Rob McElhenney, creator and star of It's Always Sunny Philalphia, spoke about the cisn to make his character Mac openly gay on the ntroversial s.
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- THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’
- IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
THE EVOLUTN OF GAY MAC ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY’
No character on televisn better reprents the tentn of their show better than Ronald MacDonald (aka gay Mac) of 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia.' We take a look back at Mac's journey om closeted Christian to openly gay male. * gay mac *
No character on televisn better reprents the tentn of their show better than Ronald McDonald (aka gay Mac) of It’s Always Sunny Philalphia. Like all great edi, It’s Always Sunny has a handful of long-nng jok, such as Dennis beg a socpathic sexual predator, Charlie’s obssn wh a wars, Dee’s bird-like appearance, and of urse, Mac’s reprsed homosexualy, which has ma It’s Always Sunny to be the type of show that aims for more than jt lghs. From his karate-fed overpensatn to his bodybuilr obssn to his “appreciatn” for masculy, Mac’s journey om closeted Christian to openly gay male has been a memorable one.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
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Poignant programmg: ‘It’s Always Sunny’ Holds Off on the Funny Season 13’s Gay Pri Fale. It’s unlikely that the wrers were aware of gay Mac's pendg evolutn om the get-go.
Carmen is supposed to ll Mac after her sex reassignment surgery, but stead, she marri the High Life guy—who Mac then lls gay. Mac nmns their unn via Bible vers, protts gay marriage the season six episo, “Mac Fights Gay Marriage, ” and is jt…well…angered by the whole thg. Actually, Mac's "God hat the gays" ln is one of the biggt reasons tak so long for him to embrace who he really is.
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * gay mac *
Mac is joed by his iends and Country Mac (openly gay) as they dulge activi while wearg cut-off te. Also, Mac sports an erectn while he speaks on the so-lled evils of homosexualy.
Mac meets a gay uple on a Christian cise multi-part season 11 episo, "The Gang Go to Hell.
While the rt of the gang attempts to avoid their rpective ss (wrath, sloth, and lt), Mac avoids his homosexualy. However, when he do nont the gay uple, don't take long for them to nvert Mac to their liftyle.
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Long story short, Mac has to adm he's gay orr to claim said scratch-off, so he do. "It's not a gay thg, 's a Mac thg. At the begng of season 13, Mac is, fally, an openly gay man.
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. ' 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.
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"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.
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Of the rpective idsyncrasi of The Always Sunny Philalphia gang — such as Charlie beg illerate and Dennis beg a sexual predator — one of the funnier nng gags throughout the seri has been Mac’s latent homosexualy.
In Wednday night’s “The Gang Group Dat, ” at one pot Dennis refers to Mac as “the gay one” and at another pot when he turns to Mac and tells him that he riv his self worth om “nvcg himself that he’s tough and straight, ” Mac fir back “I am tough.
Of urse, what mak the joke work is that Mac himself is probably the only one that don’t know that Mac is gay. If he were jt a guy stgglg to bottle up his homosexualy, that would jt be prsg, and a different kd of show. But as a strict Catholic, Mac has reprsed his homosexualy so much that he don’t even unrstand his fatuatn wh badass tough guys is bee he wants to have sex wh them.
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FXX has renewed Always Sunny for two more seasons followg the 10th, which I n only assume will fally be the seri’ last, and I’m really hopg before ends we get an episo lled “Mac Realiz He’s Gay. ” Until then, I’ve put together this timele that outl Mac’s homosexualy as bubbl ever closer to the surface.