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This show thinks it invented "Sunday Funday"...


Just read this article on EW.com;

Sunday Funday. You’re the Worst helped popularize the whole drinking-plus-activites pre-Monday hipster ritual.

And now the show is ready to bury it.

The upcoming third season will indeed have the gang of the acclaimed FX comedy once again going out to celebrate Sunday Funday – but it will also be for the last time.

Explained showrunner Stephen Falk to critics at TCA press tour in Beverly Hills on Tuesday: “Sunday Funday, we have filmed it, it is back,” he said. “[The episode is] called ‘The Last Sunday Funday.’ That’s the episode title. We’re doing it again, and acknowledging that we’re doing it again, as these characters. Basically the characters realize that Sunday Funday’s been co-opted by the general public and now everyone’s doing it and there are signs advertising Sunday Funday mimosas and people wearing Sunday Funday shirts – as we’ve noticed in actual society and are thus vaguely ashamed of it, as we are. So we’re embracing all of that and doing it, but doing it for the last time. It’s scavenger hunt-themed. We’ll say that.”


LOL, what?! I enjoy this show but it's not relevant enough to invent or set any trends, let alone popularize something like "Sunday Funday" that has existed for decades. 

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Within the small but dedicated fan base of YTW, which happens to include most mainstream television critics, Sunday Funday has become an event associated with the show. The two SF epis they've done have been fan favorites, ergo the focus on Sunday Funday when entertainment writers ask about upcoming seasons, what to expect, and when looking for a good quote...

And you've gotta give the show points for being self-aware enough to have included Desmonds line about how Sunday Funday is just stuff 'Mexicans' used to do for fun, now co-opted by 'hipsters'! Well, first hipsters, now everyone, their momma, and corporate America.

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While I think you're right that the show didn't invent Sunday fun day. I think it did coin the phrase "new phone who dis?" Which I now see and hear all over the place. So I think this show does have some cultural significance. Even if the people saying it don't really know what they're referencing

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