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Special Features
Disc 1 Season 1: Scenes from Original Pilot Cast and Crew Commentary Cast and Crew commentary Sunny Side Up (Making of) Kaitlin audition featurette The Gang Fucks Up (Outakes) Making A Scene: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Disc 2 Season 2:
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Take the best elements from Seinfeld and Arrested Development and you have It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Combining the social-degenerate-buddy formula (three men, one woman) with the beyond-dysfunctional-family element, Philadelphia creates scenarios that are so hysterical, wrong, appalling, familiar, embarrassing, uncomfortable, and entertaining, the show is addictive like staring at a car wreck when you know you shouldn't, but you just can't look away; it's invigorating like a fresh, loud, wake-up slap on the face. The writing, the quick timing, and the performances are so natural, one wonders if anyone is even acting (but hopes to heaven they are). Danny DeVito joined the cast in the second season, in one of the best roles on TV. DeVito is "Frank," the buddy dad that just wants to be part of the gang, the dad that looks good on paper, but the experience for his kids is more like taking care of a vicious dog that isn't potty-trained. Three of his four talented cohorts (Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney) not only star in the series, but write it as well. Thanks to their new take on old themes and a willingness to stretch the boundaries of appropriateness and exploit the audiences' inner insecurities, originality is back on TV.--Rachel Moss
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Product Description
Three best friends own a Irish Pub in Phili and get into sticky situations resulting from bad judgment.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
68 of 73 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Who says the sitcom is dead? Not since Arrested Development has a sitcom been this truly hysterical and quick paced that you don't know what to expect next. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, originally premiering on the FX network in 2005, revolves around four friends: Charlie (Charlie Day), Mac (Rob McElhenney), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), and his sister Dee (Kaitlin Olson); all of whom own and run an Irish bar in downtown Philadelphia. They get into all kinds of crazy hijinks through misunderstandings and just plain bad judgement, ranging from being mistaken as a gay bar to Charlie lying about having cancer. Yes, there's nothing really wholly original about the show's premise, but it remains hysterically funny throughout. The second season of the show finds Danny DeVito joining the cast as Dennis and Dee's father, who isn't the sanest of the bunch either. This DVD set compiles the first two seasons of the show, and is definitely worth picking up for viewers who turned it when it first premiered, as well as newer viewers who may be anxiously awaiting the upcoming and long awaited third season of this very funny show.
50 of 55 people found the following review helpful
By Clare Quilty
Format:DVD
Anybody can make a comedy about a gang of hard-drinking idiots who get into amusing situations. But it takes genuine perspective and brains to make that kind of humor work on more than one level, to make it pay off with any kind of irony, to make it say something about culture and society and that old cold cruel finger of fate.
Time and again, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" pulls off those mean feats.
Perfect example: Upon learning that his elementary school classmates were possibly molested by their gym teacher, one of the characters is thrown into a crisis of self-esteem, essentially: Why was the coach attracted to the other kids and not him? He was a much cuter kid than they were ... wasn't he???
Much like Ren and Stimpy used to change size and proportion depending on their surroundings, the boys and girl of "Sunny" alternate in their thought processes between brain damaged and strangely elloquent -- but since it's usually in the service of making a cultural or political point, it's a device that works really well.
"Sunny" is easily one of the best sit-coms on the air right now. The masses who continue to mourn the loss of "Arrested Development" would do well to turn their attention to this underseen little gem.
This is a potent blend of high- and lowbrow -- a kind of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" centered around a quartet of boozy brats, or "Friends" with a more realistic amount of toxicity and "pushing 30 desperation."
The dialogue flows like good improvisation and the plotting is always clever and more complicated than you'd expect (in that respect it even one-ups "Curb" whose twists can be viewed from a mile away [though that's admittedly part of "Curb's" charm]). Plus the acting is surprisingly natural and the leads have an atomic-clock degree of comic timing; DeVito, who joined in the second season as the main siblings' ne'er-do-well dad is infinitely better than he might've been and a reminder of what a shrewd comedian he can be; and I, for one, sincerely hope we see a lot more of the great Jimmi Simpson and Nate Mooney, who play the mind-boggling McPoyle twins, in S-3.
Added to which, "Sunny" features one of my favorite television opening credits sequences ever. Even when I watch it on DVD, I never fast forward past it.
Time and again, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" pulls off those mean feats.
Perfect example: Upon learning that his elementary school classmates were possibly molested by their gym teacher, one of the characters is thrown into a crisis of self-esteem, essentially: Why was the coach attracted to the other kids and not him? He was a much cuter kid than they were ... wasn't he???
Much like Ren and Stimpy used to change size and proportion depending on their surroundings, the boys and girl of "Sunny" alternate in their thought processes between brain damaged and strangely elloquent -- but since it's usually in the service of making a cultural or political point, it's a device that works really well.
"Sunny" is easily one of the best sit-coms on the air right now. The masses who continue to mourn the loss of "Arrested Development" would do well to turn their attention to this underseen little gem.
This is a potent blend of high- and lowbrow -- a kind of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" centered around a quartet of boozy brats, or "Friends" with a more realistic amount of toxicity and "pushing 30 desperation."
The dialogue flows like good improvisation and the plotting is always clever and more complicated than you'd expect (in that respect it even one-ups "Curb" whose twists can be viewed from a mile away [though that's admittedly part of "Curb's" charm]). Plus the acting is surprisingly natural and the leads have an atomic-clock degree of comic timing; DeVito, who joined in the second season as the main siblings' ne'er-do-well dad is infinitely better than he might've been and a reminder of what a shrewd comedian he can be; and I, for one, sincerely hope we see a lot more of the great Jimmi Simpson and Nate Mooney, who play the mind-boggling McPoyle twins, in S-3.
Added to which, "Sunny" features one of my favorite television opening credits sequences ever. Even when I watch it on DVD, I never fast forward past it.
34 of 40 people found the following review helpful
By Grew
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Its the show you and your friends wish you wrote. Laugh Out loud funny. I'm psyched i can finally get the DVD's so i can delete the 2 seasons off my tivo.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hysterically funny
always puts my in a good mood. is often totally off color so it may not be to everyone's taste, somewhat along the lines of sarah silverman's humor. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Holly in the Valley
4.0 out of 5 stars
ok
Once you've seen one, you've seen them all. I haven't watched it since i bought it. I'd watch the reruns
Published 1 month ago by Catherine Goerig
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good price, good condition
I love it's always sunny and wanted to own the seasons, but didn't want to spend a lot of money. Came to Amazon and managed to buy seasons 1-6 for less then $25!! Way pumped! Read more
Published 2 months ago by XbroknlegsX
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 & 2
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 & 2
This show is Suntastic!!!!!
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This show is Suntastic!!!!!
and now here is seven more words
Published 2 months ago by Spiderman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious.
Great episode. My favorite part is the end when Mac gets mad at Dennis. If you've never seen IASIP, you have to start.
Published 2 months ago by canthelpbutbuy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome
This show is the best tv show ever made in human history. Ever since I started watching I said this show should the top comedy show.
Published 2 months ago by Savon 11
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious
It is the beginning of a hilariously witty, intelligent yet mindless, bizzare, politically incorrect, perfect comedy series for the mature yet immature adult. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Robert A. Vazquez
5.0 out of 5 stars
Yes
See all other reviews. I must now type 16 more words. I wonder if symbols count @#%&**! No they do not!
Published 3 months ago by Tom Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious
This is one of my absolute favorite shows, and everyone I know who has watched it loves it. If you're into quirky, politically incorrect comedy, I highly recommend this series.
Published 3 months ago by Samantha Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
ROFL
just wrote a review for season 3, pretty much can say the same thing. The show is extremely funny, but not for the easily offended. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Deidre
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