This is (to my knowledge) every instance from the beginning through season 18, including the Christmas special and the Abbott Elementary crossover. I will try to update this video in the future as more episodes are released.

It was fun to see three straight minutes of "Chollie Chollie Chollie", but it's sort of sad to see how much that has reduced recently. In Frank's first seasons, there are 30+ instances in each season. But in recent seasons, there are only a couple instances in each season. That just illustrated to me how much less Danny DeVito is being featured in the show compared to previous seasons.

Something that I noticed on this rewatch: the logistics of the choking scene make no sense, if you think of it. Why would EMTs ever be helping someone choking? If someone was choking, no one would have time to call EMTs to assist. The choker would be passed out before the call is finished, let alone how long it takes for the EMTs to actually arrive. The only way this scene makes sense is if you assume they had been responding to some other emergency at this restaurant, then a completely unrelated individual happened to start choking while they were there.

This has always confused me. Is their name not actually Juarez, or is it? Throughout S4E12 "The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover", they refer to this family as "the Juarez family". But then at the end of the episode, after there was supposedly some legal battle or something, Charlie says "I can't believe their name isn't actually 'Juarez'" and the rest of the gang all agrees. But then in S8E6 "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer", we see the father again and he clearly introduces himself as "Mr. Juarez".

So... was that their name or not? I don't get that dialog about how they all got the name wrong. It makes sense that the gang would get their name wrong, considering that it was established that they don't really know this family at all. Then it makes sense that they would finally learn what the name actually is after hearing a judge say it or something. But aside from that one line, they are always called "Juarez", even after that line. So... I assume their name is really "Juarez". But then what is Charlie's line there even talking about???

Some notable quotes:

S4E12 "The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover"

CHARLIE: First things first: let's find a family to unleash our extremeness all over.
DEE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, a desperate family that's gonna yield us the highest return.
FRANK: How about the Mexican family that moved in down the block?
CHARLIE: Right. What is their name? The Juarez family, I think.
MAC: Oh, that's perfect! We can help the Juarez family!

DEE: Unbelievable! I cannot believe the judge made me give my mansion to the Juarez family!
CHARLIE: I can't believe their name isn't Juarez. Was anyone else surprised by that? Shocker.
ALL: [miscellaneous agreement]

S8E6 "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer"

DEE: Hey, uh-uh, Mr...
MR. JUAREZ: Juarez.
DEE: Mr. Juarez, that's right! [to Frank] You remember the Mexican family whose house we burned down and we had to give them our mansion?

S18E1 "Frank Marries a Corpse"

Attempting an AVIF instead if a GIF or WebP. I am curious how it displays for you and what browser/app you're using.

This post is a spoiler for S16E8 "Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day".

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This may be old news for fans, but I wanted to make a post pointing this out. Throughout this episode, Dennis encounters a number of strangers while he attempts to take a mental health day. At the end of the episode, we find out that everything we saw was actually just a daydream, and the individuals we met in the daydream were actually inspired by things that Dennis had seen on his way into the doctor's office.

Tsuma

In Dennis's daydream, he is driving a poorly-functioning electric vehicle from the fictional brand Tsuma. The majority of the daydream revolves around this car brand and its parent company.

Soon after Dennis's daydream ends, right before he leaves the doctor's office, Dennis says "Thank you, Dr. Tsuma." Considering that we had never seen or heard of this car brand before, this seems to imply that Tsuma is not actually a car brand, but instead is just the name of Dennis's doctor.

But in season 18, we later saw a few instances of Tsuma actually being a real company. There were Tsuma advertisements/banners in the background of scenes as well as an episode with an actual self-driving Tsuma electric car that the gang rides in. This implies that in the mental health day episode, Dennis had heard the doctor's name and unconsciously made the connection to the car company of the same name. Imagine if your doctor came in and introduced themselves as Dr. Ferrari. If you let your mind wander, it may start imagining what it would be like to own a Ferrari sports car. It just so happened that Dennis's doctor's name is also used by an entirely unrelated car company.

Bonus: The rental car that Dennis drives has a license plate that reads "BSX-3558". I have no idea if that is a reference or anything, but it may be fun to speculate.

Tsuma receptionist

When Dennis finally makes it to the Tsuma headquarters, he interacts with the receptionist there. The receptionist offers to take a message for the CEO, but ultimately leads Dennis to the CEO's beach house for some reason.

This Tsuma receptionist was inspired by the receptionist at the hospital.

Tea shop barista

After picking up his rental car, on the way to the beach, Dennis decides to stop at a tea shop. There, he has a negative interaction with the barista while trying to check out. This tea shop has a bunch of unnecessary modern restrictions while Dennis just wants to trade cash for tea.

The barista was inspired by a patient who was sitting in the waiting room outside of the exam room. Notably, this patient was seen sipping a boba tea like the kind sold at the tea shop in the daydream.

Car rental cashier

Dennis's first stop after deciding to take a mental health day was to pick up a rental car. He is told that the car he reserved is not actually available and that he will instead be "upgraded" to a Tsuma. Dennis is visibly excited by this news because he does not know what is actually in store for him due to this car.

The cashier here was inspired by the patient in the waiting room that was sitting right next to the tea shop inspiration.

Phone cashier

After Dennis drives off with his phone on the roof of the car, he needs to buy a new phone because that is the "key" that allows him to start the car. He has an argument with the phone salesperson who indicates that the phones sitting there on the counter can only be sold to "new customers" while existing customers like Dennis will have to wait a day for their new phone to be shipped to them from elsewhere. Dennis comes up with the workaround of adding a new line to the family plan, which apparently is enough to consider him a "new customer" who can be issued a phone immediately.

This salesperson was inspired by the model on a poster advertising a diabetes management phone application.

Tsuma CEO

The final stop in Dennis's daydream is to confront the CEO of Tsuma about what a day he has gone through. We see a musical sequence of Dennis thrusting his hand in the CEO's chest, tearing out his heart, crushing it into a diamond, and eating it.

This CEO was inspired by some random doctor that Dennis had seen walking around the hospital.

As a side note, there are a bunch of little things to note during this beach sequence with the CEO:

• The song playing in the background is "Listen to your Heart" by Roxette, which is the song that Dennis had been listening to in the car. That song is also played to end the episode in "reality" as Dennis is leaving the doctor's office and we see all the people who served as inspiration for the characters who he interacted with in the daydream.
• The fact that he crushed the CEO's heart into a diamond is a callback to the rest of the gang's B-plot with them trying to put coal in a pressure cooker to create diamonds.
• When Dennis crushes the heart into a diamond, you can see his health monitor watch stabilize, indicating that he has finally calmed down and reduced his blood pressure.

The CEO is also reading the novel "the Pelican Brief" right before being confronted by Dennis. I do not know much of anything about this novel, but I assume this must be some greater reference to something else in the episode here. Reading through the plot summary on Wikipedia, I see that some relatively minor character in the novel has the surname "Coal", but that seems to be the only connection I can tell. Hopefully someone who is familiar with that novel can chime in and let me know whether or not there seems to be a deliberate connection here.

Tsuma customer care representative

While locked out of the rental car, Dennis calls a series of Tsuma helplines to try to get back in. After speaking to numerous automated systems, he finally gets connected to an actual human customer care representative who introduces themselves as "Daisy".

This is the most abstract of characters in this list, because we do not actually see this character in the daydream or reality. We just hear the character's voice in the daydream, and then in reality, we see a few bunches of daisies throughout the hospital as Dennis walks out (as well as a poster depicting daisies). Notably, Dennis does take an extended look at some of the flowers as he walks by them.

Police officer

Dennis runs a stop sign while distracted by arguing with the gang over the phone, and is pulled over by a police officer. After being asked to get out of the vehicle, this is what causes Dennis to get locked out.

The police officer here was inspired by the security guard that Dennis had seen at the entrance of the hospital in reality. While their costumes are very similar, it is notable that they seem to actually be using the exact same name tag.

Flu poster

As a bonus, immediately outside of the exam room, there is a poster advertising free flu shots. I can't think of anything that this is actually referencing, but like "the Pelican Brief", it just feels like it's intentionally placed as a nod to something.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53660908

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S18E2 "Dennis and Dee Don't Get Rich"
• Arrested Development S3E1 "The Cabin Show"

In S18E9 "Frank's Team: A Dark Day for Baseball", there are a number of corporate sponsorships in the background that are references to previous episodes. I thought it would be neat to list them all.

Baseball Sponsors

Frank's Fluids

Originally mentioned in S12E4 "Wolf Cola: A Public Relations Nightmare", this company has been brought up many times as being the peak of Frank's shell corporations. As such, this is the main sponsor for this baseball team.

Wolf Cola

Also originating in the same episode as Frank's Fluids and brought up probably just as often, Wolf Cola is mentioned in the banner at the back of the stands as the official soft drink of that baseball field.

Invigaron

Originating in S9E4 "Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare" and mentioned a few times since then, this is one of the brands mentioned in a banner along the fence behind the field.

Tsuma

Originating in S16E8 "Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day", I thought this was the most interesting inclusion. In that episode, Tsuma is a car brand that seems to basically be an in-universe version of Tesla (even though the Cyber Truck is eventually mentioned by name, so Tesla is clearly an actual company as well). But at the end of the episode, we find out that it was all a daydream or whatever. There is not actually a car company called Tsuma; that is just the name of Dennis's doctor. But in S18E4 "2026: A Virtual Insanity", the self-driving taxi was a Tsuma, making that the first time we saw any sort of implication that Tsuma actually is a real car company, not just a daydream named after Dennis's doctor.

Fight Milk

Originating in S8E7 "Frank's Back in Business", this brand has been mentioned several times since and has been a somewhat major part of a few plotlines.

Risk E. Rat's Pizza

Originating in S16E6 "Risk E. Rat's Pizza and Amusement Center", I don't think this company was never brought up again until this season.

Tanzerelli's Pizza Tips

To my knowledge, this business never appeared in the show before this season. Any time that I can think of that we see a pizza box close enough, it's a generic design without any specific brand logos or anything. I do see that in S18E10 "The Guys Have a Sleepover", while they were throwing eggs, a restaurant in the background had some signage with that same Italian color scheme and the words "RESTAURANT", "PIZZA", and "PIZZA BY THE TIPS". Perhaps that is a recurring background business that I have just never noticed before because they never really brought attention to it. I also have no idea what "pizza tips" even are. Searching that phrase doesn't yield any results that seem like that is a specific type of pizza product or something.

Natural Way Massage

As far as I can tell, this business was also never mentioned or anything before this season. Some massage businesses that I can think of that came up previously:

• S6E10 "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats" Frank's gift certificates are for Ransford & Wood Day Spa
• S8E7 "Frank's Back in Business" they mention taking Dennis and Dee to a massage parlor, but make no reference to its name.
• S13E5 "The Gang Gets New Wheels" Dee goes to Fountain of Youth Spa

Let me know if I am just blanking on where this business name came from.

Memorial Parade

Similarly to these companies sponsoring the baseball team/field, most also sponsored the parade memorializing Bonnie and Sam in S18E2 "Dennis and Dee Don't Get Rich". The guardrails along the side of the parade route had a few banners that depicted that all the above companies (except for Invigaron and Fight Milk) were sponsors of the parade.

Notably, I could not get a clear enough shot of the Risk E. Rat baseball banner to tell whether it was the old "Risk E. Rat" name or if they had stuck with the plan and rebranded as "Robby-Pizza.com" as that season 16 episode had implied they were working towards. But I could find a clear enough shot of the parade banner to see that it indeed read "Risk E. Rat", implying that they must not have gone through with the rebranding, and had instead stuck with the classic name for the character/restaurant.

S9E10 "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs"

FX has set Monday, August 17 for the Season 18 premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It returns with an expanded 10-episode season, up from eight episodes in the previous three seasons.

In season 18, Charlie, Mac, Dennis (Howerton), Dee (Olson), and Frank (DeVito) are wrapped up in salvaging inheritances from a dead woman, surviving tent encampments and the great inside-outside divide between the haves and have-nots, withstanding job loss at the hands of workplace automation, embracing a newfound appreciation for neurodivergence, questioning the fabric of society against conspiracy theories, and of course — the biggest elephant in the room — outlasting the public’s pendulum swing against drinking. Not to mention battling nerds, LARPers, and a particularly petulant McPoyle clan at the Renaissance Faire or sportswashing their way back into the good graces of their community by sponsoring a Little League team. All the while trying to maintain order in their personal lives and at Paddy’s, which have become increasingly lawless and erratic.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqiFbqSmURk

The lawyer's fall from grace is slower as what happened with Cricket. But it sure looks like he'll end up with nothing on the streets. What do you think?