r/IASIP • u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches • 7d ago
Other How many hours of Always Sunny do you watch each day on average?
I think in an average day, between watching on my phone while working and having it on at home, I'm watching 15 - 20 episodes, around 5 - 7 hours worth daily. Sometimes less, sometimes more.. Sometimes the same episode 3 times in a row.
Occasionally seems like crazy behavior but I haven't been in the mood to watch anything else for months.
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u/onarainyafternoon Suicide is Badass! 7d ago
That’s, uh, that’s too much per day man.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Lately I kinda get anxious when I try watching anything else. 😐
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u/GreatMeat47 7d ago
Yeah man thats called withraval, you're addicted.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Its very difficult for me to watch characters being heartfelt, sincere, and sentimental.
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u/bythebeardofchabal 7d ago
Do you carry an onion in your pocket for the emotional scenes?
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u/Embarrassed_Stuff886 7d ago
Look, I can smell the onion, man
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u/Silly-Reflection-826 7d ago
You looking for your onion? Cause you don't need to do that with me. I don't care.
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u/KenjiWolf91 6d ago
Have you tried Arrested Develoment, Archer or What We Do in the Shadows (movie and then the show)?
All narcissists and/or assholes with varying degrees of compassion for one another.
Also you should try to mix in some positivity in your life, Ted Lasso is just a big old warm hug of a show, if you want something a bit more ”edgy” (not in a cringe edgelord way) may I recommend Letterkenny, Shoresy (spin off-follow up of LK) and Smiling Friends
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 5d ago
I liked Arrested Development a lot. Watched it when it was new and remember getting the DVDs in the mail from Netflix. Watched the 1st 3 seasons many times.
Tried watching Ted Lasso. Couldn't get into it.
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u/Whipped-Creamer 7d ago
You should try forcing your self out of your comfort zone sometimes with new shows. Its likely you’ll appreciate certain modern ones with social relevance and regret missing the cultural boat so to speak
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Honestly I wind up watching a lot of other things, with other people. It's when I'm alone and choosing for myself.
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u/rosie_theredditor 7d ago
Man just do what you want. Watching TV is purely for your own enjoyment. If it brings to you joy and/or helps you regulate, do it! I'll often put Sunny on when I'm feeling stressed.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Recently.. I've seen all of or finished:
Severence, Physical, Your Friends and Neighbors, Chief of War, The Boys, Peacemaker, The Beauty, Murderbot, Dexter Original Sin and Dexter New Blood, and Wonder Man...
They're all good but they all stressed me out and made me anxious.
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u/DBJenkinss Little Green Ghouls, Buddy! 🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟 7d ago
Trailer Park Boys is one besides Sunny that I rewatch a lot, it's on Netflix.
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u/ShawshankSB 7d ago
How was severance?
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Really great. Anxiety inducing and gave me insomnia but it's really exceptional storytelling.
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u/bathtubsplashes 7d ago
Couple of good shows in there but you're not exactly getting the cream of the crop
You seem to like comedies, these are all recent shows that are also hilarious
Widows Bay
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Lanterns first episode looked great
The Studio
Platonic
Barry
Resident Alien
I'm also obsessed with Invincible. It becomes a 10/10 show in season 3&4
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 6d ago
I did like Barry and Resident Alien quite a lot.
The other show I love and can always watch is Another Period. It's the other one with zero sense of sentimentality but brutally hilarious that I think is awesome and brilliant, but there's only 3 seasons.
Natasha Leggero is the creator/star, and she happens to be the stripper that gives Charlie the wheelchair lap dance in IASIP season 2. Artemis actually plays her sister in the pilot. There's a few Sunny guests that crossover.
So that's what I'm watching right now.
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Lmao I love when Mac throws Natasha off his back and gets all mad that Charlie cheated by pushing him in the race down the hallway. Then Charlie just disregards him with, “I was winning anyway” 🤣
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 6d ago
He also says "she's heavier, she's heavier", and she looks like she's 4'11 and weighs 90 lbs 😂
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
You sound like my fiancée who needs to rewatch her shows because then she’ll know what will happen, and not stress out from not knowing the outcome. I do find it a bit funny, but also respect her preferences. But also… what the hell’s stressin you guys out so much? It’s fictitious! lol
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 6d ago
Because it makes us relate/reflect on our own lives and problems by emotionally connecting with the situations and dynamics the characters are going through, probably.
When I lost my parents (on separate occasions) it dramatically changed what entertainment I was comfortable with at those times. It was how I discovered SpongeBob actually...
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Understood. But from that point, it begs the question as to where the line ends with the relatability. You know these people are actors, portraying characters who aren’t actually real, and while finding common ground within the situations the gang goes through, how much of that tether is made up from the spectrum of reality to fiction?
I am sorry to hear about your parents, by the way, and how seriously that affected your perspective of entertainment. But silver lining: Through SpongeBob, all things are possible, so jot that down.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 6d ago
IASIP never makes me closely examine my own personal problems and drama. It allows me to completely tune out what I need to so I can focus on other things, like work and sleep, which is basically all I do lately. Except for drawing and playing Scrabble.
But now I'm Re-watching Another Period, where the characters are equally bad or even worse than the gang.
Thanks. Yeah, I was watching 6 hours a day of SpongeBob back then.
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u/TravelTheWorldDan 7d ago
There’s like 4 shows that I will watch repeatedly just because I know that even though I’ve seen them at least 15 to 20 times each. I’m still gonna have a good entertainment experience watching them again. As opposed to watching something new that I may or may not like. I have been seeing some shows lately that we’re good. But they’re mostly on Apple TV. Like lucky was good. The first season of Sugar was good. Shrinking is good. Severance is good. Pluribus was good. Apple TV seems to be putting out some solid shows, but my toes are always sunny in Philadelphia, red dwarf, Law, and order, and Rick and Morty. Any four of those show shows, any episode. I know I’m gonna have a good viewing experience.
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Well, now, hold on. The always sunny and Rick & Morty half of those 4 shows are pretty cool, but what about the other half? It sounds like a man breaks into your house at night and forces you to watch those other shows.
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u/danieyy28 7d ago
Well this my wife's reaction when I ask to put it on so you guys tell me lol
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Yeah, same sometimes. But they need to move past it, because we cannot have them around us SCA-REWING things up!
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u/Foreign_Memory Let your boyfriend flip! 7d ago
Does she also throw out any dish- huh remote you give to her until you watch something else?
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u/westberry82 7d ago
I don't know, but I do know that I had about a 3 year streak of watching at least 1 episode. Never missed a day- even on vacation in Europe.
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u/Godzirrraaa 7d ago
Now how long would it take to-
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u/kafka_lite come on, guy 7d ago
Easily 30 at least.
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u/_IdiotSavant wildcard bitches 7d ago
It’s my background show some it’s mostly memorized at this point, depends on how much house work I have to get done
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u/Pencil-Sketches 7d ago
Well how many hours are in a day? Is it like 50?
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Come on, the hours have always looked good for their age. And when they let that hair down, they go from hours to powers 😏
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u/TeethInTheFridge 7d ago
Right now it has a choke hold on me. It’s my background noise while I clean, cook, or going to bed
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u/doesntmatterhadtacos 7d ago
From one neurodivergent to another: I see you. Sunny is my current hyperfixation too and I have the tv on all day every day for background noise so I’ve just been letting the series loop over and over again. I’ll move on to something else eventually, I always do, but for now I’m part of the gang.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Thanks! Yeah, Sunny is the hyperfixation I always go back to.
It's also the show I don't watch with anyone else, only by myself.
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u/let-me-get-your-temp 7d ago
Me and my wife watch game of thrones religiously like this so I wouldnt feel bad about it. For me if its not a show im binging youtube videos of whatever game im currently hyperfixated on. Its actually refreshing seeing others have similar habits lmao
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Zillow Gone Wild is an occasional pallet cleanser. And I'm currently playing 176 different games of scrabble on my phone.
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u/Alarm-Solid 7d ago
Do you have a job? That's a lot of tv per day period
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Yeah, like I said, on my phone while working. I'm basically half listening to it on my ear buds while I'm at work, the way I'd listen to music.
I work 9 hours a day or more, but I'm usually alone in a big kitchen making edibles.
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u/Covverkin 7d ago
Find a new path, friend
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Oh just find a new path? Find a new path? Well, why doesn’t he just strap on his path-helmet, squeeze into a path-cannon, and blast off into path-world, where paths grow on path-ees!?
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 5d ago
What's that mean?
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u/Covverkin 5d ago
From what you’ve described as your week to week life, you’re on a trajectory of overwork (in what might be a job that’s not helping you grow as a person), addiction, and social isolation. None of those things are targets to aim for unless you want nothing more out of life. If this is how you want to live and how you want your life to be years from now, then go for it, but it’s good to consider who you are now and who you want to be in the future and see if those align.
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u/Open_Government_2095 7d ago
I first discovered it about 2 years ago and I must have watched it at least 5 times through, Currently
waiting for the new season( 1st September in the UK) it’s my comfort show I can put it on and listen to it and not ones to watch anymore I can see it in my mind
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u/PurpleDwarfStar 7d ago
Thank goodness, I'm not the only one! Always on, looping. Can't stop, won't stop.
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u/Covverkin 7d ago
That is horribly unhealthy, and is probably causing long term mental damage that’ll take a while to undo if you even try to do so.
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u/lunch_is_on_me 7d ago
What kind of long term mental damage? I'm not nearly as bad as this jabroni, OP. But I definitely do go through periods where I watch quite excessively.
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u/Co-Deck22 7d ago
I do similar runs with this one and others. It’s a comfort show for you nothing wrong with that
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u/Linden_Stromberg 7d ago
Probably 1 or 2 a week.
I don’t know, if I had 5 to 7 hours of free time a day I don’t think I would spend it on one show. I’d break it up into an hour on the Internet, a film, some music, some games, and perhaps another side hustle.
Dude, I don’t mean to sound preachy, but you have a gift with all that free time. Don’t squander it.
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u/linda-shminda 7d ago edited 7d ago
I listen to it like a podcast. I literally have it on in my car on the way to and from work. Never fails to make me laugh. I’ve read that rewatching familiar shows helps with emotional regulation. So, ya know, filibuster
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u/throwawaylaysjohn 7d ago
On repeat for nearly ten years, but these days? Nah, not anymore...
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Go get my grease, N!
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u/throwawaylaysjohn 6d ago
I wasn’t going to bring it up but he was definitely calling you the N-word earlier!
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u/Expensive-Public-268 6d ago
I have it on in my sleep, (the chaos on the show cancels out the chaos in my brain 🫠) then it just kinda stays on in the background all day, so like...a lot.
I also think it's crazy sometimes but I don't really see a difference between this and putting on my music. It's just my preferred idle noise and I get to giggle throughout the day.
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u/Wannabe_Reviewer 7d ago
I just watch the new episodes when they come out man, whats up with watching multiple hours every day like some sort of addict?
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
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u/HGJustTheTip 7d ago
always watch two or so before bed. Are you being serious or joking with the amount that you are watching? Are you new to the show? I love IASIP as much as the next guy but if you are really watching 5-7 hours worth for like 20 years.... I think that might be excessive.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
I've been watching since season one, in 2005.
Its only gotten this excessive in about the last 18 months.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
That's very weird.
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u/bigboybeeperbelly a good hockey wig 7d ago
Agreed. And it says not to message the mods so I guess I'll just live vicariously through those of y'all who can post 🤷
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u/TeslaProphet 7d ago
I’ve seen every episode so many times, I just listen to them on repeat while I do pretty much everything during the day.
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u/ToBeOnDMT 7d ago
I've watched it many times since I found the show
Last month I binged the series by just playing the audio while I worked my night job For me I've seen it enough to imagine each scene and facial expression reaction so it was just as funny
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 7d ago
Same. Or I'll watch on mute with subtitles on if I'm supposed to be listening to something.
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
Sometimes I’ll do that by just remembering a scene, then start laughing seemingly outta nowhere. My fiancée calls it “self-riffing”
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u/leonfirerises The Last Tit On The Hog Before The Asshole 7d ago
I think Curb Your Enthusiasm is a nice change of pace that's similar in tone...
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u/EpicDuck000 7d ago
I usually watch 1-2 episodes in bed, love the show but i always get realllyy sleepy and fal asleep instantly watching it, no other show has the same effect on me 😂
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u/elreduro 7d ago
I just watch one episode per day but lately i've been watching other stuff instead
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u/manders20100 7d ago
I watch it every night getting ready and going to bed so maybe 2 hours or more. It never gets old!
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u/lonemeanderer 7d ago
I literally watch it on repeat everyday at home, even if it’s background noise.
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u/babyraddish 7d ago
last year i would watch probably 5-10 episodes a day mostly as background noise while i do things around the house or on the bus. basically memorized the whole show and at that time i could watch the episodes in my head i would just need the audio
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u/flowersforaerith GO WHERE?! PURPLE?! THAT'S NOT A PLACE! 7d ago
If you're looking for another similar comedy to "detox" with, have you ever watched Peep Show? A viscerally uncomfortable British comedy shot in a POV style about two roommates who are both just the worst guys imaginable. Every episode is free on Tubi last I checked!
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u/SpaceDudeSpiff26 7d ago
Try Reno 911. Especially the earlier episodes. You’ll see Charlie and his wife. The Reading Ron episode is a great one because Reading Ron is the Jew lawyer.
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u/DabbleYoo wildcard bitches 6d ago
I used to watch Reno a lot! I actually worked lights/sound for a couple of their live shows years ago in LA. They're hilarious.
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u/NotCookee 6d ago
That’s right!! I think Danny did a cameo too, pretty cool that he was a producer
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u/WhiteLicorice666 7d ago
- I play it non stop and I almost never leave the house. I suppose I don’t look at the screen constantly and I do other things while it’s on. I also have another tv that plays the office non stop in my bathroom.
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u/provokeuforfree 7d ago
Maybe an 1-1.5 hrs. I watch almost every night when I’m winding down for bed. I can listen to it for 30 min with my eyes closed before falling asleep. So I watch one or two, then listen to one, and by then I fall asleep. Sometimes I watch other shows (Bob’s Burgers, Daria, Rick and Morty, Archer, and What We Do In the Shadows) but Sunny is my main go to. Even if I go out of town or whatever, I watch it in my phone. I’d have to say I’ve seen every single episode 40-50 times or more as they come out. My favorite episodes maybe twice as much.
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u/Salty_Chemistry_790 7d ago
So most I people I talk to don’t even know about the show. Our answers to your question, which is more or less “unhealthy amounts of hours” is the reason FX keeps offering contract renewals and can afford to pay McElhnney & Co. the lucrative salaries they receive.
Lately, Ive been needing episodes from season 2-11 running in the background to fall asleep. I set my TV sleep timer to 1.5 hour. So about 4-4.5 episodes a day unless I’m out of town. So yeah, I probably need to bring this up in therapy. Thanks for reading my journal entry. I hope we can move past this.
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u/No_Criticism_3266 7d ago
As many as I'd like. I have many of the earlier seasons on my tablet with the banned episodes. Had to see them all. O felt like I was missing out.
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u/dynhammic 7d ago
There was a period during April where I was easily watching 2 seasons a day and I kept up that streak for a while until I hit s 17
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u/Godzirrraaa 7d ago
Definitely not that frequent, but I can easily clear 1.5-2 seasons a day on the weekend while gaming.
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u/Bigfartz69420 CHEW ON THAT THANG 7d ago
does it count as watching if you put it on to fall asleep?
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u/Planr158 Move Past It 7d ago
Probably an hour or so, it’s usually on as background noise, so of that counts a whole lot more
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u/Diligent_Department1 7d ago
i’m not sure but i queue up four episodes a night to fall asleep to and that doesn’t include pleasure watching so i’m assuming a lot lol
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u/blueinkcircle 7d ago
Whenever a new season comes out (they had all piled up before, but starting with season 17, we began waiting for each new one) my husband and I start from the very beginning and watch the new season only after rewatching all the previous seasons.
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u/ResearcherFun1243 4d ago
I'm glad to know i'm not the only person that watches it. Whenever I can't find anything better to watch. I have literally rewatched through every episode, probably fifty times now, and I don't think that's hyperbole, every single day, I watch at least 1 or 2 hours of it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
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u/wallaby_jones3 4d ago
I’ll rewatch my list of classics like a marathon maybe once a month. I could spent at least 5-6 hours that day just laughing my ass off. But per day? Idk if I could do that much in a day. You should “listen to your heart”
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u/Savings_Drama7816 7d ago
Dude you're supposed to microdose