Season 17 centers Frank Reynolds as the Gang's primary enabler and tormentor, using outlandish, often violent set pieces to provoke chaos. Danny DeVito embraced extreme physical comedy after initially believing the Golden Bachelor plot was fictional, a misunderstanding corrected by his daughters. The season returns to dark comedic instincts across eight episodes, featuring stunts and humiliations that escalate interpersonal stakes. Frank cons his peers into thinking he's dying, orchestrates a grotesque bet involving his children, and secretly signs up for The Golden Bachelor to pursue a young romantic interest. The Gang becomes obsessed with whether he will choose love or its shared mischief.
"I was unaware of the fact that there was such a show," DeVito says of The Golden Bachelor. "I thought they made it up at first because they always come at me with these outrageous Frank things. But I like that kind of stuff: getting hit with a brick or falling out of a window, the most crazy things that I never get to do in real life. The crazier, the better."
Over nearly two decades on the FX comedy, he has been sewn into a couch and stuck in a playground coil, gotten lost at sea, bathed in hand sanitizer, and terrorized a number of the series's secondary characters. The Always Sunny writers have for so long dreamed up outlandish scenarios for Frank - with DeVito's enthusiastic acceptance - that when the script for " The Golden Bachelor Live" arrived, he thought it was just another bit of fiction until his daughters, fans of The Bachelor universe, helped set him straight.
This 17th season of It's Always Sunny was one of the series's funniest, sharpest, and nastiest in years, in large part because these eight episodes return to a core series conceit: Frank as the Gang's enabler and torturer. Frank cons his younger counterparts into thinking he's dying; tricks his children into masturbating a dog to win a bet; and signs up for The Golden Bachelor, hoping to find a hot young thing to date, without telling the group.
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