Earlier this year, Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) went back to school at Abbott Elementary. And this Summer, the teachers are going to Paddy’s Pub.
This season, which is also their 20th anniversary, “The Gang Embraces The Corporate Era:” The story of how greed and the New American Dream have consumed Paddy’s Pub.
They’ll exploit cross-network promotion to increase market share; they’ll scapegoat one of their own to avoid a PR backlash; they’ll risk everything for a handshake with the Saudis; they’ll bend the laws with side hustles to pad their pockets; and they’ll change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience.
And sure, like any corporate goon, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been plain since 2005. But they’re also human beings. They crave love…respect…conditional freedom…constant adulation…histrionic amounts of attention… non-stop gratification…and unfiltered, slaphappy eroticism. They’ll chase down them all.
And the money. Obviously, the money. They don’t want to spend the rest of their lives working like dogs.
After 17 seasons and 20 years, I think they will be doing that until Danny DeVito is the last one standing. So that will be forever!
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