“How Mac Got Fat” is the tenth episode of the seventh season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
During confession, Mac tells a priest how Paddy’s sudden spell of success resulted in him becoming fat, and why the rest of the gang is to blame. The flashback scenes are from an unaired season 6 episode, “The Gang Gets Successful.” When the gang is getting high in the back office, Sweet Dee puts the cap back on the glue twice.
A major plotline during Season 7 was Mac’s sudden, and quite dramatic, weight gain. Mac claimed that he was “cultivating mass”, but everyone else, correctly, saw him as just getting fat. However, Mac seemed to truly believe that his weight gain was muscle, not fat.
At the start of season 7, Mac has gained at least 60 pounds of fat, which he saw as a step to developing muscle (“cultivating mass” in his words) to go from “a tiny twink to [a] muscle-bound freak.”.
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Later, Dee and Frank enter an empty bar and get high with them. Six weeks later, Mac enters the bar and announced that he now weighs 200lbs and can hire his Avatar.
They mock him for being fat and he storms out. The very upset and aggravated priest offers to absolve Mac’s sins and smite his friends if Mac agrees to leave. Mac agrees but promised to return in 6 weeks when God has made him lose his weight.
The flashback scenes are from an un-aired episode from Season 6, titled “ The Gang Gets Successful “. The scene at the end where Frank and Dee discover Dennis and Charlie getting high is spliced together from old and new footage; you can partially see Mac’s shoulder when the camera is on Dennis and Charlie as he was initially supposed to be present as well.
Charlie Day often wears his real life T-shirts. Rob gained 50 pounds for Season 7. Originally he did it in a healthy manner. Eventually, however, he got tired of multiple meals a day of steamed rice and chicken, and started eating lots of donuts. Glenn Howerton started referring to the character as ” Fat Mac “.
Mac meets with a priest to repent for his sins, but ends up blaming the rest of the Gang on how he got fat. To the priest’s chagrin, he begins telling a long story of his weight gain: A few weeks ago, the gang realized that Paddy’s Pub had actually become a popular bar and that they were making a lot of money.
The conversation about Dennis looking/not looking like Superman may be in reference to the fact that Glenn Howerton had previously auditioned to be in the Superman reboot. Mac can be seen eating out of a Dad’s Donuts box, a shop located in Burbank, CA not Philadelphia.
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