--- title: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Cast Writes Self Help Book description: Because they're totally the kind of people who should be giving you advice canonical: https://time.com/3048504/always-sunny-self-help-book/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-28T20:47:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:58.936Z og:title: The Gang From 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' Has Written Has Written a Self-Help Book og:description: Because they're totally the kind of people who should be giving you advice og:url: https://time.com/3048504/always-sunny-self-help-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685756049bbcebbf/69869d793bc99984da1a4b58/153852011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: FX Season Premiere Screenings For "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" And "The League" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Gang From 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' Has Written Has Written a Self-Help Book twitter:description: Because they're totally the kind of people who should be giving you advice twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685756049bbcebbf/69869d793bc99984da1a4b58/153852011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Gang From _Always Sunny_ Has Written a Self-Help Book > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 28, 2014 8:47 PM UTC Dennis, Dee, Mac, Frank and Charlie from _Always Sunny_ have already taught us plenty of things: how to [sing a cappella](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5F83EJw%5FZ11o), how to excel at the [game of Flip Cup](http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr%5FlmwaqxpuU91qzq1ezo1%5F500.gif), and how[ not to act](http://i.imgur.com/PoyzEkK.png) on a first date, for example. Since they’re so good at teaching people how to live their lives, they’ve written a self-help book, which will be released in January. (It’s [available for pre-order](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0062225111/splitsider-20) on Amazon now.) The book is called _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The 7 Secrets of Awakening the Highly Effective Four-Hour Giant, Today_. Based on the [description](http://share.hc.com/book/9780062225115/Its-Always-Sunny-in-Philadelphia-by-The-Gang), it’s actually a bit hard to tell if it’s really a self-help book, or if it’s simply a book outlining the _story_ of the gang writing a self-help book: --- > “” --- But further details suggest that the book will indeed include some real advice: --- > “” --- We already knew they were [crab people](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEJLY2PWfg) — now we also know they’re book people. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3048504/always-sunny-self-help-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3048504/always-sunny-self-help-book/"},"headline":"The Gang From Always Sunny Has Written a Self-Help Book","datePublished":"2014-07-28T20:47:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:58.936Z","description":"Because they're totally the kind of people who should be giving you advice","url":"https://time.com/3048504/always-sunny-self-help-book/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Books","TV","FX"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685756049bbcebbf/69869d793bc99984da1a4b58/153852011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt685756049bbcebbf/69869d793bc99984da1a4b58/153852011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FX Season Premiere Screenings For \"It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia\" And \"The League\"","caption":"FX Season Premiere Screenings For \"It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia\" And \"The League\"","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3048504/always-sunny-self-help-book/","name":"The Gang From Always Sunny Has Written a Self-Help Book"}}]}] ```