It's hilarious how Frank sits down with a therapist for 5 minutes, and immediately goes into the most heartwrenching tragic event of his entire life, unprompted.

Rum Ham was the greatest tragedy of all time.

De Vito deserved an Emmy for that performance

All British comedy shows are just watching a man suffer as his life falls apart. Think of Fawlty Towers. The British love suffering because they’re all sad.

Funny that you chose the Charlie has Cancer scene to start your critique, this was actually the scene that Rob McElhenney has said that he built the entire show around.

In the scene with Frank talking about the nitwit farm, I think the jump cuts as he spirals through those emotions work with the overly dramatic music to exaggerate the performance. That and the repetition of 'you unzipped me' really bring it home for me. The two biggest laughs are at the beginning when he claims his head is fort Knox and then immediately starts telling his story, and right at the end when he continues to moan after you see the therapist reaction to his breakdown.

"aw you unzipped me" The greatest words Danny DeVito has said since "Suicide is badass!"

She had no lips, but her mouth was still very much in play 😂

Baby croaked

Comedy gets funnier the more realistic the setting is. I learned that from Gene Wilder.

I think the fact that Frank is sat there, being as depraved as always, spitting constantly and making an enormous mess adds to the comedy.

This shows smug aura mocks me

Speaking of music in a scene, Charlie's molestation intervention is art. The slowly advancing point to the doll, Mrs. Kelly's sobbing, Uncle Jack and the McPoyle's perverse and eager anticipation. Had to have seen that episode a dozen times by now and it still kills. Again, it's a sensitive topic, but it's so exaggerated and over the top.

Ok but tragedy isn’t just bad things happening to a character, it’s when the protagonist tries to do the right thing but their intentions get reversed

Fix the volume from clip to clip. Normal volume into barely audible scenes??

I thought Charlie actually was molested by his uncle jack

With a plastic bag for a helmet!!

Another thing that makes the scene work with Frank is the editing. The jump cuts give the sense of someone quickly losing control. Compare to the more traditional, naturalistic editing illustrated by the In Bruges clip.

*turns up volume to hear clips*....*listens*....*Blasted in the ears with commentary*

I appreciate your "social awkwardness" point example at the beginning, but I'm pretty sure the fact that Dennis is a sociopath is meant to explain why he doesn't actually want to talk about the cancer; he doesn't actually care enough

"She was always smiling...that's because she had no lips." Jesus this show is SO delightfully depraved and I am filled with shame by how much it makes me laugh 😂😂😂

Imagine that scene with charlie at the mall just with out the music.... creepy

I'm not even joking but the first time i saw the danny devito scene i cried

Thank you for talking about what no one cares to talk about. I'm a die hard fan of always sunny and this makes me happy. And my favorite episodes would have to be: The Cereal Defense, The Gang Gets Analyzed, The Nightman Cometh(of course), the Family Feud knock off episode, and Charlie Work

Im surprised you didnt tie in any clips of pondy trying to drink himself to death from mac kills his dad. would have worked well with the points youre making

Control your audio! I keep having to turn it up for the clips and then turn it down for your parts.

danny devito is a national treasure

the wolf cola plug always gets me

the audio levels are still pretty harsh, I kept adjusting my volume. anyways great video!

4:00 Charlie did get molested by uncle jack and the night man was his interpretation of it

HAHAHAHAHAHA uncle jack in “Charlie got molested” is the greatest. “Do it.....slow......slow” Forget sunny...how does ANY show get away with that?

This show made me laugh more per episode than any show on TV and kept doing it until last season, genius, thank you! To create a great comedic situations with same Characters for so long!!!

"This is dark."

I love Sunny and really love that last episode. Especially later when Frank unzips the story that the twins were really triplets but Dee and Dennis attacked "Donny "who would have been the good one" in the womb and tore him apart. Dennis dismisses the story as something that couldn't be true. But you know it so is.

I think Frank’s breakdown was also great due to the hilarious dialogue.

Really love your analyses of a show that seemingly doesn't require analysis! It's really insightful and adds a lot to my enjoyment of a great show

This show is a guilty pleasure for me. I feel like I am losing a piece of innocence when I am watching it.

oh my goodness. THAT'S MY FAVORITE SCENE TOO!

You sound like a big nerd who loves to analyze comedies and I wanna fuckin marry you

I love the irony in the fact that they sometimes refer to See as "Sweet Dee".

7:07 is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a TV Show. I was crying and had to rewind it. And the best part is I knew something like that was going to happen. But Charlie Day’s acting totally sold it for me. Also the scene with frank and “the frog kid” and how totally unprompted it was made me die too. This show is my favourite because it’s got this ability to make you laugh at fucked up shit harder than you should. Danny DeVito and Charlie Day make this show legendary in my opinion. Especially DDV. He’s such an amazing actor

So well articulated; a joy to watch, you're a connoisseur of the finer points of a show I have a true love of.

"WITH A PLASTIC BAAAG! FOR A HELMET!" LOL!!

Uncle Jack's reactions during the intervention has me cryin laughing every time.

When you first see the "did you fuck my mom" episode...You cry laughing; probably one of the funniest parts in any episode.

This is a very well done video aside from the enraging sound issue. This is unrelated but I was just watching the first 4 episodes of the first season (they'lre free with comcast) and it struck me how much the characters have changed. I hand't even noticed how the characters got progressively stupider and more selfish. It seems like with just about every other show of the format the characters stay exactly the same and the wacky hijinks around them is what changes, where with sunny theyproceed to get themselves into worse and worse situations. From the subtle things like mac slowly becoming gayer and gayer, to the obvious like charlie getting worse and worse at reading and writing. I have to wodner how much of that was plaanned from day one (thought it did seem to speed up a bit when danny devito came on). I saw an interview with vince gilligan from breaking bad talking about how he wanted his shows to break from the normal static "guy gets into predicament, guys gets out of predicament" fromula by having the character chnage and learn and grow after every predicament. It'ls one of a few similarities I've noticed between BB and IASP that I don't feel like going through right now because i need to go to bed and stop writng long, meandering cmments.

That's what I've always loved about that Frank scene is that all the therapist asks is "why don't you think therapists?" And he just fucking loses it and she's like "ah shit okay okay whoa let's talk about the dishes" and he just continues to fuckin lose it.

Seeing that you only have 3.3k followers was a surprise after I watched the video, very insightful and fun to watch along as you pick apart the scene, keep up the great work!

I think it goes even deeper than anything mentioned- what makes iasip so uproariously hilarious is that we know every episode will end in general sadness for the gang and the side characters. It's not just the presence of tragedy or dark humor, but the fact that the stories are crafted as tragedies rather than comedies.

wow i never realize frank's scene was that intense. thank you for analyses.

Wanted to write a comment about the audio volume halfway through but then you mentioned it yourself in the ending... And for some reason I still ended up writing that comment lol

Good video, but did you listen to this at all after making it? Your voiceover is really loud and the scenes are really quiet in comparison.

Great video, please continue doing this!!

"Got my first kiss there........................ It was terrible." That shit gets me every fucking time.

Didnt read many of the comments so I dont know if this was said, but just noticed, you called her Trudy Wiegel lmao, thats her character on Reno, not her real name lmao.

That scene cracks me up every damn time

I'm glad that you liked In Bruges, it's an amazing film.

The Charlie and santa scene is probably one of my favourite scenes of anything ever

From "this skull is fort Knox" to completely unzipped in seconds because of one unrelated question, I love Frank.

Since you mentioned the audio levels, I feel like I should mention that the TV show audio was too quiet for me on a phone. I kept having to adjust the volume up and down a couple clicks. Great video though. I love Sunny and you did a great job highlighting what makes it amazing.

grasshopper sounds without the grasshopper sound effect is much more emotional than weepy music

A lot of people are also thinking themselves to be at a higher moral standard than these people, when they don’t realise that each and everyone in this group has turned out how they are due to being a victim of horrible circumstance failing to realise that if they themselves grew up in a similiar situation to anyone in gang, they’d probably turn out very similiar, if not the same. It also begs the question for people like charlie: If you hang around people who do selfish and horrendous things your entire life, how would you know any better than those actions?

“In times like this, I like to quench my thirst with a delicious Wolf Cola”

great video, i really enjoyed this

Definitely failed to make the audio bareable I could hardly hear the show

Excellent video. So many videos talking about the complexities of always sunny, and they don’t actually break it down and give examples.

i could listen to you talk about this for hours

Would you be able to bring out audio meter when editing please. the video is great but just the audio lacks consistency. the voice track is so much louder than the sounds from the clip.

I don’t even know when you last uploaded but this videos content is so good you get a sub

I think what makes it better is that he said “my skull is Fort Knox” then a sentence he completely unzips

'Trudy Wiegel' does a great job too!!!! lol that was the best, she's somehow doing this after being a deputy, totally makes sense!

What’s the best episode you guys show people who are new to sunny? I start with the therapy episode so they can learn a lot about the characters in a short time but what do y’all think?

I got to go back at watch some of these

"Charlie Has Cancer" is IASIP's manifesto

Great video, audio levels where fine with me. Continue to have fun!

gang gets analysed is one of my all time faves

I read the description; thank you so much for suffering through youtube's dumbass policies so that we may learn. Great content, m8, subbed!

I wrote a collection of short stories each with a villain named "The King of Tragedy" and his brother "The King of Comedy"

“Trudy Wiegel” is actually Kerri Kenney, originally of The State sketch comedy series and the band Cake Like

I love ur synopsis dude

Im suprised theres no Joker "I used to think that life was a tragedy, but now I've realized its a comedy.

The real tragedy here was the sound mixing. Kept turning it up to hear what the characters were saying only to have the narrator screaming at me when it switched back.

Comedy is just tragedy, remembered

nice video man, audio levels were pretty painful. do you use premiere? if so check out the sound meter and try to keep all the levels between -6 and -12 dB. otherwise great stuff

In bruges is one of the best films. In my english class in high school, my mentor had the film poster on the wall.

“Trudy wigle” thank you that’s all I know her as no matter what she’s in 😂

I don't like the commentary on this video ..it's smug aura mocks me.

I really enjoyed this video, loads of good points and appreciation for he genius of the show and Mr Mephisto you have one sexy voice :)

One of my favorit scenes is when Dennis gets diagnosed lol "The smell!! Think of the smell you bitch!" lmao

In Bruges is a great flick

Love the video so much one thing tho It could be just me but the audio from clips you use seem to be way quieter than your voice. I gotta change the volume then your voice comes back super loud

I love these vids bro

Officer Trudy knocks it out of the park.

Hey bro loved the video! Could you work on making the audio for the TV shows and such a bit louder? It was difficult to hear the scenes from featured shows.

Thank you sir!

It would be great if you could do more Always Sunny Analysis videos on the newer episodes.

Danny Devito acted the shit out of that last scene. That was devestating. You should check out nerd writer. He makes similar content, video essays, and is a true master of the format. I like what you're doing, keep it up!

There's so much about It's Always Sunny that can be used to study human behavior. The effects the gang had on Cricket would be very entertaining. Through out the series the gang caused him to go from an upright father at a church to a homeless crackhead that gets rapped by dogs

I've always said to understand comedy, you have to have endured tragedy

Yeah, the audio levels were noticeable in this one lol