Glenn Howerton as Corey on That 80s Show - S01E04 [X]
I think one reason It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia resonates with people is because it doesn’t try to present a sitcom reality in which things are always okay and work out, where conflicts are always resolved and where the characters are quirky but not dysfunctional. The Sunny characters are fucked up and they deal with their fucked-up-ness in fucked up ways and often those fucked-up ways are the only ways they have available.
And I think for some people it’s oddly comforting to see that reality displayed on a screen.
If you’ve had an experience in your life where you’ve had to deal with a broken system or where you’ve realized that the only things available to help you cope are imperfect at best or fucked up at worst, if you’ve ever looked around and realized what you got isn’t fair but there’s no way to rectify it….then this show will resonate with you. It makes you feel seen, in some odd way. The way that love and care genuinely exists alongside hurt and trauma and bad decisions and bad circumstances. And it’s all mixed up so you can’t even pull apart if you wanted to. And people don’t get it, so you don’t even try to explain it. And it’s a little fucked up, you know that, but it’s also so good sometimes, and that’s what people don’t get. And, for better or worse, it’s yours. It makes you feel like oh I wasn’t crazy when everyone was acting like I could fix this if I just followed the right steps, but none of those steps actually exists in the way they think it does. And then you just have to laugh, you know? Because this shit is funny and life is funny and it’s good, honestly, it is still good, even when you’re crying, even when it sucks. Something something it’s always sunny even when it’s not, you know?
Or idk maybe you’re just a dudebro who thinks dArK hUmOuR is funny. I’m not gonna tell you how to live your life.
I love the Lead Cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia…that’s certainly all of them!
screaming over the fact mac resembles a dog and dennis canonically hates dogs
not to over analyze sunny again but anyone else think that dennis left brian jr to be with mac and the reason it kinda seems like he resents mac in season 13/14 is because he kinda does? like dennis doesnt understand he can love more than one person at a time. and he picked mac. and so now hes mad at mac because he should be being a father rn. hes mad he likes mac enough to leave his own son for him. hes mad that mac isnt standing up for himself or controlling dennis cause it means that dennis chose to leave his son without mac forcing him to. he can't blame him for it. mostly tho, i think dennis is mad at mac for not being sorry that he loves him because dennis is sorry that mac loves him.
i'll never get over dennis' hand placement here