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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 Set for This June (VIDEO)

Rob McElhenney confirmed It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns in June with Season 17 and the second Abbott Elementary crossover episode.

As epic as the crossover was this month between FXX's Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson, and Danny DeVito-starring It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and ABC's Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and William Stanford Davis-starring Abbott Elementary, let's not forget that there's a second half to "The Greatest Moment in Television" history coming up later this year when The Gang from Paddy's returns for its 17th season. Checking in with Jimmy Kimmel on his ABC late-night talk show on Wednesday night, McElhenney not only confirmed what month that episode will air but also when "Always Sunny" will be returning.

Before promoting the return of Apple TV+'s Mythic Quest for a fourth season, Kimmel and McElhenney discussed the crossover, with Kimmel sharing how much he appreciated it bringing back some of the "old-school" days of television when fun things like that would happen more often. After McElhenney shared some insights on how it came about (and how the kids on the set would refer to DeVito as "Jersey Mike), he responded to Kimmel's question about when the episode will hit by confirming that it will be this June – and for this go-around, the "Always Sunny" team "got them [Abbott Elementary cast] to play bad" on their show. That could mean that the season would premiere in late June – but if FXX is going to drop two episodes per week, then we could be looking at a month-long run in June. However it ends up playing out, "Always Sunny" fans can keep an eye out for May and June of this year for some Paddy's goodness.

Abbott Elementary EPs on "Always Sunny" Turn at Crossover & More

Speaking with EW, Abbott Elementary's Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker offered some insights into the upcoming Paddy's chapter of the crossover. In addition, the EPs discuss a Frank (DeVito)/Mr. Johnson (Davis) backstory that was cut, an ad-libbed joke from McElhenney that couldn't make the Abbott Elementary cut, and why we didn't get much Dennis (Howerton) during this chapter.

Halpern & Schumacker on "Always Sunny" Episode: "It's been written, it's been shot. I was present for quite a bit of it, and it's very cool. The ideal viewing experience will eventually be watching these two episodes back to back, even though I don't know if they've even solidified their date yet, but eventually, they're going to end up on Hulu together and it'll be very easy to access both of them back to back. They do very much play off of each other," Schumacker shared. "Their episode is what's happening in between our episode in the scenes that we're not showing. You're seeing what they're doing. It's really clever the way that they piece together their episode. It's really ambitious," Halpern added.

Frank & Mr. Johnson Have a Grudge Dating Back to High School: "We did at one point have a whole backstory between Frank and Mr. Johnson that they did know each other. It was that they went to high school together. They dated the same woman who was a canonical character in Sunny. That ended up falling away just as a function of, 'Hey, we can't tell that story. Maybe let's save it for another time.' 21 and a half minutes is not a lot of time to tell a story," Schumacker.

Schumacker on McElhenney's "Johnny Knoxville" Ad-Lib: "Ava [James] has a line about the white guys that she's into, and she names Johnny Knoxville and Johnny Bravo. I almost ruined a take off-camera cackling and spitting out my coffee because Rob ad-libbed, 'That Johnny Knoxville guy destroyed his penis. There's nothing there.' I was like, 'Okay, well, that one, we can't say on ABC.'"

Schumacker on Why We Didn't Get Much Dennis in "Volunteers": "Glenn [Howerton] had a show that he is a series regular on called 'Sirens.' It's the Netflix show, and it was shooting in New York. He flew in specifically to work on this and had to fly back. We had him for half a day, so we had to build that in. That was one of those ones where we didn't know if we had him, and so we had to stay a little bit nimble as far as breaking the story. But he's very heavy in their episode."

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