10 Best TV Characters With No Name
4. The Waitress (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia)
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is another in a long line of sitcoms about a group of terrible people making the world worse by their sheer presence. The core cast is so great that the show can build many episodes simply by allowing them to bounce off one another, but things tend to get even more hideously awkward when they drag someone else into their orbit.
The most frequent victim of the gang’s collateral damage is The Waitress, the object of Charlie’s affections whose life is systematically torn asunder by her unwilling association with the proprietors of Paddy’s Pub. Played by Charlie Day’s real life wife Mary Elizabeth Ellis, she begins the show as an underachieving if relatively together young woman, but suffers increasingly calamitous misfortunes over the following decade-plus of the show.
She is stalked by Dee and Dennis and pestered incessantly by Charlie. Her life spirals downhill as she descends into alcoholism, exacerbated and often encouraged by the gang. She hits such a low ebb that she relents to Charlie’s advances, and winds up becoming too clingy even for him.
Throughout this, no one, not even Charlie, refers to her by name. Rarely has so much content been drawn out of pure humiliation.