Disney is preparing to facilitate the crossover event of the year, and not a Marvel superhero or piece of pre-existing IP is in sight.
The casts of FXX‘s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and ABC‘s Abbott Elementary fully united for the first time in a photo shared by It’s Always Sunny star and creator Rob McElhenney from the set of the upcoming crossover. “School’s out y’all,” he wrote on Instagram with the photo that featured his co-stars, wife Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day, as well as Abbott Elementary stars Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Chris Perfetti, Tyler James Williams and creator Quinta Brunson.
With Season 4 of Abbott largely focused on gentrification in the school’s Philly neighborhood, and Season 17 of It’s Always Sunny premiering in 2025, the plot details of the crossover are still unknown.
Brunson previously detailed how the “really exciting” crossover came to be as she appeared last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. A post shared by Rob McElhenney (@robmcelhenney) “I was very inspired by watching a lot of shows over the pandemic,” she explained. “I was binging Family Matters and Full House and stuff like that, and I was shocked at how shocked I was when Steve Urkel showed up on the Full House set.
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