"Mac Fds His Pri" is the tenth and fal episo of the thirteenth season of It's Always Sunny Philalphia. Frank tri to rec Mac for the gang's kickass float for the Gay Pri Para; Frank to the realizatn that Mac will never be secure wh his sexual inty unls he...
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IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
This, however, was an earnt moment which Mac (played by seri creator Rob McElhenney) fally found the means wh which to exprs himself and affirm his inty as a newly out gay man. "We were lookg at Mac at one pot, and I was like, 'He is such an arch-arch Catholic nservative when sus him, and when don’t, he drops that.' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.
So we began gog down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic. And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s jt make him gay.' What we realized is, if you look back over the seasons, almost worked retroactively."Gags about Mac's sexualy had long been one of the show's many nng jok, but jt as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpots before, so too were viewers ved to lgh at the characters' homophobic ments, not wh them."The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly. "The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia.
We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay. A or so ago, Mac was ostensibly straight.But around season four beme abundantly clear that the only straight Mac was--as Sweet Dee and McElhenney's real-life wife Kal Olsen puts --was "straight up gay."So how did Mac get here?