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Hey, good news for Always Sunny In Philly fans, the DVD collection of Seasons 1 and 2. If you haven't seen this show yet, it's pretty darn funny. You should check out the third season if you can. Here's the TVSquad article on it, enjoy:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/08/01/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-finally-gets-a-dvd-release/




It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia finally gets a DVD release

Well it's about frickin' time. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is finally coming to DVD and the two-disc set will have every single minute of inappropriate humor from the first two seasons.

It'll be released on September 4th, right before the third season premieres. While hardcore fans like myself have taken advantage of the show being offered on iTunes, this still comes as great news. I think the one thing that bugs me is that it took this long.


I mean... there's only 17 episodes to date. Not a lot of material. If anything, Danny DeVito's addition to the show just makes it more marketable I guess. Just look at the cover art, emblazoned with his shiny bald head. I'm nitpicking though. This is still good stuff and to celebrate, I'm posting the lyrics to Charlie's America Song. Sing along!

I'm gonna rise up/ I'm gonna kick a little ass/ I'm gonna kick some ass in the U.S.A./ I'm gonna climb a mountain/ I'm gonna sew a flag/ I'm gonna fly on an eagle/ I'm gonna kick some butt/ I'm gonna drive big trucks/ I'm gonna rule this world/ I'm gonna kick some ass/ I'm gonna rise up/ Gonna kick a little ass/ Rock on flyin' eagle!
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Hey all, I found this over at BuddyTV.com. Enjoy:

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/exclusive-interview-glenn-howe-9532.aspx



Exclusive Interview: Glenn Howerton, from 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'

Glenn Howerton plays Dennis Reynolds as one of the stars, creators, producers and writers of the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Along with Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day, they shot a pilot on their own, sent it into the network and got picked up for a series. Starting its third season on September 13 with back-to-back episodes at 10pm, the show's cast also includes Kaitlin Olson and comedy legend Danny DeVito. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia centers around four woefully ignorant and politically incorrect people running a bar and dealing with social issues like racism or abortion in a hilariously off-beat manner.

For the third season, the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia MySpace page is offering one of the new episodes from August 16-23 as an early preview for fans eager to see what the gang has in store. The episode, titled "Mac is a Serial Killer," naturally focuses on the gang's suspicion that there good friend Mac is murdering women, though his real secret is almost as disturbing.

Glenn Howerton spoke to BuddyTV about the new season, working with Danny DeVito, and explaining the totally untrue rumors about an episode titled "Dennis Gets a Puppy." Below you will find the complete transcript as well as the mp3 audio file of the interview.

(BTV) This is John from Buddy TV, and we're talking to Glenn Howerton from the FX series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. How you doing, Glenn?

(G.H) I'm good, I'm good. How are you doing?


(BTV) I'm doing great. Now you, Rob McElhenney, and Charlie Day created this show together. How did you guys get started working together?

(G.H.) The three of us we knew each other from New York, and we all moved out to L.A. around the same time. We just started shooting little home movies together, 'cause we were bored on our off-time, and we were actors. And so we just had a lot of time, we were sitting around waiting for material to come by.

We kind of got sick of that, so we decided to just start shooting some home movies, and we did a couple of things together. One of the things that we did was this little thing that we called It's Always Sunny on TV, which is about these actors in L.A. It started off with one of the characters going over to his friend's house to get some sugar for his coffee.

And the one guy telling his friend that he has cancer. Once we just kind of thought was like a funny little one-scene short, and then it kind of snowballed into this television show about these guys running a bar in Philly, somehow. To make a long story short, it's kind of the same characters, except we just stuck them in Philly.


(BTV) Now in addition to creating it, you guys produce, write and star in it. Are very involved in the whole creative process, how do you balance all of those aspects?

(G.H.) Well, they all go hand-in-hand, really. Honestly, we micromanage every single aspect of the show, just because we're too much of perfectionists. Each one of us is too much of a perfectionist to let it fall into the wrong hands. So it creates a lot more work than responsibility for us.

But it's the only way that we feel like we can get done what we want to get done on the show, so we write a lot of it. We did actually have some writers this year for the third season, 'cause we did 15. But of course, we were there through the whole process, breaking the stories with them. And doing quite honestly most of the rewrites as well.

Or at least a lot of them, and then in terms of producing the show that's the only way you can have the power to sort of make final decisions in the editing process. Which is, the three stages of filmmaking are the writing, shooting, and the editing. Every single stage is equally important to the other, you can't have it if…

The whole thing would not work if the editing wasn't, if the timing, the editing didn't work as well. And the right music wasn't put here, and the right sound effects and transitions, and all that stuff really goes into making a show work. So in terms of keeping the balance, they're all kind of the same thing. In a lot of ways, they're all just the three stages of getting your vision across, getting the show done the way that it should be done.

(BTV) Now, you guys tackle some very serious political issues very comically. And I'm wondering, have you ever tossed out an idea or made a suggestion that the other guys or that the network said, “That's too far.” Or, “We can't do this.” Or is anything fair game?

(G.H.) No, you know what? Everything is fair game. But there have been plenty of times we talked about things in a room, when we're breaking stories, that we don't feel is… Our rule is simply this: if it's funny, if it makes you laugh, it works. If it doesn't make you laugh, then it doesn't work.

I think the things that don't make us laugh are the things that are unnecessarily cruel or hateful, and that's sort of the barometer by which we gauge everything. We feel like if we're specifically, as the writers and creators of the show, making fun of or humiliating or being cruel towards any person, or race, creed, religion, or anything like that.

We don't do it because we don't think it's funny. Now, it's one thing for a character to be ignorant. I think a lot of times, a lot of the comedy this show comes out, a certain character's ignorant. Ignorance as to how he's coming across, or an ignorance as to the type of things that come out of his mouth, that's what's funny.

Because that's where a lot of unnecessary racism, things like that come from. They just come from ignorance, and it's an easy way to put a common twist on it. And a lot of times it just comes out of ignorance. But I think the thing that we do, it's a hard thing. You can touch on a really hot issue, and depending on the way you treat it, how you treat it, one person could make it funny.

But coming out of somebody else's mouth, it just sounds offensive, and it's not funny. It's a hard thing to, there's no rule, it's just either it is funny or it isn't. We just sort of try and gauge it on our own opinion, it's a tough thing to explain.


(BTV) Now starting today, August 16, and for the rest of this week. You've actually put one of the season three episodes, Mac as a serial killer, on the show's official MySpace page. What was the, where did the decision come from to leak, or to promote an entire episode before it's even been aired?

(G.H.) That was actually the network's suggestion, the network's sort of like, idea. It's just another way of getting the word out there, I mean, so much of promoting anything these days is getting things out virally. And the best way to do that is obviously on the Internet, since kind of the only way to do it.

So we thought it might be a good idea to do what people do with something like this, and who knows? We'll see if people actually get to see it. It's a very funny episode, I think it's a great episode. But yeah, it came from the network, that was their idea.


(BTV) Well I agree, it's a very funny episode. I actually just watched it this morning, a fantastic episode. And I noticed again, as with a lot of these episodes, the whole gang always seems to be ragging on Kaitlin Olson's character, Sweet Dee. Just making fun of how she's not an attractive woman, and making her dress up like, you made her dress up like a psycho clown in this episode. How do you guys get along with her, and is that part of like the fun, of just constantly putting down the one girl on the team?

(G.H.) Yeah it, you know, it's a… (laughter) She's great about that. I mean, that's just something that we had a lot of it. Kind of, I feel like a twist on things, that I've never really quite seen before in such a kind of misogynistic way. You know, to have characters that are meant to be friends with each other, that are friends with each other.

They're best friends with each other, and every single person is so mean to everybody else, and more than willing to stab their best friend in the back at any given moment, in order to achieve their own personal selfish goal. And one of those things that just sort of comes hand-in-hand with that very naturally, is a group of really stupid misogynistic guys constantly making fun of one girl character.

It's that sort of group mentality, that mob mentality. She sticks out in the sense that she's the only girl amongst four guys, and so she ends up getting the brunt of it.

(BTV) Yeah. Now, just gauging on a lot of the episode titles for this upcoming season, your character Dennis I believe. In some episode titles, he gets a puppy in one episode, and he looks like a child molester in another episode. That’s all they give you, but it makes perfect sense to people who have seen the show, that you can do that. What’s it like doing both of these?

(G.H.) Well OK, first of all, “Dennis Gets a Puppy.” I loved that, because that is a title which I think has been on IMDB for like, three years. It’s never been a show that we ever made, it’s not. The longer it’s up there – ’cause it’s been up there since season one – the longer it’s up there, the more tempted we are to actually make an episode called “Dennis Gets a Puppy,” ’cause there isn’t one. There is no such episode.

I don’t know why that error has never been corrected. We’ve never tried to correct, ’cause I think we all sort of collectively love that. Everybody keeps expecting an episode with that title, but maybe one of these days, we’ll actually get to tell it.


(BTV) But do you look like a child molester in an episode?

(G.H.) Absolutely, yeah, that’s a good one. I’m actually looking forward to that one. Basically what happens, something that happens very often, is that the Philadelphia… I actually don’t know the name, but whatever correctional institution that they have, gets basically overcrowded. And they have to release a certain number of low-priority inmates.

What happens is amongst those people, there is one shady child molester individual named Wendell Albright, who gets released. He moves into the neighborhood close to where Charlie lives, and where the bar is. And basically there are all these flyers going up all around town about, “Keep your eyes out for this child molester, we don’t want him in our neighborhood, blah blah blah.”

And we look at the flyers, and this guy looks a lot like Dennis. So that of course creates a big problem for my character throughout the episode, trying to distinguish myself from this guy. Because people are literally yelling things at me in the streets, and slinging their feces at me. And then along with that, Mac’s dad also gets released from the same prison. So that creates the storyline for that, becomes kind of the thing that our characters are dealing with as well.


(BTV) Definitely sounds like a keeper, and a classic in the manner of exactly what you’d expect from an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

(G.H.) Yeah, we’re going through a lot of really fun, out-there places this year. We really decided to kind of go, for lack of a better phrase, balls-out this year and really just have fun with it. Really take the premise of our show, take these characters and throw them into some pretty wild situations.

We decided to get a little bit more theatrical with the whole thing, and a little bit more filmic as well. Little bit more, we’re really exploring, playing with some fun music through the episodes. Through some of the episodes, and sort of like film thematic sequences and things like that.

It’s a little bit experimental, and I think it makes for some really great laughs this year. And we’re going into some really out-there places, it’s gonna be a great season.


(BTV) Just from the episode I saw earlier today, the serial killer one, there’s a scene where your character and Dee are chasing another woman dressed as a painter and a clown. It’s shot with the music, it’s very theatrical, and outside the box of what you’d expect from an episode.

(G.H.) Yeah, it’s very cinematic.

(BTV) Exactly. And on the show last season, you obviously got Danny DeVito playing, well you thought he was your father, but he actually wasn’t. Instead your father was Stephen Collins, another guest actor who’s appeared on your show. What’s it like working with those two as your surrogate fathers on TV?

Well, it’s so fun to work with Danny. For obvious reasons, he’s just one of the most brilliantly, sort of acerbic, evil, funny, loveable character actors of our time. He’s a guy that we all grew up with, and he’s just brilliant. He brings so much experience, and so much, he brings so much to the show.

He’s got such a great energy, and he’s just a lovely human being. My personal theory about Danny is that, the reason people… It’s weird that somebody who has played so many demented, evil, rotten characters in films in the past is so loved by the general public.

I think it’s because as a human being, a person we like, he’s such a sweet, loving, family-oriented, good-hearted guy. That no matter how evil the character he plays, and how evil he plays it, somehow that good name still comes through. And becomes sort of amazing, in a sense that he can play such horrible characters, and still have you love him.

And Stephen was just great, because coming off a show like 7th Heaven, he has a tendency to come off as so vanilla, and so nice, and so sweet. And to twist that around and push him in this world with these awful, selfish human beings, and have him actually be one of their family members, that’s just a fun thing to play with.

He right away last year came on, and embraced that fully. We wanted him to come on, in the sense, to do what he does really well. Which is just be a sweet, sweet man. But he’s such a brilliant actor, and he’s so funny on the show, and he is coming back this year as well.


(BTV) And what about the woman who plays your mother, Anne Archer? Is she coming back as well?

(G.H.)You know what? I’m gonna leave that, it’s a little bit of a secret. There’s a little twist on that, and yeah. So in a sense, yeah, that will be a story point this year.


(BTV) OK, well, thank you very much for talking to us, Glenn. And I hope that in season four, your character finally gets a puppy.

(G.H.) We have talked about building a storyline just based on that title, so hopefully someday that will happen in the future.

-Interview conducted by John Kubicek
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Hola, aqui esta una intrevista de Kaitlin Olson que encontre en IGN.com. Disfruten:

http://tv.ign.com/articles/814/814289p1.html



It's Always Sunny Being Kaitlin Olson
Exclusive: The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star talks about Season 3 and her return to Curb Your Enthusiasm.
by Eric Goldman

August 21, 2007 - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans had reason to celebrate this past week as the show debuted its first episode in a year on the official It's Always Sunny MySpace page, which is available to watch until August 23rd. Recently I spoke to one of the stars of the hysterical show, Kaitlin Olson, to chat about the return of the series, which -- following the special online preview episode -- has its official third season premiere next month on FX.

If you haven't seen It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you're missing out. The anything goes comedy focuses on the exploits of four friends -- played by Olson and series producers/writers Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton -- and the rather shockingly selfish lengths they'll all go to, along with Danny DeVito as Olson and Howerton's just as bad father. So far on the series Olson's character Dee has dated a high school boy, faked being crippled, and become addicted to both steroids and crack, to name just a few of her transgressions.

During our conversation, Olson gave me some hints on what's to come on It's Always Sunny this season; talked about returning to Curb Your Enthusiasm in her recurring role as Larry David's sister-in-law; and reminisced about her days as one of Ashton Kutcher's accomplices on Punk'd.




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IGN TV: It seems like you guys keep outdoing yourself with the outrageous content on the show. In Season 3, do you think you do again?

Olson: Yeah! I think we just try and challenge ourselves. It's a little bit more of the same, but we start to get numb to how crazy things are and we just get bigger and bigger and just try and shock ourselves. And we did it!

IGN TV: I was highly amused at the Q&A you guys did back in January to hear that there's an episode this year called "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby."

Olson: That's a pretty good one! Finding a baby in the trash is always funny.

IGN TV: What's going on for Dee in Season 3?

Olson: Oh, Sweet Dee… I would say she gets her hopes up a lot. Nothing ends up really working out, but she's trying to compete a little bit more with the guys, in terms of getting in there and doing things. I have a couple of funny storylines.

IGN TV: In Season 1 it seemed like Dee wasn't quite as bad as the guys, but as time has gone on…

Olson: Yeah, really now I think we're all equally as self-centered and terrible. That's good, because it's more fun to play!

IGN TV: How do you maintain the balance of playing awful people, yet oddly likable awful people?

Olson: Well because I think we're never mean to anybody else, or everyone else we pick on always comes out the winner which makes us look like idiots. I think that's much funnier than picking on other people and having them lose. I think it's endearing because we're just idiots and we're just doing things for all the wrong reasons.

IGN TV: Everyone I know who watches this show is really, really into it.

Olson: Awesome!

IGN TV: Is that what you encounter with fans?

Olson: Yeah, we have like a really cool underground sort of dedicated group of followers, which is really amazing.

IGN TV: Do you have a certain episode or storyline they seem to respond to the most?

Olson: I do. I get a lot of people liking "Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare" and "100 Dollar Baby." I think people like when I take drugs!

IGN TV: That montage set to "You're the Best" in "100 Dollar Baby" is pretty masterful.

Olson: Yeah, yeah! Come on, that's amazing. We have a couple homages to other movies this year.

IGN TV: Any hints you can give on what's to come?

Olson: You might see a Die Hard homage. You'll see the McPoyle brothers again. That's always fantastic. You meet some more of the McPoyle clan this year. The waitress comes back for a few episodes.

IGN TV: We have met the McPoyle sister before, right?

Olson: There was a sister. She comes back and she still doesn't speak. She's still a deaf mute.

IGN TV: There was some really funny stuff for Dennis and Dee's family last season, especially the episode with Stephen Collins.

Olson: Yeah! Stephen Collins comes back for one episode. We address the fact that Dennis and Dee might not really be Frank's kids; it might be Charlie [who's related to Frank]. You'll have to see what happens with that.

IGN TV: One of my favorite moments on the show is one of the most random, when the gang is singing "More than Words."

Olson: [Laughs]. The reason that's awesome is because the beginning of that scene was just a couple of throwaway lines until Danny's entrance. And it was just not funny. I mean it wasn't supposed to be funny, but we were like "Instead of just sitting here, talking about nothing, why don't we just start singing?" So that's why that was done. That just came from playing around. It wasn't scripted; we just decided to do it.

IGN TV: It was awesome, especially how you guys were harmonizing.

Olson: I know. And Charlie coming up at the end, from being passed out on the bar.

IGN TV: The guys told me how they wrote all of Season 1 before you were cast, so they feel in Season 2 they really had learned how to write material that fit you even better. Did you feel it clicking in more and more?

Olson: Oh, absolutely. I mean now, I feel like I've known them forever. Now we're all friends. They know the stuff that they like that I do, so they write more of that and they obviously like to see me take drugs and get loud and crazy! So there's a lot of that that goes on. They've done a really wonderful job and I'm really happy with where the character went. In the beginning, they weren't really writing for anyone. They were writing for themselves, but they didn't have this character figured out. Now I think they've done a really amazing job writing for me. I feel really good about the stuff I get to do.

IGN TV: Any chance we might see you back on Curb Your Enthusiasm soon?

Olson: You'll see me for one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm this year. I come in because it's a good big story point, so I'm not going to say anything. Something big happens.

IGN TV: Is it nice to get to pop over there once in awhile?

Olson: Yeah, it's really fun. It's great, because that show is completely improvised. And while our show is scripted, I still get to hone those skills, because we play around so much. On Curb Your Enthusiasm now it's much less nerve wracking than it was at the very beginning, when I was like "What?! There's no script?" It's just fun, because I'm more used to it.

IGN TV: What was it like being on Punk'd and basically being in an improv scene with someone who doesn't know they're in an improv scene?

Olson: By the time I did Punk'd I was so used to hidden camera stuff, because I'd done so much of it. I'd done a whole series for FOX called Meet the Marks, which was all hidden camera, and we shot a lot of that. That's tough, because yeah, the person standing right in front of you does not think that what you're doing is funny. So you really have to keep your mind focused on the fact that you think it's funny, and somewhere, someone's watching behind cameras laughing. It's tricky! You have to be willing to have someone hate you for a few minutes, until they figure out that you're not that much of a jerk.

IGN TV: Were you ever thinking, "Oh no, this person is really freaking out on me"?

Olson: Well Amber Tamblyn started crying. That was sad. And Beyonce, she just hated my guts.

IGN TV: But was it cool after you were like "I'm with Ashton! It's okay!"?

Olson: [Laughs] No!

IGN TV: [Laughs] That's unfortunate.

Olson: Yeah, at the end, you're like "Oh no! Punk'd!" and at that point people are like "I do not care!" They make it look on TV like people are all into it, but nobody likes to be tricked like that.



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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 3 premieres Thursday, September 13th on FX.
_________________
"This is the strangest life I've ever known" The Doors
"What is this but my reflection, who am I to judge or strike you down?" TOOL
"I will move away from here, you wont be afraid of fear" Nirvana
"Don't disturb the beast" A Perfect Circle

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Hey, this is from TVSquad.com. It's a video on why Danny DeVito did another season of It's Always Sunny In Philedelphia. It's very funny, WARNING MATURE CONTENT! VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED. Enjoy:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/09/08/find-out-why-devito-stuck-around-for-a-third-season-of-its-alwa/
_________________
"This is the strangest life I've ever known" The Doors
"What is this but my reflection, who am I to judge or strike you down?" TOOL
"I will move away from here, you wont be afraid of fear" Nirvana
"Don't disturb the beast" A Perfect Circle

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Hey, here's another interview with Kaitlin Olson this time from BuddyTV.com. Enjoy:

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/exclusive-interview-its-always-10812.aspx



Exclusive Interview: 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Star Kaitlin Olson

Kaitlin Olson plays "Sweet" Dee Reynolds on the raucous FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which begins it's third season tonight with back-to-back episodes starting at 10pm. The only girl hanging out with a group of crude guys in a Philadelphia bar they own, Olson holds her own, delivering a hilarious performance, such as when she starred in the show's parody of Million Dollar Baby or when she and her brother Dennis (Glenn Howerton) went on welfare by becoming crack addicts.

Kaitlin spoke to BuddyTV about how she originally started on the show, what it's like working with a bunch of guys, including Danny DeVito, and what viewers can look forward to this season. Below you will find a transcript as well as the mp3 audio file of the interview.

BTV: Hi, this is John from Buddy TV, and we’re talking with Kaitlin Olson from the hilarious FX comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Hi, Kaitlin.

K.O.: Hilarious? Hi there.


BTV: Indeed, I believe it is hilarious, I absolutely love this show.

K.O.: Thank you, I do too.

BTV: I’m glad to hear that. Now, it began obviously when Rob McElhenney… how do you pronounce that name?

K.O.: Yeah, McElhenney.


BTV: McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton, they shot this pilot and sent it to FX, and they agreed. But how did you get involved?

K.O.: I did it the old-fashioned way, just auditioned for it. Not that exciting of a story, their story is better, but I did beat out thousands and thousands of girls.

BTV: And how did that work? Were those three the ones deciding, and they just liked you the best?

K.O.: They were all in the room along with a couple of other producers. I just went in, did the audition, and it was actually a scene with Charlie. That was my audition scene and Charlie read with me, and it was just fun.

I could tell right away when we walked in, we started talking, that we kind of all had the same sense of humor. So by the time I started the audition, I was just relaxed, because these guys are awesome and very friendly and fun. It was actually a really fun audition, which never happens.


BTV: Now with these guys, the show is very guy humor-related. It seems like a boys’ club with those three creating, writing, producing, starring in it. Do you ever feel left out as sort of the only girl on the show?

K.O.: No, I feel happy to be the only girl on the show. We get along really well, we’re all really good friends now, I don’t feel left out. I think that they were surprised that a girl could hang out and have fun with them, and I was like, “Really? You guys don't know any funny women? That’s too bad.”


BTV: Your show is very politically incorrect, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. Has FX ever said no, that you’ve crossed a line?

K.O.: No. It’s funny, FX has been known to tell us they want us to sort of push it a little bit more. And we're kind of like, "Umm, more than this?" There’s a fine line, I think, that sort of making fun of stuff and being outside of the box is really funny. But then I think we know when we’re crossing the line and sort of going into something that’s mean.

We voluntarily don’t do that because it’s just not funny, not because we’re being nice, but because it’s just not funny anymore. I think that those guys are inherently very funny people, and the writing’s just really good, and it kind of just naturally doesn’t go too far, because shock humor’s not really funny to us.

BTV: And have you ever pitched an idea for your character or for the show? They’re usually in charge, I think, of writing most of the episodes. But are any of the ideas yours?

K.O.: Like I said, we really are all good friends, and we just kind of hang out and have barbecues and drink beer and make each other laughs, and oftentimes the stuff that we’re talking about and laughing about end up on the show. So in that sense, I have. I pretty much can look at the script and say “Oh OK, I wanna do this and say this.” And they’re like, “Oh, that’s a good idea, let’s try that.”

But for the most part, they’re writing is so amazing that I don’t find myself feeling like they lack for storylines, and trying to pitch stuff to them. I usually just read the scripts, and I’m really excited about what they’ve written for me.

BTV: You’ve worked on other TV shows as well, and I’m just wondering, how does this experience… ’cause this sounds like a completely different kind of experience than most people have on TV.

K.O.: Yeah, it really is. It’s a very unique experience, in that the actors that I’m working with are also the people that are in charge, and that never happens. So it’s a very collaborative effort, and I think whatever directors we have come on the show, I kind of feel bad for them. Because at the end when they yell cut, we kind of just all look at each other and give each other notes.

I think it’s unique in that way, and for that reason it’s much more fun, because I feel much more involved. I feel like I have a lot more say in what I get to do, in the actual words I get to say, and there are times when I’m like, “Oh, I’m gonna say this now,” and we try that and it just gives a little more freedom.

BTV: Yeah. Now, the third season which begins September 13, I believe. Danny DeVito coming back again, what is it like working with him? Because he seems, it almost seems like, “Oh, it’s this little show that sprung up on FX.” And then you get Danny DeVito.

K.O.: We were just as surprised that Danny loved the show and wanted to do it, because he’s certainly not doing it for the money. I don’t know, it’s a really amazing experience, mostly because Danny is such a wonderful man. He’s just this sweetheart, and he’s hilarious, and he’s fun to hang out with.

That’s kind of what you need on our show. You need to be funny, but also just a good person, good to hang out with. Because we kind of just show up, and then play around with each other, and that’s what makes it work.

BTV: Now also, with a lot of, you’ve had quite a few guest stars that I’ve been really surprised to see on a show as raunchy as yours. There was Dennis Haskins, Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell. Stephen Collins from 7th Heaven, Oscar-nominated actress Anne Archer. Is there anyone else coming up in the third season that you’re really excited about?

K.O.: Well, Stephen Collins is back in this season. He does an episode which I’m very excited about, it’s one of my favorite episodes, and he’s just a really wonderful person. I think that it takes a very special kind of acting to make a super sweet, nice character also interesting and funny. So he’s back, and I’m really excited about that.

BTV: That’s good to hear. And you also this season did a little cross-promotional work for FX, you guest-starred on several episodes of The Riches.

K.O.: I did, that was a really fun experience, too. That’s a very different show, but it was really awesome. Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard, equally amazing to work with, and it’s also just a completely different character. K.O.: So that was really fun to be able to do.

BTV: Yeah, that was a character with a prosthetic arm, how did that work?

K.O.: Yes, I have only one arm in that setup. It’s really fun, you just got to have a lot of patience for that, and it takes a long time to shoot.

BTV: And for the third season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you’ve already tackled abortion, religion, even child molestation or gun control. What topics are left for this show to cover?

K.O.: You’d think that we run out, but somehow we just keep making ’em worse and worse. We find a baby in a dumpster, that’s funny, and I get set on fire. At one point we tackle the North Korea situation, a lot of fun stuff coming up.

BTV: It barely sounds like you’re defining comedy, but people who’ve seen the show…

K.O.: Really, it’s hilarious.




-Interview conducted by John Kubicek
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http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/03/14/its-always-sunny-in-space/



It's Always Sunny... in space?
by Jonathan Toomey

Huge news for fans of the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Not only was the show recently renewed for a 13 episode fourth season, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, the show's creators have a new pilot in the works as well. Charlie Day, Rob McElhenney, and Glenn Howerton (first, fourth, and fifth from the left in the above picture respectively) have been tapped by FOX to write and executive produce a new sitcom about everyday life on a spaceship called Boldly Going Nowhere.

Originally pitched to the trio by their assistant, Day, Howerton, and McElhenney were busy wrapping up season three of Sunny. Once the strike hit, they had some time to think about future projects and the space idea stuck. After the strike ended, McElhenney and Day banged out the pilot in a few days and FOX entertainment prez Kevin Reilly picked it up almost immediately, with an order for five additional scripts.

It should be noted that the Sunny gang will not be starring in the show as they've made it clear that the FX comedy is their number one priority. However, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to see them make a few random goofy cameos.

I'm pretty excited about this. I'm glad that Sunny is still at the top of their list but my only fear is that this new project will suffer as a result. Plus, we all know how "wonderfully" FOX tends to treat new comedies in terms of scheduling. But if the script is as amazing as it sounds then it will just boil down to casting. This sounds like it might be right up Zach Braff's alley once that elusive final season of Scrubs is done.

Post-production on the fourth season of Sunny is expected to be done by the Fall, at which point the rest of the Boldly Going Nowhere scripts will be worked on. No date for the season four premiere of Sunny has been set by FX yet.
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Hey, the S3 dvd's will be released on Sept. 9th.
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The guys from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The TV Squad Interview
by Joel Keller

Starting tonight, everyone's favorite group of misanthropes from the City of Brotherly Love are back to invoke mayhem and generally make the lives of everyone around them miserable. And I can't wait.

Yes, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back for its fourth season on FX, and they're going to be around awhile, as the network picked them up for 39 additional episodes after this season's run of 13 are over. In addition, series creators Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton and Rob McElhenney will be working on a comedy for FOX called Boldly Going Nowhere, which is described as "Star Trek meets The Office." Imagine that: these guys are building an empire, all on episodes like this season's opener, where Mac and Dennis hunt down Cricket and Charlie and Dee become cannibals. You'll just have to watch it to get what I'm talking about.

I talked with Day, Howerton, and McElhenney about the upcoming season, the popularity of "Day Man / Night Man," their new show, and how co-star (and Rob's fiancee) Kaitlin Olson broke her back. Interview is after the jump.
Joel Keller: Last time I saw you was at the Santa Monica Pier; you were trying to make yourselves throw up.
Glenn Howerton: Oh yes, that's right. You caught us riding that fancy, fun, new ride they've got out there.

Rob McElhenney: That thing's **** awesome.

JK: Did you succeed...I don't think you'd drank enough at that point?
Glenn: Oh dude. We definitely had, and we definitely continued to. But that kind of a ride... The way that ride moves is basically the way I drive my car. So it didn't really faze me that much.

JK: Did any ride do it for you at all?
Glenn: Oh no, it was fun, it was fun.

Rob: I liked the Sea Dragon.

Glenn: The Dragon's fun. Viking ship, dragon ship thing is a blast, always.

JK: Anything surprising you saw at that at that party?
Glenn: You mean in terms of celebrities and things like that? Oh, God, I get so bored with all of them coming up to us and always wanting to ask us questions about the show. At this point, like, we've got so many celebrity fans that are clamoring to talk to us.

Rob: We're like Kiefer: back off.

Glenn: Kiefer, back off, bro.

Rob: Be cool, bro.

Glenn: Yeah.

Rob: Stop trying to wrestle me.

JK: Charlie, were you there...I didn't see you there?
Charlie Day: I was not there. I wasn't there. I don't remember. I had a previous engagement.

JK: So you guys are almost done shooting the entire season?
Glenn: We are done. We just wrapped the other day.

JK: Is this like the previous seasons where you shot in a condensed block of time or was this over more of an extended period?
Glenn: We had to take an extended hiatus in the middle of the 2 blocks. We shoot in blocks. We shot in 2 blocks this year. We had to take an extended hiatus between the 2 because of some injuries that happened, and some scheduling snafus.

Charlie: All in all, I think we shot the season in the same amount of time we usually do.

Glenn: Same number of days.

JK: Kaitlin (Olson, who plays Dee) got hurt...that was one of the injuries, right?
Charlie: Kaitlin hurt her back, yeah.

JK: I saw the the video emails that you have on the site, including Kaitlin's...was what she said on the video true about how she broke her back?
Rob: That happened. I was there, bro.

JK: What happened, what's the story?
Rob: Yeah, it's just like she said. Somebody picked her up over his head, they were doing like a cheerleading move, and she fell off the back of his fingertips onto the cement.

JK: Was this on the set?
Rob: It was at my house.

JK: Kaitlin's been getting hurt a lot lately, I've noticed?
Rob: Yeah. It's kinda her thing.

JK: How do you think the season went?
Glenn: I think this is our best season.

Charlie: Great. It went really well.

JK: Now that you're in your fourth season, have things gotten easier as far as writing, shooting, and the entire process?
Charlie: In some ways things have gotten easier, in terms of, I think, creatively, the 3 of us really feeling like we know what works and we know what we like. And our editors understanding the cuts better, and the writers that we work with getting the tone better. In that respect, things got easier. But because of our compressed schedule, due to the strike, and then mix in Kaitlin's injury, things were actually a lot harder. However, as a result, I think, yeah, it didn't affect things. It was harder for us: we worked longer hours. But the end product is just as good, if not better.

JK: How did the strike affect you guys?
Charlie: Well, last year, we started writing, gosh, what was it, in November or something... In November. And this year, we didn't start writing until after the strike, which was what, February...

Glenn: March.

Charlie: March.

Glenn: Yeah, last year, the 3rd season, we started writing...right, that's right, in November. And then the 4th season we started writing in March.

Charlie: But you know, but we're premiering the show at the same time. So we had much less time to do what we did last year.

Glenn: We had months less to do the work, yeah.

Charlie: So we're working 7 days a week.

JK: A lot of writers said the strike let them reset and see what viewers wanted or rethought what worked creatively... did that happen in your case?
Charlie: No, because I don't think we like to look back too much and overanalyze too much. I mean, we do, we look back at what we've done, and we had a lot of opinions. More so from a production standpoint: a lighting thing, or a way a set looks, than the creative content of the show, which we like to just keep moving forward and see what we find funny. And what we find funny in the 4th season doesn't always, isn't always predicated by what we found funny the 3rd season.

JK: What do you guys have in store...is the manhunters episode the first one coming out?
Rob: Actually, I think it's gonna be our 2nd episode (Note: FX confirmed that "Manhunters" will air first tonight).

Charlie: The first one deals with the gas crisis.

JK: What's the plot of that?
Charlie: The premise being that the guys decide, because of the energy crisis going on, and the gas crisis, that they can make a lot of money by buying a bunch of gasoline and storing it in the basement of the bar, waiting for the price to go up.

JK: And obviously, mayhem ensues, right?
Charlie: Yeah. And mayhem ensues because patience isn't exactly a virtue these characters possess.

JK: From the beginning you've always taken a small notion and let it spiral out of control. Like in the manhunters episode, it goes from Frank not wanting Dee and Charlie to invade his fridge, and it ends up with the two of them wanting to kill and eat a person. How do you go about spinning these little notions into these huge endings?
Charlie: You know, that might have something to do with how we write the show. I think because we don't write it in that traditional 3 act format that a lot of TV is in, and because we do just start from a place and finish in a completely spiraled, out of control-type place, like you're saying, that might sort of happen organically with our writing process. That we start with an idea, and then we just see where it takes these characters, based on what we know of these people, and then oftentimes, it just winds up there.

JK: Do you just say in the writer's room, like oh, now they want to go kill and eat a human?
Glenn: No, no, no, no. Actually not at all, not at all. We're very careful not to do that. That's something that all 3 of us sort of despise. I think you can't get to that place unless you've earned it, to some degree. And we're very careful to write it so that if you watch carefully, in the episodes, and hopefully what makes our show work, and the reason we are able to take it to those ridiculous places in such a short period of time, part of the comedy, I think, comes from watching the characters justify their actions every step of the way.

Charlie: Right. Oftentimes, we will have a thing like, ok, what if the characters wanted to eat human meat...how do we get to that place. And then we go back and we say...and we try and...

Glenn: Yeah, how could somebody actually get to that place in a way that you actually believe that the characters believe that what they're doing is going to get them what they want. What's frustrating to me about a lot of other comedies is that they don't do that. Characters just do ridiculous things and there's no **** reason behind it.

JK: What would be an example of that?
Glenn: Well, I mean, it happens on a joke-by-joke basis on almost television show on television. And every movie that comes out. I mean, not every one. There certainly are some good ones out there. But I think, you know, I mean look, I don't want to name any names...

Charlie: That's true. Sometimes, shows and movies are doing everything just to service the joke, as opposed to the idea or the scene. But it's tough, because it's specific and comedy, it is subjective. So you don't want to bash someone just because they have a different style.

JK: What are some plots you have coming up this year?
Rob: Well, the...we have a flashback to 1776, which we're really, really proud of. We have an episode in which we try to figure out who **** the bed: a little murder mystery. BD has a heart attack.

Charlie: We deal with healthcare in America.

Rob: Mac and Charlie die.

JK: I saw something in the blog where Mac and Charlie have to go to work for health insurance reasons?
Rob: Yeah, we wind up getting some side jobs to get some health insurance.

JK: That'll be interesting, because a lot of people are looking for health insurance...?
Charlie: We make ourselves sicker in our effort to get healthy.

JK: I notice that every season you try to get more ambitious with some of the episodes, like the hostage episode. What have you done that's ambitious this time...is it the 1776 flashback?
Charlie: That's a big one. You know, I mean, with the hostage episode, it was a stretch in a different direction, and saying let's stay completely in the bar. And let's try a more tense show, and that'll be new. And with 1776, it's let's go to a different...same place, but a different era.

Rob: And we have a musical episode.

Charlie: Not like Drew Carey style, but an episode in which we perform a musical.

JK: A full musical, not like Day Man and Night Man?
Charlie: Oh no, no, it's called "The Night Man Cometh."

JK: Were you surprised how popular that got?
Charlie: Very surprised.

JK: Did people come up to you in airports and the streets?
Charlie: And showing me their ringtone.

JK: Were people repeating lyrics to you, stuff like that?
Charlie: Yeah. It was pretty crazy. I had people burst out into song in a restaurant that I was in, just because they saw I was there. A group of about 3 separate tables who didn't know each other all started singing dayman when they saw me.

JK: Who wrote that song?
Charlie: Ah, I wrote that song...a lot of the lyrics were... (Scott) Marder and (Rob) Rosell, our writing team, Glenn contributed the "aaaahhhhs." Like everything we do, a lot of people's input goes into making the final product.

JK: So nobody can say it was from their personal experiences or anything like that?
Charlie: (laughs) Personal experiences, no.

JK: I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about Boldly Going Nowhere. When's that set to debut?
Charlie: Well, we're just, we're shooting the pilot this November. So when it airs, or when it would go on the air is entirely subjective.

JK: How'd you come up with that idea?
Charlie: Our assistant.

Rob: Our writer's assistant actually came up with it.

Charlie: Our assistant came up to us and said hey, I had this idea for a show. And we were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what is it. And then, you know, he was talking about it being set in space, and we were like, you know, that is a really great idea. And then we went and wrote it.

JK: Are you guys going to be on it at all or just doing the writing, producing...?
Charlie: We're going to write it, we're going to produce it, and maybe we'll pop on here and there in a guest role. But certainly, we're committed to Sunny for many future seasons.

Is the show going to be in the style of Sunny? Not the setting, but the conversational, everyone talking over each other kind of style?
Charlie: I mean, that's what we're setting out to do. And then like anything else that you do that's creative, it always becomes a little something different than what you first imagined. But right now, it's probably going to be in a very similar tone.

JK: Kevin Reilly (FOX Entertainment president) seemed very enthusiastic about the prospects of Boldly Going Nowhere. Were you surprised at his enthusiasm?
Charlie: Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. I think they're in the market for a live action comedy that has some of the success of some of their animated shows. And I think they like the success and popularity of Sunny, and they like the newness and the style. So I understand their enthusiasm, and hopefully we'll deliver for them.

JK: Does that put any additional pressure on you?
Charlie: **** it. If we **** it up, we're not the first guys to do that at FOX. (laughs)

Glenn: We're just working hard, and it's going to turn out really well.

JK: What does the new contract for Sunny mean to you guys?
Charlie: It helps us out in terms of...

Rob: Scheduling...

Charlie: Certainly knowing what you're going to be doing with your life the next couple years. It doesn't help us in terms of having a life outside of Sunny, but it's a good problem to have.

JK: Does that mean you can set up more sane schedules, or will it be insane with 2 shows?
Rob: It definitely helps us just take a look at the year and figure out like, ok we know what we're going to be doing this year, we know what we're going to be doing next year, and the year after that, and how many months is it going to take us. And then we can subtract from that, from that number, we can subtract that many months, and see how much time we have to work on other things.

JK: Was the pick up surprising to you...how many episodes are you contracted for?
Charlie: I don't even know. Like, a million, was it...50...

Glenn: I think it's 39 additional episodes.

Charlie: It surprised us, because it was something that has been in the works for a while. They've been running different scenarios, and seeing which ones made sense for their company.

JK: Finally, do you think that the September launch date has helped you out? Are college students are watching from their dorms?
Charlie: Maybe. It's tough to say. I mean, we're on Thursday night at 10:00, and if college now is anything like it was when I was there, the kids are out drinking. So I don't know from a scheduling standpoint. But...and that's FX's job though. We're just trying to make the funniest show we can make, and then they'll put it on when they can put it on, and we'll see what that does. But it seems like we got a big jump in the ratings last year, and hopefully people are watching their TV at that time.



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From IGN:



It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Back
We catch up with the cast and talk Season 4.
by Eric Goldman

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for a fourth season this Thursday night and to prepare, IGN recently paid a visit to the set, to see what the gang at Paddy's Pub is up to. We were able to sit down with series stars Rob McElhenney ("Mac"), Glenn Howerton ("Dennis"), Kaitlin Olson ("Dee") and Charlie Day ("Charlie") to get some insight into how Sunny comes together and what's to come in Season 4. In addition to their starring roles, McElhenney, Howerton and Day serve as writers and producers on the series, and also discussed how they go about doing some serious multitasking.




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Question: What's it like in the writers room? How structured is it?

Rob McElhenney: I don't know in terms of comparing it to other writers rooms, because I've never been in other writers rooms. I've been to the writers room of Lost, but I was only there for a couple of hours. That seemed a lot more structured than what we do! But that being said, we come to work every day at 9 or 10 and we stay until 6 or 7 and it's structured in so far as we are working hard pretty much all the way through there. But we try to create a pretty open and creative environment where everybody's ideas are heard and yet also try to keep it moving forward and have a basic direction for the day. But it's a pretty open environment.

Q: You guys film in very distinct sort of "clumps" it seems. You have Danny [DeVito] for a certain amount of time and film scenes from several episodes with him, and you go to Philadelphia and film scenes from multiple episodes there. You always film out of order on a TV series, but is it really hard to keep focused when you're filming multiple episodes at the same time?

Kaitlin Olson: Yeah, it's confusing. I mean, you have to know the script backwards and forwards, otherwise, you find yourself shooting something and it seems fine, and then two weeks later you find yourself shooting the scene that was right before that other scene and you realize that you should have started that scene really angry - like you should have come into that scene really pissed off. I'll read them all once or twice, but a couple of months goes by and you're like, wait, where are we in the story? So it's a little confusing. Everybody, every department feels that way, so I can ask wardrobe what just happened, I can ask makeup what just happened, because everyone's trying to keep track of it.

Glenn Howerton: We've had the advantage of not only just writing it, but also acting it. Because when we write, especially when we're going through the rewrite phase, we're acting everything, the three of us. Not only our roles, but everybody else's roles too, so we have the advantage when we come to set of knowing exactly how we want not only the script but how we want to play the scene.

Q: Do you find it stressful wearing so many hats?

McElhenney: It definitely can be taxing, but it's also a part of the fun. We like the pace. Each year presents its own challenges. This year, because of the writers' strike, we had a lot less time to make the show. Also, we had a couple of issues with actors and their availability. And so it always presents it issues, but we always get through it.

Day: It's stressful because the buck stops here. So I think anytime something's not going well, you can't say, oh, well, the stupid writer or the stupid directors didn't get this right, you know? You can't point a finger at anyone else… although we do. We point fingers constantly. But I guess the stress is something that we set on ourselves, with the expectation that we have of the episodes.

Howerton: But it's like Rob said, it's less stress and it's more taxing. I mean, just acting for twelve hours a day is taxing enough. But then, in between breaks, we're making phone calls, we're doing rewrites… Sometimes we're popping up to the editing room to make sure that things are going well there, like if there are any sound problems. So it's less about stress as it is about literally being exhausted.

Q: You guys push the boundaries pretty good on your show. What can fans look forward to in this upcoming season?

Howerton: Well, what we've discovered when we finally, for the most part, ran out of these sort of largely-themed worldwide taboos and things that people deal with like abortion and stuff, was that you can pretty much take it to the limit with even the smallest of subjects. We're doing some very simple episodes this year too. We're doing an entire episode that is literally just about Charlie finding out that the waitress is dating somebody else. And the entire episode then revolves around who is going to help him, who is best suited to help him - who is his best friend? And then the whole episode kind of becomes about am I best friends with Charlie or is Mac best friends with Charlie? Who is best friends with who?

Day: I want to put an asterisk on that statement. Because a lot of times, some of the skepticism I heard was, well what are these guys doing to do when they run out of big topic type things? And I don't want to say that we ran out of them, because I think that life is always coming up with them, so we're just sort of shining a mirror on certain things as they happen. And you know, this year we went after what's going on with the gas crisis in America and what's going on with the mortgage crisis, although that episode had to get pushed because of Danny's availability. But in some ways, I don't think we're ever going to run out of taboo things or [topical] things. Because something is always popping up in real life.

Olson: You can do that type of humor with anything. It doesn't have to be those big universal things like abortion and whatever. You can take anything and if you explore it well you can make it funny.

Howerton: Yeah, absolutely. And certainly what Charlie said is true. We're dealing with the gas situation this year, health care, torture…

McElhenney: Charlie and Dee get addicted to human meat.

Howerton: Cannibalism.

Olson: We try and figure out who pooped the bed. That's universal and topical!

Q: Is there something that you won't do? Like a subject that you will never write about?

Howerton: I don't think so. I mean, that's an interesting question. We've never found any. We're doing an entire episode this year that is dealing with rape and pedophilia. Well, maybe not dealing with it.

Olson: Yeah. That's exactly right. A whole episode not dealing with pedophilia.

Q: Is that the cannibalism episode?

Day: Yeah, that's how you deal with a pedophile!

Q: What can you say about Danny DeVito this season?

Day: Danny was great this year and I think audiences will be really pleased to see some of the comedy he is doing. I think this year, for us, as writers, more so than any year, we just had a lot of fun with his character and I personally think it's some of Danny's best acting ever. Some of the stuff he's done on this show this year I think is just outrageously funny. And I was a big Taxi fan and I've loved him in a lot of his movies, but I think we've passed some of those things, personally. So I think the fans will get a real kick out of Danny in a lot of these episodes this year. And I feel like we've really figured out how to write to his strengths. One of my favorite scenes he did was when he and Dennis go to a swingers party and Danny's saying how these people are elite swingers society and you're expecting something out of Eyes Wide Shut . And it turns out to be just a bunch of sad old people around a buffet. Danny is just great in the scene.

Howerton: In the gas crisis episode, the three of us come up with a scheme on how to make money by buying gas now, waiting, and then selling it later because gas prices keep going up and up. In the meantime, Dee and Frank are in this storyline about Bruce, our real father, played by Stephen Collins. He's giving all of our mom's money to a Muslim community center, so they're convinced that he's working with terrorists. And so a lot of the stuff that he does in that episode is really great, because he's going around trying to gather Intel. All of his Intel is bad, but he's using it anyway. Then [Frank] ends up becoming more and more paranoid as the episode continues and he starts to think that Sweet Dee's in on the whole thing, so he ends up waterboarding her to get information from her.

Day: There's an episode, speaking of dealing with big social topics, where we deal with what's going on with health care. We come to find that Dennis and Dee and obviously Charlie and Mac have no health care coverage. However, Frank, with his wealth, does have access to health care and medications. It's all sparked by Dee having a heart attack, which gets Mac and I are fearful of not being covered. But Danny, because of his ability to get medicine, over-medicates. It sort of deals with people taking all sorts of different drugs and medications to solve every little problem. And so he ends up taking as much medication as he possibly can, which sets him on a little bit of a wandering spell and sort of winds up in a Cuckoo's Nest type of situation in a mental hospital somewhere.

Q : Is it cool for you guys as you have more characters like Cricket, Bruce and the McPoyles, that give you this populated universe and characters you can pull back in once in a while?

Day: I think that's the charm of any successful television series. That you sort of know and love this world and it exists within the twenty minutes that you watch. Seinfeld was like that, with all the characters coming in and out, and The Simpsons did it better than any show out there with all of their lovable characters. And you know, Cheers. They all did it. So how could you not do it?

Q: Any notable guest stars this year?

Olson: We do have [Matchbox 20's] Rob Thomas on the show this year.

Day: He teams up with Sinbad…

Q: Sinbad the comedian?

McElhenney: Yeah, Sinbad and Rob Thomas. They make quite the team.

Howerton: I run into them in a rehab facility. They're in rehab. They've ruined their lives with drugs and alcohol. Sinbad has made Rob Thomas his b*tch in the rehab [center] and he sets about trying to also make me his b*tch.



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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 4 premieres Thursday, September 18th at 10:00pm ET/PT on FX.



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