S7E10

How Mac Got Fat

Aired 2011-11-17 30 min ★ 6.9/10 our take
⚠ Spoiler alert This recap gives away what happens in this episode.

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Mac claims that his gang mates made him fat. (Or so he says to a priest who’s hearing his confession.)

Our Take

A middling episode that leans hard on the confession-booth framing device, which gets stale well before the half-hour mark. Rob McElhenney’s commitment to the bit is genuinely funny, and a few flashback gags land, but too much of it feels like recycled gang behavior stretched thin. Watchable, just not one you’ll remember by next week.