I just moved in to a new apartment, so I don’t have a TV right now.  It hasn’t been an issue yet (I usually watch my TV on Hulu.com, anyway), except that tonight I couldn’t watch the season premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, arguably the funniest show on TV, is also one of the most underrated shows on TV.  I have no idea why more people don’t watch it–everyone who I have introduced to it agrees that it is the funniest.  show.  ever.

IASIP (look, I can abbreviate!) follows the hysterical lives of Mac, Dee, Charlie, and Dennis, four friends in their late twenties who co-own a dive bar in Philadelphia, abuse drugs and alcohol, and are pathologically mean.  But it’s SO FUNNY.  The show has absolutely no deference to political correctness, and I have to admit, I kind of like it (it’s weirdly refreshing to see cable TV that unabashedly discusses abortion, homelessness, drug addiction, and prostitution in a completely mocking kind of way).  Plus, Danny DeVito plays Dee and Dennis’s dad and he is completely hilarious.  

For example, here is one of the funniest clips ever from It’s Always Sunny…

Oh, and there is this:

And this:

It could be the sickest show on television (short of those crazy crime shows, but that’s an entirely different blog post). But don’t take my word for it–watch it’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Thursdays at 10pm at FX, and you’ll see for yourself why this is the most underrated show on television since Arrested Development.