Hide The Milk, Guillermo Del Toro Is Coming Back To 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
Hide The Milk, Guillermo Del Toro Is Coming Back To 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'
Keegan KellyFri, March 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
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Pappy McPoyle will return in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 18. His traitorous spawn will pay once he reaches Mount Olympus.
FX’s flagship sitcom is one of those shows where A-list celebrities will gladly debase themselves for a chance to appear in an episode. Christopher Lloyd played a john who banged Charlie’s mom while dressed as Santa Claus in the Christmas special. Sinbad and Rob Thomas played themselves as deranged rehab patients who ended up being head-trauma-induced hallucinations. And, of course, Danny DeVito has been getting real weird with it ever since Season Two.
Oscar-winning film director Guillermo del Toro is, arguably, the most unexpected and hilarious celebrity guest star to ever appear on the show, having transformed himself into the patriarch of the McPoyle family who believes himself to be the mythical titan Kronos in two Always Sunny episodes, “The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre” and “McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century.”
Earlier this week, with the 18th (and possibly final) season of Always Sunny in production, del Toro hopped on Twitter to warn the show’s online community that he's turning his performance as Pappy into a trilogy, and no eye is safe from the secret under his hat.
In 2012, Charlie Day spoke to CBR about the seemingly unlikely collaboration between one of the most esteemed film directors in the world and the sitcom about degenerate alcoholics who ruin everything the touch. As the story goes, when del Toro cast Day in his action/sci-fi film Pacific Rim, the offer came on one condition.
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“Guillermo is a big Sunny fan and it's why he offered me the part in Pacific Rim and, when I went to meet with him, he said, 'Oh, I want you to be in my movie and in return I'd love to be on Sunny,'” Day recalled, admitting that del Toro's proposal was so absurd that he couldn't figure out if it was legitimate.
“We joked about it the whole time we were filming because he was beating me up pretty bad day after day and he said, 'Oh, I can't wait to see what you're going to do to me,'” Day said of his working relationship with the film legend, “But I never knew whether he was totally serious and really wanted to do an episode, or whether that was his way of joking around.”
Clearly, del Toro wasn't joking about joining Day's comedy show, and, when the director showed up to the Always Sunny set, the writers and makeup artists gave him everything they had:
Now, del Toro is coming back to town, and Philadelphia simply isn't ready for what Pappy has in store. It's hard to imagine del Toro ever topping the absurdity, the depravity and the power of his most recent performance on Always Sunny, but, if there's one thing the show has taught us, it's that everyone can always go lower.
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