I have been watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" or as douche bags like to call it "Sunny" for years now. I have been a fan since the first season. I even bought it on DVD to add to my soon to be obsolete collection of about a thousand movies and television series. I really like the show, I think Danny DeVito is hysterical, Rob McElhenney shows unbelievable bit dedication (50 lb weight gain in one season just for laughs), Charlie Day has a style all his own, and Glenn Howerton is undoubtably a deluded laugh riot. My problem with the show lies with their lead female role Dee or "Sweet Dee" played by Rob McElhenney's real life wife Kaitlin Olson, she is just awful. She's the definition of token female character, her jokes are almost always physical and forced, her voice is shrill and obnoxious, and I feel like she's the loose wheel on the show that derails many potentially humorous plots. Don't get me wrong, by no means does she deter me from watching a single episode, but if you haven't figured it out yet it takes quite a bit to get me to give up on a show (like Scott I also quit "The Walking Dead" before it was en vogue we'll discuss later). I just feel like Olson is on the show because they felt they needed a female element and Rob McElhenney had a wife. I could be wrong.
Upon reading about her a bit online I discovered she has a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts and some training at the famous LA Groundlings where she "honed her craft". To me this helps add up why I hate her so much. She's a classic improv style actress whose histrionics eclipse any talent she may possess. She's always so fucking over the top and obnoxious with outrageous hand gestures and her horrid glass shattering voice. I feel like every week she gets a bit more annoying.
I just wrapped up this week's episode the 2nd half of their high school reunion two part and there's one part in particular where she's trying to insult a former classmate played by actress Judy Greer who is one of my favorite bit character actresses in the business. Judy had a recurring role on "Arrested Development" and starred as the uncomfortable waitress that Nicolas Cage makes a horrible pass at in my favorite film "Adaptation". Judy is a fantastic actress, I even enjoy her on the new Charlie Sheen free "Two and a Half Men" (which I watch and record weekly, oh yeah by the way Scott and I went to Charlie Sheen's live tour). Anyway, Dee is insulting Judy Greer's character because she used to be fat with this awful "fatty mcgoo" taunt that isn't even worth describing especially since they've used the exact bit in (correct me if I'm wrong) two previous episodes from other seasons. It was chilling and obnoxious and had the remote not been on the other side of my MASSIVE murphy bed I would have skipped right through the scene as it made me very uncomfortable.
This is a blog not a book so I will wrap this up by saying that I feel Dee is unnecessary on the show and they should kill her off perhaps in a horrible car accident. I really would love to see Judy Greer step into her role seamlessly and just take the entire cast up a notch. Here's a small list of ways that Dee would become a necessary character on "Always Sunny", in my opinion:
1. If she were to gain more weight than Mac and keep it on.
2. She were to remain in the metal back brace until the series finale.
3. All her jokes would play off of the episode where she became a crack addict.
4. She were to comically lose as much weight as Mac and walk around looking like a pencil with a head.
5. She were to remain silent throughout each episode just for the bit.
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