The gang of "always sunny in Philadelphia" tends to watch the world through the lenses of pop culture, which means there are a large number of references to films and TV shows throughout the series. Charlie (Charlie Day) has Dressed as Frank Serpico by Al Pacino from "Serpico", For example, the entire gang made several sequels to "deadly weapons" with some suspicious elections (It has led the episodes to be banned for streaming), so it is clear that the films are at the forefront of their minds. In Season 3, we received one of the best respect for the film ever in the form of "The Gang held hostage", which paid tribute to the Action Classic led by Bruce Willis "Die Hard".

The "Gang is held hostage", Dennis (Glenn Hawerton), Di (Caitlin Olson), Mac (Rob McLean) and Charlie are held hostage by McPoyls, members of a massive family insertion, attending a primary school with Mac and Charlie. Since Liam (Jimi Simpson) and Ryan McPoyle (Nathan Muni) hold the hostages of the gang and abuse them with the help of their sister Sister Margaret (the team's surface), Frank (Dani Davito) crawls through the air vents, just like Mcon McClain. It's pretty funny, and there are a few direct, funny referrals to the 1988 classic Johnon McCernan.

While the gang is forced to fight each other in funny challenges, McPoyles raises the heat and forced everyone to be beautiful and sweaty. Frank is in the openings because he is looking for his will, which Charlie was hiding there, and we see him crawling in a white tank, sweating, using a lighter to see Toki-Toki communicating with soft, just like Johnon McClain talked to SGT. Powell (Reginald Velchon) in "Die Hard". After he and Charlie met in the bad room of Charlie (where he goes to break bottles), they fled through the openings together, ending in a stand-off with McPoyls. Then, taking another move from the McClein game book, Frank Kanut resting his gun to his back, so when he puts his hands behind the rifle, he is able to draw his weapons and change the stakes. He even shouts a version of McClane's most famous lineAlthough he uses the TV-approved version of "Die Hard 2", shouting: "Yippee-Ki-Yay, Mr. Falcon!" While he aims McPoyles.

It is quite a big part to look at Frank as a hero in any context, but he saves the day in this example, as McPoyles begin to flee. There is another great little tribute to the store, and it's a pretty direct copy of the final moments of villain Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) At the end of "Die Hard".

As Frank fired his gun, Ryan ends up on the side of the building and Liam catches his hand, holding his dear life. Frank pushes Ryan with a tree plank, leading to him to fall, and imitates the moment in "Die" when Hans Gruber falls as McClane expose his wife's clock, so Gruber loses his swing. Just like Hans, Ryan falls in an extremely slow movement, but he has no full length of skyscraper as a nakatomy plaza Instead, we see him landing on his feet on the sidewalk below. The same cannot be said about Hans, who imagine that it became something similar to a human pancake.

McPoilles are some of Best lateral characters in all "is always sunny", And Liam's long -lasting scream, as Ryan Falls is funny, as well as their line delivery during the episode. (Simpson saying that "starting to break wet nipples" is among all time the biggest deliveries on the "sunny" line, and this is a show with some amazing.) While "the gang held out as a hostage" did not deceive the film quite in the same way as the "Academy of Sciences" and the "Academy of Arms", Action-Absodes. Action films and "It's Always Sunny" are a competition made in the comedy sky, and "the gang held hostage" gave us our first taste how great that mixture could be.