# It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366 "2013-03-19T16:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/21 "2013-03-19T20:00:29Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Yeah, in addition to _Always Sunny_, \*Louie \*and \*Legit \*are both good examples of that strategy working pretty well. Alas, it didn’t work out well for [_Starved._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starved) ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/22 "2013-03-19T20:01:37Z")
I have to say, I was annoyed when they brought Danny DeVito in (to add some star-power to the show in order to get picked up for a 2nd season), but Frank has been a pretty solidly funny character and DeVito seems to really relish playing the creepy Frank Reynolds. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/23 "2013-03-19T20:02:46Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Alas, it didn’t work out well for [_Starved._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starved) ☹ God that show was terrible. The guy that did it, Eric Schaeffer, had a small reality/doc series on Showtime a few years back about his adventures in trying to find love. It was also terrible. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/24 "2013-03-19T20:25:58Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I have to say, I was annoyed when they brought Danny DeVito in (to add some star-power to the show in order to get picked up for a 2nd season), but Frank has been a pretty solidly funny character and DeVito seems to really relish playing the creepy Frank Reynolds. He does ok. He plays a dual role, sometimes he’s crazier than Charlie, other times he’s the voice of reason. I think his role as the voice of reason allows the others to be more versatile. For some reason I though he was a financial backer of the show also. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/25 "2013-03-19T20:47:02Z")
Catching up on previous seasons really gives one a sense of Cricket’s downward spiral. I didn’t realize that he was once a priest. Other classic episodes: The road trip to the Grand Canyon (that never gets out of Philly). The storm of the century. Dennis and Dee get addicted to crack. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/26 "2013-03-19T21:03:11Z")
“Dennis and Dee get addicted to crack.” One of my favorites! I was late to the show, I don’t have cable but saw some threads about it here. I rented the first season and got hooked. I rented a season every weekend until I got caught up. The local independent TV station has started showing two episodes back to back on Sunday nights, bleeped all to Hell but still fun. If I had to voice one complaint it would be that Charlie’s screaming starts to wear pretty thin, especially if you’re watching a few episodes back to back. Loved the commercial for Charlies kitten mittens. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/27 "2013-03-19T21:07:59Z")
One of my favorite episodes of television ever is the one where Frank convinces Charlie and Dee that they’ve eaten “human meat” and they become cannibals. “Is it racist that I kinda don’t wanna eat the black guy?” “Well it is _now!_” ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/28 "2013-03-19T21:11:20Z")
Between Archer and Always Sunny, FX is the channel I find myself laughing at the most. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/29 "2013-03-19T21:12:00Z")
I thought the last season was pretty damn good. Aside from the magnificent Ponderosa wedding massacre there was the episodes that took place entirely in a restaurant and psychiatric office that i thought were standouts. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/30 "2013-03-19T21:23:03Z")
The halloween episode was genius. Dee as an ostrich is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/31 "2013-03-19T21:32:47Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Catching up on previous seasons really gives one a sense of Cricket’s downward spiral. I didn’t realize that he was once a priest. “Cricket”, aka David Hornsby, is one of the main writers/producers of the show and was actually one of the actors on the original season of The Joe Schmo Show ([he played “The Asshole”](http://monkeyblogmonkeydo.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/joe_schmo_show_david_hornsby_kristen_wiig.jpg)). Kristen Wiig was also in the cast. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/32 "2013-03-19T22:53:33Z")
My favorite thing about the show is how they are all bad people. Every single one of them. Charlie is my favorite, though. The best episode: the Gang Dances Their Asses Off. Charlie really needs to learn how to read. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/33 "2013-03-19T22:54:07Z")
Luckily my husband doesn’t care for the show much, so we don’t watch it during our precious kid-free hours. So when I was up all night the day after Christmas, hurling my guts out, I had oceans of Sunny to keep me distracted. Unfortunately, they had Dee do a lot of gagging starting about season 6. But overall it was a big help. I have rarely laughed as hard as I did at the end of “The Gang Wrestles for the Troops.” ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/34 "2013-03-19T22:59:17Z")
“Unfortunately, they had Dee do a lot of gagging…” She’s strangely good at that. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/35 "2013-03-19T23:22:40Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > Luckily my husband doesn’t care for the show much, so we don’t watch it during our precious kid-free hours. So when I was up all night the day after Christmas, hurling my guts out, I had oceans of Sunny to keep me distracted. Unfortunately, they had Dee do a lot of gagging starting about season 6. But overall it was a big help. I have rarely laughed as hard as I did at the end of “The Gang Wrestles for the Troops.” “They are not responding to the pageantry at ALL.” ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/36 "2013-03-19T23:40:12Z")
[Because of the implication…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9spNzOFPk) is probably the most inappropriate that will make me laugh my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/37 "2013-03-19T23:49:39Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > “Unfortunately, they had Dee do a lot of gagging..” > > She’s strangely good at that. Ha! Dee’s gagging is another thing I probably laugh at entirely too much. That face she makes kills me every time! ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/38 "2013-03-20T00:16:51Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > [Because of the implication…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9spNzOFPk) is probably the most inappropriate that will make me laugh my ass off. This is why Dennis is my favorite. The lurking darkness under the (self-assigned) pretty boy exterior. I think he balances on that edge brilliantly. I think the ‘tools in the trunk’ scene at the reunion took things a little too far into the obvious, but I generally love the ambiguity they keep around him. ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/39 "2013-03-20T05:09:53Z")
We had the same experience as the OP. Watched a coupla episodes in S1, then gave up. I don’t think we realized what we were missing until Comedy Central began running the 4 episode blocks on Monday nights a few years back. I kind of love how the title card of each episode is tied into the pre-credit sequence (Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare; Sweet Dee Gets Audited; Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire). One of my favorite moments that hasn’t been previously mentioned was the gang dumping the dead prostitute in the hallway to the tune of “Pretty Woman.” ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366/40 "2013-03-20T13:49:35Z")
Absolute best behind the scenes [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFPZWK4ElE) from the show. Audio extremely NSFW, even more so than the show. With great guest appearance by Fred Savage (who has directed a bunch of their best episodes). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/653366.md?page=3)