Day man
Fighter of the Night man
Champion of the sun
You’re a master of karate and friendship…for everyone
Day man, day man
Uhh ahhahh
Fighter of the Night man
Uhh ahhahh
Champion of the sun
Uhh ahhahh
Master of karate and friendship…for everyone
Day man, day man
Uhh ahhahh
Fighter of the Night man
Champion of the sun

For some reason I had never seen the appeal of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia when I saw the commercials.  I skipped it for four seasons and then I spent an evening in a cigar bar in Boston this past August.

The Diabolical Miss M had been trying to convince me to try the show for ages, but I just kept blowing it off.  Well, as I sat in a cigar bar with her she ended up spending about a 1/2 hour acting out entire scenes from the show to try to convince me I needed to try it.  I finally relented and ordered the DVDs, and now I can say I am caught up to the most current episode in the fifth season which is currently airing.  So, thanks M … for sucking me into another television series.

Basically the show revolves around three childhood friends that co-own a dive bar, with the fraternal twin sister of one of them working as a waitress.  In the second season the twins’ father, played by Danny DeVito, joined the series.

While the concept sounds simple, what you don’t know until you dive into the series is that these people are, to quote Waitress, “are the worst people in the world!”  There really are no words to describe just how horrible they are.  It isn’t as if they set out to do bad things, they are just so insanely selfish and inconsiderate that they destroy the lives of every one that comes into contact with them (except for one woman named Artemis who seems to somehow escape their orbit unscathed every time she interacts with them).

While the concept doesn’t sound that funny, and there are some misfiring episodes, the series is amazingly funny, awkward, uncomfortable … and yet you can’t stop watching.  You are blown away by how these guys — the show was created by the three main actors Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day — continually come up with these scenarios that have the crew at Paddy’s Bar walk away obliviously that they have yet again somehow messed up someone’s life.

Is the show for everyone?  No, not even close, but I do think you should give it a chance as you may be surprised by it as I was.  I honestly didn’t expect to like it, but I have burned through all of the episodes, and now find myself quoting episodes on a regular basis … although most of them are highly inappropriate for this blog …

If you’re looking for a new show to watch, something to catch up on during the winter months, give it a shot, I think you may be pleasantly surprised.  (and, yes, a begrudging ‘thank you’ to M for introducing me to the show … although I should have made her act out even more scenes)

Those song lyrics at the beginning of the post come from a song Charlie and Dennis write called “Day Man” which has become a bit of a running joke in the series.  You can watch the clip below of the original time the joke appeared.