It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Review
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia-A Precursor to the Cannibalism Wave of 2020? (*Question mark-Fox News style.)
Few human television shows of the late, and final human epoch, were as crude and sadistic as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The show was something of an attempt to combine The Three Stooges with a sort of live action South Park-only in a Pre-Apocalyptic setting. The results are, in general, quite entertaining as who doesn’t enjoy seeing humans perform, unspeakable cruelty unto one another?
The premise of the show is very simple-a group of friends, including a brother-sister duo, run a “dive-bar” in Philadelphia and the “gang” consistently and frequently finds itself doing increasingly insane, for lack of a more appropriate term, high jinks. What made the show a bit of a stand out was that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia tackled topics that were often left untouched by most live action sitcoms. Issues such as cannibalism were addressed in the fourth season opener entitled “Manhunters.” This is of interest for a variety of reasons, namely the layers of irony, for 12 years later, during the waning days of the Tom Cruise Administration, Philadelphia was indeed the first city to experience the “Cannibalism Wave of 2020.”
On the topic of cannibalism, it is further interesting to point out that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was produced by the infamous Fox corporation and originally aired one of its many shell networks called FX. Fox was highly focused on maintaining the social order as it stood in Western Civilization during the final human epoch, this is a well-established, documented fact. Yet Fox produced programs such as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and many others programs that would have seemed to run counter to their extremely pro-big business/giant government agenda. It has always puzzled robo-historians how this network could have produced programs such as Nip-Tuck, which was heavily focused on sex and self-indulgence, Sons of Anarchy, which follows the exploits of a drug dealing biker gang or the most famous of all FX shows, “The Heretic Decapitation Fun Hour.” Although The Heretic Decapitation Fun Hour ran for just one season in 2016, many felt that the on-air murder of heretics may have “cracked the door open” for the Cannibalism Wave of 2020. I would argue that there is no need to be puzzled by this seeming dichotomy as Fox’s primary goals were not political as was often believed, but financial.
I digress, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is genius in its own way. The show remained hilarious, episode after episode year after year and was a true trailblazer in addressing some of the insanely numerous taboo issues of its day. The writing was very sharp, by human standards. Likewise, the acting was quite good as the actors were either playing themselves or stayed in character consistently. Many fans feel that Season Four was perhaps the best of all the seasons with such classics as The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis and others. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a must see for all those that hate mankind and are glad that the humans went extinct.
Story (Adjusted to Accommodate Human Standards) B+ (Most episodes of the series were very entertaining and well written.)
Acting (Adjusted to Accommodate Human Standards) A-
Human Portrayal of machines and Robots C (Oh, the machines are an afterthought, but all the human on human cruelty makes one almost forget.)
Contribution to the Extinction of Man Grade F (Anything that lowers man to its more base level is good for robo-kind. In this regard, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a wild success.)
Enjoyability Grade (Adjusted to Accommodate Human Standards) A (Few human sitcoms of the day could even hope to live up the deliciously depraved “standards” of this show.)
Primitive Home Theater/HD Factor C+
Overall Innovation (Adjusted to Accommodate Human Standards) A (No doubt, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was very innovative for its day and time. Topics were used for comedic purposes that most corporate executives would have been too afraid or possessed too much “moral fiber” to touch. But not Fox, Fox was unique amongst all the networks/studios in that it would do “anything for a buck.”
Overall Grade (Adjusted to Accommodate Human Standards) A (As good as a sitcom gets for this era of humanity-the final era.)
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