Every time crossovers occur on TV, clearly, we’re interested by how the casts will work collectively, and that was very true when Abbott Elementary and It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia crossed over on the 2025 TV schedule. Nonetheless, what I didn’t take into consideration as a lot was how the crews needed to work collectively, too. So, I requested Abbott’s Head of the Hair Division about it, and she or he instructed me the way it all blended collectively.
Contemplating the pleasure across the Abbott and All the time Sunny crossover earlier this yr and the truth that we’re nonetheless ready on Sunny’s half of the occasion, I needed to ask the ABC comedy’s Hair Division Head and Hair Designer, Moira Frazier, about it. She instantly praised Sunny’s Hair Division Head, Abby Roll, when talking about this mission, and famous how properly they collaborated, saying:
Me and her type of work collectively. All the time Sunny took care of their forged, and for me and my division, I took care of our forged and something Abbott-surrounding. However to have them there was – it was simply so seamless. We went like this [interlocks fingers together]. It was only a seamless mix. No matter they wanted, we offered and vice versa. It was a ravishing expertise to must collaborate with them for this complete crossover episode.
General, it appears like Frazier took care of her forged whereas Roll dealt with hers, which is sensible, seeing as most members of every forged rock the identical hairdo from episode to episode. Nonetheless, additionally they needed to collaborate as a result of finally, each their work would find yourself on display screen collectively, in order that they needed to “mix.” And all of it paid off brilliantly, as a result of folks beloved seeing the Abbott and Sunny characters collectively.
It’s additionally price noting that whereas these two exhibits are each comedies, they’re so completely different in some ways. For instance, Abbott is a considerably extra family-friendly present than It’s All the time Sunny, which is famously NSFW. Mixing the tones and characters should have been exhausting work, however it ended up going nice, and seeing these polar reverse characters collide made for sensible TV.
It additionally served as an academic expertise as a result of the crews acquired to collaborate and study from one another. I requested Frazier what she realized from working with Roll on this crossover, and she or he defined why she adores how her fellow division head “streamlines and runs” her workforce:
I like how, as a result of each division head is completely different, I like how she simply streamlines and runs her workforce and vice versa. So for each of us, we had been there, type of like sharing concepts and issues of that nature. However to be trustworthy, Abby is a tremendous division head, and it is nice to work with different folks alongside if you’re collaborating on two huge exhibits like Abbott and All the time Sunny. To have the ability to come collectively to create one cohesive mission, I could not ask for a greater link-up.
Nicely, I like to listen to that! Watching the episode, it was clear to me that the 2 casts meshed collectively flawlessly, the visible kinds of the exhibits labored collectively properly, and it made my anticipation for the second half of the Abbott/Sunny crossover even stronger. Nonetheless, figuring out that the crew additionally acquired alongside makes me need this crossover to transcend two episodes.
It’s actually fascinating to understand how these two exhibits labored collectively to drag off this comedy occasion. The exhibits are completely different, they require two crews and casts, and placing them multi functional place sounds prefer it could possibly be very difficult. Nonetheless, they expertly pulled all of it off, as Frazier illustrated with the hair division, and you’ll see by re-watching the primary half of the crossover (Abbott Elementary Season 4, Episode 9) with a Hulu subscription.