It's Always Sunny 9x3 The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award

[@KungFuNight]

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[@miou-miou-]

trying to hide this comment by not pinning it?!

[@mindofapisces]

AHEM! pin this sir 📍

[@KungFuNight]

I thought it was pinned already! 😂

[@Zp0423]

The fact that Charlie’s song was so good to start and then he got high on paint and started singing about spiders in his soul is amazing

[@mrs.h2725]

He occasionally busts out some piano jams on their podcast 🥲. Charlie is a national treasure.

[@oAPXo]

DEEP in his soul.

[@Zp0423]

@@mrs.h2725 yeah I’ve watched them all. The live one was awesome when he played these two songs live and started spitting 😂

[@TriStar44]

@@oAPXo it’s been there for years…

[@NovusIgnis]

Nah, that's exactly when it starts getting better lol. His spider song is crazy good. Every time I hear it I'm reminded that the dude has pipes.

[@kayliibensen387]

Z is one of my favorite minor characters because he is always down for anything and is one of the few who seem to be immune to whatever curse the gang seem to have about themselves. Dude is just enjoying life "Ohh shit!" :D

[@josephmartinez9363]

Damn I never thought about that, nice catch

[@kylecook7187]

Artemis and Z both

[@Alyssiusyouk]

And Carmen! She somehow managed to be unfazed by them and also has a lovely life with her husband and baby! ❤

[@NovusIgnis]

@@Alyssiusyouk His husband, but yeah

[@bigpictureguys8415]

14:51 My favorite Z moment is the face he makes during Charlie’s song then the “ohhh shit”. Gets me every time

[@xcmvp2007]

Imma be chatting these foos up like a mug.

[@buzzkillington6945]

I love that he starts spitting too

[@itsonlysound]

Crack me up every time!

[@Matty80822]

Chad is the fricken greatest whenever he shows up hahaha

[@williampilling2168]

He was caught off guard and didn't know it was coming.

[@Jerm408502]

The whole jizz conversation cracks me up each time I see this episode. Imagine a bartender saying, "What would you like to drink? We promise we won't jizz on anything." Hahaha!

[@jaceeaster2246]

"it's better than busting a nut" lmfao!

[@tivednagol9127]

I want a real-life Paddy’s Pub where bartenders promise that.

[@joebusiness4237]

At 8:35, when Frank says people describe their bar as "a bunch of people yelling over each other," that was a common criticism of the show at the time, that the dialogue was just a bunch of yelling. So great how they took real life criticisms of their show and worked it into this episode.

[@ChiePet_]

"Bunch of yelling constantly " My mom said that to me, and now a year later it's her favorite show, even goes to sleep to it.

[@williampilling2168]

"Black bars don't win awards" is a reference to Chadwick Coleman (Z) show "The Wire", which had also not won an award by this point despite its popularity and critical acclaim. I also like that Danny DeVito "knows how to play the game" since he won multiple emmy awards while he was on the sitcom 'Taxi'.

[@twichytail]

my man, that's Chad Coleman.

[@williampilling2168]

@@twichytail mixed up my Chads!

[@kaize666]

I like the message in the racially encoded conversation about black shows never winning an award. Sunny has a way to reference something in the most hilarious ways.

[@seancarletonzero]

"Why is everybody laughing?" is a question I ask every time I watch The Big Bang Theory. It's also the laugh track you referenced. Also, the bell they rang is the applause sign.

[@bobsaget1164]

That is perfect

[@Pxtwny_chill]

So glad you had that context going into the reaction, totally takes the episode from a 7 to a 10. Jay you legend!

[@davidmeinie6699]

Curb Your Enthusiasm goes pretty hard too. It holds its own versus Sunny

[@bigpictureguys8415]

13:46 this isn’t will they won’t they, it’s I know they won’t and I don’t want them to! 😆😆😆

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

8:35 The criticism of the bar being full of people yelling is exactly what people say about the show. I love the Meta jokes in this episode lol some can go over your head tho.

[@ESJonas]

The bell is the laugh track. It tells you when you have to drink/laugh. The burlesque bar Frank visited with Artemis is HBO with its pornography said to be art.

[@nachoxpsi]

Mac rage about orgasms always gets me xD

[@Lksz-l9k]

mac raging is gold

[@danielsummerton2259]

This guy, this guy gets the show! Im 5mins into your reaction and it feels like Im waching a Sunny episode with a friend!

[@cristhianzerimar]

Another thing you may have missed is that the bell is sort of like a laugh track telling the audience when to drink/when to laugh.

[@omegashinra7672]

I've seen Mac pop off about the orgasms and Charlie's Randy Newman style song more times than I can count at this point, and both still made me wheeze with laughter during this reaction haha.

[@TheBlarggle]

"Yeah well, you know what he's not? He's not covered in stupid tattoos and he doesn't have a cigarette for a mother!" is one of the sickest fuckin' burns Dee has ever delivered. 13:34

[@MrazzleDazzleEm]

The critic is played by Roger Bart. He's primarily a Broadway actor. He won a Tony for playing Snoopy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, he was in the original cast of The Producers, and he's about to open Back to Future the Musical as Doc Brown, a role he originated on London's West End. He has done some film and tv work, probably most notably a reoccurring character on Desperate Housewives, the villain in Hostel 2, and the singing voice of Hercules ^_^

[@quatercirclestrife8260]

Nice shout out to Winston, straight up the characters calling out cliches while breaking em just puts this show on another level imo😂 never thought of Winston Allie like that, and they’re one of my favourite parts of the show.

[@hiimsky4381]

True Winston is so great hahaha but I wish we actually saw more of it

[@ginao6810]

It’s odd they spent so much time talking about how Schmidt was Jewish and Cece was Indian and merging their cultures, but not a single mention of Winston being black and Allie being Persian/Iranian (Nasim Pedrad was born in Iran).

[@bigpictureguys8415]

8:23 I’d like to back next week to see if they do! She doesn’t need to be funny. She’s cute & lovable, and if she can tell a joke that’s a bonus. Those parts are hilarious.

[@funfunfun3624]

There are outtakes of charlie singing the song. He goes on for like 8 minutes. When he talks about onion people I got nuts

[@kayliibensen387]

That was a pretty great Patreon comment, no spoilers and great back story into the premise of the episode

[@mz1r3o]

I love that after the scene at sudz you made the comparison to new girl because that was exactly what popped into my head when watching this episode

[@james2529]

Three times during this episode I laughed so hard I thought I was having a stroke. Dennis" little side eyes before the title card, when they cut to Dee with all the lights and this whole segment where Charlie crawls out the basement and sings this song. My wife thought I was dying.

[@EditsbyM]

Top 5 episode for sure. Mac exploding at Dennis is one of the best moments in the show for me.

[@bigpictureguys8415]

This is my best friends favorite episode of sunny. He’s one of the two most sunny informed people outside of myself so it’s high praise

[@Matty80822]

well does he have a certificate of this?

[@andrewt9204]

Z's face when Charlie is playing that song cracks me up too. He's one of my favorite side characters, ironically enough.

[@ccondotta9630]

One of my favorite episodes! And I love Z in it. I totally agree with you regarding Winston & Aly.

[@MeatballSandwich1]

Golden years of Sunny

[@henryviper9091]

This is one of my favorite episodes, love the meta humor they involve into this one! So good, and they way they try to fit in with the mainstream appeal is so horribly hilarious because they just don't fit that at all. Making fun of the more generic sitcom type comedy shows, and Charlies song at the end is chef's kiss!

[@megmegmegggg]

My favorite episode! I love Charlie’s ending song and the outtakes/other versions are hilarious

[@BullyBottom1220]

This is the point in the show where I started getting absolutely amazed at the song choices. They are just sticking in songs that they had to license left and right, and I always wonder if they're just trolling the network. Can you imagine what it must have cost to license "Call Me Maybe" and "We are never ever getting back together" in 2013? Did the budget for the show explode because they'd been on for so many years? You'll see it as the season goes on, and in following seasons. They put in these pop songs when just some background instrumental music would do, as though the budget of the show is itself a joke.

[@WHADATBOYNAMEIS]

yes

[@shaneisbetterthanyou]

They've never won what most would consider a big award. 3 Emmy nominations, all for stunt coordination. I don't think they've ever been nominated for a Golden Globe. There's tons of episodes that have deserved nominations, but there's a few coming that I'd argue should've won against anything those years

[@nunyabizness5391]

I wasn’t going to say this because it seemed too obvious, but since nobody else has said CHEERS yet, I have to bring it up. Charlie’s song even sounds like the Cheers theme song. The pop music in between scenes is just like Friends too. And to anyone that can’t see any connection between Sunny and Seinfeld *spoiler alert* that even gets referenced in a later episode. They are definitely different shows, but the humor is similar, especially in later Seinfeld episodes.

[@derrickhale-ey2gn]

Imagine being able to write a whole episode that’s literally a metaphor. And it hits its target dead center

[@slipknot95maggot]

"Put the bottle in!" "I did!" .................goodness, Frank............ Soooo Frank has an incredibly dilated as[REDACTED]

[@Lksz-l9k]

This is my favourite reacting channel to any series.

[@amorpmtime4058]

Louie it's written and directed by Louis CK himself. It's funny, depressing and absurd I would highly recommend watching it!

[@gimmegimmechicken]

This might be my favorite episode

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

9:58 Mac raging about Orgasms is gold lol

[@31olegna]

Louie was a PHENOMENAL show. Sucks that C.K. took advantage of his position but he's still a creative genius

[@nordsandfjords]

Reno 911! is also pretty insane, upon recently re-watching the series. Great cameos though. Always appreciate the IASIP ❤

[@digitalcassette5]

It's light. It's playful. Hahaha love this show so much, and its still going and i dont think they ever won an emmy or any of the awards most shows get.

[@systerkeno]

One of my favorite episodes AND the best reaction I've seen to this episode. Love it. ✌️💖

[@anthony91688]

Grew up on Seinfeld. Always sunny is a carbon copy just more vulgar and Intense. The plot is the exact same.. a group of guys and a girl who are terrible people and they ruin the lives of everyone who comes in contact with them.. and generally don’t feel any remorse. Also there are many direct parallels in Sunny episodes that are based off of Seinfeld episodes down to specifics. My two favorite shows. Different times of course but they are the same comedy

[@bradmiller7777]

It’s hard to say what show it’s most similar to, but the concept of the show is it’s the anti friends

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

The most meta episode

[@31olegna]

Definitely

[@vorbeck5555]

I think Archer is a bit similar to Sunny in the disposition. Everyone is horrible the only "good guys" featured are innocent people getting screwed by the main characters.

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

5:05 They are making fun of the laugh track and reactions that shows have. All the laughs and awwws.

[@PoseurGoth]

I'd say the most similar show to Sunny is probably Married With Children. Both shows improved with Flandersization. All the characters are bad people, and both shows have a working class sensibility.

[@hasongraham8674]

I haven't watched many recent sitcoms but the only comparables to always sunny I can think of are seinfeld and curb your enthusiasm and neither are close to as ridiculously absurd as sunny. They have a similar spirit though. Would love to see you react to those if interested. Thanks for making these videos. Take care.

[@paull8722]

Charlie is a really good musician like that song was way better than it should have been lol

[@hhcdfhngdzjjbf579]

"Louie" is an absolutely amazing show. I don't even really see it as that much of a comedy tbh. Always sunny is the greatest comedy TV show of all time imo. Louie is a hard show to explain, but its a lot different from sunny. Also I don't think they were specifically targeting this episode at Louie, but more so at the industry as a whole.

[@91lilken]

Louie is a pretty good show but sunny is definitely funnier.

[@syles0003]

Closest show I can compare to Sunny is Nirvana the Band the Show, 2 friends try desperately to get their band a show at some shitty bar and it's all done in a very indie, guerrilla filmmaking style. What reminds me of Sunny is the pacing of the dialogue, it all feels very natural and "edgy" in a comparable way. Definitely recommend.

[@micahclawrence]

I struggled with New Girl’s later seasons. It got real corny. And you touched on something I feel for real. They absolutely shelved Winston which was tragic. Him and Nick Miller carried that show. I’m glad Lamorne Morris has been getting roles since then. He’s hilarious.

[@bekkapaul5815]

Yo I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT agree with you on the Winstone storyline tangent. They completely boned him.

[@jessbelen]

this shows has the British sitcom formula and this episode is the biggest confirmation

[@noviembre.rz1]

good job Jay Davis

[@akelly4207]

I’m from the UK and I really hate bright cheery pubs that are clean and light. I like old dark pubs with sticky floors that smell like spilt alcohol and the years of smoking pre ban have become ingrained in the wood and upholstery. I’ve been in a lot of pubs like that but it’s getting more rare. The glassy new kinds are what we used to call ‘Wine bars’ and are more like club lite

[@reggiedenny9830]

Can't wait to see him get to The Gang Turns Black 😂

[@smitty7326]

oh shit, I LOVE that you got context before! This is the first react I've seen do this. I'm right at the start. Excited to see it now. EDIT: also Louise is EXTREMELY worth watching, and it doesn't have many reacts online despite CK coming back in popularity. The first episode is weird (first episode in every season of his is weird, for some reason), but i swear the show is worth it. There is nothing else like it.

[@jek4837]

I think it disappeared for awhile when the sexual stuff about Louis CK came out. It's definitely a unique show, and it's pretty funny.

[@smitty7326]

@@jek4837 yeah it definitely did. And I don't think it's come back to any streaming service, so I'm sure that's a big reason why people aren't reacting to it. It's now all available on CK's own site.

[@TheJoshestWhite]

@@smitty7326 the show can be found on Louis CKs website. He bought the rights from FX if my memory isn't failing me.

[@josephgatts1679]

Spiders...in my...

[@Villakeen]

Bro you’re totally Winston didn’t have a back story, he just was with Nick all the time 😂

[@neabby]

Love this episode so much 😂

[@julianaferreira8695]

top 5 episodes for me

[@reaper2r]

This has gotta be a top 5 episode

[@LordVolkov]

Charlie singing is always great.

[@Lksz-l9k]

It's annoying how informed and smart you are! You always predict things correctly. Wow!

[@KungFuNight]

Thank you? 😂

[@Lksz-l9k]

@@KungFuNight I guess so. hahaha!

[@ladycwin07]

And I wish you'd really kept up with arrested development because it's totally worth it but they have an "meta" episode just like this when they was getting canceled and it was hilarious pun after freaking hilarious pun

[@Rendell05]

A lot of people miss that trailer park boys really paved the way for shows like Sunny to elevate crass humour for a modern audience. And in some ways fubar paved the way for tpb. Still there is no other show like sunny.

[@williampilling2168]

Don't forget South Park.

[@Austin.Kilgore]

5:45 I know this may be a dated reference… but it has to be a Scrubs reference, right? Lol

[@dr.mund0339]

Charlie's song was so good 🔥

[@greens294]

Really appreciate that you pause the show when you’re talking about it. It drives me up the wall when some reactors talk over half of the jokes

[@dannyp-ufc8883]

I started binging new girl a few years ago and was really enjoying it then suddenly realized I hated it and never watched again😂Cant even remember why.

[@elnopalero4691]

Sunny appreciators let’s rise UP

[@queenmonika-plays119]

The critic also played the part David on the office. He was Steve Carrells boss. Also, the same guy was the mattel guy from the Season 9 Episode 1. Charrdeemcdennis 2 electric boolaloo.

[@willisverynice]

Trailer park boys has a similar feel to some degree

[@M97-u8t]

I´d say Community has similarities with Sunny

[@PandaBonzai]

Workaholics is a show that's like Sunny, its super funny.

[@trygswyrmwoodside3229]

Is the bell a reference to laugh tracks?

[@ladycwin07]

The burlesque club would be the "Louie" reference lbs

[@Thunda84x5]

Nah, the burlesque is "Girls" The "bar right down the street" that's won a bunch of awards is "Louie"

[@brocksausage8096]

FX has always had great shows comedy and otherwise that don’t get the recognition they deserve but especially their comedic ones, u should react to Atlanta sometime. Always sunny is my favorite but Atlanta is definitely better quality TV and hilarious

[@richardkhchang]

I do legitimately find Louie to be incredible and probably even a stronger show than It's Always Sunny, personally-- You should consider it!

[@omarjimenez8895]

I think Seinfeld is a react worthy series

[@theaccolade6533]

The first couple of seasons may be a bit rough tbh.

[@adrianspikes6454]

Seinfeld is nowhere near this show!!!

[@magicalmiller]

"the bell" is the classic APPLAUSE sign in horrible sitcoms. "oscar" saying "what are you doing in my OFFICE?" BRILLIANT.

[@doctor_del]

Top 3 episode for me!

[@TheKingkong2468]

It's hilarious knowing they're married in real life... Mac and Dee

[@albert0F]

the nearest thing to Always Sunny is probably stuff like Workaholics, being more standard but same kind of dynamics, and then Community goes above in terms of the meta comedy they did. None of them as good as Sunny of course.

[@davidmeinie6699]

You'd love Louie bro. It's a very underrated classic. It's edgy and introspective comedy and certainly has no laugh track. In fact, the humour is pretty dark at times. I highly, highly recommend it for your life and hopefully for this channel. Much love from South Africa sir

[@OneArmedRetroGamer]

I think Archer is kinda similar

[@patrickulas]

The fact Mac & Dee's actors are real life husband and wife makes that whole storyline even funnier

[@DaVinciwithaphaser]

Lewis ck show made me so depressed. This show makes me cry laughing

[@liriqing7742]

Just the best show

[@CV08]

The only thing that i can compare sunny to is south park, i love both

[@wargh12]

I don't see how sunny similar to seinfield tbh the closest show in being obnoxious I'd say would be "the league"

[@matthewlabban3883]

Winston is the best