| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | |
|---|---|
| Season 12 | |
 Promotional poster | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | FXX |
| Original release | January 4 – March 8, 2017 |
| Season chronology | |
The twelfth season of the American comedy television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered on FXX on January 4, 2017. [1] The season consists of 10 episodes and concluded on March 8, 2017. [2]
The series was renewed for an eleventh and twelfth season on April 4, 2014, each to consist of 10 episodes. [2] On December 15, 2016, Glenn Howerton revealed the season premiere would be a musical episode. [3]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | US viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | 1 | "The Gang Turns Black" | Matt Shakman | Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney | January 4, 2017 | XIP12008 | 0.730 [4] |
| In this musical episode, an accident involving an electric blanket and a VCR playing The Wiz causes the Gang to appear African-American in the mirror and in everyone else's eyes while the old man who appeared at the end of "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs" vanishes. Now they must find a way to reverse the spell while facing the prejudice and discrimination that comes with being black in America. | |||||||
| 126 | 2 | "The Gang Goes to a Water Park" | Matt Shakman | Eric Ledgin | January 11, 2017 | XIP12007 | 0.574 [5] |
| The Gang spends a day at a water park: Dennis teaches a 12-year-old girl the ways of a manipulative sociopath; Mac and Dee get stuck on a waterslide (Dee is paranoid about the amount of urine in water-park water); and Frank and Charlie try to go on every ride, including one that's not open yet. | |||||||
| 127 | 3 | "Old Lady House: A Situation Comedy" | Maurice Marable | Dannah Phirman & Danielle Schneider | January 18, 2017 | XIP12005 | 0.602 [6] |
| Charlie thinks Mac's mom is holding his mom hostage so the Gang installs spy cameras in their house to monitor what's going on...and Dennis turns their videotaped antics into a sitcom. | |||||||
| 128 | 4 | "Wolf Cola: A Public Relations Nightmare" | Matt Shakman | David Hornsby & Scott Marder | January 25, 2017 | XIP12006 | 0.629 [7] |
| Frank's Fluids, LLC is in big trouble after a news segment reports that Wolf Cola has become the official drink of Boko Haram instead of Boca Raton. Meanwhile, Mac and Charlie try to promote Fight Milk (the drink they tried to promote near the end of "Frank's Back in Business") which leads to more trouble. | |||||||
| 129 | 5 | "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer" | Maurice Marable | Conor Galvin | February 1, 2017 | XIP12004 | 0.602 [8] |
| In this send-up of murderer documentaries like Making a Murderer and The Jinx, Maureen Ponderosa—now almost finished transitioning into an anthropomorphic cat—is found dead in an alley, and Dennis is the prime suspect, based on his short-lived marriage to her and the growing evidence that he's a sexual predator who targets women. | |||||||
| 130 | 6 | "Hero or Hate Crime?" | Jamie Babbit | Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney | February 8, 2017 | XIP12002 | 0.551 [9] |
| The Gang consults three different arbitrators to determine the rightful owner of a lost scratch-off lottery ticket and prove whether Frank using a homophobic slur against Mac to save him from getting crushed by a piano is considered a heroic act or a hate crime. | |||||||
| 131 | 7 | "PTSDee" | Jamie Babbit | Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney | February 15, 2017 | XIP12003 | 0.572 [10] |
| Dee helps a male stripper who feels that he's hit rock-bottom after sleeping with her. Meanwhile, Dennis becomes a male stripper with Charlie as his assistant, and Mac's and Frank's mental health deteriorates while playing a virtual-reality war game. | |||||||
| 132 | 8 | "The Gang Tends Bar" | Matt Shakman | Megan Ganz | February 22, 2017 | XIP12009 | 0.587 [11] |
| It's Valentine's Day, and Paddy's is packed with customers. Dennis demands that the Gang actually put in a day's worth of work, but everyone else would rather try to open a crate in the alley. Elsewhere, Dee is furious when she gives Charlie a valentine and he doesn't return the favor. | |||||||
| 133 | 9 | "A Cricket's Tale" | Jamie Babbit | David Hornsby & Scott Marder | March 1, 2017 | XIP12001 | 0.523 [12] |
| In this episode that takes place between "PTSDee" and "The Gang Tends Bar," Rickety Cricket is offered a chance to escape the Gang's toxic influence and recover some of his former life when his estranged father suddenly shows up to offer him a job with his company, but a strange young woman complicates things. | |||||||
| 134 | 10 | "Dennis' Double Life" | Matt Shakman | Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney | March 8, 2017 | XIP12010 | 0.640 [13] |
| Dennis discovers that the woman he had sex with during his North Dakota layover in "The Gang Beats Boggs" has a child, and he must decide whether to leave her a single mother or move in with her and raise the kid; meanwhile, Charlie finally has sex with The Waitress. | |||||||
The twelfth season received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 90% with an average score of 8.6 out of 10 based on 21 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Twelve seasons in and It's Always Sunny still shines bright thanks to its willingness to trod into new comedic territory and push the limits of its already limitless characters." [14]
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