It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV Series) The Gang Squashes Their Beefs (2013) User Reviews

Bad blood finale

[anselmdaniel · 9/10 · 30 July 2023]

This review contains spoilers.

"The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" is the tenth episode in the ninth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The gang arrange an event to gather people that they have wronged and try to bury the hatchet. The gang sees many people they interacted with over the years.

"The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" is a fantastic episode. The episode has fantastic moments for all of the gang. Frank squares off with Hwang. The Reynolds twins square off against the McPoyles. Even the man that had his car blown up in the oil scheme returns in this episode. Rickety Cricket returns and is harassed by the gang.

I would recommend "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs".

Grade: B

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season Nine

The ninth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a fantastic season. This season has many great episodes such as "The Gang Broke Dee", "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award", "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare", "Mac Day", "The Gang Gets Quarantined", and "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs". The season as a whole is more of a gang adventure. The older seasons had more of an individual quality to it. The best episode that has this is "The Nightman Cometh". The ninth season will not convince anyone to change their mind about It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but fans will be satisfied.

I would recommend the ninth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Grade: B.

Comedy gold

[pmdressor · 10/10 · 1 July 2021]

Will never understand why some people don't like this episode, it's so good.

Has it all!

[garyjones-90205 · 10/10 · 28 December 2020]

Top 5 Sunny episode! Definitely most quotable, brilliant!

Season 9: Holds a steady course so works while also feeling a bit too familiar

[bob the moo · 11 January 2014]

After nine seasons I still enjoy this show and am finding that my reservations about it are more to do with how long it has been on and not so much about anything in particular it does. A few seasons ago the show drifted a little bit away from its core strengths and had too many episodes which were heavy on plot and setup and as a result there was less time for the characters to be shown to be the amorally hilarious things they are. In the eighth season it got back to this and it continues this into the ninth as the plots are generally very basic frames for the characters to be selfish, offensive and totally unaware of who they are and how others view them.

This it continues to do very well and if you have enjoyed this approach thus far then you will continue to do so with this season. There are some very nice ideas in here (the store hold up is a 15 second plot setup then the rest is all character self-delusion) but generally the episodes do feel like a show that is maintaining the standard. On one hand this is good and I found much to enjoy, but on the other hand it does feel a little bit too familiar and comfortable and this is a little bit of a problem. I guess they are damned if they don't and damned if they don't, because if they change things up too much then maybe they lose what makes the show strong, but if they continue as they are then they risk being stale. It is a good problem to have though and I guess the ninth season is a good answer as it has a good steady hand on the characters while also mixing it up a bit.

Part of the way it does this is by adding cameos and I think this way isn't always successful. In this case mostly the guests do not dominate the episode so much as just play a minor character, but I did find that some of the famous faces tended to distract rather than really add too much. In terms of the lead 5 they continue to be great at characters they may never get away from. De Vito remains the one that surprises me as time and time again he never lets his status or ego get in the way of a laugh - seeing him hairless and crawling in hand sanitizer was a great example of that. The main cast continue as good as ever.

Overall this ninth season should please fans by delivering episodes that are funny and draw comedy from the characters, not the plotting. It does seem very familiar and stable perhaps, but this is more to do with how many years it has run for rather than the content itself.

Agreed with the other review- COMEDY GOLD

[arkadeepdeb-18602 · 10/10 · 16 March 2022]

A rib-tickling gift to fans who follow the canon. I have watched it at least 30 times and the banter in the 2nd half is some of my all-time sitcom favorite.