idobackflips

[idobackflips]

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (TV Series, 2005)

Explain your reasoning in the tags!

[idobackflips]

AND while we’re at it: Glenn Howerton

[idobackflips]

[idobackflips]

holy fuck wow that new wheels post made me very curious so i looked on imdb for the user ratings of what are considered the Worst episodes... these are the "bottom 12" iasip episodes according to them, excluding gang beats boggs ladies reboot for obvious reasons. which would YOU consider the absolute worst out of the following episodes?

[idobackflips]

was that sexy?

(art from 2021)

[idobackflips]

[gay eye roll]

[idobackflips]

Ok and I’m gonna be mean again but AP Bio just felt like a Disney show to me. Disney laughs. I watched the first season when it came out and never came back to it. Sorry Glenn

[idobackflips]

who got dee pregnant????

drawing i did in 2020 for halloween

[idobackflips]

Well now that's cute...

[idobackflips]

[idobackflips]

the rcg pass...they gave this the fucking rcg pass.....

[idobackflips]

they’re so real for this one

[idobackflips]

[idobackflips]

macdennis full penetration can’t save america, but it sure would be going out with a bang

[idobackflips]

[idobackflips]

Did Rob actually not want Mac being gay/out? I've seen ppl mention that before, but it really wasn't gonna happen unless fans put the pressure on him? (Im semi new to the fandom, and it's so obvious that's where macs character was going so it's wild to imagine otherwise)

not rob specifically, rcg didn’t want to have him come out (and stay out) which is why he went back in the closet at the end of the gang goes to hell. if they hadn’t had him actually come out and then take it back, who knows if he ever would’ve come out because it was backlash from lgbt fans over the gang goes to hell that led to hero or hate crime and out gay mac. this is from rob in 2019:

“Very rarely do we pander to our audience. Very often, we’ll hear a lot of the fan base over the years say, “Hey, we really want to see that.” We tend to block that out […] However, what we found was, there was an episode where we had a running gag that Mac was in the closet and refused to come out, and everyone there knew he was gay except for him. The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obviously. That would have been demeaning and offensive. The joke was that he was in the closet, and he refused to come out and doubled down on his homophobia. It was just poking fun at the hypocrisy of that. At one point, my character came out and then went back in the closet at the end of the episode.

I didn’t expect it, but there was a massive outpouring from our LGBTQ fans, who were really upset. They felt like, “Oh, wow, he finally came out. We feel represented. This is a really fun and cool character.” That made them feel like it was a chance for us to do something different, and we put him back in the closet. We thought about it over the off-season, and I realized, “Man, that is a bummer. We had an opportunity there, and we screwed it up.” And we ameliorated that in the season after, where Mac winds up coming out and staying out, and the response was so overwhelmingly positive, certainly from the people that we cared about, though of course there was a negative response from a segment of the audience we didn’t care about. It felt good that we were recognizing a part of our audience in a way that was not pandering, that wasn’t offensive or upsetting or a caricature. We weren’t creating a gay character for comedic effect, that was there just to be gay and to be funny because he was gay, but a very complex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay. And we ran with that.”

so basically gay people bullied them and they changed their minds 🫶

[idobackflips]