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Pimping: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Okay, f-list, since like... only two of you I know of have seen this show, I shall tell you of
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA
This is a show about a group of 'friends' who own a dive bar in Philadelphia. They aren't your usual lovable Cheers crowd, however: They're all a bunch of self-obsessed sociopaths, the likes of which make Jerry and the gang look like Red Cross volunteers. They're bigoted, they're greedy, they'll sell out each other at a moment's notice, and they're fucking hilarious.
The whole show, which airs on FX in the fall and just finished its third season, is extremely irreverent and extremely low-budget, though Danny DeVito was signed on second season to help out the ratings. He, along with the four small-name actors who also star on the show, get the dubious honor of being fantastic in their roles as degenerates, and the writing (which is done by three of the aforementioned actors), is a brilliant mix of social commentary and immature, off-the-wall slapstick. It's Kevin Smith meets Seinfeld meets Stephen Colbert, and the results consistently have me laughing my ass off.
The show starts out in a bar called Paddy's, which is owned by three guys named Dennis (top right), Mac (far left), and Charlie (bottom right), though they don't run it as a business so much as a place where they can dick around and pretend to be important. Sweet Dee (middle) is Dennis' twin sister, and though she does more work than the guys who actually own the place, she always ends up ranked last in the Paddy's hierachy.
First season chronicles the ludicrous exploits of these four, which range from crashing abortion rallies, hanging out with drunk high schoolers, pretending to know dead guys, and lying about having cancer, all with the ulterior motive of making money, pretending to be popular, or picking up girls. Second season has Dennis and Dee's estranged father, Frank (DeVito), joining the crew in an effort to return to the days in which he was a sleazebag, and he fits right in with the rest of them. Since it's a pretty episodic show with only a few overarching plotlines, here's some info on the hilarious loser characters:
Dennis fancies himself a handsome prettyboy even though he isn't. He's convinced that he's suave and irresistible and better than everyone else because he was popular in high school, even though those days are long over and he hasn't gone anywhere since.
Funniest moment: Bursting into a room with coconut breasts and a dress to prove the virtues of his clothing design.
Dee starts off the most level-headed of the bunch but soon proves herself to be just as bad as the others. She spent high school in a backbrace and now has a chip on her proverbial shoulder because of it; she always tries to prove that she's pretty and can get guys, which is usually egged on by Dennis calling her ugly.
Funniest moment: Getting hooked on 'roids and going berserko.
Mac is the biggest outright asshole, and he fancies himself a ripped badass even though he isn't. He has an inferiority complex because he always comes in second to everyone else, and he's also neoconservative about family values and religion. He's almost as vain as Dennis, but not quite.
Funniest moment: Banging the nearby tranny just because he/she keeps complimenting his muscles.
Charlie, my personal favorite, is the spastic idiot of the bunch. He's nearly illiterate and nearly not as bad as the others for the fact that all of his selfishness and bigotry comes from him being stupid rather than vain. Still, he's creepy and unhygenic and obsessed with the nearby coffeeshop waitress, who always spurns his advances because he's, uh, creepy and unhygenic (and also because she's obsessed with Dennis).
Funniest moment: Writing/singing Nightman and Dayman.
Frank is Dennis and Dee's scheming dad, who, along with their mother, turned them into the horrible people they are today. He's always looking to make a profit out of everything that happens and will go to an even more ridiculous extent than his cohorts. (As it turns out, he isn't really Dennis and Dee's dad; that honor belongs to a Greenpeace/Red Cross/UNICEF do-gooder, but he did father Charlie, who survived the subsequent abortion.)
Funniest moment: Being found betting on Russian Roulette with his Vietnamese buddies in the bar's basement.
SOME CLIPS:
RICK ROLL'D by Dennis
The Gang Runs for Office
Hundred Dollar Baby Training Montage
Clown Baby
Door Marked Pirate
Nightman
Dayman
Baby Tanning Promo
Beatbox Promo
'DeVito Contract' Promo Skit
This is literally up there as my favorite show right now along with Supernatural and Heroes. I WANT TO DRAW/WRITE FANSTUFF OF THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE. IT'S THAT GREAT.
My brother, by the way, is the one who got me into this show. We watched it every week last fall right after I finished Supernatural. <3 AND YES, I ALREADY HAVE MY MOM HOOKED ON THIS ONE TOO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT she's the one who wanted to buy the DVDs. And we did.
This is a show about a group of 'friends' who own a dive bar in Philadelphia. They aren't your usual lovable Cheers crowd, however: They're all a bunch of self-obsessed sociopaths, the likes of which make Jerry and the gang look like Red Cross volunteers. They're bigoted, they're greedy, they'll sell out each other at a moment's notice, and they're fucking hilarious.
The whole show, which airs on FX in the fall and just finished its third season, is extremely irreverent and extremely low-budget, though Danny DeVito was signed on second season to help out the ratings. He, along with the four small-name actors who also star on the show, get the dubious honor of being fantastic in their roles as degenerates, and the writing (which is done by three of the aforementioned actors), is a brilliant mix of social commentary and immature, off-the-wall slapstick. It's Kevin Smith meets Seinfeld meets Stephen Colbert, and the results consistently have me laughing my ass off.
The show starts out in a bar called Paddy's, which is owned by three guys named Dennis (top right), Mac (far left), and Charlie (bottom right), though they don't run it as a business so much as a place where they can dick around and pretend to be important. Sweet Dee (middle) is Dennis' twin sister, and though she does more work than the guys who actually own the place, she always ends up ranked last in the Paddy's hierachy.
First season chronicles the ludicrous exploits of these four, which range from crashing abortion rallies, hanging out with drunk high schoolers, pretending to know dead guys, and lying about having cancer, all with the ulterior motive of making money, pretending to be popular, or picking up girls. Second season has Dennis and Dee's estranged father, Frank (DeVito), joining the crew in an effort to return to the days in which he was a sleazebag, and he fits right in with the rest of them. Since it's a pretty episodic show with only a few overarching plotlines, here's some info on the hilarious loser characters:
Dennis fancies himself a handsome prettyboy even though he isn't. He's convinced that he's suave and irresistible and better than everyone else because he was popular in high school, even though those days are long over and he hasn't gone anywhere since.
Funniest moment: Bursting into a room with coconut breasts and a dress to prove the virtues of his clothing design.
Dee starts off the most level-headed of the bunch but soon proves herself to be just as bad as the others. She spent high school in a backbrace and now has a chip on her proverbial shoulder because of it; she always tries to prove that she's pretty and can get guys, which is usually egged on by Dennis calling her ugly.
Funniest moment: Getting hooked on 'roids and going berserko.
Mac is the biggest outright asshole, and he fancies himself a ripped badass even though he isn't. He has an inferiority complex because he always comes in second to everyone else, and he's also neoconservative about family values and religion. He's almost as vain as Dennis, but not quite.
Funniest moment: Banging the nearby tranny just because he/she keeps complimenting his muscles.
Charlie, my personal favorite, is the spastic idiot of the bunch. He's nearly illiterate and nearly not as bad as the others for the fact that all of his selfishness and bigotry comes from him being stupid rather than vain. Still, he's creepy and unhygenic and obsessed with the nearby coffeeshop waitress, who always spurns his advances because he's, uh, creepy and unhygenic (and also because she's obsessed with Dennis).
Funniest moment: Writing/singing Nightman and Dayman.
Frank is Dennis and Dee's scheming dad, who, along with their mother, turned them into the horrible people they are today. He's always looking to make a profit out of everything that happens and will go to an even more ridiculous extent than his cohorts. (As it turns out, he isn't really Dennis and Dee's dad; that honor belongs to a Greenpeace/Red Cross/UNICEF do-gooder, but he did father Charlie, who survived the subsequent abortion.)
Funniest moment: Being found betting on Russian Roulette with his Vietnamese buddies in the bar's basement.
SOME CLIPS:
RICK ROLL'D by Dennis
The Gang Runs for Office
Hundred Dollar Baby Training Montage
Clown Baby
Door Marked Pirate
Nightman
Dayman
Baby Tanning Promo
Beatbox Promo
'DeVito Contract' Promo Skit
This is literally up there as my favorite show right now along with Supernatural and Heroes. I WANT TO DRAW/WRITE FANSTUFF OF THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE. IT'S THAT GREAT.
My brother, by the way, is the one who got me into this show. We watched it every week last fall right after I finished Supernatural. <3 AND YES, I ALREADY HAVE MY MOM HOOKED ON THIS ONE TOO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT she's the one who wanted to buy the DVDs. And we did.