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pal-ing around in the bedroom

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idk i can understand being frustrated that it feels like people are just going "macden macden macden" instead of focusing on dennis meta but i also think you guys need to realise that the macden dynamic is also inherently a part of dennis' life + it has shaped him significantly. it's not just a matter of ignoring a character to focus on a ship or vice versa; this episode in particular, i think, really unpacks dennis and mac's relationship from dennis' perspective, which is super important because even though there is the comedy within the whole "roommates for 20+ years" thing, it also means that the two are incredibly intertwined. that's why dennis begins the monologue talking about him and mac !

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so much meta in this episode unfortunately i do not think i am qualified enough to touch it. go off dennis fans i will be nodding in the background

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i'm just here to point out that while everyone else adopted a character to play, dennis insisted on trying to appear normal, and was judged only by his appearance as bossy and old, mean and angry, (the more popular) mac's boyfriend, who is holding him back - a villain to root against. a vampire. old, ugly, controlling, scary. he's been trying to be a more moderate version of himself where he actively suppresses his anger at the gang and still gets apprehensive "ooh"s from the crowd as they feel him snap. throughout the season he's been telling everyone to be themselves, but being themselves is not acceptable either. he scores the lowest by being himself. he is defined by the absence of over the top traits, a literal straight man. and when he tries to ask the audience to stop mischaracterizing him, they see his vulnerability as frightening. when the unintentionally comedic tone drops, they can't laugh, they have to reckon with how uncomfortable it makes them feel.

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huge fan of the running storyline of dennis being suffocatingly alone and unable to get his true feelings across to anybody bc hes spent his life so desperate to curate his image that genuine honesty now comes off as disturbing to those around him. his moment of genuine desperate earnestness being horrifying to witness and completely rejected by audiences which will inevitably lead him to cling even more frantically to any sliver of control as it keeps sliding further from his grasp. bro ur mind is a haunted house and u built it brick by brick. you are the ghost here

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i lov her so goddamn bad…..

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get you a friend like charlie

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i feel like we as a fandom don't do enough with mac being religious while dennis and charlie are not. in school mac would be laser focused on their bible study class meanwhile charlie and dennis are playing tic tac toe with each other in the margins of their notebooks. they wanna hang out on a sunday but mac blows them off cause he's going to church, so they hang out anyway and get high making crude jokes about how mac is probably getting diddled in there and it's not even that funny but they're laughing like it hurts. mac's priest says that new horror movie that's coming out is demonic so he won't be seeing it with them and now there's another inside joke that even if they explain he'll never get. charlie may be his oldest friend, and dennis may know him better than he knows himself, but they'll both never understand him in this one thing and even worse, they bond over how much they don't care about it, rolling their eyes and sharing a look everytime mac calls something a sin. mac prays for them cause when he goes to heaven he really wants them to be there with him, although he knows they probably won't be. but also, when he starts getting scared that he's going to hell there's a part of him that thinks "at least dennis and charlie will be with me" and that's the only comfort he can get

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charlie was asking dennis specifically.... #noticing

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my fav losergirl failure<3

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posting my edits here hi :-)

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not to get soft about a scene like #that but dennis definitely did it so that dee wouldn’t have to

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WYD if ur dad strips u of your money and clothes and dignity and ur humanity to top it all off and for some reason that does it and its the first time in forever that u are actually able to look ur sister in the eye and call her your sister. last week you told her you loved her "like a sister" i mean just shoved one little unobtrusive word in there to put enough distance between u and her to make the sameness bearable but now u look Exactly the same down to the trash bags and the dog food on both of your faces and you drag her out of that room as family fFor Once. and maybe its bc its just like when you were kids (read: house pets (read: they still loved the chihuahua more than u)) staring down the same double-barrel and you had to cling to each other then bc it was that or be entirely alone. then to now just feels like nothing. u dont look at each other on the ride back. ????????????

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Their father owns a thirty-five million dollar private jet.

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honestly the funniest part of the new eps might be how they occasionally pan to mac and hes just doing goomba eyebrows. a bunch of people in a room trying to pretend there isnt a moustache twirling villain amongst them. this man just tied a damsel to a train track and none of you are doing a single thing!!!

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spot the difference

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help htem