Go ahead and grab your delicious pot of oysters and get ready for this Barnacle to review this week's Always Sunny, "The Gang Buys a Boat."  Maybe it's just us, but this was our favorite episode of the season so far.

Perhaps, it's because we just recently became part owner of a boat with a group all having different goals for a boat.  Sure, everyone eventually dreams of a P. Diddy style shrimping boat, but like the Paddy's crew, we all start with different goals before settling on our compromise of a boat.

Some of us want to party and socialize with other boat owners at the dock.  Some of us want to dance with our arms flailing in the wind.  Some of us have a need for speed.  And some of us want to fish, err shrimp.  Definitely shrimp.  You know, Forrest Gump amounts of shrimping.

Hmm, this is a lot of awkward combination of personal details from my life blended with the episode that combined seem to make no sense.  We'll drop the Barnacle's tale and stick to reviewing the episode.

Outside the episode's minor parallels to my own sad life, it was also the strongest of the season for landlubbers as well.   Although, it was the first episode we can remember in awhile that didn't feature a scene inside the bar, the gang felt perfectly in their element.

There was the signature selfish backstabbing that we've come to love as the group slowly splits up into factions against each other.  There's no better duo on this show than Charlie and Frank and we'll gladly let them take Sweet Dee on the adventure as they go up against the (former?) roommates, Mac and Dennis.

We just love seeing this group do what they do best, take on seemingly typical of life's problems and just take things to the extreme.  Before we start over analyzing the episode, we'll go over some our favorite jokes and moments from the amazing half hour of television:

• That tangy taste of endangerment that Charlie was tasting... or toxicity to those pesky EPA people.
• One Dee's garbage is another Charlie's treasure.  Especially when a horse massacre was involved.
• Charlie's desire to eat barnacles.
• Dennis' creepy implications of rape and murder at sea.
• Dee's weird inflatable tube man P. Diddy dance.
• The fact there's actually an website where you can buy the Dick Towels that Dennis and Mac made their fortune.  Just don't tell the IRS.

Now for our favorite Always Sunny quotes from our boating adventure.

Charlie: Can we talk shrimp for a minute? I'd like the boat to be able to haul a tremendous amount of shrimp. Sort of a forest gump size of shrimp. | permalink

Boat Salesman: Let me just see if i have this right here. It seems like what you guys are looking for P. Diddy style of shrimping boat.
Charlie: You're a really good listener and I didn't peg you for one when we came in here because of the pinky ring. | permalink

Dennis: We've had our hearts sets on this boat for days now. Which, in our world, is a level of focus which I've personally never experienced. | permalink

Charlie: We'll scrape all these delicious oysters or whatever off the side of the pot and we'll put them in a pot and boil them before you get back.
Frank: We'll cook them for you.
Dennis: Those are barnacles. Do not eat those. Do not cook them in a pot and serve them to us. | permalink

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