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Just sat down on a plane and realized I had something in my coat pocket.

Egg.

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The choice is yours

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cook your dead dog into your boyfriend's mac and cheese because you caught him at applebee's

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

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mac saying “yeah” in lowercase is something that can be so personal actually

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Genuinely why does Dennis touch Mac so much in Replaces Dee with a Monkey.

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it's not gay if you're looking at tits, bro

uncensored version

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I have to piss

Out of my penis

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like girl okay bend over

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this man has a mental fortitude unmatched by any other side character. hes crafty, sardonic, and opportunistic, just like the gang, but unlike the gang, instead of directing it toward anyone who comes into contact with him, he directs it squarely toward the people terrorizing him. hes like the most mentally stable character of the whole show, his divorce broke him more than the gang could

i love the lawyer so much guys you dont understand. you first meet him and you think hes just another one off straight man character for the gang to bounce off of, but then as the episode progresses you realize hes just as batshit insane as the rest of them hes just more chill about it. he keeps a gun loaded in his desk drawer just in case of something like charlie kelly showing up unannounced demanding a duel (which he immediately agrees to and very excitedly yaps about how hes gonna put a bullet through charlies teeth and out the back of his neck)

hes petty as hell, has a restraining order against the gang but immediately tracks down maureen once he hears dennis is getting a divorce just so he can fuck him over in the legal process and then afterwards happily smiles and puts his hands over jacks hands for the photo (this ALways kills me)

and the proof that hes just as insane as the gang is that this motherfuckers life is never ruined whatsoever by them. every other reoccurring character forced to interact with the gang slowly deteriorates over time (cricket, the waiter, maureen, macs dad) but not the lawyer. the worst that happens is his eye getting attacked by guillermo del toros bird.

i love him so much. underrated side character

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i just started s5. w what happened here

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fic where mac and dennis touch tips called "mac and dennis go head to head"

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the heart shaped lock is a very significant clue that you both agree on hiding from everyone. uh huh. right. you fags make me sick to my stomach

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Idk if Mac had a strong sense of self before coming out. I think a lot of it was constructed and obviously based on people he thought he should be like. His dad, or action movie characters. It looked like he had a strong personality, being bossy and stubborn, but I bet if he was asked any typical "fist date" questions, he'd come off like a cardboard cut out, or like an action figure toy with a pull string. Only able to say obvious macho bro-ey answers, not understanding how to genuinely answer. And he truly believed that's who he was. He had to. Because if he wasn't that, wasn't a man, who was he?

Coming out, going back, coming out again, eventually having it stick, he doesn't know who the fuck he is or supposed to be. I think being Gay is a title/role to Mac in the same way being Straight or a Man was. He's only ever seen queers in a negative or, at best, stereotypical light so he doesn't understand the deeper levels to himself. He's just swapped roles from "macho rowdy ladies man" to "gay bear/hunk sex machine" in place of understanding himself on a deeper level.

There's an assumption that queer people have a deeper sense of self and understand ourselves better than cis straight people, but coming out isn't always a coming home. It can destroy your sense of self and leave you completely lost about who you are as a person. It can feel like starting from ground zero.

We see this with Mac almost immediately. Mac Finds His Pride has him lost the whole episode, apathetically going from one queer scene to the next as Frank tries to help him find what Type of Gay he is. Eventually culminating in an attempt to still gain his father's approval. I think the dance helped Mac process his relationship with god, but he is still very lost as a person by the end of the episode.

Another example, very obviously, is when they're in Ireland. Mac has lost all sense of identity. Already struggling with his catholocism and being gay, he's shortly stripped of his Irish identity as well (and immediately tries to figure out how to be Dutch? iirc). That's Mac's whole plot for that entire season pretty much.

He looks to other people to tell him what to do, almost refuses to make his own decisions. Who is Mac? What does he like to do? Not in relation or service to other people, but to himself? I don't think the writers, Rob, or Mac know the answers. He's not gay, he's Mac. What does that mean?

I don't know where else to go with this. Besides that, I feel that in The Gang Goes Bowling, we see just a little bit of Mac returning. Or rather, becoming. I hope we see more of him.

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mac after 3 drinks vs mac after 8 drinks