Dee and Dennis take the gang to their favorite childhood vacation spot where things aren't quite how they remember. While Dee and Dennis see the seedy side of the Jersey Shore, Mac, Frank and Charlie have the nights of their lives.
WAR
45.8
Wins Above Replacement
“The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore” ranks #111 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.6 — Great. The episode packs 50 scored jokes at 2.0 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
Frank abandoning the raft to chase the floating rum ham
Frank Mac Character Comedy Escalation Callback Random woman: You know I can hear you, right?
Random woman: You're not that far off.
Ham soaked in rum as Frank's version of drinks
Dennis · Dee: The montage of Dennis and Dee's drug-fueled crime spree
Frank: I'm sorry, rum ham.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Callback All Jokes — 50 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Frank burning photo albums containing cherished Jersey Shore vacation memories while the gang protests
Frank: 'You sucked, okay? You just complained the whole time and ruined it for everyone else.'
Mac: It's just a bunch of sweaty Guidos getting hopped up on energy drinks and giving each other diseases.
Mac Observational Dark/Subversive Charlie: It's a magical place where people swim in the ocean and they get to ride on fun rides and they get to have their first kiss.
Charlie Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Frank: Now, this ocean, explain it to me. It's, like, it goes on forever?
Mac: Go to sleep, go to sleep.
Frank Mac Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Frank: I've never seen the ocean.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Mac · Frank: The chloroform knockout plan
Frank: So, I woke up, like, halfway there, and then you just snuffed me out again, huh, Mac?
Mac: The guy at the front desk said there was meth lab explosion, so the hotel burned down.
Mac Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement The delayed roast of Dee's hair
Drinking tequila out of sunscreen bottles to avoid open container laws
Frank: Holy shit! Is that the ocean?!
Frank Character Comedy Reaction Beat Callback Frank: What's on the other side of it there?
Mac: Europe.
Mac: Do not try and swim to Europe.
Mac Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dennis · Dee: The revelation that the beach is covered with stray dogs instead of people
Dennis: I think these dogs play by their own rules.
Dennis Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Charlie: The trash that floated over from Europe
Charlie Observational Character Comedy Callback Frank · Mac: 'Taxic spill' sign that Frank notices
Ham soaked in rum as Frank's version of drinks
Frank getting stuck with a needle/syringe on the beach
Frank Mac Physical/Slapstick Dark/Subversive Mac: We're in the steroid capital of the world, Frank.
Mac Observational Character Comedy Frank: Might you say we're getting hammered.
Frank Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Callback Frank: Might you say we're getting 'hammered.'
Mac: Oh, nice one.
Frank · Mac: The gang fighting off swarming wild dogs for their ham
Frank Mac Physical/Slapstick Escalation Callback Charlie witnessing homeless people having sex under the boardwalk
Mac: I have a special place in my heart 'cause I had my first kiss down here.
Charlie: Oh, God! Oh, no! No! No! No!
Mac: Two homeless guys banging each other.
Charlie: That's not magical. That's not romantic. That's your idea of romantic?
Mac: No! There are other kinds of romances that happen under here.
Mac: Where's the beach?
Mac: Frank, wake up.
Frank: What? What's the matter?
Mac: Where's the beach?
Mac: We're in the middle of the goddamn ocean!
Frank · Mac: Frank's plan to 'conk out' and let the current take them back
Frank abandoning the raft to chase the floating rum ham
Frank Mac Character Comedy Escalation Callback Frank: I'm sorry, rum ham.
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Dee · Dennis: Dee's hair getting caught in the carnival ride machinery
Dee Dennis Physical/Slapstick Escalation Callback Dennis and Dee's elaborate tragic backstory for a random woman
Random woman: You know I can hear you, right?
Random woman: You're not that far off.
Mac: Gargle some more water, bitch.
Frank: I've been gargling.
Mac: Well, don't snap at me.
Frank: Well, quit acting so bossy.
Frank: Frank suggesting cannibalism and keeping the knife
Frank: Maybe I am, maybe I ain't, rum ham.
Frank Character Comedy Callback Callback Frank: It should have been you!
Frank Escalation Character Comedy Callback Getting rescued by the Guidos from Jersey Shore
Frank Mac Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Charlie · Waitress: Charlie and the Waitress's unexpected beach encounter
Charlie: I got you something rare and beautiful.
Waitress: Oh my God, is this a piece of broken glass?
Charlie: Yeah, I found it in an alley. I think it's from a really nice bottle.
Waitress: This is the most romantic thing anyone's ever given me.
Dee smoking angel dust thinking it's weed
Dennis · Dee: The montage of Dennis and Dee's drug-fueled crime spree
Dee: Did you rape me last night?
Waitress: Oh, my God. I was... I was on Ecstasy last night, Charlie. / You have to tell me everything that happened.
Charlie: Oh! Boy, you're really off the wagon, huh? Drinking, drugs...
Charlie: We drank ocean water. It was romantic.
Dee: That's a piece of a broken glass bottle.
Charlie: I guess that's just summer love.
Charlie Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Frank: I love the Jersey Shore.
Mac: Oh, you love it so much here, get in the goddamn car, you fat fat ass, fat fat ass.
Mac: There are far worse people in Jersey Shore than the cast of The Jersey Shore.
Mac Meta/Self-Referential Observational Callback Top Episodes — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
