Alas, it didn’t work out well for Starved. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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!”
Between Archer and Always Sunny, FX is the channel I find myself laughing at the most.
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.
The halloween episode was genius. Dee as an ostrich is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
“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”). Kristen Wiig was also in the cast.
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.
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.”
“Unfortunately, they had Dee do a lot of gagging…”
She’s strangely good at that.
“They are not responding to the pageantry at ALL.”
Because of the implication… is probably the most inappropriate that will make me laugh my ass off.
Ha! Dee’s gagging is another thing I probably laugh at entirely too much. That face she makes kills me every time!
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.
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.”
Absolute best behind the scenes video 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).