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Premiere Of FXX's "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" Season 13 - Arrivals

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The 14th season of Information technology'southward E'er Sunny in Philadelphia premieres on September 25, making information technology the longest-running live action sitcom on American television alongside The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Season 13 concluded with a format-busting extended dance sequence which turned the testify on its head: while the Gang accept experimented with musical numbers before, it'south always been in the service of the show's transgressive comedy. This, however, was an earnest moment in which Mac (played by serial creator Rob McElhenney) finally found the means with which to limited himself and affirm his identity as a newly out gay man.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, McElhenney spoke about the conclusion to bear witness Mac coming to terms with his sexuality on-screen so late in the show's run, when the characters' various traits had all otherwise get entrenched to the point of being stunted.

"Information technology was really built-in more out of his intense, ultraconservative, right-leaning principals," he said. "We were looking at Mac at ane signal, and I was like, 'He is such an arch-curvation Catholic conservative when it suits him, and when it doesn't, he drops that.' And most of the people I know in that camp tend to be fairly homophobic. So we began going down that road: Let's satirize that difficult Christian conservative who is also intensely homophobic. OK, so what's the next step from there? And that's when I idea, 'Let's simply make him gay.' What nosotros realized is, if y'all wait back over the seasons, it almost worked retroactively."

Gags about Mac's sexuality had long been one of the prove'south many running jokes, but just as the evidence had skewered racist and sexist viewpoints before, so too were viewers invited to express mirth at the characters' homophobic comments, not with them.

"The joke wasn't that Mac was gay, obviously. That would have been demeaning and offensive," he said. "The joke was that he was in the closet, and he refused to come up out and doubled down on his homophobia. Information technology was just poking fun at the hypocrisy of that... We weren't creating a gay character for comedic outcome, that was there but to be gay and to be funny because he was gay, merely a very complex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and atrocious grapheme, who happens to be gay. And we ran with that."

While Season 13 concluded on a rare moment of grace, it's unlikely that the Gang will have learned whatsoever profound lessons by the fourth dimension Season 14 begins. McElhenney concluded the interview by promising that fans volition be getting "more than of the same," although what that means is unclear when Always Sunny thrives on experimenting with style and genre. "Y'all might scream at the Goggle box in anger and rage, because information technology's ruining your prove, but I promise that that is why y'all like the prove," he said. "Considering yous don't know what you're going to become."