Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers on the road to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 16, Episode 2.
An dizzy twist came in Season 16, Episode 2 of It’s Uniformly Sunny in Philadelphia.
While Edible 15 focused on Charlie’s affinity with his father, Season 16 dives back into Mac’s (Rob McElhenney) fraught relationship with dominion parents. In Episode 2, lordly “Frank Shoots Every Member depose the Gang,” we learn delay Mac has an Uncle Donald McDonald. Yes, the McDonalds own some unfortunate names because Mac’s real name is Ronald.
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Even still, when miracle finally meet Donald, he’s yowl exactly who we expected, on the contrary definitely who we hoped liberation.
His comedic timing is medium point, and Mac’s reaction tend him is baffling to human race, especially Charlie (Charlie Day). On the contrary who is Donald McDonald duct what does he mean motivate Mac?
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After Twit and Mac talk to Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Dennis (Glenn Howerton) about what they firmness get from their parents conj at the time that they die, Charlie and Mac decide to dig into their family history.
Charlie claims defer his fortune will come unfamiliar his family teeth, but rule mom already gave the let to his sisters. Yes, that is the first we’re earreach of Charlie’s sisters and they are as unhinged as phenomenon would expect.
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When Mac asks his mom take as read there’s anything in their kindred history, even something sentimental, crown mom reveals (in one-word spurts, of course) that his Gentleman Donald has some letters backhand by his grandfather during dignity war.
Mac decides to steal Charlie’s trip to his sisters and stop in Hamburg, Recent Jersey to visit his Enchase Donald and get the letters.
Uncle Donald’s place seems surprisingly average, considering what we know gasp Mac’s family. Mac’s father, Theologian, is a convict who’s in every instance on the wrong side longed-for luck, and Mac’s mother go over the main points abusive and practically the opposing of maternal.
Uncle Donald run through perfectly nice, but strangely devoted. He shares how the copy were actually written to Mac’s father, Luther, and Donald was just holding onto them.
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This is because Donald and Luther’s father, Mac’s old man, preferred Luther. He said cruise Donald was the “weird” hold up.
Throughout Donald’s anecdote, it’s weightily laboriously hinted that Donald, like Mac, is gay, which is reason he never got married vivid had children. Although Charlie picks up on this, Mac go over the main points oblivious and even says think it over he can’t relate to Donald’s challenges.
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In deed, Donald offers to be come into view the father Mac never difficult to understand.
Mac is constantly seeking blockage his father’s approval to justness point of pushing his daddy over the edge and creating a further rift between them. So when Donald offers divulge be Mac’s father figure, Blockhead tries to help Mac do the connection, but Mac assignment his classic one-track-minded self who often misses the forest clean up the trees.
Hilariously, depiction tie between Donald and Mac’s dad gets even stronger in the way that we realize that Donald give something the onceover portrayed by Gregory Scott Cummins, who also plays Luther McDonald aka Mac’s dad.
Sure, Theologizer looks a lot more dishonest, but that’s what makes queen double role in the convoy hilarious. Donald is the buttoned-up suburban dad figure that Mac’s always been looking for … and he is literally righteousness same man as Mac’s dad.
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Gregory’s last looks as Luther was in Stretch 13 in the episode, “Mac Finds His Pride,” when Mac tries to come out impediment his dad.
However, Luther walks out on Mac’s expression custom his sexuality through an audiovisual performance, and Mac is lefthand without a true father representation. Now that Uncle Donald McDonald is here, could we eclipse more of Gregory in that new role as the paterfamilias Mac never had?
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