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Posted Aug 27th 2008 12:00PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Podcasts, Web, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Reality-Free
Can't get enough
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? The irreverent FX comedy is back September 18th (10/9 Central) for a fourth season of shenanigans unlike anything live action non-sketch television comedy has ever given us. Except for those other shows you are about to fill the comments with. If you're anxious for the show to start, and want more of Charlie, Mac, Frank, Dennis and Sweet Dee then have I got a treat for you.
Okay, well that's not fair. I really didn't have anything to do with it. But show writers Patrick Walsh and Sonny Lee aren't here to take credit for it, so we'll just say it's all me. That's right, come check out
Paddy's Pub, the new production blog for the upcoming season of It's Always Sunny. It features cast interviews as well as excerpts from Dennis' erotic memoir and even an advice column written by Frank. Now there isn't much there right now, but it only launched August 26th. I mean seriously, what the hell do you people want from me ... I mean from staff writers Patrick Walsh and Sonny Lee.
Continue reading Sunny's funny Season Four production blog launches
Posted Nov 9th 2007 1:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode Reviews
(S03E14) Most people trust the cops. But what if those cops just happen to be bar owners who are driving a fifteen year old cop car and toting around a cat? Would you trust them then?
If that happened, then you might turn to grass-roots law enforcement groups like the Guardian Angels. But what if those people were just douches wearing berets and carrying souvenir mini-bats?
Those are the questions unleashed this week by the gang at Paddy's Pub. And all because they saw a bum getting it on with himself in the alley next to the bar.
Continue reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Bums: Making a Mess All Over the City
Posted Oct 12th 2007 11:14AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode Reviews
(S03E09) Despite what we -- and
Rob McElhenney -- thought was going to happen, FX has decided to stop airing back-to-back episodes of
Sunny one week early. Does that mean that the show's ratings are so good that the network wants to spread things out a little more? Let's hope so. I mean, the longer we have new episodes of
Sunny the better...
Anyway, this was an episode where the seemingly thrown-together B story was much funnier than the A-story featured in the title. In fact, if the episode was "The Boys Create a Band," that would probably have been a more accurate reflection of what dominated the episode. But you can't go wrong with the title they went with.
Continue reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person
Posted Sep 20th 2007 11:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode Reviews
(S03E04) The McPoyles are on the loose! They've taken over Paddy's Pub and are threatening to shoot the gang in the face! The tension mounts! Frank and his gun are in the vents, nowhere to be found! What will they do?
What will they do?This is the best episode of the third season so far, mainly because it tells a nice, cohesive story from beginning to end. It also does a little something different from most
Sunny episodes, as it not only makes fun of a particular movie genre -- the hostage drama -- but basically takes place within the confines of the pub. Oh, and Fred Savage is the director. How can you go wrong?
Continue reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Gets Held Hostage
Posted Sep 20th 2007 10:36PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode Reviews
(S03E03) Say goodbye to Anne Archer. Unless she comes back as a ghost.
In this episode, Rob, Glenn, and Charlie have decided to kill off Barbara Reynolds, who is Dennis and Dee's mother and the "whore" ex-wife of Frank. Not such a bad idea; Archer didn't really fit well into the mix last year, so having her kick the bucket is probably the best for the show's chemistry.
Stephen Collins comes back as Bruce Mathis, Dennis and Dee's real dad and a peach of a guy. Unlike Archer, Collins did do a good job last year, and he does a good job here. The rest of the episode? It's OK... a little sitcommy, but OK.
Continue reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Dennis and Dee's Mom is Dead
Posted Sep 20th 2007 11:00AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Podcasts, Interviews, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
We're going to try something a little different here at TV Squad: audio interviews!
Last week, I got a chance to speak to Rob McElhenney, creator and co-executive producer of FX's no-holds-barred comedy
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which will air its third and fourth episodes of the season tonight at 10 PM ET. We spoke about the third season, about getting Fred Savage to direct some episodes, the making of their
"BJ" video, and how Kaitlin "Sweet Dee" Olson almost lost her role on
The Riches because of
Sunny. We also discussed few details that came out on the DVD
of the first two seasons, like why they shot all of Danny DeVito's scenes at once and how they got the TV legend to leer at his daughter.
Instead of typing out the entire transcript and printing it (frankly, transcribing makes us tired), we decided to take advantage of this whole Net 2.0 thing that's going on and embed the audio of the entire interview, which is about 28 minutes. So, after the jump, I'll give you the embed and some highlights.
Continue reading Rob McElhenney of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The TV Squad Interview - AUDIO
Posted Sep 3rd 2007 2:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
When you think about it, it makes sense that we haven't seen a DVD of
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia until now; after all, the first season was only seven episodes, and the show was on the brink of extinction until Danny DeVito joined the cast in season two. So, it was wise of FX to group the first two seasons into one package, which comes out tomorrow (you can get your own copy -- for nothing! -- if you enter
the giveaway Keith mentioned earlier today).
Is it worth picking up? Sure; if you're a fan of the show, there's more than enough here to make a purchase worth your while. If you never saw the show but were curious, it's a good way to "catch up" (though this isn't exactly a show where you need to do that, but still...).
Continue reading It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Seasons 1 & 2 - DVD review
Posted May 29th 2007 10:22AM by Brett Love
Filed under: The Riches, Episode Reviews
(
S01E12) With just one episode to go in the season, the dominoes have started to fall. We've seen the Malloy family wriggle their way out of some tight spots. After this episode, you really have to wonder just how they are going to do it again. Some kind of a showdown with Dale was inevitable from the get go, but the new twists with Nina and Pete really add fuel to the fire.
Give the writers credit for some nice planning with Pete (Arye Gross). Cael found the emails from him early on and I had wondered if and when they were going to deal with that. Wayne's plan to just play dumb seemed a little crazy, but what other option did they really have? It did make for quite the crazy scene for the "Mont Pierres."
Continue reading The Riches: It's A Wonderful Lie
Posted May 15th 2007 10:22AM by Brett Love
Filed under: The Riches, Episode Reviews
(S01E10) The fallout from the dinner party in "Cinderella" hit this week, and it made for one crazy ride. This is also the episode that switched my thinking from "Eddie Izzard, the comic, is doing a great job as Wayne" to, "Eddie Izzard is an actor." The writers heaped a heavy load on his back this week and he answered with what was an amazing performance.
Things got off to a great start with Wayne and Dahlia's fight over the drugs that Chunky left behind. It's interesting that he walked in on her before she could decide which way she was going. I think that she would have flushed the stuff eventually, but we'll never know for sure. The chaotic argument after Wayne snorted a handful of the crank was fantastic. Dahlia's reaction, "Of all the assholic things you have done, this is the most assholic." summed it up nicely. That was such a crazy thing to do that it warranted brand new words to describe it.
Continue reading The Riches: This Is Your Brain On Drugs
Posted Jul 14th 2006 1:41PM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, OpEd, FX, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
(S02E05) "All during the 60's before I met my whore wife, I was a boxer. They called me Frankie Fast Hands."
Danny DeVito is an absolute riot. This show is a perfect fit for him. That line right there had me on the floor. I'm not sure if I enjoy the whore wife part or his ridiculous fighting name more, but no matter how you look at it... funny. This episode was originally titled "Sweet Dee Takes Steroids" (that's what it was called on the screener I got), but somewhere along the line it got changed to what we have here. So based on that you can assume there's going to some sort of spoof on the film (Clint Eastwood crying... don't get me started), and there was.
Continue reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Hundred Dollar Baby
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