#for the corpse gang

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Glenn Howerton: [...] and we talk about that all the time when we're writing Sunny, it's like this moment is like 'it's not funny enough,' and I'm like yes, but is it *entertaining,* is it interesting to watch? [...]

Sure, "it's funnier" if they don't, but...

[kod-lyoko]

tbh i watched this ep once and i don't think i can do it again

[skinwalkn]

going straight to hell but I'm still a dawg

[super-lupus]

"Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." - Luke 22:42

1. Piombo, Sebastiano Del. Christ Carrying The Cross. 1485 - 1547, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

2. Abram, Adam. Gethsemane. 2021, Altus Fine Art.

3. Groaning In Prayer.

4. Jesus In The Garden of Gethsemane.

5. “The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain.” It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, season 15, episode 8, FX Network, 22 Dec. 2021. Writ. Megan Ganz. Dir. Richie Keen.

[aiscapades]

THE CRYPTS BELOW THE CITY?

AS ABOVE SO BELOW?

[what-have-i-unleashed]

i do headcanon that killer is not a monster so his body wouldn't dust upon death anyway, or maybe it only disintegrates a bit. with this in mind...

imagine nightmare keeps the bodies of previous killers as scarecrows/trophies in the front yard of his castle/mansion. like, the bodies in crucified position. and wild flowers and weeds and tree branches grow inside those bodies, making it part of the scenery, part of the atmosphere, part of the natural cycle of those working under nightmare. a grim reminder for all the current ones every time they see the bodies outside of the windows.

maybe a legend, a horror story, starts to emerge from the current residents. that the scarecrows sometimes move - they sometimes will look at you when you look at them. it's as if they're alive, or maybe they're half-dead, or maybe they're ghosts entirely. spooky, isn't it?

[owltrifecta]

parabola. The plane doesn't crash. It doesn't save them. A no-crash au with a psychological horror twist. Gen, ensemble cast, oneshot, 4352 words. Rated T.

Above the clouds, the sun is high and bright. Shauna's face is warm. Jackie is dead on the seat beside her. Her skin is the blue-grey color of morning fog, her eyelashes painted with frost. Ice clings to her hair and clothes. Her fingers are blackened at the tips. She's fully leaned against Shauna but her body is light, hollowed out. Shauna imagines cracking her open and finding nothing but snow inside. Her face is peaceful, empty, waxen. Shauna lurches away. Jackie slumps. An ear, putrid and grey, falls onto the floor. Shauna screams. [...] "Is something the matter, miss?" the attendant asks. Shauna swallows, and looks back to Jackie. She's warm and breathing, still deep in a drug-induced sleep.

[onebizarrekai]

I'm trudging through the dsasks tag and I'm sorry it stands for WHAT???? AFTERMATH HANDS????

[cruiseshipmoment]

I'm always so impressed with Charlie Day's performance in "The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain." He really nailed that high-pitched sound people make when they're trying to talk, but they're crying too hard. The way he sounds when he says "I needed you there" is beautifully acted.

[lunaticpsykers]

day 1 - tooth

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Something about Mac's need for a rigid identity, for things to be in neat checkmarked boxes, something about Dennis' need to keep things unlabelled and out of the box. Something about cats in boxes (walls) and cats outside them. Something about whether the cat is alive or dead or in the wall or out, it's still a cat. Identity is a spectrum, but Dennis has always been Dennis, Mac has always been Mac and when they fully see each other and themselves for who they are... well.

[moonlit-minuet]

Yee, and dare I say, haw

[skinwalkn]

Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?

[charliework16]

don’t swallow the cap (the national)

[angrymac]

season 16 macdennis

I can’t stop thinking about Dennis and Frank��s conversation in “Dee Sinks in a Bog”, where Dennis credits Frank for making him the way he is in regards to his coldness, repressed emotions, and everything with the murder hole.

Based on the particular arc that seems to have been set up for Dennis since Season 12 (with Tends Bar and Dennis’ Double Life), it feels like they are building towards something huge. It has been established that Dennis does in fact feel “big feelings”, and while he could’ve been acting, I don’t think he was, especially considering the RPG scene that directly followed.

Dennis has been repressing his emotions for an extremely long time. We see how his denial affects his physical health too, from his issues with food to his experience with covid. And then we get this moment between him and Frank that feels very intentional.

Mac and Charlie’s big cathartic moments (MFHP and The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain, respectively), both had to do with their fathers, and them finally letting go of their fathers. Dennis’ Double Life was a big episode, but I don’t think it was THE Dennis episode.

I believe that Dennis’ big episode (his MFHP equivalent, if you will) will be the Season 16 finale, in which he will finally confront Frank in some big way and let go of Frank’s expectations / judgments / worldview that Dennis confirmed in S15 that he still upholds to some degree.

Upon letting go of Frank’s (and Barbara’s) expectations, Dennis will finally be able to address the things that he’s been avoiding, such as his relationship with food, his own mortality and ability to get sick, and of course:

his complicated feelings

for 1 (one) Ronald MacDonald.

I truly believe that RCG are setting up an arc with Mac and Dennis, and my main evidence is this:

Despite 15 seasons of subtext, and 4 seasons of Mac being out and canonically in love with Dennis, nothing has ever happened between them. Charlie and the waitress have hooked up and gotten together multiple times. Dennis and Charlie even kissed onstage once.

It would be such an easy plot point to utilize. There are hundreds of ways in which they could’ve played MacDennis for laughs and had them kiss already by now. And if they weren’t planning on making MacDennis canon, I believe that they would have.

So why haven’t they done anything with Mac and Dennis yet?

Because they’re building up to it. And with Mac having gone on his identity arc in Season 15, put some distance between him and Dennis all season, and gotten a comment from Dee about getting a boyfriend, his arc for Season 16 seems clear as well.

Mac will move on and date someone else, and Dennis will repress his jealousy until he is able to let go of Frank’s parenting and finally accept his feelings for Mac.

And it’s going to be a love story for the ages.

[fatmaclover]

Lord Almighty above. once i get to these episodes theres no stopping me i gotta finish the show once i get started on these bad boys because i dont think im gonna have the momentum to watch all of s16 if i stop after these