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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia :: Mac Is a Serial Killer (03x10)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: Mac Is a Serial Killer
Episode #: 03x10
Production Number: IP03003
Original Airdate: Thursday October 18th, 2007
9.4/10 (7 Votes cast)
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Country: Aired On:
NL (Comedy Central) Sep 13, 2009
Episode Crew
Director: Jerry Levine (1)
Story: Charlie Day (1)
Teleplay: David Hornsby
 
Episode Summary
 
Mac's strange and mysterious behavior just happens to coincide with a string of recent murders. Frank concludes that Mac must be the serial killer and wants to torture a confession out of him, preferably with a chainsaw. Charlie uses his knowledge from Law & Order to protect Mac and tries to convince Frank that Mac is not the killer. Dennis and Dee try to find the real culprit by thinking and acting like serial killers.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Mary Elizabeth EllisplayedWaitressRecurring (8th appearance)
Brittany DanielplayedCarmen the TranssexualRecurring (second appearance)
Sandy MartinplayedMac's MomRecurring (second appearance)
Co-Guest Stars
Marcuis HarrisplayedPimp 
Bill ChottplayedGary 
 
Main Cast
 
Charlie Day (1)playedCharlie Kelly
Glenn HowertonplayedDennis Reynolds
Rob McElhenneyplayedMac
Kaitlin OlsonplayedDeandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds
Danny DeVitoplayedFrank Reynolds
 
Episode Quotes
 
Dee: Oh, you wanna be a lawyer? Don't you—don't you think you should know how to read or write?
Charlie: Objection! Hearsay! That's lawyer talk! That's the kind of stuff you have to do.
 
Charlie: All right, well, first of all, you're too big, Dee. Let's face it. You're like, uh...
Dennis: You're like a female Larry Bird.
Charlie: There you go.
Dennis: There's too much of you.
Charlie: Yeah.
Dee: There's not too much of me.
Dennis: He would never finish the job.
Dee: He'd get the job done.
Charlie: Oh, he'd spend his whole night hacking and sawing.
Dennis: And then he still wouldn't be done. He would open his box of tools, and he would say, "What tools am I gonna use?"
Dee: He could use his normal tools on me.
Charlie: He couldn't look at that pile of bones and flesh and say—
Dennis: "How many people have I murdered tonight?"
Charlie: "How is this just one person?"
Dee: Mm-hm. Well, guess what. You're Larry Bird.
Charlie: Well, that's OK 'cause Larry Bird's an excellent player.
 
Dennis: Mac is not the serial killer. He's not smart enough.
Dee: No, he's dumb. He's a dumb person.
Dennis: And dumb people are not capable of serial killing.
 
Mac: (to Carmen) I feel like we make out, and it's great—I mean really great—but then things start to get hot and heavy, and you scratch me, which is cool, but you're really strong, and it hurts. And sometimes, just sometimes, I bump ... up against it, and I ... I just can't handle that.
 
(Frank and Charlie hide outside, spying on Mac)
Charlie: Hey, man, what did I tell you about bringing that chainsaw?
Frank: Hey, you wanna take a picture with it?
Charlie: No, we're on an invest—do you have a camera?
Frank: Yeah.
Charlie: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
 
(Dennis hides while Dee tries to bait the killer)
Dee: This seems extraordinarily dangerous.
Dennis: Dee, that is the point of being here. This is the area of the highest concentration of murders by the serial killer.
Dee: I know. That's why I feel like a sitting duck out there.
Dennis: Well, you volunteered for this, sis, OK? If you recall, I didn't wanna use you as the bait. You do not fit the profile.
Dee: I fit the profile, Dennis!
 
Charlie: Why are you wearing those gloves?
Frank: Fingerprints. You think I want some Jew lawyer crawling up my ass in six months?
Charlie: Uh, objection! Extremely racist.
 
Frank: (finds a book in Mac's apartment) The Human Anatomy. He's got a half a chapter highlighted on the removal of human genitalia.
Charlie: Hey, Frank, what guy hasn't done some extensive research on his own genitalia, all right? Don't say you, buddy, because I woke up to you doing some pretty frantic research last night, pal.
Frank: We could go tit for tat on that one, so you better drop that subject.
 
(Dennis tries to buy Dee back from a pimp, Pepper Jack)
Dennis: All right, how much? How much?
Pimp: Whatcha got?
Dennis: Like, I don't know, seven bucks and this stupid thermos.
Pimp: (indicating the thermos) Is that Fraggle Rock?
Dennis: Yeah.
Pimp: Oh, Pepper Jack love Fraggle Rock.
 
Charlie: All right, I'm gonna give you one question, and then we're out of here. One question!
Frank: You think your son's out there killing people?
Mac's Mom: Yeah.
Charlie: (yells) Dammit! You just buried me! You buried me! That's my whole case! I'll be in touch.
 
(watching the waitress leave the coffee shop)
Dennis: We're gonna follow our victim, OK? Then we're gonna jump her. And then I'm gonna strangle her, and you're gonna chop her into pieces. (laughs)
Dee: OK, but what are we really gonna do?
Dennis: Huh?
Dee: We're not really gonna kill her. What are we gonna do?
Dennis: Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. That's a bummer. Yeah, you're right.
 
Charlie: Did you go back?
Mac: Of course I went back, Charlie.
Charlie: Dammit, Mac, I told you not to go back! You're digging me a pretty big hole here!
Mac: It doesn't matter because she won't talk to me anymore, dude.
Charlie: Well, that's very interesting. She talk—when did you start hearing voices? That—that could actually help us.
 
(Dee talks to Mac on the phone pretending to be a girl named Sandy)
Dee: This is Mac, right? Good looking guy, great sense of humor, really bulky.
Mac: Uh, more ripped.
Charlie: Strike that.
Mac: Jacked.
Charlie: Irrelevant.
Mac: Toned.
Charlie: Exaggeration.
Mac: I work out.
Charlie: I'll allow it.
 
Dennis: (referring to Dee's neighbor Gary) Why do you have his keys?
Dee: 'Cause he asks me to water his plants when he's out of town.
Dennis: All of his plants are dead.
Dee: Well, I don't do it.
 
Frank: I'm gonna go oil my chainsaw.
Dee: What?
Dennis: Frank, we don't need the chainsaw. Is that what's in that bag?
Frank: Oh, we do ... because drawing a confession out of someone is like doing a beautiful dance ... a beautiful dance with a chainsaw.
Dennis: He makes less and less sense as the days go by.
 
Dennis: Who are you here to see?
Mac: My friend Sandy.
Dennis: Oh, Sandy. Sandy, huh? Is Sandy a young, attractive, blonde girl?
Mac: I have no idea.
Dennis: Uh, Sandy, why don't you come out here, please?
Dee: (walking out) Oh, hello, Mac.
Dennis: Not so young and attractive, is she?
 
 
Cultural References
 
Charlie: Dude, dude, just let me finish my story.
Dennis: Describing an episode of Law & Order in full detail is not a story.

Law & Order is a legal drama that premiered in 1990. Sam Waterston, whom Charlie compares himself to, plays the character Jack McCoy. Later in the episode, Charlie and Mac sing the show's theme song.
 
Dennis: (to Dee) You're like a female Larry Bird.

Larry Bird is a former NBA basketball player. He played for the Boston Celtics and then coached the Indiana Pacers.
 
Pimp: Oh, Pepper Jack love Fraggle Rock.

Fraggle Rock is a children's show from the '80s. It was created by Jim Henson and centers around creatures who live underground called Fraggles.
 
Dennis: The killer's not a psycho clown, Dee, all right? That's only in movies, stupid ones.
Dee: Oh, really? John Wayne Gacy? He was a psycho clown. He was an excellent one. He did good work.

John Wayne Gacy was a serial killer who murdered over thirty people. He used to entertain at neighborhood parties dressed up like a clown, thus he became known as The Killer Clown.
 
Dennis: Where are we going?
Frank: To catch a predator.

To Catch a Predator is a TV show that catches child sexual abusers. Volunteers enter Internet chat rooms pretending to be minors. Once an adult initiates conversation, the volunteers invite that adult to their supposed house. When the adult arrives, Chris Hansen comes out to confront him, much like Dennis when Mac arrives at Gary's apartment.
 
 
Episode References
 
Dennis: Look, Dee, why don't you and I use a little textbook psychology, and that'll lead us to the real serial killer's doorstep.

Dennis and Dee also used their background in psychology in the episode "Charlie Got Molested." We learned that Dennis minored in psychology in college, and Dee majored in it (though she failed all her classes).
 
Dee: I'm not on any crack rock. That—I mean—one—OK, one time I was hooked on the crack rock, but that was because I was trying to get on welfare and fail a drug test...

Dennis and Dee both got addicted to crack in "Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare."
 
 
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