Read of the Week: ‘It’s Always Sunny’ has dodged cancel culture, controversy — and Emmys

Mind of Micah

MWBK Creative

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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Micah is back to talk about one of his favorite shows of all time, "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Support our sponsor: leesa.com/micah Read the piece here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/09/26/its-record-seasons-its-always-sunny-philadelphia-has-dodged-cancel-culture-controversy-emmys/ And the Medium piece mentioned as well: https://medium.com/@ramshackleglam/the-real-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-origin-story-852a0b17e75f

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Welcome to Mind of Myka.
0:09.0	Hello again, friends and welcome to another episode of Mind of Micah.
0:16.1	Today is the glorious return of Micah's Reed of the Week. Oh yeah.
0:25.0	Today's Reed is a jumping off point for something I've been wanting to talk about for a long time.
0:33.0	It's perhaps my favorite show on television.
0:37.0	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
0:40.0	Which premiered this week on Wednesday night for its 14th season.
0:47.0	That's a record.
0:50.0	Today's Reed comes to us from the Washington Post.
0:55.0	In its record 14 seasons, it's always sunny in Philadelphia
1:00.0	as Dodge cancel culture, controversy, and Emmys.
1:06.5	It's written by Travis M Andrews.
1:11.0	Always Sunny is one of the greatest shows ever. I'll just say it. I enjoy it. It's satirical. It makes
1:18.7	fun of other TV shows. It's hilarious. The characters are terrible in a lot of ways. They do terrible things to each other
1:28.9	they do terrible things to other people. It's sort of like Seinfeld on crack is the best way I've thought of it to be described
1:37.7	where Seinfeld was a show that there were no happy endings. There were no hugs.
1:43.0	And the same is certainly true for always sunny in Philadelphia.
1:48.0	Although Kramer, as wacky as he was, never smoked crack and got addicted like Dee and Dennis did in season 2, I believe, of always
1:58.3	sunny.
1:59.9	They never cleaned up the homeless issue making a mess all over the city.
2:07.0	Anyway, I digress. Today we're going to talk about always sunny in Philadelphia
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