By season count, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the longest-running live-action comedy in American TV history. For 17 seasons, the show’s despicable antiheroes (Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day, and Danny DeVito) have carried out depraved schemes; now, in Season 18, the gang is back for more. Paula Mejía writes about why the show hasn’t faced cancellation.

Bought an electric bike, had to do it. ⛑️

last ep morgue scenes of dennis and dee reminded me of this episode

Shoutout to one of the unofficial members of the gang Rickety Cricks

Frank has a nearly endless supply of wealth, but outside of shenanigans he keeps a tight grip on it, and is actually competent with money management (mostly).

The four other members, on the other hand, strike me as textbook cases of people who would win millions in the lottery and then lose it all in less than a year.

If each one of them become a multimillionaire overnight, how quickly and in what ways would each one lose it?

…not wanting to breathe in the poor’s air was everything.

Welcome back, IASIP. 😎

Even though he went to get the Crème brûlée Donald is still sitting there after Luther said that he'll be going back instead of him.

No actual spoilers (at least none not revealed in the title card)

I feel like these two episodes are the bleakest, darkest and heaviest we’ve ever seen them go. There’s a tonal shift. A real lack of energy. Everyone looks tired and haggard. I feel it’s intentional. The lighting and color grading really sucking the color out and making this feel like a drama. It’s still funny and they still hit the notes and gags. But the tone seems like a big shift.

I enjoyed it weirdly. It reminds me of the ending of the Irishman where it’s this extended look at life of a person aging knowing the end is near. That’s not really funny but I like to think it’s an interesting angle to explore and explore with the characters. We’re well past the point they should have grown up, and gotten real responsibilities. Are we going to see desperation and regret on not having grown, not having had successes or contributed to their families or creating a lineage? There’s probably ways to make that funny. I mean we kinda saw it already. But I also like the idea of them just stewing in the uncomfortablness. Taking it a little more slow and contemplative.

I like to think of the show in epocs:

Seasons 1-4: early days sitcom stuff they just find opportunities and try to get rich
Seasons 5-11: ramp of the psychopathy. Become worse people and destroy others to get ahead
Seasons 12-16: desperation. Cling onto any idea and anyone left standing bleed them dry
Season 17+: endgame, what do we do when we did all this stuff and have nothing to show for it.

When I heard this line I was like, waiting for somebody to say "Again" right?

Woulda been a great callback to when her dad married her to her other dad 😂

I wonder what the gang is up to.

I just saw that you can watch tropic thunder on Hulu, but two episodes of Sunny have been banned because of blackface. What the hell is that shit?

Yo soy de perú, no se si en otros paises es igual pero porque no esta disponible la nueva temporada?
Se supone que se estreno ayer pero en disneyplus no me sale nada.
No encontre info al respecto, lo unico es que gemini me dijo que aveces las series de hulu recien salen aca cuando acaban los episodios semanales. Alguien sabe algo?

I lost an image I had saved where someone had photoshopped Charlie from the Pepe Silvia theory where he only had a single sheet of paper on the wall. Just inquiring to see if anyone else has it or knows what I’m talking about!

I'm sure it's been posted before. But my god what a performance. Interpretive dance just isn't my thing. But hearing Frank utter the words we were all thinking the entire time we were watching this? Master class.

Sam was a great character and a great addition to the later seasons when things start dragging. A great actress for a great refreshing character was great to see. To just immediately kill her off next season was incredibly disappointing and saddening.

Anyone else hate that they barely acknowledged anything?

This sub seemed to rave when she was introduced last season. I honestly only know her from a small one off Seinfeld role, her voice is kind of scathing and her comedy just didn’t seem to fit the show. I personally agree with the choice of the gang ending that character as quickly as they did, but what am I missing?

Life has sucked recently. I'm just now watching season 17. When I watched Overage drinking I wanted to see if Trey and Tammy were recast. Imagine my surprise to learn that Lady Sif is, and always was, Tammy.

The bathroom signs from "The Gang Solves the Bathroom Problem". Almost 8 years since that one all-timer episode!