Season of television series
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | |
|---|---|
| Season 6 | |
 DVD cover | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Release | |
| Original network | FX |
| Original release | September 16 (2010-09-16) – December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16) |
| Season chronology | |
| ← Previous Season 5 Next → Season 7 | |
| List of episodes | |
The sixth season of the American television sitcom series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered on FX on September 16, 2010. It is the first season of the show to be filmed in high-definition. The season contains 14 episodes and concluded airing on December 16, 2010, with the hour-long Christmas special (which was produced for season 5, however aired as part of season 6). An additional episode called "The Gang Gets Successful" (production code IP06004) was produced for this season, but was not aired, despite scenes from the episode being included in promotional material for season 6. It was later re-edited with new scenes to create the season 7 episode "How Mac Got Fat".
Season synopsis
In this season, Mac fights against gay marriage after he discovers that Carmen (the trans woman he secretly dated in "Mac Is a Serial Killer" and first met in "Charlie Has Cancer") has had gender reassignment surgery and married someone else. Meanwhile, Dennis marries an old friend—then quickly divorces her and gets stuck with paying exorbitant alimony, and Charlie and Frank decide to exploit gay marriage by getting married themselves for benefits, only to find it a waste of time.
Later, the gang decides to buy a boat with the money made from their merchandise in "Paddy's Pub: Home of the Original Kitten Mittens," but, as usual, everything goes wrong. When a heat wave hits Philadelphia, Mac and Charlie restore an abandoned pool while Frank wreaks havoc at a public pool, and Dee and Dennis are accused of being "white trash" while trying to get a membership at a country club pool.
This season also sees Dee becoming pregnant and every male panicking over who could be the possible father (with the surprise revealed to be Carmen at the end of the season), Charlie finally getting the respect he deserves during a scheme to throw a surprise party for him, and the gang getting lost in the woods on the way to Atlantic City. The gang also puts a cynical spin on Christmas when it is discovered that all of their treasured memories of the holidays were masking the debauched events that happened around that time as well.
Cast
See also: List of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia charactersMain cast
- Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly
- Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds
- Rob McElhenney as Mac
- Kaitlin Olson as Deandra "Dee" Reynolds
- Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds
Special guest cast
- René Auberjonois as Dr. Larry Meyers
- Dave Foley as Principal MacIntyre
Recurring cast
- Mary Elizabeth Ellis as The Waitress
- David Hornsby as Cricket
- Lance Barber as Bill Ponderosa
Guest stars
- Artemis Pebdani as Artemis
- Catherine Reitman as Maureen Ponderosa
- Travis Schuldt as Ben The Soldier
- Jimmi Simpson as Liam McPoyle
- Nate Mooney as Ryan McPoyle
- Lynne Marie Stewart as Bonnie Kelly
- Sandy Martin as Mrs. Mac
- Gregory Scott Cummins as Luther Mac
- Brian Unger as The Lawyer
- Chad L. Coleman as Z
- Brittany Daniel as Carmen
- Andrew Friedman as Jack Kelly
- Windell Middlebrooks as Nick
- Don Swayze as Ray
- Preston Elliott as himself
- Steve Morrison as himself
- Jason Sudeikis as Schmitty
- Tom Sizemore as Trucker
- Ryan Howard as himself
- Chase Utley as himself
- Kyle Davis as Lil' Kevin
- Cleo King as Nurse Wendy
- Pablo Schreiber as Ricky Falcone
- David Huddleston as Eugene Hamilton
Episodes
See also: List of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) | |||||||
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| 58 | 1 | "Mac Fights Gay Marriage" | Randall Einhorn | Becky Mann & Audra Sielaff | September 16, 2010 (2010-09-16) | XIP06005 | 2.21 | |||||||
| Hearing that Carmen (the trans woman he met in "Charlie Has Cancer" and secretly dated in "Mac Is a Serial Killer") has finished her gender-affirming operations and is married to a man, Mac protests against gay marriage, although everyone else thinks he's jealous that Carmen didn't marry him and that he might be gay because he slept with her before her gender-reassignment. Meanwhile, Dennis marries his high-school crush, whom everyone else hates because of her bad breath caused by a dead tooth; Dee spends time with her crush; and Charlie and Frank marry each other to get health benefits. | ||||||||||||||
| 59 | 2 | "Dennis Gets Divorced" | Randall Einhorn | Dave Chernin & John Chernin | September 23, 2010 (2010-09-23) | XIP06006 | 1.68 | |||||||
| Disillusioned, Dennis decides to divorce his wife; Charlie and Frank decide to split up; Dee discovers that Bill is cheating on his wife with her. | ||||||||||||||
| 60 | 3 | "The Gang Buys a Boat" | Randall Einhorn | Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney | September 30, 2010 (2010-09-30) | XIP06001 | 1.46 | |||||||
| The Gang purchases a boat and disagrees on how to use it: Dennis, Mac, and Dee want a party boat, while Charlie and Frank want a shrimp boat. | ||||||||||||||
| 61 | 4 | "Mac's Big Break" | Randall Einhorn | Rob Rosell | October 7, 2010 (2010-10-07) | XIP06002 | 1.23 | |||||||
| When he correctly answers a trivia question on the radio, Mac wins the chance to take a shot from center ice at a Philadelphia Flyers game for a weekend at the station's beach house. While Charlie trains Mac, Frank, Dennis, Dee take their bar-banter to the Internet with their own podcast. | ||||||||||||||
| 62 | 5 | "Mac and Charlie: White Trash" | Randall Einhorn | Luvh Rakhe | October 14, 2010 (2010-10-14) | XIP06003 | 1.48 | |||||||
| The Gang tries to get into a fancy upper-class swim club but discover that it is "at capacity"--for them. Dennis and Dee try to convince Charlie and Mac that they are upper-class by pretending that they got into the swim club when they really had to settle with the disgusting public pool. Meanwhile, Mac and Charlie try to fix up their old neighborhood diving pool that is now filled with trash. | ||||||||||||||
| 63 | 6 | "Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down" | Matt Shakman | Scott Marder & Rob Rosell | October 21, 2010 (2010-10-21) | XIP06008 | 1.07 | |||||||
| Charlie and Mac try to get their mothers to live together in Mrs. Kelly's house after Mrs. Mac burns hers down. When Dee gets sick, Frank tries to take care of her (with Dennis' help) with the ulterior motive that she will take care of him in his old age. | ||||||||||||||
| 64 | 7 | "Who Got Dee Pregnant?" | Randall Einhorn | Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney | October 28, 2010 (2010-10-28) | XIP06007 | 1.19 | |||||||
| Dee freaks out the Gang when she announces she's pregnant and one of the guys is the father, and they enlist the help of Frank, Artemis, and even the McPoyles to recall their last Halloween party, where Dee claims it happened. | ||||||||||||||
| 65 | 8 | "The Gang Gets a New Member" | Matt Shakman | David Hornsby | November 4, 2010 (2010-11-04) | XIP06009 | 1.67 | |||||||
| The gang opens a time capsule and tries to make good on the past: Dee takes another shot at acting by visiting her old drama teacher and ends up teaching his unmotivated drama class; Mac, Dennis, and Frank try to get their old gang member Schmitty back into the Gang but Charlie gets jealous of Schmitty trying to replace him so he becomes the janitor at the school Dee is teaching at and claims that they are best friends. Guest stars Jason Sudeikis and Dave Foley. | ||||||||||||||
| 66 | 9 | "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth" | Matt Shakman | David Hornsby | November 11, 2010 (2010-11-11) | XIP06010 | 1.44 | |||||||
| Dee continues her new substitute-drama-teacher job and exposes her students to the culture of Paddy's with a field trip to see The Gang's take on the Lethal Weapon series. | ||||||||||||||
| 67 | 10 | "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats" | Matt Shakman | Scott Marder & Rob Rosell | November 18, 2010 (2010-11-18) | XIP06011 | 1.69 | |||||||
| Keeping the basement rodent-free drives Charlie to the brink, so Frank encourages The Gang to throw him a surprise party; they get into a frightening situation with "bridge people" and scrap Frank's plans, and use Charlie's "dream book" to plan the party. | ||||||||||||||
| 68 | 11 | "The Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods" | Matt Shakman | Story by : Luvh Rakhe Teleplay by : Scott Marder & Rob Rosell | December 2, 2010 (2010-12-02) | XIP06012 | 1.65 | |||||||
| The gang travels to Atlantic City for a charity benefit. When the car crashes into a tree because they were trying to avoid hitting a squirrel, Mac, Dee, and Frank must survive in the woods while Dennis and Charlie hitch a ride to the city. When they get there they pretend to be Frank and Mac and have the night of their lives flying on a private jet and meeting Chase Utley, a baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies that Mac had long yearned to meet. | ||||||||||||||
| 69 | 12 | "Dee Gives Birth" | Matt Shakman | David Hornsby & Becky Mann & Audra Sielaff | December 9, 2010 (2010-12-09) | XIP06013 | 1.46 | |||||||
| Dee's blessed event is fast approaching but the guys still don't know who the father is, so Mac, Charlie, and Frank invite all of Dee's former flings to a party while Dennis stays at the hospital with Dee. | ||||||||||||||
| 70 | 13 | "A Very Sunny Christmas" | Fred Savage | Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney | December 16, 2010 (2010-12-16) | IP05001 | 1.16 | |||||||
| 71 | 14 | IP05002 | ||||||||||||
| Christmas has come to Paddy's Pub, but Mac and Charlie's holiday spirit fades when they learn the truth about their childhood Christmases; Dennis and Dee get back at Frank for ruining their childhood Christmases with a "Christmas Carol"-esque scheme. Eventually The Gang comes together (in a new form) to show what Christmas means to them. | ||||||||||||||
^ This episode is a direct to DVD, Blu-ray and digital download movie. It was released on November 17, 2009, and aired on December 16, 2010 on FX as the last episode of season 6. A video disclaimer on the Blu-ray release indicates it was not filmed in high definition, but was upconverted.
Reception
The sixth season received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 94% with an average score of 8.3 out of 10 based on 16 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Cleverly folding Kaitlyn Olson's real-life pregnancy into the plot with characteristic perversity, It's Always Sunny's sixth season sees the Gang trying – and failing – to grow up."
Home media
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Complete Season 6 | |||||
| Set details | Special features | ||||
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| Region 1 | Region 4 | ||||
| September 13, 2011 | March 13, 2013 | ||||
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