Looking for Michael O'Hearn muscle, I found an appearance in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode 7.10 (2011). It's been on for like a century, so you've probably seen it: four sociopathic pals and their anti-father figure run a sleazy, always-deserted bar in Philadelphia, where they argue, fight, scheme against each other, and work together on elaborate money-making scams
Dennis (Glen Howerton, right), the bartender, prides himself on his attractiveness. .
His sister Dee (Kaitlyn Olson), the bar's waitress, fancies herself an actress.
Mac (Rob McElhenney, left), the bouncer, is obsessed with muscles, and rather homophobic. He gets a lot of "is he or isn't he?" jokes, until he finally comes out, then goes back in, and comes out again.
Frank (Danny DeVito, the moon), Dennis and Dee's rich con-artist sort-of-father, bankrolls the schemes.
He and Charlie (Charlie Day, center), the bar's janitor, live together, share a bed, and get a lot of "are they or aren't they?" jokes, but it's also hinted that Frank is Charlie's biological father, not his boyfriend.
Scene 1: Mac is in a Catholic confession booth (where you confess your sins to the priest, who gives you a penance to perform). His confession: he's fat. Not a sin, dude.
Scene 2: Next Mac asks the priest to have God smite his enemies...um, friends...well, friends who want to destroy him. Not what confession is for, dude. He explains: they became wildly successful, which made them monsters (um...they've been monsters since Season 1), which made them want Mac to be fat. Confused?
Flashback: Frank, the anti-father, returns from a trip to sell illegal fireworks in North Carolina to find the bar packed. What happened? Mac thinks that they just "tipped": if you make the right decisions long enough, eventually things tip in your favor. Charlie thinks it's his cleaning, Dee her jokes, Dennis his hotness. They don't know which it is, so they have to continue doing everything.
Scene 3: In bed that night, Charlie just wants to go to sleep so he can work tomorrow, but Frank wants to blow up a lamb with his remaining fireworks. They argue until Charlie makes a barrier between them, so they can't have sex, which hurts Frank's feelings. Mac calls and invites them to go on a rager, but they can't because they're fighting.
Scene 4: The next day, Dennis won't come out of the bathroom, so Charlie has to bartend, which he's not qualified for. Meanwhile, Dee tries to be funny, ignoring customers' orders to tell lame half-jokes and berating them when they don't laugh, and Mac comes late in after a rager involving three bottles of champaign and a stray dog. Everything is in chaos.
They all go into the bathroom to see what's wrong with Dennis: he found a couple of gray hairs and tried to eradicate them, ending with a terrible haircut. He's afraid to be seen in public.
Scene 5: After bartending all night, Charlie is exhausted; plus he hasn't had time to clean. Frank has come up with a new prank: four stop signs at an intersection, so no one can move, har har. Charlie points out that he built a four-way stop, actually making the neighborhood safer. "Ok, then, why don't we go around and hit people with sticks?" Charlie doesn't want to do that, either. Not the best ideas for Date Night, buddy.
Scene 6: Mac is planning places to avoid when he sails around the world with the profits from their new successful bar. He'll avoid Africa -- too poor, the Middle East -- too hot, and well, everywhere. Meanwhile, Dennis applied a chemical peel to his face, and now looks disfigured, so he can't be attractive anymore.
Dee suggests hiring replacements, or avatars, to dp all the dirty work, so they can concentrate on being attractive, funny, and successful. Of course the avatars have to look like the gang.
Scene 7: Mac and Dee interview Michael O'Hearn as a potential avatar. Dee thinks he'd be good playing Dennis, the attractive bartender, but Mac wants him for himself, the buffed bouncer. Of course, he needs to put on some bulk so he'll look exactly like O'Hearn.
Scene 8: Charlie is bartending as fast as he can, but it's not good enough to keep up with the crowd.
Man at Bar #1 (Rob Rosell) claims that he's been waiting 20 minutes for his drink. "You can wait 20 more minutes!"
Man at Bar #2 (Scott Marder) complains that his drink tastes like bleach. "That's because I wash the glasses in bleach."
He asks if they're buddies. They've never met. "Then you can become friends on the way home." I count any boy-boy pair with no girls around as a gay subtext couple.
Dennis drops by and asks if he wants to screw success and go get high. Yep. Good grief, they get high on turpentine fumes. You guys ever hear of cocaine?
Scene 9: Since he and Charlie are fighting, anti-Dad Frank has latched onto Dee. Dude, that's your sort-of daughter! They discuss his plan to blow up pigeons. Wait -- the bar is deserted. Where is everyone? They find Dennis and Charlie getting high in the office, give up their plans of success, and join them.
Scene 10: Six weeks later. The bar is back to normal, deserted. Anti-Dad Frank and Charlie discuss their plan to give Frank some blood they found behind the hospital, to make him more virile. They will boil it first, of course. Why, exactly, do you want Frank to be virile, Charlie?
Mac comes in, ecstatic because he is now big, so O'Hearn can become his avatar. But he didn't spend those six weeks at the gym: he spent them eating. The others note that they gave up that plan weeks ago; they've gone through a dozen plans since.
Mac is shocked that he didn't develop a bodybuilder physique. Does he not know what a gym is? While everyone is laughing at him, he rushes out to the church to confess that he wants God to smite them.
Beefcake: Michael and Mac in muscle shirts.
Gay Subtexts: Nothing from Mac. Frank and Charlie act as if they're quarrelling over sex. And two guys go home together
Disgust: These people are more idiotic than disgusting in this episode, although I could do without the gasoline-sniffing.
My Grade: B
Bonus: None of the cast members are homophobic in real life. In 2018, they all appeared on a Paddy's Pub float at the LA Pride Parade, giving Mac a chance to show off his new ripped bod.
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