It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia/The Gang Goes to Ireland (2)

The Gang Goes to Ireland (2)
Season 15, Episode 5
Airdate	December 15, 2021
Production Number	XIP015005
Written by	Rob McElhenney & Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton
Directed by	Megan Ganz
← 15x04 The Gang Replaces Dee with a Monkey (1)	15x06 → The Gang's Still in Ireland
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Season Fifteen

Gang Goes to Ireland (2) is the fifth episode of the fifteenth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the one hundred fifty-ninth episode overall.

Starring: Charlie Day (Charlie Kelly), Glenn Howerton (Dennis Reynolds), Rob McElhenney (Mac), Kaitlin Olson (Dee Reynolds)

and Danny DeVito (Frank Reynolds)

Guest Starring: Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Waitress), Sandy Martin (Mrs. Mac)

Co-Starring: Sam Lucas Smith (Conor), Kemma Filby (Bartender)

Plot Overview

Now in Ireland, Dee tries desperately to get to her acting job, Frank needs to get rid of some incriminating material, and Mac goes looking to reconnect with his heritage.

Notes

Music

• Christopher Beaty - "Pot of Gold"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The guys traded Dee's first-class ticket for five coach tickets and all travelled to Dublin, Ireland.

Characters

• Mac learns he's not Irish, but Dutch. His last name of McDonald was the name his father Luther changed his to from Vandross.

• Despite his near illiteracy in English, Charlie is shown to understand Gaelic writing, which is how he communicates with a pen pal named Shelley Kelly his mother set him up with. Mac speculates that he's a family member, possibly Charlie's half-brother.

• Dennis is the only one of the gang who didn't get vaccinated against COVID and is showing symptoms such as fever, coughing, and loss of smell.

• Dee misses her role on "Obnoxious American MILF" and it's given to the Waitress who was backpacking through Europe. She is, however, offered the role of an abused wife to film the next day.

Trivia

The Show

• The standard main credit sequence is changed to footage of Ireland with the stock music replaced with "Pot of Gold" by Christopher Beaty.

Allusions and References

• Just as Mac's real name is the embarrassing Ronald McDonald, it's revealed his dad's real name is Luther Vandross.

Goofs

• When Charlie and Mac stop in front of the McDonald's, one shot shows a man walking behind them. In the next shot, there's no sign of him.

Quotes

• Dee: Why did you have to get the teeny, tiniest car possible? I'm getting squished back here and just sucking in diesel fumes.

Dennis: What did you want me to do, Dee? Did you want me to rent a big obnoxious American truck like - like that one over there? That's exactly what we're trying to get away from. Okay, you know, the - the tiny car, that's all part of the charm of - of Europe. You know, like driving on the left-hand side of the road. Dangerous for Americans like you, but, you know, it's authentic and - and that's what I want, that's what I'm going for. An authentic Irish-- (honks horn) Get fucked! --Irish experience.

• Charlie: And this is why I know more about Ireland than you do.

Mac: Hey, stop! Stop right there, all right? This is why Irish people hate Americans. You've got, like, two percent Irish in you and you think you know more about Ireland than me? Do you have a shamrock tattoo somewhere on your body? No. I do, because that's my primary identity. Number one, Irish. Number two, gay. Number three, badass. You're none of those things, so you should be talking of none of them.

Charlie: Are talking about what you identify as or what you actually are?

Mac: They're the same thing now, Charlie. And I can have you cancelled for even suggesting otherwise.

Charlie: No, right.

Mac: I have the power to do that. Because I'm a gay man and you're just a straight white, cis male.

• Frank: You want an authentic Irish experience? There's nothing more Irish than a corporate tax shelter. Welcome to the worldwide headquarters of Frank's Fluids.

• Dennis: Lucky for you, I happen to have experience covering up blunt force trauma, so...

• Frank: Okay, now you guys can help me with my thing. We got to shred a bunch of documents.

Dennis: What? Whoa, what? What are you talking about, man?

Frank: Well, the thing of it is, um... that Frank's Fluids may or may not have been the official beverage supplier of Jeffrey Epstein.

Dee: What?!

Dennis: Jeffrey Epstein?!

Frank: Yeah. Yeah, but before you judge me, know this: yes, I was on the sex island, but only for the snorkeling! I didn't know anything about the kid stuff. No, look, 95% of what went on down there was not pedophilia.

Dee: Oh, yeah?

Frank: No, the other five percent, that sullied the whole operation.

Dennis: Yeah, it sure did, Frank.

Dee: It sure did.

• Frank: Everybody was on the island that weekend. Jizzaline... the - the computer guy with the little weird glasses? He didn't do anything with the kids. But he was really into the manatees. Which, by the way, also got very sexual.

Dennis: Frank... Can you - Can you just stop talking about sexual things with manatees.

Frank: The following year, he doesn't show up, the manatee's all bent out of shape.

Dennis: Frank - Frank, can you please stop? I - I'm looking for someone and you're distracting me.

Frank: I mean, this manatee was so depressed, she actually swam into a boat propeller. Boom! Blammo! Mantacide. The moral of the story is the heart wants what the heart wants. It was all consensual. Except for the kids, thus the shredding.

• Mac: I'm gonna kill myself, Frank.

Charlie: He's not really gonna do it, dude, he's just being dramatic.

Frank: Do it, bitch!

Charlie: Yeah, do it, bitch.

Mac: I'm not really gonna do it. It's just a cry for help.

Charlie: Yeah, no shit!

• Dee: Please, please, I'm begging you. I'm begging you. I need this so bad! I need this worse than I've ever needed anything in my entire life. Please give me a role, any role. A speaking role. I'll say anything. I'll also do anything.

Conor: That won't be necessary.

Dee: Is it the black eyes...?

Conor: Because I don't trade roles for sex.

Dee: Oh, goddamn feminists ruin everything!