12.09.2008

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia or Seinfeld shared a crack pipe with Arrested Development



It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is hands down the best show on television at the moment. It's the next Freaks and Geeks, it's the next Arrested Development, god damn this is the next MASH.

The show has just wrapped up it's 4th season on air, the Film Buff currently has seasons 1-3 on DVD.

IASIP revolves around 3 best friends Dennis, Mac, and Charlie who all own a bar in Philly. Dennis' sister, affectionately named Sweet Dee, works at the bar as well. For the first season these are the only main characters playing off each other with the same chemistry the Seinfeld gang had.
In season 2 Danny Devito joins the cast as Dennis and Dee's father which mixes things up a bit.

Sunny in Philly plays like Seinfeld on crack. Every character is completely self obsessed, narcissistic, and just plain rude. The basic idea of every episode is to see the gang in a new predicament. The titles of each episode explain what the gang will be getting up to for the next half hour. The episode titles themselves are usually the opening joke to any given episode as every episode opens with a quick 2-3 minute scene that cuts to the title of the episode and then the series' opening title sequence which is shot around Philly completely at night. Such episode titles include The Gang Gets Racist, The Gang Runs for Office, The Gang Goes Jihad, The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby, The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation, and one of my personal faves The Gang Dances Their Asses Off.

Although this formula is sometimes played with, using titles like Charlie Got Molested, Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass, Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire, Dennis Looks Like a Registered Sex Offender, and Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom.

Laughing this hard is criminal. I was bent over crying my eyes out while my roommate was shooting white wine from her nose. it was a scene to behold.
Anyways, Sunny in Philly, is incredibly funny, exceptionally written satire that is some of the best freshest comedy around North America today.

This comes highly recommended. The first 3 seasons, although devoured in mere days, have been dancing a tango in my dvd player. It's constantly playing around the house. I noticed today on my way out that it was playing, and no one was in my room watching it, so i left anyways. very entertaining stuff, check it out.

7 comments:

the coelacanth said...

"The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby" =
AMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZIIIIINGGGG

Dropkick said...

can we get cookies in the east end?

Dropkick said...

yeah, what gives?
that post was great!

Dropkick said...

what? the hell is going on?
some sort of comment war going on

the coelacanth said...

why, whatever are you talking about? tripping balls again, are we?

Dropkick said...

i want no part in this charade!

La Sporgenza said...

"Can we get cookies for the east end?"

Is that code for something Kadas? What the hell are you talking about? "Comment Wars", "That post was great"? ...what gives? Are you ju on the right blog? Post something intelligible... please.

Jesus Man Meng....