Though the vacations are barely over, ABC is able to get again to class with a brand new teaser for Abbott Elementary‘s upcoming crossover with It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia.
In a brand new promo for the two-episode occasion, which begins Jan. 8 on ABC with a brand new episode of Abbott, the lecturers and employees meet the unhinged crew from the Philly-set FXX collection earlier than chaos inevitably ensues by way of the halls of the elementary faculty.
“Welcome to Abbott Elementary, one of the best elementary faculty within the universe,” Quinta Brunson’s Janine Teagues excitedly tells them, as Kaitlin Olson’s Dee Reynolds responds, “Is that what that is?”
Rob McElhenney’s Mac seems to strike up a flirtation with Janelle James’ Principal Ava Coleman, telling her. “Let me know if there’s something you want, and I imply… something,” he tells her with a suggestive look, regardless of popping out as homosexual in Season 12.
“You’re trash, that?” says janitor Mr. Johnson (William Stanford Davis) to Danny DeVito’s Frank Reynolds, who retorts, “Coming from the sheriff of trash.”
With Season 4 of Abbott largely centered on gentrification within the faculty’s Philly neighborhood, and Season 17 of It’s All the time Sunny premiering on FXX in 2025, the plot particulars of the crossover are nonetheless unknown. The second episode of the crossover will air on All the time Sunny.
Brunson beforehand detailed how the “actually thrilling” crossover got here to be as she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Reside.
“I used to be very impressed by watching loads of reveals over the pandemic,” she defined. “I used to be binging Household Issues and Full Home and stuff like that, and I used to be shocked at how shocked I used to be when Steve Urkel confirmed up on the Full Home set. I used to be screaming at my TV.”
The Golden Globe winner defined that she related with All the time Sunny star and creator Rob McElhenney after social media comparisons of their reveals, that are each set in Philly.
“One thing got here up on-line, and he was like, ‘Somebody stated this looks as if a Sunny episode, this looks as if an Abbott episode,’” Brunson recalled. “After which we form of related over that. After which we actually related in particular person, and I simply get together with him and his staff so effectively, that we felt like we might really do that.”
