#new wheels

[charmac]

You're in the Range Rover now, all is well

[pjnub]

[dennisboobs]

I wanted to dig into the Sunny the 13th promos a little bit, because I think they're a really great subversion of expectations that a lot of people have about Always Sunny and Dennis' character in general.

Looking at the comments on various platforms from around the promos were released, a good number of people seem to have taken the promos as if Dennis has "finally snapped" and is going to kill the gang. He is, after all, wielding an axe, wearing a slasher-esque hockey mask, and appears to be threatening harm in all of the promotional images.

But in the video promos, he's more akin to a ghost than a slasher villain, trying and failing to get the gang's attention, for the seven minute Paramormal Paddy's promo. Several times over the course of the promo, he is actively scared by the things happening in the bar, wheras the rest of the gang barely even acknowledges it.

He's the one being pursued in all of the promos, not the other way around. Pursued by his friends' parents, pursued by the Waitress, pursued by Margaret McPoyle. In Dennis' Double Life, he tries to own up to his behaviour and commits to becoming a father, but in doing so, he is running away from his old life, and it all still follows him.

If listening to the conversations that the gang is having, you can also clearly hear them discussing whether or not Dennis actually killed Maureen. Dennis isn't technically there to defend himself, but the general consensus is that he did (even though Dennis originally denies any involvement, and his name was cleared).

In the production script for The Gang Gets New Wheels, they assume Dennis has killed Mandy and Brian Jr. and that is why he's come back to Philadelphia and decided to raise his son "from a distance". Given the gang's perception of him, and his apparent track record with killing Maureen, this would be a fair assumption, but not once does he raise his axe at them, or even make any move to threaten them at all.

In both the Ponderosa Wedding Massacre and Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer, Dennis' secrecy and suspicious behaviour stems from not wanting others to know that he had sex with Maureen. I don't believe he killed her, and I don't believe he killed Mandy and their son either. I also don't believe he'd kill the gang. Besides, as we know from Mac is a Serial Killer, axes are too messy.

At the very end of the promo, Dennis walks toward the gang with his axe lowered, and Dee turns around to look at him, implying that they knew he was there the entire time. This aligns with their lack of interest in his absence in The Gang Gets New Wheels.

Throughout the promo, he's seen sitting at the bar alone, in one of the booths, rolling across the floor in the chair from the back office, watching them from afar, staring into the camera. He's bored. He's lonely. He's being left out of the gang's conversations. This can easily be seen as a representation of how he felt in North Dakota.

So of course he's wearing a mask, leaning into their perception of him as a psychotic killer, it's easier than being honest and vulnerable. Better than telling them that he came back because he missed them.

[unapolageticallyb]

My new set of wheels 🩷

[clatterbane]

Coming back from the store up the street a little while ago, and the first time I had tried the new running lights outside!

Some pretty awkward wheeling under scrutiny, but hey. The colors didn't show up super well on the phone camera there, but it should give some idea.

One fun thing: car drivers seem to be looking out for wheelchairs even less than bicycles. 👿 You're at least higher up on a (non-recumbent) bike, closer to where they're looking for pedestrians if not other cars. With as little attention as some of these folks seem to be paying, it makes me more concerned for small children and animals.

Anyway, after one uncomfortably close call with some person turning into that store's parking lot without looking very well--and swiftly heading toward it getting dark at 4 p.m.? 😩 Mr. C suggested at least some reflectors, but adding some lights for visibility seemed like a better plan.

And I am a sucker for the color changing LEDs. So, enter the wheel lights! (They do offer a variety of colors, but I couldn't resist those.)

[f1family]

[tgolemo94]

Couldn’t have gotten the new job soon enough... RIP to the Cobalt, hello to this beautiful 2018 Cruze

[nicistrying]

WE GOT THE CAR!!! 🚗🤸🏼‍♀️ Off to the park for a celebratory ice cream. It was SO weird driving home in a completely different car than the one we left in! But we love him and he's called Pepe bc we are those sad people that name their car. I kind of miss mine which I never thought I'd say but omg this drives soooooo much better. The brakes work! It has daytime running lights! The radio lights up not just in those weird orange square numbers! The speedometer is accurate! It has REMOTE LOCKING! And I drove us on the big horrible roads there and back, through the Tyne Tunnels and everything. Mega proud of myself!