FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has had its main cast do some terrible things together. They supplied alcohol to high schoolers, tried to exploit various financial crises, and even tried hunting people for sport. While everyone in the series is pretty terrible, Mac somehow stands as relatively the most normal and tame of them all. Though he does have his quirks, Mac is arguably the least sadistic and manipulative of the bunch.
Charlie is likely the only character with a case to be better. More often than not, Mac has just been a willing accessory to the gang's various exploits, a henchman proud to be a henchman. However, while he's typically used in most schemes, Mac still has his fair share of crimes under his own name.
9 He Harassed Dennis
Given how aggressive and needy Mac can be, it's easy to imagine how difficult it could be to live with him. Mac recently came out as an openly gay man within recent It's Always Sunny stories; and while this is a big move for his character, it in no way made him any less suppressed or aggressive as a creep.
As Dennis pointed out in "Time's Up for the Gang," Mac has sexually harassed various men, especially Dennis himself on multiple occasions. Dennis has his own dark history but Mac's actions here are pretty deplorable.
8 Tried To Sleep With The Waitress
It's no secret that Charlie is desperately in love with The Waitress. The Gang even tries to set her up with him when they found out he had cancer. If Charlie has any real romantic interest in the series, it's The Waitress. That's what makes it so wrong that Mac tried seeing her behind Charlie's back.
While the two never engaged physically, he still tried to seduce The Waitress without Charlie knowing, though she was trying to trick him into giving her one of Dennis' sex tapes. Charlie is Mac's oldest friend, and it's disappointing to see him try to throw that all away, especially given that this ended up just being an extension of his closeted self.
7 Made His Cousin's Funeral About Himself
Throughout "Mac Day," Mac wasn't all that pleased with how his cousin was stealing all of his attention. During a day literally dedicated to him, Mac constantly witnessed Country Mac upstage him and garner the love and admiration of the Gang.
While this is understandable, it is petty and delusional on his part given how most of his activities for that day involved projecting his own beliefs and self-image on the group. This is only made worse when Country Mac dies in a drunken, motorcycle accident, and Mac still finds a way to make the funeral about himself, blaming Country Mac's death on failing to meet his world view.
6 Harassed Dennis And Dee's Aunt Donna
In an effort to replicate his affair with Dennis and Dee's mom, Mac tried to proposition their Aunt Donna on multiple occasions during "The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention." After meeting her at the funeral for Dennis and Dee's mom, Mac puts on his best dating moves and tries to ask her out but is distraught when she ignores him.
Not one to give up, Mac's efforts become far less reasonable as he breaks into her house to cook her breakfast. The inherent hostility puts a strain on the romantic gesture, and his attempts overall put a strain on his friendship with Dennis and Dee.
5 Ratted Out His School's Drug Dealer To Steal Their Business
While the Gang knows him as Mac and his family knows him as Ronald MacDonald, Paddy's head of security has an entirely different legacy from his high school days. At Saint Joseph's Preparatory School, Mac was infamous as "Ronnie the Rat," a snitch who notoriously ratted out the school's old drug dealer so that he could take all of their business for himself.
It's one thing to be a drug dealer selling narcotics to kids but it's another to be a tattletale among drug dealers. It's almost as if Mac wanted to sabotage getting any friends outside of the Gang.
4 Cheated With Dennis' Prom Date And Blamed Tim Murphy
In "Underage Drinking: A National Concern," Mac and Charlie tell Dennis that his high school prom date cheated on him with Tim Murphy. Little did Dennis know that there was a lie on top of this insult. While Dennis' prom date did cheat on him, she didn't do it with Tim Murphy.
As he'd learn in "The High School Reunion" two-parter, it was Mac who stole his date that night. Mac not only betrayed his best friend, but he tried to hurt his feelings long ago while still trying to protect his own name for years to come. This isn't devious, but it's still pretty scummy.
3 Tried To Break Up Carmen And Her Husband
"Mac Fights Gay Marriage" is interesting to consider today given how much Mac has changed since it originally aired. In this episode, Mac stumbles upon his old flame, Carmen, only to become distressed when he finds out that she's married. With his heart broken and his sexual tendencies coming into question, Mac strives to break up her marriage.
Because Carmen herself is a transgender woman and her husband is a man, Mac harassed the couple in the pretense that they had a "gay marriage" and that disobeyed the bible. Mac didn't look great here, especially by today's standards.
2 Lied To His Father's Parole Board
There is an actual episode called "Mac Kills His Dad," where Mac's good intentions to clear his father's name inadvertently put his dad at odds with certain gang members in his jail. However, that act at least was a total accident. In Mac and Charlie's best story, "Mac and Charlie Die," Mac purposefully and maliciously lies to Luther's parole board to keep his father in jail.
This ties back to fears that his father might be upset over a busted drug deal in the past, so Mac and Charlie were trying to protect their own behinds (literally) by committing perjury in their typical, vulgar fashion. While Charlie was a bystander afraid for his own life, Mac was less justified given that he was working against his own father. Ronnie the Rat truly has no loyalties.
1 Fed His Dog's Remains To Dennis
While Mac has been deceitful and even hostile in the past, there are few cases where he's actually gone out of his way to hurt someone, least of all Dennis. However, suburban living just has a way of robbing city folks of their souls; and in one of the duo's best episodes, "Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs," Mac is left to take on the trials of a new move by himself while Dennis seemingly abandons him.
Dennis does try to make up for this by buying Mac a new dog. However, as excited as he appeared initially, the dog didn't live up to Mac's social expectations, and he just neglected the poor creature for several days. At the peak of his tired rage, Mac secretly fed Dennis the remains of the dog after it inevitably died.
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July 05, 2021 at 12:00AM
