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August 25, 2005

It's Always Funny in Philadelphia

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Are Christopher and I the only ones tuning in to see the hilarious FX show "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia?" We tuned in mostly because I thought the other new FX show to premiere at the same time, "Starved," looked fucking hilarious. It is pretty funny, but "Sunny" is way way better.

The show is set in a South Philly dive bar owned by a brother, his two pals and his sister. It's got a definite "Seinfeld" vibe (all of the characters are just a little despicable), though the humor is alot more adult. Lots of overt sex stuff. Plusses include: A) they love making gay jokes, and 2) the guys are all total Dannies. I also love the interstitial music, but that's just a thing I have.

As a sidebar, I think the viewers of Fox News would plotz all over their plastic-covered Barcaloungers if they watched this and some of the other shows on FX. How funny that one company owns them both! And by funny I mean soul-chilling.

I have to reccommend "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" here, because I know there are a lot of TV watchers among you regular readers of my blog (yes, I mean you Nicole and Jenny!). As is typical of these annoying cable channels, they keep jerking the day and time of the show around, though you fortunates with TiVo won't have the problem trying to find it that I have.

Watch this now -- it's clever, cute, hilarious and obviously it'll be cancelled. Nothing this good can last. I'm sure Tim Goodman would agree.

Posted by kyle at August 25, 2005 4:00 PM

Comments

A review for both shows have been on my 'to do' list for a while (gotta stop talking comics for a moment). They're both great, though I agree that Philly is doing a better job of meeting its potential.

Posted by: Lyle Masaki [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2005 6:35 PM

I agree with you, this show was awesome, and it's coming back with a 13 episode second season on FX. I don't know how I showed up to this site though... haha, see u.

Posted by: modenadude at December 28, 2005 8:49 AM