"Mac and Dennis Break Up" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Synopsis[]
Mac and Dennis decide to spend some time apart; Charlie lends his feline expertise to help Dee find her cat.
Recap[]
12:00PM on a Friday
Mac and Dennis arrive at Dee's apartment for a popcorn bowl and Dee insults them for spending so much time together. She also shows off her new cat, and they comment that she has begun her transformation into a crazy cat lady.
Raider seizure of Charlie's apartment (from DELETED SCENE)
Back at their apartment, Mac calls the cops on Dennis after he was out of the apartment for over an hour. They realize they are too dependent on each other, so Mac decides to spend time with Frank and Charlie, and Dennis decides to spend time with Dee.
When Dennis arrives at Dee's apartment, she is worried because her cat has somehow crawled into her wall and is trapped. She finds out that she has to baby Dennis like Mac does, including peeling his apples. At Charlie's apartment, Mac can not believe the mess that Charlie and Frank live in and decides to clean up. Charlie grows tired of Mac's bossiness so decides to go watch a movie with Dennis at Dee's place.
At her apartment, Charlie becomes more interested in the cat-in-the-wall situation. He offers to help. Dennis whines that nobody is watching the movie with him. Mac becomes too bossy and clean for Frank, so he heads for Dee's apartment as well.
Charlie ties a string to another cat which he puts in a new hole he busted in the wall, with the plan of making them codependent and pulling the second cat out. The string breaks and Dee decides to try another method: a bird on a string. Dennis annoys Charlie and Dee by freaking out over swallowed apple seeds. Frank arrives and the three of them agree to get Dennis and Mac back together again.
Dee lures Dennis and Mac to a restaurant, telling each that they are going to meet a large breasted woman. At first they fight and throw water at each other, but they eventually realize they make a good team and decide to be friends again. Back at Dee's apartment, Dee sends in a bird on a string, but the string breaks. She snaps and busts a huge hole in her wall and walks in herself. She finds out that Charlie and Frank have put many more cats into the wall trying to retrieve her cat. They leave to watch Predator with Dennis and Mac with Dee now stuck in her wall, no closer to finding her cat.
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
Co-Starring[]
- John Ponzio as Manager
- Ara Anton as Police Officer
Uncredited[]
- Shaun Paul Costello as Dude
Trivia[]
- Dennis and Mac watch Predator quite frequently.
- After Mac and Dennis throw cups of water at each other in the restaurant, a large water stain is visible on Dennis' shirt. After the manager comes to tell them to leave, this stain is looks significantly smaller.
- The beginning of the episode says 12:00 on a Friday, however Dennis says in Dee's apartment that "Tuesday night is movie night".
- There are no scenes taking place at Paddy's in the episode.
- There are also no scenes in which all five main characters are together.
- Mac apparently believes apple skins are full of toxins and peels them off for Dennis.
- Dee states in the restaurant that neither Dennis or Mac are going into her apartment again, though they'll eventually be living together. (Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs)
- Charlie states that all calico cats are female. This is mostly correct - since both the white and orange/black tortoiseshell genes, which combine to form the calico coloring, are carried by X chromosomes, two X chromosomes (usually one from each parent) are required to produce a calico kitten. As a result, almost all calicos are female, but there are rare instances of male calicos with one Y and two X chromosomes. These rare calico males are usually sterile due to the chromosome abnormality. This is true of tortoiseshell cats as well.
Quotes[]
From deleted scene:
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— | “(to Charlie) I'm gonna go ahead and weight in on this, and say that regardless of whether or not Mac ends up living here, you need to stop eating cat food.” |
| “(sarcastically) Why?” | — | 
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— | “Well, because you're not a cat.” |
From an extended take (Season 5 promo):
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— | “My struggles with cats cause back to my beginnings.” |
Videos[]
| < Season 4 |
Season 5 | Season > 6 |
| 1. "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis" 2. "The Gang Hits the Road" 3. "The Great Recession" 4. "The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention" 5. "The Waitress Is Getting Married" 6. "The World Series Defense" 7. "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops" 8. "Paddy's Pub: Home of the Original Kitten Mittens" 9. "Mac and Dennis Break Up" 10. "The D.E.N.N.I.S. System" 11. "Mac and Charlie Write a Movie" 12. "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry" 13. "A Very Sunny Christmas" |