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August 15, 2006
Let the "Sunny" shine
When your second season premiere centers around your characters faking disabilities to get attention from the opposite sex, and your penultimate episode culminates with a death by Russian roulette, what do you do for a season finale? If you're the scathingly hilarious FX sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," you bring on that nice dad from "Seventh Heaven" and have him get tormented by the shallow, selfish Reynolds family.
Yes, the second season of TV's guiltiest laugh getter (I'm not counting "American Idol") involves siblings Dee (Kaitlin Olsen) and Dennis (Glenn Howerton) discovering that Frank (Danny DeVito) isn't their real dad. That should come as no surprise to anyone who watches the show, considering that Dee and Dennis are tall, fair and attractive and DeVito is...not.
Their real dad is played by Stephen Collins, of "Seventh Heaven." I won't reveal any more, except to say the episode resolves with a pretty clever cliffhanger that allows DeVito to stay on the show. Oh, and it's hilarious.
I know "Sunny" may be a little too goofy and mean-spirited for some, and it can be a bit uneven. But when it's cooking, it's one of the funniest things you're likely to see. The ensemble is great, with Charlie Day, who plays neurotic, pathetic loser Charlie Kelly a particular standout.
I'm not sure if it's coming back for a third season, but it deserves to. Shows this darkly, caustically funny are hard to come by.
The season finale of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" airs 10 p.m. Thursday on FX.
Posted by amanda on August 15, 2006 4:40 PM
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