The Gang gets Freudian as they step into the therapist's office to work through their mountain of issues, but when Dennis thinks he has everyone figured out, the shrink turns the tables on him and exposes the insanity in his unique brand of pop psychology.
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“The Gang Gets Analyzed” ranks #3 of 177 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 91.1 — Elite. The episode packs 72 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 7.4 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
Dennis: It's like the thrill of being near the executioner's switch, knowing that at any moment, you could throw it, but knowing you never will. But you could.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: Dennis, there was another twin in your mother's womb. We were going to call him Donnie. You and Deandra devoured him before he could be born. You gobbled him up.
Frank Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: Yeah, I served you pigeon, okay? I'm not going to spend my money on a pheasant when I can get a perfectly good street bird.
Charlie Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Mac: Well, first of all, through God, all things are possible, so jot that down.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Oh. No one was assigned the dishes.
All Jokes — 72 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Sweet Dee: I'm scaling up like a goddamn boa constrictor over here.
Sweet Dee Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sweet Dee: Well, you're not a skin doctor, so let's drop it already, okay?
screaming and tears and physical threats, uh, Frank pulled out his gun, somebody dropped the 'N' bomb
Oh. No one was assigned the dishes.
Therapist: And that all happened over the dishes?
Sweet Dee: Who's going to do the dishes! And also, this is a great opportunity for you to see how insane my asshole friends are.
Sweet Dee: Of course I brought them here... what, are you gonna come to my house?
Dennis: Yeah, actually, this argument is more about determining who the loser will be, because most of us will be winners.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Sweet Dee: Setting the table? Are you dumb? I hosted!
Sweet Dee: It was wall-to-wall details! I was on edge the whole time.
Frank: The food was mush.
Mac: The food was divine. It was pheasant.
Charlie: Well, I had the hardest job of anyone... I traveled all the way to this exotic merchant in search of this rare fowl...
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: You went to the corner gourmet grocery store and you bought pheasant.
Mac Reaction Beat Misdirection Dennis: I have a background in academic psych myself, from an Ivy League college, no less, not this, uh, LaSalle.
Dennis Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Frank: It sounds like a pasta dish.
Frank Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dennis: Some people don't have the same access that we do.
Dennis Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dennis Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Mac: I hosted the shit out of that party!
Mac Character Comedy Escalation Mac: sometimes I feel like they don't even understand me and we're not even that good of friends.
Mac Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Mac: (screams) That's bullshit! We're, like, the best friends in the whole goddamn world! Goddamn them for making me think otherwise!
Mac Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Mac: I was just thinking of something that Charlie said that was really funny.
Mac Awkward Silence Character Comedy Mac: I gained and lost 60 pounds in three months.
Mac Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: Well, first of all, through God, all things are possible, so jot that down.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: people used to cross the street when I would walk by. They'd be, like, 'Whoa, look at that monster coming towards us, you know, barreling towards us.'
Mac Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mac: Lady, I was as big as a skyscraper, and now I'm as tiny as a postage stamp.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: You leave this pen here and people are supposed to think, 'Wait, that looks like a dick.'
Mac Character Comedy Visual Gag Mac: Dennis is, like, my best buddy
Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mac: So if we talk about it, then you think that I'll get most bigger... from talking!
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mac: when you started talking about God, I realized that you're one of the smart ones.
Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dennis: Get out, slim. Let's go.
Dennis: Ticktock, ticktock. Time's up. Ticktock, tiny man.
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: I taped the knob... I knew I'd be popping in and out quite a bit.
Dennis Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Charlie: Fine, I'll do the dishes! You're just gonna make me do 'em anyway!
Charlie Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Charlie: basement stuff, cleaning urinals, uh, blood stuff, your basic slimes, your sludges. Anything dead, or decay, you know, I'm on it
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: I love the dark, I love slippery things, I love being naked, uh, in the sewer.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: Bleach smells good, uh, tastes good
Charlie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: I'm, like, probably the weirdest guy in the universe, you know. Probably even weirder than someone from Saturn.
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: would it be weird if you survived an abortion?
Charlie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: you shared a bed with a man who may or may not be your father?
Charlie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Charlie: If you eat cat food to go to sleep, and you have such a fascination with cats that maybe you glue cat hair on the back of your neck every now and then?
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: so if I got, like, more skin or something, then I could, like, never do a bad thing in my life
Charlie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Charlie: You're saying, like, do the things you do, go even further with them. You know, maybe get a ton of cat hair, glue it all over your body, you know, walk around like a cat man in the night through the alleyways.
Charlie Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch And stop hiding the pigeon. This one. You know, let him be who he wants, let him... let him fly away. Go!
Charlie Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Charlie: He's dead, I think.
Charlie Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Charlie: I think I might have hugged him a little too hard, kind of smothered him a bit
Charlie Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: I ain't talking about nothing! This skull is Fort Knox.
Frank: Got me so scrambled up. Next thing you know, I was shanghaied upstate to a nitwit school.
Frank Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Frank: Not just for nuts in the head. Bodies, too. Back then, science was real crude. They stuck us all together.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: My roommate was a frog kid. You ever see a frog kid?
Frank Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Frank: Got my first kiss there.
Frank Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Frank: She was an angel. Always smiling. That's because she had no lips, but her mouth was still very much in play.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: She died two weeks later. She thought she was a space man with a plastic bag for a helmet.
Frank Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Frank: Oh, you unzipped me. It's all coming back. I hate you!
Frank Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dennis: How quickly you rattled their cages, broke them all down.
Dennis Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dennis: It's like the thrill of being near the executioner's switch, knowing that at any moment, you could throw it, but knowing you never will. But you could.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dennis: He's always sucking on the pens in our apartment. I'm always having to hide them.
Dennis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dennis: My file on Dee was started in the second grade.
Dennis Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch So they're Mexican ephedra. Calling them size pills was an eloquent solution.
Dennis Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dennis: Drawing conclusions. And... drawing this.
Therapist: Were you or were you not... the first choice for the female lead in The Notebook?
Sweet Dee: I graciously handed it to Rachel McAdams and she did a fine job with the film. I'm secure enough to admit that.
Sweet Dee: (Brooklyn accent): Oh, what do you want to hear, Doc, huh? That I had cigarettes put out on me when I was a kid? That this isn't a surgery scar, huh? That my father stabbed me? Huh?
Sweet Dee Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Therapist: You're speaking right now with a Brooklyn accent and yet...
Sweet Dee: (normal voice): Boston. It was a Boston accent.
Sweet Dee: Oh, really? Uh... ta-da! I've been lying the whole time! Oh! So, good, you admitted it. Uh-uh, that was acting. What I just... right there was acting. I said I was lying, and that wasn't even true. That was acting.
Sweet Dee: Tell me I'm good. Tell me it was good. Tell me I'm good. Tell me that was good. Tell me I'm good. Tell me I'm good... Tell me I'm good.
Sweet Dee Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Frank: Dennis, there was another twin in your mother's womb. We were going to call him Donnie. You and Deandra devoured him before he could be born. You gobbled him up.
Frank Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dennis: You would've been the good one. It would've been Bruce's kid anyway, Frank.
Mac: The therapist implied that God wanted me to have bovine hormones and I think she's going to get them for me.
Mac Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Dennis: How's that? Huh? You having a white Christmas? You having a white Christmas, you bitch?
Dennis Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Charlie: Yeah, I served you pigeon, okay? I'm not going to spend my money on a pheasant when I can get a perfectly good street bird.
Charlie Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Dee, do the (bleep) dishes.
Mac: Boom! I feel like a weight has been lifted. You're a good therapist.
Mac Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Sweet Dee: Here's some dishes. You screwed me, you bitch. There's the dishes, all really nice and clean.
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