With the biggest crossover to hit the City of Brotherly Love since cheese and steak, Quinta Brunson has shared some details about the upcoming Abbott Elementary cross with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
On Saturday at Vulture Fest, the Abbott star and creator revealed new details about the crossover event, which will feature one episode on each series, with the first airing early next year on the ABC sitcom.
“Our episode will air in January. So, it will be an Abbott Elementary episode,” explained Brunson. “But the first episode of Always Sunny — I don’t know when their episode’s gonna air, probably in June. Their episode will be their version of what happened in this storyline.”
With Season 4 of Abbott largely focused on gentrification in the school’s Philly neighborhood, and Season 17 of It’s Always Sunny premiering on FXX 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 month on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars Danny DeVito, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day join Abbott Elementary stars Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Chris Perfetti, Tyler James Williams and creator Quinta Brunson on the set of an upcoming crossover episode.
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“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. I was screaming at my TV.”
The Golden Globe winner explained that she connected with Always Sunny star and creator Rob McElhenney after social media comparisons of their shows, which are both set in Philly.
“Something came up online, and he was like, ‘Someone said this seems like a Sunny episode, this seems like an Abbott episode,’” Brunson recalled. “And then we kind of connected over that. And then we really connected in person, and I just get along with him and his team so well, that we felt like we could actually do this.”
After teasing the crossover last month, Brunson and McElhenney have shared photos from the set with their blended cast.
