Matt Shakman — Director
Episodes 43
Dennis and Dee's Mom Is Dead
After Barbara's death, Dee and Frank are unhappy to learn that she left them both out of the will, while Dennis inherits the mansion which he plans to turn into a party pad.
Read MoreThe Gang Sells Out
The gang agrees to sell Paddys when they get an offer that is too good to refuse, but it forces the bar's non-partners, Dee and Charlie to find new jobs.
Read MoreThe Gang Gets Whacked (1)
After stumbling upon a kilo of cocaine, the gang is forced to pay off a $25,000 debt to the mob. Mac becomes a mob informant, while Frank pimps out Dennis as an escort at the local country club. Charlie stumbles upon an opportunity to sell illegal narcotics.
Read MoreThe Gang Gets Whacked (2)
While paying off their debt to the mob, Charlie and Dee try to find a way to make fake cocaine in order to fool them, while Dennis ranks in thousands of dollars being pimped out at the local country club. Mac realizes his position as a mob informant isn't being utilized to its full potential.
Read MoreThe Gang Dances Their Asses Off
In the season finale, Charlie accidentally puts Paddy's up as a prize for a dance marathon, which prompts the gang to enter the competition in order to save their bar.
Read MoreThe Gang Solves the Gas Crisis
Charlie, Mac, and Dennis formulate a plan to take advantage of the rising gas prices. By purchasing excess amounts now, they can sell it in the future and profit. As usual, things don't go as planned. Dee is also out to make money when she learns that Bruce is going to give the family fortune to a Muslim cultural center. She and Frank try to stop him and get the cash for themselves.
Read MoreMac’s Banging the Waitress
Charlie finds out that the waitress has been seeing someone. He calls on Mac, his so-called best friend, to find out more information about the guy and to beat him up. However, it turns out that Mac is the guy the waitress has supposedly been seeing. Dennis, heartbroken that he's not Charlie's best friend, tries to win him over.
Read MoreMac and Charlie Die (1)
Part 1 of 2. Mac and Charlie fake their deaths to avoid the wrath of Mac's father who was released from prison and is out for vengeance.
Read MorePaddy’s Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia
A newspaper critic is kidnapped by the gang after he calls Paddy's pub the worst bar in Philadelphia.
Read MoreSweet Dee Has a Heart Attack
After Dee suffers a heart attack, she and Dennis try to live a healthier lifestyle. Meanwhile, Charlie and Mac take corporate jobs to get health insurance.
Read MoreThe Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell
The gang fudge history by claiming that Paddy's Pub was responsible for cracking the Liberty Bell in an attempt to turn their dive into a Philadelphia landmark.
Read MoreThe Nightman Cometh
In the season finale, Charlie gets the gang to help him put together a rock opera based on his song "Nightman."
Read MoreMac's Mom Burns Her House Down
Mac's mother is left homeless after she burns down her house, which leaves Charlie and Mac with no choice but to make new living arrangements; when Dee feels under the weather, Frank tries to muster his paternal instincts to care for her.
Read MoreThe Gang Gets a New Member
A blast from the past prompts the guys to expand membership, and Dee to re-consider her future.
Read MoreDee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth
Motivated by the drama teacher who inspired her, Dee takes a job as a substitute teacher, and exposes her students to the culture of Paddy's with a field trip to see the Gang's take on the Lethal Weapon series: Lethal Weapon 5.
Read MoreCharlie Kelly: King of the Rats
Keeping the basement rodent-free drives Charlie to the brink. The gang throws Charlie a surprise party.
Read MoreThe Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods
En route to Atlantic City for a charity event, Mac, Frank and Dee get lost. Meanwhile, Dennis and Charlie hitch a ride to town.
Read MoreDee Gives Birth
Dee's blessed event is fast approaching but the father's identity remains a mystery---to the gang, at least. So they throw a party and invite all of Dee's former flings.
Read MoreFrank's Pretty Woman
With Frank intent on marrying a prostitute, The Gang tries to make the best of it by attempting an image makeover to uncover the heart of gold that exists deep inside Frank’s “pretty woman.”
Read MoreThe Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore
Dee and Dennis take the gang to their favorite childhood vacation spot where things aren't quite how they remember. While Dee and Dennis see the seedy side of the Jersey Shore, Mac, Frank and Charlie have the nights of their lives.
Read MoreFrank Reynolds' Little Beauties
Frank finds himself in the child beauty-pageant business and fears that people might think that he's in it for the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, Dee wages war on stage moms, and Mac, Dennis and Charlie think they have found a contestant to back.
Read MoreSweet Dee Gets Audited
Dee faces an IRS audit over her claim that the baby she carried as a surrogate is her dependent, while the guys decide to run the bar in an unemotional, democratic manner rather than their typical method of shouting and personal attacks.
Read MoreFrank's Brother
When Frank's long lost brother Gino shows up at the bar, the two of them tell the gang about the jazz club they ran in the 1960s and 70s, and how they fell out over Shadynasty, a singer who was the love of both of their lives.
Read MoreThe Storm of the Century
As a hurricane threatens Philadelphia, Mac, Dennis and Charlie go to a mall to buy supplies and check out the large breasted TV reporter broadcasting from there, while Frank and Dee prepare Paddy's, and its basement bunker, for the storm.
Read MoreChardee MacDennis: The Game of Games
The gang plays the most twisted board game ever. Dee and Dennis face Mac, Charlie and Frank.
Read MoreThe ANTI-Social Network
The gang uses the Internet to cyber-stalk their prey. Frank tries to drum up business for Paddy's with a viral video.
Read MoreThe Gang Gets Trapped
The Gang's plan to "extract" an "artifact" from a residence is jeopardized when the owners turn out to be home. Having not been noticed on the way in, they must make a plan to get the same result for the way out.
Read MoreHow Mac Got Fat
Step inside the confession booth with Mac as he tells a befuddled priest why his fatness is the fault of the other members of The Gang.
Read MoreThunder Gun Express
Traffic problems as a result of the President's visit to Philadelphia makes it difficult for the gang to see the summer's biggest film, "Thunder Gun Express".
Read MoreThe High School Reunion (1)
The gang have much to prove when they attend their high-school reunion. They meet old friends and make new foes as they stroll down memory lane.
Read MoreThe High School Reunion (2): The Gang's Revenge
The gang come up with a new plan to buff their tarnished high-school reputations at their reunion.
Read MorePop-Pop: The Final Solution
Dennis and Dee's ailing grandfather Pop-Pop is wasting away in the hospital, and they have to decide whether or not to pull the plug. But things get complicated when The Gang learns of Pop-Pop's history as a Nazi, and Mac, Charlie and Frank set off in search of the old man's spoils from the war.
Read MoreThe Gang Recycles Their Trash
With the garbage men of Philadelphia on strike, Frank concocts a plan to undercut the union and get the contract to collect the city's trash.
Read MoreCharlie Rules the World
After slipping into an unhealthy obsession with computer games, The Gang wrestles to define the difference between the real and the virtual worlds.
Read MoreThe Gang Dines Out
Every member of The Gang has something to celebrate at Guigino's, Philly's finest eatery, but when Mac and Dennis' private dinner is interrupted by an unexpected sighting of Frank and Charlie, the in-fighting begins. Dee also turns up at a table for one, and over the course of the night, the "one-ups-manship" soars to new heights.
Read MoreCharlie Work
Charlie goes into overdrive when he's notified that the health inspector will be arriving that day. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang is trying to exploit a flaw in the air-miles reward system. Written by David Hornsby; directed by Matt Shakman.
Read MoreThe Gang Spies Like U.S.
Dennis and Mac enlist Dee to spy on the fish factory across the street, Charlie and Frank grow suspicious and decide to do some spying of their own. Written by David Hornsby; directed by Matt Shakman.
Read MoreThe Gang Goes on Family Fight
When the gang appears on a nationally broadcasted game show, Dennis does his best to keep the gang’s weirdness under wraps.
Read MoreThe Gang Turns Black
After an electric heating blanket shorts out while the gang watches the Wiz they look in the mirror and realize they've turned black. They have to figure out how to get back to being themselves by going through all the classic body switch movie shenanigans they encounter.
Read MoreThe Gang Goes to a Water Park
The gang takes a trip to a local waterpark. Dennis takes on a protégé. Frank and Charlie are determined to ride every ride. Mac and Dee get stuck in a tube slide.
Read MoreWolf Cola: A Public Relations Nightmare
Franks Fluids LLC is in big trouble after a news segment. Dee and Dennis help with the PR nightmare and Charlie and Mac work on a scheme to make Fight Milk the official drink of the UFC.
Read MoreThe Gang Tends Bar
It’s Valentine’s Day and Paddy’s is packed with customers. Dennis implores the gang to do one day of actual work but everyone else is distracted by a mystery crate Cricket spotted in the alley. Eventually, the gang becomes convinced Dennis really wants them to work on their relationships and everyone shares their grievances without much resolution.
Read MoreDennis' Double Life
Dennis reveals he has a baby after his Wade Boggs layover in North Dakota and the gang try to help him get out of the jam, but their suggestions border on the extreme.
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