It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Created by | Rob McElhenney |
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Theme music composer | Heinz Kiessling |
Opening theme | "Temptation Sensation" |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 16 |
No. of episodes | 170 (list of episodes) |
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Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 18–25 minutes[5] |
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Release | August 4, 2005 present | –
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American
, Pennsylvania, but spend most of their free time drinking, scheming, arguing amongst themselves, and plotting elaborate cons against others, and at times each other, for personal benefit, financial gain, revenge, or simply due to boredom or inebriation.With its
Plot
The series follows a group of misfit, narcissistic sociopaths, referred to as "The Gang", who run a meager, unsuccessful
Each member of The Gang exhibits unethical behavior and anti-social traits such as extreme selfishness, pathological dishonesty, narcissism, physical and emotional aggression, excessive drinking and substance abuse, unregulated emotions, cruelty, greed, misogyny, manipulative tendencies, predatory behavior, jealousy, sociopathy, apathy towards suffering, emotional detachment, frequent abuse of the legal system, exploitation, discrimination against disability, race, and appearance, rudeness and contempt to others, and absolutely no regard for the people around them, while also displaying acute codependency, stupidity, negligence, and a surprising lack of awareness of basic social norms. The comedy of the show emerges from these extreme character traits resulting in conflicts that lead The Gang into absurd, dark, and painfully embarrassing situations, typically ending with them getting their comeuppance, but never learning their lesson. This allows the show to mine a variety of socio-political and economic issues for satire and dark humor while keeping the characters in a state of relative stasis conducive to the long-running sitcom format.
Episodes usually find The Gang hatching elaborate schemes and regularly conspiring, against both outsiders and one another, for personal gain, revenge, or simply
We immediately escalate everything to a ten... somebody comes in with some preposterous plan or idea, then all of a sudden everyone's on the gas, nobody's on the brakes, nobody's thinking, everyone's just talking over each other with one idiotic idea after another! Until, finally, we find ourselves in a situation where we've broken into somebody's house – and the homeowner is home!
With rare exceptions, Paddy's Pub generates limited revenue. Most stay away from the establishment due to the numerous stabbings that have taken place. The few regular customers have been known to serve themselves. The Gang has been known to close Paddy's for extended periods without warning. When the bar is open, they shirk their respective jobs' responsibilities and choose to drink instead. Paddy's is only able to stay in business because of Frank's financial backing, government bailouts and tax fraud.
Cast and characters
The show features a core cast of five characters (The Gang) and a recurring cast of colorful side characters, including the Waitress, Cricket, the McPoyles, the Ponderosas, the Lawyer and various family members like Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Mac and Uncle Jack Kelly, who cross paths and interact with the Gang in increasingly unhinged ways as the show progresses.
Main
- The Waitress", a recurring character who finds his interest in her creepy.
- The D.E.N.N.I.S. System"). It is strongly hinted at times that Dennis may secretly be a serial killer, though this remains ambiguous as a running gag.[11] In season 10, he is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, though he frequently denies this and believes himself to be completely rational, and is convinced that he is in complete control of everything and everyone around him, going as far as to label himself a 'golden god'. In the season 12 finale, Dennis reveals to the rest of the gang that he has an infant son, and moves to North Dakota to raise him.[12]He returns to Philadelphia in season 13, supposedly supporting his family from a distance.
- comes outin season 12. Later episodes reveal that Mac is sexually attracted to his best friend, Dennis.
- Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds, waitress and sometimes bartender at Paddy's Pub, as well as Dennis's twin sister and Frank's daughter. Though initially depicted as The Gang's 'the voice of reason' in the debut season, she gradually loses any sense of moral fortitude that she once had, and is frequently shown to be just as prejudiced and depraved as her male friends by the end of season 1, arguably becoming the most petty member of the group, often plotting against others whom she deems more successful than herself in a vain effort to boost her own image. Dee wore a back brace in high school, leaving her with the nickname "The Aluminum Monster", and she is frequently referred to by the gang as a bird. Dee lives alone in an apartment. Though often the butt of the gang's jokes, she frequently involves herself in their schemes, perhaps due to her constant need for approval and attention from her peers. She does not hold any ownership stake in the bar – perhaps due to the gang's various prejudices against her, but also in part to her desire to become a professional actress/comedian (an ambition she consistently fails to achieve due to her debilitating stage fright and her general lack of any apparent talent). In multiple episodes, it is referenced that Dee set her college roommate on fire, and she is often portrayed as the most physically violent of the group. Despite expressing outward disgust at her brother's more predatory behavior, later episodes reveal Dee not to be above such behavior herself.
- Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds, legal father of Dennis and Dee Reynolds, and the majority owner of Paddy's Pub soon after his introduction in season 2 onward. Frank is a millionaire and often funds and enables The Gang's worst schemes and impulses, just to feel a sense of youthfulness and energy. He was once a successful businessman with a long history of illegal operations and dealings with sordid characters, but chooses to abandon that life and redeem himself after leaving his "whore wife", Barbara Reynolds. It is revealed at the end of season 2 that Dennis and Dee are products of an affair and not actually his biological children. He has since embraced his "feral" nature and describes himself as "fringe class". Despite his substantial financial resources, he chooses to share a decrepit studio apartment with Charlie, where they sleep together on a pullout couch and have a surprisingly affectionate pseudo-father/son relationship. The two have similar interests, such as playing the inexplicable game of Night Crawlers and foraging naked in sewers for valuables. He always arms himself with at least one loaded handgun and does not hesitate to brandish or even discharge one when provoked, and often snorts cocaine as part of his daily routine.
Production
Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney first met each other while auditioning for Tuck Everlasting[13] and other projects in New York City and, later, in Los Angeles—they were going up for similar parts, moved to Los Angeles around the same time and even had the same manager Nick Frenkel.[14] Day and Howerton, notably, got to know each other on a car ride back from testing for That '80s Show in late 2001, when Howerton was cast as Corey Howard and Day did not get the part of his best friend.[13] While living in New York, Day had been making comedic home movies with his friends from the Williamstown Theatre Festival—Jimmi Simpson, Nate Mooney, David Hornsby and Logan Marshall-Green,[13] (many of whom would later go on to be involved with Sunny)—which inspired McElhenney and Howerton to want to make short films of their own with him. McElhenney, in particular, had been writing screenplays between jobs and since none of them were picked up, decided to shoot them himself with Howerton, Day and other actor friends.[15] The decision to make their own short films was further influenced by the release of the affordable Panasonic DVX100A digital camera as well as the accessible, low-budget look of The Office (UK) and Curb Your Enthusiasm.[13]
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia grew out of an idea for a short film conceived late one night by McElhenney "where a friend came over to another friend's house to get sugar, and the friend tells him he has cancer, and all the guy can think about is getting his sugar and getting out of there".
The home movie was titled It's Always Sunny on TV after the a-ha song "The Sun Always Shines on T.V.". Howerton had been listening to the album Hunting High and Low (1985) while stretching at a Crunch gym in West Hollywood.[18] This was then developed into a pilot called It's Always Sunny on TV and was shot on a digital camcorder[19] and filmed in the actors' own apartments.[20] They expanded the central cast to four people living in Los Angeles, "a group of best friends who care so little for each other", Howerton said.[16]
It was believed the pilot was shot with a budget of just $200, but Day would later comment, "We shot it for nothing... I don't know where this $200 came from... We were a bunch of kids with cameras running around shooting each other and [the] next thing you know, we're eleven years in and we're still doing the show."
After the first season, FX executives were worried about the show's low ratings and demanded that changes be made to the cast.[24] "So, John Landgraf, who's the president of FX, he called me in for a meeting and was like, 'Hey, no one's watching the show, but we love it,'" McElhenney recalled. "'We wanna keep it on, but we don't have any money for marketing, and we need to add somebody with some panache that we can hopefully parlay into some public relations story, just so we can get people talking.'"[24] FX began suggesting actors such as Danny DeVito that could boost the show's profile. "It's not that we were reticent to the idea of adding Danny to the show," Howerton recalled, "It's that we were reticent to add a name to the show. You know, because we kinda liked that we were no-names and it was this weird, small thing, you know." Initially, McElhenney refused, saying "No, I just don't think we wanna do that, and they were like, 'Oh OK, well, you know... the show's over.'" Realizing they needed to change the trajectory of the show to please the network, McElhenney, Howerton, and Day became open to adding a new cast member who was familiar to the public. However, McElhenney, Howerton, and Day were hesitant at first since they thought they would "ruin the show", but during an interview, Day commented on how they got lucky with DeVito in the end: "We didn’t know what Danny would be like as a person. It turned out he was as great an actor as he was a person. As I said, we got lucky with Danny.".[25] DeVito joined the cast in the first episode of the second season, playing the father of Dennis and Dee.[24]
The show is shot in both
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | Network | |||
1 | 7 | August 4, 2005 | September 15, 2005 | FX | |
2 | 10 | June 29, 2006 | August 17, 2006 | ||
3 | 15 | September 13, 2007 | November 15, 2007 | ||
4 | 13 | September 18, 2008 | November 20, 2008 | ||
5 | 12 | September 17, 2009 | December 10, 2009 | ||
6 | 14 | September 16, 2010 | December 16, 2010 | ||
7 | 13 | September 15, 2011 | December 15, 2011 | ||
8 | 10 | October 11, 2012 | December 20, 2012 | ||
9 | 10 | September 4, 2013 | November 6, 2013 | FXX | |
10 | 10 | January 14, 2015 | March 18, 2015 | ||
11 | 10 | January 6, 2016 | March 9, 2016 | ||
12 | 10 | January 4, 2017 | March 8, 2017 | ||
13 | 10 | September 5, 2018 | November 7, 2018 | ||
14 | 10 | September 25, 2019 | November 20, 2019 | ||
15 | 8 | December 1, 2021 | December 22, 2021 | ||
16 | 8 | June 7, 2023 | July 19, 2023 |
Broadcast and syndication
The first season ran for seven episodes with the finale airing September 15, 2005. According to McElhenney,
The third season ran from September 13 to November 15, 2007. On March 5, 2008, FX renewed It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for a fourth season.[36] On July 15, 2008, it was reported that FX had ordered 39 additional episodes of the series, produced as seasons five through seven of the show. All five main cast members were secured for the entire scheduled run.[37] The fifth season ran from September 17 to December 10, 2009.[38] On May 31, 2010, Comedy Central began airing reruns.[39] WGN America also began broadcasting the show as part of its fall 2011 schedule.[40]
The sixth season ran from September 16 to December 9, 2010, comprising 12 episodes, plus the Christmas special. The seventh season ran from September 15 to December 15, 2011, comprising 13 episodes. On August 6, 2011, FX announced it had picked up the show for an additional two seasons (the eighth and ninth) running through 2013.[41] On March 28, 2013, FX renewed the show for a tenth season, and announced that it would move to FX's new sister network, FXX.[42]
In April 2017,
The series is available for streaming on Hulu except for the episodes "America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest", "Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth", "The Gang Recycles Their Trash", "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6" and "Dee Day", due to scenes involving blackface.[45] The same episodes are missing from Netflix in the UK,[46] Disney+ in Australia, Canada, and Scandinavia, and Star+ in Latin America.
Music
The show uses recurring orchestral production music selections. "We had a music supervisor called Ray Espinola and we said, 'Give us everything you have in a sort of Leave It to Beaver with a big band-swing kind of feel,' and the majority of the songs are from what he sent over," Charlie Day explained. "When you set it against what these characters were doing—which often times can be perceived as quite despicable, or wrong—it really disarmed the audience. It just became our go-to library of songs."[22]
The theme song is called "Temptation Sensation" by German composer
Soundtrack track listing
No. | Title | Music | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Temptation Sensation (Main Title Theme)" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:53 |
2. | "Derby Day" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:39 |
3. | "Blue Blood" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:54 |
4. | "On Your Bike" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:15 |
5. | "Take the Plunge" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 3:10 |
6. | "Hotsy-Totsy" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:18 |
7. | "Off Broadway" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:31 |
8. | "Coconut Shy" | Heinz Kiessling | The Diamontinos | 2:25 |
9. | "Honey Bunch" | Karl Grell | The Ralph Manning Orchestra | 2:44 |
10. | "Glitterati Party" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:51 |
11. | "Singles Soiree" | Richard Faecks | The Rüdiger Piesker Orchestra | 2:09 |
12. | "Pink Deville" | Paul Rothman | The Ole Olafsen Band | 2:34 |
13. | "Captain's Table" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:44 |
14. | "Starlet Express" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:31 |
15. | "Final Fling" | Heinz Kiessling | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:29 |
16. | "Sweetheart Serenade" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:54 |
17. | "Tea at Tiffani's" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 2:28 |
18. | "Moonbeam Kiss" | Joe Brook | The Rüdiger Piesker Orchestra | 2:21 |
19. | "Grand Central" | Werner Tautz | The Heinz Kiessling Orchestra | 3:15 |
Total length: | 50:05 |
Reception and legacy
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Critical reviews and commentary
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has received critical acclaim for its humor and the performances of the cast. Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker praised the show, calling it "not merely the best sitcom on television but one of the most arresting and ambitious current TV series, period."[50] Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly reviewed the first season negatively, commenting, "[I]t is smug enough to think it's breaking ground, but not smart enough to know it isn't."[51] Brian Lowry of Variety gave the first season a positive review, saying it was "invariably clever and occasionally a laugh-out-loud riot, all while lampooning taboo topics."[52] However, later seasons of the show have received favorable ratings on review aggregator Metacritic, receiving 70/100, 78/100 and 85/100 for seasons 4, 5 and 6 respectively.[53] The show has become a cult hit with viewers and is often compared in style to Seinfeld—particularly due to the self-centered nature of its main characters. The Philadelphia Inquirer reviewer Jonathan Storm wrote, "It's like Seinfeld on crack," a quote that became widely used to describe the series,[54] to the point that FX attached the tagline, "It's Seinfeld on crack."[55]
In 2014,
Awards
Award | Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Television Awards | 2011 | Best Actor in a Comedy Series | Charlie Day | Nominated | [60] |
IGN Summer Movie Awards | 2018 | Best Comedic TV Performance | Rob McElhenney | Nominated | [60] |
Best TV Comedy Series | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] | ||
Best TV Episode | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] | ||
2019 | Best TV Ensemble | Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito | Nominated | [60] | |
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) | 2015 | Best Writing for a Comedy Series | Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney (for "Charlie Work") | Nominated | [60] |
Muse Creative Awards | 2019 | Poster Single | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Won | [60] |
Online Film & Television Association Awards | 2016 | Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series | Charlie Day | Won | [60] |
Best Comedy Series | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] | ||
People's Choice Awards | 2012 | Favorite Cable TV Comedy | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] |
2013 | Favorite Cable TV Comedy | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] | |
2016 | Favorite Cable TV Comedy | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Won | [60] | |
2017 | Favorite Cable TV Comedy | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] | |
Primetime Emmy Awards | 2013 | Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or a Variety Program | Marc Scizak | Nominated | [60] |
2014 | Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or a Variety Program | Marc Scizak | Nominated | [60] | |
2015 | Outstanding Stunt Coordination for a Comedy Series or a Variety Program | Marc Scizak | Nominated | [60] | |
Satellite Awards | 2008 | Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Nominated | [60] |
Best Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical | Danny DeVito | Nominated | [60] | ||
2011 | Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Won | [60] | |
Best Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical | Charlie Day | Nominated | [60] |
Other media
The Nightman Cometh live
In September 2009, the cast took their show live. The "Gang" performed the musical
Russian adaptation
A Russian adaptation of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered in Russia on the television channel TNT on May 12, 2014. This version is titled В Москве всегда солнечно (V Moskve vsegda solnechno, It's Always Sunny in Moscow) and like the original, centers around four friends, who own a bar called "Philadelphia" in Moscow.[65][66]
Book
A book based upon It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was released on January 6, 2015, titled The Gang Writes a Self-Help Book: The 7 Secrets of Awakening the Highly Effective Four-Hour Giant, Today.[67]
Podcast
On November 9, 2021, Howerton, Day, and McElhenney started The Always Sunny Podcast, an episode-by-episode
Notes
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