After 20 years, Glenn Howerton is lastly weighing in on the It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia fan concept that his character, Dennis Reynolds, is a serial killer.
“Look, I don’t need to reply that query definitively, however I don’t suppose he’s,” Howerton, 49, completely instructed Us Weekly on the PaleyLive: It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia twentieth Anniversary Celebration on Tuesday, July 1. “In my thoughts he’s not. In my thoughts he’s simply delusional.”
The actor defined, “[He’s] so afraid of not being in management that he’s keen to do no matter it takes to be in command of any scenario greater than that he’s an precise serial killer.”
Howerton has been enjoying Dennis because the present’s premiere in 2005 and all through its 16 seasons, he’s raised a number of pink flags together with his actions.
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Followers, due to this fact, have theorized that Dennis is a secret serial killer for saying things like, “We’re going to observe our sufferer then we’re going to leap her. Then I’m going to strangle her and also you’re going to cut her into items” whereas moving into the thoughts of a killer throughout season 3’s “Mac Is a Serial Killer.”
Throughout season 7’s “The Excessive Faculty Reunion Half 2: The Gang’s Revenge,” Dennis confessed that he randomly retains “duct tape, zip ties and gloves” in his truck, elevating eyebrows.
The next season, Dennis assumed the id of Brian LeFevre after the gang finds his pockets at Paddy’s Pub. It’s later revealed that LeFevre was murdered within the alley, and Dennis might have achieved it. (Dennis isn’t convicted and the assassin stays unknown.)
Dennis being an undercover serial killer is without doubt one of the longest-running jokes and theories surrounding the comedy present, persevering with even to today. Throughout season 11, Dennis makes a clay sculpture he describes as “a girl’s head in a freezer, and it’s presupposed to signify the preservation of affection eternally and ever.”
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Throughout season 12, Dennis is the prime suspect when a cat girl named Maureen Ponderosa is discovered lifeless in an alley. “Making Dennis Reynolds a Assassin” is filmed a la true crime fashion and feeds into viewers’ long-held perception that he has what it takes to kill.
Whereas Howerton performed down Dennis’ suspicious exercise and the way it might level to serial killer tendencies on Tuesday, he was extra open about a few of his favourite moments from the present over the previous 20 years.
He instructed Us on the Los Angeles occasion that his “favourite” rant by Dennis is from season 5 when the crew goes up in opposition to school youngsters.
“I’m going again to my alma mater and attempt to take part with my previous fraternity, after which I come again, and I rant and I’m screaming, ‘Savages idiots,’” Howerton recalled. “That was the primary time we ever actually had my character go that far with the ranting. And I keep in mind it was Charlie [Day] that pushed me to essentially simply go completely nuts. And I did, and it actually struck us as very, very humorous. So, I’ve a specific fondness for that exact rant.”
Howerton additionally pointed to “Frank Reynolds’ Little Beauties” from season 7 as his “favourite” episode up to now. “That episode simply cracks me up. It simply cracks me up,” he mentioned. “It simply makes me chortle.”
Season 17 of It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia premieres with a two-episode particular on FXX Wednesday, July 9, at 9 p.m. ET. Episodes obtainable for streaming subsequent day on Hulu.