It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia/Dee Sinks in a Bog

Dee Sinks in a Bog
Season 15, Episode 7
Airdate	December 22, 2021
Production Number	XIP015007
Written by	David Hornsby & Rob Rosell
Directed by	Pete Chatmon
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — Season Fifteen

Dee Sinks in a Bog is the seventh episode of the fifteenth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the one hundred sixty-first episode overall.

Starring: Charlie Day (Charlie Kelly), Glenn Howerton (Dennis Reynolds), Rob McElhenney (Mac), Kaitlin Olson (Dee Reynolds)

and Danny DeVito (Frank Reynolds)

Special Guest Star: Colm Meaney (Shelley Kelly)

Guest Starring: Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Waitress), Mark Prendergast (Gus)

Co-Starring: Tom Archdeacon (Dr. O'Shaunessy)

Plot Overview

As Dee finds herself sinking in a bog, Frank and Dennis plot to undermine Charlie's dad, and Mac spends time under Brother Gus.

Notes

Music

• Christopher Beaty - "Pot of Gold"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Michael warns Charlie that seeing a banshee - which he describes as being covered with filth and long, stringy hair - means the "end is near" as their wails warn of impending death. On their way back from the castle, they pass by Dee matching this description.

Characters

• Dee has a date with Irish doctor, but gets stuck in a bog before the Waitress rescues her hours later, leaving as she gets stuck instead.

• The waitress offers to help Dee out of the bog on the condition that she say her name. We hear Dee try "Clementine", "Valentine", "Diana", "Denise", "Dennis", and "Dane" before the waitress assures her she got it a while back, but we don't what it was.

• Mac builds a good relationship with Brother Gus before learning that he's a diddler.

• Dennis, who was taken the hospital for COVID, is still "listening" to the castle and proposes using its murder hole to scold Charlie's dad, but doesn't get the opportunity.

• Charlie tells Frank that he's staying in Ireland to work with his father.

Trivia

The Show

• The main credit from the previous episodes is used again and for the final time.

Behind the Scenes

• This episode was originally said to be titled "Dee Gets Stuck in a Bog".

Allusions and References

• As Shelley explains the banshee to Charlie, the music sounds to be Harry Manfredini's score from Friday the 13th. Some more seems to playing when Dennis is explaining his plan to Frank in the castle.

• As the Kellys encounter Dee on the road, the music playing is Bernard Herrmann's "Prelude" score piece from Psycho.

Goofs

• The outlets seen in the hospital scene are clearly American and not the kind found in Ireland.

Quotes

• Dr. O'Shaunessy: How are we feeling?

Dennis: Uh, outraged, violated, disgusted at the looseness of my sister's neck, covered in stew, dragged from my castle to a dingy hospital where I'm about to be saddled with an enormous bill.

Dr. O'Shaunessy: Well, there is no bill. It's free. Ireland has public health care.

Dennis: Oh, well, then that'll be fine.

• Gus: So, Mac, when did you hear the call to become a priest?

Mac: Oh, when God took away my Irish identity and made me Dutch to smite me for the urges that He gave me when I made the original sin of being born.

Gus: That's not the way God works, Mac. He doesn't smite us.

Mac: Yes, He does. Yes, He does. Remember the flood that took out the whole world? Remember? Then Noah made that ark and he saved himself but no women, which was really cool. Not sure how he made more people after that, though. Could've been another rib situation. Either way, then God made the Ark of the Covenant where he promised to never, ever do it again. Then a bunch of people looked at it. He didn't like that, so he blasted them, too. Remember, the Nazis got their faces all melted off, and the - the guy with the whip and the hat, he was cool.

Gus: I think you've mixed that story up with Indiana Jones.

Mac: Oh. I did?

Gus: Yeah, but listen, many of the stories in the Bible are metaphors. Parables with lessons.

Mac: What's the lesson of the last one? Don't look at my shit?

• Shelley Kelly: That's John Patrick Kelly. Killed by the plague. And his son William, also the plague. And Michael Kelly. He was attacked by the village loon and became a loon himself. He died from eating rocks, which he thought were eggs.

Charlie: Oof. Yeah, I've made that mistake, yeah. So, are all the Kellys buried here?

Shelley Kelly: Uh... Honoured, yes. Buried, no. They were all thrown from a cliff into the sea. You see, legend has it that only when a man is thrown from a cliff into the sea, may his soul be released.

Charlie: Huh.

Shelley Kelly: When I pass, I'll have the same done for me. All Kelly men must be thrown from a cliff into the sea.

Charlie: Wow. That's pretty cool.

Shelley Kelly: Yeah.

Charlie: Yeah. What about the women?

Shelley Kelly: Oh, the women are thrown from a cliff as well. Mostly alive. Just to see if they can fly, as they're presumed to be witches.

• Frank: I wouldn't have been able to think of this all by myself. I... I mean... You know, the sickness and anger inside of you is diabolical. Way to go, son.

Dennis: Well... I suppose all of your years of neglect and misdeeds have allowed me to harness the darkness inside me and to unleash it without conscience, so... Yeah, perhaps I owe you a... thanks for making me the man I am today, Frank. Thank you.

Frank: You're welcome.

• Mac: Gus, knowing that there's somebody here that's exactly like me gives me the courage to-to want to do it, too, so tomorrow I am going to join the seminary.

Gus: Grand! I am so happy for you. And I must admit, I'm happy for myself, too. Having someone here who knows how I feel will help keep me on the straight and the narrow.

Mac: Yes. And no matter how strong those urges get - and they will be strong - we must never, ever give in to them because we would get kicked out of the Church.

Gus: Good, good.

Mac: Yes.

Gus: And we'll never, ever leave each other alone in the room with the wee lads.

Mac: Yes, and I also think... Wait, what?

Gus: Or the wee lasses, whatever you're into. There's no judgement here. And, of course, you know, if you do slip up, you'll go to a new parish, they sort the family out, have some chats, perhaps some money changes hands, perhaps not. No harm, no foul. You come back, you're grand.

Mac: Uh... Yeah, I'm gay. What are you talking about?

Gus: Oh... No. I'm gay. That's it. I'm a gay man. I'm a gay man who has trouble controlling his... urges with other gay adult men and that's the end of it.

Mac: Goddamn it.

• Shelley Kelly: Ah, Charlie, it's good to forgive. You know, a true Kelly always puts things right with the men in his life. Not so much the women. Thus, the curse of the banshees.