After Credits Backwards Messages

RCH (01x01 to 04x02)

RCG (since 04x03)

After the credits of each It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode, RCG Productions include a backwards audio message (with the exception of Season 11, where it is not reversed). The messages are recorded by the executive producers (Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton).

Season 1

Charlie: "You're stupid for playing this forward"

Glenn: "You're stupid for playing this forward"

Charlie: "You're stupid for playing this forward"

Charlie Got Molested

Identical to the rest of Season 1, but with an added echo effect.

Season 2

Rob: "Is it brown, is it brown, is it brown?"

Glenn: "Good work"

Rob: "Is it brown, is it brown, is it brown?"

Glenn: "Good work"

Season 3

Glenn: "Make it brown."

Rob: "Make it brown."

Charlie: "Make it brown."

All three (singing): "Make it brown!"

Season 4

All three (singing): "Clown baby, brown clown clown baby, brown clown"

Season 5

Rob (x3): "Next stop - brown town"

A Very Sunny Christmas

Glenn and Rob: "Sorry for wasting your time and money, but thanks for your money"

Season 6

Glenn (x2): "Brown - now in HD"

Season 7

Charlie (x2): "Seven seasons of brown"

Season 8

Rob (x2): "The brownings will continue"

Season 9

Charlie (singing): "The eagle's born out of thunder"

Season 10

Charlie (x3): "They got chicken in Philly?"

Season 11

*Off-key trumpet*

Charlie: "Brown"

Season 12

Glenn (x2): "Goodbye everyone, it's been brown"

Season 13

Charlie: "Hey baby butter, baby bitter butter, bitter butter brown"

Season 14

Rob: "They leave, but they all come back. Brown."

Season 15

All three (singing): "Four Walls, the better brown."

Season 16

Crowd (2x): "Make it brown!"

Notes

Rob, Glenn and Charlie

• During each of the end credits messages, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton are pictured in front of a white background. According to Glenn Howerton, "RCH never stood for Rob Charlie Howerton". Rather, it appears to have stood for Red Cunt Hair. The acronym displayed was changed from "RCH" to "RCG" during Season 4.
• "Clown baby" - is a nickname created by Dennis for Charlie Kelly (as an underground street fighter).^[2x7] According to The Always Sunny Podcast, it is also a nickname for Charlie Day.
• "The Eagle's born out of thunder" is a line from the "Birds of War" song in Season 5's The Gang Wrestles for the Troops.
• "They got chicken in Philly" is a quote from the first episode of Season 10; The Gang Beats Boggs.
• RCG produced an episode of On the Record with Mick Rock, which also had a secret message: "Look, this is a totally different show!"
• Season 14's "They leave, but they all come back" is a reference to the fact that Glenn Howerton did not appear in several episodes of Season 13, and the message from the season prior (as spoken by Glenn), "Goodbye everyone, it's been brown".
• Season 15's "Four Walls, the better brown" is a direct reference to RCG's own brand of whiskey, Four Walls, for which the tagline is "the better brown". A special commemorative collector's edition of Four Walls was released alongside the season to celebrate 15 years of Always Sunny.
• The use of the word "brown" in most of the messages may have been a reference to Philly band Ween who have made the word their own, meaning bodacious, however, RCG frequently refers to whiskey as "brown".
• The Season 16 reverse message "Make it brown!" Was recorded during the second live show in Dublin, Ireland. Glenn, Rob and Charlie decided they wanted the crowd to be part of the reverse message at the end of each episode of Season 16.