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** Frank probably chartered a jet like he did in "The Gang Broke Dee." Then, considering it's the Gang, they probably stuffed her in a suitcase.
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*** To help contextualize all the struggles Charlie faced because his father wasn't present: he was a failed abortion, molested as a child, failed by the education system not noticing/caring about his learning disabilities (his dad teaches him Gaelic through letters but not English so he still struggles in the society he's a part of), bullied, neglected for long enough periods of time where he could huff glue/do inhalants, and has a very neurotic, smothering OCD mother. We never get any indication Shelley was forbidden from seeing Charlie or powerless to do so. Beyond writing letters to him, he did nothing to help his child the way a parent should.
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*** The response above is likely the real answer, but message relay services exist that allow Deaf people to make and receive calls. It’s not dissimilar to how speech to text works in that Deaf people can type their responses.
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*** Does he? When Dee suggests he go back, he simply ridicules the idea, saying "that's not how it works," not indicating his departure was anything abnormal.
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** Even if Shelley wasn’t completely absent he still wasn’t physically present in Charlie's life/ didn’t help raise him like he feels he should have as a father (ie pick him up from school, read to him etc).
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*** That is still a massive plot hole. There are plenty of museums that collect and curate Nazi artifacts and no one thinks they're immoral. Most museums fall into the non-profit world anyway.
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** I read that as a defense mechanism. His dad just died. It must be hard to fathom that this great man who had the potential to be a way better influence than anyone else Charlie ever had is here and gone so quickly.
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** As he says in the episode, he was disgusted at the thought of making money off of people's deaths. Putting Pop-Pop's uniform on display risks him and the museum looking like they were trying to glorify Nazism and the Holocaust, which would've been gravely immoral.

* Now, I want to be as sensitive and respectful when I ask this question, but in "The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain," Charlie calls Shelley a deadbeat, yet in "The Gang Goes to Ireland," Charlie reveals Shelley kept in touch with him via letters and even taught him Irish Gaelic, so I'm having trouble understanding how Shelley is a deadbeat. I apologize if that was insensitive, but I assume a deadbeat is a parent who is ''completely'' absent from their child's life, and being Charlie's pen pal was being a part of his life; even if he wasn't physically present during Charlie's formative years, he was still involved in some capacity, right? So is Charlie being unfair (even if it's perfectly understandable why) towards his father, or is there a looser definition of "deadbeat" that being pen pals doesn't fall under? Again, I mean this question with the sincerest respect towards those who've had absentee parents growing up; please pardon my ignorance.

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*** She's generally in a very bad place. She's been homeless and very poor. So she gets involved in plots.



* In "The Gang Gives Back" why would the A.A. meeting not understand that Charlie doesn't want to admit that he's an alcoholic? It's clear that the court sends people with alcohol-related violations to the group so shouldn't the group be prepared to deal with people who have committed alcohol violations and aren't self-diagnosed alcoholics?

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* In "The Gang Gives Back" why would the A.A. meeting not understand that Charlie doesn't want to admit that he's an alcoholic? It's clear that the court sends people with alcohol-related violations to the group so shouldn't the group be prepared to deal with people who have committed alcohol violations and aren't self-diagnosed alcoholics?








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\n* In "The Gang Gives Back" why would the A.A. meeting not understand that Charlie doesn't want to admit that he's an alcoholic? It's clear that the court sends people with alcohol-related violations to the group so shouldn't the group be prepared to deal with people who have committed alcohol violations and aren't self-diagnosed alcoholics?

*Why was the museum curator so upset about anyone bringing Nazi artifacts over. Every historian knows all artifacts have value?
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\n\n*** She explicitly said she liked him because she thought he was a great guy and it's hard to imagine she'd outright tell him that. He also probably wasn't that big fame-wise outside of a local following if he was living with his father. Doesn't she have to ask?
* How did the gang get Dee through airport security without looking like kidnappers when they go to Ireland.


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\n\n** Not really. Dee was only interested in him for his “fame” and she dumped him because she was being ableist.


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