With each new season, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has plunged into deeper depths of depravity, outdoing the outrageousness of previous episodes. Yet, much like Dennis and his infamous jorts, there’s always room to go lower.
It’s now been 10 months since the latest episode aired, titled “Dennis Takes a Mental Health Day.” The episode took us on a brilliant, Dennis-centric journey through the mind of the Golden God himself, as he attempted to lower his blood pressure and plot the demise of Elon Musk. With the show’s current eight-episode-per-season format, the wait between seasons has been agonizing for long-time fans who fondly remember the days of 15-episode runs, shorter gaps, and a time before the cast’s booming side projects—looking at you, Mac’s soccer team—pulled them away from fully focusing on the show.
But fans must come to terms with the fact that those days are over. And if Frank Reynolds is to be believed, those early episodes that hooked us with their dark, depraved, and gleefully gross humor were just the warm-up. In a recent red carpet interview, Danny DeVito offered a much-needed update on It’s Always Sunny Season 17, revealing that filming will resume in September. He also admitted, “We’ve been very tame over the years, so now we can really pull out the stops.”
In other words, whatever time It’s Always Sunny has left, things are about to get even weirder.
“Now we can ruffle a few feathers, rattle a few cages, shoot some fireworks,” DeVito teased about the upcoming season. Given the show’s history of outrageous plotlines, that could be less of a metaphor and more of a literal description.
When asked about his favorite part of being on It’s Always Sunny for nearly two decades, DeVito reflected, “We love each other, and we have a fun time being together.” He added, “The season goes by too fast—eight shows or something like that—and it’s over before you know it, but we have fun every day. It’s really cool.”
Despite the shortened seasons, recent years have seen It’s Always Sunny take bolder creative risks, exploring unconventional and sometimes divisive storylines, like the multi-episode arc in Season 15 where the gang went to Ireland, and Charlie met—and tragically lost—his real father. While DeVito’s comment about the early seasons being too "tame" was delivered with a wink, it seems likely that the cast is gearing up to push the boundaries even further than we ever imagined when the series first began.
Who knows? Maybe this season, the gang will head to Wales for “The Gang Runs a Soccer Team.”
