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It's Always Sunny in [witty place]!

alivatnaalivatna Registered User regular
edited October 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Why there wasn't already a topic made makes me question your guys' sanity.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA on FX Thursday nights at 10:00pm EST


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It's Always Sunny in the Summary:

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an FX sitcom created by Rob McElhenney about four friends (played by McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton and Kaitlin Olson) who run an Irish bar, "Paddy's Pub", in Philadelphia. The series deals with a variety of controversial topics, including abortion, gun control, racism, sexism, religion, transsexuality, slavery, sexual harassment in education, and gay rights. They also added Danny DeVito in the second season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Its_always_sunny

It's Always Sunny in the Cast:
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Charlie
: Charlie along with childhood friends Dennis Reynolds and Mac owns Paddy's bar in Philadelphia. Charlie appears to be the most simple minded of "the gang" (Charlie, Mac, Dennis, Sweet Dee and Frank Reynolds) a fact his friends regularly exploit such as when they began training Charlie to enter an underground fighting tournament. Charlie often does the grunt work at the bar that no one else is willing to do like cleaning toilets, cleaning up after deceased customers etc. The gang refers to these tasks as "Charlie Work". Charlie is also dyslexic.
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Dennis: Dennis is the co-owner of Paddy's Pub, a bar in South Philadelphia, along with his friends Mac and Charlie. He is incredibly vain and narcissistic, doing things such as starving himself because he "thinks his face looks fat." He belittles many people around him, claiming that he was the only one out of him, Mac, and Charlie that was popular in high school, and often refers to a past, embarrassing moment of his sister, Dee's life to make her feel inadequate. He has preconceived notions of many groups, and often exploits them. Such as automatically assuming all the black children on the youth basketball team he coached were the best players in "The Gang Gives Back," changing the bar into a gay bar for more money in "The Gang Gets Racist," and attending abortion rallies in hopes of picking up women in "Charlie Wants an Abortion."
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Dee: Sweet Dee is in her early thirties and is a bartender at Paddy's bar in Philadelphia. Paddy's is owned by Dee's twin brother Dennis Reynolds and his two childhood friends Charlie Kelly and Mac. Dee wore a back brace for her scoliosis until she was 20 years old as stated in the episode "Underage Drinking: A National Concern". In that same episode Dee states that she drinks way too much when she's around a guy she likes.
Dee takes acting classes but as her brother often points out she has no talent. Once in order to further her acting dreams she and Dennis quit the bar and smoked crack cocaine so they could get a blood test that would qualify them for welfare benefits ("Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare") so they could afford to be unemployed while they pursued their goals. Dee was also once addicted to steroids.
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Mac: Mac is the co-owner of Paddy's Pub, a bar in South Philadelphia, along with his friends Dennis Reynolds and Charlie Kelly. Dennis's sister Sweet Dee works there as their bartender. Mac and Charlie have known each other since they were in catholic school together as kids.
Most of Mac's friends think he's "an asshole". Mac was popular in high school only because he sold everyone weed. According to Dennis, Mac has a reputation for dating ugly girls, even though he has managed to seduce several very attractive women as well. Mac once dated a pre-op transexual named Carmen. He wanted to put his time in with her before the operation.

And as of Season Two, this recognizable fellow joined the cast
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Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds
: Frank is the legal father of Dennis and Dee, and is introduced in the first episode of the series' second season. After going through an acrimonious divorce and midlife crisis, he initially planned on giving his wealth to charity. He was quickly inspired by the gang's life of lazy debauchery, however, and decided to use his money to live like them. He eventually bought a share of the bar, and currently shares Charlie's sofa-bed with him.

It's Always Sunny in Free Episodes
Never heard of this show? Maybe you have but never caught it on television. Well today's your lucky day! Hulu has a majority of the episodes from all seasons:
www.hulu.com

It's Always Sunny in the Conclusion
So, everyone, watch this show. You'll love it.
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Apparently this thread was resurrected from a year ago so I updated the free episodes part

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    This smells like a plant to me.

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  • aesiraesir __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    Regardless of if its a plant or not, this is one of my favorite sitcoms ever, and one of my favorite shows currently airing on TV.

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  • alivatnaalivatna Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    You're a plant

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I think a plant might have sources of photo's that aren't all blocked from hotlinking.

    Of those spoilered photo's only two show up.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    So is this show funny and/or worth watching?

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2007
    Your mom's a plant.

    Pack on topic, please.

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  • alivatnaalivatna Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    So is this show funny and/or worth watching?

    Watch the episode and judge for yourself:P

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Pack on topic, please.
    No, you get pack on topic!

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  • BongoBongo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    This is perhaps one of my absolute favorite comedies on TV.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Someone compared this show as South Park meets Curb...

    It's a surprisingly good description.

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I saw a few episodes of it, and I have to say it was pretty damn funny. Danny Divito is rather funny and they do a good job of not making it yet another lame sitcom.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Season 1 and season 2 were both fantastic but season 3, so far, has been pretty awful.

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  • BongoBongo Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    tofu wrote: »
    Season 1 and season 2 were both fantastic but season 3, so far, has been pretty awful.

    I beg to differ. I'll give you that the plots have been getting more and more outlandish, but there has been some solid gold this season.

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  • musanmanmusanman Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Bongo wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    Season 1 and season 2 were both fantastic but season 3, so far, has been pretty awful.

    I beg to differ. I'll give you that the plots have been getting more and more outlandish, but there has been some solid gold this season.

    I agree this season has been excellent. I like how ridiculous it is.

    I will admit the Kim Jong Il episode wasn't as good, but I still got plenty of good laughs during it. More than like anything else I watch on tv (besides futurama reruns of course) example: GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER DAWG

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    This show is perhaps the funniest show on television right now. I put it on the same level as Arrested Development, personally.

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  • VeegeezeeVeegeezee Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    it's always sunny

    in my pants

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I watched the first four episodes of season one 'cause a friend told me it's a good show. I thought it was awful, which pissed me off because I was expecting to like it.

    is this normal? as in, does it "pick up" at any point? If so, I'll continue to watch until that point at the very least, but as of now I just don't really like it.

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  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    If you didn't like it in four episodes, I doubt you will after more.

    Personally, I think it's an extraordinarily funny show, though I'd say that Season 3 isn't quite as good as seasons 1 and 2 so far.

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    the nazi episode is my favorite

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    The one with the McDoyle's had some great moments.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Variable wrote: »
    I watched the first four episodes of season one 'cause a friend told me it's a good show. I thought it was awful, which pissed me off because I was expecting to like it.

    is this normal? as in, does it "pick up" at any point? If so, I'll continue to watch until that point at the very least, but as of now I just don't really like it.

    Do you have some kind of condition? Like, do you like shows where characters are good people are something? You might want to have that checked out.

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Holy crap... looking at that picture, DD looks like a little person or something

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  • alivatnaalivatna Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Bump cause it's on right nowwwwwwwwwwww

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  • deowolfdeowolf is allowed to do that. Traffic.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Holy crap... looking at that picture, DD looks like a little person or something

    He is?

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Holy crap... looking at that picture, DD is a little person or something

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Variable wrote: »
    I watched the first four episodes of season one 'cause a friend told me it's a good show. I thought it was awful, which pissed me off because I was expecting to like it.

    is this normal? as in, does it "pick up" at any point? If so, I'll continue to watch until that point at the very least, but as of now I just don't really like it.

    Do you have some kind of condition? Like, do you like shows where characters are good people are something? You might want to have that checked out.
    Well he likes Arrested Development, so I don't know about that.

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  • TorgoTorgo Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    dlinfiniti wrote: »
    the nazi episode is my favorite

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    Variable wrote: »
    I watched the first four episodes of season one 'cause a friend told me it's a good show. I thought it was awful, which pissed me off because I was expecting to like it.

    is this normal? as in, does it "pick up" at any point? If so, I'll continue to watch until that point at the very least, but as of now I just don't really like it.

    Do you have some kind of condition? Like, do you like shows where characters are good people are something? You might want to have that checked out.
    Well he likes Arrested Development, so I don't know about that.

    I love arrested development.

    no, it just felt like this show was trying too hard. I talked to a friend of mine who likes it and he at first said what everyone here said, which is that if I don't like it right off I simply won't like it. then after a little more talk he said I should watch season two.

    so what I'm going to do, probably starting tonight and soon, is finish season one and watch some of season 2. maybe I'll grow to love it.

    when I don't like something, unless it's blatantly terrible I worry if I just wasn't giving it a fair shot... but I know that's not the case here.

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  • JebuJebu Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I would say that the second season is better than the first, although I think the first season got better when I went back and watched it again. But episodes like "Dennis and Dee go on Welfare", "The Gang Goes Jihad", or "The Gang Gives Back" are hysterical and miles beyond the stuff in the first season. I laugh my ass off every time I think about them making that terrorist video and Mac waving around a hammer.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    yeah I guess it's just not for me. I watched up to season 2, ep 2, which is the jihad one. The characters have somewhat endeared themselves to me which is far better than how I felt after the first 3 episodes, but I just don't really find it funny.

    not gonna shit on the thread or the show or anything, just not my thing and I was hoping to change that, but it's not meant to be.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I love the welfare one
    Lolz


    Yesterday they had Diaper Time
    Lolz

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  • SeptusSeptus Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The Gang Gives Back
    Dennis:"What, are you wearing sandals, seriously? This kid didn't even wear shoes."

    Dennis:"A diet coke? What, do I look like I need to be on a diet?"
    Kid: "I don't know."
    Dennis:"Terrible. Take a lap."

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I love that one
    It is so good

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    alright I'm enjoying the gang gives back.

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  • FirstComradeStalinFirstComradeStalin Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    WE WILL SMASH YOUR SKULLS WITH OUR WEAPONS!

    The new season is pretty great, too. The McPoyles are hilarious.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    the freedom one was great too. the others are decent ish.

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  • NrthstarNrthstar Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    This is straight up my favorite show on Tv. For years now, my friends and I have joked about building a bar, so the premise alone of this show gets me all warm and fuzzy inside.

    The first season was excellent, the second season was A-freakin-mazing, and the new season, though it doesn't have that satirical feel that Southpark has mastered is still filled with solid gold. There are very few shows that can have characters so morally irresponsible and still likeable like this. Whoever said it's a bit of Curb/Southpark was right.

    To this day though, nothing will beat "Charlie has cancer".

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  • ClevingerClevinger Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    It's one of my favorite comedies up there with Curb, Peep Show, Larry Sanders, and AD, and the first two seasons are just brilliant. This third season, I think, has taken a nose dive in quality. Now it seems they're trying too hard in a lot of places, and most scenes tend to be characters just yelling at eachother and saying things far too fast.

    The first two seasons seemed much more laid back.

    But don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of good scenes in this season so far. Like Charlie's mom explaining to him that he's a failed abortion. The writers pointing out his dyslexia is always a treat.

    Variable, some more episodes you should try:

    The Gang Finds a Dead Guy
    Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom
    Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare
    Gun Fever
    Charlie Gets Crippled
    Charlie Has Cancer

    All amazing episodes.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Gun Fever is such a fantastic episode.

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