By Parker Sublette
Staff Writer
Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has arrived for another season and is already beginning to make Wednesday nights a little bit brighter.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia kicked off its newest season with two hilarious new episodes. Despite the fact that the show has been running for eleven seasons, it still manages to find original sources of humor and maintain a style of writing that never seems to get old.
Sunny focuses on a group of five people (The Gang) who run a bar called Paddy’s Pub in Philadelphia. Due to its twisted sense of humor and extremely vulgar situations and jokes Sunny is not a show that would appeal to all ages. But if one likes to watch five people mess with each other repeatedly for personal gain than Sunny fits that perfectly.
Sunny has no real overarching plot and while there are some callbacks to previous seasons and references to old characters it is not hard for someone new to the show to watch since the self-referential humor is still funny even if one is not “in” on the joke. One of the reasons the new season of Sunny has started out strong is due to the fact that even though the first two episodes have been references to previous episodes while not relying entirely on old jokes.
Season eleven of Sunny starts off with “The Gang” playing a boardgame of their own invention known as CharDee MacDennis. A game involving public humiliation, physical challenges, and outdated trivia questions involving Bill Cosby. Since the game of CharDee MacDennis relies heavily on both the physical and emotional battery of the characters, the absurdity that this leads to gives the show a sick sense of hilarity.
Following the ridiculousness of the return of CharDee MacDennis, Sunny’s second episode appropriately titled “Frank Falls out the Window”, shows the events of, well, Frank falling out the window. As expected, “The Gang” decides to use Frank’s predicament to try and cheat him out of his money as opposed to help him. All the while the producers cleverly use Frank’s amnesia from the fall to make callback jokes to season two.
The character’s horribly twisted views on common problems and scenarios and constant immaturity and vulgarity gives the show such a ridiculous feel that it makes it hard not to laugh. The fact that the scenarios and characters are so over the top strange are what separate Sunny from other shows its ilk.
The crudeness and outright foolishness of the characters regarding real life scenarios makes Sunny a hilarious albeit not very family friendly show, with such outrageous plots and clever writing Sunny places itself as a must-see show for those not faint of heart.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is on Wednesdays on FXX at 10 p.m.
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