Popnography: On the surface, FX’s straight boy raunchfest It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX, Thursdays @ 10pm) might not seem like the kind of show that screams “gay favorite.” Three guys and a girl own a bar in Philly. Danny Devito’s there too, for some reason. They’re all terrible people with no moral compass. It’s like Seinfeld, if Jerry and Elaine were to become crack addicts and George and Kramer tried to make money off of dumpster babies.

Which is all well and good, but GLAAD says this is the season of gay TV, so what’s in it for us? Does teabagging, gluing pubes to your face, guy-on-guy nipple admiration and the promise of “hard, thrusting, pounding man action” work for you? That was just this season’s premiere. Also, one of the characters has an on-again/off-again relationship with a transexual. It’s no surprise that Philadelphia’s just up the road from Baltimore, as this show owes more than a little debt to John Waters brand of dirty, sleazy fun. We’re hoping to see DeVito dress up as Divine.

Be warned, though, if you’re offended by jokes about “retarded” people, sex offenders, or people debating whether its racist or not to choose to consume the flesh of a dead white person over a dead black person, this is not the show for you. Everyone else will love it.

Still doubtful? Consider this bit of dialogue from last season:

Dennis: Some gay guys are twinks, and others are bears. This gay guy’s a bear. By the way we’re totally cool with that. To each his own.

Frank: Wait, I’m a little confused here. What’s a twink?

Dennis: A twink is small and slender, like Mac.

Mac: Oh no, I’m too muscular, I would be a bear.

Dennis: Ohh don’t think so bro. Not hairy enough.

Frank: Smooth. I would be a bear.

Dennis: No no see I don’t think you’d be a bear either. As a matter of fact I don’t know what you would be because you’re definitely not a twink.

Frank: I’d be a top, that’s for sure.

Mac: Can a twink be a top, or is that reserved for bears?

Dennis: I’m sure there’s a great deal of switching back and forth, but I think more often than not bears are tops, unless they happen to be power bottoms.

Frank: What’s a power bottom?

Mac: A power bottom is a bottom that is capable of receiving an enormous amount of power.