Glenn Howerton Kept Almost Quitting ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Because He Was Worried It Had ‘Peaked’
by Eli Yudin · Cracked.comTo be fair, I think most of the fans worried about the same thing
July 03, 2025
Of all the concerns to have about a television show you’re in, a concern that the show has peaked is probably one of the healthiest. First of all, if you’re concerned that something’s peaked, it means that you must have already found some sort of popular and critical success. Second, it means you care about the actual quality of the show you’re in, which, at least based on product, seems to be fairly rare these days.
It’s also a valid concern, no matter how big or beloved the property is. You could be the Beatles, and you’d probably still worry about releasing another album and officially blowing it. If the show in question is about to cross over into baker’s dozen territory, doubly so.
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Thus, I don’t think anyone would say that Glenn Howerton’s concerns that Always Sunny might jump the shark aren’t understandable.
According to a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Howerton regularly had to be reeled back to a fictional Philadelphia for successive seasons. He explained that he “was worried that maybe, we had sort of peaked or something” and suggested ending the show or at least Dennis exiting. His concern, luckily for fans, was shut down by the other mainstays (namely, Charlie Day and the artist formerly known as Rob McElhenney) in a brusque, perfectly Sunny stand-off.
When he raised the idea, the rest of the cast simply informed him, “We don’t want to end it,” and Howerton, with I assume, a perfect Dennis shrug, ceded with a “Oh, well I can’t stop you.” Or as McElhenney put it, “(We) just kept writing it and kept writing him in.”
Their rebuttal/plan worked beautifully. Apparently, the episodes themselves would serve as a figurative pie on the windowsill for Howerton, who couldn’t resist sharing his thoughts. He said he kept “finding myself just having a lot of opinions about the episodes that you guys were writing,” leading to him admitting to himself that he needed and wanted to come back.
After all, Dennis can’t disappear before we get to the bottom of the string of homicides he has almost inarguably committed. Though if they ever sadly do need to write him out of the show, putting him in a supermax prison would be a fun way to do it.
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