#The Gang Are America, Sweetheart

The gang return to Patty’s Pub, an Irish pub in the countryside where they’ve rented a room. While there, they discuss how they never want to see one another again, and they are shushed by the Waitress (Mary Elizabeth Ellis). Dee left the Waitress in a bog after using her to climb out, and now the whole gang is yelling about their personal nonsense in a room full of people. The Waitress has had enough, and she shushes the gang.

There’s just one thing: the gang does not like to be shushed. In season 7, the gang spends the entirety of “The Anti-Social Network” trying to find a man who shushed them at a bar, because the fact that he had the audacity to do so enrages them so much. To be shushed by the Waitress, whose name they have never even learned, is another thing altogether. When the Waitress tells them they’re not in America, Frank gives a rousing monologue:

“We are America, sweetheart! And we carry our country wherever we go! Because we love her, and when you love someone, you can’t bear to leave ’em behind, not ever!”

Throughout the season, the gang has shown their American spirit through and through. They wreaked havoc during 2020, refused to change in spite of evidence that it would be wise to do so, and even brought their country along with them while visiting abroad. It’s been a long time since Charlie went America all over everybody’s a**, but the gang is still as American as moonshine and apple pie.