Some how FOX has done it again with another show I’ll watch while swallowing the bile that rises in my craw as a subconscious reflex to knowing that I’m supporting FOX. I’m getting through Kitchen Nightmares as I write cause the appetizing food counters the bitter stomach. Doesn’t help though that in the beginning we’re shown a fucked up dirty restaurant with spoiled ingredients and sloppy greasy entrees, that’s mysteriously loosing customers, but in the end Chef Ramsey gives them some good recipes and the ending is happy.

Moving from my queasy stomach to the right and up to my laughter-spasming diaphragm, we come to the cause: “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia“. Never heard of it? Me neither. On FX – the FOX channel for the illiterate – I’ve never seen a commercial for it while watching another News Corp favorite, The Shield. Turns out to be their contributor to the mid-week Thursday night network battle, when I’m usually watching The Office or 30 Rock – without the chance of politically-motivated retching.

N. E. weigh, they’ve got an ensemble cast of four twenty-somethings: a dumb vain guy, his petty dumb slutty sister, a dumb jock idea guy and a dumb loser man-child guy – these two. These folks are working-poor owners of a pub bankrolled by their dumb old rich horny guy father, played by the ever-funny Danny Devito. It’s like friends without the yuppie-ness, heaps of cute sarcasm, nor near incestuous intra-group fuck’in (despite what the last clip inferred). What they do have is the FOX cable trademark fearless razor edge wit. Besides the full use of dirty words, they feature comically absurd dirty situations for the comedy.

To combat the problem of homeless men masturbating outside the bar, Devito and son buy an old cop cruiser and uniforms to scare them off but end up shaking down the neighbor with their faux power. Jock guy and sister become guardian angels and rebel from the peaceful neighborhood watch to bully and assault homeless folks in the name of cleaning up the streets until the real cops post them in the “urban” ghetto.

When the vain guy tries to get back at the loser guy, who has been made bar manager, by dating his ex-girlfriend the result is an intricate plan by the manager and petty sister to organize a campaign of motherfucking (literal) in vengeance.

With scenes and plots like these, is it any surprise this show would receive Dominion approval?

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