"The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7" is the second episode of the fifteenth season of the American sitcom television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
[1] According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 0.237 million household viewers and gained a 0.11 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
The production still stalls due to Dee eventually finding she was replaced and Pepper Jack acting intensely in his role, which contrasts Murtaugh's intended personality.
For the next take, they get "Don Cheadle", who posed as Donovan McNabb in "The Gang Gets Invincible" and as Tiger Woods in "Frank's Pretty Woman", to play Murtaugh and Pepper Jack is given Riggs' role.
While the Gang considers other options, Dennis (Glenn Howerton) reveals that dating many younger women and rejecting their ideologies prompted them to dump him.
[2] Rob McElhenney said that the episode served as a way to explore the Gang's use of blackface and acknowledge its wrong use, explaining "I find that my barometer is off for what's appropriate sometimes in situations because, like, we've spent 15 years making a show about the worst people on the planet, and because it's satire, we lean so heavily into this idea.
"[3] In its original American broadcast, "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7" was seen by an estimated 0.237 million household viewers and gained a 0.11 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
It's a perfect encapsulation of what the world has gone through, and while we may be tired of reliving the recent past in entertainment, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's fifteenth season comments on modern idiocy without the fatigue we've come to expect.
"[7] Ray Flook of Bleeding Cool wrote, "Just like it seemed only right that The Gang's response to being shown the error of their ways with 'White Saviors' was to... you guessed it.