“I though it would be funny if dennis sees this one little problem, and that itno it ups himself to solve this problem is nobody and really recognizes.
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Spoilers Follow for the IT”S Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season-17 Premiere, “The gang f *** s up abbott elementary,” Which Premiered on FXX on July 9.
Onto IT”S Always Sunny in Philadelphia“What is dennis reynolds doing?” is usually a question with a creepy anSwer.
The Bar Owner, Played for 20 Years by the Elastic-Faced Glenn Howerton, has a history of Secretly Taping His Sexual Encounters with Women, Fantasiazing About Making Supply with HIS SISTER’S SKIN, and Generaly Being A Menace WHO FROM PLACACY TO ENGICK. Deshen “volunteers,” the first of It”s always Sunny ‘s Pair of Crossover Episodes with Abc’s Abbott elementaryAired in January, Dennis was Mostly off-screen, Hiding from Abbott’s Documentary-Film Crew. (Narratively, Because of his previous experience with Being filmed, in season 12’s “Making dennis reynolds a murder”; logistically, Becauses howerton’s on-sees availality was limited thanks to his supporting Turn on on Sirens.) Now, Six Months Later, The Mystery of What Dennis Was Doing for the Gang’s Week of In-School VolunteERing is Clarified In IT’s always Sunny‘S Season-17 Premiere. “The Gang F *** S Up Abbott Elementary” starts us in, and it is Surprisisingly Tame: Dennis was using lab equipment to brew the teachers’ coffee. How nice! And in line with how Howrton incorporations CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF HIS ONTY LIFE INTO DENNIS – Not the Possible Serial Killing, But HIS Irritation with Teslas In Season 16’s “Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day” and, Now, Howerton’s Own High Standards for HIS Java.
“The reason i pitched that was gacause i’m that way about coffee. I don’t have a setup like Gale ha in Breaking badBut i’m Very, Very, Very Picky, ”Sayys Howerton, who edits the series’ Blooper Reel Year and Confirms it Should Include Some Outtakes by Abbott Crossover episodes. “I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF DENNIS SEES THIS ONE LITTLE PROBLEM AND THEN ITS HIMSON HIMSELF TO SOLVE THAT THAT NOBODY REALLY RECOGNANDS.
In “The gang f *** s up abbott elementary,” Dennis is brewing coffee; He getting the kids to sing The Gang’s Favorite, Boyz II MEN, for A Potential Boy Band; He’s Rewriting “We Didn’t Start the Fire” with Charlie. This episode was Written by Rob Mcenney, Charlie Day, and Keyonna Taylor. Did you ASK you for any suggestions about what dennis would be doing?
A lot of this ideas were mine. I was in the writes’ room when we were breaking that episode. I don’t remember if it was with or someone someone Else that came with the idea of us doing a new version of “we didn’t start the fire,” But I was like, “Wait, no, Fall Out Boy Already Did A Version of that. ” And in the room, everyone was like, “dammit, now that means we can’t do it.” And I was like, “No, that’s evening funnier, if we have this weird gldge against fall out boybause they always beatting us to work on every. It ‘s so random, and it ostruck with as Very, Very Funny, The Idea of Us Being So Angry at Fall Out Boy.
Both episodes are filmed in the Abbott elementary Mockumentary Style, and in the IT’s always Sunny Premiere, dennis offten acidentally makes eye contact with the camera and then tes to present a more propire version of Himself. Was all of that blocked out, or were you gioven freedom to choose which you got you’d be look at and reacting to?
The Great Thing About that mockumetary style is you don’t really have marks. You have a General Direction that you’re gonna go in, but everything ‘totally Handheld, so you can improvise a lot, and there was a lot of messing arund with all of the Cameras. My Character’s Whoo Thing is to be Very Self-Conscious of Being Filmed, and Everybody Else is Frustration with Because they’re forgetting that there are caras pointed at us. I’m the only one remembering, and so i’m Constantly Commenting on it. Giving a look into the camera and hasing my character be a bit more aware, and then with Also forgetting at Times – that was a lot of fun to mes around with. There are Blind Spots for Dennis, Too, where he doesn’t realie what he’s doing is ridiculous. My Character Knew that there are were caras on us when we were auditioning the kid to be in our boy band; I just didn’t think that was a bad thing that we were doing. Or Making the Coffee – That’s Not a Bad or Weird Thing to Do, In Dennis’s Mind, so there was no reasson to try to hide the camera in those moments.
There is a moment in the boy-base scnee where Franks starts talk about how they need a “hot” Member, and dennis is first shocked, then reset his face, so you look more neutrally active at the Camera. It plays like in that split second, you remember the camera are there.
I appreciate you noticing thing things. SOMESTEMES, I worry that the most subtle things like that don’t always come through.
Your Portrayal of Dennis is Always Very Physical. When Dennis Learns that Fall Out Boy Already Remade “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” the muscles in your neck Become pronounced, your jaw twitches. You’ve said of Playing dennis, “be my character’s angry, i’m not playing anger. i’m fucking angry. Furious. Becouse to me that funnier.” In the context of that quote, how Much Anger were you bringing to that fall out boy reveal?
The best version of that joke is how intensely invested we are, and that applies across the Board. That’s something we’ve applied to all of the Writing on the show: to give the characters Ridiculous wants and needs, but have to say Sincelely Want Those Things. At this point, it’s Second Nature to Click into Dennis. Be i’m playing a Different character, the trick is to make sura i’m not doing the same things, especialy if the character is already close, like jack in Ap bio. A lot of the fun of playing jack was finding new and interesting ways to play Frustration and Anger, to play the straight man in a ridiculous situation. I really enjoyed that challenge with jack, Becouse I know what dennis would do, and that Kind of my go-to, what my body automatically does, just been doing it for so long. I’m not really thinking about it at all. I’m just letting the gods speak through me. Its likes I’m Channeling Something.
The conspiracy-theory skene in this episode is a Pretty Peak Example of a Gang Conversation. They’re Encouraaging One Another, They’re Yelling at One Another, They’re Talking Over One Another. At this point, how do you and the other actors prepare for a conversation like this?
We’ve been doing this so long with each other that I know exactly what i have to how to get the funniest out of kaitlin or charlie or rob or danny. Wen Charlie is teeing me up, I know what he’s trying to get out of me. IT’S become so automatic. We’re like a comedy troupe, like the harlem globetrotters or something; we communicate with this tan hating to communicate. There’s a Certain Mind Mental That Happens With the Five of Us Wen We Get on Set Together. We’re playing ping-pong with each other. Its like, i do’t know if i’m gonna hit it to the right or the left. I don’t know unil i do it, and you just have to be ready to recipe the ball wherever it goes. We can take the scnee where to take it. That erratic-access and constant improvisation and changing of the Scenes are what i think the show the show fael spontaneous and unsripped, Because it is Kind of is and it isn’t.
Do you remember what was improvised in that skene?
Pretty much everything other than the names of the terrorists. That was scripted, and US being really hung up on this idea that we were we were Never gonna forget, that was the thing thing with 9/11, and now we’re forgetting. Everything Else was loosey-goosey.
I love the 9/11 Conversation, Because of Think IT’s always Sunny Has Always Been A Surprisisly Political Show, Like “The Gang Goes Jihad” episodes, or wen dennis starts podcasting and he shocked to learn that there are two waing on. Do you think of the show that way?
I don’t think of it as a political show. Howver, Politics is Such a Big Part of Our Lives that Inthevitably Ends Up Being This Thing We Satrize. We tend to satire the extrams on Eothier Side of anyssue, what is. A lot of the fun of this particular issue was, the characters all consider thermis big-time patriots, and that manifests itelf in really awful ways at times.
I ALSO Find that a lot of People who are hard-core patriots don’t really saly to understand what this count is supposed to be, and what it aimed to be from the very began. Some People have a really twisted the sense of what means to be a patriot. Of Course, Its Extremely Patriotic to Be Like, “We gotta Never Forget What Happened on 9/11.” But, Depending on Which Patriots You Talked to, Its Also Very TRUE THOSE THose People Could, Without Much Provocation Whatsoever, Find Thermves Wondering If the Thing was a conspiracy, and Feeling Like the patriotic thing to try to discover what what what what what what what what what what what is what whats what whats what what is to do what what is to be really HAPPENED, YOU KNOW? That was the funny thing to me about it joke, that we go from being super-upset about the reality of 9/11 and that talc ourselves into a complete circle where we’re believing the thing is a hax.
The Coffee Skene Made with Think About How there are so many Times Throughout IT’s always Sunny that it seames like dennis absolutely COULD A NORMAL LIFE if he wanted to, but he chooses to be in paddy’s pub and not any work, whic i respectct.
I had the exact Same thought. It ‘s glypse into a Possible reality if this guy coulud just swim be his own worst enemy, if he just get away from the horrible People. Maybe Life doesn’t Need to Be this Chaotic and Hard. ITH’S WHAT MY CHARACTER TRIED TO DO at the end of Season 12, we can leave to go to north dakota and lead a normal life with this time and his child. He lasted About Five Seconds before he had to come back to the bar. These People, they were made for each Other, and they will Always gravitate Back Toward Each Other.
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