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Watch Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia S 5 E 11 - Mac and Charlie Write a Movie - Always Sunny in Philadelphia on dailymotion. Last season, the Gang experienced new highs – Mac acknowledged his sexuality and Charlie convinced The Waitress, his longtime target of affection, to move in with him – and the lowest of lows – Frank became the official beverage sponsor of a terrorist group, Dee helped a man reach rock bottom, and Dennis was investigated for murder.
Mac: Dee, you involved us in this the second you walked in here and told us about the movie.
When Dee gets a part in the new M. Night Shyamalan film, Mac and Charlie seize a chance to pitch their movie script. Frank decides to become a talent agent, and Dennis can't seem to put his new smartphone down.
- Big Eater: Frank has several sausage links in his shirt pocket that he sporadically snacks on throughout the episode.
- Blood Is the New Black: Dee gets absolutely covered from head to toe in fake blood in order to play the part of a dead body.
- Brick Joke: The episode opens with Mac and Charlie telling Dennis a story about how they got locked in a garage stairwell. At the end of the episode, Dennis reveals that while the others thought he was playing on his phone, he's secretly been working on turning their story into a movie script all along.
- Call-Back: Mac states that Dennis is good at coming up with big words.
- Comically Missing the Point: Charlie thinks that the Twist Ending of The Sixth Sense is that the 'guy in the hairpiece' was Bruce Willis all along.
- The Danza: Discussed In-Universe; Charlie wants to call their lead character in the movie Dolph Lundgren, but Mac insists that it would be too confusing.
- Global Ignorance: Mac and Charlie seem to have no idea where Pakistan is.Charlie: Pakistan, now that's... a country somewhere.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Mac doesn't want to add a female lead to the movie because he hates women and thinks that they slow down action movies.
- Hot Scientist: The protagonist of Mac and Charlie's movie is a muscular scientist who fights crime.
- Incestuous Casting: In-Universe, Dennis and Dee end up playing dead bodies who were husband and wife in the Shyamalan movie.
- The Nose Knows: A freak lab accident leaves the protagonist of Mac and Charlie's movie with the ability to smell crime before it happens. Their tagline is 'he nose the truth.'
- Shout-Out:
- The gang spend much of the episode talking about M. Night Shyamalan and his movies, particularly The Sixth Sense.
- Dee calls Shyamalan a 'real life Slumdog Millionaire.'
- Small Name, Big Ego: Dee gets very pleased with herself when she thinks she's landed a major role the movie, until she finds out that she's actually just an extra. Even then she still acts like a diva.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Mac and Charlie think that Dolph Lundgren is the most underrated actor in all of Hollywood.
- Twist Ending: As it's a Shyamalan movie, the gang spends a great deal of time discussing the art of the twist ending.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Dennis telling Dee that he's going to cast her as the lead in his movie, only to cruelly take it back a moment later.Dennis: You know normally, Dee, I would take this opportunity to insult you, but I'm gonna throw an insane twist your way: you're gonna be the lead of the film!Dennis: No, you're not! Boom, twisted again! Try and keep up.