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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Title Card Parodies are spoofs applying the title-card joke in It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia to various other situations. In the show, the title cards appear after a cold open and are often worded humorously to directly contradict the last line said before its appearance. In the parodies, an Always Sunny-esque title card is added to a non Always Sunny scene or quote, mimicking the dramatic irony of the show's title-card joke.

Origin

The first episode of Always Sunny "The Gang Gets Racist," aired on August 4th, 2005.^[1] At the beginning of the show, the cast of characters meets a black man and the male characters attempt to prove to him that they're not racist, leading to the punchline, a title card which reads "The Gang Gets Racist."

While it's unclear when the parodies started, one of the earliest known examples was posted to Tumblr by balphesian^[2] on July 27th, 2013, in a post that gained over 47,000 notes and referenced actor Always Sunny actor Charlie Day's role in the action film Pacific Rim (shown below).

Spread

In the coming years, dozens of image and video parodies appeared online. In each example, the humor stems from the fact the viewer understands the outcome, and this dramatic irony is referenced in the title card. On July 25th, 2015, Redditor senntenial^[3] posted a generator to the Always Sunny subreddit one could use to make their own title card. One of the most popular examples, posted by Jose Anaya, uses the card with the Star Wars prequels as its source material and gained over 1.5 million views (shown below).

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