

At this point, with seven seasons behind them, their actions are still messed up, but now it seems natural for Dee and Dennis to go to a dog pound to see if they can kill a dog before they kill a human being.
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Sure, sometimes that process can involve smoking crack to get on welfare or throwing a fake dead baby funeral so Dee doesn’t get audited, and yes they will get into screwed-up territory almost weekly, but to them their processes make perfect sense. The Gang is almost always discussed as being too depraved or screwed up, but to me, it’s just that their process of getting from A to B isn’t filtered as much as any other person’s might be. In Charlie and Mac’s minds, the death of this dog must have driven Hitler crazy, leading to the deaths of millions, so they go searching for the painting. Charlie put together that the one thing they didn’t burn was a dog painting that they believe was a Hitler original of his own dog. Frank however has been taking care of Pop-Pop (how great would a Magnitude Community reference have been in this episode?), bringing (and leaving) containers of soup for him every week, in order to get the Nazi treasure the comatose man once talked about. Well now Dennis and Dee’s Pop-Pop is in a coma, and they have the power to pull the plug.

In “Pop-Pop: The Final Solution,” we get an episode that feels like early It’s Always Sunny, as the episode works like a spiritual successor to the season one episode “The Gang Finds a Dead Guy.”īack all the way in their sixth episode, Dennis and Dee’s grandfather, a former Nazi, gave Charlie a box of some Nazi memorabilia, including the entire Nazi outfit that Mac and Charlie eventually burned. So as season eight begins, Mac has had a sudden weight loss that allows him to fit into his leather duster again and the slate is wiped once again. When Sweet Dee gave birth at the end of season six, this was never brought up again instead it was replaced with Fat Mac, or as we can all feel comfortable in calling him now, Ronald McDonald. It’s yet another wild transformation for the actor, only this time, it’s on the healthier side of things.Every season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia begins with a clean slate to do more horrible things. In fact, recent seasons of the show feature the actor looking completely jacked, having packed on a noticeable amount of muscle while dropping fat. Related: Why Fans Are Still Talking About This Episode Of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'Įventually, the actor dropped the weight to get back down to his typical size. And then one week later after that, I came in on a Monday, and for whatever reason, it was like I popped. So, I was like, 'That's what I have to do.' So, I started eating cottage cheese in the middle of the night. If you eat cottage cheese, the last thing you want to do is eat it right before you go to bed because it metabolizes so slowly. “I read that cottage cheese metabolizes really slowly in your stomach. That was a great excuse to drink wine,” he revealed.īig Macs and Krispy Kreme donuts will certainly do the trick when eaten in abundance, but McElhenney had another trick up his sleeve when he was packing on the pounds to play Mac on the small screen.

And then I would put weight gainer into it, and I would drink that every day. I would take ice cream, and I would put it out on the counter in the morning and then it would melt. By the afternoon, I was drinking ice cream. Every morning, I would eat four of those. Impressively, the star was able to take things to another level with his calorie increase en route to becoming a larger version of himself. Related: The Cast Of 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Ranked By Net Worth And every day one of my meals was a high-calorie protein shake.” And then every once in a while I would eat three donuts. But when you’re four months in it and you have to muscle down 1,000 calories for the third time or fourth time in a day and you have to either eat three chicken breasts, two cups of rice and two cups of vegetables - or one Big Mac - you start to see the Big Mac and realize it’s a lot easier to get down. in a short amount of time isn’t easy, and it took some adjusting for McElhenney to pull this off.Īccording to the actor, “As I started off I was doing it with chicken breast and rice and vegetables. The weight gain was a focal point of the show, and there was even an entire episode dedicated to telling the story of how Mac got huge. During season 7 of the show, fans immediately noticed that McElhenney had packed on a considerable amount of weight for the character.
