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I consider Sunny to be very similar to Seinfeld in many ways, a spiritual successor of sorts, and I guess it's no surprise that Seinfeld is my favorite show and Sunny is close behind. But yeah, in terms of pure 20-minute episodes, Seinfeld had 180 and Sunny will hit 100 midway through this season. Seinfeld hit that milestone midway through Season 6, before Larry David even left and it was still dishing out some of the best episodes like The Race. Sunny has a comparatively smaller but just as memorable set of regulars that make up fictional Philly, but their devotion to the lore of their own show is right up there with Seinfeld.
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Seinfeld only won Best Comedy once in its run, that made me swear off Emmys forever. Frasier is funny but no way is it 5-years-in-a-row above Seinfeld funny. 30 Rock won its first 3 seasons which I think are the best ones anyway (at least 1 and 2) after that it trails off. Never seen Modern Family. Amazingly Arrested Development DID win an Emmy. But generally Glenn is right, it seems you have to be a part of the Hollywood/TV industry in the way that the gang isn't to win these awards. At least it wins all the Emmys in our hearts. (Disclaimer: I've never watched the Emmys anyway)
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Sep 25, 2013 23:36
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Loved seeing Dennis and Mac in their jihad outfits again, busted out laughing when Dee and Charlie break in and find them pulling out that old callback with the same voices.
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Sep 27, 2013 13:41
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I'd watch a Lawyer episode where he deals directly and indirectly with the gang causing him trouble and causing his clients trouble.
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Oct 2, 2013 02:34
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The line that always makes me laugh the hardest is when Charlie slides down the giant pile of garbage with a scimitar he found. "You could chop a camel right in the hump and drink all of its milk off the tip of this!"
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Oct 31, 2013 00:52
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I got all 9 seasons on DVD from amazon the other day for about $40 total, just for the special features/commentaries since I've been fiending for Sunny. If you don't know, S6 and S9 have extended cuts of Lethal Weapon 5 and 6 (11-13 mins or so), and those cuts have commentary tracks by Dennis, Mac and Charlie in character. They're pretty funny. More people should do that, the only other DVD I've seen that on is Spinal Tap and it's amazing, it's almost like an entire second Spinal Tap movie.
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Jan 8, 2015 23:11
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Weird, I got seasons 1-9 a few days ago and the tracks I heard on season 3 were clearly from back then. None of them have been too great though, the 3 actors usually seem a bit bored and spend a lot of time chuckling at their own jokes. Rob especially, you forget he's present for how little he talks. Glenn and Kaitlin talk quite a bit more... there are funny anecdotes sometimes though.
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Jan 9, 2015 18:42
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We know too much about where Charlie and Dee have been to want to see them together. It's like seeing Artemis and Cricket get it on. They plumbed that well in the pregnancy storyline also, with them trying to figure out who the father is and briefly thinking Dennis is the dad.
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Feb 20, 2015 16:27
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I think the hardest I've laughed at a line/conversation during a first viewing was Dennis's speech about getting off in that mistaken identity one and Dee just quietly is like "I don't know...". They already got off to a good start with "boom I got your wallet" and follow up with that, Dennis when he gets into full creep mode is hilarious.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:39
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah, people who put their TV above mantelpieces specifically are the worst. I've seen multi million dollar homes setup like this. Whatever floats their boat, man.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:09
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I actually wondered during the roller rink scene if Frank was just gonna step out and shoot those dudes beating up Pondy. It seemed like too much even for the show, but they push the envelope every season and the gang has basically directly contributed to deaths already. I thought it was 50/50 shooting guys, or driving off without Pondy. But he did right by his friend.
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Feb 12, 2016 19:07
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Watched it again last night, and the drug binge sequence still almost made me choke on dinner. The powder on the nose, "OUTTA MY WAY JEWS", popping the balloons, the scalding hot dog water, kicking in the toilet, texting LOL!!!! to Pondy... that whole sequence is just perfect.
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Feb 17, 2016 17:27
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There's no guarantee anything the main cast writes will automatically be amazing. They've been doing it for 11 years too. Larry David wrote the Seinfeld finale, after allhottubrhymemachine posted:I just thought it was funnier when Mac didnt actually go to gay bars and need towels. ... ow hes just doing gay stuff and pretending he isnt and it lost what made it so funny. hottubrhymemachine posted:I think its just fear of changing what they know to work and just leaning on it more and more. I would love for them to take more risks with the characters because they're absolutely brilliant. I feel like these posts simultaneously complain that they changed things, and also complain they haven't taken enough risks. You think they Mac is gay jokes aren't funny anymore because they used to be subtle, but then you insinuate that retelling the same joke ad nauseum is one of the problems. All the old episodes are still there to re-experience that stuff. I'd rather they get real weird with it. (but don't turn it into a drama because then I'm done)
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Feb 26, 2016 14:18
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Mr. Unlucky posted:it was far and away the best one so far this season because it's the only one that wasn't some gimmick Smut Film, Suburbs and the Trial were are more normal than the St Patrick's Day one. Also if the ski one aired in S5 everyone would call it a classic. I felt the show was dipping a lot more in S6-8 than now. It's as consistent as ever.
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Feb 27, 2016 12:37
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:555 = kkk Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
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Mar 2, 2016 00:26
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I could definitely see the gang pushing him to get back in the closet too, because they realize they prefer it to the new Mac. The Gang Gets Homophobic.
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Mar 4, 2016 19:26
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Last night we watched the World Series episode followed by the suburbs/Being Frank episodes and I remarked on how it felt like no time passed between. I am always so surprised to read long laments about the death of this show there past couple seasons, like what was there to make you like it to begin with. It's always been gross-out. They had a touring musical spin-off in like season 4. It's amazing how consistent it is. Every season has highs and lows.
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Apr 21, 2016 12:58
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FELD1 posted:I always recognized Mac's mom as the grandma in 'Napoleon Dynamite' Make yourself a dang quesa-dilla!
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May 22, 2016 11:53
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Yeah, okay, listen before we get into that, can you help us pop a quick intervention on Charlie for his illiteracy?
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Jun 25, 2016 14:19
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Agronox posted:I haven't gone through the list or anything but I suspect Alanna Ubach is a top 3 guest star in IASIP. A real shame they killed her off. The Gang agrees (e: spoilers for the premiere premise in here): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/04/its-always-sunny-philadelphia-season-12-glenn-howerton Glenn Howerton posted:I kind of regret killing Alanna Ubach’s character Roxie in season seven. She was just so funny, and it was such a funny character. I know the fans responded to her too, but just from our perspective there’s a part of me that wishes we hadn’t killed her. I’m sure we could discover that she’s alive, and it wouldn’t be that far outside the realm of possibility. There’s also a lot of times I actually regret killing Dennis and Dee’s mom in season two, because that was a really funny character. And I find the longer we go on, the more we have a desire to do at least a few episodes here and there that feel grounded in the emotional reality of the characters, and when you want to do that it’s nice to have family members to draw on. e: Also I'd like to see this: quote:Another episode that’s been on the writer’s board every single year, and this is another thing we get a lot of requests for, is a lot of people are like, “You should do an episode where we see how you guys got the bar.” And I would really like to do an episode – and we’ve pitched or broken an episode that showed them at 21 years old and how they bought the bar. But the thing that’s prevented us from doing that is that we tend to bristle a little bit at things where we have to ... I’m 40 years old now, so for me to play 21 would just kind of be weird. You can do it, but we’re just like, “Are we really going to do a whole episode where we try to make ourselves look 21 years old?” I would actually personally be OK with it, but I think Rob and Charlie don’t like the idea of us trying to play 21. Ignoring the age gap worked pretty well for Wet Hot American Summer, but I suppose that's more absurdist. Electromax fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Jan 4, 2017 19:02
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Loved this episode and the ending shock. At least this week people were calling it the worst thing the show's ever done after 5 minutes because it was too out there, instead of being too derivative to a previous episode like several callback episodes the last couple seasons. I guess nothing would please everyone after 12 years...
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Jan 6, 2017 14:42
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Grieco's repeated requests for a 'seaweed break' and then later "the seaweed is making me a little sick, can I get a chalk break?" always crack me up.
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Jan 10, 2017 17:40
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Waltzing Along posted:Isn't FT pretty widely regarded as the best comedy show of all time? Depends on how old the person you're talking to is, and probably what country they're from.
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Jan 11, 2017 13:39
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ChesterJT posted:Interesting but that would bring in real world lasting consequences for the gang's actions, which would probably be a first. If anything, this show would go all the way beyond that point and have a class action lawsuit of like 11 kids who show up to sue Dennis and Mac (who back in his straight days made a big deal out of refusing to use condoms) and they come up with a horrible scheme to escape their responsibility.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:12
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Seinfeld is my favorite show and IASIP is 2nd. There are a handful of parallel episodes too. Man-hands crunching the lobster :: Dee watching Rapper Kevin laugh and eat popcorn
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Jan 22, 2017 16:08
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Bob's Burgers is good. Pretty different though, and infuriating to try and decipher the scheduling for new episodes.
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Mar 10, 2017 16:11
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Maybe it'll yield funny edits with that episode where Charlie is a school janitor.
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Mar 17, 2017 01:26
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I'm torn because generally I would say I hate live studio audiences almost as much as laugh tracks, and I gravitate to the modern more intentionally placed single camera, but at the same time Seinfeld is my most favorite show ever (with Sunny probably a close 2nd at this point). I can't put my finger on it. I guess if the jokes make me laugh the cameras and format become secondary - same reason Lucy feels less dated to me than other shows from that era.
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Mulva posted:On it's own, sure, but the context of the fight was always the fact he brought it up to Lovitz. It's one thing to say "Well objectively it's not like he held her down and forced her to do cocaine", it's another to say that when he's joking that he got the guy killed to a close friend of the person. That's when you catch a beating and everyone cheers. Doesn't really sound like Dick was intending to be 'joking' but yeah, according to Lovitz himself he doesn't blame Dick for the murder anymore and instead it was just because AD was living up to his name: quote:Lovitz had joined the show, of which Dick was a co-star, after his friend Hartman was shot and killed by Hartman's wife, Brynn.
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