Danny DeVito Was the Only ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Cast Member Who Noticed That Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson Were Falling in Love
The rest of the cast on Danny DeVito knows plenty about hidden romance — just ask the dumpster behind the Wendy’s.
If you watched It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia without knowing anything about the cast’s personal lives, you might get the impression that the guy who plays Mac must hate the woman unfortunate enough to be stuck with the role of Sweet Dee. After all, Mac has a long history of choking Dee, elbowing her in the face, pushing her in the face, crashing her car into a wall, lifting her up by the crotch and generally disgracing, demeaning and disparaging her at every opportunity. But behind the scenes of Always Sunny, a romance began to brew between McElhenney and Olson during the show's second season that will go down as one of the greatest love stories in sitcom history — not that their castmates noticed that anything was afoot when Olson started sleeping over in McElhenney’s room.
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That is, except for DeVito, who, in the recent Variety cover story about the sitcom power couple, said that he sniffed out the secret relationship like Dolph Lundgren smells crime.
As the cast of Always Sunny revealed in the article, none of them besides DeVito had any clue that McElhenney and Olson were dating before the couple announced their relationship to the rest of the Gang — especially not Glenn Howerton, who definitely should have figured that one out considering how he and McElhenney were real-life roommates during the first two seasons of the show. “How did I not see this was happening?” Howerton asked himself incredulously.
“She would always come over and then would get too drunk and sleep there," Howerton said of Olson’s paper-thin cover for spending the night through which he somehow could not see. “In retrospect, she wasn’t really that drunk; she was just using that as an excuse to stay at our apartment. And then Rob would disappear for a couple of nights, and I’d be like, ‘What’s going on?’ He’d tell me he went out with some girl, just making shit up!”
Charlie Day didn’t know about the relationship either, but, to be fair, he wasn’t literally in the room where it happened like his co-star. “I had zero suspicion,” Day said. “I didn’t see it coming at all. And conversely, didn’t care one way or the other. Maybe because Mary Elizabeth (Ellis) and I had been together for so long at that point, I thought, ‘Well, what’s the big deal?’”
Well, DeVito did know and did care about the sparks flying between the two lovebirds. “When we were going on a trip or something like that, you got the feeling that they were kind of gravitating toward each other in a cool way,” DeVito said of McElhenney and Olson’s chemistry. “Every once in a while, people who are supposed to be together wind up together.”
McElhenney clearly concurs — not only has he been married to Olson for 17 years, but, in his Instagram post about the article, he quoted DeVito’s beautiful sentiment about how he and his wife were destined to fall in love. She probably even has him getting feelings again — you know, feelings, from when you were a kid?
