It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 3x4 REACTION!! "The Gang Gets Held Hostage"

[@BlindWave]

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[@meerlejack6131]

Eric just like this video, i love love that shirt you looks Handsome here

[@AndeePandee]

Aaron: oh god, not the McPoyles. I hate these guys. Also Aaron: laughing at the McPoyles harder than I've ever seen him laugh 😂

[@napstadan-ihateleague]

Seeing aaron lose it over the stabbing was a delight

[@pieperbe]

That was the best part. No doubt.

[@Spaghatee]

On the podcast it’s mentioned that the licking of Dee’s face was completely improvised. Glenn has said that doing scenes with Jimmi Simpson are always the hardest for him because of how funny Jimmi is every time he’s on set. This was probably the first episode where I realized this show was in a league of its own. Such a great episode!

[@Yahirplaysminecraft]

HEEEEEEES DEEEEEEEEAD

[@Combaticus]

Same! This is the episode I remember hooking me on this show.

[@jacoballen5538]

​@Yahirplaysminecraft "boink, boink" blows a cherry

[@IceMetalPunk]

I wonder if they're just that comfortable with each other, or just that apathetic, that "I'm gonna lick her face now" is just an improv that no one hesitates to try 😂

[@roems6396]

He was Charlie’s roommate when they first created and filmed the pilot on a camcorder. So he’s been involved on some level since the beginning.

[@chaost4544]

All the acting in this episode is great but Kaitlin Olson's performance stands out. She's really great when physical comedy is needed.

[@bugsboson2948]

Aaron is fully into this show lmao

[@eliezeririzarry247]

And we love him for it. I really wish the same could've happened for Rick :/

[@WFKGW]

@@eliezeririzarry247I didn’t like Rick at first but he’s very honest. Which I like it he doesn’t like something he will say

[@DivisiveSnoo]

@graffititurtle9035 b99 🤡

[@ivangarnica5811]

@@WFKGWI always liked Rick and like you said he is very honest and I think that is what I liked. So I think it’s better that he didn’t force himself

[@eliezeririzarry247]

@@ivangarnica5811 I think what I (and probably a lot of others who have said similar things) mean when I express my dissapointment when he bows out for a series is that Rick brings a great perspective to discussions that's hard to take over by the other guys. When he leaves, or more commonly doesn't begin, a series, I'm usually already noting that the discussions afterwards are going to most likely lean away from his usual interests and talking points. This like overarching narrative, what parts of a show are working for/against it, keeping writers accountable (maybe to a fault lol) and the like. Calvin and Eric can go there too yeah, and Aaron's funny sidewinding trails overlap with all that, but when Rick's around for those 20+ minute breakdowns, it feels like there's a reliable stream of consciousness that overall helps everything. Ironically, the three without him can sometimes act more like a wresting stable, bouncing off the walls in promo mode haha. Sorry for the ramble, just shouting out our dude in red and why "missing" him sometines is more than just fans wanting everything, hopefully. Definitely miss his voice in convo more in shows with more arcs and big plots than Sunny though, admittedly.

[@SmoofDizzle]

"Start breakin' bricks wet nips" One of my favorite lines in this show, Jimmi Simpson is amazing.

[@Elis_Nordgall]

19:08 It’s funny, because in the censored version of Die Hard a dubbed over voice says “Mister Falcon”, censoring the “motherf*cker”. Implying that Frank watched the censored version of Die Hard.

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Really? ha .that's funny

[@AustinFoss00]

The McPoyles are my personal favorite side characters from this show. Jimmi Simpson (Liam) is so funny that Glenn Howerton (Dennis) has said on their podcast that he's the hardest person to work with because he makes him laugh so much

[@funfunfun3624]

"Wait how do they know whose smashing more?" Bless you guys for being soo freakin analytical

[@NovusIgnis]

I'm sure it's the McPoyles in general, but it's definitely mostly just Jimmi Simpson. Pretty sure he's on record that every time he's in the show, he tries his hardest to get everyone else to break character from sheer comedy. That's why he does all of the extreme yelling lmao.

[@bluemoon1716]

Yeah him and Charlie were friends in college and used to make alot of crazy and weird videos. I think you can still find them on KZbin

[@the_nikster1]

welcome back Calvin! I'm so glad this was the episode for your return too; such a classic with tons of laughs. I really enjoyed watching you guys laughing and having a great time ❤

[@TheRavencommander]

The opening where Mac casually mimes a murder-suicide always gets me, like eric 😅.

[@Name-vm6op]

Love seeing people slowly get used to this show and start to love it - only gets better and better

[@SirMan48]

I have to say, a lot of the big time reactors on KZbin have been really late to the always sunny party because they typically just react to what's contemporary pop culture. So to finally see them start the show, and clearly enjoy it so much makes me happy as a fan of the show and as a fan of reactors in general!. It's always sunny in Philadelphia is an all-time great sitcom. It was groundbreaking for its time and it still just hilarious. This episode in particular kind of breaks in the formula. No one considers this an all time great episode, and no one considers season 3 an all time great season. But this episode is generally a taste of pre prime. If people genuinely love this episode, there's a very very good chance you think seasons 4-7 are legitimately unmatched by any sitcom. I'm a fan, but man, Sunny is just the best sit com of all time.

[@jacobfleming3926]

The way the characters try to justify the things they do is so funny

[@texasrattlesnake31637]

Good Lord, the laugh box must be damaged - 😂😂😂 "Ryan, STAB SOMEBODY!" *Screams* *STAB!* 😂😅😂😅😂😅

[@christianwise637]

Not that the previous episodes weren't funny or anything, but this was the first episode that I thought was absolutely hysterical from start to finish. Ryan stabbing Liam, Charlie farting in Mac's face, Dee succumbing to Stockholm syndrome after being the one to warn the others about it, Frank going John McClane on the McPoyles, and the abrupt anticlimax of an ending, just wall-to-wall hilarity. From this point on, the show is really going to get consistently amazing

[@TheBloobster]

lol I can see the pain killers are doing their job

[@my5head]

Lmao sleepy Calvin 😂

[@thedarkknight2221]

Frank going full Die Hard never fails to make me laugh my ass off!🤣🤣🤣

[@Necron00b]

Maybe I'm old...but wasn't Clams an old euphemism for money? The guys obsessions with it being literal seafood Clams was odd to me. haha

[@BeatleScorpion1]

In fairness, the McPoyles are weird enough that they could be feasibly asking for actual clams instead of money lol.

[@ethanlivemere1162]

IT'S NOT THE CLAAAAMSSSS

[@ruxin12]

Yes, they are asking for money

[@potencjalnypracownik2966]

Yes they asked for money, the joke was they used that word. Blind Wave as always didn't get it.

[@Thunda84x5]

Make the world your clam!

[@JustNardo]

One of the best episodes of Always Sunny right here haha, classic.

[@brewstopher2233]

Revenge is a dish best served warm and clammy, with a side of milk.

[@BakerReviews]

Aaron's reaction to "Ryan, stab somebody" has shown me that somebody on this panel (besides Eric obviously) finally understands what this show is and why it continues to thrive. It's absolutely ridiculous and you're not supposed to root for these characters. You just have to embrace how crazy and unhinged this show is. It's truly like Seinfeld, but on a whole new level!!!

[@neabby]

"Like tissue paper" 😂😂

[@daddyporkchopz6259]

Definitely one of my favorite episodes

[@ramontrevi10]

One of my favorite episodes

[@AbeVicious]

Guessing a "Die Hard" situation in the beginning made me laugh. Hahaha

[@VaushTheEquestrian]

Bruce Willis and Sylvester Salone where partial owner of Planet Hollywood, back in the day, and it's a Die Hard theme episode.

[@luketrottier9388]

Lol, I always gave Dee too much credit. To me when she drifts towards their side and gets progressively more on their side, I thought ohhh, she is pretending to have Stockholm. Then she grabs the gun, and I thought she would turn it on the McPoyles. Nope, lol. 😂

[@Girder3]

A classic episode.

[@Existential_Carousel]

Damn Calvin is on the drogas! You can tell immediately 😂 Nice of him to make the effort to come in hope he's back to feeling well soon 👍

[@EdwardKing07]

It great to see you back Calvin! The It's Always Sunny fans have missed you!

[@travishenderson9635]

I know Dee had "Stockholm syndrome".... but i think it was a slight mistake to have her discover they were rubber guns at the end. She held the shotgun earlier in the episode

[@phrophannus]

"GET ON YOU KNEES BITCHES!" Kaitlin Olson killing it as always

[@TheGallantDrake]

Danny DeVito with a 2x4 is **iconic**

[@BeatleScorpion1]

**episode ends** **Aaron and Calvin sigh in exhaustion** Yup, that's the true Sunny experience. 😂

[@drankrur]

Revenge is a dish best served Mcpoiled

[@ScorpionStrike7]

I didn’t think there were people worse than the gang and then the McPoyles show up

[@angelagraves865]

I freaking love it when the McPoyles show up! 🤣

[@Illvester42]

Rick left just before Sunny found its footing. Season 3 gets good... but it hasn't even begun to peak.

[@MellyMelon1331]

I mean he lasted more than expected. Rick, as the rest of the crew have joked about to death, has a 3 episode rule where if he doesn't like a show after 3 episodes, he drops it. He only lasted this long cause of it being a channel show

[@MellyMelon1331]

@@C2HGaming Or maybe, cause the humor sucks and just isn't funny

[@BakerReviews]

​@@MellyMelon1331This show has been going 16+ years. It's obviously funny to a pretty big group of people. How many other sitcoms have had 16+ seasons, I'll wait...

[@MellyMelon1331]

@@BakerReviews Fast and The Furious has also had movies for 20+ years now, and those aren't good films. Sunny has been going a long time now, but doesn't change the comedy is really shit. Also if really wanna pull the fanbase card, Season 15 had a peak of 0.318 mil watchers. And then for another sitcom, B99 season 7 (not using final season since often those are people tuning in just to see the end. But it had a peak of 2.018 mil) had a peak of 2.658 mil. A tiny fraction of the people. Its not a very watched show. Shit comedy, that not a lot of people even like. Just cause its gone a long time doesn't add any to "hey maybe something there". Its a beaten dead horse, that not many watch. Hell even shows like The Flash would pull in double the viewers by the end of the show, when it was written off by most

[@BakerReviews]

@@MellyMelon1331 The fact that you are arguing against one of the most successful shows of all-time is hilarious. Keep trying though!!! 🤣😂🤣

[@bekkapaul5815]

One of the plot holes in this show that bothers me the most is that Dee held the shotgun and even cocked it at one point, yet couldn't tell it was rubber? Would that even be possible with a rubber gun??? They usually are so great at explaining away any little thing that could be questioned, and I wish I knew if they just didn't think of it or what! Still my favorite show of all time regardless.

[@BabyGirlTiny]

It’s not really a plot hole if she’s not paying any attention because of how stressed the situation was

[@bekkapaul5815]

but.........how would you cock a rubber gun? @@BabyGirlTiny

[@ImperfectXIII]

The stabbing scene will never NOT be hilarious to me. XDDD

[@ericjohansson5576]

yesss, my favorite episode

[@mandrewmx]

It was before the internet and if you lived say in Denver, but wore a Planet Hollywood jacket "London" then that meant you went to London, for a long time there was only like Paris, London, NY, LA so it was a 80's trend for about 10 years. Then Planet Hollywood expanded to almost every big city so the value and status dropped. Early days also had original Elvis guitars, none of it was fake, idk if the memorabilia ever was fake, it was the whole reason to visit each one, as say London would have Beatles, LA terminator jacket, etc

[@namecomingsoon9517]

Yes please when we finish the show we react to all the bloopers

[@pieperbe]

I love every episode with the McPoyles.

[@JenLight]

"I hope it's not the McPoyles" said no one other than Aaron ever

[@chasingarunawaysky]

Clams is money y’all 😂

[@choomah]

"Yippee Ki Yay Mr Falcon!"

[@Guy811]

The McPoyle episodes are the best ones

[@carlogz]

yippie ki yay Mr Falcon

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Censored version?

[@Ryan-eo4vz]

you guys remember when Liam McPoyle got shot by the zodiac killer

[@quatercirclestrife8260]

Got a good laugh, worth the watch haha

[@disposablehero4911]

It's crazy vs. nuts.

[@superthrustjon]

Their carelessness w firearms is probably my favorite part.

[@kelvinpalmer4896]

I love these reactions! Only wish we could get another one a week?? 😊

[@tjm6794]

Glenn Powell is MCU Reed Richards

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Good fan casting on your part

[@chuppathingy2848]

The world is your clam.

[@Ch1ll_0ld_Dud3]

Not to spoil anything, but if the McPoyles show up, it’s a great episode.

[@kallistacross]

will y’all watch bloopers at some point as well?

[@TheBlarggle]

Thesy Surface plays Margaret McPoyle, and they really ugly her up in this. IRL, she's actually quite pretty.

[@eli3086]

Of cause they turn on there friends it’s a dark awesome brilliant comedy

[@briancleveland6115]

Clams is money.

[@Alran109]

I don't remember this episode at all lmao.

[@jemaselite8076]

How come rick hasnt been reacting to these?

[@skottmcg]

he didn't like the show apparently

[@oAPXo]

McPOYLES!!!!,

[@ernestoorozco9766]

This show is like cartoons, the episode resets the universe

[@briancleveland6115]

Clammy has nothing to do with clams.

[@briancleveland6115]

It's not a real gun..

[@EloImFizzy]

Out of curiosity, is it only Americans who flip out when they see people waving guns around unsafely? Whilst I still obviously know that its a bad and stupid thing to do, I don't have any physical reaction to it.

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

Not only american.

[@cpmc5400]

Yeah like couldn't care less one bit in a tv show

[@Slembilbong]

erics said before its because he was raised to treat guns a specific way by his dad, its a reflex based on how he was taught gun safety

[@joshuaortiz2031]

Yes because Americans actually spend time around real firearms unlike people in most other western nations.

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

@@joshuaortiz2031 same in asian countries . Many people will have the same reaction like eric and aaron if they saw a gun pointed at a main character (even in a comedy show)

[@jrob18mvp]

I don't get Aaron's anxiety over the gun. Like yes in a normal situation that kind of handling of a gun is scary af, but if one these doofus's shoots themselves or another doofus, it's a good thing for mankind.

[@joshuaortiz2031]

Some people who've spent a lot of time around guns get anxiety seeing that kind of behavior. I'm the same way because I've been around three negligent discharges. Only one was my fault I was a kid.

[@jrob18mvp]

@@joshuaortiz2031 I've been around guns my whole life. Seeing them on a sitcom shouldn't be distressing. Especially when you'd want the people in danger to get shot. 😂 Also I literally said that kind of firearm handling is scary IRL.

[@nickfenech307]

I’m thinking Calvin needs to bounce in this show. He doesn’t seem to get it/like it

[@dandychiggins7240]

If you can ignore the cringe clown sh*t of them being on strike, these are pretty cool reactions 😉👍

[@MasterDoctorBenji]

​@@C2HGamingah yes, both sides just want money. They are exactly the same. Poor people and Rich Parasites, identical. Indistinguishable really.

[@tjm6794]

Aaron is pretty corny taking this show so literally

[@swedish_malin]

Well, he was having a great time so at least that's working for the comedy. 😃

[@clownafra6088]

The volume on this made it not worth watching. Everything was at a whisper.

[@swedish_malin]

The volume was good for me with my headphones, though I did notice the show sound was a bit low. (So yeah, they should crank it up a bit so everyone can hear no matter the speakers/headphones you're using.)

[@MasterDoctorBenji]

I heard fine on my shitty little water damaged phone.

[@MoviesAndTvShowsAreSubjective]

This is the only episode in season 3 that I did not like. I have loved more absurd episodes than this though

[@pandabooming]

Fvck u Mean This Episode is a Classic

[@cliffd8380]

Did these guys ever reimbursed Patreon members for the month of missing reactions when they were trying to play like social justice warriors? 🤔