56. The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell | The Always Sunny Podcast 

Love it

Love it! Definitely in my top 5

Love it. I remember doing my first watch and heard that everybody apparently hated this one and thought they were insane. The cricket stuff alone makes it gold.

❤️ LOVE IT 😍

Love it, genuinely don't understand the hate.

LMAO

this is why meg adds so much. She wasn't involved until season 14 i think so shes coming in as an outsider of sorts

@@TtotheCizzel wasn't sure myself when Megan joined the show, looked it up and it was S12 as a writer and later executive producer.

I know! I love how she's just geeking out over episodes and moments as a fan. Megan's the King Creep really

@@JenLight is great to know that someone who is a major driver of show wants to see/hear the same as us fans.

I knew immediately that she was talking abt Dan and I still hate that she had to walk through that experience.

It was tough hearing how dan treated her. That episode rocked. In his apology to her he admitted he couldn't really assess her work because he was just mad she wasn't attracted to him.

@@lukeroo yeah I think that’s what makes looking back at her work so…bittersweet (idek if that’s the right word to use) to reflect on bc it was SO GOOD and SO FUNNY but remembering what she had to go through at the time is just heartbreaking. And it was disappointing to learn abt as a huge community/Dan fan. Glad he gave an apology worthy of her approval though and both are in clearly better spaces. But I hate that it happened to her, she’s a lovely person who deserved better. Especially as a new writer.

Thank you! I was trying to figure out which one she was talking about. That was a great episode, ha. My first instinct was the paintball episode.

@@KingofCrusher that's not to say that would have been the episode in question that was panned by Dan Harmon assuming it's Community that she is referring to. Could easily be the Documentary Filming Redux or whatever it is called as that is a different vibe episode

Surrrendderrr mAaaybeee

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Yesssssyh 😂😂flourish the pinky

My least favorite episode for the same reason, hate those wooden teeth, sounds like nails on a chalkboard.

I know I always start crying from laughing and then I can't breathe so I start choking.

Stop, no more ''S's'' for you 😂

He has 5 star hair follicles 😆

BALD HEAD BE GONE!

@@trishagraceking1941 His hair follicles have no bounds!

Sickness be gone!!

He consulted Brad Pit.

Try me!

One of my favorites

Favorite part of the episode lol. When Charlie poses with his hand on his hip it gets me every time

I rewind it to see the posing part again every time I watch that episode. So subtle and great.

So funny.

Agreed.

Do we have a clip?

@@metaforically it's like right towards the end, last 5 minutes or so

They do one handed dialing in the movies all the time. Has the dude never seen movies before?

I feel like we've all been in a position where someone tried to make us look stupid but not all of us can say "I'm doing this because I enjoy it not because I need to" and can tell that person to shove it.

lol it sounds exactly like how Dennis would handle the situation.

Yes! I’m surprised they didn’t mention this. Seeing the characters all separately acting out different parts of the story in that historical lady’s office at the end was hilarious

And then they think the reason she didn't like it was because she didn't understand it, so they decide to do it again in more detail. "Sit back, get comfortable - it's gonna take a little longer this time." "It starts the same. The year was 1776..."

Dennis being the Wicked Witch of the West was awesome. 🤣 They really lost the plot by the end of the story.

Mine is the YEEEZZZ and Dee being a "witch" hahahaha time flies, it has been so long since it came out, damn!

💯

Crème de la crème in the Golden Age of content

My mind was blown when they announced the podcast was going to exist

Agreed, it’s so thoughtful for the fans as well as being nostalgic for them too

I just wish episodes were longer but I still enjoy the podcast

100% agree

and they didn't even mention those lines!

mans did his homework, firm handshakes

Good bot

This is impressive, young Zaphod. Thank you for playing this safely. See what I did there? 😉😁

hey you dropped this - 👑

Rude director is Colin Bucksey

Nah

lol

@@Steven-co5sd No.

I was gonna say exactly that! To me this is a very common view of conflict that me and my female friends have. Doubting ourselves even though we're 100% in the right. It IS indeed inspiring to see someone be successful after having been through these difficult situations!

​@@EmpressTeapotmen are overconfident and the veneer of competence throws us. But more often than not, and more often than many of them are, we can actually be brilliant

I'm shocked people liked this episode! I adore all other episodes but this one. I didn't get it. What am I missing ?

@@hopeso900 🤡

Flourish the pinky

Personally, I just find the trope overdone. Even if it's done well, I just groan and go "okay it's one of THOSE episodes" whenever the main ensemble plays their own ancestors or whatever. It's got great stuff in it, but sadly it's wrapped in something I hate.

I'm with you completely. I was extremely surprised to find out there was backlash to this episode, it's one of my favorites

She isn't, she was talking about her "Connection Lost" episode of Modern Family.

It certainly does 'sound' like something Harmon would say, or at least how he'd repeat the line like 5 times, lol. If it is him she's talking about, I assume that part of her comfort now is that she and Harmon have been on good terms ever since he owned up to and apologized for his all-around poor behaviour with her.

Just read about the Dan Harmon incident on Megan's wiki page before the start of this pod. Sounds like he could be a real prick. Great that he was proven wrong by the episode in question being popular and that Megan's career is doing great while working with such a great gang. This podcast is a huge favourite of mine (haven't missed an ep) and can see that Megan is a major driver of the show. Edit Re: other comment, not surprised that it maybe was at Modern Family and not Dan Harmon who was the Hollywood asshole in Megan's story. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of narcissistic assholes in Hollywood.

@@theabraham8164 How do you figure? She said that she was a "young writer on the staff", and at the end Charlie said "They bully someone like Megan who's in her first year"". When she wrote "Connection Lost", she had already written 5 episodes (across 2 seasons) for Modern Family. Also the episode aired in 2015. It makes more sense that shes talking about Community (and an episode like Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking which aired in 2011, and it was her 2nd episode she had written for TV)

No, she had a different relationship with Dan Harmon. Harmon was sexually harassing her, but he stated publicly that he thinks she's a talented writer.

Nah

I love that I don't watch live so I can skip ahead every time she starts talking.

She is needed for the podcast to work this well. She represents the fans and that is the magic touch that elevates this pod for me. Other pods that are doing this don't have that ingredient and I can feel it so clearly because I have been spoiled by the Always Sunny Podcast.

Absolutely agree!

When they cut from the past to the present and the gang is going ham in the historian's office is great.

Mine too. My favorite part is when Dee, the "witch", actually takes flight on a broom at the end. So ridiculous XD

I agree.

Same man. Crickets head exploding had my CRYING laughing so hard.

I wrote this before Megan spoke about the abuse she received from a showrunner early into her career for creating what would go on to be a beloved episode, and it really feels like "Cooperative Calligraphy".

She wrote that one?? Might be my favorite episode, and that’s saying a lot because there are so many good ones

@@KonkeyVG she accepted his apology but guess that’s not good enough for you, someone that has nothing to do with the entire situation. thanks for your helpful and insightful comment. Hopefully you have never done one bad/wrong thing in your life, even if you show remorse, because based on your comment there is no coming back from that. I’m sure if your life was held under a microscope there is nothing you have ever done that anyone would object to or be offended by.

@@tmobeygee5351 Next time I feel like expressing my thoughts I'll check with you to see if I'm allowed to have an opinion on something.

@@tmobeygee5351 Seriously though, what Harmon did was habitual abuse of co-workers throughout most of his career, and one high-profile victim accepted the apology years later when her career was at a better place. It wasn't "one bad/wrong thing" nor was it widely forgiven. In fact this cycle of behaving poorly and then making a major (arguably performative) public apology is itself a habitual behaviour of Harmon. I'm for restorative justice, but people are still entitled to feel a certain way about his past behaviour, and those feelings may influence how they feel about him today.

I didn't realize Megan wrote that episode. That is one of the best episodes. I already liked her and now I like her even more. 😁

Im thinking she's either referencing that one or the pen episode. Either way the "showrunner" she's talking about 100% has to be Dan Harmon.

@@DavinJesseLoganScott Yeah that's spot on Harmon behavior. Kinda insane he treated her like that in addition to the sexual harassment shit, and she STILL accepted his apology!!!

"Wait, wait, wait! Check his pulse."

Every single episode Meg did was fantastic. Especially documentary redux

Flourish the pinkay

@@shytguy Yeeeeeees

Yeeeeeeeeesss!!!!!

Oh, yeeeeesh!

Definitely agree, an artist needs to experiment to evolve their style and prevent them becoming stale. If this means that quality occasionally may vary, then that's a necessary outcome.

Lbb

"Try me!" "Nothing!" "What about this one?!" (Strikes a pose)

His face before he says “What else do you want me to remember?” 😂

Charlie is limitless right now

Marder and Rossell?

@@johnwerner69 two writers that have been with the show since the beginning. A lot of the incredible stories and jokes that we all know and quote often came from having them on the team.

which was the last season that they worked on?

@@forrestrichard8133 awesome!

​@@johnwerner69 They've mentioned them on the podcast before. At first, Charlie, Glenn and Rob wrote everything with David Hornsby joining in from Season 2. Scott Marder and Rob Rosell were the first writers the guys hired for their staff when they started to build a writers' room in Season 3. It was the five of them (plus Lisa Parsons) that season, before they started adding other writers. Marder and Rosell stayed on for many years. Sunny has a noticeable tone shift between seasons 2 and 3, with the show only really finding that absurd-batshit-insance-heightened-cartoon reality in the latter. The guys have noted in the Dumpster Baby pod, and several others, that a big reason for this direction for the show going forward was what Marder and Rosell brought to the table. The two are credited for writing a lot of classics from Season 3-9. Writing is extremely collaborative so "writing credits" don't mean as much as we might think, and Rob/Charlie/Glenn as showrunners have obviously written on/rewritten every episode even if they're not explicitly credited, so it's tough to say what the exact contributions are, but it was clearly quite significant in the case of Marder and Rosell. At the very least, many of Charlie's crazy dialogues and rants seem to be Rosell-isms, mixed in with Charlie Day-isms (off the top of my head, this comes up in the pod episodes for The Gang Dances Their Asses Off "karate snow machine chops it" and Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack "Pepe Silvia"). They also wrote the chorus of Dayman. I'm not 100% sure, but between Season 10 and 12, Rosell wasn't around, and on Season 15, Marder wasn't around. Neither of them was writing on Season 13 and 14 though, which could be part of the explanation why those two seasons are generally regarded as being weaker (ofc another major one is probably that Glenn was burnt out and taking a break from the writer's room in those seasons). Edit: Anyway, for whatever reason, they've never quite been celebrated enough by the fans, even compared to someone like Meg, who's only been writing for Sunny since Season 12 and hasn't had _half_ the impact they've had, probably because audiences just don't pay attention to writers unless they're famous or on-camera. It's why it might be nice to have Marder-Rosell on the podcast someday, so fans can know them.

"the wooden teeth are killing it! i think the wooden teeth are a SSHHHHmashing SHHHHHuccessHH"

"Oh, nayeth! Nayeth!"

Longer than that?!

thats so funny because it was also my first episode and i hated it! thought the show was no good. glad i came back to it. And incidentally its my least favorite episode. just how it goes i guess

"Charlie, it's 1776! We'll just kill him and take his stuff!" XD i love how they keep saying their current year like thats how people talked

@@djphlange Yeah, same with the whole "good with women" exchange. "Good *_with_* women? You mean good *_at_* women?" "Like, you can't catch them when they run away from you? Bro, it's 1776 - they don't have any rights." As if they knew it would change in the future, lol.

Yeah I definitely remember people hating this one which I never got. It's one of the best episodes ever. I do remember thinking Charlie's performance was off though, it was cool to see him be aware of that and explain the reasoning why.

My favorite part to head exploding was when Charlie said, "Check his pulse". and to Dee's reaction 😂😂😂

Out of curiosity, were you "taking shit" because of a fear of confrontation or just to be agreeable and keep things peaceful?

A little of both, to be honest. I am that person that tries to make everyone happy but at the same time, I know part of that stems from trauma and it’s me trying to keep myself safe. (Hence the fear of confrontation) have a good day ✌️💚

A couple of puffs about town! Sodimites

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