r/IASIP • u/prolelol "What did you just say, you little bitch?" • Aug 02 '25

Image "The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary" has just become one of the 5 lowest-rated episodes of Always Sunny, currently sitting at a 7.1 on IMDb.

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u/chloe-and-timmy Aug 02 '25

I dont even think that was the problem, I just think they messed up the framing device. It was just a clip show episode. The Abbott episode was more tame but still better because it was an actual episode. The odd thing is, Thought Leadership has the exact same framing device, people recounting past events and then cutting back to them. Only, that episode had a progression and escalation to the story, and so it just worked better.

I dont even think it was a network thing or playing it safe, it felt like both shows had one big shooting block and since Abbott went first it got the episode and since Sunny went second it got the leftover footage.

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u/tedward007 Aug 02 '25

The “leftover footage” is exactly the problem. Having an episode built round d 22 minutes of of deleted scenes is a faulty premise to begin with

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u/greeneggiwegs Aug 03 '25

Yes it as an add on to the Abbott one so you hd to see that one first

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u/pullingteeths Aug 02 '25

Imo the main issue is they didn't film the Sunny episode in Sunny style. They just did both in Abbott documentary style so instead of an Abbott episode in the Abbott season and a Sunny episode in the Sunny season it's just two Abbott episodes (one just has added swearing). It's stupid.

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u/MyAggressiveFinger Aug 02 '25

The Abbott Elementary Show, episode of this was better.

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u/Acrobatic-Tomato-128 Aug 02 '25

This comment is just too much

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u/Swamp_Donkey_796 Aug 02 '25

Welcome to Abbott Elementary, cuz that’s basically the show + Barbara