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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

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This sitcom on FX has just gotten renewed for a 13 episode second season (Starved got the ax) and that makes me happy! has anyone seen this show at all?

lemin (lemin), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

personally, i think there's a fine line between being funny assholes and being annoying unfunny assholes, but all the characters on this show fall firmly on the funny side - however, i suspect lots of you would feel differently. granted, i like shows where every single character is an indefensible douchebag. one problem is that it does try a little too hard to be edgy, but y'know what? it's funny anyways.

lemin (lemin), Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

i like shows where every single character is an indefensible douchebag

well, this definitely sounds like philadelphia, yes.

strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 23 October 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Definitely good news. The best show of the last season I thought.

Sean Ingram (Jouster), Sunday, 23 October 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

awww... starved was such a great moment of cultural heat death.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

i haven't seen this since it debuted. did it get better?

kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

always sunny seemed to be going for the sienfeld/larry david selfishppl getting shit that gooes around comes around vibe?

it couldn't last out a full-size season instead of a short run, i think, coz it ran through the big "outRAGEous" themes pretty quick -- nazis, guns, cancer, race.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

don't forget underage drinking, child molestation, and abortion!

i'm positive these fine upstanding young writers will not cease to find a wealth of fun topics with which to utilze their skills and entertain us

lemin (lemin), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

This show is not very good at all! You'd all be better off watching Peep Show, if you can find it.

Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

it would be kind of fabulous if the writers pulled their stories from daily news headlines. id love to see them work a rick mariano fake suicide story in there!

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

I saw two or three episodes of this and felt guilty, like I was somehow responsible for it, because I went to college with quite a few people exactly like the characters on this show. Especially the annoying little guy, I kept thinking.. don't I know you from somewhere?

dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the actual name of the show? Seems a bit unwieldy.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

It rained Saturday! wtf?

miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

dude, i know! driving around on the main line was awful. a twenty minute ride to bryn mawr took 40 minutes.

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (four years ago)

three years pass...

“I’m going to bug him”

“Frank that’s a baby monitor”

“Yeah, a lot of people are bugging their babies these days”

a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 19 November 2025 22:37 (ten months ago)


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