'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
The year is 1776, and the floor of Paddy’s Irish Pub lays covered in hay. A row of dimly lit lanterns illuminate Sweet Dee, Dennis and Mac, who even in the 18th century doesn’t appear to like sleeves. Dee is stabbing her brother in the arm. Over and over again. Sound confusing? Probably not, if you’re a fan of the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In fact, even the flashback to 1776, as told by Dee, Mac and Dennis on a quest to make their bar into a historical landmark, is so full of smutty jokes and references to bottom sex that there is no mistaking this show for any other.
The upcoming season, which premieres on Sept. 18, has Charlie and Dee getting addicted to human meat, the cast exploring the nation’s dire health care and gas crisis, “not dealing” with pedophilia, and dealing with the universal dilemma of who pooped the bed. By the time Dennis ends up in rehab with Rob Thomas and Sinbad, nothing will surprise you. Trust us.
After watching their homeless friend Cricket’s head get blown into a million pieces, we sat down with certifiably nuts Kaitlin Olson, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day to discuss whether anything –ever- is off limits.
Hollywood.com: So where did the idea for this episode come from?
Rob: Well, we wanted to do a flashback episode for a really long time, but we weren’t sure how to get into it. It actually stemmed from us going to Philly and taking historical tours. We were thinking how interesting it would be if we decided to try to make our bar a historical landmark and to be a part of the walking tour to get people to come into the bar and get drunk. So we told the story about how Paddy’s played a part in the American Revolution.
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HW: And how was it decided that Dee would be a slave?
Kaitlin: Why not? Isn’t that what you would guess? They think I’m a witch. A straight-up broom witch.
Rob: Well, we mix our history up a little bit. We’re telling the story to a woman who is the head of the historical society and we kind of mix our histories together.
HW: So the next step would be logically to do the future episode, right?
Kaitlin: Mmm, space?
Rob: We thought about that, but then we feel like that limits us for how we want to end the show.
Kaitlin: We’d have to end it in like Year Eight Million.
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