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The Gang Gets Racist
- Thread starter spookyduzt
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Me and all my ppls quote this show endlessly. Not one bad episode IMO.
Frank's brother is full of classic lines/bits
-making a sandwich in your mouth
- Shady nastys??
- those were the day? You sound like you long for those days!
- Drugs I choose drugs!!
- it can't still be like
They somehow got me to accept black face never thought I'd do that.
Frank's brother is full of classic lines/bits
-making a sandwich in your mouth
- Shady nastys??
- those were the day? You sound like you long for those days!
- Drugs I choose drugs!!
- it can't still be like
They somehow got me to accept black face never thought I'd do that.
Is there any way to watch this in Germany? Always wanted to, but it's always the same when I'm searching for it I find absolutely nothing. No stream, no rent or buy option on Google play. Strange.
The first episode is a "starter" episode?People saying S1 should be skipped:
Not a single minute of any single episode should be skipped. In fact you should watch all of them twice at the very least.
It's a FINISHER episode! They all are. The Land Rover of television shows.
Yeah, no. It's fantastic. Danny D pretending to be himself at fourteen with a terrible wig constantly being called a young boy, Lance Reddick's delivery of "I'm a black Panther, now." The Vietnam scenes. It's absolutely hilarious, and has a fantastic pay off.
I'd enjoy this show more if a pretty non-trivial section of fans weren't unironically sexist, racist, etc and dont feel challenged by it.
Yeah, there is quit a bit of difference.
Couldn't make it it past 2 episodes in peep show, watched all of Always Sunny with no issues.
I don't need a translation :D don't know why this show isn't available for us Germans.
Same.
I'd love to watch it but no streaming service in Germany got it.
Maybe I'll wait until the series is done and get a complete Collection.
We called it "the horrible people show" and couldnt only watch like 2 eps at a time tops.
Thats the genius of it, though, they know exactly what theyre doing. Stick with it.
Thats the genius of it, though, they know exactly what theyre doing. Stick with it.
I mean if you're going down this path, how are you able to enjoy anything given every shows that's ever existed has been taken at face value by sexist, racist people?
EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE!
"You don't look a day over twelve."
One of my favourite moments.
Can you just not with this petty nonsense? Like I said, it's an uncomfortably large group that's hard for me to ignore.
Sunny is supposed to be a satire of horrible people. When horrible people uncritically start saying shit like "this episode was written by a woman, that explains why it was so bad" with tons of upvotes on the sunny Reddit, maybe you're not doing enough to put off people you shouldn't want to empower.
It's not petty nonsense. The Flash Facebook page is full of sexist, racist people too. And that's a show preaching tolerance, diversity and inclusion. It's Always Sunny could have the actors talk to the audience, break the fourth wall and say the characters are awful people and not to be emulated... and the "fans" you mentioned would still feel empowered. As it stands, It's Always Sunny increasingly IS trying to veer away from the old approach of laughing at people and subjects, to show how stupid The Gang are.
I agree with this.
I like the show still, it's one of my go-to shows to rewatch, but there's a huge number of people who like Always Sunny because they think "this is just how it is," or like "it's exaggerated but they're telling it like it is," like that they identify with aspects of the characters that are supposed to be satire.
Always Sunny very narrowly walks the path of satire and failed satire (e.g., Archie Bunker), which is part of what makes it so successful.
I wouldn't be surprised if Always Sunny is a show that, 5, 10 years, far more people are uncomfortable with than comfortable with.
You might as well have asked how I could enjoy Steven Universe cause some Nazi likes it. Not even remotely similar to what I'm talking about. And why baby the show by comparing it to the Flash when it doesn't get its humor from social taboos? The show knows it's toeing the line and doesn't need this weird defense. BTW The Flash doesn't create racist situations for it's fans to live through.
Yes, a shitty solution would be shitty. I want actual writing changes that don't allow room for actually shitty people to feel welcome. The idea that Sunny is written from the perspective of "a progressive satirizing terrible people" kind of falls apart when you have episodes where characters do something awful and get away with it with little actual retrospection on what they did. The episode where Charlie went on an incel rant was treated like an "epic moment" when I looked it up online. The episode where Dee's comedy career gets faked and she's mislead into having sex with a creepy stranger left me kind of confused about what the joke was. The episode where they "turned black" never really quite landed and ended up showing a black child getting shot, a pretty traumatic image, for the sake of a punchline.
I'm sorry, but you don't get to make a show that deals in taboos and be free from criticism when you've made a show they think is supporting them. Unless you think there was no way to make American History X from being beloved by Nazis too.
ngl, I was recommanded the show and when I saw the name of episode 1 I remember saying "It's starting that way, if they handle it poorly like most tv shows do I'll either never watch an episode ever again"
Good thing it's not a regular tv show.
Unlike most shows with horrible people (like BBT to name only this one), at least IASIP has the decency to treat its horrible characters like the horrible people they are.
Seeing them get shit on for seasons on end never got old.
Hopefully it comes back to Netflix
Good thing it's not a regular tv show.
Unlike most shows with horrible people (like BBT to name only this one), at least IASIP has the decency to treat its horrible characters like the horrible people they are.
Seeing them get shit on for seasons on end never got old.
Hopefully it comes back to Netflix
The OP better get back in here to report how he's now in love with the show after binging 3-4 seasons.
Frank is GOAT
Frank is GOAT
