'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' RECAP Season 4 – Episode 2: The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis

What’s on tap?
10:30 AM
On a Monday

In an attempt to solve the gas crisis, Dennis, Mac, and Charlie try to score a $300,000 bank loan to buy gasoline. Once they have been turned down, they steal money from Dee’s sock drawer and fill trashcans with gas at the gas station. The attendant stops them and later they attempt to sell the gas back to the station. Since that plan fails, they attempt to sell the gas out on the street.

After the fireball accident, they decide to do door-to-door gasoline sales. But before they can do that, Dennis wants to steal Frank’s van so that they can transport the trashcans of gasoline around the neighborhoods. Mac, with his taped up towel head (really a bandage for the fireball burns, it looks more like an Arabian headwrap), is the one to actual take the van.

Dee and Dennis’s dad, Bruce Mathis, is giving all their deceased mother’s money to a Muslim charity. Dee and Frank hatch a plan to get it back. Frank has bought a “rape van” according to Dee (because of the blacked out tinted windows), and they are using it for surveillance. Frank water boarded some guy to get information on where Bruce was living. They think it’s Bruce but Frank’s window tinting job is so dark, so you can’t really tell if it is him or not – it’s not. Frank and Dee break into what they think is Bruce’s apartment and Frank wants to plant a bug, but it’s a baby monitor. When Dee questions him about it, he says, “A lot of people are bugging their babies these days. I guess babies can’t be trusted.” After bugging the apartment with the baby monitor, Dee and Frank set up to listen to it in the back of the van, but they get in an argument and continue their verbal fight outside the van. That is when Mac jumps in the van and steals it. However, Frank can’t see Mac’s face, all he sees is the towel and he thinks a Muslim is taking his van. Frank thinks that Dee is in on getting his van stolen. Frank water boards Dee in the men’s urinal. That is when the guys walk in and Frank discovers that they were the ones who took the van, not some Muslim.

Charlie Work
Favorite Charlie scenes:
Charlie is siphoning gas into trashcans.
Illiterate Charlie’s “For Sale” gas sign is totally misspelled – hilarious… “Unled’d, Premem, Deasel”
Charlie blows a fireball and burns Mac’s head – then he tapes a towel to his head with duct tape.
Charlie cutting the brakes and diving out of the back of the van.

Favorite Charlie quote:
“How about we all go in the back and have great sex?”
“So help me God I’ll blow this place to kingdom come.”
“Plus I’ve swallowed a good deal of that and it’s just a damn waste.”
“Uh, I know how to count man.”
“Well, you’re looking all sorts of good…We want to fill you up if you was so inclined to let us. Now we ain’t going to be taking ‘no’ for an answer now, ya hear. So don’t be making me sick my associate on ya here, alright? He don’t take kindly to ‘no’. So, can I fill you up or what? ”

Last Call
Solving the gas crisis is something that we all could use. But the way they gang decides to go about it might not be the most practical. However, it is the most hilarious solution and this was a much funnier episode than Mac and Dennis: Manhunters. It seems that last year was a little hit and miss and so far, after two episodes, it looks like it could be a repeat of that for this season. I hope not though; this episode brought me to tears I was laughing so hard.