A similar thing will happen in 'How Mac Got Fat' while all the cast and characters appear in the episode, they are all confined to appearances in flashbacks, with only Mac being physically present in real time.

Though Kaitlin Olsen and Danny Devito are clearly in the episode as Dee and Frank's old timey counterparts, the characters of Dee and Frank are technically absent from the episode.

Mac is referred to as 'Macdonald' in 1776, though his true name - Ronald McDonald - is not revealed until Season 7.

Dennis is seen reading ' The Way to Wealth ' by Benjamin Franklin at the bar of Patrick's Pub.

(See especially Who Pooped the Bed? for a vivid illustration of Charlie and Frank's own sleeping situation.) Because, obviously, a fold-out couch is much better.

Charles and Franklin mock the sleeping situation of the Native American father and son they go to visit, saying that the fact they must sleep on the same bearskin means they are 'losers'.

Cricket getting his head blown off was inspired by the exploding head scene in the movie Scanners.

The Liberty Bell cracked sometime between 18, decades after the Gang's story.

Charlie is pretty sure that the American Revolution started in 1412 - i.e.

Mac owns an unsleeved T-shirt with a picture of the Liberty Bell on it.

This episode was inspired by a historical tour of Philadelphia that the cast went on.

This could very well be a reference to 'Monty Python's Holy Grail'

Charlie is making horse walking noises while making a motion that appears to be clicking together 2 halves of a coconut.

Steven Flores as Younger Native American.

Pat Crawford Brown as Woman-Historical Society.

They agree they must draft a 'Declaration of Dependence' to prove their loyalty to their British overlords. Mac runs in with urgent news that some Patriots have drafted a Declaration of Independence which worries Dennis and Mac as they are certain the British will win the conflict. He beckons Sweet Dee who is a witch-slave (accused of being a witch by Dennis) to bring him ale. Dennis is at the bar overhearing revolutionaries at work inside the pub. When confronted with the office lady they proceed to tell her the story of how 'Patrick's Pub' in 1776 contributed to the cracking of the Liberty Bell.įlashback to 1776 at Patrick's Pub. Before the office lady comes in they remark on a portrait of George Washington on the wall and decide that he looks like an ugly old woman. You can help out by expanding this page.ĭennis, Mac, and Charlie are in the Philadelphia historical society office trying to turn Patty's Pub into a licensed historical landmark.

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