Community-format season hub
Every Season 1 episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as a row: title, structural breakdown link, and the analysis confidence. Built from the full transcripts on disk. Modeled on the Parks and Recreation index.
This page is a list of the 7 episodes in Season 1 of the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Each row tells you the episode name and gives a link to a page that explains the tricks the writers used. The lesson is that a tidy list helps you find any episode fast.
~/Projects/tv-scripts/text/. Speaker names are INFERRED (DeepSeek), not a cited source; the authoritative speaker-tagged pull from Forever Dreaming is queued. Trope breakdowns are grounded in the transcripts with a confidence flag per episode.| # | episode | breakdown | http | confidence | tropes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | The Gang Gets Racist | S01E01 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
| 02 | Charlie Wants an Abortion | S01E02 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
| 03 | Underage Drinking: A National Concern | S01E03 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
| 04 | Charlie Has Cancer | S01E04 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
| 05 | Gun Fever | S01E05 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
| 06 | The Gang Finds a Dead Guy | S01E06 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
| 07 | Charlie Got Molested | S01E07 breakdown | 200 | high | 4 |
Scripts scraped by scrape_scripts.py alwayssunny (177/177 episodes). Speaker attribution stopgap by infer_speakers_alwayssunny.py. Season 1 breakdowns and this hub built by build_alwayssunny_s1_pages.py against the transcripts, then shipped by ship.py. Full analytical index at alwayssunny-s1-trope-index.
Frank Reynolds joins in Season 2; the Season 1 Gang is Dennis, Dee, Mac, and Charlie. Every breakdown link resolves to an anchor on the trope-index page. Built 2026-07-09.