The way I always understood the show was that Frank, Dennis, and Dee are sociopaths, Mac would be a good person if he weren't constantly trying to impress the wrong people (mostly Dennis), and Charlie is just too stupid to realize that his friends are abusing him for their own benefit.
I don't abused people tend to find themselves in the same situation with different people my mom thrice divorced and later a mean boss that yelled at her and kept making selfish decisions she worked at a charity animal rescue so she was stuck there if she left it would be at the cost of animals lives ps her boss did shit like decide arbitrarily if mom didn't get some pregnant dog a home/place outside the shelter it would be fixed that day ie dog abortion point is at a certain point it's just random chance for someone to gain a human connection that can help you escape the cycle
Charlie relentlessly stalks a woman, cuts the brakes on a van containing all his friends and appears to become dangerously close to killing a "leprechaun." I think we only see him as innocent by comparison to the total depravity and antisocial-ness of the others. it does seem like a lot of unresolved trauma and maybe brain damage drives his character but even if those aren't his fault, that doesn't make him an innocent bystander. I do think he's the only character who could be considered "good" in any way but it's very warped and not at all consistent.
Has anyone heard of Sartre's "No Exit"? It's a play that the phrase "Hell is other people" stemmed from. A group of people found themselves in a miysterious room they couldn't leave. They formed relationships amongst themselves, most of them toxic. Eventually the door out of the room opens, but the people are too absorbed in their toxic relationships to leave. The twist is these people are in hell, and their punishment is eachother. That's what Always Sunny is. It's a hell loop that the characters are unwilling to or incapable of escape.
It can also be the story of the show, The Good Place, where 4 people died and think they're in "The Good Place" but in fact they are in "The Bad Place" the entire time. The only difference is that the characters in The Good Place are actually aware of it unlike the gang from It's Always Sunny In Pennsyvania.
@@deannal.newton9772 actually, funnily enough, Sartre's Huis Clos/No Exit was a big inspiration for The Good place! Both TGP+ IASIP are such great portrayals of "Hell is other people" but IASIP for sure has a more pessimistic take on it- but that's what makes it so much fun to watch
The gang is in the same position as the characters in Jean-Paul Sarte's play No Exit. They make each other miserable, but they are all dependent on each other. In the case of the play they were in hell and torturing each other, but they could leave if they wanted, but they were all so determined to be petty and cruel to each other, or needed something from the others, that they couldn't bring themselves to go.
I sometimes wonder if the gang are either consciously or subconsciously taking from No Exit, but I understand that as Americans, they can't explicitly say that without alienating the not-insignificant portion of their audience who view it as aspirational.
I think the reunion 2 parter really shows why they're together by seeing the environment they came together in. Dennis thinks he's popular and the group let's him seem that way by comparison, Mac gets to latch onto his perception of Dennis as popular, Charlie gets a sense of normalcy with people that accept him and Dee doesn't feel lonely, despite how much better off she'd be if she tried to find anyone else. Then Frank gets to do whatever he wants, even go into a highschool reunion despite being 30 year solder than everyone.
I always thought that Dennis is the root of all evil in the gang. He is the worst with all of them; hates his sisters, belittles his best friend Mac, snaps constantly at his father like an elitist and always thinks that Charlie is beneath him. The episode when Dennis left, the gang was starting to heal, it's just Mac's wounds where to big and they all relapsed. But yeah I believe the gang is bad because of the golden god :P
Well, he's only the de facto leader because the gang is complicit in recognising him as such. Whenever one or more of the gang peel away from Dennis on a separate scheme, then their own toxic bids for power and control take precedence over everything else. Charlie straight up was gonna cut open an irishman to find "hidden treasure". Even Dennis only goes as far as the *implication* of violence, but Dee Charlie Frank and Mac all have legit histories of violence. But yes, Dennis does have the perception of control over the Gang, but ultimately its all just smoke and mirrors. Because the moment his authority is undermined (when it becomes convenient to the gang's scheming to do so), they can become totally depraved and narcissistic without even being under Dennis's spell.
@@tomoakley760 "Dennis only goes as far as the implication of violence" *_that we know about._* Remember, this is a man who at all times carries around in a secret compartment in his car: Duct tape, zip ties, rope, camera, and rubber gloves, which he refers to as his "tools" and calls upon when extremely angry at being rejected by a woman. I mean, does anyone *seriously* believe Dennis has never gone beyond the *implication* of violence...? 🤨
I have seen every Sunny episode at least 5 times over, and I can honestly say that I do not think Dennis hates Dee. I have seen too many instances of him actually showing he cares for her, more than the others, to think otherwise. I think you're just seeing his usual, 'I hate everyone and everyone annoys me' attitude, but I reckon in his own twisted way, he does care for her. Dee does not reciprocate though lol
@@VultureClone Could you give some specific examples of times Dennis has shown he cares about Dee...? Because I'm having a hard time thinking of any. 🤔 I'm not saying you're wrong, I just can't remember any right now. 😁
The mac finds his pride episode really touched me. Like, this show clearly portrays its protagonists as a complete mess, but this one episode is pure art and sentiment. I love it
Perhaps cuz the gang wasn’t around to mess him up, Mac had a goal in mind and with Franks help, he got it done, with the gang around, he would’ve done something way over the top or not at all It’s just like when Charlie and Dee were alone when the gang wasn’t around, the gang are like chemical magnets or something, they get better alone without the others hindering but they’re SO dependent on each other to be validated
artemis hangs out with the gang often without being ruined, i think its because she isn't a hypocrite, the gang reflects the dishonest hypocrisy of others which destroys them, but not her, because shes authentic
I heard Rob once say that Always Sunny is basically "The Anti-Friends"; the genesis of the idea of the show came to him while watching the opening of Friends - with the theme "I'll be there for you!" - and he thought "What if it was a show about friends who were never there for each other".
@@jlupus8804 I'm not sure if the Seinfeld comparison does the shows humor justice. If Seinfeld was "black coffee" dark, then IASIP is "grinding up and snorting whole black coffee beans" dark.
I wonder if Charlie and the waitresses toxic relationship is therapeutic for their real world relationship. Because if I'm not mistaken they're married.
The older I get the more I feel like me and my friends, who don't have any kids, become more and more like the gang in Always Sunny. We work but we really don't have any ambitions, we just drink, do stupid things and accept our sh*tty lives and we like it.
I look up to the gang and wish I could be more like them. They’re always getting into stuff day after day, and they are a solid group of friends that can bounce ideas and conversation off each other. I, however, lack the drive to do anything.
Archer also did this in the last season defining the toxic friend trope with archer returning everyone was quick to go back to their bad habits and blaming archer as an excuse
True, but without archer they all functioned much much better, Cyril actually became the best spy in the world (lmao), which speaks volumes to how toxic Archer is as an influence Your point about the group intentionally dropping their cleanup acts is also true, it seems the gang just wanted to go back to their shitty heyday because it was so much easier than actually committing to self improvement
@@vincentadultman6226 To extent they were competent but as the last episode and first episode showed you that Archer isn't the problem. In the first episode they were easily duped by an art thief and all archer did was rightly point out how cyril was a fridge hog and in the last episode he was arguably the most competent agent and saved the world (Which none of them could say they did when he was in a coma)
@@doomcool7960 I think the point of Archer's speech was a mix of both points, like yeah they did improve as people but as spies Archer was and still is the best agent when it comes to field work. The only real difference with him being gone was they didn't have any excuse to follow their toxic habits but with Archer back they figured a way to easily fall back into them because now they can just blame Archer.
I always kind of thought that part of the “strange glue” that holds them together is trauma. All of them (save maybe Frank) have really bad childhood trauma, and this gets sometimes like in PTSDee. They’re awful people for many reasons, but it also makes sense to an extent because of their childhoods.
No trauma? Frank spent his youth in a nitwit school! You know what a nitwit school is? Every room was windowless. There was a guard every ten feet, and drains in the floor so they could hose them down
He’s supposed to be if patryck bateman owned a bar, he thinks he the best and lashes out when that’s questioned, he has almost no regard for anyone, feels nearly nothing. Very similar
@@BHHartman ikr, I was smiling the whole time waiting to bust out laughing and my smile faded when I realized it was.....serious That threw me off big time, felt I was watching a different show for a minute, it’s surprisingly good
First half of the show I was actually rooting for Charlie and a little bit for Dee, because they seem more like victims who were forced to become like this, while Dennis was the main evil. By season 15 I love them all equally, even though they have several lives of personal growth to become normal people.
Honestly, sometimes people talk to me and acknowledge my existence and it makes me deeply unsettled. I'm so used to just being completely cut off and unrecognised, that when people do recognise me I panic. It's kinda uncomfortable tbh. I'll have to get used to it though, if I'm to do anything.
Shout out to anyone else who was trapped in a nearly 10 year long, terribly toxic romantic relationship because both you and your partner were so damaged that your relationship with one another was essentially exactly this. Best of luck to you.
I remember after my ex and I broke up due to abuse and us slowly being worse and worse to each other, we had a long period where we were the only people we could really talk about the pain of the break-up itself. Our feelings and issues were so niche and unrelated to our friends/family that we just couldn't really talk to them about it. Therapists were a little better, but even then it just takes time to really sort through all of that.
I think the problem is in that so why they couldn’t ditch each other because I think they have self abandonment issues, kind of like Randall from clerks who is constantly being attached to Dante. Your comment sums up to that. I hope that helps. Cheers🍻 !
Why? Mac is supposed to be, and is a shitty person. Why would you root for him, in a series that is designed to mock it's main characters? It's like getting teary-eyed because Sauron decided to come out as trans.
I'm in the middle of a week long sunny marathon catching up on the last 6 seasons and I was literally watching the Dennis departs/Mindy Khaling / sex doll episode as this wisecrack episode got uploaded. I just paused the sunny episode after it halfway through to watch this! Synchronicity!
I was metaphorically watching it, then figuratively watching. Only after I decided I was “not gonna lie”, did I, also, literally watch it. You said literally where it wasn’t needed.
@@ian12346 I felt it was needed because often times people will say "I just watched that" figuratively to refer to something they watched within the last week. I said 'literally' because I 'literally' was watching it when the episode literally uploaded' about 20 minutes before I posted the comment I wanted to stress that the concurrence of the events is what I find notable, whereas if I had meant that I watched it yesterday, that would be extremely un-noteworthy. That said, I used the word clumsily. That much I admit. :P
I think the bigger thing about Mac’s coming out dance scene is that he never finds the answer from escaping the toxic friendships but from doing something that synthesizes his self serving behavior, inspired by his trauma’s, with his want for acceptance. I think this is important as often the relationship we build are a reflection of the traumas, or the recognition/misrecognition, that we’re applied to us when we finally came out of the void into consciousnesses, we can’t really recognize ourselves without the ideas of whoever raised us. This means that this term toxicity is never one sided, even in the case of things like domestic abuse(not in the law obviously, all though a discussion about social systems pushing people to act in such a way is an interesting discussion in its own right) because in some way the reason these people saw each other as worthy of love, even if it ended up one sided, was inherent in the way they already saw each other as they were recognized. In a sense the victim was taught to be subservient so what else would they be until something made it necessary for them to change. I mean domestic abuse survivors often first steps in recovery are essentially lessons in assertiveness. This reflects in Mac because he has to realize that the relationship he will build that leads to his recognition must come from synthesizing his past traumas with his new identity, in a sense he can only overcome his toxic relationship and behaviors if he is able to become self aware of his own striving for recognition. I think in Hegelian terminology this is referred to as being with oneself in the whole, growth does not come from dissecting and taking what’s seemingly useful, it comes from interacting in a way that allows one to become cognizant of why they believe the things they do. Mac will not escape his toxic relationships simply by leaving them behind just like Descartes will never escape his methodical doubt, he needs to become self aware of why they happen for him, which requires his continuing struggle with them until a synthesis is realized
My theory is that the gang are all demi-gods being punished to constantly relive life after life on Earth with the others, torturing themselves and any humans who happen to get pulled into their orbit
They managed to film Mythic Quest, so I dunno what the issue is. Unless maybe Danny is high risk. But they can just shave him and slather him in sanitizer and he should be good to go...
Hey I'm better than dirt! Well, most kinds of dirt. I mean, not that fancy store bought dirt, that stuff is loaded with nutrients. I can't... I can't compete with that stuff...
I'd be curious to see if they do more episodes like 'mac finds his pride' in future, showing that it might someday be possible for them to escape this cycle, albeit slowly. I'm not sure if that's the direction the show should go in given that it is primarily a comedy and all about the status quo
Especially since CONTEXT is the key here. Yeah some characters did and said some racist as shit things, but they immediately get called out on it by others and generally get rightfully punished by... society basically. I'm firmly in the camp that "cancel culture", is NOT a thing. And that's not what this is. It's just a major corporation trying to cover it's ass in a dumb, uninformed way. Which, that's not exactly a new phenom. I'm confident the eps will come out again, likely with a disclaimer (which I'm all for) at some point.
@@dipperdandy Indeed. It's Hulu and Netflix using racist brutality to get freebies on their marketing budget. The complete bullshit of it, (esp. in the case of Community's anti-suicide story), will bite them in the ass cumulatively, and trigger the re-inclusion of those episodes. Then it's 'We are sorry. We got it wrong.' Yeah, every business has to have a 'story'.
I may be alone in this, but how I’ve thought of this show lately is that instead of being the protagonists and the “good guys,” the gang is actually the antagonists or the traditional “bad guys.” The way they’re always plotting and scheming something, doing anything they can to get what they want without regard for how they might impact anyone else, making the lives of the people around them worse, how quickly they change allegiances so they can always come out on top, etc. The other random characters they interact with in Philly are merely the victims of their antics. And like most great complicated “villains”, they aren’t just evil for no good reason. They all have pretty fucked up pasts/parents (Charlie’s absentee father and promiscuous mother, Mac’s apathetic and unloving parents, Dennis and Dee’s father issues and a mother who’s petty and a terrible role model, Frank being a victim of his wife’s infidelity and finding out his life is a lie in raising two kids that weren’t really his). On one hand, you realize these characters are messed up and not someone you would ever rely on, while also understanding why they are like this and you think, well if I had the kind of parents/childhoods/relationships that they’ve had, would I have turned out any better than them?
Slight nit-pick for the argument at the end: At the end of the episode Hero or Hate Crime? The gang all except Frank being true to his sexuality (even if it meant he did the crappy thing of being motivated by money but quickly changing his entire demeanour - from overwrought toxic masculinity and anger to calm and happy acceptance. Upon exiting the scene, Charlie, Dee, and Dennis all express happiness that he's no longer hiding his identity, though you could argue that since Mac doesn't hear it he, therefore, does not get the acceptance. This was also an entire episode discussing hate speech. I think that's why Frank's acceptance in Mac Finds his Pride (a most beautifully put together dance routine) makes it all the more powerful when you remember that the pretext for the Hero or Hate Crime plot was Frank's horrific use of the homophobic hate slur - the f-word - he goes from committing a hate crime to helping Mac and coming to a point of understanding - finding empathy. It’s not trying to rehabilitate these awful people for the harm, racism, and bigotry and all over awfulness they cause and perpetuate. Nor is it humanising them. The jokes are still at their expense. Perhaps they desire to avoid it, to shun these moments that make us human, to embrace their flaws, to find growth and change because of this toxic, narcissistic, co-dependency, that whilst there are bonding and perhaps loving moments, they fall back on each other because of their inability to grow fully as people - thus staying true to this anti-sitcom ethos.
This also helped me understand Clerks a bit better too. I always wondered why Dante never ditched Randall once and for all and I realized this is it. Dante could just blame his own shitiness on Randall instead of making a lasting change. Randall knows he's a terrible person and revels in it so it's easy to do that. He even called this out at the end of Clerks I and to some extent Clerks II.
I think they can hid Theyre awfulness because they see everyone around thems the same way, look at the episode were frank tries to replace the gang. He has to go back because they think franks crazy
This is my favorite show ever! I'd say because it's fiction and it runs on their dysfunction, there is no hope for them, but there could be hope for real people like that...well except Dennis because he's a sociopath and he probably can't actually experience love (I think).
I think Mac and Charlie have the potential to be good people on their own but I think the fact that the gang hangs around Dennis is what makes them continue to be bad people. As the therapy episode explains, Dennis has a profile on all the members in the group and also manipulates a of them. He depends on Dee and ik its a gross theory but I think Dennis is also somewhat attracted to Dee as he almost loses it when he thinks Dee is getting famous for her comedy and would no longer need to rely on Dennis which even though Dennis also hates the idea of her being g better than him, he literally says he's in love with her. Dennis manipulates Dee so that he can depend on her and she when in need would depend on him making Dennis feel in control. Dennis also manipulates Mac's body dysmorphia issues and the times where Mac has tried to be a genuinely good friend Dennis like buying Dennis a gift, he makes sure he switches the shirts so Mac buys him exactly what he wants, which Mac is kinda sad bc he then doesn't really get the satisfaction of doing a good thing. Dennis pretty much does whatever he can to make the group dependent on him either intentionally or unintentionally. There's examples of him doing many things like that to the gang that makes them into even worse people. The therapy episode and the episode where Dennis leaves just goes to show how much Dennis has a hold on the group. The writers always had in mind Dennis is a sociopath, I believe Rob or Glenn stated they do already have an ending planned out just in case the show has to end or for whatever reason they ever decide to end the show. Which everytime I watch Always Sunny, my guess would be if the show were to end I think the show would end with the group leaving Dennis and possibly the show directly revealing Dennis is also a serial killer.
The more I've watched the show, I've realized Always Sunny is pretty much the anti-Friends. Both shows are about a group of adults (two of which are siblings) and their complicated lives the big city, their relationships with their families, other people, and with each other. However, Friends is a lukewarm, friendly, colorful show that depicts some of the hardships of life, family and love, and everyone learns to overcome their flaws and become better people by the end, whereas Alway Sunny is an irreverent, crazy, and mean-spirited show that showcases the sheer ugliness of the real world and the characters' flaws and personalities only get worse as time goes on.
Former (is he?) Mafia capo Michael Franzese often says "you are who you hang with" saying the group of friends you associate with influence the sort of person you are. However, at the same time, it doesn't seem to acknowledge that so are they. If you are who you are because of them, then they are who they are because of you. So, if you are being dragged down by your friends, then getting a "new crew" might just mean you would start dragging them down rather than being raised up. Maybe we all just have the friends we deserve.
Michael Franzese used to hang out with mobsters, thieves, psychopaths and killers because that's what he himself chose to be involved in. He now associates with church congregations and self-help groups. Change comes from within and we are capable of choosing who influences us. I used to do every drug I could get my hands on until something happened to me to change my perspective for the better. Now the people I choose to spend my time with support me instead of drag me down with them.
Man who would have believed the gang for "It's always sunny" are so deep while making each other so miserable (except from that scene with our blasting boy Frank Reynolds)
It was really nice to see Recognition Theory come up on this, and I hadn't considered this show in that light. I can definitely see the show as a study in recognition and misrecognition, but I would note that this was not a very good summary of the theory and how it works.
Crazy cool you did this while I'm reading Honneths Struggle for Recognition, linking it to my favourite show (which is such an unintuitive link I'd never make it myself). Dayman got me bad. And framing Macs artistic outing of himself in Honneths terms really elucidated both the theory as such, and the gay struggle for recognition, for me. And semented my notion of the beauty of the scene even further. Nice one WC, you've got my recognition. (Fight milk!)
I am now seeing my friend's old comic store as my bar It was the centre of my life for 23 years and, when he died, I lost myself. I was part of the comic store crew. What happens when the crew breaks up...
Damn man this made me tear up a little. My best friend died, the the whole crew broke, and i lost myself as well. I'm still trying to find myself again.
One of the bigger problems in Hegels theories (and other "leftist" theory) is that the responsibility of creating ones self is put on the other, les autres. One can put all the blame of ones confusion on a loosely defined society and therefor absolve oneself of ones part in creating personal despair.
I think the need to always be seen , recognized,validated is self indulgent. Most people will never truely know us. Maybe if your lucky a spouse. Thats ok most people never feel they fit in.
Ultimately the crippling flaw that brings these people back together into their misery is that they are fundamentally not complete people with self-contained identities. So long as they are with each other, they are stuck in a crab-pot of incompletion. Any one of them with the audacity to try and change is seen as a threat by the others - if they can change and become more complete, it reminds them they are not. Every one of them is dragging each other down constantly. But the moment each of them step outside of this group, they see the gap between self-completion and their current state, and flee back to the crab-pot. They will never get better in there, and will only widen the gap between their complete selves and their shells - but at least in the crap-pot you only have other terrible people to compare yourself to.
I guess the recognition theory of the self could explain why we revert (to an extent) to being the same person we were when meeting again with old friend groups.
Alright.. I waited till the end of the video and you didn't explain the ostrich. I can't be the only one with questions, eg. how is Dennis twins with an actual ostrich😗
I think that they are bad people because of the group but the group is also bad because they're bad people. it's a runaway interplay of bad influences and bad decisions, the kind of positive feedback loop that is the only thing that can make this kind of terrible rabbit hole. This is why we need to learn to recognize problems early and either make sure we deal with them before they escalate or make sure we stay in a position where we can deal with them when they escalate.
I have seen multiple groups like the fictional one, usually they come from troubled backgrounds of some sort and even the people in the group who could have a good effect on the group have some reason they don’t even try.
I think Charlie may have a background in some kind of law that his illiteracy has read as bird law. My guess is labor law, and he thinks about its "La Bird law" or something
Let's be honest, they all stick together because no one else will have them. 😂😂😂 They done burned all their bridges. Leave now and they'll be dying alone.
The way I always understood the show was that Frank, Dennis, and Dee are sociopaths, Mac would be a good person if he weren't constantly trying to impress the wrong people (mostly Dennis), and Charlie is just too stupid to realize that his friends are abusing him for their own benefit.
I don't abused people tend to find themselves in the same situation with different people my mom thrice divorced and later a mean boss that yelled at her and kept making selfish decisions
she worked at a charity animal rescue so she was stuck there if she left it would be at the cost of animals lives
ps her boss did shit like decide arbitrarily if mom didn't get some pregnant dog a home/place outside the shelter
it would be fixed that day ie dog abortion
point is at a certain point it's just random chance for someone to gain a human connection that can help you escape the cycle
Charlie relentlessly stalks a woman, cuts the brakes on a van containing all his friends and appears to become dangerously close to killing a "leprechaun." I think we only see him as innocent by comparison to the total depravity and antisocial-ness of the others. it does seem like a lot of unresolved trauma and maybe brain damage drives his character but even if those aren't his fault, that doesn't make him an innocent bystander. I do think he's the only character who could be considered "good" in any way but it's very warped and not at all consistent.
Which is a statement on classism in society
@@arcadia179 he does huff a lot of glue
@@arcadia179 but the difference is that charlie doesn't know what he's doing is wrong whereas the rest of the gang clearly do
Has anyone heard of Sartre's "No Exit"? It's a play that the phrase "Hell is other people" stemmed from. A group of people found themselves in a miysterious room they couldn't leave. They formed relationships amongst themselves, most of them toxic. Eventually the door out of the room opens, but the people are too absorbed in their toxic relationships to leave. The twist is these people are in hell, and their punishment is eachother. That's what Always Sunny is. It's a hell loop that the characters are unwilling to or incapable of escape.
It can also be the story of the show, The Good Place, where 4 people died and think they're in "The Good Place" but in fact they are in "The Bad Place" the entire time. The only difference is that the characters in The Good Place are actually aware of it unlike the gang from It's Always Sunny In Pennsyvania.
@@deannal.newton9772 actually, funnily enough, Sartre's Huis Clos/No Exit was a big inspiration for The Good place! Both TGP+ IASIP are such great portrayals of "Hell is other people" but IASIP for sure has a more pessimistic take on it- but that's what makes it so much fun to watch
Yes😅😅😅😅
Mac: *finally comes out as gay*
The Gang: "Good for him. But we still hate him. Its not a gay thing, it's a Mac thing."
The gang is in the same position as the characters in Jean-Paul Sarte's play No Exit. They make each other miserable, but they are all dependent on each other. In the case of the play they were in hell and torturing each other, but they could leave if they wanted, but they were all so determined to be petty and cruel to each other, or needed something from the others, that they couldn't bring themselves to go.
yes, exactly. the gang goes to hell pt 2 made me wonder if the writers directly drew the idea from that play
I sometimes wonder if the gang are either consciously or subconsciously taking from No Exit, but I understand that as Americans, they can't explicitly say that without alienating the not-insignificant portion of their audience who view it as aspirational.
Interestingly at the end of American Psycho there is a sign that says "This is not an exit", which is a reference to the JPS play.
nerd man
I think the reunion 2 parter really shows why they're together by seeing the environment they came together in. Dennis thinks he's popular and the group let's him seem that way by comparison, Mac gets to latch onto his perception of Dennis as popular, Charlie gets a sense of normalcy with people that accept him and Dee doesn't feel lonely, despite how much better off she'd be if she tried to find anyone else. Then Frank gets to do whatever he wants, even go into a highschool reunion despite being 30 year solder than everyone.
"rob" huh?...kk mcelhenney (but actually yeah big agree)
that was hilarious
But dee is a sociopath to
I always thought that Dennis is the root of all evil in the gang. He is the worst with all of them; hates his sisters, belittles his best friend Mac, snaps constantly at his father like an elitist and always thinks that Charlie is beneath him. The episode when Dennis left, the gang was starting to heal, it's just Mac's wounds where to big and they all relapsed. But yeah I believe the gang is bad because of the golden god :P
Well, he's only the de facto leader because the gang is complicit in recognising him as such. Whenever one or more of the gang peel away from Dennis on a separate scheme, then their own toxic bids for power and control take precedence over everything else. Charlie straight up was gonna cut open an irishman to find "hidden treasure". Even Dennis only goes as far as the *implication* of violence, but Dee Charlie Frank and Mac all have legit histories of violence. But yes, Dennis does have the perception of control over the Gang, but ultimately its all just smoke and mirrors. Because the moment his authority is undermined (when it becomes convenient to the gang's scheming to do so), they can become totally depraved and narcissistic without even being under Dennis's spell.
@@tomoakley760 "Dennis only goes as far as the implication of violence" *_that we know about._* Remember, this is a man who at all times carries around in a secret compartment in his car: Duct tape, zip ties, rope, camera, and rubber gloves, which he refers to as his "tools" and calls upon when extremely angry at being rejected by a woman. I mean, does anyone *seriously* believe Dennis has never gone beyond the *implication* of violence...? 🤨
I have seen every Sunny episode at least 5 times over, and I can honestly say that I do not think Dennis hates Dee. I have seen too many instances of him actually showing he cares for her, more than the others, to think otherwise. I think you're just seeing his usual, 'I hate everyone and everyone annoys me' attitude, but I reckon in his own twisted way, he does care for her. Dee does not reciprocate though lol
@@VultureClone Could you give some specific examples of times Dennis has shown he cares about Dee...? Because I'm having a hard time thinking of any. 🤔 I'm not saying you're wrong, I just can't remember any right now. 😁
@@VultureClone for me one that stands out is sweet dee has a baby
He was a different Dennis in that episode
The mac finds his pride episode really touched me. Like, this show clearly portrays its protagonists as a complete mess, but this one episode is pure art and sentiment. I love it
This.
Perhaps cuz the gang wasn’t around to mess him up, Mac had a goal in mind and with Franks help, he got it done, with the gang around, he would’ve done something way over the top or not at all
It’s just like when Charlie and Dee were alone when the gang wasn’t around, the gang are like chemical magnets or something, they get better alone without the others hindering but they’re SO dependent on each other to be validated
Calm down guy it's a show
@@chrissmith2411 let people enjoy thing guy.
@@chrissmith2411 Jeez how is your world so shallow
artemis hangs out with the gang often without being ruined, i think its because she isn't a hypocrite, the gang reflects the dishonest hypocrisy of others which destroys them, but not her, because shes authentic
So this show is basically Friends but honest
I heard Rob once say that Always Sunny is basically "The Anti-Friends"; the genesis of the idea of the show came to him while watching the opening of Friends - with the theme "I'll be there for you!" - and he thought "What if it was a show about friends who were never there for each other".
@@EmperorSmith WOW! And seeing the demo pilot they shot, it’s clear as a sunny day that’s what they wanted: Friends x Real World (+ Seinfeld humor).
Thank god there’s no laugh track
@@jlupus8804 I'm not sure if the Seinfeld comparison does the shows humor justice.
If Seinfeld was "black coffee" dark, then IASIP is "grinding up and snorting whole black coffee beans" dark.
@@Anonymos185 I guess “humor” is not the right word for it... unless “apathy” counts as a comedy genre?
At the very least the archetypes are similar.
Never does an episode go unwatched without saying, "these people are the f**king worst!"
Is that what its like in philly
Mine is “gosh they’re so stupid”
Way worse than the study group ?
@White Semen same
They're not a mellow bunch...
God that prison dance scene with Mac and Frank... gets me every time.
I get it.
I wonder if Charlie and the waitresses toxic relationship is therapeutic for their real world relationship. Because if I'm not mistaken they're married.
That is correct!
I think its just funny for them, easy to act in love when you are, much more fun to do the opposite
Damn, I just laughed so hard remembering this Dennis sex doll scene that I'm feeling the need to rewatch this show
Look up Clips4all on TH-cam, he's got some episodes on his channel.
Hulu
The older I get the more I feel like me and my friends, who don't have any kids, become more and more like the gang in Always Sunny. We work but we really don't have any ambitions, we just drink, do stupid things and accept our sh*tty lives and we like it.
Cool for you , after i saw this video i think we are in the same boat buddy , except i don't think we like it.
How are your lives shitty?
@@munken7673 maybe shitty is the wrong word. More like unfulfilled. OP correct me if I'm wrong.
Do you guys do scams too?
I look up to the gang and wish I could be more like them. They’re always getting into stuff day after day, and they are a solid group of friends that can bounce ideas and conversation off each other.
I, however, lack the drive to do anything.
Let me check my weather app real quick - yeah, its still sunny in Philadelphia
Everytime I hear Danny's voice I think, "so you wanna be a hero, kid?" 😂
"well, whoopdey do!"
I have been around the block before, with blockheads just like you
@@catdogman23 each and every one a disapointment, pain, ache! for which there ain't no ointment!
So much for excuses,
Though a kid of Zeus
Is asking me to jump into the fraay!!
@@DefnitelyNotFred
My answer is two words
Archer also did this in the last season defining the toxic friend trope with archer returning everyone was quick to go back to their bad habits and blaming archer as an excuse
True, but without archer they all functioned much much better, Cyril actually became the best spy in the world (lmao), which speaks volumes to how toxic Archer is as an influence
Your point about the group intentionally dropping their cleanup acts is also true, it seems the gang just wanted to go back to their shitty heyday because it was so much easier than actually committing to self improvement
@@vincentadultman6226 To extent they were competent but as the last episode and first episode showed you that Archer isn't the problem. In the first episode they were easily duped by an art thief and all archer did was rightly point out how cyril was a fridge hog and in the last episode he was arguably the most competent agent and saved the world (Which none of them could say they did when he was in a coma)
@@doomcool7960
I think the point of Archer's speech was a mix of both points, like yeah they did improve as people but as spies Archer was and still is the best agent when it comes to field work. The only real difference with him being gone was they didn't have any excuse to follow their toxic habits but with Archer back they figured a way to easily fall back into them because now they can just blame Archer.
I always kind of thought that part of the “strange glue” that holds them together is trauma. All of them (save maybe Frank) have really bad childhood trauma, and this gets sometimes like in PTSDee. They’re awful people for many reasons, but it also makes sense to an extent because of their childhoods.
Frank was in the loony bin upstate. Remember the froogy kid episode
Frank was in an insane asylum he was traumatized
@@ffffffffffffffffff31 you’re right
You just forgot about Froggy kid like that????
No trauma? Frank spent his youth in a nitwit school! You know what a nitwit school is? Every room was windowless. There was a guard every ten feet, and drains in the floor so they could hose them down
This show, Always Sunny In Philadelphia sure is the most responsible show of reminding us how a lot are toxic yet depend on each other
I'm actually convinced Dennis is just evil incarnate. And I'm only on Season 3...
He’s supposed to be if patryck bateman owned a bar, he thinks he the best and lashes out when that’s questioned, he has almost no regard for anyone, feels nearly nothing. Very similar
In a few more seasons you'll realize that it's actually Frank who is the evil one
Can we just recognize how amzing the dancing scene was made in that show. Just straight up stunning!
I was not expecting to tear up while watching IASIP, but they definitely were happy tears. It was beautiful :)
Such a good scene. I was waiting for a punchline the entire time and it never came and that was just fine.
@@BHHartman ikr, I was smiling the whole time waiting to bust out laughing and my smile faded when I realized it was.....serious
That threw me off big time, felt I was watching a different show for a minute, it’s surprisingly good
First half of the show I was actually rooting for Charlie and a little bit for Dee, because they seem more like victims who were forced to become like this, while Dennis was the main evil. By season 15 I love them all equally, even though they have several lives of personal growth to become normal people.
People who don't have any friends: 😎
You have os
Most of the time i pretend that i don't exist and it is pretty easy when you are as isolated as i am
@@munken7673 We'll always have os
Honestly, sometimes people talk to me and acknowledge my existence and it makes me deeply unsettled. I'm so used to just being completely cut off and unrecognised, that when people do recognise me I panic. It's kinda uncomfortable tbh. I'll have to get used to it though, if I'm to do anything.
@@ZeroX7649 I do prefer having bones to the alternative
Shout out to anyone else who was trapped in a nearly 10 year long, terribly toxic romantic relationship because both you and your partner were so damaged that your relationship with one another was essentially exactly this.
Best of luck to you.
I remember after my ex and I broke up due to abuse and us slowly being worse and worse to each other, we had a long period where we were the only people we could really talk about the pain of the break-up itself.
Our feelings and issues were so niche and unrelated to our friends/family that we just couldn't really talk to them about it.
Therapists were a little better, but even then it just takes time to really sort through all of that.
Well that sounds horrible...
You need to value yourself better, no other reason why you’d put up with that, it’s not normal to be so attached to toxicity. Been there myself
I think the problem is in that so why they couldn’t ditch each other because I think they have self abandonment issues, kind of like Randall from clerks who is constantly being attached to Dante. Your comment sums up to that. I hope that helps. Cheers🍻 !
I fucking bawled at Mac's dance. Legendary T.V..
Why? Mac is supposed to be, and is a shitty person. Why would you root for him, in a series that is designed to mock it's main characters?
It's like getting teary-eyed because Sauron decided to come out as trans.
@@Anonymos185 lol
@@Anonymos185 I think you have over-simplified and misunderstood Mac's gay arc that lead to that moment.
@@iComment87 Enlighten me then
@@Anonymos185 This episode of Wisecrack did a pretty good job.
I'm in the middle of a week long sunny marathon catching up on the last 6 seasons and I was literally watching the Dennis departs/Mindy Khaling / sex doll episode as this wisecrack episode got uploaded. I just paused the sunny episode after it halfway through to watch this! Synchronicity!
I was metaphorically watching it, then figuratively watching. Only after I decided I was “not gonna lie”, did I, also, literally watch it.
You said literally where it wasn’t needed.
@@ian12346 please shut the fuck up oml
@@ian12346 I felt it was needed because often times people will say "I just watched that" figuratively to refer to something they watched within the last week.
I said 'literally' because I 'literally' was watching it when the episode literally uploaded' about 20 minutes before I posted the comment
I wanted to stress that the concurrence of the events is what I find notable, whereas if I had meant that I watched it yesterday, that would be extremely un-noteworthy.
That said, I used the word clumsily. That much I admit. :P
I think the bigger thing about Mac’s coming out dance scene is that he never finds the answer from escaping the toxic friendships but from doing something that synthesizes his self serving behavior, inspired by his trauma’s, with his want for acceptance. I think this is important as often the relationship we build are a reflection of the traumas, or the recognition/misrecognition, that we’re applied to us when we finally came out of the void into consciousnesses, we can’t really recognize ourselves without the ideas of whoever raised us. This means that this term toxicity is never one sided, even in the case of things like domestic abuse(not in the law obviously, all though a discussion about social systems pushing people to act in such a way is an interesting discussion in its own right) because in some way the reason these people saw each other as worthy of love, even if it ended up one sided, was inherent in the way they already saw each other as they were recognized. In a sense the victim was taught to be subservient so what else would they be until something made it necessary for them to change. I mean domestic abuse survivors often first steps in recovery are essentially lessons in assertiveness. This reflects in Mac because he has to realize that the relationship he will build that leads to his recognition must come from synthesizing his past traumas with his new identity, in a sense he can only overcome his toxic relationship and behaviors if he is able to become self aware of his own striving for recognition. I think in Hegelian terminology this is referred to as being with oneself in the whole, growth does not come from dissecting and taking what’s seemingly useful, it comes from interacting in a way that allows one to become cognizant of why they believe the things they do. Mac will not escape his toxic relationships simply by leaving them behind just like Descartes will never escape his methodical doubt, he needs to become self aware of why they happen for him, which requires his continuing struggle with them until a synthesis is realized
wow I was not expecting to find a philosophical awakening in a always sunny video comment section
Can you please do a Philosophy of Batman vs the philosophy of The Punisher video?
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Great idea
This guy understands Batman. I like the Snyder cut episode
It's always sunny is the best sitcom to ever exist. I'll be very sad when it ends at some point
My theory is that the gang are all demi-gods being punished to constantly relive life after life on Earth with the others, torturing themselves and any humans who happen to get pulled into their orbit
That’s really interesting haha I like that
I can't wait for new episodes of Always Sunny. Dumb pandemic, interrupting my Always Sunny fix.
They managed to film Mythic Quest, so I dunno what the issue is. Unless maybe Danny is high risk. But they can just shave him and slather him in sanitizer and he should be good to go...
WARNING: lots of spoilers in this video. If you haven't seen most of this show, avoid watching this video.
Love your trip to the moon photo my cultured internet friend
I'm on season 5 but tbh when it comes to comedy series I don't care about spoilers
@@Vivi_9 really no spoilers possible beaides maybe mac coming out (been a year hope youve seen that episode its a personal fav of mine)
@@etangbose4755 watched them all now haha the first boat episode is my favourite
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. - Plato
Hey I'm better than dirt!
Well, most kinds of dirt.
I mean, not that fancy store bought dirt, that stuff is loaded with nutrients. I can't... I can't compete with that stuff...
Hey man. Here's an unfeathered bird! It's a human. - Diogenes
I think Paddy's Pub is just another neighborhood in The Good Place.
*The Sunny gang reminds me of what I’d turn out like if I never stopped hanging out with my friends from high school.*
I never loved a tv show the way I love Always Sunny.
Community?
Every time I watch it's always sunny I feel as though I'm looking in a funny yet sad mirror.
"Why don't they leave?"
Because no one else will tolerate them. We've seen that multiple times. Video over.
Talking about Hagel and “day man” made me sing “fighter of the night man”
6:25 with an addition of abusive childhood, think you implicitly just nailed the creation of ASPD.
I'd be curious to see if they do more episodes like 'mac finds his pride' in future, showing that it might someday be possible for them to escape this cycle, albeit slowly. I'm not sure if that's the direction the show should go in given that it is primarily a comedy and all about the status quo
I think it would be nice to at least hint they could one day become normal humans but the can boys would throw a fit.
I think macs the only one who could properly function
I'm a simple man. I see Ongo, I click.
Ongo Gablogian
never has dysfunction been so hilarious and sad
Community^
The tag line for season 2 actually was “Seinfeld on crack”
The Gang have made The Waitress, Lawyer and Cricket much worse by proximity, but what if The Gang were themselves ruined by the McPoyles?
The McPoyles and the Ponderosas.
Best comedy of all time.
Undoubtedly.
Hulu says I’m not allowed to watch five episodes of the show. I’m sooooo glad they know what’s best for everyone. Eye-roll.
It makes me so angry. Those were really really funny episodes. I can't find those episodes anywhere.
@@user-cg6fd4in1d Torrent, my friend.
Especially since CONTEXT is the key here. Yeah some characters did and said some racist as shit things, but they immediately get called out on it by others and generally get rightfully punished by... society basically.
I'm firmly in the camp that "cancel culture", is NOT a thing. And that's not what this is. It's just a major corporation trying to cover it's ass in a dumb, uninformed way. Which, that's not exactly a new phenom.
I'm confident the eps will come out again, likely with a disclaimer (which I'm all for) at some point.
@@dipperdandy Indeed. It's Hulu and Netflix using racist brutality to get freebies on their marketing budget. The complete bullshit of it, (esp. in the case of Community's anti-suicide story), will bite them in the ass cumulatively, and trigger the re-inclusion of those episodes. Then it's 'We are sorry. We got it wrong.' Yeah, every business has to have a 'story'.
which episodes got taken off hulu? I wasn't aware of this.
Soooo...the gang is the sitcom version of "no exit" by Sartre?
Here I thought the only reason the gang stay together is deep down they all know no one else would take them
I may be alone in this, but how I’ve thought of this show lately is that instead of being the protagonists and the “good guys,” the gang is actually the antagonists or the traditional “bad guys.” The way they’re always plotting and scheming something, doing anything they can to get what they want without regard for how they might impact anyone else, making the lives of the people around them worse, how quickly they change allegiances so they can always come out on top, etc. The other random characters they interact with in Philly are merely the victims of their antics.
And like most great complicated “villains”, they aren’t just evil for no good reason. They all have pretty fucked up pasts/parents (Charlie’s absentee father and promiscuous mother, Mac’s apathetic and unloving parents, Dennis and Dee’s father issues and a mother who’s petty and a terrible role model, Frank being a victim of his wife’s infidelity and finding out his life is a lie in raising two kids that weren’t really his).
On one hand, you realize these characters are messed up and not someone you would ever rely on, while also understanding why they are like this and you think, well if I had the kind of parents/childhoods/relationships that they’ve had, would I have turned out any better than them?
Frank also went to a stress clinic, wink wink.
Always Sunny: A guide on how to be chaotic evil.
This explains a little too much about my old friend group.
Slight nit-pick for the argument at the end: At the end of the episode Hero or Hate Crime? The gang all except Frank being true to his sexuality (even if it meant he did the crappy thing of being motivated by money but quickly changing his entire demeanour - from overwrought toxic masculinity and anger to calm and happy acceptance. Upon exiting the scene, Charlie, Dee, and Dennis all express happiness that he's no longer hiding his identity, though you could argue that since Mac doesn't hear it he, therefore, does not get the acceptance. This was also an entire episode discussing hate speech. I think that's why Frank's acceptance in Mac Finds his Pride (a most beautifully put together dance routine) makes it all the more powerful when you remember that the pretext for the Hero or Hate Crime plot was Frank's horrific use of the homophobic hate slur - the f-word - he goes from committing a hate crime to helping Mac and coming to a point of understanding - finding empathy. It’s not trying to rehabilitate these awful people for the harm, racism, and bigotry and all over awfulness they cause and perpetuate. Nor is it humanising them. The jokes are still at their expense. Perhaps they desire to avoid it, to shun these moments that make us human, to embrace their flaws, to find growth and change because of this toxic, narcissistic, co-dependency, that whilst there are bonding and perhaps loving moments, they fall back on each other because of their inability to grow fully as people - thus staying true to this anti-sitcom ethos.
This also helped me understand Clerks a bit better too. I always wondered why Dante never ditched Randall once and for all and I realized this is it. Dante could just blame his own shitiness on Randall instead of making a lasting change. Randall knows he's a terrible person and revels in it so it's easy to do that. He even called this out at the end of Clerks I and to some extent Clerks II.
I love how IASIP basically became a PSA. "If you do or think any of these things, you need help"
I love how shows like always sunny get super philosophically deep
They're just a bunch of bad people who need each other to be recognized as bad people. I love the show.
I think they can hid Theyre awfulness because they see everyone around thems the same way, look at the episode were frank tries to replace the gang. He has to go back because they think franks crazy
This is my favorite show ever! I'd say because it's fiction and it runs on their dysfunction, there is no hope for them, but there could be hope for real people like that...well except Dennis because he's a sociopath and he probably can't actually experience love (I think).
The creator even said. The opposite of friends😂
I think Mac and Charlie have the potential to be good people on their own but I think the fact that the gang hangs around Dennis is what makes them continue to be bad people. As the therapy episode explains, Dennis has a profile on all the members in the group and also manipulates a of them. He depends on Dee and ik its a gross theory but I think Dennis is also somewhat attracted to Dee as he almost loses it when he thinks Dee is getting famous for her comedy and would no longer need to rely on Dennis which even though Dennis also hates the idea of her being g better than him, he literally says he's in love with her. Dennis manipulates Dee so that he can depend on her and she when in need would depend on him making Dennis feel in control. Dennis also manipulates Mac's body dysmorphia issues and the times where Mac has tried to be a genuinely good friend Dennis like buying Dennis a gift, he makes sure he switches the shirts so Mac buys him exactly what he wants, which Mac is kinda sad bc he then doesn't really get the satisfaction of doing a good thing.
Dennis pretty much does whatever he can to make the group dependent on him either intentionally or unintentionally. There's examples of him doing many things like that to the gang that makes them into even worse people. The therapy episode and the episode where Dennis leaves just goes to show how much Dennis has a hold on the group. The writers always had in mind Dennis is a sociopath, I believe Rob or Glenn stated they do already have an ending planned out just in case the show has to end or for whatever reason they ever decide to end the show. Which everytime I watch Always Sunny, my guess would be if the show were to end I think the show would end with the group leaving Dennis and possibly the show directly revealing Dennis is also a serial killer.
The more I've watched the show, I've realized Always Sunny is pretty much the anti-Friends. Both shows are about a group of adults (two of which are siblings) and their complicated lives the big city, their relationships with their families, other people, and with each other. However, Friends is a lukewarm, friendly, colorful show that depicts some of the hardships of life, family and love, and everyone learns to overcome their flaws and become better people by the end, whereas Alway Sunny is an irreverent, crazy, and mean-spirited show that showcases the sheer ugliness of the real world and the characters' flaws and personalities only get worse as time goes on.
They got the idea from friends and wanted to make anti friends “ill be there for you” is the theme of friends they wanted to do the opposite
Former (is he?) Mafia capo Michael Franzese often says "you are who you hang with" saying the group of friends you associate with influence the sort of person you are. However, at the same time, it doesn't seem to acknowledge that so are they. If you are who you are because of them, then they are who they are because of you. So, if you are being dragged down by your friends, then getting a "new crew" might just mean you would start dragging them down rather than being raised up.
Maybe we all just have the friends we deserve.
Michael Franzese used to hang out with mobsters, thieves, psychopaths and killers because that's what he himself chose to be involved in. He now associates with church congregations and self-help groups. Change comes from within and we are capable of choosing who influences us. I used to do every drug I could get my hands on until something happened to me to change my perspective for the better. Now the people I choose to spend my time with support me instead of drag me down with them.
4 more seasons!
Cant wait for when "the Gang goes into Lockdown"
That’s already an episode lol
@@thekingofbboys3371 yeh, but thats wasnt covid 19 related, it was over some other flu thing
@@thekingofbboys3371 i just want to be pure!
@@matydavus1078 that’s when he’s naked lying down in oil or soap isn’t it?
Man who would have believed the gang for "It's always sunny" are so deep while making each other so miserable (except from that scene with our blasting boy Frank Reynolds)
The writers for this show are under appreciated.
It was really nice to see Recognition Theory come up on this, and I hadn't considered this show in that light. I can definitely see the show as a study in recognition and misrecognition, but I would note that this was not a very good summary of the theory and how it works.
Day man aaaAAAAHHH fighter of the Night Man aaaAAAAHHH
Crazy cool you did this while I'm reading Honneths Struggle for Recognition, linking it to my favourite show (which is such an unintuitive link I'd never make it myself). Dayman got me bad. And framing Macs artistic outing of himself in Honneths terms really elucidated both the theory as such, and the gay struggle for recognition, for me. And semented my notion of the beauty of the scene even further.
Nice one WC, you've got my recognition. (Fight milk!)
I am now seeing my friend's old comic store as my bar
It was the centre of my life for 23 years and, when he died, I lost myself. I was part of the comic store crew. What happens when the crew breaks up...
Damn man this made me tear up a little. My best friend died, the the whole crew broke, and i lost myself as well. I'm still trying to find myself again.
I like how you used the word bang, as it's the only word they use 😆
What are “friends”?
I imagine Glenn Howerton practicing his egotistical rages to his cat ala Cage
This is like the darker version of community
Sunny started quite earlier than Community. So maybe community is lighter version of Sunny?
One of the bigger problems in Hegels theories (and other "leftist" theory) is that the responsibility of creating ones self is put on the other, les autres. One can put all the blame of ones confusion on a loosely defined society and therefor absolve oneself of ones part in creating personal despair.
I think the need to always be seen
, recognized,validated is self indulgent. Most people will never truely know us. Maybe if your lucky a spouse. Thats ok most people never feel they fit in.
It’s a beautiful biopsy in humanity. We can’t always choose. Shit happens.
Ultimately the crippling flaw that brings these people back together into their misery is that they are fundamentally not complete people with self-contained identities. So long as they are with each other, they are stuck in a crab-pot of incompletion. Any one of them with the audacity to try and change is seen as a threat by the others - if they can change and become more complete, it reminds them they are not. Every one of them is dragging each other down constantly. But the moment each of them step outside of this group, they see the gap between self-completion and their current state, and flee back to the crab-pot. They will never get better in there, and will only widen the gap between their complete selves and their shells - but at least in the crap-pot you only have other terrible people to compare yourself to.
I guess the recognition theory of the self could explain why we revert (to an extent) to being the same person we were when meeting again with old friend groups.
Alright.. I waited till the end of the video and you didn't explain the ostrich. I can't be the only one with questions, eg. how is Dennis twins with an actual ostrich😗
i cried when frank said “i get it” and i have a wonderful relationship with my father. one of the best moments in any sitcom i’ve ever seen.
What keeps them together is high school . High school friends are your friends for life
Friends need to read more Aristotle 💯
Love this show
sometime i feel the fellas at wisecrack are just Wikipedia sweepers. Posing like Charlie day in 'Flowers for charlie'
“Hey Wisecrack, Michael here with big news: we finally got a cat to talk to a spider! 👨🏻🦲”
Imagine how this plays put with two different sets of friends...
“ Show me your friends and then I can tell you what type of person you are.”
I think they're the only ones who can tolerate each other. Also Frank pays for all of their bullshit.
Crabs in a bucket
Word. The episode where they’re on the cruise and nearly drown each other to save their own lives comes to mind lol.
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Will you do a video on comic book writer Johnathan Hickman!!! He’s one of the best comic book writers of all time!
I have to thank wisecrack, it’s because of them I got obsessed with always sunny
I think that they are bad people because of the group but the group is also bad because they're bad people. it's a runaway interplay of bad influences and bad decisions, the kind of positive feedback loop that is the only thing that can make this kind of terrible rabbit hole. This is why we need to learn to recognize problems early and either make sure we deal with them before they escalate or make sure we stay in a position where we can deal with them when they escalate.
Signs point to Dennis being the source behind the gang’s dysfunction and codependency.
I would love to see the Gang try to break Ron Swanson only to fail and end up in a fight with him which he wins because, well, he's RON SWANSON!
I have seen multiple groups like the fictional one, usually they come from troubled backgrounds of some sort and even the people in the group who could have a good effect on the group have some reason they don’t even try.
12:31 moral anarchy
do you mean the absence of hierarchy?
or the absence of rules?, because that's anomie my dudes
Literally all of their lives improve when they separate most of the time haha.
I think Charlie may have a background in some kind of law that his illiteracy has read as bird law. My guess is labor law, and he thinks about its "La Bird law" or something
Y are you taking something that makes me laugh and fill a little better about myself and making it sad
Let's be honest, they all stick together because no one else will have them. 😂😂😂 They done burned all their bridges. Leave now and they'll be dying alone.
Another Wisecrack episode on Always Sunny? Don’t mind if I do!