The De-Evolution of Rickety Cricket | Corrupting Cricket | IASIP

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Rickety Cricket, who once went by the name Father Matthew Mara, has had one of the most iconic character spirals in all of television. Over the course of 16 seasons (and counting!), he has been a fan favorite despite his keenly unlikeable persona.
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[@jamesstephens6262]

Missed one of my favorite lines “I’m not going to the hospital they euthanize the homeless, they’re goddamn death camps”

[@coleozaeta6344]

Well, where else do they get all those organs for transplants?

[@GNerdful]

must be Canadian

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

​@@GNerdful hobo meat or not, free heart is a free heart baybee

[@RedTail1-1]

"missed this or that" go watch the show if you want to see some super specific scene.

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

@@RedTail1-1 relax lol

[@UnknownLemonadeStand]

The effect of what happens to normal humans when they interact with the gang for too long

[@bryanjimenez8971]

Yeah it's like being near Nuclear radiation.

[@andrewfalconer8599]

They ruin everyone.

[@soorej91]

i really want cricket to get a one up on the gang just one time

[@MrUndersolo]

No.

[@noway9081]

The tally bum is as close as he will ever come.

[@mybluguitar6051]

He kinda did during the wrestling episode

[@soorej91]

@@mybluguitar6051 almost... Then frank messed him up.. I want him to get a one up that he actually doesn't get messed up later on.

[@chrisbarry9345]

Yeah that would actually be a really good episode too

[@FingerPuppetSarcasm]

He’ll bounce back.

[@adrianmacklin418]

He didn't lol

[@ryandonar6437]

they need an episode where he wins the lottery. so many potential ideas for that scenario.

[@1beebeered]

The way Frank says done when Cricket asks for his blessing to marry Dee kills me 😂

[@coleozaeta6344]

He wanted that bird outta his hair

[@zinccat7493]

​@coleozaeta6344 whatever hair he even has left 😂

[@JRBeast-nw3xg]

There is a lot of crazy messed up things the gang does but taking a man out of priesthood for a joke to make him homeless has to be the most crazy thing.

[@theunloadedrpg1376]

I think getting him hooked on drugs is worse

[@stevenrondina9628]

They burned down a families house, had to give up the mansion to them, only to have it taken away because the property tax was too much so the father of said family is cutting the of the mansion. They’ve done a lot of bad stuff lol

[@stevenrondina9628]

Not to mention they terrorized them in the process that’ll probably destroy them psychologically

[@watching9317]

I mean they also hunted him like a wild animal sooo...

[@bradhegyi5347]

Don’t forget the baby Dee made up when she was running a tax scam on the IRS. A baby they pretended was dead so she could avoid getting caught. Even held a funeral service complete with a child size casket, which was filled with the remains of a dead stray dog from the alleyway. (2 birds. 1 stone) RIP Barnabas Reynolds 🤣🤣

[@SJNaka101]

The most f'd up part of the whole thing is when he defends the gang saying "those guys are my friends!"

[@williambraud4979]

And in the end he has no one…

[@paulm7291]

If you watch it from the end to start its the greatest comeback story ever

[@deanoost9599]

If you watch the Titanic backwards it's about a bunch of people appearing from small boats and the water jumping on a ship, developing class dynamics and enjoying a lovely trip to Ireland.

[@MaxDanger-jh8hv]

It’s amazing that a water leak ruined this guys life.

[@abhishekprakash7897]

Damnnnn never thought about it that way

[@MrSmokinGanja]

Cricket is a writer and co-producer of the show btw.

[@simonfea2]

AND he is married to the Bones lady, Emily Deschanel!

[@nordregan]

He is also fanboy in fanboy and chum chum

[@RabidDisposition]

This needs to be said? People don't read the credits and appreciate the people that make their favorite shows possible? Yikes

[@MrSmokinGanja]

@@RabidDisposition the credits don't have pictures next to the names. Also, who is the psycho who watches the credits every time for something that has this many episodes?

[@JesusChristmyMESSIAH]

He bangs Emily Deschanel and is brother in law to Peter sarsgard. Lucky

[@mmdrahaman]

Dudes married to the main actor from bones in real life

[@tabora_]

I was BEYOND shocked when I found out. When I first saw this show, I saw the addict/homeless cricket 🤣😭

[@GlenlivetSingleMalt]

Gail the Snail..shes hilarious

[@naefucks]

Wow good for him!

[@thughes5187]

Nice...nice

[@KodyMDennis]

He got to marry David Borreanaz? Lucky

[@Musical.theatre.buff.22]

Jesus, seeing it all together is crazy how much he rotted 😂😂

[@mickieg1994]

I remember the first time i saw cricket and my friends had to explain to me that he was a normal guy before, this show has an amazing sense of humour

[@AncientAge_449]

Poor cricket…he really went through the ringer

[@patryhy1475]

You mean ringworm? 😀

[@13infbatt]

Cricket in that slow mo shot smoking crack in the delivery room is my favourite moment .

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

Pondy gritting his teeth hard af always makes me laugh hard as well 😂

[@Drathrin]

@@drunkenmmamaster419 "if this kid is mine, im going to BlOw My BrAiNS OUT"

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

Cricket looks more and more like Mark Hamill as the series goes on 😂😂😂

[@Carl_McMelvin]

No one knows who the hell that is bud.

[@pat2rome]

​@@Carl_McMelvintons of people know who that is. Might have heard of this little movie called Star Wars back in the 70s, did pretty well.

[@MrJuico1337]

@@Carl_McMelvin I think you're the only person who doesn't know who the hell that is, bud.

[@johnsmith6217]

Cricket is the butter scotch of Philadelphia

[@marckremers]

So spot on 😂

[@joeyonikas5366]

Official name is Leopold "Butters" Stotch.

[@jackcorcoran324]

What does that mean?

[@alexduran2881]

South park fool

[@aliciabrown8569]

Mantequilla if you're nasty

[@bradhegyi5347]

The struggle is real for Cricket. “I got into a skirmish with a stray chocolate lab. I won’t go into details, but, suffice to say, that dog is very paralyzed now.” 🤣🤣

[@pierre4145]

cricket is genuinely so attractive and i love his voice. i just want one episode where i can say that sentence and not sound insane

[@silverhoney6969]

The first episode he was in is the only one you can say that, lol

[@kemchobhenchod]

Cricket has the perfect origin story to be the super villain of the IASIP movie.

[@placeholderdoe]

He legitimately looks like a Bond villain at this point

[@AJCertified850]

Dee is diabolical for this

[@theirishbandit7301]

Greatest character arc in tv history

[@strangerinthealps5874]

"You're making out with my dog!" "Dog? Oh shit!" dude, I legit spit out my drink and died laughing for a good 2 minutes solid

[@jberczi6]

I love how even Mac is shocked at 15:20 even though he knows exactly what's coming

[@IzeGlint]

I just realized he was blonde and turned brunette

[@QuiteLikeMike]

He went to the dark side

[@JohnDoe-qh5xg]

He's still blonde... It's all the filth...

[@markvanpopering4598]

He's still blonde, his hair is just really dirty.

[@MrSmokinGanja]

That's mud and shit

[@BuddieHelmsmith]

​@@QuiteLikeMike 😂

[@heisensaul5538]

I just caught up on the episodes I had missed and in the episode entitled ""Paddy's Has a Jumper", I was expecting Cricket to get pushed off the roof or something else bad to happen to him and nothing happened to him, so I would consider that a win for him.

[@Pefonmo]

I watched some episodes out of order. When I first saw Cricket in "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops" I thought he was just a random homeless man. When I started the series proper and saw his actual first episode, I audibly said "oh no".

[@beafbuger]

i almost dont wanna finish this video its just too sad

[@zumazuma568]

Cricket becomes a homeless trafficked addict, the waitress becomes an alcoholic living at a woman's shelter, bill ponderosa loses his marriage, custody of his kids, and becomes an addict, Maureen loses her mind and starts transforming into a cat, even the (non)jewish lawyer loses his eye... The gang has some truly awful energy.

[@nickolivares7259]

Now is it this man’s fault that he looks this way? Well no, he was born this way.

[@Bokmoh]

😂😂😂

[@daltonfarris]

He's making us all uncomfortable just looking at him right now, Monster man your time is up.

[@fredit123456789]

I gotta say I kind of love how in most sitcoms the characters are supposed to be good people with quirks. Then we have Community that leans into the fact that no, these characters aren't good people, in fact, they're quite flawed people who do quite horrible things. That ended up being one of the best sitcoms ever made. But before that, this show already exists and the gang here are just straight-up evil in some ways.

[@Carl_McMelvin]

wtf are you even talking about.

[@jobrown95]

Dee’s confession scene has such stellar acting

[@Olliethesnowman]

“Your not really a trustworthy control group”

[@bradhegyi5347]

You’re almost sub-human at this point. .. I don’t know how to factor that into the algorithm

[@daltonfarris]

1:24 this seems like a really cruel joke, omg dee has no shame

[@ashishjain4091]

How long frank took to say yes 😂😂😂

[@alexanderwelt1814]

4:20 is when he really fell into character

[@dmajorsWHODEY]

That maniacal ass laugh Charlie does after Cricket gives in😂😂😂😂gets me every time

[@JwizzleVC28]

Imagine giving up the cloth for a bird 😂

[@highonlife341]

ikr? I'd give it up for a stale corn chip

[@JwizzleVC28]

@@highonlife341 you look like you would open your holes for free, let alone drug money so that’s not surprising

[@thebipus8694]

I love that you censored the blood with his own face 😭🤣

[@evantambolang3052]

Cricket just show us that no matter how crappy our lives are, we're still far better of than him or anyone that associated with the Gang's depravity

[@SuperMrHiggins]

"I'll push him off the building, I don't give a shit." Awesome line.

[@joshuapratt3593]

Fuckin love this show LMMFAO

[@PattyBandAidz]

Frank: Look, I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me... Dee: You went to Vietnam in 1993 ...... to open a sweatshop. Frank: And alot of good men died in that sweatshop!

[@ForgottenCovers]

"I drank 2 of them, of course!" 😂😂

[@didgeriedont7073]

He already did ... When he escaped capture using his parkour skills

[@simonfea2]

I love Dee's hair at 5:16. Great cut.

[@Doer231]

Are you a dude talking about how great a woman’s hair cut is? 🤨

[@trombleysingleton]

​@@Doer231I would like to study your brain and see what goes on up there

[@Doer231]

@@trombleysingleton I bet that’s your go to comment on KZbin, probably day to day life too.

[@trombleysingleton]

@@Doer231 no i wrote it special just for you served up fresh smile

[@Doer231]

@@trombleysingleton really….? That general ass, non specific to anything said previously, juvenile “I know you are, cos you said you are esq, whack, reused POS comment was birthed uniquely today, just for me? I’m sure it was bruh 😎

[@DekkarJr]

I love the scene where he's suckin on the lemon with that dog attack scar on his neck or w/e lmao.

[@cds5067]

The cinematography on this show is honestly underrated, god damnit i need to rewatch, was hoping not to hurt my wallet this month.

[@tiffybnTN]

No he didn’t tell his dad he looked like hell 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 thx! I like the transition music

[@evandenney8335]

That's the f****** dude who got his ass whooped in the Christmas story

[@dahyeshaouudoo-ing1463]

HE GOT A BIG HOG DOWN THERE

[@ItinerantIntrovert]

"And I had to leave to the priesthood to have you" Oh lord God here we go.... 😂😂😂

[@BlackDiamond2718]

Frank just saying yes to his proposal kills me.

[@silverhoney6969]

Before the video starts - it’s all Dee’s FAULT! She is toxic whew boy. Poor Cricket

[@adraino7345]

The random celebrity cameos in this and old actors they get. The bully kid from a Christmas Story.

[@Lolic0nz]

I got the good lawd goin down on meee

[@benjaminvolesky1653]

Frank’s “Done.” 😂

[@IDKeffect82]

13:57 that audience though. Perfect title indeed. He definitely did.

[@tehpurplepills]

Rickity cricket would be rolling in his grave if he could see his life portrayed on screen like this, RIP.

[@shamir9655]

When Cricket hits Dee with the chair.😂

[@Flipitmixit]

Them making him a drug addicts was all kinds of messed up

[@anonincog575]

I think that Cricket might be channeling a little Shelly Levine (Jack Lemon in Glengarry Glenross) when he offers to work with Frank and "Make things right" at around 4m30s.

[@tolucafan101]

“I’m not a street rat!” Lmfao

[@marcushenness6437]

Last episode Cricket should orchestrate the gangs death. 😂

[@Oogaboogabooboo]

The first time I watched the show I couldn’t help but just feel kinda miserable. I was so used to the general tropes of “we’re all assholes but in the end we still kinda care about eachother” but they just really don’t. It forced me to get over my attachment to characters and tv shows and to instead just enjoy them for what they are. The gang hates eachother. The gang also can’t really live without eachother. But also they can. Why? Because it doesn’t fucking matter. Just watch the silly funny show and enjoy it. And that’s why I love always sunny. Because I don’t love it. It’s just funny, and silly.

[@seancraven-tf6ec]

They really should’ve used this character a lot more I think. Not too much but a little bit more.

[@romeodoom]

I can’t believe it took me all these years to realize Cricket’s deflection of his own pride. He makes the first move to flirt with Dee back in the bar, and then when she does it back to him later in front of the church, he deflects and acts like her flirting with a priest is evil or something similar. In the bar, his real personality came out, and then when he was back at church, he put on the holier than thou act even more than he did when chastising Mac in the bar with the “football” line. He really was setting himself up for failure from the beginning, subtly but still noticeably revealing his hypocrisy over time, so much so that eventually he wound up homeless, traumatized beyond mental, physical and emotional recognition, and all for him to evolve or devolve-depending on how you look at it-into a sort of disgraced Jesus-like character towards the end of the series, one willing to sacrifice his own life for the sake of helping the gang when offering to “push the guy off the roof,” and etc. Is this a bit much for an analysis in a KZbin comment section? Sure. Did I write it out anyway? Absolutely.

[@stonerguitarist4690]

Cricket kewl it sad how they not appreciate him he really vital part of the show

[@ReformedDegenerate]

What’s the intro song? Shit slapped

[@HouseDoomsayer]

I love it! "The Preachers Fight" by Michael Ramir C

[@ReformedDegenerate]

@@HouseDoomsayer much appreciated man, hope you have a great day!

[@ericl2105]

20:00 kid has me crying laughing

[@Toastboy776]

16:23 postal dude 😮

[@shandon360]

If you didn't know David hornsbey was also a character on "the joe schmo show" which the show in itself is really interesting. Definitely check it out

[@zibberebbiz]

I thought this was going to be a video about the Australian ball tampering scandal

[@reubena7854]

I forgot Frank combed his hair in the earlier seasons 😂

[@gozimusable1]

Ooooh these lemons are tart

[@coomr419]

Taliban Cricket is so fucking hilarious

[@guyonline8970]

he used to be so sexy bro

[@babamm1356]

so hot as a priest 😂

[@GalaxyStandard77]

its the hips and nips

[@hdfgdfgdfgdrgnysrtynsnytr]

it's fucking jarring seeing old cricket after so many seasons of.... cricket

[@johnbergman2746]

I watch this over and over and still laugh 😂

[@glados4765]

Rickety cricket sounds like Err from the Mooninites (Aqua teen) when his voice gets hogh pitched.

[@Lotsoflettersforaname]

Cricket made his own choices.

[@ForgottenSpartan1]

Scud Farkis! From Postal the movie! And Postal 2!

[@Carl_McMelvin]

wtf are you talking about.

[@hippy282]

Although I don't like what they've done to Cricket he is my favourite running gag 😂

[@coalhair99]

Is it bad i’m now addicted to the transitional guitar music from scene to scene? Crap!!

[@lucaskane468]

“We go to all the different suck joints”

[@spiderwiz08]

KZbin done take away everything that's good with this app.

[@NotSure-hd6sm]

I used to partake in trees Id watch the gang I felt so sorry for Cricket

[@grgg4325]

12:12 best transition

[@cdhearn14hearing38]

Cricket : don't leave me out in the sun I burn

[@RominaRodriguez-fn9mo]

he was so cute 😢

[@ewetoob6369]

Done.

[@RaijinSozin]

Mark Hamill be like

[@roneon4]

You call it De-Evolution i call it Evolution

[@bosscom6910]

Cricket should win the lottery and the gang should try and find ways to steal it.

[@sofiagian2723]

I would like him to be crazy rich at the end....

[@patcostello7556]

“Done.”

[@matthewdaub]

And this man is married to dr bones

[@manaze85]

16:26 Is that Scut Farkus?

[@phlegm_mucus]

Yup! That's him! Actor's name is Zack Ward. Still works quite a bit actually.

[@Rquincris]

If you ever Feel bad for Rickity Cricket just Remember He Purposely did Half of the Bad Stuff thats happened to him.

[@shaneharvey1946]

Frank Gallagher in breaking bad.