![]() We got to see some different moves here, especially from Dennis, but I’m still waiting for a great Frank bit or huge Dennis freakout. We still haven’t had a real big super moment from any of these characters this year. There weren’t too many big laugh out loud moments this week, but “The Gang Hits the Slopes” was a big step up from last week’s episode. And Charlie, who needs to get checked after having so much sex with a woman who ended up being hooker. ![]() Frank was just distracting folks so he could frack the mountain. Actually it’s not okay since Dennis still crawls his way to victory. Charlie can’t actually ski, but it’s okay because - in by far the episode’s biggest laugh - Dennis breaks both his ankles trying to execute a fancy trick. By the end of the episode (which includes probably the show’s most graphic and extended sex scene) he ascends to the Lane Myer sad sack hero role and must challenge Dennis to a downhill skiing race. The way he hyena laughs while slowly putting on sunglasses is just as perfect as you’d expect.Ĭharlie tries both teams before going off on his own. ![]() The beauty here is watching Dennis transform into a classic ‘80s preppy villain, a role tailor made for Glenn Howerton to mine for rich comic nuance. While Mac and Dee work on that, Frank and Dennis conspire to buy the entire mountain and turn it into an exclusive resort for rich people. Though they don’t have anything to do with the plot, it’s worth noting that Drisko’s roommates are played by Children of the Corn’s Courtney Gains as well as Chris Farley’s brother Kevin. Played by Summer School and Ski School (two very different schools) vet Dean Cameron, Drisko hasn’t partied in a while and most of his fun times involve what would normally constitute severe sexual assault outside of an ‘80s movie. Mac and Dee want to use Mountain Rules as a way to party down, so they find Drisko, a legendary partier from back in the day. There ends up being a cynical Frank explanation for a lot of it, but it doesn’t quite cover everything.Īs usual there are three stories. “Mountain Rules” is the show’s way of explaining the episode’s weird alternate version of reality in which everything works out fine just like it would in an ‘80s party movie. How is all this possible? Mountain Rules! Also also also, a beautiful Bulgarian model will seduce and bang the shit out of Charlie. Also also, it’s no big deal to just rip a lady’s bra off. So music cues and title cards are different. “The Gang Hits the Slopes” is one of these episodes but pulls out something extra by fitting the show into a parody template. That’s exactly what it does, though it does so by aping ‘80s ski comedy tropes, so I’m not a hundred percent sure if it counts.Įvery once in a while, It’s Always Sunny takes the gang to a totally different location and either examines how out of place they are in the real world (“The Gang Goes on Family Fight”) or examines how this or that place fails to live up to their expectations (“The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore”). After last week’s (and the week before’s) big trip down memory lane, my hope for this week’s episode, “The Gang Hits the Slopes” was to stay focused on the present tense.
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