How It’s Always Sunny’s Charlie Day Made One Uncle Jack Scene Even More Ridiculous

On “It’s Always Sunny,” Uncle Jack is Charlie’s (Day) uncle and a lawyer, and he’s one of the show’s most insecure characters. (On this show, that’s really saying something.) He is especially insecure about his hands, which he believes to be too small — something that has led to a whole bunch of weird moments over the years where he tries to convince people that his hands are larger than they really are. In “McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century,” Uncle Jack has big rubber hands that he’s wearing over his real hands, and in a moment of gesturing, he launches one of them and has to go retrieve it. When asked about how many takes it took to get that moment right, Friedman shared that it was definitely trial-and-error, stating that Day added to his performance:

“Oh man — those hands were so hard to land right. They were duct taped on and had to be loose enough to fly. I think we did that scene 4-5 times. Some takes it landed too short. Some too far. [At] first I was just yelling, ‘Nobody look!’ Then, I improvised running to get the hands and put them back on. But THEN — Charlie directed me to amp it up. So I started screaming it over and over again. It was some brilliant direction. AND they landed so well on that final take.”

The final result is stupendously funny because it’s great to laugh at Uncle Jack’s misfortune, and it’s all so ludicrous!