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The remainder of the 2025 TV schedule’s comedic choices can most likely simply pack it in already, because it’s unlikely that something will prime the raunchy and disruptive insanity that’s It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia’s newest season. To that finish, Season 17 is certainly already incomes stellar suggestions from viewers and critics, with the hilarious prank on the coronary heart of “Frank Is in a Coma” instantly changing into an all-time traditional. So it solely is sensible that co-star Danny DeVito would have a prank anecdote of his personal.
Solely within the actor’s story, it wasn’t him (or Frank) chargeable for pulling off sudden wizardry, however somewhat his castmates. Rob McElhenney (who’s since modified his identify to Rob Mac), Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day and Kaitlin Olson have been in a position to pull off one of many best (albeit silliest) April Idiot’s jokes of all time, thanks largely to DeVito not having a clue what day it was.
Talking with Collider, DeVito introduced up the BTS Gang’s real-life gag when requested about any All the time Sunny conditions that skirted the road of going too far. He began his story with:
Properly, there was a present that was a non-starter that they teased me with a bunch of years in the past. It was April 1st. I did not realize it. I did not realize it was April 1st. I did not know what date it was. And we have been going to begin an episode that day. And it was morning, and I acquired a script delivered to my home. The information was that we have been going to swap this present, the primary present that we have been going to do, so I ought to learn it immediately earlier than I got here in. We have been going to do a desk learn. So, I instantly sat down and browse it.
Appears regular sufficient up to now. New episode expectations? Examine. Script delivered to accommodate. Examine. Surprising early be aware about an episode getting swapped out and changed by one other? Examine.
Nevertheless, because the actor learn via the script, he reached a story precipice that led to fairly the run of…bodily…performing, if not essentially outright comedy. DeVito continued:
It was a superb present. It was very properly written. And it was It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia, similar type of story, however Frank will get busted for choosing up a hooker, and he is thrown in jail. It’s 30-something pages of simply me being butt-fucked. So it was like, you already know, I… I imply, I… Look, it was within the bathe. It was a white supremacist. It was a cop. what I imply?
I personally suppose it is price writing 30+ pages of recent and unusable materials particularly to listen to Danny DeVito say “butt-fucked” in such a context. Oh, okay, any context.
At this level, not even Frank would have gone about his day by day enterprise with out reaching out to somebody, so DeVito paused his read-through to get some context, which is the place it was revealed to all be a joke. As he put it:
So I acquired a bit nervous. I known as them up earlier than I completed it. I did not name my lawyer first. I known as them up, they usually have been all on the opposite facet of the telephone — all of them, Kaitlin, Rob, Charlie, and Glenn — laughin’ their asses off. As a result of the final line in it, simply earlier than I used to be going to get nailed by seven, eight cops with billy golf equipment, the man leans down, I am on the ground, and he leans down in my ear, and he says, ‘April Idiot’s, motherfucker.’
Not one to be outdone by his TV cohorts, DeVito then shared a enjoyable anecdote about getting them again forward of an upfronts presentation. He talked a lodge supervisor into bringing 4 cots right into a smaller room, and convincing Day, Howerton, Mac and Olson that they have been all booked to be staying within the single room, with Howerton and Day’s wives additionally having taken the journey.
Everybody’s feelings began to spike, all whereas Danny DeVito watched gleefully from close by, however he got here out and fessed up earlier than the others began making determined telephone calls to community bosses. Think about being pranked so arduous you needed to name the president of FX for assist.
It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia‘s co-stars go the additional mile to make audiences giggle, with Kaitlin Olson commonly placing her physique on the road for the sake of enjoyment. And it appears like DeVito would have finally been satisfied to place Frank’s butthole on the road if the story known as for it. There ought to be a specialised Emmy Award for that stage of dedication.
It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia airs Wednesday nights on FXX at 10:00 p.m. ET, with new episodes streaming the following day with a Hulu subscription.
