Take, for instance, the two episodes in which the Gang creates homemade versions of the Lethal Weapon movies – one of them featured Richard Jewell star Paul Walter Hauser – where Mac and Dennis make use of blackface in order to play Danny Glover’s Murtaugh.
But for all that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is working to keep its LGBTQ viewers pleased, the series has a much more erratic track record with racially driven comedy.
Granted, both eps were produced before the more recent flurry of politicians and entertainers getting ousted for using blackface for Halloween and other occasions, and as it went with Tropic Thunder, the choice was entirely to show just how distant from a the characters themselves are.