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It’s Always Sunny’s Creators Self-Plagiarized Their Waitress Character
By DANIELLE RYAN
The cast of “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia” have worked with each other for years. Before the show, they produced shorts that they would later self-plagiarize.
In “The Always Sunny Podcast,” actor Mary Elizabeth Ellis discussed her character, The Waitress, with show creators Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney.
Before filming the pilot for “Always Sunny,” the gang created a mockumentary featuring, as Howerton described it, “a grown-up Haley Joel Osment living with grown-up Frankie Muniz.”
The characters were broke and trying to reenter acting, and Howerton was their teacher. Ellis played a waitress at an Olive Garden who was in a “backdoor relationship” with Osment.
Ellis went on to play the unnamed coffee shop waitress in “Always Sunny.” In a potential nod to the original mockumentary, a promo for season 8 of the show featured Osment as Mac.