Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
So here we are. 100 episodes later. Who'd have thought that a series about five screaming degenerates would have lasted this long? And for its 100th episode, "The Gang Saves the Day," Always Sunny decided to get a bit unconventional. Which is saying quite a bit considering that the show can get pretty demented as it is. But the five vignette format displayed tonight, as The Gang watched the beginnings of a convenience store stick up, felt like - perhaps - something you might see on Community. Playing with the show format while running with the most pronounced traits of each character.
"The Gang Saves the Day" wasn't a traditional Sunny episode (if there is such a thing) - its strengths lying in strange, off-kilter daydreams - dreams where no member of The Gang even wound up being a hero. Because that's the obvious daydream, right? Stopping the robbery and becoming a local media darling, adorned with applause and gratitude. But no one in The Gang could even get that basic delusion right. Mac came close, but he wound up killing the store clerk's father in the process and then getting killed himself (sent up to beefcake heaven, he was). Dee probably came the closest, but her thwarting the robbery only landed her in federal protection where she was then able to reinvent herself and become famous through other avenues.
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