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1x6 Dee in Charlie's apartment

Dee visits the apartment in The Gang Finds a Dead Guy

Charlie's apartment is a very shady apartment that Charlie Kelly and Frank Reynolds live in. Frank moved into the apartment in the beginning of Season Two.

The landlord is an Indian man named Hwang. [Gun Fever]

Physical Appearance[]

Charlie and Frank's apartment is a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) apartment. It's dominated by a pullout couch, where Charlie and Frank both hang out and also sleep facing ass to ass according to Frank. [Who Pooped the Bed?]

To the right of the couch is a stack of records and a guitar, and to the left is the cooking area, home to Charlie's hot plate, mini fridge, and radiator by the dining table. There are also two dressers against the wall opposite to the couch, one of which holds the television.

There are two windows in the apartment, which Charlie sometimes covers during the day. [Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person]

The apartment is on the 2nd floor of the building. [Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down]

The apartment number is 210  [The Great Recession]

There's a large closet to the right of entering that has enough room for a bed, if it's cleaned out.[1] Charlie states that he has to sleep in the closet when Frank brings home a hooker. [The Gang Turns Black] There are three other doors in the apartment: one next to the closet which is usually shut, though has a light in it, [Charlie Has Cancer] one on the same wall near the window which is usually boarded up, and another across the room from the boarded up door. Charlie claims that the boarded up door leads to the neighbor's apartment.

About 15 years after Frank moved in, it is revealed that there is a bathroom (which Charlie had been using as a storage closet) and a large empty bedroom behind the two doors closest to the windows. He hid them and neglected to tell Frank because it was too much space for his comfort as well as more to clean, and the toilet runs. Frank temporarily uses the other room, furnished with inflatable furniture from Mac and Dennis, as his "office" and bedroom. Charlie has Frank board up the bedroom and bathroom as part of his demands to "return to the status quo." [The Gang Inflates]

There is what appears to be a small maintenance closet to the left of entering that has a dirty mirror and sink, where Frank does his morning routine of gargling mouthwash and dyeing his hair. [Being Frank]

The apartment's utilized space is small and cluttered, so it does not have many good places to hide. Charlie's preferred hiding place is to lie under the sheets of the fold-out bed "like a starfish" [Mac's Banging the Waitress]. Frank likes to hide inside the sofa itself, where he often catches Charlie "pounding off". [A Very Sunny Christmas]

Charlie and Frank urinate into open cans that they leave lying around the apartment. Charlie tells Dee that she does not want to use the restroom. [Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life] As of 2016, Hwang had not fixed the plumbing. [Being Frank] This would agree with the advice Charlie gives to Frank about showering in the bar's sink when he first moves in. [Charlie Gets Crippled] We learn that there is a "shitter" down the hallway, which does not have a door so Frank and Charlie take turns being the door for each other ("The Gang Gets Romantic").

There are also no heating ducts, so the apartment gets extremely cold at night. As a result, Charlie wears thermal wear in the apartment and also sleeps back to back with Frank. [Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life]

The apartment is surrounded by stray cats which meow all night long, so every night Charlie eats cat food, huffs glue, and drinks beer to feel sick and tired and fall asleep. [Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life]

Charlie's landlord is named Hwang.[Gun Fever] Charlie, who is always broke, was usually late with his rent payment until Frank moved in. [Charlie Gets Crippled] According to Hwang in Gun Fever, the rent he's owed is $854, though it's unclear if that's for one month or if it's all the money Charlie owes him.

Charlie's most cherished possession in his apartment is his hot plate. [Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender]

Numerous people have called Charlie's apartment a "shithole". Charlie's mother Bonnie had apparently never visited the apartment prior to her reconnecting with Frank. [Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad]

There seems to be a bedbug problem in the building: the building has been fumigated at least once for them, making Frank unable to go back into the apartment to get The Gang's World Series tickets [The World Series Defense], and later, Dee's face gets inflamed from bedbug bites after she sleeps in the apartment. [Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down]

Frank keeps several boxes full of pennies stashed in the apartment. ("Mac Fights Gay Marriage")

Appearances[]

Behind the Scenes[]

  • Charlie's apartment was originally set in the Hotel Barclay in downtown LA, famous for its "shadiness" and murders, and the oldest hotel currently operating in LA. They changed nothing about the room except for the furniture, including the mold and paint color. In later seasons, it was rebuilt as a set.[2]

The German Shepherd Painting[]

An Original Hitler

Back in Season Two, there was a "very special" German shepherd painting:

"That was basically just set decoration in the second season. Interestingly enough, we actually were the ones that when we got into editing and we were watching the show - all the episodes of Season 2 - that painting stood out to us so much, too much, it was too distracting. We actually said we never want to see that painting again. Take it down. Get rid of it because it's just a shining, white, weird painting in the background of every Charlie's apartment scene", said Rob McElhenney.

But in fact, they did not just "get rid of it" - they moved it to the RCG office, so you can notice it behind Kaitlin Olson in the scripted "BTS-video" for Season Four "A Day in the Life of Kaitlin Olson" at 01:47. [Also, the decorations for Charlie's musical, which are imitate an interior of his apartment, contains an allusion to this painting.]

Later, in the 8th Season premiere, it is revealed that Charlie found this watercolor painting in the Pop-Pop's box along with Nazi memorabilia and decided to keep it (as well as Nazi peaked cap) because he liked it. [1x6] Nevertheless, between the events of Season Two and Season Three, Frank made Charlie to take it down from the wall, because, how he stated, "Its smug aura mocks me". They put it in the box and stashed away somewhere, but at some point Frank just "threw that thing out".

It also been revealed that this shepherd was painted by Adolf Hitler himself but could not be traced to him because Charlie painted on top of the original painting. At the end of the episode when Charlie burned the painting, the layer peeled off and revealed the true artist, Adolf Hitler.

Frank and Cricket both felt that there was something wrong with this painting: Cricks was talking about its "very evil vibes", and Frank even called it an "evil" itself.

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