Danny DeVito's Father Inspired It's Always Sunny's Weirdest Family Tradition

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00:00Did you know that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's weirdest family tradition

00:03actually comes from Danny DeVito's real dad?

00:06That's right, it took the show 15 years to turn DeVito's strangest anecdote into an arc.

00:10When Danny DeVito joined the cast of It's Always Sunny back in the show's second season,

00:14the cast hadn't yet gotten the show to the level of massive success

00:17where FX couldn't say no to their most extreme and outlandish ideas.

00:21So the team had to sit on one of the most insane stories DeVito's ever told,

00:25in or out of character,

00:26until they had enough clout to do an entire episode about a trove of teeth becoming a family heirloom.

00:31But um, yeah, can I get that jar of teeth now please?

00:34Oh, okay, I'll go look for them.

00:36Back in 2010, the entire gang appeared on an episode of Conan

00:39where McElhenney recalled his first time speaking with his soon-to-be co-star,

00:43revealing that during the meet-and-greet,

00:44DeVito casually mentioned a box that his father has that's full of teeth.

00:48When asked about his first impression of DeVito, McElhenney replied with a concerned look,

00:52We went to lunch in Beverly Hills and he immediately sits down and tells us about a box

00:56that his father has that's full of teeth.

00:59However, as Glenn Howerton and his friends would learn later,

01:01DeVito's strange demeanor during their late lunch was all a performance

01:04to prove to them that he could get real weird with it.

01:07But while the box of teeth made such a strong impression on McElhenney Day in Howerton

01:10that 13 seasons of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia later,

01:13it would become a central focus of Charlie's trip to find his father in Ireland,

01:16DeVito admitted that he may have been embellishing a bit about his old man.

01:20He said,

01:21I think I might have been f***ed f***ing about that.

01:23You know, you've never met these people before.

01:25I say my father's got a box full of teeth.

01:26You're never going to forget this guy, right?

01:28Hopefully, the Kelly family tooth jar is the only bizarre multi-generational tradition

01:32that Always Sunny pulled from DeVito's real-life anecdotes, fabricated or otherwise.

01:36We'd hate to imagine DeVito's poor kids waking up on Christmas morning

01:39to a Frank Reynolds fake-out.

01:43There's nothing in there.

01:46Fake-out, there's nothing in any of them.

01:48Now go wake up your pill-head mother.