TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[The Third Man]

If you're an Always Sunny neophyte, go on netflix and watch The Nightman Cometh, from season 4. If you don't enjoy it, don't ever talk to me again. We're through.

My go-to Sunny intro ep has always been Sweet Dee is Dating a Retarded Person. The amazing thing is, there's an episode or two from every single season that could function as such, right up to Charlie Work the other week.

[MrSaigon]

If you're an Always Sunny neophyte, go on netflix and watch The Nightman Cometh, from season 4. If you don't enjoy it, don't ever talk to me again. We're through.

My go-to Sunny intro ep has always been Sweet Dee is Dating a Retarded Person. The amazing thing is, there's an episode or two from every single season that could function as such, right up to Charlie Work the other week.

You actually have to watch that one first, anyway.

[Schlich]

If you're an Always Sunny neophyte, go on netflix and watch The Nightman Cometh, from season 4. If you don't enjoy it, don't ever talk to me again. We're through.

That episode was good.

And I get the concept of the show.

But when presented with IASIP and other options I just go with the other options 99% of the time.

[ghostrunner]

I forget the name, but the "human meat" episode was one of my favorites. Pretty much anytime Dee or Charlie go insane, it's good. The one where Dee is addicted to crack is another.

I have to say the nihilist idiot schtick is taxing at times. The rickety cricket stuff is hard to watch.

[The Third Man]

That was actually the first ep I saw. The one that aired immediately after - The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis, featuring the immortal line "WILD CARD [expletive], YEEEEEE-HAW!" - is the one that got me and my friends hooked.

[33anda3rd]

The first four seasons of Sunny are stuff I think everyone has to see. You can stop there, and you'll miss some great stuff from later like The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre and Mac Day and Chardee MacDennis: The Game of Games, but if you watched just seasons 1-4 you'd be like holy crap that's awesome and you wouldn't have to wade through some of the lesser stuff that came later.

The eps not written by the three creators are typically the weakest. Seasons 5-8 have a lot of shaky stuff in them.

Some seminal eps, IMO:
Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare
The Gang Finds A Dumpster Baby
Bums: Making a Mess All Over The City
Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person

[Famous Mortimer]

Someone mentioned "golden age" debates, and my god would I rather watch an episode of IASIP than "Homeland". There's a fairly snooty TV reviewer thing about comedies just not being good enough (similar to comedy movies and Oscars, I guess) but IASIP is just fantastic and absolutely deserves to be in those conversations.

[Freed Roger]

SNL commercial Schmitt's gay is hilarious. PC?

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/ ... gay/n10163

[Famous Mortimer]

I just watched the 40th anniversary special of SNL...I liked it a lot - very pleased to see the Celebrity Jeopardy and Californians sketches, lots of funny bits and I realised why I loved it.

But...if I had the most viewers my show had ever had (probably) then I'd be damn sure to put the people who are going to be on the show next week front and centre for at least a few sketches. You could be forgiven for thinking the cast was still Hader, Sudeikis and Wiig. But maybe the show wasn't really about that, and I guess next week will get a ratings bump from this anyway.

Nice to see Sandler on again, I always liked Operaman (I wouldn't mind him popping back in more often). But what was up with Eddie Murphy? Did he just not want to make an effort? It seemed a bit of a damp squib after 30 years. And then there was Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson, who both seemed like they'd been asked to do a link ten seconds before they went on air, and were tired or drunk.

[Vidor]

I did think it was really curious that Eddie did nothing but talk for about 30 seconds. Weird.

Felt bad for Dan Aykroyd when the Bass-O-Matic stalled. But I guess that kind of crap happened in 1975 too.