The remainder of the 2025 TV schedule’s comedic choices can in all probability simply pack it in already, because it’s unlikely that something will prime the raunchy and disruptive insanity that’s It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia’s newest season. To that finish, Season 17 is certainly already incomes stellar suggestions from viewers and critics, with the hilarious prank on the coronary heart of “Frank Is in a Coma” instantly changing into an all-time basic. So it solely is sensible that co-star Danny DeVito would have a prank anecdote of his personal.
Solely within the actor’s story, it wasn’t him (or Frank) liable for pulling off surprising wizardry, however moderately his castmates. Rob McElhenney (who’s since modified his title to Rob Mac), Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day and Kaitlin Olson have been capable of pull off one of many best (albeit silliest) April Idiot’s jokes of all time, thanks largely to DeVito not having a clue what day it was.
Talking with Collider, DeVito introduced up the BTS Gang’s real-life gag when requested about any All the time Sunny conditions that skirted the road of going too far. He began his story with:
Properly, there was a present that was a non-starter that they teased me with a bunch of years in the past. It was April 1st. I did not comprehend it. I did not comprehend it was April 1st. I did not know what date it was. And we have been going to start out an episode that day. And it was morning, and I bought a script delivered to my home. The information was that we have been going to swap this present, the primary present that we have been going to do, so I ought to learn it immediately earlier than I got here in. We have been going to do a desk learn. So, I instantly sat down and browse it.
Appears regular sufficient to this point. New episode expectations? Examine. Script delivered to accommodate. Examine. Surprising early be aware about an episode getting swapped out and changed by one other? Examine.
Nonetheless, because the actor learn by way of the script, he reached a story precipice that led to fairly the run of…bodily…performing, if not essentially outright comedy. DeVito continued:
It was a superb present. It was very properly written. And it was It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia, identical type of story, however Frank will get busted for selecting up a hooker, and he is thrown in jail. It’s 30-something pages of simply me being butt-fucked. So it was like, you recognize, I… I imply, I… Look, it was within the bathe. It was a white supremacist. It was a cop. You recognize what I imply?
I personally suppose it is price writing 30+ pages of recent and unusable materials particularly to listen to Danny DeVito say “butt-fucked” in such a context. Oh, okay, any context.
At this level, not even Frank would have gone about his day by day enterprise with out reaching out to somebody, so DeVito paused his read-through to get some context, which is the place it was revealed to all be a joke. As he put it:
So I bought somewhat nervous. I referred to as them up earlier than I completed it. I did not name my lawyer first. I referred to as them up, they usually have been all on the opposite facet of the cellphone — all of them, Kaitlin, Rob, Charlie, and Glenn — laughin’ their asses off. As a result of the final line in it, simply earlier than I used to be going to get nailed by seven, eight cops with billy golf equipment, the man leans down, I am on the ground, and he leans down in my ear, and he says, ‘April Idiot’s, motherfucker.’
Not one to be outdone by his TV cohorts, DeVito then shared a enjoyable anecdote about getting them again forward of an upfronts presentation. He talked a resort supervisor into bringing 4 cots right into a smaller room, and convincing Day, Howerton, Mac and Olson that they have been all booked to be staying within the single room, with Howerton and Day’s wives additionally having taken the journey.
Everybody’s feelings began to spike, all whereas Danny DeVito watched gleefully from close by, however he got here out and fessed up earlier than the others began making determined cellphone calls to community bosses. Think about being pranked so exhausting you needed to name the president of FX for assist.
It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia‘s co-stars go the additional mile to make audiences chortle, with Kaitlin Olson often placing her physique on the road for the sake of enjoyment. And it appears like DeVito would have ultimately been satisfied to place Frank’s butthole on the road if the story referred to as for it. There must be a specialised Emmy Award for that stage of dedication.
It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia airs Wednesday nights on FXX at 10:00 p.m. ET, with new episodes streaming the subsequent day with a Hulu subscription.