How Mac Manipulated Himself in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

He's always playing both sides so he always comes up on top.

Honestly, best one yet, you’ve somehow managed to humanise Ronnie the rat

Mac's interesting in that, despite It's Always Sunny's point is that the main characters don't grow or change over the course of the show, Mac seems to the exception. From the way he's written to how he actually looks, each era of the show is distinct based on him.

Next week: Rickety Cricket from It's Always Sunny

You’ve made me realise that the show does actually have great character writing

The sad irony of Mac is that he’s the only one who could leave the gang and nothing would change, and that reason is exactly why he chose to stay because he literally has nothing else to live for but the gang. They repeatedly told him to his face they don’t like him, it has nothing to do with his sexuality it’s just everything about him that they don’t like. Often times they actually view Dee more likable than Mac which is something He too cannot handle so he’s usually the one who is first on going for the attack on Dee. Honestly I would love an episode where Mac did leave or get jealous of someone taking his place and he challenges him to a drinking contest (which he always fails by the way) and just when they are about to start the guy he challenged doesn’t see Mac, he sees a scared child Whos only friends are people who don’t like him, so he deliberately spills the beer and leaves. Mac starts celebrating cause he thinks he legit won the contest, but then turns around to see his friends just sitting down talking to each other without him, even laughing at a joke dee tells, then the camera pans back to Mac and he reverts back into a child and it cuts to credits.

MY PATIENCE HAS BEEN REWARDED

One of my favorite Mac moments/insights is the one with the robbery; even in his own fantasy he dies just so he can withhold forgiveness from his friends 😂 it just sums up his pettiness and weird judgmental martyr catholic bitterness

3:13 i hate to be that guy, but he actually sees himself as "the sheriff of paddy's" 😂

People exploit mac by giving him validation, but mac is also smart enough to on some level realize this... but he likes the validation you see, so in some ways, he lets himself be manipulated.