“Get to work, beefcake” he murmurs, ogling his replacement’s arms. After meeting the hulking stranger who would play him (again, what?), Mac decides that bulking up is a non-negotiable. But it’s when Dee convinces Mac that they should hire “avatars” to replace them at the bar (Whaaa? Alright, sure) that Mac makes his fateful decision to get huge. “I drank 3 bottles of champagne and hung out with a stray dog all night under a bridge,” Mac explains. Later Mac is forced to rage alone after Charlie proves exhausted from working to go out. the inevitable conclusion of Paddy’s financial success. The second biggest laugh for me was watching Mac cross out each continent he wouldn’t visit on his world-wide yacht trip, i.e. Overall, however, this really was Mac’s time to shine, which is refreshing after watching Dee and Dennis fucking tear it up this entire season. What else is there to do but get high? Watching Charlie dance-mime eating Dennis’s eyeballs while stoned on Turpentine was the highlight of the episode. Charlie, the voice of reason in this ep, is finally driven to insanity by the demands of their huge patronage. “Do I look foolish?” he whimpers, wondering aloud, “Do you think a normal mask of me would look good, and if so, would you guys wear one?” Dee starts driving customers away by giving them her tight 20 minutes as opposed to their drinks.

Dennis dyes his hair black and burns his face with a chemical peel. Aside from this supposition being completely, idiotically wrong, everyone immediate cracks under the pressure to perform. With Paddy’s experiencing inexplicable popularity, the gang becomes obsessed with “the tipping point.” They convince themselves that their continued success demands that they meticulously maintain all elements of their current state: Charlie’s cleanly bar, Dee’s winsome comedy stylings, Dennis’s physical perfection. The episode was also a commentary on the nature of fame. Personally, this is what I want from a flashback ep, as opposed to, say, a “Frank’s Brother” a way to see the repercussions of our character’s insane deeds. The whole episode felt disconnected from the rest of their universe, in a strangely satisfying way. Also, Mac has been fat for quite some time now, and we’re only just now addressing it. First of all, when the hell did Paddy’s get successful? Mac’s flashbacks take us six weeks into the past, so it wasn’t the work of Frank’s virus video pulling people in. Last night’s ep was a little bit of a meta-rumination on the time line of the gang’s escapades. Just to be clear, Mac isn’t there to confess anything he’s just hoping the priest will smite those who have wronged him and help him lose weight. “I’m super pissed because my friends made me fat,” a sweaty, enraged Mac fumes to a confused priest before launching into a diatribe against the Paddy’s gang. Would that every It’s Always Sunny episode began in a confessional.

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