Who Got Dee Pregnant?

Who Got Dee Pregnant?
Information
Season	Six
Episode	Seven
Writer(s)	Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney
Director(s)	Randall Einhorn
Air Date	October 28, 2010
Chronology
Preceded by	"Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down"
Followed by	"The Gang Gets a New Member"

"Who Got Dee Pregnant?" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Synopsis

The gang gets a real 'scare' after Dee reveals she's pregnant, forcing the guys to recall their last hazy Halloween Party to determine if one of them may be the father.

Plot Summary

5:30 PM, On a Saturday, Philadelphia, PA

The gang is at the bar packing for their trip to the museum (wanting to replicate the plot to the film Night at the Museum), and make fun of Dee's recent, noticeably increased eating habits. Dee reveals she is pregnant, and after enduring more insults from the gang, tells them one of them got her pregnant at the last Halloween party. Trying to determine who the father is, the gang tries to piece together the events of that evening, although all of them were very drunk.

Dennis is the first to give his account of the party: Dennis is angry at Mac as they had agreed to go as Mario and Luigi, but Mac changed his costume without telling him and came as Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings. They are first joined by Frank, who is dressed up as Spider-Man, and Charlie, who came as the Phantom of the Opera (whom he believes is a vampire), then by Dee. The guys make fun of her dressing as a bird, although she is clearly in an angel costume. Dee gets defensive and points at a woman who actually wears a bird costume (peacock), but the guys are all attracted to her instead and Dennis proclaims this woman as his prey for the evening. Later on, after Dennis is rebuffed by the peacock woman because she thinks his flirting is creepy, Charlie comes to him, crying, saying his costume is too sexy and that she (without naming who exactly) was trying to take advantage of him. Dennis sees his chance to try again with the peacock woman and offers to switch costumes. Dennis claims he ended up banging the peacock woman and assesses that Charlie is the father.

Charlie is horrified as he remembers crying, but then claims he cried out of joy and gives his account: While Frank and Artemis are having an argument, Charlie is standing at the jukebox with the McPoyles, establishing a truce for their usual disdain toward each other. Dee comes by shortly, then the Waitress walks in together with her new boyfriend, having apparently been hounded by Charlie's invites to come to the party. Charlie accosts the boyfriend, and calls for Mac to have his back. Charlie then punches the boyfriend, who bumps into Ryan McPoyle and spills his milk onto Dee. The Waitress is impressed by Charlie's masculinity and they make out.

Frank, however, disproves Charlies story, and proceeds to set the record straight: Frank is actually not dressed as Spider-Man but "Man-Spider". He and Artemis were having an argument because she wanted to have dumpster sex but Frank wanted to stay at the party. Meanwhile, Charlie confronts the Waitress and her boyfriend. He calls for Mac for backup, who pushes Charlie into the boyfriend, who bumps into Ryan and spills his milk onto Dee. The Waitress storms away, and Artemis grabs Charlie and kisses him instead to make Frank jealous. After Charlie frees himself, he angrily complains about his costume being too sexy, having attracted Artemis instead of the Waitress.

The Gang calls Artemis to come by, who confirms Frank's story but claims Mac had sex with Dee: She claims Mac went into the men's bathroom to wash blood off of his knuckles, and Dee did the same to clean off the milk spilled on her and finding the line to the women's bathroom too long. After Artemis and Frank reconcile and compromise to have sex in the bar's men's bathroom, they find the door to the men's bathroom locked, and Artemis claims to have heard the sounds of people having sex inside. She concludes this must be Mac and Dee.

Mac denies he had sex with Dee and begrudgingly tells his side of the story: When Charlie calls for his help, he comes and punches the Waitress's boyfriend. Afterwards he washes his hand in the men's room and Dee comes in (whom Mac perceives as an ostrich), Mac dismisses her. He then discovers Margaret McPoyle is in the bathroom, and admits they had sex.

The gang goes to the McPoyles - who were drinking milk all night and therefore sober - to confirm Mac's story. Liam McPoyle gives his account: While they are standing at the jukebox, Charlie - who is very drunk - is trying to make a truce, but they dismiss him. Then a woman who Charlie thinks is the Waitress comes in with her boyfriend and Charlies starts to harass them. Charlie calls Mac for help, who pushes Charlie into the boyfriend, who stumbles into Ryan and spills milk onto Dee. Then Mac punches the woman instead of the boyfriend. Artemis grabs Charlie and makes out with him. Mac goes to the bathroom to wash his hand of blood, kicks Dee out, and has sex with Margaret, about which the McPoyles are palpably excited. Dee is angry after she comes out of the bathroom. She notices the peacock woman and ultimately forces her to switch costumes after accosting her and convincing her this would get Dennis to leave her alone. Dressed up as a peacock, the McPoyles believe Dee is out to prove that she is sexy by having sex with one of the gang, and assumes she picked Charlie as the easiest target. Dee takes the man who is wearing the Phantom of the Opera costume, whom the McPoyles believe to be Charlie, into the back office to have sex. The gang, however, amends the story by adding that Dennis switched costumes with Charlie since Dennis believed his costume was not attractive enough for the peacock woman and Charlie was upset at attracting the wrong person with his costume. The gang is horrified that this meant Dee must have unknowingly grabbed Dennis instead to go have sex after he switched costumes. The McPoyles are delighted, and Dennis begins to retch.

The gang races over to Dee and bang on her door to tell her what they found out, but she disproves their theory. She tells them she did not have sex with Dennis and that none of them is the father. She lied that one of them was the father to make them care about her and her pregnancy. When she refuses to tell them who the father is, the guys have no interest since they were only concerned if one of them was directly involved in her pregnancy or not. They then conclude they can still go to the museum as they originally planned.

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

• Mary Elizabeth Ellis as Waitress
• Artemis Pebdani as Artemis
• Nate Mooney as Ryan McPoyle
• Jimmi Simpson as Liam McPoyle
• Thesy Surface as Margaret McPoyle
• Michael Trotter as Eric

Co-Starring

• Alice Macdonald as Amy
• Brandon Molale as Big Eric
• Stacy Stas as Peacock Woman

Trivia

• The guys were so pumped about the "Night of Museums" probably because of the Night at the Museum movies with Ben Stiller.
• On 01:01 Frank says to Dee about her baby "You better do yourself a favor and flush it out". Then Charlie says to Frank "Wait a second. You've definitely said that before" - that's a reference to the very beginning of "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis" episode.

Alternate take

• There's three different versions of the scene with Mac and "Giant Bird"-incarnation of Dee in the bathroom. The final version with a real ostrich was shot singly and much later, after the filming of Season 6 end - it was the first time they had done something like this.
• According to Glenn, the McPoyles musical theme is called
  "Hawaiian Cowboy".
• When Charlie says "Who's this jerk?" (14:51), the girl isn't wearing her mask, but she is in the next frame.
• This episode was first screened at Comic-Con 2010.
• Margaret McPoyle is a deaf-mute, yet her brothers insist she is expecting a call from Mac.
• The reference to "browning out", and all the talk at that point about "brown"-ness, could be a nod to the End Credits Hidden Messages that end every episode, featuring a message recorded backwards that, in all episodes except for Season 1, Season 9, Season 10, and "A Very Sunny Christmas", makes mention of "brown" in some way.
• In the episode, Charlie attends the party dressed as The Phantom of the Opera. This is actually a very apropos costume choice as Charlie is also very musically talented (Sweet Dee's Dating a Redacted Person), produced a musical to woo a woman that he compulsively stalks (The Nightman Cometh), has a tendency to retreat to the sewers when he feels threatened (The Gang Dines Out), and even within the episode is using a masked party as an opportunity to stalk The Waitress. Charlie seems to be aware of none of these parallels, as he says he picked the costume because he thought the phantom was a sexy vampire who "eats theater people".
• This is the second time Dennis and Dee have been accused of engaging incestuous sex with each other.
• The father is revealed a few episodes later in Dee Gives Birth.
• This episode is based on the 1950 Japanese film, Rashomon, that coined the term "The Rashomon Effect", where different characters tell different versions of the same event.

Quotes

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“Stupid costume - is so sexy...”

“What?”

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“I can't believe it, man. She takes advantage of me. She's like, "Oh, my God, you look so sexy! I'm gonna sex you all up!". I'm like, "You're just my friend! Get your sex off me!". And then she gets all sexy with me, 'cause I've, like, got the sexiest costume in the world on! And I hate it!”

“So what- Did you want to get rid of that costume?”

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“Yes, I want to get rid of the costume! Do you have any idea what it's like to be this sexy?”

 

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“Oh, goddamn it! I got milk all over me!”