It's Always Sunny: The Perfect Anti-Sitcom? - Wisecrack Edition
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Welcome to this Wisecrack Edition on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. If traditional sitcoms are defined by progressive character development, saccharine moralism, and sentimental romance, then It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is unique in how it lampoons each of these tropes and presents us with an ensemble that deliberately avoids any sign of growth. Drawing from pioneering sitcoms like Cheers, Friends, and How I met your Mother, we’ll explore how Always Sunny isn’t just an anti-sitcom, it’s the perfect anti-sitcom.
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Written by: Michael Burns
Directed by: Camille Lecoq
Narrated by: Jared Bauer
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You forgot to mention how Patty's Pub progressively stops functioning as a bar, and more as a headquarters for dysfunctionality.
Yup
It's hard to remember if it ever functioned as a pub. That episode where they decided not to card anyone, I suppose...
First Cooommment It functions as a very slow bar with few regulars
Paddy’s not patty’s, they are not interchangeable.
That is a pub? Since when?
Normal sitcom: The cast interacts with the world and improves themselves.
Always sunny: The gang interacts with the world and makes it worse for everyone else.
And we are richer for it.
"The gang interacts with the world and makes it worse for everyone else." sounds like it could actually be the name of an episode
Nicholas Millington definitely god awful pieces of shit
That's why it's the best show,man.
yeah, everyone who interacts with The Gang becomes worse in someway
another great thing about the show is that you could start watching literally any season and still love it
Black Bandit So true, I just watched season 12 on the plane and it’s now my new favorite show
I started on season 4 and had to go back to the beginning because it was so funny
13 is a bit odd
@@131untouchable yh, its a bit different from the rest of the show
I started watching last month. I fell in love with it on the 1st episode.
Cricket is the Dorian Gray painting of the Gang.
this is the most underrated comment ever
lmao. absolutely, dude. what a comment.
Do you mean the more horrific Cricket looks, the more despicable the gang becomes? Or something else entirely?
aequitas915 they commit more horrific misdeeds and rarely suffer for it while everyone else suffers
@@aequitas915 Cricket's horrific outer appearance reflects the Gang's inner monstrosity.
the gang woulda fucked Barney Stinson up twice as bad as Rickety Cricket in half the time
Squanchy no fucking doubt
Now that's something that I want to see!
Is there a good place for me to squanch around here?
Squanchy CLOSE THE DOOR, IM SQUANCHIN' HERE.
For the series finale, I'd love for the cast of Seinfeld to get ruined by the gang.
Jean short guy? His name is soldier Ben. Have some respect for our troops.
Right and sometimes you gotta take them off. TAKE THE SHORTS OFF.
You're both wrong, it's Ben the Soldier
he can't wear em every day though, he'll bust the crotch out
David Gibson i miss them shorts man...
YOU REALIZE THAT JEAN SHORTS GUY ISN'T REALLY MILITARY, RIGHT??
I ignored this on Netflix for so long, then thought, fuck it I've got nothing else to watch. Within 1 episode I was amazed within 2 I knew it would become my favourite show. 9 seasons binged later, it literally changed my thoughts process
Luke Reyalp Yeah man binging though always sunny can change you....
i binged all 12 seasons in 4 days
Luke Reyalp are you implementing the Dennis System in your everyday life now?
Why wouldn't I be
I had to take a break from binge watching after season 5 cuz I just needed time to think over what I just watched.
“I do not like this painting Charlie. It smug aura mocks me.”
I had to click on this because of, you know, the implication
That made me laugh so hard, 'cause you know, the implication.
Exactly. I mean, where are we gonna go?
This got really dark, man.
So they ARE in Danger?!
Oh, don't worry, YOU'RE not in any danger.
"There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it!!"
*"Take Rickety Cricket..."*
Starts laughing immediately
dljdljdljdljdlj It'll cost him a whole sixer.
unless you got crack. then we boggie.
Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power. Good. Thank you, thank you.
Taxes will be lower, son.
So do.
If you vote me, I’m hot.
Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me money a needing right now
The democratic vote for me is right
"Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?"
The intellectual capacity of an unplugged Sega Genesis -- that hit me right in the Target Audience Segment
ASAC Schrader
Why was footage of the Big Bang Theory being shown at the same time as Jared saying "comedic sitcom"?
Unpopular opinion: Friends too
ItAlex "Comedic." Not "funny."
But.., the laughter tells me that it’s funny!
How am I supposed to know when to laugh if there’s no laugh track?
🤣🤣
"Why don't I strap on my job helmet, squeeze into a job cannon and FIRE OFF INTO JOB LAND!!!!!!, WHERE JOBS GROW ON JOBEES!!!!!!!!"
Dayman, fighter of the Night-man, your a master of kara-te and friendship, for every-one.
*You're.
@@donaldcornchowder9112 Actually the lyrics have no proper written form since Charlie doesn't know how to write...
Aaaa ah aaaaaaaaa
Champion of the sun
@@RaonakDM Yeeerrrppp was thinking the same thing... don't say it right, the Nightman commeth
Dee is much more than a punchingball for the rest of the gang. She's as messed up as they are.
u didn't say anything about the greatest family ever
The MCPOYLES
Evan Lekkas THATS WHAT YOU GET CHARLIE, GET FORK STABBED
kartik solanki those people are disgusting.
Greenman is total saving your life right now.
@@benrjetti My skin's not tight.
But Mcpoyle's having a vacation at Westworld
Best tv show ever created and I hope it stays on air for many more years to come
I hope danny never leaves us 🤧
AGREED!
I never found Seinfeld's sociopaths that endearing. Or the show either, actually, tbh. But these horrible people are really likeable and the show works for me. Maybe because It's Always Sunny is not a "show about nothing", but one that uses the fact that its characters are horrible people to mock real-life's expectations vs. reality.
I think a big thing is that IASIP doesn’t try to tell you that deep down, they’re good people. It embraces the gang’s awfulness, punishes and doesn’t reward them for it, and so doesn’t have you angry at them- instead, you’re meant to laugh at them, and while you’re not pressured to feel slightly affectionate to them, that can also happen along the way, without pretending that they’re good people
@@sebandrews4395 good spell out the entire show you lazy fuck
That's probably because Seinfeld is more nihilist while this is more cynical. Seinfeld's horrible people are actually more relatable than any sitcom, at the end of the day the show is making fun of us as we think we're better than most people, where as IASIP is making fun of Hollywood by showing how awful most sitcom characters would be if you didn't treat their antics as fun quirks. It can be more fun to make fun of people while punching up than the observational humour of Seinfeld where the point is that there is no point, yet we do all the same things anyways.
It’s Always Sunny is basically a show with 5 Kramers running around. It’s different than Seinfeld in that way, but I don’t think one is necessary better than the other.
@@sebandrews4395 Seinfeld NEVER tries to tell you that deep down they're good people. It constantly reminds you that deep down, these really are just petty, narcissistic douchebags that will never change.
In my HONEST opinion, IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY is THE MOST FUNNY SHOW THERE IS.
Arrested Development comes close tho.
@@tehranvirus not really I think the league blows both of them out the water
i like community, have you seen it?
Zack Hall Arrested Development, Community, It’s always Sunny, all amazing shows. I also kinda liked 30 Rock and The office
@@tehranvirus I agree, although community is pretty awesome too
WHO NEEDS NOTIFICATIONS WHEN YOU'RE ALWAYS ON UA-cam? Keep it up man!
lol so true though
hahaha yup
Xonar right on!
calling us out!
I always found it interesting that the ‘will they won’t they’ couple isn’t Dee and one of the guys since she’s the only girl but instead Mac and Dennis
rickety cricket didnt deserve this
No he earned it.
@@symmetrymilton4542 A full sixer cos they finished inside him.
12:38 ”Jean shorts guy” is Ben the soldier and he’s perfect and deserves the world
Respect the troops, private
Dennis : narcissistic golden god psychopath
Charlie : lovable nincompoop
Frank : bang maid owner
Dee : Alcoholic bird
Mac : pussy hands with homosexual tendencies
And together they form the best bunch of people in the world .
Charlie is the least shitty member of the gang
Yung Ramen Hes done some pretty fucked up things as well like when he was dating that rich girl to get the waitress jealous.
And faking having cancer lol
He did fake having cancer though, haha.
TheShyRage I hated when he did that bc she really liked him and she was rich
This show is a perfect example of why having rules dampens comedy
Remember Frank Pooped the Bed.
Justin SliverSoap Poop is always funny
Justin SliverSoap Oh I member. I've gone too far.
I did all the poops!
Justin SliverSoap ohhhhh I member
In fact, he just pooped in this comment session
This show is a documentary about Philadelphia.
As a 20 something who has lived in north, south, (outside of) northeast, northwest, and west Philly, I can confirm. This city is truely something else, but much like the show, it has a certain charm that is endearing.
Philosophy of the implication
Luke Reyalp LOOOOL YESS
Luke Reyalp omg yes
He'll definitely do it, cuz, you know, the implication.
#HeyWiseCrack#Over. Philosophy of implications
HAHA
Dennis=Patrick Bateman!!!!!
F****** nailed it
It's meeeeeeeeeee
All characters in the show tend to break the classic theme of good looking characters making lame jokes and still trying to be a good person
It doesn't shove values in our face and thats what great about this show
It makes a mockery out if the regular lame sitcoms
It's always sunny in Goa I also love how most characters other than the main 5 are just normal ass people. It makes a show about 5 sociopaths actually seem realistic.
I’ve never laughed so hard at a show before I saw Sunny. When Frank tries to hang himself but His neck is too thick so He just hangs there. I was honestly in tears of laughter.
*”DON’T TRY TO STOP ME”*
I only discovered Sunny a few months ago and I have watched every episode a minimum of three times already, and it's just as funny every time. I love spotting when the cast crack up at what's being said when you can only see like half of their face, it's brilliant
7:34. Except for Artemis. She’s somehow able to survive and thrive despite regular involvement with the Gang.
Wow I literally went into Wisecrack's videos just yesterday to search for any It's Always Sunny videos. That's crazy how they upload this the day after.
+piggybankvillan We're watching you... [queue the creepy X-Files music 🎶]
It’s the implication
The Season 13 finale was the most grown up and emotional episode they've ever made. And it's bery unexpected and but very powerful. These guys are brilliant
Is Danny Devito really that short? My goodness, he's like 4'10.
wherethetatosat Yea. He has something called Fairbanks Disease which basically affects bone growth.
Nah, he just acting short. He's a great actor you know.
He’s a literal troll dude. He’s always making people pay his tolls
He's actually 7'2
he is exactly 4'10
My favorite moment from this show is when Dee sings, “Runaway Train,” to that young guy in her car. I always think about that moment haha.
IS THAT PISS?!
“Your son is your dealer?”
“He’s reliable”😂😂😂
“In Friends, we see Joey develop from a struggling actor with the intellectual capacity of an unplugged SEGA Genesis...”
r/Rareinsults
"Your son is your dealer ?"
"Well, he's reliable."
I am not American but recent years I am watching most of the American sitcoms. I like Seinfeld, friends, how I met your mother, office, community
But Seinfeld and it's always sunny in Philadelphia are different and funny and I am watching Malcolm in the middle. It's also different and funny so can you analysis Malcolm in the middle
It's always sunny and Malcolm in the middle are two of my top 5 favorite sitcoms :D
K OS same
Kathiravan Ganesh
Seinfeld and it’s always sunny are different?
The latter is just the former on crack
Shawn Brink
And seinfeld doesn’t portray poor people?
Theyre both about pathetic moronic sociopaths who have complete disregard for morality
Jerry doesnt have a problem stealing bread and elaine is willingsly to end an innocent soup clerk’s career just cause she couldn’t get any
Shawn Brink
Elaine intentionally drove someone out of business.
Sure it’s not the most evil thing ever but it pretty much shows how insane some of these characters are
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU GUYS TO MAKE THIS! THANK YOU! I love It's always sunny so much
You should be awarded. I can't even think about It's always sunny for a few minutes without cracking up.
barney stinson as good character development? p.l.e.a.s.e.! i love the show, but barneys character development got f*cking molested in that last episode!
My favorite inversion of the sitcom formula is the way each episode is written as a dramatic tragedy. Rather than setting out for a happy ending, the hilarity of every episode is the knowledge that the cast will implode and flame out. Rather than a series of happy or meaningful endings, we're left with a series of heroic failures and meaningless loss for anyone who comes in close contact with the gang. This is probably the most fundamental difference between iasip and anything else we've viewed.
This video has way too much synopsis and not enough analysis.
its a fucking comedy sitcom....how much really is there to analyze?
Count Pastacreep A lot. Every character actually has a really developed backstory that builds in the background throughout the series and we see how they became such broken people.. Dee’s mom emotionally abused her constantly while spoiling Dennis, and she got bullied for her back brace, and Frank was a bad father, Dennis getting raped by a librarian at the age of 14 which when he got married in an earlier one he states he is having feelings again, like some sort of fourteen year old. Mac never got attention from his parents which is why he is obsessed with being a badass like his dad, Charlie survived an abortion and his mom was a whore, and also Uncle Jack tried to “wrestle” with him when he was younger, there is a lot going on in this show that can be pieced together with observation.
I can analyze the office for you and the life of michael scott. Just because it's a comedy doesnt mean it doesnt have deeper meanings that can be looked into. Western media really is great at this, Asian stuff is just pure emotion and nothing of substance.
@@JorgeL721 well for one. They did Blackface. That episode of Blackface wasn't because blackface is funny or effective but stupid. They mocked it with over the top comedy, showing how stupid the whole concept of Blackface is.
mmm... good vid but I think there's definitely some personal/character development... Mac accepting his sexuality & breaking away from his dodgy dad - Dee doesn't become so dependant on the Gang's thoughts - Charlie & the Waitress, getting over his obsession - Frank finds a new family in the Gang - Dennis.... well he progressed to full psycho
5:28 The way Dennis says "You look fat as shit" will never get old lol
"suicide is badass'' - danny devito
Best. Sitcom. Ever
I EAT STICKERS ALL THE TIME BRO!!
Your absolutely right, that's what I love about sunny, it embraces it's dark humor and doesn't back down! Can't wait for season 13!
.....JEAN SHORTS GUY!?!?
His name is Ben THE SOLDIER !!
Have some respect for the men in uniform
Don't be silly. That's Subway. Eat Fresh
Philosophy of Eric Andre
PLEASE!!!
The philosophy of Community (From Dan Harmon and the Russo Brothers)
The show plays on common stereotypes.
In doing so. It teaches people not to be so goddamn stupid! Whether it's working I don't know 🤔
Greatest show of all time!!
I don't think any show can be the "greatest" of all time but Sunny is absolutely awesome
I feel the reason we love shows like Seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, it’s always sunny, arrested development, etc... is because we see that we are “better people” than them. And it makes us feel better about ourselves as we can laugh at their follies. Also, “I cut the brakes, WILD CARD BITCHES YEEEEE HAWWWWWWW” -Charlie Day
I've known about this show ever since it first came out and I always thought it was some drama family sitcom shit but I decided to watch episode 1 in May and now i'm on Season 12 🖒🖒
Remember...there is no Carol in HR
I give this video 5 Danny DeVito out of seven (the perfect score!)
It’s always sunny is like Seinfeld in a way but with amplified personalities. The lack of love and mindlessness of episodes plots. It’s just fantastic
I can see that
BEST comedy show ever! - A must own DVD collectors set for my personal library.
The spiritual successor to "Seinfeld"
"No hugging, no learning"
Mad Men.
Philsophy of Mad Men.
DO IT
I love that meta bit about a baby throwing a wrench in the show's chemistry
Charlie day needs to play a live-action Dan Vs.
Fun fact Mac is actually the father of Dee's baby cause the actors that play those characters started dating in season 2 and were married in season 4. Also, Charlee and the Waitress are actually married in real life as well. And Dennis is married to the girl that he tries to "Re-Dennis" in the S5E10 "The Dennis System".
Always Sunny has character development too, just look at Cricket, he was a boring priest and now he's a fun adventurous crackhead.
Now that is some progress!!! (satire)
how they make jokes about each other's personal life and previous and upcoming projects makes it more rewatchable. some jokes i didn't get fully at first kinda like community
himym is great, but always sunny will outlast and outshine it. every show has 4 former nobodies and a big star, but always sunny didnt start that way they got forced into it.(its not a bad thing but i like how always sunny started off differently.) its an amazing show.
IIIIIIIIIN SOUTH PHILADELPHIA BORN AND RAISED, YEAH THE PLAYGROUND WAS WHERE I SPENT MOST OF MY DAYS!
Don't apologize to Barney Stinson , the finale of his character arch was forced, inorganic and thrash...
*smashes laptop*
great video though,
love the stuff
Amen to that. You can say that about the entire ending of How I met your mother
I didn't even track with it, one day he is a sociopath and the next day he spontaneously develops emotions and concern for others. There wasn't a smooth transition, it was like a gag that they ended up playing straight.
Max Zanga If by forced you mean foreshadowed since the beginning and obvious as fuck then I guess you're right.
when he told them he got a girl pregnant I was secretly hoping he'd contracted an STD because nobody could have that much sex and be clean
And it's too bad because, far as I remember, most of his development til that point was actually very strong.
You not gonna talk about the biggest romantic tension in the TV show- Mac and Dennis lol
It's never gonna happen... Not willingly...
7:18 Never gets old. lol. I love this show.
The extra characters names are pretty amazing themselves
I would like to see an episode on Shameless US
Capt'n Slow I watched the first episide of the UK one (I saw the us first)... is it not the exact same show? cause the first episode of each were exactly alike. a few words different but same events in the same order just with a silly ass accent
Svitlo37 well, I don't really know about that, but in later season there are a lot "American" problems, like the "invasion" of a poor neighbor hood by rich white people
Svitlo37 no. It's just the 1st one that's the same.
I managed to be on this show quite by accident. They were filming down the street from my work and i walked outside to see what was going on, now i'm immortalized as a blurry background figure in the first episode. One thing off the bucket list.
Philosophy of Arrested Development
#HeyWiseCrack Arrested development
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AD and IASIP are the greatest sitcoms of all time. Flag bearers of Golden age of television.
"Bankrolled by a troll shaped-millionaire." LMFAO you summed the whole show up with that sentence. 0:25
Archer, please do archer!!!
We need archer!😫👌
Yeah do archer
Yes, please please please please do Archer!
Lauren Hathaway phrasing
TV Damage phrasing
This is one of the few comment sections I've actually enjoyed on this website. It's just a bunch of quotes from my favorite show ever
The Frank pov episode was the best one
I absolutely LOVE It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, seriously the best show I've ever seen!
So the veiny shaft was fine but the fist on the end that actually stops it being a penis is a no-no?
Can’t believe it’s been 6 years since mac left the closet
I love how much philosophy goes into this show yet is still the funniest show ever
ANYBODY ELSE AMAZED AT HOW LARGE THE STREET CURVE IS IN FRONT OF PADDYS PUB?
PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNITY!!!
This please! Would like to see it
YAAAAAAAAAAS
Qor
love the idea of this, it'd be like peaking into dan harmons mind, check out harmontown man.
Two decent seasons then a load of trash? Is that the philosophy?
Mac: "Hall & Oats is 2 separate people"
Charlie: "No, Holland is his first name and Oats is his last name"
"could i have one crack please?"
Fun fact they were gonna call the show “Jerks”
Naah
Seinfeld crawled so that It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia could run.
RUM HAM!!
I'm a fan from day one exactly because they are twisted and messed up, unlike other sitcoms which are so scripted.
And then Mac found his pride, and the show just fucking blew my mind all over again.
The Philosophy of The Sopranos please!
The only show that can make me laugh until all of my laughing muscles are in pain