‘Mac storms the Capitol’: Fans in bits as Rob McElhenney shares It’s Always Sunny season 15 update

Rob McElhenney has got It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia fans coming to all sorts of conclusions as he shared a sneak at season 15.

The next instalment of the hit FX series – which was renewed for four more seasons – kicked off filming this week and if the title of the first episode, as well as Rob’s get-up as character Mac, tells us anything it’s that the gang is not holding back.

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Sharing a clip to his TikTok this week, McElhenney was seen holding the first script for season 15, aptly titled 2020: A Year in Review.

Consider us intrigured, but at this point, the camera slowly panned out to show McElhenney – who plays Ronald ‘Mac’ McDonald – in the beloved Paddy’s Pub, dressed in full riot gear.

We’re talking a tactical vest with walkie-talkie and helmet…and a US flag patch.

Fans need answers (Picture: TikTok/@rmcelhenney)

While McElhenney simply captioned the clip ‘Day 1. Episode 1. Season 15,’ that didn’t stop fans of the series filling all sorts of gaps in what the gang is up to for the first episode.

The main suggestion was that Mac definitely joins the Proud Boys, who were in the media last year after then-President Donald Trump refused to condemn white supremacy at the first presidential debate, telling the infamous group to ‘stand by.’

The group was founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes (who has since left) and is a far-right, all-male group who describe themselves as ‘Western chauvinists who refuse to apologise for creating the modern world’.

It’s Always Sunny has been renewed for four more seasons (Picture: FX)

The Proud Boys’ ideas include ‘glorify the entrepreneur’, ‘close the border’, ‘end welfare’, and ‘give everyone a gun’ as well as redefining traditional gender roles (or as they put it ‘venerate the housewife’), and have become known for violent confrontations with far-left group Antifa.

Responding to McElhenney’s clip, It’s Always Sunny fans felt it was a major hint Mac joined the group and ‘stormed the Capitol’, referring to the January 2021 riots at the US Capitol led by Trump supporters, who were hoping to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election by disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes that would formalise President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

‘Calling it now, Mac becomes a proud boy,’ one of McElhenney’s followers reacted.

‘The gang stops the count,’ one follower chimed, in the formula of episode titles, as another echoed: ‘The gang rigs the election’ and ‘Mac would definitely storm the Capitol.’

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Riffing on the pandemic, another noted: ‘I feel like Mac refuses to wear a mask,’ while another suggested: ‘The gang buys all the toilet paper.’

Last year it was announced It’s Always Sunny would be renewed for another four seasons, becoming the longest-running live action comedy of all time and breaking the record previously held by ABC’s The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which ran for 14 seasons.

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