Episode Summary of the Hit Comedy TV Show, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

At some point everybody will buy a certain piece ofof all write a new review of their bar and second of all
technology or some kind of gadget that they feelto not press charges against them for kidnapping.
attached to, that they love. This happens with peopleIn a vain attempt to make it look like the writer for the
every day and is why people go to get an iPhonelocal paper has not been kidnapped, Dee and her
screen replacement or an iPad repair, and similarbrother Dennis then go over to the apartment building
situations are demonstrated on popular TV shows onwhere the writer lives and try to pack his suitcase so
a regular basis. In fact, on an episode of the hit FXthat it looks like he is gone on vacation. However, they
show, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," the gang ofquickly figure out that they actually broke into the
bar owners buys a flat screen, very thin television thatwrong apartment when the writer's neighbor barges in
all the main characters Dennis, Charlie, Dee, and Macon them packing his clothes into a suitcase. Dennis and
love. The television then plays an important part in theDee then wind up kidnapping the neighbor as well,
rest of the episode that very few viewers would havehoping that he will not say anything about the
seen coming when the plotline comes near itskidnapping either.
conclusion.Finally, as the episode comes to its ridiculous conclusion
In the episode, the local newspaper has given Paddy'sthe gang decides that the first order of business is to
Pub, the bar that the main characters own and work in,bribe the neighbor so that he will not tell the police
a terrible review and has actually called them theabout being held hostage. This is the point in the story
worst bar in Philadelphia. In addition, he refers to thewhen the aforementioned flat screen TV comes back
men of the bar as classless boors and Dee as surlyin to the plot, as this is what the man demands as
and white trash. The poor review and the insults angercompensation for his having been taken prisoner.
the four bar owners and they go and try to talk theLastly, Charlie hits the writer on the head with a glass
man into writing a new review, which as expectedbottle to try and give him amnesia and they return him
goes poorly.home. The next day the gang goes to the bar to find
But, after they have all left the office of the paper anda new review of their bar in which the writer insults
head back to the bar the rest of the gang finds Charliethem even more mercilessly then before, saying that
waiting to make a very strange announcement. As itrather than tell the police he was kidnapped he will just
turns out, after their meeting with the writer Charlieallow them to stay in the hole they created. Upset that
started drinking and got mad, and then decided tohe did not mention any of them by name, the gang
kidnap the writer and bring him to the pub. The gangwalks out the door to have another talk with the writer
holds him hostage for a while and hilarity ensues asas the credits roll begin to roll.
they all try to figure out ways to convince him to first