Glenn Howerton Confirms That ‘The Always Sunny Podcast’ Just Sort of Ended
It’s been over a year since Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day dropped the last episode of The Always Sunny Podcast, but Dolph Lundgren will have a giant nose for a head before we get another one.
When the stars and creators of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia first launched a sitcom rewatch podcast for their cult-beloved show back in late 2021, the side project originally looked to be yet another low-budget appeal to 2000s nostalgia along with the rest of the concerningly popular sitcom rewatch podcast genre. However, as The Always Sunny Podcast progressed and Howerton, McElhenney and Day’s incredible chemistry drew in more and more of the main show’s fanbase, the trio built the podcast into a professional production complete with a producer in Megan Ganz, an impressive guest list that saw Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda break down “The Nightman Cometh” and a cozy, sleek studio that, sadly, is no longer in the gang’s possession.
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After over a year of radio silence from The Always Sunny Podcast, Rick Glassman asked Howerton about the state of the rewatch series on the most recent episode of his show Take Your Shoes Off, during which Howerton admitted that, due to his and his co-stars’ increasingly busy schedules, the podcast’s indefinite hiatus looks more permanent with every day that passes without a Vuori plug.
“We got rid of the podcast studio,” Howerton told his host, saying of the year-long drought of new discussions about old It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes, “It just became logistically difficult to get the three of us in a room together and we didn’t want to do it on Zoom.”
Considering McElhenney spends most of his time on another continent playing his own real-life version of Football Manager, it’s easy to see how the “no remote work” policy of the podcast necessitated the show’s unceremonious end.
Said Howerton simply of The Always Sunny Podcast’s current and possibly permanent intermission, “We set it aside for a minute, and then a minute became months.” And, just as Mac and Charlie’s crime drama/hardcore porn film would have petered out into credits, so does the only rewatch podcast that was ever worth watching.
Always Sunny fans took the news of the podcast reaching the “S” stage of The D.E.N.N.I.S. System with mixed emotions as some optimists clung to the hope that, just like Dennis himself, The Always Sunny Podcast could return at any moment for another round of “Inspire Hope.” In a thread about Howerton’s comments on Take Your Shoes Off in the Always Sunny subreddit, one fan posited, “If they continue to take the advice from Larry David like they have. They probably don’t plan on ever saying this is the last season or the podcast is officially over. That way, when they get bored or have time and feel like making more episodes of Sunny or podcast, they can.”
But another less hopeful fan wrote, “Move past it.”
As if it were that easy.
