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he looks so young here i'm sick

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glenn was truly born in the wrong era. he would have thrived as a chronically online teenage girl

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🎉🎉RAAAAHHH HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLIE DAY 🎉🎉

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dennis reynolds my princess… my beautiful girlfriend who drinks wine on monday evenings and gossips with his twin sister about the neighbours' clothing choices and his roommate’s poor taste in men

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Oh... thats gore... thats gore of mister tibbs...

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finally expanding on this a little .. while mac and dee's fantasies in the gang saves the day are –to some extent– centred around how they feel about their positions in the gang, dennis, frank, and charlie's are not at all. dennis dreams of being nursed back to health by a woman he is attracted to; none of that involves anyone other than him and jackie denardo. charlie dreams of marrying and settling down with the waitress; similarly to dennis, his fantasy involves a third party outside of the gang who he creates a narrative with. both of them have wants outside of where they stand in the group and prioritise those.

however, frank's fantasy is made further unique by the fact that it doesn't extend outside of the local convenience store or incorporate any other elements that aren't currently available to him. he just wants a hot dog. like dennis and charlie, frank is secure in where he stands in the gang; however, he also doesn't aspire or want anything outside of the life he currently leads. he is the most content.

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hes just a pocketful of sunshine :))))))

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Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly Abbott Elementary, S04E09

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MY PRETTY

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i need to eternal sunshine of the spotless mind-ify macdennis

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currently watching this. so.. chaotic

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boyfriend core!!!!!

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the sunny autism is getting to me because i have never once in my life cared about football but now i’m debating if i watch the superbowl

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the gang chokes is basically a repeat of mac and dennis break up just a decade later, except in some ways it's sadder because dennis has grown to resent mac for being dependent while he also resents himself for being exactly the same. and you can see it, when he snips at mac, "i'm feeling better, ... no thanks to you", and then moments later insists he wants to drink another of mac's shakes because "i feel like the shakes are finally kicking in and that's why i'm feeling a little bit better". and he claims that he hates mac and maybe it's true a little bit but he has also latched onto mac like a parasite and resigned them both to living in this misery forever.

and mac's better at acting like it's all okay, because it's been 10 years and dennis still needs mac to rub his calves and tape his ankles and carry him all the way home. and mac likes to feel useful, he's always liked to feel useful, and if this is what he needs to do to be useful then he's decided that that's fine! and dennis will tear him down and mac will retaliate in his own way with poisoned shakes and pollen in the air and they'll survive one another, because that's what they've learned to do.

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MADBU / Chokes

Mac and Dennis, Apples and Decision-making Dependency