It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - S17 • E1 - The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
TV-MAS17 • E1Jul 8, 202524m
7.1
Months after the Gang visited, Abbott's Principal Ava walks viewers through some of the unseen footage of the Gang's volunteerism and reveals their true intentions.
Jacob O’Neal reviewedJuly 11, 2025
I love this show. I really do. For a season premiere, this was not the strongest outing. It has some fun moments, but the other half of this crossover was actually funnier. On the It’s Always Sunny side of things it was put together like it was leftovers of the Abbot episode. They even say so a couple times in the show. That’s exactly what it felt like - the stuff they cut from the first part to pad out the new season. But any Sunny is better than no Sunny.
With the complaints out of the way, let me say that I loved Dennis in this episode. He was the saving grace. His use of the chemistry lab to make gourmet coffee for the staff was perfectly Dennis. It felt like this and the second episode of the season so far were light on Frank. Although not an original cast member, the show feels like less without him. Yes, he was there, but not as a central part of the plot. The best part was seeing the Abbot staff not be constrained by network television and get to say and do some things they’d never get away on their ABC show. Although it felt like Disney crossing over the shows for ratings, the two shows complimented each other well enough to make this a fun crossover and not so much like something that forced like sending Urkel from Chicago to San Francisco just so he could have a flimsy excuse to be on Full House. This was not that by any stretch. It was a solid effort, but a poor season premiere. This feels like a mid-season episode they used to use for filler, not bad but not converting people to the Sunny cult.