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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 1, Ep. 1 "The Gang Gets Racist"

They try to prove that Charlie is not a racist.

Starring: Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day
Directed by: Daniel Attias, John Fortenberry
Runtime: 23 minutes
Original air date: August 04, 2005
Network: FX

Episode 1, "The Gang Gets Racist"

Synopsis: They try to prove that Charlie is not a racist.

Original air date: August 4, 2005

Runtime: 23 minutes

Captions and Subtitles: English

ASIN: B000H4ZXJ2

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,482 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 1

Synopsis: The show centers around four egocentric friends who run a bar together in Philadelphia and find their warped views and precarious judgment often lead to trouble.

Starring: Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton

Supporting actors: Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, David Hornsby, Artemis Pebdani, Lynne Marie Stewart, Sandy Martin, Thesy Surface, Brittany Daniel, Brian Unger, Jimmi Simpson, Nate Mooney, Travis Schuldt, Catherine Reitman, Gregory Scott Cummins, David Gueriera, Shaun Paul Costello

Season year: 2005

Genre: Comedy

Network: FX

ASIN: B000H520KQ

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely hysterical July 29, 2007

By N. Durham HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Slob comedy crafted with wit and intelligence September 9, 2007

By Clare Quilty

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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.

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34 of 40 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Funniest Show On TV July 31, 2007

By Grew

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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.

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