Dee Day

Dee Day
Information
Season	14
Episode	Three
Writer(s)	Megan Ganz
Director(s)	Pete Chatmon
Air Date	October 9, 2019
Chronology
Preceded by	"Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool"
Followed by	"The Gang Chokes"

"Dee Day" is the third episode of the fourteenth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the 147th episode of the series overall.

Synopsis

The Guys are in the final preparation stage for an unknown scheme when Dee excitedly enters to inform them that today is "Dee Day." The guys have to do everything she wants without complaint.

Plot

Dennis, Charlie, Mac and Frank are stretching and preparing for an important mission they have planned for tomorrow when an excited Dee walks in with a cuckoo clock and air horn, which baffles them, until she reminds them that tomorrow is "Dee Day", and they'll have to do anything she wants without question or complaints. They realize this will throw a wrench into their plan, but they only have a few more seconds left to complain and insult Dee before the cuckoo clock goes off and Dee Day officially begins.

For her first agenda, Dee makes everyone sit and listen to her talk about her feelings of insecurity and toxic masculinity. After she leaves for the bathroom, Dennis comes up with an idea to still pull off their scheme by having each individual pretend to "take a shit" at key moments, carry out their task, and come back. He first sends Charlie to the school he used to work at, and make a phone call to the valet while the nurse is on his lunch break to lure the valet away from their position. However, when Charlie arrives at the school, the nurse has already finished lunch and denies Charlie's attempt to make a phone call.

When Charlie returns, he finds Dee is making the gang do a play dressed as her racially-charged stereotypes. He tells them he couldn't make the call, so Dennis decides to send Mac and Frank to the valet. The two come up with a plan to steal the council woman's car keys to make a copy, but Frank ends up getting sick from a bag of clams he ate on the way, causing the council woman to drive away in disgust when he attempts to park her car for her and he vomits.

Back at the Pub, Dee forces Charlie and Dennis to passionately kiss in her play, which disgusts them. During a break, Mac and Frank return, revealing they also botched their mission, and are forced to continue with Dee's play.

Sometime later, Dee takes the group to go birdwatching at a park while goading them to insult her with their usual bird comparisons. When she leaves to go to the bathroom again, the gang tries to figure out another plan. Mac expresses his discomfort with Charlie getting Dennis's attention and praise more, but Charlie explains it is due to Dennis having candy in his pocket, which Dennis used as a tactic to get Charlie to pay attention. After giving them some candy, Dennis decides it is up to him to charm the council woman to get into her house, and set back her clocks after they "bang." Before he can leave, Dee comes back and makes him remove all his makeup. Dee then takes the group to a bar, where a sad and disheveled Dennis is forced to interact with others. They find the council woman there, and Dennis clumsily tries to seduce her, but fails spectacularly.

As Dee Day comes to an end, the guys are disappointed that their plan fell through, but Dennis assures them that they would rather not suffer another Dee Day instead. After coming back from the bathroom, Dee admits she's impressed by how well they cooperated with her activities and, once the cuckoo clock goes off, the gang rushes to the TV to see the news, and are excited to learn that a local ordinance to allow public urination has passed, which was their overall goal. They tell Dee how they've been working on a plan to sabotage the one dissenting vote from the council woman by setting her clocks back, so she would oversleep and miss the vote the next day. Dee claims their plan was ridiculous and they should have just slashed her tires minutes before she had to leave for the vote, which is what Dee secretly did during one of her "bathroom" trips. When they ask why, Dee tells them that given the many times she had to take a piss today, she, too, wants the freedom to go anywhere she wants, which the rest of the gang express disgust at. The guys turn to belittling and insulting Dee's scheme and her supposed "bird brain," when she reveals that she set the cuckoo clock ahead by one hour, meaning it's still technically Dee Day, much to the guys' disbelief. Because they insulted her before the day was over, they now have to endure another Dee Day.

Cast

Starring

• Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly
• Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds
• Rob McElhenney as Mac
• Kaitlin Olson as Dee Reynolds
• Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds

Guest Starring

• Winston Story as Nurse
• Mercedes Colon as Council Woman
• Bob Wiltfong as Chet Wallum

Trivia

• This is the ninth episode where the word "fuck" is not censored in the original airing.
• This episode along with, "America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest," "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth, The Gang Recycles Their Trash," and "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6," were removed from streaming platforms, such as Hulu, due to the use of black face following increased attention to address institutionalized racism prevalent in Hollywood in June 2020.
  • The episode can only legally be purchased with the entire season on Google/YouTube. Additionally, FXX still occasionally reruns the episode and makes it available to watch on-demand with cable providers for certain periods of time (it was most recently available on-demand from April-May 2023).
• Charlie was previously a high school janitor in season 6's "The Gang Gets a New Member" and "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth." The same high school briefly appears in "Gun Fever Too: Still Hot."
• During the birdwatching scene, the sneakers Charlie is wearing are the same he used to wear on occasion in season 1, most notably in Gun Fever and Charlie Wants an Abortion.
• Mac and Dee are the only members of the gang so far to have an episode dedicated to their special day in which the rest of the gang obey and do everything the featured person wants to do for 24 hours, although Charlie's Day was mentioned in passing, Frank's Day was shown briefly at the end of Mac Day, and Dennis's Day was mentioned in cut footage and outtakes. It is unknown if this tradition is recurring or a one-time deal.
• Dee's propensity to take multiple bathroom breaks may be a reference to a gag from The Gang Hits the Road, where despite denying the rest of the gang's stereotyping that she would make too many bathroom stops on a trip, she does so anyway.
• The name of the episode sounds very similar to D-Day, the operation that began the liberation of France during the Second World War.