Everyone seems to think this episode is crap. It isn't. What reasons have been given that would not be among the watchable episodes of always sunny; deplorable behavior, disbelief about the nature of Frank's character... unnecessary bigotry and brashness? Look, I will by no means admit that this was among THE BEST always sunny episodes--for me, Charlie Rules The World and Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats take the title--but I refuse to accept that this episode was badly written. Firstly, Frank has been shown to be BY FAR the worst behaved member of the group, see episodes like The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention, wherein he receives a very mashy handjob... FROM HIS Niece! and letting Hwang die is deplorable?! This is the man that Frank burned money in front of, almost entirely unprovoked--not to mention the fact that he states "I hope you choke on that and die right now" (or something along those lines), mere moments before it actually happens. And you think Frank--the man who has, on multiple occasions, set his own daughter on fire--wouldn't take that sandwich and start eating it in front of his dying landlord? He will. He did.
Secondly, yes Frank is the 'smart guy' of the group--or at least he was. But no longer; while Frank certainly started out as the man with the plan, he very rapidly started devolving into a semi-psychotic, forgetful, racist, and overall negatively motivated drug addict... and an insanely rich one at that. See Frank doesn't do that business stuff anymore--he lives on the fringe, or, as he calls it, "fringe class." And in the context of always sunny, he makes more sense as the money man anyway; the gang doesn't need any one specific person making up plans, they can all do that themselves--but they do need some source of seemingly never ending income (Frank) with almost no strings attached. And if you think his reactions, his meanness, his almost helpless inner monologue etc. are not 'genuine Frank,' well think about his environment. He can't remember the last thing anyone said to him, and he is constantly in fear of being at the bottom of the group--hence berating Dee--and his addled mind has very few pleasures left... ie Nightcrawlers.
You have to see the episode through his eyes to get into it--but really you have to know Frank--and I mean really get to know him--to understand the episode.
Secondly, yes Frank is the 'smart guy' of the group--or at least he was. But no longer; while Frank certainly started out as the man with the plan, he very rapidly started devolving into a semi-psychotic, forgetful, racist, and overall negatively motivated drug addict... and an insanely rich one at that. See Frank doesn't do that business stuff anymore--he lives on the fringe, or, as he calls it, "fringe class." And in the context of always sunny, he makes more sense as the money man anyway; the gang doesn't need any one specific person making up plans, they can all do that themselves--but they do need some source of seemingly never ending income (Frank) with almost no strings attached. And if you think his reactions, his meanness, his almost helpless inner monologue etc. are not 'genuine Frank,' well think about his environment. He can't remember the last thing anyone said to him, and he is constantly in fear of being at the bottom of the group--hence berating Dee--and his addled mind has very few pleasures left... ie Nightcrawlers.
You have to see the episode through his eyes to get into it--but really you have to know Frank--and I mean really get to know him--to understand the episode.
