Considered one of TV’s longest-running and finest sitcoms is about to return to the 2025 TV schedule this week, and I couldn’t be extra excited. Season 17 of It’s All the time Sunny In Philadelphia will premiere on FXX this Wednesday, July ninth, with back-to-back episodes, however we’re in for extra than simply new shenanigans from The Gang. Alongside this new season, Rob McElhenney may also be debuting his new title, Rob Mac, and his castmates, Danny DeVito and Charlie Day, had the funniest reactions to the information.
No, it’s not a joke. Rob McElhenney is legally altering his title to Rob Mac. In an announcement posted to Instagram, the It’s All the time Sunny co-creator defined the reasoning behind his new “stage” title. Nevertheless, apparently not everybody received the memo. In a Tik Tok by way of Decider, Danny Devito shared his confusion reside on stage throughout a latest Hulu press occasion for the brand new season:
Wait, woah, whoah, whoah. You stated it’s true?…I swear to god, I appeared on the credit and thought they had been fucked up. Anyone screwed it up, they took the…
This truthfully is similar to how I might anticipate DeVito’s character Frank Reynolds to behave, and because it’s a typical Sunny solid interplay, Charlie Day had a really Charlie Kelly response, ensuing within the following hilarious forwards and backwards:
- Charlie Day: Wait, Danny, let me inform you a narrative about my outdated, outdated buddy right here. Spell McElhenney…Spell it.
- Danny DeVito: I barely received via eighth grade.
- Charlie Day: OK, alright, see that’s why.
See because of this I really like this solid. I really feel like half the time, they aren’t even actually appearing, they’re simply messing round as a buddy group whereas on digicam. At this level, they’ve all been collectively for not less than 2 a long time, given the present simply celebrated its twentieth anniversary.
Nevertheless, even the Fist Battle actor, who has identified McElhenney for much longer than that, admitted to nonetheless fighting the spelling, saying:
I’ve identified you for 30 years, and the opposite day I went to go and write your title out in an e mail, and I used to be like ‘Wait, M, C, E, L..’ I want you went with Blaze, which is what you known as your self in eighth grade. And your trainer known as you Blaze for a yr.
Whereas that is additionally on model for Day’s Sunny character, who’s illiterate, he’s certainly one of many many individuals to have hassle along with his buddy’s former surname through the years. After I first began writing about It’s All the time Sunny, I keep in mind having to search for the spelling for McElhenney nearly each time, so I utterly perceive the change. The actual query is why he didn’t do it sooner.
After justifying the Mythic Quest actor’s latest determination, Day introduced up Mac’s former grade college nickname, Blaze. The Misplaced actor admitted to going by Blaze for a whole yr when his Tenth-grade trainer requested the category if they’d any nicknames. The funniest half? He had really responded with “Blade”, however didn’t appropriate her when she misheard. Take a look at the total hilarious interplay under:
Whereas Rob Blaze is fairly badass, I feel the Wrexham proprietor made the precise name. As to how this impacts his youngsters’ and spouse’s title, Sunny co-star Kaitlin Olson, it doesn’t. The superstar duo instructed Folks that they’re leaving the choice to maintain McElhenney as much as every particular person particular person of their household.
In case you are searching for a change to the Excessive Potential star’s title within the credit of Sunny on Wednesday, you received’t discover it. The Candy Dee actress, whereas legally Olson-McElhenney, has all the time simply passed by her maiden title, Olson, in terms of her TV and film credit. Nevertheless, she has been identified to sometimes reply to “Shut up, Fowl!” when noticed by followers in public.
Remember to catch (previously) McElhenney’s first official credit score as Rob Mac this Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on FXX, or the subsequent day together with your Hulu subscription.