Puzzle Creators React: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
From The Infinite Escape Room by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
November 9, 2025 · 43 min · Season 1 · Episode 398
About this episode
The hosts and guest analyze the escape room episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, discussing improvements and insights from their puzzle design experience.
In this new series, we put our professional puzzle design experience to good use and look at escape rooms in film and TV as if they were real escape rooms. In this podcast we're looking at the escape room episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Gang Escapes". Follow Mairi, Jamie, and special guest Alex Hylands-White as they put the room through its paces and discuss what improvements they'd make to make it a better escape room. Alex brings a wealth of escape room experience through his work as a designer at Clockwork Dog and Marketing Director at COGS. COGS is a show control software and hardware platform used to create and manage interactive live experiences like escape rooms, haunted houses, and immersive theater. It allows operators to easily design automated puzzles, control effects such as lights and sounds, and manage hardware like sensors and locks through a user-friendly interface, all without requiring complex programming skills. Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Special Guest: Alex Hylands-White, Marketing Director of Clockwork Dog and COGS Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for…
People in this episode
Hosts: Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs
Guest: Alex Hylands-White
Topics covered
- escape rooms
- film analysis
- comedy
- puzzle design
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Keywords
- escape room
- puzzle design
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- comedy podcast
- film analysis
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Clockwork Dog, COGS
Books & works: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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