“A sitcom essentially takes life situations and makes them less boring through unlikely, quirky, and slightly absurd twists. Something always happens in a sitcom — someone gets sick, or a miscommunication causes problems — but there is always a resolution, and in hindsight, the conflict was wholly innocuous. Sitcoms often try to depict TV life as a considerably less boring version of our lives, but that their reach is so limited often makes the shows boring in of themselves. (A county fair gone awry, Tracy Jordan is acting up again!). That our sitcoms, embroidered versions of our lives, start to feel boring is a testament to the prevalent sterility and innocuousness of our daily lives (Wake up, go to work, come home, family time, watch TV, et cetera). It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, if only for a mere twenty-two minutes a week, gives us a chance to enter a world without stakes; their idle schemes are the elixir for our idle generation. For those twenty-two minutes we don’t need to pretend about how boring our lives can be. We can accept it,rage against ennui, and become nihilists: throw glass bottles, blow up cars, be mean to homeless people, make fun of religion, not care about other people, try all of the drugs especially (and frequently) huffing glue, go on welfare just for the fun of it, make fun of molestation, get black-out drunk, dabble in possible incest, hang out under the bridge or in sewers, and generally just act like the stupid, selfish, destructive, children we all want to be from time to time.”
– https://medium.com/editors-picks/cac888bc7f8e
shaun james bockert 