It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis
TV Flash files “The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis” as a desk essential hour — It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005–present) on FX, season 5, episode 1, aired 2009-09-17, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 46 of 181 in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 2009-09-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Nightman Cometh” (S04E13). Next is “The Gang Hits the Road” (S05E02).
Essential hour: “The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis”. The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis treats recession weather as a scheme board — McElhenney's comedy using the news cycle as a dartboard.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Frank, Mac and Dennis try their hand at real estate; Dee arranges to be a surrogate mother for a rich couple; Charlie squares off with a lawyer over the intricacies of the judicial system.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis sit in the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia guide?
S05E01 is listed hour 46 of 181 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.
When did It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S05E01 air?
The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis aired 2009-09-17 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I have to start at season one of Always Sunny?
You can. You can also jump mid-run: the Gang is fractal terrible, and the format stays viciously inventive for a long haul.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Five terrible people, infinite schemes: Charlie, Dennis, Mac, Dee, and Frank reinvent cruelty without redemption as comfort. Rob McElhenney's FX comedy made trash humans into comic purity and then outlasted almost every live-action sitcom. The anti-Friends on purpose — fractal terrible, still formally inventive.
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