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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Its not just that the humor is unfunny (and basically just bigotry porn with a side of cringe), its that none of the "friends" in the show are even friends with each other. The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes and then you are supposed to think that its funny.
They take their twisted logic and antics to such extremes that it resembles a live-action version of some mid-20th century American cartoons. Same level of slapstick cruelty but the plotlines make it all more premeditated and sociopathic.
(I laugh hysterically at it, but I totally understand anyone who thinks it's depraved!)
Well, yeah, the whole show is based around each character being the worst narcissistic and self-serving asshole you can imagine, and then some.
I personally find it really funny, but I can sort of see why some people don't like it
I think it's supposed to be Seinfeld but moreso. Part of the humor is watching these assholes screw themselves over with their terrible plans.
This is a style that I first noticed with Archer, and it is very hard to do well. I enjoyed Archer, I enjoyed some of Rick and Morty, but I also recognize that I'd refuse to engage with someone like that in real life. Iasip takes it to the extreme of being genuinely unpleasant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyoWmkhRyp8
I like it, but it seems really overrated.