Rob McElhenney’s Sister Recreated ‘The Nightman Cometh’ Entirely in Dog Costumes
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney has an equally creative sister who spent her Halloween dressing up her dog Scraps like every character from the hit off-off-off-Broadway musical “The Nightman Cometh,” even down to the cat’s eyes.
In the last month, both McElhenney and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia have gotten some bad PR when it comes to their treatment of dogs. Though they haven’t yet stooped to demanding KFC start serving fried dog like Dennis did on daytime television, the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 writing staff is currently embroiled in a bit of a barking match with FX Network’s Standards and Practices Department over a planned scene wherein Dennis is supposed to masturbate a dog into a Tupperware container.
While the animal rights activists who usually jump on these scandals have been thankfully silent on the matter, the McElhenney family banded together to use Halloween to drum up some dog-positive Always Sunny press, with Katie and Scraps McElhenney leading the charge.
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I think it goes without saying that no Always Sunny fans should ever try to give the “Scrapsman Cometh” treatment to any other episode, especially not “Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs.”
“Scraps is master of the stage freeze as well,” Katie McElhenney wrote in the original Instagram post. “A true professional, he always knows where is camera is (coincidentally it’s also where the treats are). The tiny boy, little boy, baby boy hopes you all have a Happy Halloween, Trolls!”
Not only is “The Scrapsman Cometh” almost unbearably adorable, but it’s also an incredible feat of creative effort from Katie and Scraps McElhenney. The more pedantic and dramatic Always Sunny fans have long been wondering how The Gang assembled the complex set and stitched the impressive costumes of “The Nightman Cometh” all by themselves, but the creative team of Katie and Scraps managed to do all that on their own as they turned the musical into a one-dog show.
It’s worth noting that, along with working as one half of the greatest Always Sunny fan content creator duo on social media, Katie McElhenney is also a writer on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which makes fight over the upcoming Tupperware scene even funnier.
