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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

When this show first started I thought it was hilarious but now I find it painful. The characters are just too sociopathic and I don't laugh anymore.

Does anyone else still watch it?

by Anonymousreply 34October 30, 2024 8:32 PM

I still like it, but I do have to watch it in small doses. Over the years, they've really ramped up the awfulness of the characters.

by Anonymousreply 1April 4, 2023 3:29 PM

I was a die-hard fan going way back, and have participated in the many active threads here about IASIP over the years. I love that there are so many fans on DataLounge!

But I stopped watching several seasons ago. Something just turned “off” for me about the show despite being a fan over a decade. And I understand some of the episodes are still good, and the characters are the same. I’ve done that with other obsessively-loved shows in the past that just keep going and going (The Simpsons is a good example).

by Anonymousreply 2April 4, 2023 3:40 PM

Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson appear to have gotten the couple’s discount on Botox. Or discreet facelifts. They both look very *refreshed*.

by Anonymousreply 3June 17, 2023 1:52 AM

I haven't reached your point yet, OP, but I can certainly feel it coming on.

by Anonymousreply 4June 17, 2023 1:53 AM

It really was so great for quite a while, but I agree - it has slowly jumped the shark.

by Anonymousreply 5June 17, 2023 1:54 AM

I'm enjoying the recent seasons less but its still one of the better tv shows out there. I'd avoid the podcast though.

by Anonymousreply 6June 17, 2023 2:04 AM

The early ones were the best. I caught a few recent seasons and the magic is gone.

by Anonymousreply 7June 17, 2023 2:10 AM

I still love it - especially Frank - but it’s definitely showing its age.

Rob and Kaitlin have definitely had shitloads of work done, as has Glenn. You can tell these dipshits are loving their newfound wealth, and are pouring most of it into Botox and personal trainers.

by Anonymousreply 8June 17, 2023 2:25 AM

I lost a lot of respect for them when they decided to pull a dozen episodes from circulation. Spineless that they took the risk, profited from it, and then decided they didn’t stand behind it.

by Anonymousreply 9June 17, 2023 2:34 AM

The current season is outstandingly, embarrassingly bad. We’re still watching here but likely not for long the way it’s going.

The longer I’ve watched the harder it is for me to tolerate Rob McElhenney. Between his growing egocentric douchery, that whole thing he did with the first ‘Sweet Dee’ actress who was both his girlfriend and one of the original creators not credited with the show any longer, and his whole “In bought an English football club” with fellow douche Ryan Reynolds, he’s just hard for me to like. He’s also got his face so tight now that it shines. Funny how he’d do all of that but still walks around with that gaped mouth of his. Fuck dude, get some lips already and close your fucking mouth. His breath must smell like Rikers Island sewage.

by Anonymousreply 10June 17, 2023 2:58 AM

R10 There was another Dee before Dee? It's always been the same actress playing Dee. I'm confused.

Anyway, I love the show. Been watching it for years now. Missed watching it during the first several years and we caught up on it all in like 2018/19 and feel bad I wasn't watching it from it's start. The last season was rather iffy but nice to see them change it up a bit and get out of the same settings and onto Ireland. This current season is trying hard to keep the pace going but still has it, I think. The first episode was kinda ...gah, but the second one, with the family teeth, was rather quite funny.

Sad to hear Rob is kind of a douchebag in real life, though. Still think DeVito is a comedic genius but he's kind of dragging it along right now. They should focus more on Charlie for a bit, I think.

by Anonymousreply 11June 17, 2023 9:09 AM

Never got into the show but I loved Charlie and Kaitlin. I wished they both had appeared in more movies. Especially Charlie.

by Anonymousreply 12June 17, 2023 12:02 PM

Back in the early days of the show I was a tremendous fan and spent a lot of time watching, thinking about, and talking about it with my friends. It was fucking hilarious and brilliant.

And the show lasted for a long time!

They finally lost me around seasons 13 or 14 (not even sure I saw any of 14). It felt like a chore to watch the new episodes even if I didn’t want to admit it. There was like one truly funny episode surrounded by a bunch of duds. The show looked more and more fake and two dimensional compared to the robust early days where I was constantly blown away and screaming with laughter.

I haven’t seen any of the last few seasons where they went to Ireland (I just learned about reading here).

But I’ll always have so many memories of the show in its heyday! So amazing!

by Anonymousreply 13June 17, 2023 2:05 PM

I loved the season they went to Ireland, and Dee leaves waitress to drown in a bog. Stuff like that made the show funny. I’m not minding this season, but they definitely seem to be phoning it in at this point.

by Anonymousreply 14June 17, 2023 4:24 PM

Which episodes did they pull?

by Anonymousreply 15June 17, 2023 4:46 PM

Oh the blackface ones

by Anonymousreply 16June 17, 2023 4:58 PM

[quote] Sad to hear Rob is kind of a douchebag in real life, though.

You're hearing it on Datalounge, so take it for what it's worth.

by Anonymousreply 17June 17, 2023 5:10 PM

r15 I think they censor out retard and tranny from the earlier ones as well now.

by Anonymousreply 18June 17, 2023 5:22 PM

From what I remember about the early years, there were A LOT of use of those words! And in storylines. Maybe they should just mute the entire episodes.

by Anonymousreply 19June 17, 2023 5:27 PM

I grew tired of Charlie Day and his constant hysterical shouting.

by Anonymousreply 20June 18, 2023 3:34 AM

Rob McElhenney's douchery is pretty well documented, even if subjectively.

R11, I don't know for sure of course; Rob McElhenney may be the most awesome, generous Human being to ever walk the planet and I could be completely unfair in my framing of him, I don't know for sure. All of us form judgments of people that aren't foolproof in their accuracy or fairness. All I know is what I've read and from watching and reading interviews with him. All around, I'm sure he's not a monster. But he's always clearly been ambitious and a shark, to the point of dumping long tern girlfriends and collaborators when the network that picked up his show wanted him to be brutal.

I don't have time to find the article now but it's been posted here before, you can do a search; but not long ago, a woman he used to be with was part of Rob's original inside circle which included Charlie Day and the guy who plays Dennis. They were all new to Hollywood, trying to make it as actors or writers, etc. Rob, with the two guys and his girlfriend, came up with "Sunny". They worked it out, produced a couple of episodes on like a $200 budget, and submitted it around. It was picked up and almost cancelled at one point I think. For whatever reason, someone with the network or production company who agreed to take it on didn't want Rob's girlfriend, who again was among the original four friends and played the Sweet Dee character in the first episodes/pilot, (which I think were never aired or aired with the replacement actress. The show is originally based on the friendship of the four of them. So, Rob tosses the girlfriend off the show and breaks up with her. They find Kaitlan Olson, who was apparently known to someone at the network, had been in The Groundlings so probably had a strong network of inside people helping to promote her, and the rest is history. Olson favors the original "Sweet Dee", and, AMAZINGLY, Rob McElhenney ends up dating and marrying her. (There were rumors she had some kind of pull with the network or whoever it was funding or producing the show, so, Rob latched-on to the opportunity.).

Anyway, there's an article out there where the original girlfriend and "Sweet Dee" actress gave an interview. She didn't come across as remotely bitter, but just kind of matter-of-factly talked about the whole thing because people had wanted to know the details for years. Apparently, McElhenney dumped her after the network didn't want her involved in the show, and he never reached out or spoke to her again. Never offered her work, etc.. She eventually gave up her hopes of acting and I think is now married now. Another juicy tidbit everyone now knows is that McElhenney refused, apparently multiple times, the idea of bringing on a character played by somebody with a bigger name, (who ended up being Danny Divito). They went back and forth until the network just came out and said, "Do it, or we're canceling the show" so, POOF! Danny Divito is on the show and we now get a minimum of 15-minutes of him each episode, digging in his toes or spewing food out of his mouth, eating eggs, firing guns and shouting every line he's given. The guy can be funny, but a tiny grain of him goes a very, very long way. But, somehow, he seems to control a big part of that series and if you've ever noticed, there's never an episode where he doesn't feature prominently.

Anyway, between that, and taking a little walk through McElhenney's Instagram account and reading some interviews with him, it's just not hard, for me at least, to realize he's a douche. Very typical of Hollywood, nothing out of the ordinary. Just a regular, massive Hollywood douche who would likely push his mother off a cliff if it meant obtaining fame and fortune.

by Anonymousreply 21June 19, 2023 2:43 PM

I've always liked Sunny. I was once really into it. I picked it up late (maybe season 3) and then went back and watched the earlier seasons and kept on watching. But I stopped around season 10. I wasn't tiring of it, it just worked out that way. I think the sociopathy was the entire hook, or at least a big part of it. I appreciated that it was such a particular show with it's own unique thing going on.

by Anonymousreply 22June 19, 2023 2:48 PM

Only the few and far between shirtless episodes.

by Anonymousreply 23June 19, 2023 2:55 PM

I can’t finish this season or if I do it will be much space between episodes.

by Anonymousreply 24June 19, 2023 2:57 PM

R11 Here’s the story about the original Dee in her own words.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 25June 19, 2023 3:00 PM

R25 Wow! Never heard about this.

by Anonymousreply 26June 19, 2023 3:21 PM

very dark, I love it

by Anonymousreply 27June 19, 2023 3:33 PM

I just binged the new season and was pleasantly surprised at how consistently funny it was. Perhaps, partly, because there weren't any gimmicks like transporting the gang to Ireland or some elaborate arc throughout the season. They just concentrated on making funny individual episodes and it worked. I think they've also gotten really smart about maintaining the characters' awfulness and borderline sociopathic behavior while navigating the current 'climate'. The episode where they visit that Chuck E. Cheese knockoff was especially well written in that regard. I'm all for another season now!

by Anonymousreply 28August 2, 2023 4:11 AM

The latest season was a real return to form, after several years of dreck.

The accidentally burn down a Chuck E. Cheese.

Frank wears a vibrating butt plug to a public event.

Frank shoots every member of the gang with his .38.

Charlie has sisters, and they're foul little cunts.

Dee calls Rhea Perlman a cunt.

Frank buys Dee's building, just to burgle the tenants and raise their rent.

by Anonymousreply 29August 2, 2023 4:30 AM

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: What network is it on?

by Anonymousreply 30August 2, 2023 8:10 AM

^^ Or I should say...

On which network does it air?

by Anonymousreply 31August 2, 2023 8:11 AM

R30 - Assuming you're in the U.S. it airs on FXX, but I watch it on Hulu where all episodes are available.

by Anonymousreply 32August 2, 2023 8:20 AM

It’s become increasingly bad, unnecessarily gross. Danny DeVito must do something disgusting in every episode and it just isn’t funny anymore. You can sometimes rob McElheney‘s agape mouth mouthing the lines of the other actors while they’re saying them. He’s had so much Botox that his face looks like a wax mask pulled tightly over his head. We never see any of the once hysterical underlying themes of the show anymore, like Charlie’s illiteracy, etc. because it’s either Rob McElhaney or Danny DeVito sucking up the oxygen and doing something stupid or disgusting..

by Anonymousreply 33August 2, 2023 11:26 AM

R9, Hulu dropped the episodes, and there are only five of them.

People don't like watching racial/ethnic stereotypes portrayed by people of other races/ethnicities.

I understand you're probably gone from old age by now, but why not clean up the record anyway?

by Anonymousreply 34October 30, 2024 8:32 PM
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