Why It's Always Sunny Is The Most ABSURDLY Brilliant Show On Television
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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2021
- Many fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia have their idea of a perfect episode, and that's what makes It's Always Sunny so great. You ask 20 different fans, you'll get 20 different answers. But this episode in-particular is truly the best mix of the show's emotional and technical abilities. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia continues to push the envelope season after season, but this episode stands out above the rest. Especially when you have Charlie Kelly, played by Charlie Day, in the drivers seat.
#ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia #CharlieKelly #Nerdstalgic
Written by Chris Teregis
Edited by Brian Nappi - Zábava
Is there a better TV bromance than Frank and Charlie? czcams.com/video/W7wmehLEhYg/video.html
lol .. Mac and Dennis ?
@@chlorine5795 Nah, Liam and Ryan McPoyle, although I suppose that's more of a romance
Shawn and Gus?
Otis and Eric
@@aarons9879 who???
"Charlie can't read."
"He'll adapt."
"He'll adapt to reading?"😂😂😂
I meam he has a dream journal that describes his dreams entirely on drawings 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣🤣
One of the funniest lines in a show ever I will never not laugh hearing that lol
we all adapted to reading
1:55
Yup, thats what it just said douche bag.
I literally can watch Sunny every day and not tire of it! When will they win the lifetime achievement Emmy for best sitcom? Is that even a thing?
Always Sunny doesn’t get enough love because people don’t “get it” and definitely don’t appreciate it.
This episode especially was so good, man
I don't need your trophies or your gold. I just wanna tell you all: "Go fuck yourselves!"
There’s so many episodes that even when I think I’ve watched the show too many times they’ll always be an episode I haven’t seen in a while
I watch always sunny every day for almost 5 years, it's something that's just always on my TV even if I'm not watching, I probably know every episode by heart, it's absolutely genius
I honestly do not understand how Rob, Glenn, Charlie and everyone else do it. This show has been on for 15+ years. It started in 2005 and it's still relevant! And not only is it just as good as it's always been, many times it actually gets better. How many shows can you name that have even managed to last this long? Let alone not dip in quality, let alone stay good, LET ALONE get better!? It's truly mindblowing. And the fact they they write AND star in it is just..they are so talented it's unreal.
I think them doing less episodes a season really helps. Allows them to really refine each episodes without needing filler. They are freaking geniuses
@@dereklewis4321 Yea, I would agree with that. Having to pack 22 episodes into a season is too much for anyone. It's incredibly hard to keep quality up like that. I think that's why not a lot of shows these days have that many episodes per season. 10-13 is way more common now. And I think we've had more super high quality shows in the last 10 years or so than ever before, so that really says something.
Reminds me of Matt and Trey from south park. They're just genuinely funny and creative people.
@@oWildChildo was gonna say South Park too.
The creator of the video said it well “it’s adapted” the simpsons and south park have also done the same. It’s generic but crazy enough. I love it’s always sunny 🥰
"Developmentally stunted characters are forced to perform seemingly usual tasks, but so many of them and so quickly, that they manage to make something as simple as cleaning a bar, feel like the stupidest and more irresponsible version of an Oceans 11 casino heist a person could possibly fathom."
This is the best description of Always Sunny I have ever heard in my life.
MY THOUGHTS PRECISELY
1:57 “he’ll adapt to reading?” Might be one of the funniest things ever written
🤣🤣🤣
What episode is that
The show and would be lost without Charlie. He just seems so natural in his weirdness.
Well Frank left his luxury life to live like Charlie
@@alwayswatching_ Frank and Charlie tbh
Charlie is easily one of my favorite characters of all time it's not even close
@Mt. WHATITDEW lol definitely 😆
@@shmavster4209 am I the only one who hates Frank
Honestly I think the best example of Sunny's spotless absurdist humour is Frank being stuck a playground coil for an entire episode while the gang periodically extort business advice out of him, and the fact that they never explain why or even how he got in there
In his underwear too
Haven't watched in a while but the one that sticks out to me the most is when they kept retelling a story involving sweet Dee where she got more and more bird like in every iteration until she's eventually just an ostrich. One of the top ten laughs of my life.
PFF WHAT XDD What episode is that? Bc I've been recently watching episodes randomly based on meme scenes and how interesting I find the title, and I know they call Dee a bird, but never understood why 🤣
@@amytheprettyweirdfangirl3786 pretty sure it's the episode "the gang make a clip show"
@@pisswaterroach7019 Yeah, I know that now lol, but thanks ^^ Man, 5 months ago? It feels like longer!
Is this the Halloween one? Where they try discover who got Dee pregnant.
@@darrylm5100 yes
THEY EVEN GOT THE GUY WHO PLAYS LUIGI HOW'D THEY GET HIM?!
@@Just_a_Steve and Jax!
@Mt. WHATITDEW He's so cool.
It's funny cause Dennis was dressed as Luigi in the show
You Zoomers are fucking losers, you dropouts know that, right?
@@topogigio7031 I know I'm a loser, I just kinda embrace it at this point.
The most underrated show in American television history
They should have gotten an E̶m̶m̶y̶ award for Philly's Best Bar a long time ago
Not really underrated, many people out there love it, if not just for the memes
Underrated?
I mean, no? When have you ever heard someone rate Sunny poorly?
Longest running live action comedy series in history. Totally underrated by people....
@@dingledan1966 I think they mean underrated by the general public and that they haven’t won awards.
It’s always sunny has always been one of my favorite shows, it feels like everyone is playing themselves
They're assholes in real life too?😂😂
maybe not Glenn
@@razrxo from what I’ve seen of all of them outside the show, they’re all good nice people, especially Charlie and DeVito.
what's crazy is none of them are remotely like their characters lol
Well they're not, obviously.
I love this episode because you get to see these usually incompetent people pull off an amazing plan in real time, it’s the perfect example of Chekhov's gun, everything has a purpose and seeing all these seemingly random things that don’t relate to the story get payed off is just an amazing experience.
The chair at the end was great
@@highdefinition450 facts that part had me so confused until the end, made even better by dennis taking credit for it😂
The Maureen Ponderosa Massacre is even better. It's full of Chekhov's Guns finally going off from so many previous seasons, and it sets up the next, maybe, four seasons all while taking time to be just the most balls-to-the-wall insane set of sequences ever filmed.
Or this just proves that the theory that Charlie is actually the smartest in the group might actually be true 🤔
@@rjs2077 no, he’s as dumb as a premature turkey that was dropped on its head as a baby. He’s just really good at this one thing, which doesn’t take as much knowledge as it does skill and experience.
I got so stoked as soon as I realized this was about "Charlie Work" still one of the best episodes of television, much less IASIP of all time. I've watched this one so many times and it never gets old but that can be said of almost every episode of this amazing series. Everyone talks Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, blah blah blah when talking about best sitcoms of all time but they really don't have shit on IASIP and that's why they're taking the crown of longest running live action sitcom of all time and I personally don't feel like the quality has dipped at all.
Definitely dropped in 13 and 14 tbh but 11 and before are all amazing
13 was rough, and 14 was better but also rough.
I think the quality dipped in the last two seasons because of Glenn leaving the writing team. Unless Im wring, he wasn’t a main writer for 13 and 14. Of course there are other factor, but that could be a key part. I am very excited for 15, as he is back in the writers room, and of course because it’s another season of Sunny.
It's the goat of sitcoms cause its real America. Seinfeld was going to be cancelled for failing to be what sunny is, a couple of miserable racists. No Emmys is cause the Hollywood elite would rather hold up white supermacy. U should see the video of the cast being featured on the Emmys magazine while not being nominated. Pure humiliation from the mockery
The newest season is fantastic!
i love how charlie keeps takeing the time to slam the stood in the middle of all the chaos just to set up a joke dee falling through the stool at the end....it shows no matter how serious the situation they cant help but pull jokes and pranks on eachother...
I love the episode where frank spends like 50,000 dollars to trick Dee into thinking she is a world famous standup comedian.
What a messed up episode lol.
The Pepe Silvia scene with Mac and Charlie is also great.
Can we talk about the mail?!
that scene got even funnier years later when i realized he was reading "pennsylvania" the whole time, but is of course illiterate
@@rayrandall5259 WAIT WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME, I WOULD'VE NEVER REALIZED- THAT IS HILARIOUS, WHY DIDN'T THEY EXPLAIN THAT IN THE SHOW?? 😭😂🤣
Really cannot wait to hear Charlie voice Luigi in the official Mario animated movie
Word, perfect casting of in my opinion
He was amazing 🥲 ❤
" The gang gets Analyzed" its also one of the funniest and you get to se how insane they really are, not only individuely but as a group 😅
I think its important to point at that FX is one of the few good studios that will let its creators be creative. If sunny had been on a major network, it woulda been cancelled after a few seasons and would have never been able to try the things it does. Freedom is necessary for creativity
Yep. Louie is another great example of FX getting out of the way.
The phrase “criminally underrated” will forever be reserved for It’s Always Sunny - that term grossly overused but it literally could not be more accurate for this show. Comedy geniuses
I think underrated is the wrong term. Everyone who’s seen it knows it’s brilliant. It’s just underwatched.
Been rewatching iasip to show it to my girlfriend.. this rewatch has showed me how great the show really is, seeing someone whose never seen it thoroughly enjoy it
Check out my season 15 prediction
@@masterzombie161 no
@@Evilc well then you will be missing out on a real possible plot point of the show.
Ive been rewatching as well with a friend and its great to revisit the best scenes
LOOK AT ME WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO ME! Outlaw king has a amazing opening one shot scene
Charlie Work was an instant classic and favorite of mine. I think its my favorite episode, the way it was written, the cinematography, the pay off, everything about it was A-1.
Charlie work will always be a stand out episode. I had to watch it like 3 times to appreciate the full scope of what the hell was going on. It’s was pure chaos and fun. Watching him execute his elaborate plan was BRILLANT!
Before I even started the video I knew you would talking about this episode. Easily one of the best
I absolutely love this show, especially Charlie
Rat king!
Day man!
Green man!
Wild card!
The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre is the tightest, most pivotal IASIP event. It's the crux of the entire show. It unites previous seasons and is the springboard for so many subsequent seasons. Charlie Work stands out, all of a sudden, because it's a standalone that has nothing to do with The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre.
Of all the references to similar “one-shot” sequences, I can’t believe True Detective S1E4 wasn’t mentioned. I seem to recall someone from the show actually saying it was sort of an homage to that (critically acclaimed) episode.
That would explain Dennis saying "Alright alright alright" in a McConaughey impression.
‘Charlie Work’ is the only episode of its always sunny that I rewatched _immediately_ after watching it for the first time. Never really understood why, so thanks for the cool video!
I’m so glad you picked ‘Charlie Work’ I’ve rewatched that episode countless times. The perfect episode.
I knew this would be the perfect episode. I felt the same way when I first saw it
The Gang gives Frank an intervention is my favorite.
IASIP is easily my favorite show of all time.
There are no bad episodes, including the old lady sitcom or Dee-centric episodes. They all have something great to convey and do it spectacularly.
I'm sad it's getting on in years and will likely be ended soon enough, but I will be here for every second of it until then.
The old lady sitcom episode wasn't definitely wasn't bad but it's definitely isn't at the top of the list. This is one of those shows that whenever I rewatch the early seasons I go 'wow, they were this good this early? That bit was this early? Frank was in it this early?' lol
The one where Charlie and Dee think they're cannibals is one of my favorites, especially the scene where they're in the morgue.
"Is it racist if we don't eat the black guy?"
"Well shit Charlie, NOW it is."
😂😂😂
@@michaelstrong5383 oh man I forgot about that episode! That was so funny.
And honestly... it works so well because I get it. For some reason, a black or Indian person just seems like they wouldn't be as tasty as a white or Asian person. And as messed up a thing as that is to say, holy crap that feels racist.
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 I also love Dee's line: "I'm gonna have a hard time if we're both cannibals AND racists."
Just that entire morgue scene made me laugh so hard.
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 I guess I'm just more a dark meat person 😅😅
This episode is so well shot with no cutaway cuts for nearly A whole 20 minutes
One of my favorite shows of all times, have run through it at least 10 times, and you picked my favorite episode to talk about!
My favorite episode is when they go see the therapist over the dishes. It just displays all of their characters individually and perfectly, especially Charlie
This show was originally gonna be called Luigi's Pub.
Literally watching it right now. Dennis and Charlie are going in on the shusher lol.
lmao i was just watching that episode too
It’s crazy how long this show has stays fresh! Definitely my favorite comedy on tv.
i can't believe how little anyone talks about this episode, so thank you for covering it. it's probably my favorite one
You're the most underrated youtuber.
Thanks for keeping us entertained and educating us at the same time.
The stool Charlie slams feels like the pivot point in the timing and choreography. It all pays off in the end, of course, when everything is over and it finally breaks apart.
Woooo! I got here right at the drop for one of the best CZcams channels around! Great editing Nerdstalgic , love it!
Thanks dude!
I'm glad you made a video about my favorite show
This video was truly fantastic and a very beautiful tribute to Sunny. Thank you.
I literally just watched this episode and was so blown away about it that fired up youtube knowing that surely someone realised its genius and look what I found. Great vid 👍
I could listen to you talk about Always Sunny for hours. You really do understand that show.
I watch the intro and I can only now thing about how Charlie Day is gonna be Luigi from Super Mario
I feel very lucky that i stumbled upon this show.
Watched some episodes and fell in love with this show in no time.
This show is criminally underrated.
I love IASIP and Nerdstalgic this is the perfect video.
Thank you for your input on this show
Oh hey, it’s that show that has Luigi in it.
The cuts! I never even considered the cuts!
That's amazing.
That Jersey Shore episode was epic....🙌🏼😂🙌🏼😂🙌🏼😂🙌🏼😂🙌🏼😂
Yess
Yeah one of the best. Really nice to see Charlie have an amazing night with the Waitress. Typically then crushed but then only focus on the good.
i genuinely didnt notice the cuts during charlie work when i first watched it, that was INCREDIBLY well done
Finally this episode gets its props - the callbacks, the way it’s shot, the sheer amount of things written in to have going on. And oh my god the joke stool and it’s setup damn near gave me a heart attack I laughed so hard
I love the whole... “thank you Tang See my dear, dear friend. A simple pill... ingested by a man... who received an idea, a simple thought, so clear and sharp, it cut through his mind like a soft cheese and led him to... an INVENTION!” scene. The whole episode is amazing but that scene is hilariously spot on acting by Charlie.
"Pepe Silvia, Pepe Silvia!"
- Charlie day, actor for luigi
I love the two parter on the boat I think thats absolutely spectacular because each of the characters gets time to shine on their own - they all have a part to play in it
I just watched this episode and was blown away by how good it was and how much I enjoyed it
One of the truly great comedy series' ever made. Right up there with Arrested Development, Community, and Curb imo
I think Charlie Day is the perfect cast for Luigi.
Charlie Day was a good call for best brother.
Yo ur editing is insane
Charlie work is my all time favorite episode! Also great video, excellent analysis
My personal favorite is “The Gang Cracks the Library Bell” which I know a lot of people hate. But I don’t care. I love it.
It's an incredible coincidence that the episode chosen to show Always Funny's genius is through the eyes of Charlie, LITERALLY less then 24 hours after his actor was announced as the voice of Luigi in the upcoming Mario film
What exactly is the coincidence? Charlie is one of the main characters of the show and none of what you just said has a thing to do with the mario film.
This is my favorite episode of the show ever. Thank you for this analysis.
This is definitely my favorite episode and I’m really happy to see a video explaining why it’s SO GOOD
I can’t really agree with the conclusion because I have seen that ideaology fail before but your analysis and breakdown are phenomenal, keep up the great work
Nice video, great job . I love It’s Always Sunny ☀️
Danny deVito elevated this show to legendary heights reserved only for the gods thank u sir
Charlie work is one of my favorite cold opens. Even community struggled to have anything close to it and usually their opens are some of my favorite.
I somehow skipped over this episode on one of my initial watches and was DELIGHTED to realize it because that meant despite watching all of the seasons I somehow saved the best episode for last
I’ve loved this show for so long, and the way it has stayed in peoples’ minds as the “oh yeah I think I’ve heard of that show” show is wild. It’s popular but still underrated. It’s like a little above underground enough to just be a mainstay in peoples’ subconscious, and then when you watch the show you cannot believe you’ve missed out on this all these years. I don’t know any other shows in spots like that
It really is almost impossible to pick a perfect episode but The Gang Gets Analyzed, The Gangs Hits the Jersey Shore, Nightman Cometh, The Gang Goes To Hell, The Gang Goes to a Water Park, Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack, The Gang Gets Held Hostage, Dee and Dennis Go on Welfare, etc are all great character based episodes where we see exactly how depraved and selfish they really are. Especially the Gang Gets Analyzed. That was the first episode I ever watched and really paid attention to and I fell in love with how bat shit insane they all are.
It's definitely the best episode of season 10
Personally, I put classic Sunny (seasons 1 through 7) leagues ahead of more recent seasons but the show's quality is remarkably consistent
The observation that he's an idiot savant is very funny, I always thought he was a little too on top of things in this episode, he also probably skipped his glue that morning lmfao
Bro season 14 is gold
S7 had the perfect finale for the show overall. They won't top that. But till about S12 it's still solid IMO. S13 is the only dud for me but 14 was much better.
Season 12 has my favorite episodes. The entire first half of season 12 are my favorite episodes.
I didn’t know Luigi was a star of a TV show
Exactly the episode i had in mind. Rewatched it so many times
Charlie Work is the episode my brain usually thinks of if asked what’s my favorite episode even tho I say I don’t have a true fave. Now the fact that this is the episode you use for the video is just perfect.
"Charlie Work" is in my top 10 episodes of television history.
I know I'm probably wrong but I feel like this video was uploaded because of the Mario movie.
It was very good timing!
This show is beyond funny and clever in so many ways. I could rewatch it forever and never get sick of it!
Great Erudition (comparisons to Alfonso Curan, a one shot scene in Children of Men I didn't even notice, etc.).
Great recipe for great art: Get More creative over time, not tired or staid or timid. And exactly correct artists do that When They Care. That's inspiring.
Somehow you turned an analysis of a sleaze bag comedy about truly terrible people (though Frank and Charlie can be endearing... But they're still *really terrible*) you turned an analysis of an absurd comedy about reprehensible people into something rather inspiring.
I think about the creator (Mac) and the rest of the cast and their dedication. That's beautiful. I love it. Great work Nerdstalgic.
The theory is that the characters of the show represent a sort of shadow archetype.
They are what some people would be if they did away with those pesky things like self respect, empathy and actually challenging their ego instead of indulging their ego.
In other words, even in absurdity: the characters are still absurdly human.
I love Charlie work. I also love the waterpark one where Frank runs through yelling aids to get to the front of the line
This is my favorite show of all time. I’ve seen it through too many times to count and that’s an understatement 😅 I love this Charlie moment, he doesn’t get a lot but when he does it’s well deserved
My absolute favorite episode of IASIP. Perfection.
I wish I could invest in this show because it’s going to command Seinfeld like prices 10-20 years from now as more people discover it’s brilliance.
I knew this over 15 years ago when I first saw it on FX and fell in love instantly. I remember being obsessed for years, then suddenly it was completely beloved by all. And it’s definitely improved. Gotta love it. Saved my life after I love my dad and my wife left me. Makes me feel like my terrible self is less terrible.
I cannot count the number of times I’ve watched this episode, it’s BRILLIANT! I’m glad to see that sentiment is shared
I run the garbage disposal for control
This is my favorite episode in TV history. Without a doubt flawless from beginning to end. It’s visual appealing constantly engaging and setting up at the same time. I’ll rewatch it yearly at this point.
Charlie Work is my favorite episode by far; not only for it's perfect comedic timing and focusing on my favorite character but also because I really love it when movies and TV do the whole continuous unbroken shot thing; even if it's only an illusion.
I KNEW from the thumbnail it was Charlie Work! One of the best, if not, the best episode of the series.
Really liked an implication from the closing statement:
How adaptation rooted in care for your project is different from pandering.
Perhaps?
Brilliant vid
Omg I loved this episode! Rewatched a few days ago
Still waiting for season 15 and currently binge-watch What We Do in the Shadows.
This has been my favourite episode since I watched it so I'm happy it gets it's own episode on here. Charlie is also my favourite character so I'm glad he gets to play as green man in a big movie.
Dude I just watched Charlie Work and was so blown away I had to watch it twice, then I saw this video and was flabbergasted to find they used clever cuts to hide the transitions. Hands down, my favorite episode
I think their friendship and being able to have fun every time they shoot are the reasons why It's Always Sunny is still on TV today. Honestly, it's probably the only sitcom on TV these days that i find funny 😂
This episode definitely takes some ideas from P.T. Anderson's film Punch Drunk Love.
The frequent flyer milage, the anxiety induced scenes with the music and Charlie rushing around and when he stops to slam the stool.