'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia': On the Set with Dennis, Mac, Charlie and Sweet Dee
By Carita Rizzo, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
HW: Is it cool to have more characters like that you can pull back in once in a while?
Charlie: 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 20 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, they all did it. So how could you not do it?
HW: What’s Rob Thomas doing on the show this season?
Glenn: He teams up with Sinbad –
HW: Sinbad the comedian?
Glenn: I run into them in a rehab facility. They’re in rehab. They’ve ruined their lives with drugs and alcohol. And Sinbad has made Rob Thomas his bitch in the rehab and he sets about trying to make me his bitch, also.
HW: You guys certainly push boundaries on your show. What can fans look forward to in this upcoming season?
Glenn: Well, what we’ve discovered when we for the most part ran out of these largely-themed worldwide taboos and things that people deal with, like abortion, 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. 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?
Charlie: This year we went after what’s going on with the gas crisis in America and what’s going on with the mortgage crisis.
Kaitlin: 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.