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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
by the no more hero. Sat 22 Nov 2008, 10:54 am
From Wikipedia:
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, slavery, sexual harassment in education and gay rights.
The show began as a pilot called "It's Always Sunny on TV" and was shot on a digital camcorder by Day, Howerton and McElhenney. After viewing the pilot, FX Networks executives gave them $400,000 to shoot the first season. Although it is often stated publicly that the pilot was shot for $200, the makers of the show have claimed that the cost was much lower because the only costs were videotapes. In an interview on The Daily Show, actor Danny DeVito specified that the cost was only $85 (August 3, 2006).
According to Rob McElhenney, word of mouth on the show was good enough during the first season for FX to renew it for a second, which premiered on June 29, 2006. In the new season Danny DeVito joined the cast, playing the father of Dennis (Howerton) and Dee (Olsen).
The first season finale aired on September 13, 2005. Reruns of edited first season episodes began airing on FX's parent network, FOX, in 2006. In the UK and Ireland, Bravo broadcast the first season in early 2006, with the second season to be broadcast in November 2006 according to the Sun's TV magazine. The show is also shown in Sweden, and in Canada where it airs on Showcase. The first season aired in the Arab world on Showtime Arabia's Paramount Comedy Channel in November 2006.
The show has drawn considerable critical acclaim, including comparisons to Seinfeld.
On November 7, 2006, FX announced the show would be returning for a third season to start airing during summer of 2007.
Major characters (The Gang)
With the exception of Frank Reynolds, the gang had all attended high school together.
The five major characters comprise "the gang" and share, to a certain degree, several personality traits.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis (Glenn Howerton) is Dee's twin brother, co-owner of Paddy's, and roommates with Mac. He is confident, vain, and generally successful with women. He and his sister come from a well-to-do family, and he dresses relatively well and drives a Land Rover. Dennis tends to be a bit nostalgic - he nearly cries over the memory of Tim Murphy sleeping with his prom date in high school, and complains to Mac about his love for Mr. Tibbs, a stuffed elephant from his childhood. Before owning the bar, Dennis' dream was to be a veterinarian. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and minored in psychology.
Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds
Sweet Dee, or Dee (Kaitlin Olson), is Dennis' twin sister and bartender at Paddy's. She is vain like her brother, and reacts strongly to any criticism. She often finds herself in romantic situations with men that she cannot have for a variety of reasons (including their homosexuality, priesthood, marital status, criminal ways, and age). She proclaims to be a compassionate liberal, but many of her actions contradict that. She is disgusted by Charlie's apartment and the elderly. She usually tries to disengage herself from other people's troubles, and is willing to lie for self benefit. In high school, she missed out on her prom and did not have much luck with men because of her severe scoliosis. She used to wear a back brace and attended physical therapy twice a week after school with Matthew Moira (Rickety Kricket). Dee gets nervous when she's around a guy that she likes and has a tendency to abuse alcohol in order to calm herself or compensate for her perceived inadequacies. She completed "three quarters" of a psychology major at the University of Pennsylvania, and is an aspiring yet unsuccessful actress.
Mac
Mac (Rob McElhenney) is a childhood friend of Charlie's and attended St. Vincent's Elementary School with him. Mac is a co-owner of Paddy's, and roommates with Dennis. Mac is the only one of the group who claims to have earnest religious faith, although it has little impact on his ethics. In high school, Mac used to sell weed to the other kids. He worries about his appeal to women and often competes with Dennis for their affection. His estranged father is currently in prison on drug charges, which does little to stop him from recruiting his son into heroin trafficking. He is hot-headed, without shame, and often described by most friends and strangers as an asshole.
Charlie Kelly
Charlie (Charlie Day) is a childhood friend of Mac (Charlie attended St. Vincent's Elementary School with Mac) and co-owner of Paddy's. At the bar, he is responsible for "Charlie work," the worst and most disgusting jobs at the bar. He is known to be poor and his apartment is often described by friends and strangers as a "shit hole". He agreed to be roommates with Frank on the condition that Frank pay the rent for 6 months. He is often the butt of the group’s jokes even though he has a Napoleon complex and is more than likely dyslexic; up until the episode "The Gang goes Jihad" Charlie had no knowledge of the War on Terror; it is suspected that he has a learning disability. Like the rest of "the Gang", Charlie is incredibly dishonest. The most serious example would be when he lied about having cancer to attact the sympathy of the Waitress, with whom he is obsessed. Still, Charlie retains a kind of sweet-natured innocence that contrasts sharply with the selfishness and amorality of the show's other characters.
Frank Reynolds
Frank (Danny DeVito) is the 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. At the end of Season 2 it was discovered that Frank is not the father of Dennis and Dee and may in fact be Charlie's father.
Major Themes
The gang is vain. Each character has, at one point or another, displayed extreme forms of pride or shame concerning their physical appearance or sexual appeal. Examples: Dennis fasts for days after being told his face looked fat; Dennis is against Paddy's becoming a gay bar, but relents after gay patrons compliment his looks; Mac becomes upset that other boys in his childhood gym class had been molested while he hadn't; Dee attempts to seduce a priest after being told that she's "too old" to do so. A somewhat recurring gag involves one of the gang being complimented on their appearance and responding with a reassurance-seeking "Really?"
The gang is also uninformed. They seem to have little, if any, knowledge of politics. In one episode Dennis ran for comptroller without even knowing what it is. They usually go on pointless capers in the hope that they will result in a self-serving outcome. One of many examples would be when Dennis and Mac "trained" Charlie to take an incredible amount of punishment, in the hopes of winning money from an organized street fight. Another example is during "The Gang goes Jihad" episode in which none of the gang can properly describe the conflict in Israel despite claiming to know its ramifications.
The gang is very dishonest. At varying times members have lied about things like having cancer, suffering from disabilities (both physical and mental), being a Vietnam War veteran (Charlie), their sexual orientation and their ethical or religious views, all for the sake of personal gain. In most episodes these character flaws result in unhappy endings for the main characters as well as the innocent bystanders caught in their path.
The gang is very competitive. Conflicts that arise from their mutually competitive natures are the basis for many plots. This has ranged from competition over women between the guys, Dee proving she is as strong or competent as the others, who can steal more things, or even who can amass the most religious followers.
The gang loves to argue over each other. In almost every episode, the entire gang, or most of the gang, gets into an arguing match in which they try to shout over each other. Notable instances are the fight in Paddy's bathroom between Charlie and Dennis over Charlie faking cancer and the entire gang arguing over who might've been responsible for their potential deaths in "Charlie gets crippled."
Sunny is my absolute favorite show, as the tagline says it really is "Seinfield on crack". All of the characters
are so completely mean, and just down right awful with little to no redemptive qualities. And I really like how they
tackle real world topics like religion, racism, sexual orientation and push the boundries of what's offensive and what's funny.
If you like shows like Scrubs, Seinfield, and/or Arrested Development you'll more than likely love this show.
If you're easily offended, than this is definantly not the show for you.
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, slavery, sexual harassment in education and gay rights.
The show began as a pilot called "It's Always Sunny on TV" and was shot on a digital camcorder by Day, Howerton and McElhenney. After viewing the pilot, FX Networks executives gave them $400,000 to shoot the first season. Although it is often stated publicly that the pilot was shot for $200, the makers of the show have claimed that the cost was much lower because the only costs were videotapes. In an interview on The Daily Show, actor Danny DeVito specified that the cost was only $85 (August 3, 2006).
According to Rob McElhenney, word of mouth on the show was good enough during the first season for FX to renew it for a second, which premiered on June 29, 2006. In the new season Danny DeVito joined the cast, playing the father of Dennis (Howerton) and Dee (Olsen).
The first season finale aired on September 13, 2005. Reruns of edited first season episodes began airing on FX's parent network, FOX, in 2006. In the UK and Ireland, Bravo broadcast the first season in early 2006, with the second season to be broadcast in November 2006 according to the Sun's TV magazine. The show is also shown in Sweden, and in Canada where it airs on Showcase. The first season aired in the Arab world on Showtime Arabia's Paramount Comedy Channel in November 2006.
The show has drawn considerable critical acclaim, including comparisons to Seinfeld.
On November 7, 2006, FX announced the show would be returning for a third season to start airing during summer of 2007.
Major characters (The Gang)
With the exception of Frank Reynolds, the gang had all attended high school together.
The five major characters comprise "the gang" and share, to a certain degree, several personality traits.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis (Glenn Howerton) is Dee's twin brother, co-owner of Paddy's, and roommates with Mac. He is confident, vain, and generally successful with women. He and his sister come from a well-to-do family, and he dresses relatively well and drives a Land Rover. Dennis tends to be a bit nostalgic - he nearly cries over the memory of Tim Murphy sleeping with his prom date in high school, and complains to Mac about his love for Mr. Tibbs, a stuffed elephant from his childhood. Before owning the bar, Dennis' dream was to be a veterinarian. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and minored in psychology.
Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds
Sweet Dee, or Dee (Kaitlin Olson), is Dennis' twin sister and bartender at Paddy's. She is vain like her brother, and reacts strongly to any criticism. She often finds herself in romantic situations with men that she cannot have for a variety of reasons (including their homosexuality, priesthood, marital status, criminal ways, and age). She proclaims to be a compassionate liberal, but many of her actions contradict that. She is disgusted by Charlie's apartment and the elderly. She usually tries to disengage herself from other people's troubles, and is willing to lie for self benefit. In high school, she missed out on her prom and did not have much luck with men because of her severe scoliosis. She used to wear a back brace and attended physical therapy twice a week after school with Matthew Moira (Rickety Kricket). Dee gets nervous when she's around a guy that she likes and has a tendency to abuse alcohol in order to calm herself or compensate for her perceived inadequacies. She completed "three quarters" of a psychology major at the University of Pennsylvania, and is an aspiring yet unsuccessful actress.
Mac
Mac (Rob McElhenney) is a childhood friend of Charlie's and attended St. Vincent's Elementary School with him. Mac is a co-owner of Paddy's, and roommates with Dennis. Mac is the only one of the group who claims to have earnest religious faith, although it has little impact on his ethics. In high school, Mac used to sell weed to the other kids. He worries about his appeal to women and often competes with Dennis for their affection. His estranged father is currently in prison on drug charges, which does little to stop him from recruiting his son into heroin trafficking. He is hot-headed, without shame, and often described by most friends and strangers as an asshole.
Charlie Kelly
Charlie (Charlie Day) is a childhood friend of Mac (Charlie attended St. Vincent's Elementary School with Mac) and co-owner of Paddy's. At the bar, he is responsible for "Charlie work," the worst and most disgusting jobs at the bar. He is known to be poor and his apartment is often described by friends and strangers as a "shit hole". He agreed to be roommates with Frank on the condition that Frank pay the rent for 6 months. He is often the butt of the group’s jokes even though he has a Napoleon complex and is more than likely dyslexic; up until the episode "The Gang goes Jihad" Charlie had no knowledge of the War on Terror; it is suspected that he has a learning disability. Like the rest of "the Gang", Charlie is incredibly dishonest. The most serious example would be when he lied about having cancer to attact the sympathy of the Waitress, with whom he is obsessed. Still, Charlie retains a kind of sweet-natured innocence that contrasts sharply with the selfishness and amorality of the show's other characters.
Frank Reynolds
Frank (Danny DeVito) is the 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. At the end of Season 2 it was discovered that Frank is not the father of Dennis and Dee and may in fact be Charlie's father.
Major Themes
The gang is vain. Each character has, at one point or another, displayed extreme forms of pride or shame concerning their physical appearance or sexual appeal. Examples: Dennis fasts for days after being told his face looked fat; Dennis is against Paddy's becoming a gay bar, but relents after gay patrons compliment his looks; Mac becomes upset that other boys in his childhood gym class had been molested while he hadn't; Dee attempts to seduce a priest after being told that she's "too old" to do so. A somewhat recurring gag involves one of the gang being complimented on their appearance and responding with a reassurance-seeking "Really?"
The gang is also uninformed. They seem to have little, if any, knowledge of politics. In one episode Dennis ran for comptroller without even knowing what it is. They usually go on pointless capers in the hope that they will result in a self-serving outcome. One of many examples would be when Dennis and Mac "trained" Charlie to take an incredible amount of punishment, in the hopes of winning money from an organized street fight. Another example is during "The Gang goes Jihad" episode in which none of the gang can properly describe the conflict in Israel despite claiming to know its ramifications.
The gang is very dishonest. At varying times members have lied about things like having cancer, suffering from disabilities (both physical and mental), being a Vietnam War veteran (Charlie), their sexual orientation and their ethical or religious views, all for the sake of personal gain. In most episodes these character flaws result in unhappy endings for the main characters as well as the innocent bystanders caught in their path.
The gang is very competitive. Conflicts that arise from their mutually competitive natures are the basis for many plots. This has ranged from competition over women between the guys, Dee proving she is as strong or competent as the others, who can steal more things, or even who can amass the most religious followers.
The gang loves to argue over each other. In almost every episode, the entire gang, or most of the gang, gets into an arguing match in which they try to shout over each other. Notable instances are the fight in Paddy's bathroom between Charlie and Dennis over Charlie faking cancer and the entire gang arguing over who might've been responsible for their potential deaths in "Charlie gets crippled."
Sunny is my absolute favorite show, as the tagline says it really is "Seinfield on crack". All of the characters
are so completely mean, and just down right awful with little to no redemptive qualities. And I really like how they
tackle real world topics like religion, racism, sexual orientation and push the boundries of what's offensive and what's funny.
If you like shows like Scrubs, Seinfield, and/or Arrested Development you'll more than likely love this show.
If you're easily offended, than this is definantly not the show for you.
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Re: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
by makoto kino. Mon 24 Nov 2008, 11:08 am
I <3 it.
Its on real late on Thursday nights at like 11PM though...
Its on real late on Thursday nights at like 11PM though...
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Re: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
by the no more hero. Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:04 am
The new season starts in September, I can't wait. 
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Re: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
by quinn allman's hair. Mon 13 Jul 2009, 7:34 pm
We had it here in Australia, but I think I got into it a bit late in the season, cos they only showed a few episodes and then it was gone. It was on really late at night too. 
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