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Mary Ann Didn’t Learn the Professor’s Secret Until the ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Star’s Funeral

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It’s no secret that Glenn Howerton has come the closest out of the core It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia cast to quitting the show for good, but Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day just admitted that they, too, have had thoughts about going off to be a dad in North Dakota.

We are now less than a month away from the premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 on July 9th, and the press tour has hit the point where Howerton, McElhenney and Day are literally torturing themselves just to ensure the season’s success. Given the grueling nature of TV production, Always Sunny fans shouldn’t take for granted the fact that the stars still like each other and the show itself, and that “creative differences” still haven’t fractured the most important friend group in TV comedy after two decades of hard work.

Every King of the Hill superfan knows that Peggy Hill has a prodigious pair of stompers. After all, Grant Trimble doesn’t shell out for “educational videos” featuring size eights.  

This August 4th, King of the Hill will return with brand new episodes on Hulu as Hank and Peggy move back to Arlen following an extended stay in Saudi Arabia for a peculiar propane job. As creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels have been saying since the streamer first greenlit new seasons of King of the Hill, the show will diegetically address the time-jump since the show’s original finale, “To Sirloin with Love,” back in 2009, aging up the characters and explaining what exactly happened during the 16-year gap.

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