Sci-fi horror series and sitcoms usually don’t have much in common, but a new video has given Stranger Things a bit of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia flair. YouTube user Juan Carlos Pelayo has created a short clip called Always Sunny in Hawkins Indiana that gives the Netflix series an intro reminiscent of the comedy show.
The 55-second video takes a scene from Stranger Things and gives it an Always Sunny twist. It opens with a black screen with the time and audio from the scene — then the sitcom’s theme music begins. The intro follows the Always Sunny format, establishing the time, day, and location for viewers. In this case, it is 11:30 a.m. on a Monday in Hawkins, Indiana.
Stranger Things centers on the mysterious disappearance of Will, a 12-year-old Hawkins boy. In the video, we see a scene from the series in which Will’s three best friends meet with the police and offer to help with search efforts. They are told not to go looking for their missing friend, and then we get the Always Sunny spoof episode title: The Gang Goes Investigating. As in the sitcom, the theme music kicks back in when the episode title is shown on a black screen.
As perfectly as the clip from Stranger Things works with the Always Sunny intro format, the sitcom’s opening theme is all wrong for it — the jolly music is at odds with the supernatural series’ grave premise.
Stranger Things premiered on Netflix with eight episodes on July 15 and seems likely to be renewed for a second season after receiving a positive critical response. The series stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, and Matthew Modine.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?