Anyone catch this show? I downloaded the first season and what's been running of the second season and I gotta say it's pretty funny. It sorta has the misanthropic feel of Curb and the awkward situations. I'm pretty sure it airs on FX but they have a lot of cursing which surprised me. My description probably isn't doing the show justice but I'd advise to check it out. It's pretty damn funny.
I've seen a few episodes before and I watched another tonight. I understand the Curb Your Enthusiam comparison, but it was so over the top I kept thinking of Malcom in the Middle instead. The difference is that those shows are driven by actual scrutinizing comedy. Always Sunny in Philidelphia feels too random with its jokes to be good comedy.
I love this show. Unabashedly. In a typical comedy, even something like Curb or Arrested Development, they really do want us to like the main characters, but in this, they really don't. They're quite horrible people, so when bad things happen to them, we can find it hilarious.
My favorite episodes are the underage drinking episode and the "Gun Fever" episode from season one, along with the "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom" episode from the current season.
Quote from: polkablues on July 24, 2006, 02:42:21 AMThey're quite horrible people, so when bad things happen to them, we can find it hilarious.
You said it right there. I also find this show hilarious. They just replayed the abortion episode from the 1st season and it was great. A little heavy-handed at the end with Dennis literally sitting on the fence and getting egged from both sides, but funny nonetheless. FX has a nice streak going with The Shield (previously), Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck and Always Sunny.
one of my pet peeves in comedy is when actors stutter for their lines (improv or written) and 'cause they think that's a realistic reaction when outraged or incredulous. it's really annoying. Jason Biggs kinda ruined Anything Else with a lot of that. Amatuer student actors and movies have a lot of that. And guess what, so does this show. Hearing cusswords on TV/ youtube is fun though, but they shouldn't be punctuated by that calibre of comedy.
"It's Always Sunny In Paedophilia" :yabbse-smiley:
How do you really feel? :shock:
Quote from: RegularKarate on July 26, 2006, 02:04:56 PM
Quote from: Sunrise on July 24, 2006, 10:39:01 AM
FX has a nice streak going with The Shield (previously)
shit
Quote from: Sunrise on July 24, 2006, 10:39:01 AMRescue Me
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Quote from: Sunrise on July 24, 2006, 10:39:01 AMNip/Tuck
shit
Quote from: Sunrise on July 24, 2006, 10:39:01 AMAlways Sunny.
oh, I should really check that out!
With the exception of Nip/Tuck, you've lost your fucking mind.
Quote from: polkablues on July 26, 2006, 07:02:25 PM
With the exception of Nip/Tuck, you've lost your fucking mind.
nip/tuck is the only show on that list that is at least aware of its shitness and revels in it to an extent. it's alrite, the rest are definitely poo.
You've seen The Shield P? I think it's a good to great show.
Nip/tuck OTOH was alright on its first season, second was utterly crap, the show has no replay value whatsoever.
Quote from: Fernando on July 27, 2006, 01:55:11 PM
Nip/tuck OTOH was alright on its first season, second was utterly crap, the show has no replay value whatsoever.
Exactly... it started out over-the-top and fun, but it quickly became over-the-top and dumb. The Shield is a very solid show, and Rescue Me is probably one of the top five drama series on TV right now.
Quote from: Fernando on July 27, 2006, 01:55:11 PM
You've seen The Shield P? I think it's a good to great show.
Nip/tuck OTOH was alright on its first season, second was utterly crap, the show has no replay value whatsoever.
yeah the shield was boring. and i gotta admit i've only seen the first season of nip/tuck. and i thought rescue me was finished now.
Quote from: Pubrick on July 28, 2006, 11:31:05 AM
and i thought rescue me was finished now.
Here in the States, Rescue Me is currently midway through its third season. Not as good as last season, but still better than most TV.
This show is fucking tits, man. I had heard alot of good things but for some reason thought it was some meathead show about people who work at a news station. I got it confused with some other show for some reason.
I watched all episodes recently, and yeah, it's a meathead show, but it's still fucking funny.
It's no 30 Rock, but it's still funnier than most shit on TV these days.
the european from two episodes before was one of the funniest characters I've ever seen. I dunno why I love him so much, he's like the wild and crazy guy crossed with pee wee herman. I reference him everyday. my favorite ever.
I had never watched an episode before. But I worked on an episode, and had a great time on set. So while waiting to see if that episode aired, I started watching the show and have been laughing each time. I was dying during the Who Pooped The Bed? episode; with bleached assholes and the JFK-like conspiracy theories.
BTW, I worked the episode where they do an Extreme Makeover to a Latin family and Charlie and Frank bug the shit out people at the movie theater.
it took me forever to really sit down and watch it, and i'm so happy i did. it's one of the best edited shows on television.
haha. omg the last episode was hilarious.Devito doing the One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest thing was fucking awesome.
This really is one of my favorite shows in the whole wide world. I love people doing terrible things to one another.
Anybody watching this season? This last episode was hilarious. Piss jars, runaways, bartering with gypsies, switchola's. It had everything.
The premiere was a letdown, but this last episode was great. Favorite moment: Charlie eating a pear for the first time.
Yeah. I wasn't feeling the premier either but I think this last ep may have been on of their funniest.
"I always eat stickers!"
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this bailout episode is BRILLIANT.
*spolis?*
Frank returning to grab a big piece of meat and giving a final grunt got the biggest laugh from me.
This show may be the funniest thing on TV right now. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Quote from: Stefen on October 16, 2009, 03:05:37 PM
This show may be the funniest thing on TV right now. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Yeah, it's really kind of great how unifying this show is simply by being very, very funny. Shitheads or snobs, everyone digs it... at least, everyone I've met that has seen it.
What are we now, four episodes into this season? Five? Either way, not a weak one in the bunch.
Yeah, it really is a meathead type of show, but gotdamn if it isn't fucking funny. This season is really stellar. Everyone is on their a-game and the chemistry between the cast is at an all-time high. The way they all riff and improv off of eachother is really something else.
The road trip episode was pretty weak, but man The Waitress is Getting Married is Charlie's best, or at least my favorite of him.
"A 60 year old man eating trash? Who wants to see THAT?!"
lulz.
anyone watch last night? this season has been great so far.
www.dicktowel.com
i want one
Real good stuff.
funniest show on tv right now.
I'm always going to be a week behind on new Always Sunny eps because I'm using Hulu, but this season is having some great moments and some mostly disappointing moments. I hope they pick up the slack because they're getting closer and closer to parodying themselves as the humor a la Family Guy, and we as an audience may soon be deprived by the interesting developing and yet still self involved characters.
It's like how in some episodes Dee is hot, but in some, you are really puzzled as to if she's actually attractive at all.
she is; see her on curb episodes.
I think since Season 2 (or whenever Danny Devito joined) the characters have all been parodies of themselves. They've sacrificed heart and believability for crass boundary pushing, but it's still funny.
I actually think that in the case of this particular show, the broader, caricatured approach is funnier. I think it's gotten better as it's gone along. In general, I'd agree that I'd like to see character development and more heart and stuff, but my joy from this show is seeing really horrible stuff happen to these bodies that are totally devoid of morality and intelligence. I don't actually want to see any identifiably human characteristics in these people.
I don't find the humor to be anything like in Family Guy, where the writers seem to rely on randomness. I don't find It's Always Sunny to be random at all... if anything, it's devastatingly logical.
Dee is only supposed to be hot to the audience. Everyone has a friend like her. Your boys always ask you, "damn, bro, she's hot! Did you hit that?" and you say, "oh, god, no!" because you know her too well. You know about that botched abortion, you know about that time she took a crap in the elevator at the marriott, you remember that annoying phase she went through during the 5th season of Sex and the City. She's fucking gross and you never understand why men find her attractive, but she's your friend.
I've been going through a TV-stealing phase thanks to you people. Stole this one a month or so ago, watched it through over the past week (granted, a lot of times it was background noise, so there'll be added value with the familiarity factor on replay -- one thing this show does have going for it). The one thing I'm certain of is they never had heart. Polka put it best that they're the most despicable people, and therefore watching it is experiencing schadenfreude at its best. I think as the show goes on, its angles wear thin, but I haven't seen an episode yet that was stretching too much. Only thing is, you CAN'T really root for these people, which makes the show unique. They live in this alternate reality only inhabited by the five of them. I never really bust a gut like I do with 30 Rock, but as Matt's said, its calculated logic is admirable.
most episodes had me laughing maybe once or twice, but I died when Charlie was filling out his profile on cupid.com, and also the double episode last season where they faked their deaths was one of the best things I'd ever seen.
I was talking with my girlfriend last night and we decided "This Show Can Do No Wrong, unless they break into Sentimentality"
which is kind of what worked for Seinfeld...see, we the fans will get sentimental when we see this cast part, but if the characters on the show ever get that way in a manner that is not caricatured, then screw it...the show turns bad!
I personally love how bad ideas are trumped by worse ideas every episode...the show just rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqssfzVyrw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqssfzVyrw)
Teenaged Rob McElhenney in an anti-smoking commercial. I REMEMBER THIS AD. My mind is blown.
Bonus Charlie gifs:
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I don't have gifmaking knowledge or knowhow, but could you make one of the scene where Dee and Charlie are eating their sandwiches to fight their meat hunger and they're scoping people out, tempted to eat them?
Specifically, I lose my shit everytime Dee's head pecks into the sandwich. She is so birdlike.
Sadly, I didn't make these. I got them from this nice little collection here. (http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/b5296/181787807/p1/)
That show is the absolute best. Watch it and I'll watch that peep show thing
Quote from: Pas on September 11, 2010, 02:35:01 PM
That show is the absolute best. Watch it and I'll watch that peep show thing
How is this a bargain to you? I'm pretty sure most regulars here actively watch or have watched both of these shows.
Do yourself a favor and watch that Peep Show thing.
haha, I love how Pas is bartering his viewings. That's a new one.
I'll trade you guys one season of Breaking Bad for a season of Shameless.
Don't waste your time on Peep Show, Pas. It's really quite terrible. Looking forward to the new eps of IAS, if only to see how many variations on depravity as social commentary they can come up with.
LOL :yabbse-rolleyes:
So this shit doesn't come on Hulu until a month after the fact. I want to see this now. Does anyone know a good place to stream it new now?
EDIT: Ok, so that season premiere was kind of a meh. Hopefully they pick it up... I feel like Season 5 was shaky at best, a few good episodes amid mostly bland episodes. So far the first and fourth seasons were phenomenal, season two was really good, three was decent and now you know my opinion on these matters.
Quote from: // w ø l r å s on September 18, 2010, 02:57:06 AM
So this shit doesn't come on Hulu until a month after the fact. I want to see this now. Does anyone know a good place to stream it new now?
EDIT: Ok, so that season premiere was kind of a meh. Hopefully they pick it up... I feel like Season 5 was shaky at best, a few good episodes amid mostly bland episodes. So far the first and fourth seasons were phenomenal, season two was really good, three was decent and now you know my opinion on these matters.
meh, to me every ep is great. i've seen each one multiple times. only one i didn't really care for was The Liberty Bell ep and that's because it wasn't real. sending the gang back in time is just weird.
looking forward to what they do with Dee this season. i kinda read beyond the season premiere.
Every episode is great to me, too. The quality ranges from amazing to super-awesometime-fuck-my-brains-out-amazing. I'm just too in love with the world and energy of the characters to ever be less than amazed. I think people were disappointed in this episode because it spent a lot of time setting up stories that are going to play out in future episodes (Dennis's marriage/Dee's vomiting), and also because of the heavier product placement, but that intoxicating crackling energy is still there and it gets me so giddy.
I was kind of disappointed in the first episode too, but the thing about this show that is really different than other shows is that the cast really keeps you watching even if the episode is lacking because they're all so fucking good. Both alone and with eachother. They all know their roles and they play them to perfection and the chemistry they have together is just something else completely. when DeVito first showed up, I didn't feel he really fit in, but now it's like he's been there since day one.
Trying to pick a favorite character is like trying to pick a favorite Radiohead album. Almost impossible because it changes so often because they're all so great. I think the star of this last episode had to easily be Mac. I love when he gets passionate about something and will stop at NOTHING to see his plan through. Even if it means making a complete ass of himself. Actually, none of the cast is above making an ass of themselves if it means they can make an ass out of eachtoher. I love that.
Next to Jersey Shore, there isn't anything as easily watchable and rewatchable on TV right now.
my favorite character is Charlie, without a doubt.
I liked the first episode, though, unlike a typical Sunny episode, it's not self-contained (seems to be setting up for some fun situations) and feels very very short.
Charlie is something else. My fave too. I loved the premiere.
Thanks.
Charlie is the greatest, but this episode belonged to Mac:
"I thought we established that there was going to be a phone call after the procedure, and then you have the procedure and I never get that call -- instead, you called this soft body, and you gay-married him! And now, you're calling me gay, telling me I'm tripping, and trying to confuse me with your liberal Biblicisms!"
This last episode was really funny. Maybe one of the funniest episodes I can remember. The Juggalo/ICP fan that Charlie takes under his wing killed me. And then Lethal Weapon 5? Wow. Most tasteless thing ever, but I loved every second of it.
yeah, these last two episodes have been excellent. the way that the show has been addressing larger story arcs has brought a new dimension to what was becoming a very stale formula.
The first two episodes of Season 6 were really scaring me. Season 5 was the first season to have outright disappointing episodes, before that, just some episodes I like less than others or skip over on the DVD's. But after its slow start, Season 6 has really been growing into something really wonderful.
The Halloween episode really reminds me of IASIP's perfect wrong-but-spot-on sense of humor.
Lance Reddick as an Ike Turner-esque 60s nightclub owner is my new favorite thing.
i've only seen the first two episodes of sunny this season and yeah, so far it's really been scaring me
mac: what do you want more than anything?
dennis: hm... crack.
Quote from: O on October 14, 2011, 06:09:38 AM
i've only seen the first two episodes of sunny this season and yeah, so far it's really been scaring me
mac: what do you want more than anything?
dennis: hm... crack.
you know he's a recovering addict, right?
What do you guys mean by scaring?
I gave this a shot and it sucked but if it's turned into something disturbing and awesome I might have to steal a few more episodes.
there are some nuggets in there, but I don't know - the show's funner to talk about than to actually watch. The depravity is fun to discuss, and the characters do become almost inhumanly depraved, with some pretty quotable moments, but I don't know, they're just not writing jokes, and it's become extremely predictable once all they're aiming for is depravity.
the double episode from two seasons ago when Mac and Charlie faked their deaths was still one of the funniest things, but that was back then when the show still had punchlines.
I don't know, maybe I'm old fashioned. I don't get Hangover for the same reason - it feels like the writers for both comedies have come up with some insane scenarios, but don't really develop them beyond having characters suffer.
Quote from: Reelist on October 14, 2011, 01:14:15 PM
Quote from: O on October 14, 2011, 06:09:38 AM
i've only seen the first two episodes of sunny this season and yeah, so far it's really been scaring me
mac: what do you want more than anything?
dennis: hm... crack.
you know he's a recovering addict, right?
On the show, or is the actor one in actuality? 'cause I don't really recall him doing crack for more than an episode or it mattering for more than an episode.
Yeah, well he technically became addicted to crack for that very short period and now can't seem to get it off his mind.
The Good News: "Frank's Brother" will remain the low-point of the season.
Yeah, Frank's Brother was an awful episode I couldn't even finish.
Last one was pretty bad as well. Mostly just screaming and being outrageous.
The snow storm one was quite good.
Basically the more Charlie and Mac, the better. I can't wait for Charlie Day hosting SNL this saturday. That show is beyond awful but I can see him giving a good performance.
I'm sorry, but "Chardee MacDennis" had me laughing so hard that I almost vomited, with two different audiences nonetheless. I don't really hold this show to too high a degree, because the junkier and more juvenile and more decadent the humor is, the better it feels to indulge in its half hour of insanity.
In certain cases, though, like when Dee's braid got pulled out in the Jersey Shore episode, and the joke was "LOOK: BLOOD", it wasn't character-based, thus I didn't think it was that funny. And Frank's whole flashback tried to maintain a sense of story with unfamiliar characters so...heheh I just can't believe that episode exists on a show with such a tight track record.
Bumping this as I've just gotten into this show on Netflix the past few weeks. Almost to the end of S2. Has been a bit awkard integrating DeVito into the show since he awsn't a part of the first season, but I think they've finally got to the point where he's just another member of the gang now. I looked back over the start of this thread and I concur, it's a bit of a meathead show, but there's a level of don't-give-a-shit anti-PCness that isn't really satire, but close enough that I can justify my love for it. The first season in particular takes on the must list of hot button issues one by one, so much so that I was wondering how on earth they could possibly sustain after that initial season, but so far so good. I think the show is fucking brilliant. The most outright hillarious show I've watched in a while. All the characters are self-absorbed narcissists, always looking for the next way to cheat themselves to an easy buck. It sounds like such a basic concept, but it really works here. It's funny when they get their comeuppance because they always deserve it. We're not supposed to like them. Although, truth be told, I do - because they make me laugh. Excpet Dennis. He's a prick.
This show is easily one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, but it's been slipping from season 9 onwards. They still have a couple of great episodes a season though, which makes it worth it for me.
The show's only a meathead show in that the characters are meatheads. I mean, Philly's kind of a meathead city. The writing is not dumb at all, in fact I find it very clever in that the dynamics at play vary so wildly depending on which characters are grouped together. Every single possible compound has its own power-struggle, backstory and level of co-dependency at play.
The most underused of the compounds is definitely Dennis and Charlie. I like those two together because you can tell they secretly don't really like or respect each other because they're such polar opposites.
Dee and Charlie can be quite good too in that they're both the bottom of the totem pole, so it gives them an opportunity to be a bit more free and less defensive.
Anyway, seasons 3 - 6 is sitcom gold. Get ready, cause the first couple seasons don't come close in comparison. Every defining characteristic of each lead is amplified more and more each season to the point that they have less and less in common, but also become more and more reliant on each other's company because noone else in their right mind would want to spend time with them. Up there with Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, the best of Seinfeld, Larry Sanders etc. I love it. The chemistry is astounding.
I agrre with everything Garam said.
Also Charlie Work from the most recent season is one of their best episodes so they've still got it, but I agree the brilliantness of 3-5 can't even be close to recaptured.