It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – The sound at the end of the show
[updated Nov. 14th, 2012 - now up to Season 8]
Adam introduced me to the television show “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” It’s been very helpful to my healing process – laughter is the best narcotic.
The show is on FX, and is freaking hysterical. I cant think of any episode that hasn’t had us cracking up, and me saying “Oh my god I cant believe they just did that.” Several times we have rewound (not sure the proper term with a DVD) scenes to play them again and again.
Im curious how many other gals like the show. Some of the humor is twisted and childish, but I seriously think they do an amazing job writing the show. It’s very low budget, at least in the beginning it was – but the stories and characters are so well done.
Sometimes I’m reminded of Seinfeld and how uncomfortable I was when George Costanza would do something stupid. These characters do something every show, but are sometimes such a$$holes, that it’s okay somehow. I don’t feel as uncomfortable. Except Charlie. We love him. He’s like a puppy dog or something, you can’t get too mad because he doesn’t know what he is doing. Karate…Snow mobile…chop set? OMG.
The story of how the show came to be (as seen on the DVD) – is really inspiring. They just went for it – submitting the pilot to different stations – and now it is a hit tv show on FX.
So, low budget and all, at the end of the show, after the credits roll, an image of three main characters is shown along with a sound clip that plays backwards. Pretty simple for them to do, but it has had me intrigued.
The desire to know the deeper meaning behind the sound intensified as I realized they changed it from one season to another. As we started Season 4, I really wanted to know. I searched the Interwebs looking for the real message but could not find anything.
So, I fired up Audacity to play with the clips.
For those of you who always wished you could tell what they were saying – here you go:
(I haven’t posted my interpretation on what they are saying, in case you wanted to try and figure it out for yourself)
Season 1 – As heard at end of episode
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Season 1 – In Reverse
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Season 2 – As heard at end of episode
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Season 2 – In Reverse
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Season 3 – As heard at end of episode
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Season 3 – In Reverse
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Season 4 – As heard at end of episode
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Season 4 – In Reverse
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Season 5 – As heard at end of episode
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Season 5 – In Reverse
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Update: November 7th, 2010
Thanks for all of the fun feedback – I did this to satisfy my own curiosity and glad it can help others!
Finally the Xmas Special and Season 6!
I missed out on the Xmas special as the stores had already sent it back! I kept looking everywhere, even London but they had NO IASIP!!!
(How can they not see the comedic genius???)
Sorry for the delay, I just got a Mac, and figured out I could get them from iTunes! So worth the money!!! Enjoy!
Xmas Special - As heard at end of episode
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Xmas Special – In Reverse
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Season 6 – As heard at end of episode
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Season 6 – In Reverse
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Update: October 15th, 2011
SEASON 7 !!! Would have been faster had I read my own post and remembered iTunes!
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Season 7 – In Reverse
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Update: November 14th, 2012
SEASON 8 !!! It’s been too long for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia!
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Season 8 – In Reverse
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