It's Always Sunny in my DVD Player

After over a year of not having cable, I am plugged back in but still only watch a few shows with an almost religious fervor. One of those shows is the outlandishly satirical series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” which airs every Thursday night on FX at 9 pm.
About two weeks ago, I made the wise investment of purchasing the first and second seasons on DVD and my roommate and I have been kept in hysterics by this edgy sitcom ever since. After I bought the DVD, I began looking up information about the show when I found my schoolwork too tedious to keep my attention. My favorite little morsel that I found about the show is on IMDB.com who describes It’s Always Sunny under the Tagline: It’s “Seinfeld” on crack.
The show is based on 4 (ass-hole) friends who are constantly arguing with each other about a vast array of topics: abortion, underage drinking, welfare, gun control, etc. They take these issues to extreme measures to prove a point about societal problems. For instance, in one episode, brother and sisters Dennis and Dee want to go on welfare but in order to do so they need something circumstantial in order to achieve welfare status. Queue Dennis and Dee getting addicted to crack in order to fulfill a welfare requirement.
Ever since the cancellation of “Arrested Development”, one of the most ingenious ideas for a sitcom ever, television has been in need of a program that will push the boundaries of ‘acceptable programming’. Although the Fox network has one of the longest hit/miss columns among major networks in terms of successes and failures, with “It’s Always Sunny”, they’re helping keep television from reaching an inevitably stagnant existence.