Everyone has their favorite gang member on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, but the descending and illiterate concierge Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day) is easily the heart of the crew. He is a harasser who once gave a man a box of living hornets as a “gift”, so he is not exactly the best guy in the world, but He is still in a way the least terrible person in the gang And tends to engage in the most stupid getaways. From time to time, we have even treated an episode centered on Charlie, like the absolutely incredible “Birdman” – Inspired outing “Charlie Work” From season 10 or his time as a participant in the scientific study in “Flowers for Charlie” in season 9.

Finally, in season 14, we obtained another episode from Charlie really hilarious in the form of “the concierge is always mocking twice”. There was a few times when the series has dismissed its standard format to play with films of films or television and the usurpation of various things – such as the riffing on documentary television in “Dennis Reynolds: Making A Murderer” or the series of the series “Letal Weapon” sequel Episodes – but for the White Fantasy of Janitor in Black and Red.

In “The Janitor Always Mops Twice”, Charlie and the rest of the gang are immersed in a story of film Noir where Charlie tries to solve the mystery of who “poicia the diarrhea” his friend and roommate, Frank (Danny Devito). The gang seems to play roles, because they break the character from time to time with a great comic effect, but this version of Charlie has just met the waitress, and the two have a little romance which results in the revelation that she was the poisoner and the intrigue behind everything, poisoning Charlie at the end. While the waitress hates Charlie and above all avoids her at all costs, it’s very funny Watch the day of the spouses of life and Ellis Have the chance to have a little romance on the screen, even if it goes horribly bad.

The episode is vaguely inspired by the 1946 film Noir “The Postman still sounds twice”, directed by Tay Garnett and based on the novel of the same name of James M. Cain. (The novel was previously adapted both as a French film from 1939 and an Italian film from 1943, and it was then adapted in 1981 with Jack Nicholson in the main role!) The 1943 “The factor still sounds twice” is one of the members of The best black films of all time, With a lot of twists and turns and an incredible femme fatale played by Lana Turner. Although the intrigue is not exactly the same as “Postman”, who follows a woman who wants to kill her husband using her lover, this episode “Always Sunny” clearly laughed at certain moments and performances, Ellis giving Turner a slightly more comical race for her money. (“Postman” also does not offer red touches, which looks more like a nod to Robert Rodriguez’s film adaptation of the “Sin City” comic book series ,,,,,, But again, this is part of the black game book.)

The creative team behind “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” are all big cinema fans, including the episode writer, Megan Ganz. Fans could recognize it from relays that write both “Community” and “Modern Family”, or to help co-create “Mythic Quest” with the creator “always sunny” Rob Mcelherney, and it is clear that she likes Old Black films enough to rifle on all the different tropes. much better accents than everything they tried The episode “Always Sunny” of the colonial era “The gang cracks La Bell Liberty”. It’s really fun to see everyone getting on the black theme, and giving Ellis a real main role when she is generally relegated to a scene or two is great because she is hilarious.

“The Janitor Always Mops Twice” works well as an autonomous episode, because it does not really link to any of the other gang escapades or not reference to any other episode outside Charlie at the bottom of the social structure of the gang. It is always fun when the gang laughed at the cinema, whether it was the reference “molded” in “the gang holds back in hostage” or, as mentioned above, their matching sequences of “deadly weapon” (despite the problematic elements). Hoping that they will have the chance to play in another cinematographic sandbox when “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” returns for season 17 on July 9, 2025.