The trailer for the crossover episode between Abbott Elementary and It’s At all times Sunny In Philadelphia has been launched – test it out beneath.
Information of the unconventional shared episode between the 2 Philly-based sitcoms was introduced again in October when It’s At all times Sunny star and co-creator Rob McElhenney posted a photograph of himself, co-star Charlie Day and Abbott star/creator Quinta Brunson.
The one-off present will air on ABC – the house community of Abbott – on January 8, and now the primary trailer for the episode has been shared. It briefly teases interactions between the 2 reveals’ respective casts, set to Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock’s ‘80s hip-hop traditional ‘It Takes Two’.
Watch the 30-second trailer right here:
The episode would be the ninth instalment of Abbott Elementary’s fourth season, and in October, the present’s government producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker defined that the crossover will embrace the entire solid of each reveals. “We received the entire gang, the ‘A’ story, ‘B’ story, ‘C,’ ‘D,’ it’s all them,” Schumacker mentioned.
“Charlie Day’s character has a reasonably important storyline in our episode,” he added. “It was type of a joke at first, that the 2 reveals ought to cross over. On paper, it looks like they’d be an actual tonal mishmash. However then Rob and Charlie got here to our writers’ room and we hashed out some actual broad stroke concepts.”
“From there, we emailed forwards and backwards beat sheets after which a top level view. They have been tremendous recreation for the whole lot. All these issues that we had concerning the tones of the reveals butting towards one another have been alleviated the second we began filming with Charlie.”
He added that Abbot followers who aren’t conversant in It’s At all times Sunny received’t really feel disregarded. “It simply type of works in a vacuum,” he mentioned. “They simply really feel like different visitor stars on the present. Clearly, it’s going to have a a lot deeper which means for Sunny followers.”
The concept for the crossover happened in February, when McElhenney waded into the dialogue concerning the infamously disastrous Willy’s Chocolate Expertise occasion in Glasgow. “Lots of you might be saying this looks like an episode of Sunny, however to me it feels extra like an @alwayssunny @AbbotElemABC crossover episode,” he wrote on X.
Later, on Instagram, Brunson took a screenshot of McElhenney’s submit and added: “Simply say the phrase @robmcelhenney. I really like you guys.”
At this summer time’s San Diego Comedian-Con, Brunson outright confirmed {that a} crossover of some description was within the works, however didn’t title Sunny as the opposite present.
“I’m not gonna inform you with who, or with what, or the place, or when,” she mentioned, as the gang cheered. “But it surely’s actually thrilling and I feel it’ll change tv as we all know it.”
