These Philadelphians Actually Did ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s ‘Extreme Makeover’ Scheme, But Without Burning the House Down
Su casa es no mas — but in a good way, this time.
If your only exposure to Philadelphians was through watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, you’d assume that the City of Brotherly Love was chock-full of drunken maniacs destroying everything they touched and not caring about the consequences. In real life, that’s only true of Philadelphia when the Phillies, Flyers, Eagles or 76ers are in the playoffs; the rest of the time, it’s nothing like the extreme version of the city and its inhabitants that Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Dee and Frank represent.
But, speaking of extreme, one particularly brotherly group of Philadelphia-area teens recently went full Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on one of their neighbors, and the result of their renovations left the resident in tears. Good tears, this time.
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Someone’s getting whatever is on their vision board.
As NBC10 Philadelphia reported, the nonprofit Unity in the Community put at-risk teens to work learning carpentry skills by renovating the home of an elderly woman who had lived in the same place for over 65 years. The project started in August and wrapped up before Christmas — apparently, an overnight demolition and reconstruction is an absolutely insane goal for anyone, be they borderline terrorists wearing jorts or the actual crew of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
Since we didn’t get to see a full time-lapse of the home renovation in NBC10 Philadelphia’s reporting, I’m just going to assume that Unity in the Community didn’t tell the teenaged life-changers to take down the walls in Ms. Doris Reddick’s house with a blowtorch, nor do I have any reason to think that, upstairs in her refurbished home, there’s a taco bed surrounded by cardboard cutouts of Hulk Hogan, Gene Simmons and the Statue of Liberty.
Instead, this is a feel-good story about Philadelphians changing lives and racking up good karma through better carpentry. But, let's be honest, the Juarez family still made out better than Ms. Reddick. Their extreme home “makeover” ended with them living in a mansion.