In January, ABC audiences got to see the first part of a promised two-part crossover event between Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as characters from the two very different comedies (which happen to be owned by the same mega-conglomerate and set in the same city) got the chance to mingle on school grounds. This summer, FX’s turn is coming, as seen in this first look trailer for It’s Always Sunny Season 17, spotlighting the Gang’s antics while on the Abbott premises.
In just 40 seconds, the new trailer teases that Charlie (Charlie Day), Frank (Danny Devito), and Dennis (Glenn Howerton) are working on starting a boy band (using the literal boys attending Abbott Elementary) while Mac (Rob McElhenney) literally steals sweets from the kids.
There are also brief appearances from Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis), Gregory (Tyler James Williams), and Janine (Quinta Brunson) — the latter of whom has strong opinions about the school’s new “volunteers.” That fits, given that in the first part, the Abbott episode “Volunteers,” the school’s staff didn’t gel well with the proprietors of Paddy’s Pub (even though Charlie did learn to read).
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This trailer is also our first look at the return of It’s Always Sunny since Season 16 aired in the summer of 2023. Per the YouTube description, “In Season 17 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been plain since 2005. But they’re also human beings. They crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic amounts of attention, non-stop gratification, and unfiltered, slaphappy eroticism.”
We’ll look forward to finding out just what “unfiltered, slaphappy eroticism” means when It’s Always Sunny returns to FX on July 9th, 2025. Check out the trailer below.
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