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Old 02-10-24 | 01:27 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Renewed for a 4th season: https://deadline.com/2024/02/abbott-...bc-1235821104/
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Old 02-11-24 | 01:31 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

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Fair, enough. I guess I feel like Ava is doing what Ava is supposed to do if yall hate her so much.
In the beginning she was a good parody, now she is a bad and almost offensive stereotype. The character changed. In the beginning, she was a "bad principal" who was realistic albeit not real. The character is no longer making fun of aspects that should be parodied, she is just a "double-down" dipshit that is a "stop the show and look at me" caricature. In the beginning, I could see her running a school. Now, she is a cartoon.

I don't hate the character or Janelle James (her performance is good!), I hate what the writers have done to her. It is cheapening a show that began as one that cut to the bone through humor.
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Old 02-12-24 | 04:18 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

That's fine. Many others disagree and love her.
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Old 02-12-24 | 04:40 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

What is there to love?
Old 03-10-24 | 12:49 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Didn’t know until just now but apparently there’s a new episode on tonight after the Oscars.
Old 03-26-24 | 01:05 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Love the show. Love Ava. Love Gregory. Love the cast. It’s just so great.

Like the office if it was heartwarming
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Old 03-26-24 | 07:05 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

The final scene in last week's episode with the janitors panel and the roomba was hilarious.
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Old 03-26-24 | 10:43 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

The only thing I don't enjoy about this show is the lead character. The B plots and other scenes without her are more enjoyable, in my opinion.
Old 10-04-24 | 09:03 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

There's going to be an Abbott / Always Sunny crossover episode this season. I don't know which show's season it will be part of.
Old 10-17-24 | 10:26 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

First image from the crossover


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Old 11-11-24 | 03:55 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Deadline saying the January 8th episode of Abbott is the crossover episode.
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Old 11-11-24 | 04:56 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Was hoping it was on Sunny just because I can see the Abbott characters being the straight men on that more than I can see the wackiness of Sunny working on Abbott but whatevers clever. Look forward to it.
Old 11-11-24 | 05:32 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Originally Posted by MrX
Deadline saying the January 8th episode of Abbott is the crossover episode.
So I guess I have to watch 169 episodes of another show just so I can understand this one episode.
Old 11-12-24 | 07:19 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Or you could just know that the Sunny gang is a bunch of degenerates who own a bar in Philly.
Old 11-17-24 | 03:15 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Saw an interview with Brunson where she was asked about the crossover. She said the Abbott episode will be from their POV and there will be a Sunny episode in their next season will be their version of what happens.
Old 12-30-24 | 04:52 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

So is it a crossover with High Potential too?
Old 12-30-24 | 10:26 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Originally Posted by windom
So is it a crossover with High Potential too?
No, Kaitlin Olson is on Sunny.
Old 12-31-24 | 01:01 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Originally Posted by Noonan
Or you could just know that the Sunny gang is a bunch of degenerates who own a filthy bar in Philly.
fixed.
Old 12-31-24 | 10:07 AM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

Clearly Windom has never seen Sunny and maybe never heard of it before
Old 12-31-24 | 12:10 PM
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

I hope we get a scene with Barbara trying to teach Charlie how to read.
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Clearly Windom has never seen Sunny and maybe never heard of it before
I think I watched one episode years ago to see what all the fuss was about but I didn't find it very funny so didn't watch any more. It seems odd for ABC to approve the star of their biggest new hit show to appear on another one of their shows but playing a character from a completely different show on a different network. Seems to me that it would just confuse ABC viewers.
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

I’m pretty sure people who watch this will figure it out pretty easily
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Originally Posted by windom
I think I watched one episode years ago to see what all the fuss was about but I didn't find it very funny so didn't watch any more. It seems odd for ABC to approve the star of their biggest new hit show to appear on another one of their shows but playing a character from a completely different show on a different network. Seems to me that it would just confuse ABC viewers.
Sunny is on FX. It's all Disney.
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Re: Abbott Elementary (ABC) - Premiere on 12/7/21

I've never seen "Sunny". Why would they be at this school other than also being set in Philly? And the Disney connection...


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