ITS ALWAYS SUNNY 12x1 REACTION The Gang Turns Black

Review and Reaction to Season 12 Episode 1 of Its Always Sunny
Full Length Reactions available on Patreon: / kungfunight

[@Hoobyj]

"We don't give a shit because we don't like hearing about people's dreams." I love how that line calls back all the way to season 1 episode 1 lol

[@Kanjo_Bazooie]

If I’m bot in ‘em, and nobody’s banging.. 😂

[@Kanjo_Bazooie]

Not*

[@seancarletonzero]

Charlie Day wrote all the music and lyrics in something unbelievable like overnight. He's a musical prodigy.

[@btnhstillfire]

One of his parents was a music professor at a college or something like that.

[@youtubehandle83]

@@btnhstillfire Everyone in his family are musicians. Both his parents and sister went to college for it. He talked about it on their podcast once.

[@futurereflections4097]

Same with the Nightman episode. His ability to write musical comedies is weird Al level.

[@willisverynice]

“Something like”

[@Kevinofrepublic]

Danny Devito singing "I'm gonna say the n word" is so funny

[@Kanjo_Bazooie]

He sounds so jovial and innocent lmao

[@gilbertbpuk]

INCREDIBLY clever episode. And would have loved to be in the pitch meeting. "OK, so episode one is a sci fi musical about racism and unconscious bias and we're thinking of just doing a The Wiz/Quantum Leap crossover" "Sure, go for it"

[@aidanhugh2490]

🎶Go for it, go for it🎶

[@xXxJSCOTTxXx]

​@@aidanhugh2490May I offer you a nice egg in this trying time? 🥚

[@xcmvp2007]

The filming is pretty clever. In the store window, the black actors can be seen in the glare.

[@armpit_farts7327]

THAT was one of the first things I noticed. I pointed that out to a few people(not looking for credit lmfao) and they were like "Holy fuck....Thats actually REALLY good". A lot of movies dont even really think that far into it, especially comedy movies because they arent made to be visual masterpieces lolol.

[@dominiqueodom3099]

As a black fan of its always sunny dating back to the first 3 seasons,ive always loved and defended episodes like the Lethal Weapon Sequels and the Gang Turns black. Hilarious episodes with great commentary and also very genuine moments that peek through alot of the time like whenever the Group does Acapella to Boys 2 Men.

[@bensneb360]

Scott Backula is the best cameo in the show, hands down

[@MrGrimlocke]

What about P Diddy as Dr. Jinx?

[@trevoravery9270]

@@MrGrimlocke Dr. Jinx is the name of a monkey, not a man.

[@briandickens9337]

Tom Sizemore is up there.

[@seanconnell3414]

Sean William Scott killed his role as Country Mac

[@stefanforrer2573]

@@seanconnell3414 michael? it's seann.... you know, the almost the same as your name....

[@snarkysharky7913]

“This slaps a bit” are you kidding me??! Sunny musicals are the best thing in the world, I’m telling you. I need a Charlie Day song in my life every day! 😂😂

[@HunHaze]

Finally this is in my Top 3 episodes with "The gang tries desperatly to win an award " and "Chardee Mcdennis"

[@mroctober3583]

Dennis Reynolds: Making a Murderer

[@lakotagrywlf]

Yes, but also; Charlie Work

[@BobbyPrice-et8lt]

I’d argue Charlie Work is their best episode cinematically… but in terms of pure humor and enjoyment… I’d say Gang Turns Black, Tries Desperately to Win…, and Gang Solves the Gas Crisis are the tops.

[@SquiresIsle]

The comment about "the orange President"... it is modern, but they were filming pre-election. So they did two versions, one where he said orange and one where he said woman. Just to cover their bases. I think they said "No way will we have to use the orange take." Sigh.

[@trevoravery9270]

Yes, thank God the pdf file won.

[@TheRevHouse]

The dark turn at the end fkn GOT ME

[@larrote6467]

it's not dark (an overly used word by the global north) it would be dark if it was supposed to be funny; this is just reality and it is supposed to be a hard hit in the face, just like reality is; it is a very common trope/resource in storytelling going from absurd/fantasy to reality. Have you ever watched Brazil?

[@briandickens9337]

@@larrote6467 It is reality in the sense that it does happen, but the frequency at which it happens is so low it is surprising.

[@scrunglee]

@@larrote6467Dark doesn't imply funny. Dark implies dark. A light hearted show/episode ending the way this did is dark, if you're gonna argue semantics don't be so glaringly wrong lmfao.

[@alexs1640]

​@briandickens9337 in terms of ratio, it happens significantly often actually

[@richcheckmaker9789]

@@alexs1640 In terms of crimes committed, no it doesn't.

[@StGimbles]

at this point in my life, I CANNOT watch this episode without singing every word along. it absolutely slaps

[@Patriiiiick]

As a big fan of Quantum Leap, I loved this episode.

[@pieperbe]

As cliche as this may seem to some, believe it or not, this sort of thing can be a little bit eye-opening for those of us who don’t experience it. There are little nuggets of truth among the absurdity. Those nuggets seem obvious to those who are more aware, but not everyone is there. Well done, Sunny.

[@dangshnizzle6929]

I love how he immediately clocked it

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

Alot of people hate this episode but i love it. Also What are the rules slaps hard.

[@wavehellhole]

I appreciate it, but god do I hate full episode musicals

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

@@wavehellhole usually I do aswell but liked this

[@NickMK]

This is actually my favourite season of the entire show. All bangers

[@SwiftJustice]

True facts

[@Matt_D_370z]

Rob McElhenney on PC, Cancel Culture, & Woke Culture: “One of the things we get asked a lot, which is interesting, is about “PC culture” and “woke culture,” and how people think ‘oh, you can't joke about certain things any more. You can't do things any more.’ And, I think that's bullshit. I mean clearly, we're still doing it, right? And, we […] take no heat. And in fact, we double down almost; in a lot of ways. I mean we did an episode […] a couple of years ago now, when […] “woke culture” was really hitting, and everyone was […] nervous that you couldn't do the things that we were doing. And we were like, ‘Well, how do we double down? Like, what if we do an episode that's a musical where we all turn into black people?’ […] ‘And, how is that going to play?’ […] And, I think that the reason we […] “get away with it,” is because the audience knows what we're doing. They know where are heart is. They know what the intention is. And they know that […] at the end of the day, […] for as horrific as the behavior of the characters are, that what we're saying as a show: is literally the complete opposite. And anybody who believes that they ‘can't say or do what they used to be able to do,’ are just fucking hacks” (Rob McElhenney “Rob McElhenney on Doubling Down on Comedy Amidst PC Culture” ‘KFC Radio’ 02/06/2020). kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6SWYpSjbrBgi68

[@RLQFK]

Rob is based. Most people crying cancel culture literally just want the edgy part without actually being funny or providing funny or insightfull commentary around the issues like sunny does.

[@tayzk5929]

Nah it's pretty cringe. Rob is just saying as long as you go along with the dominany narratives of the times, which they do, you're safe. Well duh.

[@potencjalnypracownik2966]

Which is how it should be. As long you know it is comedy by good people for good people everything can be made fun of. Problem is when jokes are meant to hurt and diminish same group over and over. South Park or Sunny get away because they don't discriminate in their jokes. Everyone can be targeted. And you are probably one of those bad people. Who only "jokes" about one group be it women, jews or ethnic etc. If somoene called me "based" i would hit him in the face, that is "based" culture. "Woke" i can take without hitting because this bullshit has at least some good intentions at its roots. @@tayzk5929

[@trevoravery9270]

Tel me you either didnt read or understand Animal Farm, without saying you didnt read or understand Animal Farm. They "get away" with it, because some animals are more equal than others. Fascists like you are the world is awful.

[@SwiftJustice]

​@@tayzk5929except what you call acquiescence is them putting their own voices into their work.

[@loupoprocky3417]

It’s insane how Charlie Day could easily be a professional musician if he wanted to.

[@KungFuNight]

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[@hatafritjof]

Don't know if you didnt notice but the Old mans comment about "I had the craziest dream" and the gang not caring is a reference to MLK's speech I have a dream.

[@MH-br3th]

I'm amazed at how you can maintain your Super Saiyan form even when doing reaction videos! You must have been in the hyperbolic time chamber for weeks.

[@JuPaschoal]

They're never hit with cancel culture type shit because the show treats them like the assholes they are. Everything they do that's, let's say, questionable, is portrayed as horrible and wrong, and that's where the humor comes from. The audience is in on the joke even though they aren't.

[@SteelCityJW]

When dude says (from memory) " Hey Hollywood, why dont you leap up to the third floor. Someone threw up." I was like dayyyym he did em dirty there!

[@collinduffield]

It was somebody took a shit but yeah pretty funny 😂

[@LordVolkov]

Poor Scott Bakula. Ziggy needs to leap him outta there

[@michaelweldon4613]

Your reaction to the "Go Home" song is legendary, the storming out of the room was great

[@ginao6810]

This is a brilliant episode with so many great bits, great songs, great jokes. But my favourite joke is when Dee and Frank are looking for Old Black Man, and it turns out that Z and the other black fellas also call him Old Black Man.

[@diiva412]

I've seen this episode a million times and even wrote a paper about it. I'm on a rewatch and got to it again and decided to watch a reaction instead. You came up and this was so good! Ty... I think you had your eyes closed during the shooting, they show the little boy getting shot and it is gut wrenching.

[@LordVolkov]

🎶 "They gave me this train!" 🎶 💥 💥 💥 One of the darkest and sadly topical jokes yet. Charlie singing is always fantastic, and he knocked it out of the park with this episode. There's some good bts footage of them mixing the tracks.

[@christophersantrizos1657]

Bro You left the F’ing room!!! Lol😂😂

[@EricWalker-p7e]

Danny DeVito attempting to dance is always hilarious. Just watch him during the “What Are the Rules reprise” But seriously, how good is this show about dealing with serious social issues in a funny way, yet it still makes the audience think about the issue. I mean, this one and S1E1 (the gang gets racist) are some of the best television episodes that deal with race relations in a humorous/impactful way since All in the Family. Also, the OG Quantum Leap was a great show.

[@xcmvp2007]

What are the rules?

[@ruzzodac]

"Oooover The Rainbow" and that amazing crane shot zooming out!

[@Cheecoo23]

This might be one of your best reactions, this episode is a classic

[@mparantha]

I'm a huge quantum leap fan so I really like this ep

[@Joffa1994]

finally! the GOAT on my favorite season, so many eps but not to spoilers i wont telll you which ones to look forward to. we love this cheers

[@Sup-jz2ow]

Love that Z also calls him old black man like everyone knows the waitress as the waitress lol

[@TheAbominableDrFaustus]

They really are great singers.

[@jaromen]

For anyone who likes Scott Bakula's singing voice, I'd recommend looking up his rendition of "Man of La Mancha" from quantum leap.

[@1monki]

"Apparently there's an old version of Quantum Leap." 😢

[@rumham7466]

Oh my godd all these years being a Sunny fan, and also of The Walking Dead and I’ve never realized that Z was Tyrese

[@adammichener987]

Wtf how'd I never realize that

[@wavehellhole]

He’s a chameleon

[@rumham7466]

@@adammichener987 so I’m not the only one okay. For real I wouldn’t have prob never known if he hadn’t pointed it out here.

[@ronaldeliascorderocalles]

I have been waiting for this reaction for a loooong time

[@misti-step]

scott fr had the best song in the episode 😂

[@Nekro9000]

i like that they have a point of bad things happening to them but there's always an alternative reason to racism, like they are actually breaking into a car they don't own or sounding like lunatics to the shop owner, but its unclear if people would react differently if they weren't black, feel like its one of the only shows to make a point about how its hard to actually tell when people are being subtly racist

[@patrickulas]

The thing that gets me is that the gang could likely have successful singing careers if they weren't all so dysfunctional

[@Chubby_Runs]

It’s hilarious to me that if the show never worked out that Charlie Day easily could’ve become a successful musician, he’s got crazy talent

[@AChickandaDuck]

I’ve watched this episode many times and just noticed that at the end when they’re clicking their heels they’re dressed in the colors of the rainbow (just missing yellow.)

[@AbeVicious]

A black president before the orange one....😂💀

[@NickTwohig]

I love how the majority of the commentary was an imdb search of scott baccula.

[@stephenfrank2397]

They also got the real scott bacula. Which makes it even cooler.

[@danshotguns4226]

The movie that reminds you of is "the wiz". That's why they had them watching that movie in the beginning. But if you give it another minute, they're gonna go through a list of all the movies that fit this trope

[@platinumphazer]

They literally experienced no calls to be canceled.

[@youtubeblockscomments]

I love this season. So many good episodes

[@KalElvis]

Scott Bakula's song was great fan service to all of Quantum Leap fans (Best show evar!)

[@Alex-bs4md]

"Oh Christ, I'm singing again"

[@EricWalker-p7e]

The OG Quantum Leap was a great show.

[@GodOfTriforce17]

This is one of my favorite songs to sing. I was waiting for you to react to this my dude.

[@retrojohnny1899]

I think the Disney movie you were thinking of is Freaky Friday

[@dmitrypressman1570]

By "older version" you mean original... Quantum Leap was an original and novel concept for a show

[@johncrichton5767]

Sunny has been shockingly immune to cancel culture, even in the recent seasons.

[@larrote6467]

you live in a hollywood bubble man

[@bigpictureguys8415]

13:30 Scott bacula’s song kills me

[@DeyCallMeDrama]

BEST episode of the entire show!! What are the rules?!

[@btnhstillfire]

Not even top 10. Funny but not a classic episode.

[@DeyCallMeDrama]

@@btnhstillfire shut up frank...

[@Fatal_N_Felony]

i didn't hear anything bad about this episode, this episode is amazing

[@skateurself]

This show is genius honestly...

[@robarundel5931]

'theres an older version' ... Damn i feel old now

[@gabrielhinojosa3261]

Oooh a banger of an episode very risky for them to do but they did the topic(s) well 🎉😂

[@Loked420]

I would absolutely love it if you reacted to the original Quantum Leap. It's pretty dated in places, but there are a lot of classic episodes.

[@stephenfrank2397]

There are episodes not available on streaming. That's as far as cancel has effected sunny.

[@SteelCityJW]

The first season of the new Quantum Leap was decent. I wish they had a bigger budget so some of the CGI was better, but that's about it.

[@kieranibus]

been waiting forever for this one lol

[@emilr9590]

Last time I watched this video were in a hot parking lot, let’s give it a rewatch!

[@emilr9590]

I’ve came back to this reaction like 4 times thus far

[@Siddhartha92]

I think this is one of the episodes that was taken off streaming and then put back up.

[@danshotguns4226]

They were wearing the same shirts they were wearing in the opening to the episode😂

[@Mizgrievoux]

One of the most interesting things about this show is how some PC folk talk a big jam bout equality, and this show portrays and labels stereo types and makes fun of em yet ends up hiring more people of color and different races than any of the other shows. Never gonna see a gang of smoking Vietnamese men gambling in an american bar again ever

[@AlgernontheWizard]

yeah its a great fucking episode but theres a war in you between This is so funny and well written and This is way to real.

[@ruzzodac]

Frank gets stacked while Dennis is morbidly obese. This was some great karna stuff.

[@Tyius420]

i loved this episode

[@justthej]

I would be down for a broadway musical of The Wiz remake by the Sunny crew.

[@wfly81]

Quantum Leap was legit! You need to get on that show! Also, Bakula is pronounced like Dracula.

[@SwiftJustice]

It's pronounced like Blackula

[@danshotguns4226]

The funny thing about all this is that this is the extreme when it comes to examples of living like a black person.. It's satire for a reason. Not every example that they showed in this show is realistic.

[@queenmonika-plays119]

They got quantum leaped. 😂

[@rumham7466]

Well a few of the episodes have been removed and banned from any stream they’ve been on. I guess that’s part of cancel culture right.

[@collinduffield]

But that's Hulu not fxx. Fxx would still air those episodes

[@keychainere]

They’re all on Netflix in Europe. Stop trying to make a thing that isn’t a thing.

[@rumham7466]

@@keychainere we we aren’t in Europe. And the show isn’t made in Europe. So stop trying to make that a thing. They legitimately banned several episodes due to American society becoming sensitive.

[@keychainere]

@@rumham7466 You’re on the internet so don’t assume because they’re banned for you, they’re banned for everyone. And I am in Europe which is how I know they’re not banned because I don’t live on a continent of pussies.

[@chashubokchoy8999]

@@rumham7466i don’t know how to break this to you but the showrunners are woke as fuck. watch the podcast where they review the episodes

[@chuck2tall]

This show hasn't been canceled, in my opinion, because they are the bad guys. And bad guys do bad things.

[@RyanWinch-l2m]

jfc I can't even watch this with the loud distorted mic damn

[@SteelCityJW]

Scott Bakula researching roles... 😢

[@wingnightbackwards]

Video starts at 3:11

[@Alran109]

I love Quantum Leap so this whole episode is great for me.

[@cdeppracing216]

As far as experiencing backlash they have and they address it in season 15

[@jonathansobolewski3493]

You look like Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man.

[@Mufasatrips]

The show is exempt from cancel culture. 😂

[@destroyadora]

You should def react quantum leap

[@thephilosophersthrone]

whats that song in the intro

[@VOX_Games]

This is in my top 10 Sunny episodes hands down.

[@wingman4356]

Tamir Rice flashing through my head. was the worst thing I've ever seen

[@brooza664]

Love this one

[@shanecoleman1597]

Love the hair, forgot to say that in the last video lol

[@RealBrianLeFevre]

This is the season where the show lost me. It's about 50/50 but it keeps going downhill from here. Only a handful of episodes where I totally got off in the last few seasons.

[@SirMan48]

CJ, Sunny has generally been free from cancel culture. It's pretty remarkable

[@Jessica-vv8yo]

Except for those few episodes that got pulled

[@collinduffield]

​@@Jessica-vv8yopulled from Hulu not off of fxx pretty sure they still air those episodes

[@danshotguns4226]

You cut out all the good frank stuff right before he meets with z.

[@matts6364]

the wiz!

[@danshotguns4226]

I guess you could consider the fact that they never got nominated for an Emmy as cancel culture. Maybe that's the reason why they never got any type of serious awards despite going 15 plus seasons and still going strong.