Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow…
“We don’t get got, we go get!”
Oh, Sunny. When you funny, you funny. And “Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare” had plenty of potent laughs due in no small part to the returning Ben the Solider, the returning Maniac (played by the iconic “Rowdy” Roddy Piper), and Frank stuck, for the entire episode, in a child’s playground apparatus coil in nothing but his underwear.
“How did this happen?” asked Charlie. “How does anything happen?” snapped Frank. Holy hell, I was dying. Especially since the entire episode went by and we never found out just what Frank was trying to do in the first place – after he took off with no explanation and headed to the playground. Something about a dream he had. Yes, the not knowing any of the details makes it exponentially funnier.
But Frank’s nightmare didn’t end after he was discovered. No, The Gang (who split into pairs for this installment) decided to keep him trapped in the twisted bars in order to extract business information out of him to help better their Invigaron/Florida timeshare schemes. “The kids are coming!” Frank kept screaming – signaling that yard would soon be overrun with children. Children who, we assume, would scream at the grotesque sight of him. Though the end credits show that the kids wound up playing around him, tormenting him through the bars like he was a caged animal. One of the funniest Frank bits in a long while.
“Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare” was all about getting taken by smooth-talking/smooth-sailing sales schemes, with Mac and Dennis convinced that they were way smarter than Dee, who’d gotten herself roped into a “reverse funnel system” selling Andes mountain superberry juice. Not helping her cause was Charlie, who himself figured the superberries were a good idea (well that and his “157″ toxo-stress level!) and soon the two produced a hysterically shoddy video to screen for potential clients. One with explosions, clouds, and a deep demonic voice belching “INVIGARON!” I mean, with Charlie’s promise of owning your own mountain and becoming a magical bee farmer AND the enticement of free soup, how could they fail?
Pretty soon, both pairs were trying their best to take advantage of Ben’s (assumed) PTSD, by making him watch violent war movies, dressing like terrorists, and storming his room with night-vision goggles and zip-ties Zero Dark Thirty-style. Just so they could make him vulnerable enough to purchase their wares. Mac’s first attempt to spook Ben however only wound up waking up the dormant psycho within Da Maniac, who didn’t react well to loud noises. “I still fight with the demons in Da Maniac’s head,” explained Da Maniac.
Convinced Frank, who’d been stuck in that damn coil the entire time, was behind all their monetary woes, The Gang wound up losing even more money to get out of their contracts, discovering that Da Maniac, who mistook Mac and Dennis’ timeshare offer as an invite to move in with them, was the best salesman out of everyone. This episode was a prime example of The Gang not only being stupid, but being inept and insufferably paranoid. It didn’t contain any full-blown “WTF?” moments, but Frank being trapped in the spring-shaped monkey bars was gold.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler, IGN at mattfowler, and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity.
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