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'Sunny' raises bar on offensive fun
TELEVISION | Good actors sharpen edge of hilariously cruel characters, plots

September 12, 2007
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
In three seasons, the friends and family of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" have gone on crack to get welfare, pretended to be impaired to pick up women at a bar and exploited children at a charity basketball game for personal gain.

At this point, Kaitlin Olson is nonchalant when she describes upcoming plot turns for her character, Dee:

"I beat up a masturbating bum in an alley. And I do have a love interest this year," she says. "He may or may not be a retarded person. I try to find out the entire episode. I'm sorry -- a mentally disabled person."


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"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" star Danny DeVito,
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But before that, in the first new episode titled "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby," Dee and Mac try to put this Dumpster baby into show biz. Dee is unimpressed with the little human.
"This baby's heavy," she says. "What if we put it back where we found it?" And later: "Give us back our baby, so we can paint it."

That's typical "Sunny." Characters are caustic nuts, sort of like in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," but they're even more self-involved, greedy, scruple-free and unsympathetic to others.

The dumber and crueler the characters are on "Sunny," the more I like them. I ask Glenn Howerton, who plays Dennis, about this.

"I know. I don't know how that works," he says. "Honestly, in real life: We're all really nice guys. ... Maybe because we're not such bad people in real life, some of that comes through."

Danny DeVito, for instance, plays the gun-shooting, acid-dropping dad Frank. But DeVito also brings his amiable self to the malicious role, so it's easy to laugh at Frank when he tells his kids what their mom was like in the old days: "She probably went right from the clinic and banged some guy and got knocked up, because your mother was a giant whore."

"Sunny" endings may be the most consistently great last acts on TV. The "Dumpster" installment begins a little flatter than normal but it gets funnier with each scene until the excellent last frame where the gang, for the zillionth time, gets an outlandish comeuppance.

The actors are great in these roles, by the way. Howerton is a Juilliard man.

"It was really hilarious to me watching someone do some Juilliard preparing for when we were cracked out," Olson says, "like breathing , and making his eyes dry so they would be red and watery. ... He takes his acting really seriously."

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Devito kills me on that show. Hell the whole thing just kills me.