This Isn’t the Baby Oil Joke That We Expected From ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Abbott Elementary fans finally know the reason why a Philadelphia judge sentenced Frank, Charlie, Dennis, Mac and Dee to a full week of community service at Willard R. Abbott Elementary School. Thankfully for everyone involved (especially the students), it’s surprisingly not-Diddy-related.
Back in the Abbott Elementary mid-season premiere “Volunteers,” the teachers of the underfunded West Philadelphia public school quickly sniffed out the fact that the presence and participation of the Paddy’s Pub Gang in that week’s educational activities wasn’t strictly “voluntary.” Instead, the Philadelphia legal system had somehow decided that the the best punishment for its most bizarre cadre of repeat offenders after they dumped a Tesla Cybertruck and 100 gallons of baby oil into the Schuylkill River was to force them to work in close proximity with innocent children, some of whom could be destined for boy-band stardom.
The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 premiere, “The Gang Fucks Up Abbott Elementary,” didn’t further explain the offense that led to the crossover, which many fans believed to be related to imprisoned music mogul and sex trafficker Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and his infamous “freak-offs,” due to the staggering amount of baby oil involved in both crimes.
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But tonight’s new Always Sunny episode, “Thought Leadership: A Corporate Conversation,” revealed that both the Cybertruck and the baby oil were byproducts of the Gang’s attempt to break into the competitive slap-fighting industry, and they were unrelated to any kind of depraved, illegal sex party — unless you count the orgy Frank hosted in the basement.
No, instead of The Gang using the baby oil for extreme and illegal sex acts, as many of us assumed, in “Thought Leadership: A Corporate Conversation,” the lubricant is an accessory in the admittedly erotic slap-fighting tournament that Paddy’s Pub hosts. Naturally, Dennis, Charlie and Frank do attempt to commit what would legally be considered a sexual offense by non-consensually slathering the baby oil all over their scantily clad competitors, but compared to how Diddy used the stuff, The Gang might as well have been running an actual nursery with it.
As for the Cybertruck, that one was also sex-crime-free, not counting Tesla “founder” Elon Musk's alleged incident with that flight attendant. That was just the grand prize for the slap-fighting tournament, one that Frank couldn’t bring himself to give up when The Waitress knocked out Sweet Dee in the final round. Frank only dumped the stuff into the river when he was worried that The Waitress would tell the press and the police about how he ripped her off, and that kind of heat could have brought the authorities too close to his own basement Diddy party.
But, somehow, former It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia guest star Diddy wasn’t the primary target for baby oil burns in “Thought Leadership: A Corporate Conversation.” In fact, the best joke about baby oil in the entire episode comes when Charlie asks if Johnson & Johnson manufactures the infant skin product by mashing up actual babies, only for Mac to clarify that the company just wrings out the babies like a rag instead of killing them.
This, too, would be less disturbing than an actual Diddy party freak-off.
