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Yes there's blackface but IN the show they call it out and say how terrible and not OK it is. But to assure the offensiveness continued, Dee was still in blackface for her closing scene at a wedding.The AV Club's Dennis Perkins found the episode funny, but thought they did it better when they decided to make "Lethal Weapon 5." After creative differences over what constitutes tasteful nudity cause Frank to pull his money out of Lethal Weapon 6 during filming, Mac, Dennis, and Charlie screen their rough footage for investors in hopes of raising enough capital to finish the production of their latest masterpiece. Then -- for no reason -- he switched roles with Dennis. Hulu has apparently pulled multiple episodes of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” that featured blackface. I ... episodes “The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6” and “Dee Reynolds: Shaping America’s Youth” are both gone. "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6" is the ninth episode of the ninth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. "But they had plenty of footage of "Lethal Weapon 6" to show potential investors, and that footage was both terrible and offensive. The gang needed $40 million to finish their independently made continuation of the "Lethal Weapon" franchise on "Mac spent most of the early scenes in blackface.
The gang needed $40 million to finish their independently made continuation of the "Lethal Weapon" franchise on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia': Gang Uses Blackface To Make 'Lethal Weapon 6' (VIDEO)
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With Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson.
It's pretty clear the episode takes the piss out of people who think blackface is ok, they've even kept a later episode up that features blackface without satirical context.Multiple episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia have been removed from Netflix because people can't understand the context of the show. Watch the videos to see who picked what, then click through this gallery to find out when the shows premiere.
Part of HuffPost Entertainment. ©2020 Verizon Media. Current running time, 16:59 minutes. All rights reserved. We open on a medicine woman chanting “Bah-hoo-yeah,” after which Chief Lazarus (Frank) returns from the grave he was put in in Lethal Weapon 5.
©2020 Verizon Media. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapterWe made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote!Part of HuffPost Entertainment. It's Always Sunny - Lethal Weapon 6 Wedding Scene - YouTube ‘It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Blackface Episode Gets Pulled from Netflix U.K.As mass protests over racism and police brutality continue to rage on all over the world, the entertainment industry is starting to rethink some of its material.What is perhaps more interesting is that Netflix in the U.K. have reportedly left up the episode titled Not sure what Netflix think taking that Always Sunny episode down will achieve. All rights reserved.