Rob McElhenney Offers $100 to the First ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Fan to Guess This Episode
Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Do you know every episode backwards and forwards, able to identify one out of 162 total entries off of minimal clues? Do you desperately need $100?
If the answer to the first two questions is yes, then the answer to the last is likely the same — so, here’s your big chance.
Right now, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton and the rest of the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia writing staff are hard at work planning the insanity of the show’s upcoming Season 17, which Danny DeVito promised would be even more extreme than the comparatively “tame” previous entries. Us civilians have little knowledge of how the architects of the longest-running live-action sitcom in American history carefully craft each Always Sunny episode to be the perfect level of depraved, surprising and outstandingly funny — a fact that was on full display yesterday afternoon when McElhenney posted a picture of Day sketching out the beats of an Always Sunny episode like he’s searching for Pepe Sylvia.
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McElhenney challenged the Always Sunny fandom to identify the episode plot line that Charlie is writing on that white board — a daunting task, as anyone familiar with his dream journal or playscripts can attest — with a crisp, clean hundred dollar bill offered up to whichever fan guesses the Always Sunny episode being broken down first.
Critically, the offer stands for only 24 hours from the time of posting, so any interested challengers better start now — the mail doesn’t stop.
While Day’s scrawl certainly resembles the English language written into script, his notes on the whiteboard in the picture McElhenney posted are no more scrutable than the pictures and symbols that his character on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia uses to visually express his thoughts. “I’m more intrigued by the writing stance. The cross arm shoulder post is a fascinating move,” NFL legend and apparent Always Sunny fan J.J. Watt wrote of Day’s technique under McElhenney's post. “Charlie consistently on the cutting edge of innovation.”
“As an elite athlete you’re familiar with repetitive stress injuries. This is our equivalent,” McElhenney replied.
At the time of publication, McElhenney hasn’t yet chosen a single fan-submitted answer as a winner, whether or not said fan is a future first-ballot NFL Hall-of-Famer. As long as the bet is active, any cash-strapped Always Sunny fans should be frantically submitting their best guesses — this will be the most painless way to ever earn $100 off of Always Sunny without Frank slipping it into your bra.
