It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a 2005 comedy series created by Rob Mac. It stars Charlie Day, Rob Mac and Kaitlin Olson.
A pack of monstrously selfish friends runs Paddy's Pub, a grimy Philadelphia bar that almost never has customers, and pours all their energy into schemes that reliably blow up in their faces. Nobody learns, nobody grows, and that is the whole joke. Rob Mac created the sitcom and Glenn Howerton co-developed it, with Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, and eventually Danny DeVito rounding out a cast happy to look ugly for a laugh. Premiering on FX in 2005, it built a reputation for going places politer comedies flee, mining bad behavior for episodes that escalate from awkward to catastrophic.
Where to watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, Disney+, Hulu, YouTube TV, fuboTV
Watch free: FX
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Official site
http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia
Cast
- Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly
- Rob Mac as Ronald 'Mac' McDonald
- Kaitlin Olson as Dee Reynolds
- Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds
- Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds
- Mary Elizabeth Ellis as Waitress
- David Hornsby as Matthew 'Rickety Cricket' Mara
- Artemis Pebdani as Artemis
- Lynne Marie Stewart as Charlie's Mom
- Sandy Martin as Mac's Mom
- Andrew Friedman as Uncle Jack
- Lance Barber as Bill Ponderosa
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A few thoughts on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
If Paddy's brand of gleeful awfulness lands, play South Park: The Stick of Truth, which shares the show's love of tasteless escalation. Grand Theft Auto V mines crime and cruelty for the same dark laughs. The comics Crayon Shin-chan and Gintama both run on shameless characters behaving badly, and the album Tenacious D turns loud idiocy into its own kind of comfort.
Sitcoms about selfish friends who never learn
It's Always Sunny built a legend on characters who scheme, fail, and refuse to grow, and that is exactly the joke. These comedies run on the same fuel: awful people, terrible plans, and zero moral lessons. Perfect when you want to laugh at a friend group with no redeeming qualities.
Anarchic British comedy that flees good taste
Sunny loves going where politer shows will not, a nerve it shares with the loud, chaotic British comedy tradition. These series pile on cringe, class farce, and cheerful bad behavior, from surreal sketch to housebound disaster. Bring them on when you want your comedy rude, weird, and unbothered by decorum.
Absurdist sketch comedy for a warped sense of humor
Long-running Sunny keeps escalating its bits from awkward to catastrophic, a rhythm sketch comedy knows well. These shows swap sitcom plot for pure absurdity: surreal riffs, deadpan chaos, and jokes that commit past the point of sense. Watch when you want the strangest possible way to spend twenty minutes.
Games that revel in chaos and dark comedy
The Gang's schemes leave a trail of wreckage, and these games hand you the controls to make your own. They run on the same gleeful anarchy: petty crime, absurd violence, and freedom to cause trouble with no consequences waiting. A natural jump for anyone who roots for Sunny's terrible choices.