Charlie Day Shady Facts

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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.

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

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