#while Nina writes the Mac and Dennis share finances and a bed plot

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How are we ever gonna get a macdennis kiss without Megan Ganz 😭😭

I don’t want to discount Meg, because I do like her episodes and I think she has contributed to Sunny in a lot of meaningful ways, but I think it’s somewhat important to recognise that Meg was pulled into the writers room by Marder & Rosell in Season 10.

Mac and Dennis have been tweaking each other’s nipples, elaborately roleplaying as a couple, and grappling with their genuine homosexual codependency since well before she took a seat as a staff writer. Meg didn’t create Macdennis, nor was she ever the sole instigator (or guaranteed deliverer) of it; she’s simply a Macdennis scribe, handed many of the later Macdennis-heavy plots to flesh out the scripts for. (And arguably Marder & Rosell and the Chernins have coded queer Dennis much better than Meg.)

I think due to the nature of Mac being canonically in love with Dennis for the majority of all of her time on the show, and Mac being closeted/not decidedly gay (lol) for the earlier development before, it seems like Meg was this big push in development for Mac and Dennis being “more canon,” but it’s really just a timing thing based on their writers room changing hands a little.

At the end of the day, Macdennis isn’t a thing without RCG pushing it, without it being a staple on the board, a fundamental point in their character bibles. So, how are we ever going to get a Macdennis kiss without Megan Ganz, you ask?

From MADBU’s DVD commentary 15 years ago, to today, in Charlie Day we trust.