#rcgkd

[good-realtor-bad-realtor-dynamic]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 9 "Ingmar Bergman" promotional stills by Matthias Clamer

Sources: 1 2 3 4 Matthias Clamer also did "Hair" the Sunny season 10 promotional photoshoot and several other tv promotional photoshoots, especially for FX.

All previous posts with the promo images from season 9 seemed to be missing one or two photos, so this is my best shot at a full compilation. In addition to these images, there are also on-set photos from the Bergman-themed teasers and promos they shot for season 9 and the show's move from FX to FXX.

#iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #iasip promos #iasip photoshoot #iasip cast #dennis reynolds #dee reynolds #frank reynolds #charlie kelly #mac mcdonald #ingmar bergman promos #matthias clamer #iasip s9 #the gang #rcgkd #glenn howerton #rob mcelhenney #kaitlin olson #charlie day #danny devito #stills #compilations #sur

[charmac]

That thing with Rob's (unfunny) jokes was also what icked me when he was the only one that didn't say that Macdennis is the greatest will-they-won't-they…

I get that, like he never wants to brag so he’s hot to throw Sunny under the bus in any kind of ‘achievement’ it can (and should) claim.

A lot of the time when he talks about Sunny personally, it’s like he doesn’t factor in or actively consider that it’s way beyond just him now and what it’s become is the effort and work and talent of so many people. Like obviously he knows that, I’m not saying he doesn’t know that, but that when he talks or is asked about Sunny on his own, he seems to want to completely minimise it or use this kind of self-deprecation humour to dismiss what it is, and that comes off so poorly when he’s the creator saying these things.

It’s a silly thing for RCGKD+ to throw the classic, “Oh yeah this show has gone on wayyyy too long,” when they’re on a red carpet being asked about 16/17 Seasons and clearly having fun, it’s another thing for the sole-credited creator to throw Sunny out there as “been over for five or six years,” completely unprompted while talking semi-seriously about being able to recognise when you’re failing. I really wish I had more faith that Rob just doesn’t realise the weight of his words in instances like this.

I will say though, on the WTWT, the only thing about his answer is that he put them in the same category (or like “just below”) Ross and Rachel, which sticks out to me due to the fact that he’s openly talked about taking inspiration from Friends for Sunny.

When comparing Macdennis with greatness, his mind jumps to a couple who constantly self-sabotaged their relationship with each other, and sabotaged their relationships with anyone else because of each other, from a show he initially took inspiration from…a couple who are literal last-episode endgame (whether it completely toxic or not beside the point, showing they can’t escape each other)

I will chew on that like the head cow always grazing… if only he could also play along and say, fuck yeah i’m writing that and it’s GOOD, goddamnit.

#squidward panhandling: source for the friends claim please anyone source for the friends claim #i know it’s true but it’s 3am im not gonna go digging #so for now #source for the friends claim: just trust me bro #rob mcelhenney #ask

[williamsockner]

The Gang Goes to Hell and Transcendence

Someone gave me the slightest opening to start rambling about The Gang Goes to Hell today and after dumping an unreasonable amount of feelings on them, I decided to just essay it out here. Keep in mind that I watched the episode well after S12 came out so I never had to deal with the sour taste of Mac’s re-closeting, but Goes to Hell Part 2 is maybe my favorite episode of Sunny because it captures so many of the most important themes in the series to me; mainly, it captures the nature of human worth rising above their crimes.

The joke of The Gang Goes to Hell is that it’s a riff on Sartre’s “hell is other people” quote, from the end of No Exit, which winks and nods at the fact that the gang is a codependent toxic mess that has spent over a decade sabotaging, lashing out at and clinging to each other. On a surface level, you could make the argument that they’d all be better off without each other, that their insular reliance on each other is not just a crutch but their damnation. Where The Gang Goes to Hell excels is that it digs past this basic read and shades in the details, which is that these aren’t just the worst people in the world ruining each other - although they are that - but that they’re also people in complex relationships with each other, relationships that are defined as much by the positive aspects of their bonds as by the betrayals and venom.

The reason Sunny works on a character-level while other “edgy” comedies don’t is because Sunny is fundamentally a compassionate show. Sunny goes further than just showing us bad people; over the course of over a decade of seasons it’s answered the question of why those people are bad. RCG and their writers’ room understand that human evil doesn’t happen in a vacuum, that bad actions come from insecurity, pain, fear, neediness, addiction, unaddressed trauma, loneliness, discomfort, unhappiness. And so they gave us evidence of that over the years, crafting different spins on the same subject through the five members of the gang. They detailed why the characters are insecure, neurotic, volatile, miserable wrecks. They show us how underneath every bad action is some kind of hope - hope for validation, love, security, wealth, satisfaction. Even revenge comes with the hope of peace of mind. Hope comes with wanting to be in some state different than the one you’re in now.

 So Goes to Hell. The episode starts with bickering and then develops into something more; it shows that working as a unit, the gang can create something where there’s nothing. In an empty room they can entertain each other, they can laugh, they can tease, they can create music and play pretend. Feeding off each other, they can fight and hurt each other, but they can also invent their small joys together when they wouldn’t have been able to do so alone. The impressions, imaginary meal and Stomp sections are a love letter to how people can do more than a single person. Community can lift people up when solitude can’t. Any member of the gang would go out of their gourd if they were alone, but as a team they can while away hours in relative comfort, intermittently forgetting their situation entirely.

And then the water starts to rise, and fear starts to kick in and become an evident motivator, both in the present and for past bad acts. Charlie unhinges and ends up with a flare gun wound in Frank’s arms, fearing that they’re already dead. It’s revealed that he manipulates Frank out of fear of losing him. It’s revealed that Dennis destroyed Mac’s letters at least partially out of fear for the fact that Luther’s a scary dude who’s made credible death threats. Dee rejects her brother for fear he’s playing her in their last moments. Their lies start to get stripped away and their world gets smaller and smaller as the room fills with water. And one by one, the Reynolds family chooses action over inaction and goes under the water.

They hold hands. Mac and Charlie join them.

At the end, with no future, the gang are just people who don’t want to die alone. And they’re people who can help each other not die alone. As they drown, they’ll not only witness each other, but comfort each other, hand in hand. Stripped bare of everything else, humans offer themselves up to each other in silent community, affirming that if you can do nothing else, if you can’t speak or fight anymore or even hope, you can silently testify to someone’s right to not be alone in a moment of fear. With nothing else, you still have the longing for community. We are social creatures. Other people aren’t hell; they’re redemption.

With “let’s go be with the gang”, Mac and Charlie make the conscious decision to sacrifice a few moments longer to live and wait for rescue to be with the people they love. At the end of the line, they choose love and friendship. And under the water, each Reynolds chooses love and friendship over pride. It matters more to Dee that she holds her brother’s hand than that she hold the line she just drew.

Naturally, twenty seconds later they all beat the shit out of each other to be rescued first, but that’s just how they are. Their humanity gets compromised by their selfish reactions to outside forces. Take those away, keep them in a vacuum, shrink their world down to hopeless minutes, and even the worst people in the world are inherently good.

#iasip #just dumps feels all over the place #my precious idiot children #the gang goes to hell #this is such a fundamentally compassionate show #rcgkd so clearly love their characters dearly #it resonates with me so hard #i do backflips every single day of my life #block the wind while i roast this bone #ayoo free batteries #the golden god is not taking questions #i eat stickers all the time dude

[hohcs]

There are certain things that are never mocked in sunny, by the characters or the show itself. The gang never mocked Mac’s gayness, and neither did the show. Dennis wears makeup, and everybody accepts it without much question. It’s rarely played as a joke. It’s comforting, to be honest, to watch a show where these things exist without being the subject of mockery. Sunny has been increasingly careful to punch up with its satire and I think it’s treatment of gender nonconformity and gayness are a great example of that.

#rcgkd i owe my life to you #iasip

[globrights]

us: rcg where’s the promo content show me the fucking promo content how is it taking this long

sunny promo team, sifting through all the overtly gross and likely sexual footage they were forced to film of rcgkd in order to find something appropriate to post: help

#text #iasip #dkkdkdkd #when i say rcgkd i mmm #mostly meab rgk #im not over their gross shit now #no*

[youwillcallher]

i am so deeply deeply unprepared for whatever the outcome of s14 is. macdennis happens? unprepared. macdennis doesn’t happen? unprepared. mac gets a boyfriend? unprepared. dennis gets jealous? unprepared. charlie and frank get two european roommates? unprepared. the gang does beckett-esque laser tag? unprepared. fillm fucking noir episode? unprepared. the global warming episode? the one where That Picture was taken? unpre-fucking-pared. literally anything could happen and i would break down in tears! if dee talks to a woman once (1) my ass will be grass . there could be an entire fucking episode of dennis staring at the screen like in making dennis a murderer and i would sob and call up the emmys on speed-dial ! ! these motherfuckers absolutely own me and the worst part is they completely fucking know it too

#rcgkd: breathes #me: ICONIC! HISTORY MAKING! #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #s14 #casey.txt #iasip

[bumpscosity]

Those eps popped OFF with symbolism

#the moral of the story is that rcgkd will never leave their base and will defend their honor forever #sassy speaks #iasip #s14

[asexualcharliekelly]

We are FEASTING laid eaze!!

#watching MFHP?? WHENEVER I want?? AND giving RCGKD those views?? what everyone deserves... #iasip #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #mine

[dnnsrynlds]

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#imma just unleash real quick cause for the most part i have been quiet #uhhh i really hate right now its very messy and people are hurt by others and rcg #and it makes me a bit sick to my stomach #cause i have so much fuckin love for rcgkd and i always will #and i love my fucking mutuals so much and this situation is so fucked #and people are hurting and people are fine and its like ???? #i just want everyone to be happy and feel and safe here #i just wish that episode never happened bc sunny has done so much for everyone on here #and i dont think what was done was intended to hurt anyone? well thats what i really want to believe #and i keep going back and forth in my head

[greenfinches]

What’s the best sunny commentary in your opinion. I love the one for Mac and Dennis break up but the guest guy is SO annoying

god i know..........i find parts of it hard to listen to bc an arrogant cishet guy claiming he understands the intricacies of mac and dennis break up is the kind of thing i see in sleep paralysis. literally every time he talks i want to pick him up and throw him out of a window. they shouldve done that ep w jamie babbit

tbh i love any of the rcgkd ones!! BUT if i had to pick one overall i’d say gets trapped bc it feels rly comfortable and friendly and the ep is one of my faves. also bc glenn says “aw dookie” in an incredibly petulant little voice right at the start and the first time i heard that i lost my shit laughing

#anonymous #ask tag #ssjkvdfnbvs not to expose myself on main or anything but i always find the rcgkd ones r lowkey comforting when im feeling lonely #it feels like ur just listening to a bunch of good friends hanging out the vibe is so nice!!

[good-realtor-bad-realtor-dynamic]

IASIP promo "Going Back to Philly" (2009) for season 4

Source

> "Going Back to Philly" by Jeru da Damaja > Directed by Fred Savage, who did 18 episodes from season 3 to 5 as well as the Christmas episode, so I guess he was just directed a lot of their stuff around this time. > Possibly produced by a creative/marketing company called SLAQR which seems to have worked on many, many shows from their website, but were also supposedly founded in 2010 before this promo was made... What.

This is a parody of "Going Back to Cali" (1988) by LL Cool J. If you've seen the music video for that song, this promo makes a lot more sense. I mean, there's still no explanation for some things, but that's just Sunny.

And they definitely thought they could use Glenn's titties to get more eyeballs on the show.

#going back to philly #iasip promos #iasip cast #it's always sunny in philadelphia #iasip #danny devito #charlie day #kaitlin olson #rob mcelhenney #glenn howerton #rcgkd #glitties #the gang #frank reynolds #charlie kelly #dee reynolds #mac mcdonald #dennis reynolds #artemis dubois #margaret mcpoyle #mrs mac #iasip s4 #videos #sur

[a-a-a-anon]

kaitlin in a 2013 interview talking about how the new season will make it clear mac is a straight up homophobic gay man... idk made me think we need rcgkd to do an interview rn where they say the new season will make it clear the show will have straight up homophobic gay macdennis

#iasip #macdennis #mac mcdonald #kaitlin olson #2013 wouldve been around when s9 aired. i think specifically she's talking about how Mac Day makes it vv clear mac is just a straight up gay #also #i cant believe interviewers were asking that in *2013* i mean i know Mac Finds His Pride wasnt out yet but Still

[lauraexplorer]

Friendship ended with RCGKD, now hating cops and not being racist is my friend.

#rcg #iasip #rob mcelhenney #rob and Kaitlin are the worst for it #context: some members of the sunny cast refuse to apologise for being racist and don't stop when told to #i.e doing blackface and saying slurs #and they're not improving plus Rob posted cop propaganda #i value not supporting racists over show content

[gaymacrules]

the rcgkd+ community

#max.txt

[macden]

iasip seasons rated by how much the gang Performs

season 1: because it was the first season, rcg were not yet ready to fully embrace their theater kid selves. disappointing lack of performance unless you count “boys are out tonight, huh?” but I do not because dennis is just like that. 0/10

season 2: limited performance. the gang makes an offensive video to terrorize their israeli neighbor (the nature of which docks performance points), dee and artemis do street acting. charlie sings both “I got the good lord going down on me” and “rock flag and eagle” but neither of these are particularly notable as the only audience is members of the gang. 1/10

season 3: it is clear that rcg realized that they were staying on air and began to embrace their passion for performance. this season gifts us with chemical toilet as well as the iconic first rendition of “dayman” (while both from a terrible episode, they get bonus points for the intensity with which glenn displays his slutty bottomness). mac displays his sick karate moves and pretends to go down on dennis. charlie shows everyone the white hot cream of an eighth grade boy with a fully choreographed dance. the first season with true performance. 5/10

season 4: the season begins with a lack of performance, picking up with mac and dennis self-inserting themselves as sodomites in their colonial america story. however, in the last episode rcg do what may well be the most iconic episode of sunny with the nightman cometh. between “tiny boy,” “troll toll” “dayman,” and charlie’s proposal, this episode provides a full performance in the form of a musical. extra points are added by the fact that rcgkd performed the nightman cometh as an actual live musical on tour afterwards. 9/10 thanks to the nightman cometh.

season 5: charmacden perform their birds of war song in which glenn demonstrates yet again that he has in fact ridden dick. arguably hugh and vic count as a performance as well. dennis and dee both briefly are in an m night movie. overall mediocre amount and quality of performance. 4/10

season 6: technically this has the first mention of lethal weapon but that one doesn’t even count because of the horrible nature of the entire thing. dee performs for some high schoolers. overall disappointing lack of performance. 1/10

season 7: arguably their most performative season not only in quantity but also quality. frank reynolds’ little beauties includes not only the opening number with iconic gay outfits and dancing, but also dee’s “moms suck” song and charmacden joining in with the yankee doodle performance. dee plays the role of a grieving mother to scam her way out of getting audited, assisted by dennis putting chili pepper in her eyes. the season ends with the gang’s revenge of performing at their high school reunion which gifts us not only with their elaborately choreographed vision of their dance, but also the realistic one that ended up happening. excellent content 10/10

season 8: not much in the way of singing, entire lack of dancing, a couple acting moments. dennis pretends to be brian lefevre along with dee and mac as prudence and vic. dennis sings wind beneath my wings to mac in front of an entire restaurant which adds a bonus point for being gay. 1.5/10

season 9: this season brings about some iconic performances but also some regrettable ones. dee performs stand up, charlie sings his paddy’s pub song, charlie performs the ever-iconic go fuck yourselves which in itself is worth several points, the gang practices for their boyz ii men audition, the gang performs motown philly for some hospital staff. unfortunately this season is also home to lethal weapon, which objectively should add performance points for being a full movie but I’m in charge here and I say it takes away points. overall pretty solid season with a downfall in the racism. 8/10

season 10: no performances. sad. 0/10

season 11: meh performance-wise this season. dee acts in a smut film, frank appears as the iconique ongo gablogian, mac discovers his passion for musical theater on the cruise ship. 3/10

season 12: begins strongly right off the bat with an entire musical episode, showcasing that rcg truly do the most in writing, learning choreography, and performing musical numbers whenever possible. dennis and charlie strip, unfortunately. dennis gives a horribly acted performance in which he pretends to be heterosexual and not deeply in love with mac in the finale. 9/10 for the musical episode alone.

season 13: starts off with no performance only for the finale to give us rob mcelhenney’s gift to the gays, a beautifully choreographed 5-minute coming out dance sequence that I still cannot watch without crying. rob said gay rights and wanted us to know we’re appreciated and so he did the absolute most by getting into crazy shape and training for months to learn ballet and then did That. mac finds his pride was unspeakably beautiful and profound and shows not only how much rob loves the gays, but how much he loves to perform. 1000000/10

#lexi.txt #long post

[globrights]

sometimes being a poc watching a white show that has decided it wants to be unapologetically racist means that u can’t just decide to be upset about the racism in a vacuum but still get to enjoy the show because over time it cuts you down and eventually you can’t even look at the characters and remember that they have brought u joy all u see is the actors that portray them and the writers that were responsible and the producers that were complicit and the show runners who decided that this is the hill they want to die on and sometimes these roles overlap which is worse and it’s quite hard to feel anything but disgust

#text #its like. its weird seeing people be like fuck megan ganz ugh all her episodes are bad #and then see people ogle at mac and be like mmmm arms hot mmm sexy glenn #its like its getting hard to separate that bc every time i have a related thought #like ill be like maybe mac looks good here and then #the back of my mind is like #rob plays that character. ur indirectly/directly worshipping him #and why? he was complicit in all this. he okayed all this. he def laughed at this. he thought it was revolutionary and amazing #and he has too much pride to admit hes wrong about this #and like #same goes for the others #its like. the cognitive dissonance is exhausting #and in case u think this is a call out post for white people who #thirst over rcgkd+ on main but are still like #the racism is bad ugh how dare they #maybe it is and maybe it isn’t #idk. bc i cant rightfully be angry at people for sth im also struggling w #and maybe ill forget about this again once i suck it up and watch mops twice #but this feeling is always here somehow and i guess #it will always be easier to be in the privileged group sympathizing for the oppressed or marginalized group #and perhaps that is not a callout bc #i dont feel any resentment towards beloved mutuals many of whom are white and #have been very helpful in this whole situation #but this has been sth i cant stop thinking about and maybe we should all think over it a bit as well