But not even the long-running FX/FXX hit was immune to recent blackface backlashes, with several episodes being pulled from Hulu’s library here in the U.S. Fans will no longer be able to stream Season 6’s “Dee Reynolds: Shaping America’s Youth” or Season 9’s “The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6,” which both feature Glenn Howerton’s Dennis and Rob McElhenney’s Mac donning blackface to play Danny Glover’s Lethal Weapon character Roger Murtaugh, with Kaitlin Olson’s Dee also donning the makeup as Murtaugh’s daughter.
Like few other shows in TV history, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia thrives on showcasing its central characters cluelessly behaving in the most morally corrupt ways imaginable.
Hulu also removed the Season 14 episode “Dee Day,” which only debuted in 2019, for Danny DeVito’s Frank wearing blackface in portraying a Black woman (and presumably also for Mac’s extremely outdated parody of Asian stereotypes).