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#40
#40

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

2005The Longest-Running Disgrace

Cultural Impact

7/10

Storytelling

7/10

Rewatchability

8/10

Total Score

22/30

The Longest-Running Disgrace22/30 Score#40 Overall
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Why It Ranks

The longest-running live-action comedy in American history.

Score Breakdown

Cultural Impact7/10
Storytelling7/10
Rewatchability8/10
Total Score22/30

The Review

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the most transgressive sitcom ever made — and the most consistent. The Gang — Dennis, Mac, Charlie, Dee, and Frank — are genuinely terrible people, and the show's genius is that it never asks you to like them. Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day created characters so irredeemably awful that the comedy becomes a kind of catharsis: you laugh because these people are everything society tells you not to be. The show has run for over eighteen seasons without a significant dip in quality, outlasting every comedy of its generation. 'The Nightman Cometh,' 'CharDee MacDennis,' and 'The Gang Turns Black' are comedy landmarks.

Fun Fact

The original pilot was shot on a consumer camcorder for about two hundred dollars. Rob McElhenney maxed out his credit cards to make it, and FX picked it up based on that footage alone.

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