and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…
the whole 'everybody knows that' turning out to be from a porn sounds like smt the gang would have going on
like mac shows them this random song YEARSS ago, like early seasons young closeted mac, and its a running thing that theyve never figured out.. then one day one of them (dennis) stumbles upon a porno and BOOM the song is from there,, well it turns out to be some 80s homo porn so dennis has to come up with some bullshit excuse on why he was watching guys get off and shifts the focus to mac (whose already come out) for discovering the song from there back when his internalized homophobia was at its peak