Jack Remington
Banned
The Nightman Cometh is the finale of Season 4 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Charlie writes a musical called The Nightman Cometh and casts Dennis, Mac, Dee, and Frank as the characters. The title is a callback to a song called "Nightman" that Charlie had written in a Season 3 episode where the gang wants to form a band. The song was about a dark spirit who possesses Charlie, and it contained extremely homoerotic lyrics, which Charlie did not realize when he wrote it and still denied even after it was pointed out to him.
It turns out that the entire play is Charlie's plan to try to impress The Waitress, a character he has been obsessed with throughout the show who actively despises him. She agrees to come to the play if Charlie will leave her alone for the rest of her life.
The play is derailed as none of the characters (except possibly Dennis) follow Charlie's direction. During rehearsals, Dee thinks her main song makes her look like a pedophile (she confesses her love to a tiny, baby boy, which Charlie claims is a metaphor for a young man), and initially refuses to sing it. During the performance, Mac, playing the Nightman, is supposed to enter Dennis's (playing the main character, later the Dayman) room and steal his soul, but makes the scene look like he is anally raping Dennis. Frank is plays a troll (bridge troll, not internet troll) who guard's Dennis and requires the Nightman to pay a toll to reach him. He has a song with the lyrics "You gotta pay the troll toll if you wanna get into that boy's soul", but repeatedly sings the lyrics as "boy's hole". Dee adds a song clarifying that she did not write her song with the lyrics "Tiny boy, baby boy I love you" and has never had sex with a child. She also solicits any interested men in the audience to get her number after the show.
Basically the whole play is a disaster, and it looks like the main plot is about a baby getting raped. At the end, Charlie proposes to The Waitress from the stage, and she unceremoniously rejects him and leaves.
The whole episode is brilliant from start to finish. Every line of dialogue is perfect. The play within a play is absolutely amazing to watch. I still lose it every time Frank delivers his "boy's hole" lyrics.
Also, it was a perfect ending to the strongest sustained run It's Always Sunny ever had. It alludes perfectly to previous episodes, including ending with the "Dayman" song from a season earlier.
Honestly it's my favorite sitcom episode of all time, and it's one of 3-4 episodes I recommend to people who want to get into It's Always Sunny.
Charlie writes a musical called The Nightman Cometh and casts Dennis, Mac, Dee, and Frank as the characters. The title is a callback to a song called "Nightman" that Charlie had written in a Season 3 episode where the gang wants to form a band. The song was about a dark spirit who possesses Charlie, and it contained extremely homoerotic lyrics, which Charlie did not realize when he wrote it and still denied even after it was pointed out to him.
It turns out that the entire play is Charlie's plan to try to impress The Waitress, a character he has been obsessed with throughout the show who actively despises him. She agrees to come to the play if Charlie will leave her alone for the rest of her life.
The play is derailed as none of the characters (except possibly Dennis) follow Charlie's direction. During rehearsals, Dee thinks her main song makes her look like a pedophile (she confesses her love to a tiny, baby boy, which Charlie claims is a metaphor for a young man), and initially refuses to sing it. During the performance, Mac, playing the Nightman, is supposed to enter Dennis's (playing the main character, later the Dayman) room and steal his soul, but makes the scene look like he is anally raping Dennis. Frank is plays a troll (bridge troll, not internet troll) who guard's Dennis and requires the Nightman to pay a toll to reach him. He has a song with the lyrics "You gotta pay the troll toll if you wanna get into that boy's soul", but repeatedly sings the lyrics as "boy's hole". Dee adds a song clarifying that she did not write her song with the lyrics "Tiny boy, baby boy I love you" and has never had sex with a child. She also solicits any interested men in the audience to get her number after the show.
Basically the whole play is a disaster, and it looks like the main plot is about a baby getting raped. At the end, Charlie proposes to The Waitress from the stage, and she unceremoniously rejects him and leaves.
The whole episode is brilliant from start to finish. Every line of dialogue is perfect. The play within a play is absolutely amazing to watch. I still lose it every time Frank delivers his "boy's hole" lyrics.
Also, it was a perfect ending to the strongest sustained run It's Always Sunny ever had. It alludes perfectly to previous episodes, including ending with the "Dayman" song from a season earlier.
Honestly it's my favorite sitcom episode of all time, and it's one of 3-4 episodes I recommend to people who want to get into It's Always Sunny.
