Every Time Charlie Is Illiterate on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Poor Charlie Kelly. Although he thinks of himself as the Gang’s wild card, in practice he gets stuck with all of the rat-bashing, bathroom-cleaning, and trash-burning duties on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. With that much Charlie Work to do, it’s no surprise that he hasn’t had the chance to work on his basic literacy skills; in the words of the Lawyer, he has a tenuous grasp of the English language. To celebrate the start of the show’s ninth season, we wanted to document just how tenuous that grasp has been over the years with this complete collection of 29 illiterate Charlie moments.
When Ari Frankel tries to evict the gang from Paddy's, they decide to create a "jihad video" to intimidate him. Charlie writes a script for ...
When Ari Frankel tries to evict the gang from Paddy's, they decide to create a "jihad video" to intimidate him. Charlie writes a script for the video, but Dennis refuses to read it because it's "riddled with spelling errors."
Charlie gets sentenced to community service, but has to get Mac to read him his actual sentence (248 hours of "Interstate sanitation" and si...
Charlie gets sentenced to community service, but has to get Mac to read him his actual sentence (248 hours of "Interstate sanitation" and six months of AA).
The words in Charlie's script for Dennis's campaign commercial "are not in the right order."
Charlie fails to get past the first word of Frank's note, which says, "Meet me in the parking garage."
Charlie's ransom note about the Dumpster baby reads, "Taked Baby. Meet at later bar. Night or day sometime."
Charlie gets Ernesto to read Dee's middle school diary aloud to him.
Charlie's warning in the heating duct reads, "If here by now then bad place be. Trouble time for you when heat comes."
Charlie thinks a pirate lives behind a door that's actually marked "Private."
Charlie believes the word wooed is the same thing as the word wood.
Charlie's lyrics to "The Nightman" consist of pictograms and unintelligible words, and Mac mistakes it for "a page from a coloring book...
Charlie's lyrics to "The Nightman" consist of pictograms and unintelligible words, and Mac mistakes it for "a page from a coloring book."
Charlie addresses an envelope to the mayor by writing "4 THE MARE."
Charlie confuses the words pride and prize, and bets the bar in a dance marathon competition.
Dennis has to spell-check Charlie's sign for gas.
Charlie's first item on his postmortem "list of demands" reads, "my ashes are to be made into a tea and dranken by every wan in bar.&qu...
Charlie's first item on his postmortem "list of demands" reads, "my ashes are to be made into a tea and dranken by every wan in bar."
Charlie needs Artemis to transcribe the lyrics to his musical, "The Nightman Cometh."
Charlie fails to use several legal terms properly and cannot define the word filibuster. The Lawyer says that Charlie has a "tenuous grasp of the...
Charlie fails to use several legal terms properly and cannot define the word filibuster. The Lawyer says that Charlie has a "tenuous grasp of the English language in general."
Charlie turns on the bar's "Closed" sign every morning because he believes that it says "Coors."
Dennis says that "obviously" Charlie will have to dictate his intervention letter to Frank instead of writing it.
"Illiteracy. You know, what does that word even mean?"
On a date, Charlie means to call himself a "philanthropist" but ends up saying "full-on rapist" instead.
Charlie's commercial is entitled "Kitten Mittons!!"
Charlie can't read the "SpeedPitch" sign at the fair.
Charlie tries to search for the word hockey but insists that the computer he's using doesn't have an H key.
When Dee offers to take Charlie for a spa day, he doesn't understand and asks if she meant to say "spaghetti day."
Charlie's dream book has "Dram bok" written on the cover, and consists mainly of pictures and symbols.
Charlie's trivia question reads, "Dennis is asshole. Why Charlie hate?"
Charlie misreads "Brett DeLawter, A Dental Corporation" as "Brett DeLawyer, A Denial Correlation."
Frank can't make sense of Charlie's to-do list for the Waitress and performs several tasks incorrectly.
Charlie's fund-raising speech for his mom reads, "Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money needing a lot now."