Line #9 Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS15E04TheGangReplacesDeeWithAMonkey


1	[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Gang replaces Dee with a monkey]] as Paddy's bartender under the mistaken belief that Dee is going through menopause. Meanwhile, Dee teaches an acting class after an unsuccessful audition.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* TheAllegedExpert: Dee, a [[SmallNameBigEgo complete failure of an actress]], starts an acting class. Examples of her [[SarcasmMode excellent advice]] include never listening and shouting as loudly as possible.
5	* BadBadActing: Dee deliberately gives her acting students the worst possible advice, including to make their performances excruciatingly over the top in this style.
6	* BestialityIsDepraved: Mac seems into the idea that the monkey may have sexually assaulted him when he was asleep.
7	* BlackComedyRape: It's implied that the monkey may have sexually assaulted the Gang after they passed out.
8	* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: Dee remains a terrible actress and woefully unqualified to teach acting.
9	* CastingCouch: Dee warns he students that their superiors in the acting world will "try to bang them," including herself.
10	* CastTheExpert: InUniverse. After acting like a deranged psychopath in both her audition and on the phone with him, the director offers Dee a role he can tell she'll be perfect for... [[MedalOfDishonor "Obnoxious American Milf #1"]].
11	* ContinuityNod: Charlie mentions [[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS10E06TheGangMissesTheBoat the time he slept with Dee.]]
12	%%* {{Facepalm}}: Everyone in the audition room was doing this when the Director called Dee up and actually offered her a part.
13	* FreezeFrameBonus: When Dennis holds up the napkin, you can see that the illiterate Charlie misspelled "yellow" as "yello."
14	* GlobalIgnorance: Charlie is surprised to learn that Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania and doesn't believe two cities can occupy the same state.
15	** [[TheDitz Charlie]] also seems to think that "yellow" could be the name of a place where the Gang could go on vacation.
16	* {{Greed}}: Dee is very insistent that her students pay her for her ludicrously bad acting classes.
17	* LargeHam: Dee's acting "lessons" basically amount to telling her pupils to ham it up.
18	* LateToTheRealization: Frank, Mac, and Charlie all take quite a while to realize that Ireland is clearly the perfect place for their vacation, much to Dennis's frustration.
19	* ManipulativeBitch: Dee openly discusses how much she enjoys manipulating her students' emotions and insecurities to a near-abusive degree.
20	* ParentalIncest: Dee writes a script for her students to use, in which the female lead reveals that her baby is not her boyfriend's, but her father's.
21	* PrecisionFStrike: Frank drops an F-bomb when he observes the monkey may have performed irrumatio on them (as he put it, "The monkey may have fucked our mouths") .
22	* SequelHook: The episode ends with the Gang getting the idea to go to Ireland after Dee lands an acting gig there.
23	* SlippingAMickey: The monkey turns out to be spiking the Gang's beers with whiskey in order to assault them and rob the bar.
24	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Mac and Charlie both write down colors as potential vacation spots.
25	* SuddenlyShouting: Dee invokes this in her acting class.
26	* SurroundedByIdiots: Dennis is not impressed that Mac and Charlie wanted to go to "purple" on vacation and that Frank backs them up.
27	* TeacherStudentRomance: Dee is hoping to start one by asking Tony to see her after class.
28	* TemptingFate: When Dee proclaims that she will be a friend to her students, she gets a call-back to the last audition to she went to, causing her to discontinue her acting class.
29	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Charlie immediately vomits when Frank mentions the monkey "possibly fucked our mouths."

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