistent.
Principal MacIntyre: And I emphasize never - give it to someone whom I've just met.
Charlie: Yeah, we're best friends. Best friends. Excellent.
Charlie: You see, he's what he calls, uh, a juggler. Juggalo, bro. Juggalo. He's a Juggalo. Juggalo. It's sort of a clown posse.
Charlie: Tell you what. I'll take him to the locker room, lather him up real good. I'll strip all these silly-ass clothes off him, and I'll clean him sparkling clean.
Principal: Please don't bathe the students.
Charlie: He's bathing himself, and I'm watching.
Principal: I'd rather you didn't do that either.
Charlie: He's bathing himself, and I'm watching.
Charlie Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis: All blackface is racist, and that is the point I'm trying to make. You just cannot cast a white man as a black man and paint his face black. You can't do it.
Dennis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Mac: In The Lord of the Rings movie, Ian McKellen plays a wizard. Do you think he goes home at night and shoots laser beams into his boyfriend's asshole?
Mac: James Earl Jones has a black face! He's a black man. He's not black. Of course, he's black! He was Darth Vader!
Mac: Darth Vader was black.
Dennis: Darth Vader was not black. They took the mask off. He was white.
Dennis: The whole idea is getting the right color shoe polish. Frank, if you're starting with shoe polish, you're starting off on the wrong foot, buddy.
This is an opportunity to screen Laurence Olivier's Othello movie, you know? Then we can get an audience to weigh in. We can really take the temperature on this with a large group.
Charlie: I'd like to introduce you to my protégé Richie.
Richard: What up? Juggalo for life.
Dennis: What the hell is he talking about?
Charlie: Drop it with the Juggalo thing. You're embarrassing me.
Dee: Now, I know you're all super stoked about watching a movie in a bar... but we're just gonna keep it on the down low. You know what I mean? We don't need your parents and the principal finding out. It's just our little secret.
Dee Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dee: Uh, without further 'adieu,' Othello. So I guess this is a Shakespearean movie. It's gonna be a little bit boring.
Richard: Oh, shit! Lethal Weapon 5! This is great.
Dee: What the hell is this?
Dennis: It's our movie. It's a much more modern-day example of blackface.
Charlie: This is a good movie, Richie. You're gonna enjoy this.
Richard: Man, I ain't seen the first couple, though.
Frank: Turns out someone taint - Someone tapped the tainted water supply. We should have cut him out completely.
Dennis: What is going on? Where are you?
Mac: Frank splurged on a green screen. But he wouldn't pay for the green screen on our side, so -
Dee: We're not in the back office. We're in a casino.
Dee: Kinda comes out of nowhere... but at least it's classy. Here comes the turn.
Dee Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Oh, come on. This is unwatchable. Gotta dive in. Just finish already!
Student: Wait. You guys switched parts?
Dennis: Yeah, yeah.
Dennis: This is regrettable. You're supposed to be... a noble people.
Dennis Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Mac: Go suck an egg.
Charlie: Yeah, go suck an egg.
Dennis: Go suck an egg?
Frank: Sounds like you guys are having a great party. Why wasn't I invited?
Richard: This is the greatest movie I've ever seen.
Charlie: Are you filming this, Richie?
Richard: No.
Charlie: Come on, dude. That's bootlegging. I'll get you a copy. Don't bootleg.
Mac: That's one... fried turkey.
Principal: I think that video says more than I ever could. As does that.
Charlie: So, we're fired, yeah?
Principal: Oh, absolutely.
Charlie: Yeah.
Principal: Probably never should have been hired in the first place, though, huh?
Charlie: That was my bad.
Charlie: I got something that might cheer us all up. Who wants a little bit of - Little bit of deliciousness here?
Dee: I'm not gonna eat that.
Charlie Dee Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
