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His face lighting up

The Waitress pausing counting her bills for the Macdennis moments is sending meeee

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he is so me 😭😭

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what a glorious day to be a ‘they’ve been banging the entire goddamn time’ truther

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ACTUALLY GOING INSANE OVER THE IMPLICATION THAT MAC SLEEPS IN DENNIS' BED. WHY WOULD THEY JUST DO THAT. LIKE ITS NOT FOR ANY JOKE, THEY NEVER DRAW ATTENTION TO IT. WHAT THE HELL.

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this is long, do bear with me here: my most truly grounded macdennis take regarding The Gang Gets Ready For Prime Time is that mac is fully, authentically in love with dennis and their relationship keeps veering further into gay territory whether dennis likes it or not.

one of the funniest parts of the show is that their relationship progressively gets gayer in the background of everything else happening (while still maintaining plausible deniability.) the cross by dennis’s bed and ‘pal-ing around in the bedroom platonically with Dennis’ just pushed them even further into gay territory despite Dennis’s protests.

they share a bedroom. and pal around in it.

mac. sees them. as. a couple. because he knows Dennis is never getting away.

it’s inevitable that they’re going to be together forever, and in a show where the characters don’t get happy endings, nothing could be worse for both of them. Mac is doomed to live his whole gay life with a ‘partner’ who resents that he’s there and doesn’t reciprocate his feelings in any real way, and Dennis is going to live and die with Mac as his boyfriend even though that’s the last thing he wants.

they are in a farce of a relationship and for different reasons, it’s a horrible setup for both of them. neither of them are getting what they want. but at the same time, they’re pretty much perfect for each other. which is the whole point imo. and exactly where the humor lies.

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MAYBE AMERICA IS READY FOR US. IM READY FOR YOU MACDENNIS. IM AMERICA. PLEASE

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Who scored the highest? I think you did. Oh, yeah, let me see.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia – 17.07: The Gang Gets Ready for Prime Time

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at its core, ‘love’ is really just about finding someone who’s down to put up with you forever and that’s why I like Mac and Dennis.

it’s not an epic romance and it’s gonna amount to some huge sweet moment, but Dennis thinks Mac is super annoying and yet. he stays.

Dennis pushes Mac away in every possible way, even catfishes him, and yet. Mac stays.

after a certain amount of time,,,, what else can ya call it?

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I felt obligated to change my handle lmao

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Dennis: Why is everyone calling me your bossy boyfriend!?

The first impression the audience gets of Mac and Dennis:

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The Gang Gets Ready for Prime Time

Waaaaah, I loved that so much and I've loved this whole season and I can't believe there's only one episode left. As with this whole season, they all feel so in character and I laughed so much and was just so happy to be with the gang!!!

In specific, this episode was very funny and also had an amazing script. I'm not going to go into all the details I loved, but it was so meta in that way that Sunny does and I really loved it. All that stuff about playing to America and the way that people perceive them, as well as the ways that they individually and collectively try to present themselves. So good! The way it was staged like a play, or a multicam sitcom, also worked really nicely, both for the gang's love of attention and just as a cool way to do an episode.

Obviously the macdennis of it all is insane. They're really pointing out with a big red arrow how blatantly their relationship is uh… something special. Obviously they've done that many times in the past, but the way it's being emphasised here as something that people around them are recognising and that is just inherent to their dynamic is so specific. As well as the fact that the more they (Dennis) try and deny it, the more blatant it becomes.

And then we have Dennis' monologue… Insanely funny, at least at first. My eyes kept being drawn to Mac and Charlie in the background with their heads bowed in the shadows, and that alone kept taking me out, but then there's also Glenn's performance, which is unhinged. There was such a turn when Family Fight came up that I couldn't quite gauge what emotions I was feeling, or was even meant to be feeling, but I sure was feeling something. We knew some sort of speech like this was coming, about Dennis wanting people to see him as he is, but it is nothing like I was expecting, mainly because how could anyone ever imagine this. It's far away from the big feelings speech in tone, but still so interesting and important in terms of who Dennis is and his ultimate fragility. Yes, 'see me as I am' is literally about Dennis trying to present himself as having his shit together (to use his phrasing from earlier on), but beyond that it's also about the show getting the dudebros to understand that he's extremely sensitive and pathetic rather than a master serial killer. Through his failed attempt to put up a facade, Dennis actually does reveal the real him.

Anyway, great fucking episode! Season 17, my beloved forever and ever <3333

Small things:

I loved the little reference to Mac's 'I will put my thumb through your eye' line

'I am a bad boy' - I'm sorry but Mac is so cute here, including his little shrug when he says maybe he'll keep pretending to be straight

'Maybe America is ready for us'

'And then you kiss' - Charlie (Day&Kelly) ultimate macdennis shipper always

Dennis wig reveal? Vill you vear vigs?

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showing off to the guy who just told everyone you two weren't a couple and flirted with another man in front of you. no homo though. throwing it back in a totally straight way. bouncing on it heterosexually

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The Gang Gets Ready For Prime Time (2025)

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yeah fuck it I’m just gonna go ahead and say tonight we’re gonna find out Mac and Dennis fucked one time but it’s irrelevant to the topic at hand

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MacDennis jumpscare