‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 18 Episode 6 Release Date, Time and Where to Watch

The Gang is barreling through its record-extending run, and Paddy’s Pub regulars have another new installment on the horizon. ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia‘ Season 18 has already delivered a Ren Faire meltdown and an RV disaster, and now the show is gearing up for its sixth outing of the season with an episode built entirely around booze, class warfare, and Paddy’s identity crisis.

Fans tracking the release calendar for FXX’s longest-running live-action sitcom will want to know exactly when, where, and how to catch the new episode, plus what the Gang gets up to this time around.

Release Date and Time for Episode 6

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the sixth episode of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 18 is titled “The War on Alcohol” and is set to air on September 14. That lines up with the season’s established weekly Monday cadence, which Deadline confirmed when it reported that FX set Monday, August 17 for the Season 18 premiere, which returns with an expanded 10 episode season, up from eight episodes in the previous three seasons.

The Hollywood Reporter laid out the specific timing viewers can expect for every weekly drop this season. The season’s remaining 30 minute episodes air weekly on Mondays at 6 p.m. PT and 9 p.m. ET, meaning episode 6 should land on Paddy’s doorstep right on schedule at that same time slot.

Where to Watch the New Episode?

‘It’s Always Sunny’ airs across a wide simulcast footprint that gives viewers several ways in. The Hollywood Reporter noted that the show streams live via DirecTV, Fubo, and Hulu Live TV, with next day availability on Hulu and Disney+. That next day window is especially useful for anyone who prefers to catch up outside the live broadcast.

For subscribers who want the more traditional route, Disney’s own rundown of the season confirmed that seasons 1 through 17 are available to stream right now, with Season 18 episodes dropping on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers as they release. Internationally, the season continues to stream on Disney+ as well, so overseas fans of Paddy’s Pub are not left out of the rollout.

Wikipedia’s overview of the season also confirmed the simulcast structure driving all of this. The eighteenth season premiered simultaneously on FXX and FX on August 17, 2026, and episodes have same night availability on the FXNOW website and on Hulu. That means viewers with a live TV package do not have to wait for the next day window if they want to watch episode 6 as it happens.

What “The War on Alcohol” Is About

The premise of episode 6 pits two halves of the Gang against each other in a scramble to save Paddy’s business model. Per Rotten Tomatoes, Dennis, Dee, and Frank look to recruit white collar suits for happy hour while Mac and Charlie seek to enlist blue collar factory workers so they can return the bar to the melting pot it once was. It is a classic ‘Always Sunny’ setup, splitting the Gang into rival factions with opposing schemes that inevitably crash into each other by the episode’s end.

The episode also marks a change behind the camera. Rotten Tomatoes’ season guide notes the installment was written and directed by Dave Chernin and John Chernin, the sibling duo who have become increasingly central to the show’s writers room in recent seasons.

Episode 6 follows directly on the heels of “The Gang Goes to the Ren Faire,” in which, according to TV Guide’s episode guide, Mac, Dennis, and Dee strive to conquer their way onto the Quilt of Legends at the local Renaissance Faire while Charlie discovers a love of luting and Frank tries to acquire the faire from old foes. That gives episode 6 a fairly clean tonal reset, trading fantasy costumes for barroom hustling.

How Season 18 Has Been Received So Far

Critics have been largely kind to this stretch of episodes. Wikipedia’s season page reports that on Rotten Tomatoes, the season holds a 100 percent approval rating based on nine reviews, with an average score of 7.3 out of 10. That is a strong showing for a comedy entering its eighteenth year on the air, and it suggests the writers room still has plenty of gas left in the tank.

Deadline’s coverage of the renewal also underscored just how unprecedented this run has become for the medium. The outlet pointed out that the show is the longest-running live-action sitcom in TV history, following a group of deeply self-absorbed friends who run the failing Philadelphia dive bar Paddy’s Pub. Season 18’s expanded ten episode order, the largest since Season 14, only adds to the sense that FX is leaning into the milestone rather than winding things down.

Whether “The War on Alcohol” ends with Paddy’s rebranded, bankrupt, or somehow both at once, fans will have plenty to unpack when Dennis, Dee, Frank, Mac, and Charlie inevitably sabotage each other’s recruiting drives. Which side of the Gang’s happy hour turf war do you think is doomed to fail first?