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"Charlie Gets Crippled" is the first episode of the second season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Synopsis[]

Dennis and Dee's father Frank abruptly appears, causing Dennis to accidentally run Charlie over with his car. After seeing Charlie get attention from strippers over being in a wheelchair, the Gang decides to feign disabilities in order to garner sympathy from others.

Recap[]

10:15 PM on a Monday

Dennis, drunk driving to the strip club, hits Charlie with his Range Rover when his father Frank spooked him in the parking lot. At the hospital, Frank explains to his children that their mother is a whore and they are getting a divorce. He also tells them that he is giving all his money to charity and starting a new life. Dennis and Dee storm off, and Mac and Charlie decide to take Frank to a strip club to cheer him up.

At the strip club, two strippers feel bad for Charlie because he is in a wheelchair, but Frank ends up having sex with both strippers in Charlie's apartment. The next morning Frank finds Charlie asleep in his wheelchair in the hallway and manages to convince him to crash with him for six months.

2x1 Charlie Gets Crippled Nam vet

Meanwhile, Dennis and Dee raid their parents home for valuables. Back at Paddy's, they gloat over what they took and what the other didn't get and break some sentimental items of each others. Mac arrives in a wheelchair and convinces Dennis to get one so they can pick up chicks. Dee is flabbergasted by their actions. At the mall, Dennis and Mac's strategy fails when they see Dee in walking sticks. They have a wheelchair race to see who gets to claim they have polio but just end up fighting each other on the floor.

Charlie and Frank walk to the strip club again and Charlie decides to dress as a war hero to get even more strippers. Rather than buying a uniform, he buys a 1960s hippie outfit and claims he was in 'Nam. This doesn't work and Frank manages to get the strippers again. Charlie has to sleep in the alley outside Paddy's.

Charlie returns to the strip club one more time where he sees Frank in a motorized scooter. They begin to fight in the parking lot. Just then, Dee walks by with a man she recently met at the mall while pretending to be disabled. A drunk Dennis drives Mac to the strip club but falls asleep at the wheel, crashing the car into the people outside the strip club.

At the hospital, everyone who pretended to be crippled is now crippled: Dee, Frank, Mac, and Dennis. They begin to fight but Frank shushes them and they decide to go for ice cream, to celebrate the fact that nobody was seriously hurt. As they leave the room, they pass the man who was with Dee, now in a full body cast.

Cast[]

The Gang Gets Crippled

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

  • Kristoffer Polaha as Male Employee
  • Natasha Leggero as Stripper #1
  • Sara Erikson as Stripper #2

Co-Starring[]

  • Tiffany Haddish as Stripper #3
  • Josh Fadem as Wayne

Trivia[]

  • Charlie's "war hero" costume from this episode is based on famed Vietnam war protester and writer, author of the Born on the Fourth of July memoir Ron Kovic.
  • As Mac and Dennis are talking about how bad they feel after running into a disabled guy in the mall, they pass a suit store. The girl and the guy working there are looking into the camera and the girl waves to the camera.
  • Before Dennis smashes Dee's China lamp at 09:20 the door to the office clearly shows the "Private" sign but when the camera looks back up from the smashed lamp a large white sign has been pinned to the office door just below the bottom of the "Private" sign. Clearly visible at 09:26.
  • This is the final episode where the intro starts with the title of the show rather than the episode title.
  • The band Sass Dragons used a sample of Charlie's dialogue from this episode in their song titled "Heroin (Don't Do)"
  • First appearance of Frank Reynolds, who would then go on to become a main character.
  • Charlie mentions to the stripper that his best friend (Dennis) ran over him with his car. However, in the 4th season episode, Mac's Banging the Waitress, Charlie says that Mac is his best friend due to Dennis having slept with The Waitress in season 2's 'Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom'.
  • When Dennis and Dee are in their mom’s house and are possibly in the living room of the house, the camera that is on Dennis appears to have more than him just on the screen: in multiple shots on Dennis, there is someone standing on the left side of the screen, also a cord can be seen too.
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  1. "Charlie Gets Crippled"
2. "The Gang Goes Jihad"
3. "The Gang Gives Back"
4. "Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare"
5. "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom"
6. "The Gang Runs for Office"
7. "Hundred Dollar Baby"
8. "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass"
 9. "The Gang Exploits a Miracle"
10. "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad"
 
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