UPDATED STORY (11/11/2024):
As a part of ABC‘s midseason premiere slate, the community introduced Abbott Elementary‘s highly-anticipated crossover with It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia will kick off the Emmy-winning comedy’s return in 2025.
The midseason premiere of Abbott is formally slated to air on Wednesday, January 8 within the present’s new timeslot of 8:30/7:30c on the community. In different phrases, mark your calendars for a can’t-miss TV occasion.
ORIGINAL STORY (11/4/2024):
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Abbott Elementary‘s fourth season is in full swing, and whereas there are many nice moments and episodes to stay up for, we will’t assist however anticipate the forthcoming crossover with It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia.
Initially teased by creator and star Quinta Brunson at San Diego Comedian-Con, she and All the time Sunny‘s Rob McElhenney later revealed their team-up in a number of behind-the-scenes photographs that additionally included Tyler James Williams, William Stanford Davis, Danny DeVito, and Charlie Day. The pictures posted on October third have been an thrilling deal with as followers lastly realized which world Abbott would crossover with.
Whereas the photographs have been a great tease, it has since been confirmed by star Williams to TV Insider that Abbott‘s academics will meet the Paddy’s Pub gang in an upcoming Season 4 episode. “It’s uncanny how properly it really works,” he advised us in October.
— Rob McElhenney (@RMcElhenney) October 3, 2024
“I do know most individuals [think] these are two completely totally different reveals, and they’re, however there’s one thing about two casts which have labored collectively for thus lengthy…”
“It’s actually loopy how properly the pairings work… There’s some actually fascinating ones right here,” Williams added. “It’s a type of episodes that it feels prefer it needs to be unlawful to have the ability to be this humorous.”
— Rob McElhenney (@RMcElhenney) October 17, 2024
Since this tease, McElhenney additional teased the TV occasion releasing a photograph that included the complete casts of each reveals, together with Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton, Janelle James, William Stanford Davis, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Lisa Ann Walter, posing collectively within the faculty hallways.
It has since been revealed by All the time Sunny star Olson that the Abbott crew may even crossover onto the FXX comedy as she advised Selection, “They’ll be leaping into our world in a few weeks, which may be very thrilling. So it’s been actually enjoyable for each of our casts to have the ability to do, them a cable present and us a community present.” Based on the report, All the time Sunny will make its Abbott debut in Episode 409.
One of the best half for Olson? “I used to be simply excited to get them to only get, like, nasty… They can’t do this in school; they’ll do this within the bar.”
Whereas additional phrase on the All the time Sunny episode starring the Abbott solid hasn’t been revealed at the moment, Williams did inform TV Insider, “I’ll say this, the worlds exist in the identical universe. And there’s undoubtedly folks in Abbott who’ve seen and probably been to their bar.”
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Abbott Elementary, Season 4 Premiere, Wednesday, October 9, 9:30/8:30c, ABC