Frank's Pretty Woman

"Frank's Pretty Woman"
Information
Season	Seven
Episode	One
Writer(s)	Scott Marder & Rob Rosell
Director(s)	Matt Shakman
Air Date	September 15, 2011
Chronology
Preceded by	"Dee Gives Birth"
Followed by	"The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore"

"Frank's Pretty Woman" is the first episode of the seventh season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Synopsis

Frank wants to marry a prostitute and the gang can't talk him out of it. While Dee sets out to help the hooker with the second act of her life, Charlie takes a different tack: Devising an elaborate scheme to set Frank up with another woman, one who will like Frank for who he is. Meanwhile, Mac has put on 60 pounds of weight. "I'm cultivating mass," he tells Dennis.

Recap

11:30 AM on a Monday

Dee and Charlie call animal control attempting to purchase a junkyard dog to protect Paddy's. As they explain to Dennis that junkyard dog bites make good stories, animal control hangs up on them. Mac enters with a trashbag full of chimichangas and the rest of The Gang comments on how fat he is. Frank enters with a crass prostitute named Roxy and tells the gang he is in love with her and intends on marrying her.

Dee, Dennis, and Mac are concerned about Frank's decision so they try to help Roxy clean up her act. She collapses drunk on the floor, then smokes crack. This is no longer a safe environment for Dennis given his prior addiction.  Dee agrees to help Roxy girl-to-girl, while Dennis helps Mac with his weight problem.

At Charlie's apartment, Charlie and Frank boil denim they found under a bridge. Charlie tells Frank he has arranged an online date as an attempt to find someone who likes Frank for the real Frank. At a high-end fashion store, Roxy and Dee attempt to buy clothes. Roxy pours vodka on a $500 jacket and when an employee asks if she can pay for it so pulls out a gigantic wad of cash. Dee is impressed and the employee is scolded by his manager. At a doctor's office, Mac and Dennis debate "mass" verses "fat." The doctor tells Dennis that his attempts at being thin by malnourishing himself has caused him to become anemic.  The doctor informs Mac that he is not healthy either, he has Type 2 adult onset diabetes.

On the date, Charlie poses as a wealthy man from the South while Frank poses as his limo driver. The two pick up Charlie's date and Charlie pretends to get ill, he tries to convince the girl that she should continue the date with Frank the Limo Driver. However, Charlie swallowed handfuls of fake blood capsules for effect and ends up vomiting all over her multiple times. At Dee's apartment, Roxy's client "Tiger Woods" shows up - the same actor who impersonated Donovan McNabb in "The Gang Gets Invincible". Dee agrees to get paid $500 for letting him massage her feet and decides to become a "Foot girl." At Paddy's, Mac and Dennis eat chimichangas while Mac gives himself shots of insulin. Dennis decides he has been holding himself back and that he wants to live with no reservations and decides to ask Roxy for something he has been craving for a long time—crack.

Having all failed their missions, the gang all meets back at Charlie's apartment for Frank to propose to Roxy. While Frank proposes, Roxy collapses to the floor. Frank checks her vitals and finds she has died. Dee admits she has been smoking crack "In the car on the way to the apartment and also all day long," so no one is surprised. Dee admits to having smoked a little crack too, which makes Dennis angry and jealous.  The Gang makes an executive decision and moves the dead hookers body into the hallway and to call in an anonymous tip from a payphone.  The Gang all seems to agree this is the best way to handle the situation, Frank belives that's what Roxy what have wanted.

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

• Alanna Ubach as Roxy
• John Walcutt as Doctor
• Geoffrey Owens as Fake Tiger Woods

Co-Starring

• Cort Hightower as Jerry (Salesman)
• Erin Matthews as Abey
• James Stellos as Manager

Trivia

• This episode first screened at San Diego Comic Con 2011.
• This episode is a mocking of "Pretty Woman" staring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere - according to Frank, it's a "bullshit movie".
• "Hey, Good Lookin'!" by Hank Williams plays while Charlie and Frank are in the limo. However, in the exclusive Amazon two-minute sneak peek video for this episode, there is no music.
• "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison plays during the closing credits.
• Dennis and Dee's addiction to crack is referenced for the first time since the Season 2 episode, Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare.
• Frank possibly has an older sister: "I feel like I'm a... I'm a four year old going to my sister's wedding", however, this may simply be a figure of speech.
• The name of the Charlie's oil tycoon character is "Hoss Bonaventure". This persona has been previously seen in 04x02, but without giving himself a name: Charlie simply referred to himself as "oil man from Dallas".
• The junkyard cat that Charlie mentioned was Agent Jack Bauer from "Bums: Making a Mess All Over the City".
• This episode has earned the strongest ratings in the history of Sunny - 2,28 millions of U.S. viewers.
• "Just do it" is the slogan of Nike, which the real Tiger Woods is a spokesman for. In his first appearance, Geoffrey Owens was impersonating another athlete, Donovan McNabb, and spoke another corporate slogan, "I'm lovin' it", for McDonald's.
• The Tommy Bahama shirt that Dennis wears can be seen in “Charlie and Dee Find Love”, being worn by Mac.