It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Seasons 1 & 2

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Seasons 1 & 2

Product Type: DVD

Product Price: $39.98

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox

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Description

Three best friends own a Irish Pub in Phili and get into sticky situations resulting from bad judgment.

Disc 1 Season 1:


Disc 2 Season 2:

Disc 3:

Take the best elements from Seinfeld and Arrested Development and you have It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Combining the social-degenerate-buddy formula (three men, one woman) with the beyond-dysfunctional-family element, Philadelphia creates scenarios that are so hysterical, wrong, appalling, familiar, embarrassing, uncomfortable, and entertaining, the show is addictive like staring at a car wreck when you know you shouldn't, but you just can't look away; it's invigorating like a fresh, loud, wake-up slap on the face. The writing, the quick timing, and the performances are so natural, one wonders if anyone is even acting (but hopes to heaven they are). Danny DeVito joined the cast in the second season, in one of the best roles on TV. DeVito is "Frank," the buddy dad that just wants to be part of the gang, the dad that looks good on paper, but the experience for his kids is more like taking care of a vicious dog that isn't potty-trained. Three of his four talented cohorts (Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney) not only star in the series, but write it as well. Thanks to their new take on old themes and a willingness to stretch the boundaries of appropriateness and exploit the audiences' inner insecurities, originality is back on TV.--Rachel Moss


Stills from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 & 2







Reviews

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-08-23
Summary: "Cheaper"

If you order seasons 1-4 it is cheaper than to order 1 and 2 then 3 and 4 separately.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-09
Summary: "It's Very Often Funny In Philly: occasionally hilarious in all the best wrong ways"

4.5 stars

I knew nothing of this until a friend lent it to me this weekend. I laughed. Often. At things that aren't supposed to be funny, but as any serious fan of comedy knows, those can be the best laughs. I walked away feeling lighter and happier. If that ain't comedic success, what is?

IASIP is like Seinfeld if the SeinFour were ten years younger, Irish, and ran a bar in South Philly. These guys have clearly studied Sein and Curb very closely, and their tight timing and topics and banter are all very Larry Davidesque...but they go places even LD won't. The best two shows of the 7-episode first season are about cancer and abortion; I howled at some moments. These guys have done what so many guys want to do: make a show about how funny they are. Except, these guys really are funny. Sometimes. But hey, no one's always hittin' homers, even on comedy 'roids, so I cut these three some slack and marvel at how tightly they work together. There's a lot to be said for working with old friends, if they have talent: the camaraderie and timing here are born of many years of drinking and laughing and thinking and falling down, no doubt. And these three guys are each pretty dang funny, each in his own fashion.

DeVito is ok but I liked the first season best for its rawness. Still, as the later shows get a little more polished it's often in good ways.

If you don't like drinking, if you insist on PC language from your friends and neighbors, and if you are in general just plain uptight about people living and thinking the way you want them to, look elsewhere. But If you enjoy tying one on and laughing your butt off at the endlessly silly idiocy that accompanies being alive in America these days, you may just find Always Sunny to be almost always funny.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-30
Summary: "Must own"

If you're a fan, you gotta buy the seasons. I've watched and rewatched dozens of times and they're great to have to introduce friends to the series. If you found it funny the first time you will again after just a few months

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-22
Summary: "Terminally "arrested development""

I've heard time and again that this show is akin to Seinfeld..but less sophisticated. In my opinion, it isn't nearly as pretentious.

To me, this show has more in common with "Arrested Development" with the in-fighting and plotting against those near and dear to your black heart....and I love these guys for it. There is chemistry here and you can tell these guys (Charlie, Mac, and Dennis are the writers and Mac created the show)are genuinely in tune with one another. The situations are absurd and cringe worthy at times, but you can't help but love these low-lifes. The friendship is there on the screen and that is rare in an ensemble cast.

This is a show that I dismissed altogether when it started and never really gave it much of a shot. I figured it was FX and not being a fan of Rescue Me or Nip/Tuck, I wouldn't give it the time of day as I feel those aforementioned shows are in it for mere "shock value" than anything else. IASIP is crude, yes...without apology. It is also very smartly written and delights in it's preposterous themes and situations. They are imbeciles who find themselves cunning and crafty..and 90% of the time, their plots backfire in the worst ways imaginable. Danny Devito turns another stellar television character performance as Frank..but the real stars here are the young cast. Charlie Day in particular never ceases to elicit some sort of knee jerk reaction, whether it be pity, outrage, or just plain dumbfoundedness.

I'm thrilled that Comedy Central picked it up and that is where I saw it first. I then proceeded to rent the seasons and am a BIG fan of this gang of misfits. Best show on TV since Arrested Development...and ranks up there as one of the best things the medium has produced in it's fairly short history.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-09
Summary: "The Feel-Good Comedy of the Decade? Really?"

I can understand why your brow would furrow over that description, but if you can't watch this show and realize just how good your life is (assuming you haven't had to resort to using a can for a toilet like Charlie) or what a nice person you are (assuming you haven't set your own daughter on fire like Frank has), then maybe this show won't serve its chief purpose: that of allowing you to hold your life up to the dim light of the TV as you play this dvd and realize--Sweet!! You're YOU and not THEM! Still, you'll envy the misfit cameraderie inserted between the backstabbing schemes and scams--it's awkwardly wedged there like toilet tissue shoved in the holes in the stall partitions of Paddy's mensroom.