Season of television series
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | |
|---|---|
| Season 11 | |
 Promotional poster | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | FXX |
| Original release | January 6 (2016-01-06) – March 9, 2016 (2016-03-09) |
| Season chronology | |
| ← Previous Season 10 Next → Season 12 | |
| List of episodes | |
The eleventh season of the American television sitcom series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered on FXX on January 6, 2016. The season consists of 10 episodes and concluded on March 9, 2016.
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
Recurring cast
- Mary Elizabeth Ellis as The Waitress
- David Hornsby as Cricket
Guest stars
- Artemis Pebdani as Artemis
- Lance Barber as Bill Ponderosa
- Catherine Reitman as Maureen Ponderosa
- Brian Unger as The Lawyer
- Andrew Friedman as Jack Kelly
- Andy Buckley as Andy
- Aisha Hinds as Caseworker
- Dean Cameron as David Drisko
- Courtney Gains as Roach
- Kevin Farley as Turkey
- Natasha Alam as Tatiana
- Richard Grieco as Richard Greico
- Reginald VelJohnson as Judge Melvoy
- Guillermo del Toro as Pappy McPoyle
- Brian Doyle-Murray as Captain Garcia
- Tuc Watkins as Scott
- Bryan Cogman as Insurance Adjuster
Production
The series was renewed for an eleventh and twelfth season on April 4, 2014, each to consist of 10 episodes.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 115 | 1 | "Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo" | Heath Cullens | Rob McElhenney & Charlie Day | January 6, 2016 (2016-01-06) | XIP11005 | 0.716 |
| The gang agrees to a truce while demonstrating their game Chardee MacDennis for an interested board-game executive, but the nature of the game quickly sends things off the rails. | |||||||
| 116 | 2 | "Frank Falls Out the Window" | Heath Cullens | David Hornsby | January 13, 2016 (2016-01-13) | XIP11004 | 0.511 |
| Frank falls out the window and suffers a brain injury that makes him think it's 2006. When the Gang discovers this, they immediately try to profit from his trauma and rectify the mistakes they made 10 years ago. | |||||||
| 117 | 3 | "The Gang Hits the Slopes" | Heath Cullens | Dave Chernin & John Chernin | January 20, 2016 (2016-01-20) | XIP11001 | 0.609 |
| In this send-up of 1980s ski movies and sex comedies, Dennis, Dee, Mac, and Charlie go skiing in the Poconos and Frank plots to turn the ski resort into a private club for the rich. | |||||||
| 118 | 4 | "Dee Made a Smut Film" | Todd Biermann | Eric Ledgin | January 27, 2016 (2016-01-27) | XIP11006 | 0.478 |
| Dee shows the Gang a clip from an independent film she appeared in that turns out to be a Cinemax softcore porno starring Richard Grieco. The Gang argues over what is considered art, leading Mac and Frank to try to market Charlie's childish doodles as modern art and Dennis recruits Dee to adapt his erotic memoirs into a film to cash in on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey. | |||||||
| 119 | 5 | "Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs" | Todd Biermann | Hunter Covington | February 3, 2016 (2016-02-03) | XIP11010 | 0.563 |
| Dee's anger and a wager from Frank lead Mac and Dennis to try living in a rented suburban house, with disastrous results. | |||||||
| 120 | 6 | "Being Frank" | Heath Cullens | Scott Marder | February 10, 2016 (2016-02-10) | XIP11002 | 0.536 |
| In this episode shown through a first-person POV, Frank gets left out of a plan to get Dennis' SUV out of an impound lot and tries to keep up, only to get distracted by drugs, a hospital visit, Bill Ponderosa, and Artemis. | |||||||
| 121 | 7 | "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century" | Todd Biermann | Conor Galvin | February 17, 2016 (2016-02-17) | XIP11009 | 0.531 |
| Liam McPoyle (not present in court because of pinkeye in his good eye) sues Bill Ponderosa for the loss of his eye during "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre." | |||||||
| 122 | 8 | "Charlie Catches a Leprechaun" | Heath Cullens | Jon Silberman & Josh Silberman | February 24, 2016 (2016-02-24) | XIP11003 | 0.515 |
| Dennis attempts to "streamline" Paddy's by creating a mobile "Paddy's Wagon" for Saint Patrick's Day, which quickly falls apart; Charlie attempts to capture a leprechaun. | |||||||
| 123 | 9 | "The Gang Goes to Hell" | Todd Biermann | David Hornsby & Scott Marder | March 2, 2016 (2016-03-02) | XIP11007 | 0.485 |
| First part of two, where Mac treats the Gang to a Christian-themed cruise; while they're confronting their various vices, he discovers a few shocking truths about his own beliefs. | |||||||
| 124 | 10 | "The Gang Goes to Hell: Part Two" | Todd Biermann | David Hornsby & Scott Marder | March 9, 2016 (2016-03-09) | XIP11008 | 0.460 |
| The second part of two, where with disaster looming, the Gang tries unsuccessfully to make amends with one another while locked in a brig that's flooding with ocean water. | |||||||
Reception
The eleventh season received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 100% with an average score of 8.2 out of 10 based on 14 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Gang remains hopelessly toxic in an uproarious season filled with self-sabotage and routine recklessness, but viewers who love the series' craven humor probably wouldn't want them any other way."
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