DENNIS SYSTEM
Dennis Reynolds exited the last series of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on an uncharacteristically tender note. Having discovered that he had fathered a child, Dennis (played by Glenn Howerton) said goodbye to his awful friends and left the city in a newfound quest for maturity. And now it looks as if that’s how things are going to stay.
A recent Vulture festival panel hinted at a Dennisless future for It’s Always Sunny. Now that Howerton has a role in next year’s splashier AP Bio, it’s likely that he will be a bit-player at best. In response to a question about his future, Howerton answered with an ambiguous: “Eh, damn it … I will say this: All joking aside, I love these guys and we have an absolute blast working together. We’ll see.” Co-star Charlie Day has also hinted that Dennis might only return in “part of” the next series.
If this really is the end of Dennis Reynolds as a regular character, it’s a crying shame. Because while Day’s Charlie Kelly might be the ensemble’s screaming wild card and Danny De Vito’s Frank Reynolds might occasionally burst out of sofas naked, Dennis is the decayed heart at the centre of the show. In a series about monsters, he is the most monstrous of all. In fact, there’s a good argument for calling Dennis Reynolds television’s greatest ever monster.
He was revealed to have kidnap and torture equipment in the boot of his car. He drugged his friend to keep him thin. When a man asked to buy his car, he responded by screaming: “I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS!”, all veiny and puce and impotent.
He attempted it before, when he and Mac bought a house in the suburbs together and unravelled so quickly that they ate a dog within a month. Should the stars align, allowing Howerton a way to meaningfully appear on It’s Always Sunny again, he will still be a monster. The moral of the series, hammered home time and time again, is that people are not capable of change, and this goes double for Dennis. Essentially what I’m saying is: make him eat his own baby. Honestly, nobody would mind.
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