We both love It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, at least until the last few seasons, which seem to have lost the originality and humor in our opinion. Nevertheless, we love the older seasons, and one of my favorite parts are the occasional ridiculous songs and musical numbers the gang performs. Many of these are original works by series creator Charlie Day, who plays Charlie Kelly on the show. His parents are both music teachers, and taught Charlie both piano and guitar. Here are some of my favorite original songs of his.
In this episode from season 9, the Gang wants to enter their bar in a local competition, and Charlie decides that Paddy's Pub needs a Randy Newman-esque theme song.
Except the the rest of the group decides (and spectacularly fails) to emulate a popular college bar nearby, and locks Charlie in the basement so he can't screw thing up. Eventually, when all their plans have gone awry, Charlie escapes the basement through the ductwork, where he has been visibly huffing paint. In the hopes that his song will lighten the mood, the gang lets him go for it, but the pain fumes have brought out his inner soul...
Here are some other takes of Charlie's Pub jingle that didn't make it into the the episode.
When the gang puts on a charity wrestling match "for the troops", the badass Eagle-Men the guys conceived did not come off as envisioned, despite the aid of drawn on ab muscles and this introductory musical number designed to pump up the crowd and add to the “pageantry”. The costumes didn’t turn out as planned, and the guys really wanted to make sure the fans knew they were man-birds, and not chickens.
Charlie wrote this song for the background, to go with Danny DeVito's ad lib, with Rob and Glenn (Mac and Dennis singing the vocals.
Not really songs, but Charlie and Dee's attempts at Def Poetry Slam are pretty great.
Not an original, but the Paddy's gang is killin' this Boys II Men hit!
