Charlie Plays the Straight Man
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2023
- "straight person" in comedy = voice of reason.
you know when charlie is the straight man some crazy shit is happening...
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Charlie is a wonderful character because he is the most insane member of the group and the most relatable/well adjusted of the gang at the same time
It's because he has a lot of skin. I'd bet he would be even more well-adjusted if he got more skin!
@@pat2rome He’s also got a lack of traditions which helps I bet!
Well you have to remember it all depends on the context of the episode, the characters are constantly changing. Sometimes charlie is the straight man like in these clips and sometimes he's a sociopathic illiterate stalker
@@kobybarnes3035 on the podcast they talked about how they like to do bits where it’s so obvious that what the character is doing is stupid that even Charlie (the ‘idiot’) can see it and the audience and him relate and it works really well.
Charlie's like anyone I used to do cocaine with back in the early 2000s
"Frank you just created a 4 way intersection, if anything you made this intersection safer!" That will never get old to me 😅
One of the greatest "pranks" of all time.
And Frank's disappointment at his accidental good deed
One of the greatest joke in the entire show
esp becuz how does charlie even know what that is
i love that scene
You forgot "The gang Hits the Slopes" where Charlie is the only character not involved in the 80s plotline and constantly questions everything like a normal person would.
He's have to get half the episode
The newer seasons are unfunny trash.
@@jeffw8218haven’t watched sunnny in years, is it actually that bad as people say?
@@8755013 it's definitely not as good as the earlier seasons, but there's some good stuff in there. season 16 looks like it'll be a return to form imo
@@8755013 I thought the last couple seasons were sort of weak but I'd say quality was more or less consistent up through season 12, after that it gets a bit more hit or miss.
The fact that Charlie can play the straight man while torturing a leprechaun is amazing
He's not a leprechaun!
Well yeah and then we’ll get thedeamon,thegoblin,andthegooul
Danny literally makes no effort to make it sound like soul instead of hole and it makes me laugh every time.
What is so genius about Charlie being the straight man, outside of the initial subversion that you're misled to believe he's the most screwed up of them all, is although he's a selfish and egotistical gremlin just like the rest of them, the childlike innocence and vulnerability to him due to his upbringing makes it easier to get behind him or empathize with his goals than you would the others. And with him being the quintessential runt of the litter in the group with the lowest class status job literally being called "Charlie work" it means he doesn't ever feel the same unwarranted prestige the rest of them have that gives them their ridiculous narcissism, and so it creates a warped result where he inadvertently winds up being the most self-aware of them all, thus the one who finds it easiest to recognise the delusion and insanity the other four have, because that's how he's perceived and looked down on by them to begin with.
Goddamn that’s so eloquent
I'm behind Charlie's goals 99% of the way.
Never felt completely on board with denim chicken.
Well stated
Nice
@@Loctorak baron von wermhat
i love how when the only times charlie acts like a reasonable human being, everyone thinks he’s crazy
I think it’s important that most of these are Mac and Charlie. Charlie is more likely to be a straight man with Mac bc they’ve been getting into such nonsense for so long that he absolutely had to get some sense of reason so they didn’t die.
Plus with Mac being gay Charlie had no other option to be the straight one....😂
@@jg5232dammit you got there first, kudos
@@jg5232I was just about to type this!! :)
"Charlie Work" (the one with the health inspector) was, and remains, my favourite IASIP episode without exception. Such a clever and entertaining episode with Charlie being the straight man the whole time.
(Just stop asking questions and move the god damn dumpster, dee, i swear to god...)
yes! i love that scene that looks like it was all one shot. i feel like we don’t see dynamic camera work too much in this show
alright alright alright
@@stupidsloth3667 I think the whole episode or most of it was one shot
That episode is the reason why I mutter, "oh you dumb bitch" to anything xD
@@rouxcko “oh you bitch… oh you goddamn bitch” is my most used phrase since that episode 😂
i think charlie and mac are the two members of the gang who actually still have a chance of escaping the perpetual cycle of negativity that they’ve been trapped in all these years. i really feel bad for them. mac has had to repress his sexuality for his whole life and his parents both hate him, and charlie is a fatherless victim of childhood sexual abuse. those two never stood a chance at being normal, but they’re much more sympathetic and redeemable than the reynolds family is
I don’t think Charlie was molested by his uncle. That’s a dumbass theory.
right! dennis is pretty much confirmed to be a psychopath (in the mental illness term not just the “insane” term), and whilst i believe dee also deserves better, she kinda destroys her life herself and sometimes has moments similar to dennis. frank is.. frank lmao
but mac was led blinded and following beliefs that made him repress his whole being and tried pleasing his parents. and i know people will try fighting the whole charlie being SA’d as a kid, but the amount of moments and dialogues that hint at it are far too much, and that’s coming from someone who went through it as a kid too. that sort of thing can really mess someone up!
so yeah i believe they could have a shot if this wasn’t a satirical comedy show
well Dee is constantly bullied and put down and Dennis already tried to leave once, so I dont see why they would be above dee and dennis who are actually smarter
No way dude I'm pretty sure these two killed one of those kids in the bike episode 😂
mac also chokes dee every time she offends him😂 somebody always stops him idk what would happen if they didn’t lol
charlie playing the straight man really puts on display what sets him apart from the rest of the group, he's absolutely the most normal out of all of them. the other 4 are all too insane and too far up their own asses to change or improve, whereas Charlie probably would've been a completely normal person (or at least more normal than them) if he hadn't been huffing chemicals his whole life
totally agree. i think charlie is the least morally bankrupt of them all he's just an idiot (affectionate)
idk mac has had whole seasons where he’s changing and same for charlie the other 3 however are just getting worse
@@cadedeshields2343Mac overcame his homophobia and religious jingoism and Charlie finally managed to let go of the issues he had with his dad leaving him and his mom.
It’s really sad actually, kind of a tragedy. Like the episode of him and Dee hanging out together without the other guys around
Charlie’s a pretty good egg except when he’s occasionally a power-hungry egomaniac (or stalking)
“I don’t think we are suppose to make wild assumptions about black people based on whether or not we have stuff in our pockets.” This advice changed my life.
yikes
always sunny made me renounce my racist ways
I love that on the surface Charlie is the most insane and Dennis is the most normal, but as the show goes on it’s completely switched lol
Charlie is well-adjusted
“And then you proceed to just eat the man” is hands down my favorite Charlie as a straight man moment.
Catholics are weird man.
All they had to say was the flesh and blood thing is symbolic but instead they insist they're actual ritualistic cannibals
That was hilarious
Pretty sure he and Mac also went to the same Catholic school as kids, so him just at that moment catching on to the concept of communion is also hilarious in context lmao
@@dancincoolkidthat is actually an excellent point 😂
“We can’t talk about snakes, or smells? What else is there??” Super underrated line
Probably one of Charlie's best lines
I think Charlie started out at rock bottom and seeing the gang drop to his level kicks on a fight or flight mode where he has to become the rational one so he can go back to being the wildcard, it’s self preservation
Oh absolutely
the best thing is scenes like 3:36 where a character saying those lines absolutely would NOT be the straight man in any other show. but this is sunny and we are all mad here
What I like is that each character lives in their own perception of reality. Mac’s where he’s a God’s chosen badass. Dee’s where she is funny, talented, and liked. Dennis’s where he’s a golden god of sex and perfectly sane. Frank’s where the world is his oyster where he can do whatever he wants. And Charlie’s where magic exists and he’s living the most ideal life. Whenever a character is presented with another’s reality that isn’t actual reality (or at least a reality that isn’t their own), they challenge it and try to correct it (usually Dennis or Dee) and I think this concept is perfectly represented in compilations like these and the gas station robbery episode
What's funny is Frank, despite being arguably the most depraved of them all, has the most accurate perception of and the most control over reality
Well, I'd say the world is Frank's clam not oysters, oysters are disgusting, and "the world is your clam" just sounds better
Any of them acting normal feels strange and scary.
2:03 Artemis and Charlie clearly need more time on screen. Something about their non-verbal communication hasn't been achieved since.
Charlie was the straight man in the episode where Mac, Dennis and Dee tried out for the Eagles until Frank drugged him. He yelled at the gang for arguing all the time, he made everybody go outside, he just wanted to watch the tryouts and chill with a couple of beers and he refused to put on Green Man until Frank gave him acid and even then he didn't do anything crazy but dance with the McPoyles who he normally hated.
One of my favorite episodes. Charlie embodies the experience of trying to chill and vibe at a family reunion and everyone somehow involves you in their nonsense.
I love it when Charlie is the straigtman. It works even though they already established him as a completely different type of guy. Lol.
He's a true wildcard
@@Hookah_Horns *_YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWWWW_*
‘The Night Man Cometh’ is the pinnacle of theater.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, I didn't mean to thunderstrike you..."
Charlie Work is my favorite episode of the entire series because he might be illiterate but the man can keep the bar running when he's not turning on the "Coors" sign
That sign says closed
It's insane how these clips make Charlie look like a mostly normal human being
You know the episode is gonna be stellar when Charlie seems like the most reasonable one
7:07 "that kind of rubbed me the wrong way dude" absolutely perfect delivery, so funny man
Didn't mean to thunderstrike ya
Dee's facial expressions in the scene where Dennis has died his hair are so good.
her physical comedy is so good and so under-appreciated
@@mayaschaffer8112 always funny 😂
Charlie is always passionate about what he's focused on. Sometimes it's work and sometimes it's finding minerals in the sewers
15:20 I have never noticed Charlie saying “I don’t remember you reading anything about that” because he’s illiterate 😂
4:35 the way charlie owns dennis in this scene is amazing.... Stops talking and just points at his hair
9:50 hahaha the way Charlie says "Weiiiird"
the stop sign bit is one of the first bits I remember seeing from this show. "if anything you've made it safer!" has always stuck with me
I think one of the best things about this show is that at one point they're ALL the straight man depending on the situation, there's various bits where each character gets a turn at delivering the most reasonable "what the fuck are you talking about you're an idiot" response to whatever the other characters are doing, even though they're all just about as bad as each other
The lady that plays Charlie's mom is a real gem, that woman has proverbial balls the size of church bells.
Charlie plays the straight man:
"OK, I'm going to throw this grenade in the car, the car will explode and our problems will be solved! In the meantime I need you to do a popper."
5:21 Dee’s delivery here is like my favorite line in the whole show it sounds like a middle schooler explaining it and she’s so proud of her joke stool
There’s something about Dennis going “crime, penetration, crime, penetration” while waving his hands around makes me laugh so much
The fact that this brilliant show has never won an Emmy is criminal!
“Hey babe In A Turtle’s Dream just dropped a new sunny compilation!”
Charlie as the straight man is my favorite thing. It's so rare which makes it even more of a treat 💚
gold standard for compilations on the entire site, thank you!
Couldn’t agree more! This channel is the best! ❤❤
I think what I like the most about Charlie as a character is that he feels almost genuinely tragic, even within the comical confines of the show, without ever actually being tragic.
He's a complete nutcase with no knowledge of boundaries or basic decency, almost like a little kid, and he KNOWS that he's kind of the kid/runt of the gang, and to a degree, he almost relishes in it. He unapologetically likes what he likes and wants to do what he wants to do, and even if he's not good at it or it's not good for him, there's a genuine enjoyment in what he does and who he is. Charlie ALMOST likes himself for completely normal and healthy reasons.
The problem is that Charlie's in a group of friends that don't actually want him to be like that, or at least don't really get WHY he's like that. The rest of the gang looks down on him for being as idiotic, unaware, and generally immature as he is, and HE KNOWS that they're right because he himself sees some of that in who he is. Even if it's for the wrong reasons (basically being bullied into believing it), he's perfectly aware that he's weird in a bad way, that he's different, and that - perhaps because of the gang - something is wrong with him, but he never improves as a person because he's hearing it and getting it the wrong way. The gang doesn't find his bad quirks to be how unhinged or violent or stalker-y or unhealthy he is most of the time, they just think what he likes and does is weird. It's a vicious cycle Charlie's trapped in - he knows that, in some respect, he's not the best person, he finds himself weird and has that lucidity about himself, it's just that he thinks it's for the wrong reason. He can play the straight man so well because he's the only member of the gang who knows the kind of person he wants to be at heart, but he cannot escape the gang because he doesn't see the kind of person he ACTUALLY IS.
Even if impressionable and immature enough for it not to seem like it sometimes, he's an insane, idiotic, creepy, and violent moron whose best aspects are that he doesn't REALIZE how horrible of a person he is... and if he weren't so mentally handicapped and surrounded by people who insulted and belittled him constantly for reasons ultimately unrelated to what he'd need to change or improve about himself, he MIGHT be able, in another universe, MAYBE, to see what's wrong with himself and grow as a person, but that time passed him long ago as is.
The thing is, an aspect of his immaturity comes from him being coddled by his mom, and he may have repressed memories concerning his Uncle Jack, on top of his constant drug abuse, which started when he huffed glue he got from "Santa". I think besides Mac, Charlie is the closest member of the Gang to be a better person, as he mellowed out a bit when he hung out with Dee in the diner, and that was just one day. The Gang is a perfect storm of toxic co-dependency mixed with some distorted sense of camaraderie and they all bring out the worst traits in each other, even if Charlie, Mac and Frank all genuinely like each other.
sooooo….denim chicken???
@@AluminumFusion22a lot of the toxicity in The Gang definitely is due to Dennis’ influence. His psychopathy and his obsession with control mean he has to be the one controlling what they do, who they are to him and each other, and how they act in situations.
Frank may be the most depraved of The Gang (I’m gonna get weird with it, I just want to be pure, im a man cheetah, throw the kids into the soup, etc.), but we know that even he has lines he won’t cross (do not diddle kids). If it wasn’t for it being illegal, I have no doubt Dennis wouldn’t be above having sex with a minor. He views the whole world as his sandbox, and the people within them as drones he can manipulate. He sees women as a thing to achieve sex with, not a person. Frank at least was willing to live with Charlie and treat him as a friend, and save a 12-year old from a wet T-shirt contest. Frank is the only one who is also immune to Dennis’s manipulation, as he only values Charlie and doesn’t care about anyone else’s opinion.
Mac had the worst upbringing with parents who hated him and a Dad who was barely around, and developed a very toxic form of masculinity to cope with it (he absolutely loathes Dee) and repress his sexuality, which Dennis uses to assert control over what he eats and how he looks. He’s the one with the least amount of respect within The Gang due to his stupidity and his ignorance, and relies on Dennis, the head of the group, to boost what little ego he has.
Charlie is the weirdest one, but he’s also the one that, despite his crazy flaws, his insane personality and his creepy interests (Charlie work, rat bashing, huffing paint and glue, night crawlers, sewer expeditions, stalking The Waitress), is also shown to be the most likely to be a better person outside of The Gang’s influence. His mother coddled him as a child and his uncle molested him, and Dennis uses that insecurity to degrade him and undervalue him, and make him the runt of the group. Charlie is the only one who disliked Schmitty to begin with, because he genuinely finds him annoying. Dennis only got tired of Schmitty after he suggested the boys be able to make their own choices without Dennis deciding for them.
Dee is a bird.
macs smile while holding the hockey stick is golden
What am I, a gymnast?!?
Best line
I love Charlie's delayed visible double take when he realizes he said that "we just stepped out of the shower"
If it werent for the grang, Charlie would successful as heck - he's not dumb, he's just been held back by the rest of 'em
"I'm not tellin' him shit, dude! I'm gonna hang up the phone on you!" great goddamn delivery
I need to figure out how to squeeze in, "i was left out of the finale" into my conversations
Jesus goddamn Christ, Mother.
I love that Charlie being the straight man still includes the phrase "let's look for something to blow up a car"
Should have included Charlie getting a headache over Waitress yammering on about nail salon names. In Flowers for Charlie.
"I can't lie to my Charlie!!!"
Proceeds to tell him about her 3 way with Luther and Eduardo
🤣🤣
I feel like all the characters have their moments to be the voice of reason. Except Frak...OH shit I meant Frank.
Frank had a decent amount of that in his earlier episodes. Mostly before he really fell in with our boy Charlie.
He’s usually the voice of reason when money is concerned
Whenever Charlie is normal he’s still like hey I gotta leave bash some rats or I just wrote a musical to propose to a woman. He’s the straight man to help him become even more insane
“So what should I do now?”
“I don’t give a sh*t. Why are you here?”
Absolutely underrated line.
That whole scene is amazing bcuz it perfectly shows how macs stupidity is different from charlies and thats why they bounce off each other so well. The wedding dress scenes do that too
that scene at the end about charlie’s mom always gets me
she could have just said they spit-roasted her but granny doesn't know the terms, bless her.
"And then Eduardo went out... and then he killed somebody. And then... well that's all I know." Makes me laugh every time I hear it.
I miss Artemis
@9:27 Mac is explaining a story from Palahniuk's "Haunted"
17:38 I'm surprised this reaction from Charlie hasn't been meme'd.
Frank's reaction to Pondy after he says he just lies about having a vasectomy so he doesn't have to use a condom is absolutely hilarious. The entire scene Frank is pretty aloof but you can see his interest building the more underhanded Pondy gets. Danny DeVito is a legend. The scene starts 17:07.
“Like a cat: Like so. *meow* .”
The slow camera pan out to Mac in the wedding dresses is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂 3:42
Mac's insistance on getting the dress is the best part of that scene in the shop
That's one of my favorite parts
Fav Mac scenes of all time is every moment with the wedding dress. Haha
The therapist DID say he was the most well adjusted member of the gang...
I’m not sure that 8:29 counts as Charlie being a straight man as he is going along with Mac’s absurd belief that the man is a leprechaun and trying to get his supposed pot of gold…unless you mean Charlie being a straight man in the heterosexual sense and letting Mac go the gay bar.
No. It’s because Charlie understands exactly why Mac wants to go to the gay bar and knows about it when Charlie doesn’t. He’s at that point just appeasing Mac.
Kind of, but mainly I think it's about how Charlie clearly knew the real reason Mac was going to the gay bar alone and didn't buy his explanation
And Charlie was “right” about the guy _actually_ being a leprechaun.
Yeah hes being the straight man i that ge sees thru macs bullshit lmao
this is such a niche joy from the show 😭😭i can’t believe you made a compilation
0:49 - This line cracks me up, so much. 😂
Charlie is like barely weird to me because we have the same autism. Pretty much the only difference is he’s constantly huffing chemicals and killing rats.
Dude literally 😭 I'm not as chaotic as him but so many of his thought processes just make sense to me so I can't judge him
I’m autistic but Dennis is the one that makes the most sense to me… should I be concerned
Charlie is a fictional character tho.
He explores sewers naked. Eats grilled chorlies.
"Hold on. So you believe Christ comes back to life every Sunday in the form of a bowl of crackers and than you proceed to just eat the man?" Comedy at its finest.
Dennis is the self-proclaimed Leonardo, Mac i think is the Donatello, Sweet Dee is the Raphael, and Charlie is the absolute Michaelangelo
Is Frank Master Splinter?
Cricket is Casey, and Artemis is April
Ryan and Liam are Shredder and their entire incestuous extended family is the footclan
@@rotcehlobo8311 I think that is certain for this show 🤭
I do love how everyone shifts when Charlie plays straight man- you ever notice that? The other characters are impacted dramatically for that to be the case. It kinda blows a whole on the whole “Dennis is a genius narrative”. Eg: Frank is magically now a dip shit who doesn’t understand 4 way intersections despite manipulating everyone with ease. Dennis can’t be apart from his Roomate in his mid 30s and can’t eat apple skins bc mac said so.
Probably the most straight man Charlie moment ever IMO absent from this awesome list:
- MAC: feel like you’re making fun of me…”
- Charlie: ……. “Oh?”
😂
4:40 He looks more like a vampire than he does Superman if you ask me.
Dude looks like an NPC from Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
2:44 “And what I can do is thrust this way and you can struggle.” 🤦♂️ Jesus Christ….
You know whenever they start playing music, someone has said something golden.
I ❤ reasonable Charlie. My favorite is him dealing with concussed Mac because he's forced to be the sane one, and it's one of the first times he's in that position on the show...
"OK. I'm going to throw this grenade into the car. the car will explode and our problems will be solved. in the meantime, i need you to do a popper."
Charlie, somehow the more rational person in this scene.
5:04 this sound kills me everytime
The scene at 4:50 feels like Glenn and Charlie decided last minute to switch roles. All charlies lines sound like something Dennis would say. "-Youre supposed to serve drinks" "aaaaa- *points at black hair* thats terrible"
11:31 All their faces here are oscar worthy.
How they got Glenn doing that monologue without a single cut is a true wonder of the world
charlie has always been my favorite. the character is genius. the pod cast is fantastic for work too
Apparently Charlie understands how four-way intersections work
“I’ll hop up to him like a cat. Like so. Meow.”
I haven’t thoroughly watched this show since 2016 but my god it’s incredible, lmaoXD
Thanks for coming back and dropping this banger buddy very thundergun of you
3:18 is honestly one of my favorite reaction shots of all time. "... We're not buying the wedding dress."
OOOOOhh yeah! Didn't think this was actually going to get made. Honestly that first scene with stop signs was probably the first time I thought Charlie was really funny as the straight man. My favorite clip is Charlie roasting Holy Communion, you can just imagine him with a fedora on. Personally, I was also hoping for the Luther Vandross clip. "I mean, Luther Vandross, Mac? Are you kidding me, LUTHER VANDROSS?!!"
i love this channel so much, you totally get the dynamics between all the characters and that completely different situations can be put together in one video
By far your biggest brain idea for a compilation
I don’t think I can forgive you for cutting out Charlie yelling to Mac “Touch your toes” “I’m not a gymnast!”
All the time Charlie is treated as an idiot, got brain damage from all the glue he huffs. Then suddenly he has these moments of clarity and everyone else acts like he is being crazy.
Thank you thank you I've been waiting for a compilation of this
I've been waiting for this video. Some of my favorite moments in comedy shows are when the character that's usually the funny man plays the straight man.
"i would rather you didn't" when mac pulls the karate chops LOL
Straight Man, aaaaah
Fighter of the Gay Man, aaaaah
Champion of the right, aaaaah
You’re a master of correction and loving for everyone
2:20 Dennis's face hahaha I'm dying 🤣🤣
Banger of an edit
It’s always fascinating when Charlie, who is the most insane of the gang acts more normal and sane than the rest of the gang.
Who else had to rewind a few seconds to rewatch that last clip at least one more time? 😂
Eduardo and Luther deserve a bit of recognition.
5:12 lmao his face
"Don't even start, man." kills me every.single.time.
This was an amazing compilation!
So much nostalgia every time I watch old episodes of its sunny