The longtime sitcom FX “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” has a dialogue that looks like nothing else on television. This does not sound everything that is scripted, the characters frequently screaming on each other and all cry at the same time. It is extremely chaotic but ultimately hilarious, and led some fans to wonder how much the series is really improvised. After all, we know that there are really magical moments that have been thought on the spot, as Charlie Day confusing his co-stars With “he doesn’t even understand, the man” in “the gang recycles their trash” or the character of Rob Mcelhenney Mac’s revelation that he hates women In “Mac and Charlie write a film.” But how much improvisation is “it always sunny”, really?

In an interview Vice Where he told his favorite episodes, the writer and Star Glenn Howrton, who plays Dennis, revealed that although there is a lot of improvisation that happens during the writing process, the series itself is actually more scripted than some people think.

One of Howrton’s favorite episodes is the “Mac and Charlie Die” with two parts, in which Mac and Charlie truly their death in order to hide from the recently released criminal father of Mac, and Howrton explained that when he, Mcelherney and Day write together, they laugh and improvise like the different characters. On the set, however, they do not aim to improvise a lot, although he admits that they play fairly quickly and loose with an exact phrasing:

“It is not really improvised. It’s more ad-libing. I will say the line as it wants to get out of my mouth at some point, and it is the case with all of us. We do not consider ourselves, EH, the scripted line is simply better. A little further and sometimes you go too far, but the script is just a roadmap.

This style of “Ad-Libbing” is the reason why the dialogue on “Sunny” seems so natural out of the actor’s mouth, and it is likely that we have obtained some of the biggest and ridiculous line deliveries in the long history of the series. Sometimes small accidents can lead to enormous moments, as The difficulty of the day pronouncing a word becoming the sadly famous “Pepe Silvia”, “ It is therefore great that they are not so precious with their scripts that they are not ready to become a little bizarre with from time to time.

Although Howrton does not want to call what the gang “improved” because they turn away from scripted equipment and do not offer it from the top of their heads, he also notes that sometimes a clumsy idea on the set can be transformed into much more. “I cannot tell you the number of times you get there on the day and someone will look for an accessory, then someone comments on this subject, then the next thing you know, the whole scene is on the duct,” he said. “As long as he pushes the story forward, you just make this version of the scene.”

That “yes, and” approach sure sounds Like improvisation, but for them, there is a distinction. This probably does not hurt that Howrton, Day and Mcelhenney are the main writers of the show and are all co -producers in addition to acting, so changing the scripts on the fly on the board is relatively fairly easy. For the most part, they have the ultimate say, so if they decide to Return the script to say, the words “monster” and “magnum”, So who will stop them? As long as they have fun and make us laugh, the “Sunny” gang should continue to make this style of ad-libbing / improvisation forever.