12 Best It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Guest Stars
5. Judy Greer
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has intermittently paid homage to the backgrounds of its peculiar main characters, with glimpses into Mac, Dee, Dennis, Charlie and Frank’s pasts giving a flavour of what happened in Philadelphia before 2005.
From Mac and Dennis going to college together to Frank’s nightclub-owning days, a rich tapestry begins to form of how these despicable-yet-lovable characters came to be. Judy Greer’s appearance on the show is another vital piece of the puzzle.
With Charlie and Dee inexplicably out shopping together, Dee encounters an old classmate (Greer), however not as she remembers. It transpires that Dee and Greer were friends in high school, however known by their nicknames The Aluminium Monster and Fatty Magoo.
Greer, the latter, has however shed the weight and is now a thriving business owner. Dee subsequently decides to try and sell a dress to her, which Dennis hijacks having been told by Dee that he peaked in high school.
Like all good guest appearances, Greer brings out the best in the It’s Always Sunny regulars, with Dennis going ‘full Dennis’, cumulating in wearing one of the awful dresses he designed whilst bursting into Greer’s office.
Interesting parallels can be made between Dennis and Greer’s Archer character Cheryl Tunt, with wealthy families, poorly hidden sociopathic tendencies, bizarre sexual behaviour and an utter disregard for other people among many other striking similarities.