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Recurring Characters

High School Acquaintances (in order of appearance)

The Waitress

The Waitress

"Really, Charlie, will I marry you? No, no I will not. I will never marry you."

Played By: Mary Elizabeth Ellis

Debut: "The Gang Gets Racist"

The unrequited object of Charlie's affections. Employed at a coffee shop near Paddy's, the Gang's meddling causes her life to go downhill.

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• Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: In "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies Reboot", right before she passes out, she tries to make out with Dee, while thinking she’s Dennis.
• The Alcoholic: She has a drinking problem that she seems to have it in check, but the few times she slips up, she really goes overboard.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys:
  • Despite knowing what a scumbag Dennis is, there are times where she ignores all common sense and still finds herself pining for him. She always winds up coming to regret it, yet the lesson never sticks.
  • She also finally falls for Charlie when he flat out, quite brutally tells her how much of a disaster her life has been.
• Amicable Exes: In "The Gang Goes Bowling", while Dennis claims Charlie's presence will psyche out the Waitress, while rambling at her during his turn against her he amicably compliments her hair and while she later manipulates him, it's more for the game than out of personal animosity.
• Artifact Name: Continues to be referred to as "the Waitress" even though it’s currently ambiguous if she even still works as one. Played for Laughs as it's deliberately done to emphasize both the Gang's indifference to her and her own status as a Forgettable Character.
• Boyish Short Hair: Sports this on and off across her appearances.
• Break the Cutie: Thanks to the Gambit Pileup in "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom".
• Broken Bird: After decades of the Gang's toxic influence, the Waitress has lost jobs, been periodically homeless, stalked by Charlie and suffered from a severe drinking problem, as well as what appears to be some sort of drug addiction.
• Characterization Marches On: Much like Dee, the Waitress used to be the Only Sane Man to the Gang's antics. Then she developed an obsessive crush on Dennis, started drinking again, and became more and more of a Butt-Monkey.
• The Chew Toy: The Waitress tends to be easily manipulated by the Gang, and generally suffers in some shape or form whenever she appears.
• Deadpan Snarker: Frequently throws out sarcastic remarks at the Gang's way in the earlier seasons, especially to Charlie. Overtime however, she gradually loses the "deadpan" part.
• Demoted to Extra: She was in a lot of the early episodes, such that she could almost have been considered a cast member. Eventually she would be more consistently about 2-3 episodes a season.
• The Dog Bites Back:
  • She relishes replacing Dee in what was supposed to be her role in an Irish TV show in "The Gang Goes to Ireland".
  • In "The Gang Goes Bowling", she finally stands up to Dennis for being a misogynistic bully and tells him that as awful as Dee is, he's even worse.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls her "the Waitress," even her stalker Charlie and the guy she was engaged to.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • The very first episode is kickstarted by her being offended by (what she mishears as) Charlie's racism, and sticking up for the black girl he's using to try and get with her. Whatever faults she might have in common with the Gang, she's not prejudiced like they are.
  • Agrees to help Dee out of a bog on the grounds that she isn't a psychopath like Dee is. Dee predictably returns her kindness in the worst way possible.
• Forgettable Character: Only Charlie remembers her from high school, and no one, not even Charlie, can remember what her name is.
• Forgotten Childhood Friend: While she was never the Gang's friend, she went to high school with them for all four years, and shared several classes with most of them. Despite this, all of the Gang but Charlie tend to forget ever knowing her outside of being a waitress.
• From Bad to Worse: Employed much more subtly than with Cricket. As she continues to appear her living situation gets substantially worse, with her falling into alcoholism and drug addiction. She is living in a women's shelter by Season 11 and it’s unknown if her living situation has improved since (although in Season 15 she seemed to be able to afford to travel to Ireland to backpack). Interestingly, she is one of the few characters whose declining life can't be directly tied back to the Gang (though they certainly haven't been helping her), and it's suggested her problems are mostly her own.
• I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: She eventually asks Charlie why he's so obsessed with her when there are far better people out there. He responds that for him, there is no one better. This actually gets her to sleep with him.
• Ignored Epiphany: She continues to be obsessed with Dennis despite witnessing over and over what a total bastard he is and even getting screwed over by him several times. The lesson finally sticks by the time of "The Gang Goes Bowling", where she calls him out for his bullying of Dee and tells him while she hates Dee he's a horrible person who's even worse.
• Jerkass: While her hatred of the Gang is completely justified, she's generally shown to be nearly as loathsome as they are on the occasions when she isn't being harassed by them.
• Love Martyr: For Dennis, but much less pronounced than Cricket is for Dee. She is extremely forgiving of all of the horrible things he's done to her in the past if it means starting a relationship with him. She seems to be completely over him as of Season 16 when she stands up to him for being a jerk to Dee, even if she doesn’t like her either.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In "Dee Gets Stuck in a Bog", the Waitress decides to lend Dee a helping hand after a few hours of mocking her for getting herself stuck in the first place and refusing to pull her out unless she says her real name. Dee pulls the Waitress into the bog and uses her as leverage to climb out, then doesn't bother to help her when the Waitress pleads for Dee to do so.
• No Name Given: Lampshaded on a few occasions.
• The Nondescript: No one can remember her name, and no one except Charlie remembers her from high school, to the point of the school forgetting to make her a name tag for the reunion.
• Non-Indicative Name: As of Season 16, she's still referred to as "The Waitress" even though she hasn’t been mentioned to be working as one since Season 9.
• Not So Above It All: Can be just as rude, immature and cynical as the Gang at times. "Flowers for Charlie" also suggested she is as vapid and shallow as them too.
• Really Gets Around: Which makes it all the more ironic that Charlie still hasn't had sex with her. Until the Season 12 finale, that is, leaving Dee the only person in the Gang she hasn’t had some form of sexual contact with.
• Retcon: In the first few seasons, it's implied that Charlie only met her a few months back at the coffee shop, and when she helps Dee get a job asks where she went to high school. Later it's revealed that she not only went to high school with the Gang, but that Charlie's crush stretches to back then. This is given the In-Universe explanation of her being the Gangs' Forgotten Childhood Friend.
• Sixth Ranger: Plays a completely unwilling one frequently.
• Sleeps with Everyone but You: The Waitress will sleep with just about anybody except for Charlie. At least, up until "Dennis' Double Life".
• Stalker with a Crush: A recipient of this from Charlie.
• The "The" Title Confusion: When explaining to Dennis that she doesn't use the internet at all, she says that she doesn't "do, like, the emails."
  Dennis: "The emails"?! It's "email"! It's just "email"!
• Two Decades Behind: In Season 10's "The Gang Group Dates" it’s shown she uses a cell phone that came from the late 90's and doesn't use or understand anything about the internet. Although by Season 13 she is shown with an iPhone and using social media, implying she got with the times since.
• With Friends Like These...: Dee occasionally claims that she's her best friend. Not only does the Waitress hate her guts, but Dee only spends time with her when she has something to gain.
• You Are What You Hate: Hates the Gang despite essentially being no different from them.

Rickety Cricket

Matthew "Rickety Cricket" Mara

"You want to hear about a dog orgy or when a cat bit off my toe?"

Before the gang

Played By: David Hornsby

Debut: "The Gang Exploits a Miracle"

"No one's taking me from behind. Unless you have crack. If you have crack, let's boogie."

Former high school classmate of Dennis, Dee, Mac, and Charlie. A Roman Catholic priest who becomes defrocked, destitute, abducted, assaulted (both non-sexually and sexually), threatened, hunted, severely injured and addicted to cocaine all directly or indirectly resulting from the influence or action of The Gang. As a boy he suffered from a medical condition that required the use of very conspicuous complex leg braces which inspired the pejorative nickname "Rickety Cricket".

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• Alliterative Name: Though no one calls him Matthew Mara. His nickname almost rhymes.
• All Love Is Unrequited: For Dee, although God knows why.
• Beard of Sorrow: Steadily grows a mangy beard as he deteriorates.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Season 11 has him gloat about being a part of "dog orgies". "A Cricket's Tale" has him make out with a dog he hallucinated as a human woman.
  • Cricket's also on the receiving end of this, often talking about how stray dogs rape him.
• Black Comedy Rape: His most recent appearances have him frequently mention the countless times he's been assaulted while living on the streets, by both humans and non-humans alike. Played with in that it's treated as being legitimately gross and disturbing in-universe, with Charlie even telling him at one point to stop talking about how often he gets raped.
• Break the Cutie: He goes from a clean-cut, mature, and successful priest to a crack-addicted street rat who has lost his mind. All thanks to Dee.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Cricket has fallen to the very bottom of society's rung, and then a few rungs below that, thanks to the Gang.
• Cain and Abel: He and his brother can’t stand each other, and Davy’s non-belief in Cricket helps (along with the PCP he smoked) him hallucinate a woman who is really a dog.
• Card-Carrying Villain: By the later seasons he's been completely corrupted, to the point where he gladly dresses like a terrorist and blinds the Gang in a fight in the name of destroying America.
• Character Development: While he's definitely become much, much worse after spending so much time with the Gang, he at least seems to have finally gotten over Dee. He's also steadily Stopped Caring about his quality of life, causing him to go from viewing the Gang as his hated enemies to his only friends and generally acting much more zen than in the past. Combined with the mounting amounts of Body Horror he experiences across his appearances, and he's become almost unrecognizable from the character that he started out as.
• The Chew Toy: Every season, he suffers from progressively worse injuries, from getting the side of his throat slashed, to getting shot, having a hatchet thrown into his left bicep, to getting half his face burned off.
  Mac: This is Rickety Cricket, he literally has the worst life imaginable.
  Cricket: He ain’t lying.
• Combat Pragmatist: Cricket gets recruited into a wrestling match by the Gang, where their intention is obviously to beat the crap out of him. Cricket, as part of his "Talibum" stage persona, throws sand in Dennis' eyes while the latter is still talking, then kicks the blinded Dennis in the face.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: In Season 3, he’s depressed and horrified by his terrible circumstances. By Season 10, he won’t stop talking casually about being raped on the streets.
• Crazy Homeless People: Began to fill the stereotype more and more as time went on. After that reached its peak, he has started to become more deranged and animalistic.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
  • The few times he physically confronts the Gang, he kicks their asses. He still always ends up getting screwed over in the end, though.
  • In spite of having grown up in leg braces and having his legs broken again by the Mafia, "Mac and Dennis: Manhunters" demonstrates that Cricket has become a parkour expert living on the streets, as he escapes from the two by climbing onto a movers' truck in only three jumps and sprinting up a fire escape, much to their shock. He later shows off some incredible moves in "A Cricket's Tale," effortlessly descending an even longer fire escape without touching a single step (timed to the beat of "Grand Central") and landing a perfect front flip from the top of a garbage truck.
    Dennis: ...Okay, HOW did his legs just do that?
    Mac: I'm not doing that, Dennis.
    Dennis: Nope, that was incredibly dangerous.
    Mac: Let's go polish off that case.
    Dennis: Did NOT know he was capable of that.
• Cyborg: Parodied. After he acquires a new set of high tech leg braces, the Gang constantly marvels about how he has become "half machine".
• A Day in the Limelight: Season 12's "A Cricket's Tale" revolves entirely around him.
• A Degree in Useless: Charlie literally tells him his Masters in Theology is doing him no good. Of course Charlie is Charlie, but he does have a point it’s not much use if you’re not allowed to be a priest anymore.
• Descent into Addiction: The Gang got him hooked on cocaine, and later to meth, crack, and PCP. While he no longer cares about Dee, the Gang can still manipulate him into helping them simply by offering him drugs or a beer.
• Dogged Nice Guy: He doesn't like Dennis, Mac and Charlie at all and only helps the Gang out to try and win Dee's heart. He seems to have finally gotten over this, as he acknowledges that she's a total bitch multiple times and no longer seems to care about her.
• Evil Stole My Faith: By Season 6, so many bad things have happened to him that he admits he no longer believes in God.
• Extreme Omnisexual: By Season 11 it is clear he has come to mostly enjoy the sexual depravity he experiences. He brags about being in a "dog orgy" and casually elaborates on the favours he will perform on men in exchange for drugs and alcohol.
• Eye Scream: In Season 8, he's lost one of his eyes. The most surprising thing about this is that this wasn't the Gang's fault for once.
• Facial Horror: The first time we see him in Season 8, he has a scar over his eye, which he got from an off-screen incident that was, for once, entirely his fault. After his fate in "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs," his face is now disfigured to the point that he almost looks like Two-Face.
• Fate Worse than Death: Every time you think he's going to be Killed Off for Real, he gets a severe injury instead.
• Friendly Enemy: He's become so broken and used to the Gang screwing him over that he's generally pretty nonchalant and even friendly with them in his later appearances, even cheering them on in "The Gang Goes on Family Fight". In "A Cricket's Tale", he even openly calls the Gang his friends.
• From Bad to Worse: No matter how low he has sunk, the Gang always seems to manage to make his life even worse. At this point, expect every appearance to cost him a body part.
• Good Shepherd: Was this, until Dee managed to get him to renounce his faith and thus lose his job. He ended up on the streets and his life has only gotten worse from there.
• Got Volunteered: The Gang always recruits him to perform work that not even Charlie is willing to do. In the earlier seasons, they'd do this by tricking him. In the later ones, he's willing to do whatever so long as he gets a can of beer.
• The Grotesque: By his later appearances, other characters retch at the sight of him. In Season 14, Dennis outright describes him as subhuman.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: He shows up to his high school reunion clean-cut and composed, apparently having been let back into the priesthood. Even after all that had happened to him up to that point, he still looks quite handsome. It turns out to have been a ruse, though. However, starting with Season 8, he has been getting horrific injuries that he will probably never be able to recover from.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: While calling the Gang faces is probably going too far, Cricket swaps between being their ally and enemy constantly, generally several times an episode.
• Hopeless Suitor: One of his defining traits early on was his hopeless crush on Dee, which the Gang would regularly exploit to trick him into doing things for them. He's no longer interested in her from "The Gang Wrestles For the Troops" onward, but by that point his Descent into Addiction has made it so that his crush isn't necessary for the Gang to manipulate him.
• Humiliation Conga: Has been in a perpetual one for most of his life, courtesy of the Gang.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Clean-cut and handsome as a priest, though steadily reduced to a scarred, burned, diseased wreck.
• Love Martyr: For Dee. Eating horse droppings in exchange for a kiss (which she immediately broke her promise on) is easily the least heinous thing he has been made to do as a misplaced attempt to earn her love.
• Made of Iron: He's able to walk off injuries that would kill most people, though not without consequences.
• Mellow Fellow: By the later seasons, Cricket has become absurdly chill about his circumstances, and only seems to care about chasing his next high — a far cry from his high-strung initial characterization.
• Mutilation Conga: Most of his appearances end with him getting an injury, the severity of which varies depending on the episode.
• Never My Fault: A lot of what happens to him can be blamed on the Gang (his first time doing drugs was involuntary and after that addiction kicked in), but leaving the preisthood was his own choice. He's also revealed to have a caring (if gruff) father who owns a business and was willing to give him a job, so he could have turned to that instead of being homeless. Yet he still blames the Gang entirely for his plight.
• No Accounting for Taste: His crush on Dee remained for years despite him facing innumerable amounts of evidence that she hated him and was a terrible person. He seems to have finally wised up by the time of "The Gang Wrestles For the Troops", where he breaks her nose and calls her a "slut", but by that point he's already lost everything so it hardly matters.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: The Gang exclusively refers to him as either "Rickety Cricket", "Cricket", "Cricks", or "Street Rat". The number of times his real name is mentioned can be counted on one hand. The Gang doesn't actually seem to know what his real name is, as when he introduced himself as "Matt" early on, none of them were able to recognize who he was. By the later seasons, Cricket himself seems to have embraced the name Cricket, finally consciously abandoning his previous identity as Matthew Mara for good in "A Cricket's Tale".
• Only Sane Man: Only in his debut episode (and part of "The Gang Gets Whacked (Part 2)"), where he is the voice of reason to The Gang when they are wanting him to bless the image of the Virgin Mary in the bar, and tries to talk Dee and Charlie out of selling cocaine before they get him addicted and make him their pusher. He quickly loses this status as his life collapses and he goes more and more insane.
• Organ Theft: Fell victim to a "Chinaman" who cut out his kidney, the pain and trauma of which caused him to truly contemplate his mortality and lose all belief in God. He's unnervingly casual about it.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Begins to act slightly more racist as his mental state falls apart, gleefully playing a stereotypical terrorist wrestling heel, the "Talibum", for the chance to injure the Gang, and later mentioning off-hand (twice) how a "Chinaman" stole his kidney while he was sleeping.
• Running Gag: See The Chew Toy and Mutilation Conga above.
• Sanity Slippage: Goes from the Only Sane Man in his first episode to one of the Gang's most deranged acquaintances by his later appearances. It's almost hard to believe he's the same character.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: He was relentlessly bullied for wearing leg braces as a teen before cleaning himself up and becoming a respected priest... after which he ends up losing his job and being put into a much, much worse situation than he was initially with no hope of recovery and, as a final insult, stuck in leg braces once again.
• Sinister Minister: Cricket shows up at the Gang's high school reunion in a new frock, claiming to have gotten his life back on track and been reinstated in the priesthood — which is a lie, as he's just trying to pickpocket necklaces without arousing suspicion. He also wears his ragged old coat and collar again when Mac and Charlie recruit him to operate a makeshift confessional for Psycho Pete in Paddy's restroom, but can't resist trying to offer Pete oral sex in exchange for beer.
• Situational Sexuality: Presumably a straight man who was in love with Dee; but now has sex with men for money and eventually becomes proud of that fact.
  Cricket: So, you're gay now? For pay or for free?
  Mac: For free, I guess.
  Cricket: Chump.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: The Gang frequently ropes him into their schemes, but he's just as likely to betray them.
• Squick: In-universe. His eagerness to recount his sexual encounters begins to freak out the Gang after a while.
  Cricket: You have to fake. The guys that don't fake — they're the ones that get it the worst.
  Charlie: Cricks, like anything we can do to have you not talk about sucking penises or getting raped in the butt?
  Cricket: Just keeps poppin' up.
• Stepford Snarker: By later seasons, he’ll make remarks that he falls off the roof all the time but he’s doing great, but he’s also willing to call the Gang out (especially Mac) when they’re being especially ridiculous.
• Stockholm Syndrome: While he's initially hostile to the Gang (even Dee, after a while) for ruining his life, by the later seasons he's become so broken and used to them roping him into their schemes that he now considers them to be his only friends and generally shows none of his previous wariness around them.
• Stopped Caring: After leaving the priesthood, he was initially desperate to do whatever he could to get off the streets. After devolving further into being a street rat, he turned his sights towards getting revenge against the Gang for ruining his life. Currently, he's fallen so far that he no longer cares about rejoining the priesthood or getting revenge on the Gang, and is content to accept whatever horrors life throws him so long as he gets the occasional booze and drugs.
• That Man Is Dead: To go along with his Sanity Slippage and gradual lack of interest in reclaiming his old life, he has largely abandoned his identity as Matthew Mara. "A Cricket's Tale" cements this, as he finds himself to be incapable of completely reacclimating himself to living an ordinary life in it.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • In his debut episode, after the Gang's scheming causes him to lose his job, Mac offers to let him teabag a passed-out Dennis... which seems to cheer him up a little.
  • Him getting his legs broken and having to use braces again was pretty cruel... luckily, this injury isn't permanent, and for all his disfigurement he gets full use of his legs back.
  • "The Gang Gets Cursed" reveals that he's not at the bottom-rung of the totem pole anymore. He's still homeless, but now he's a pimp who tricks out younger homeless men.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: By Season 14, he’s willing to push a suicidal man off the roof when even the Gang are uneasy with it.
• Unlucky Childhood Friend: Again, for Dee.
• With Friends Like These...: By the later seasons, he's come to accept the depraved and pathetic life of a street rat and now considers the Gang to be his friends, causing him to act much more cordially towards them. Despite this, the Gang can't even be bothered to learn his real name, only ever contact him when they need to manipulate him and are openly disgusted by his lifestyle despite being the sole cause of it.

Fatty Magoo

Ingrid "Fatty Magoo" Nelson

"Hey, do you remember how you used to say that you were gonna be famous and have your own clothing line?"

Played By: Judy Greer

Debut: "The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty Magoo"

A high school friend of Dee's. In high school, Dee wore a back brace and was dubbed the Aluminum Monster while Ingrid was morbidly obese and was given the name Fatty Magoo. As an adult, she lost all of her excess weight and has become a successful dress designer.

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• Deadpan Snarker: Eventually realizes this is the only way she should deal with the Gang.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: She was awkward and unpopular in her teens, but became gorgeous and successful in adulthood. She's also one of the few people in the series who hasn't had her life ruined by the Gang (yet).
• Foil:
  • To Dee. Both of them endured horrible bullying as teens, but Ingrid grew out of it while Dee only got worse.
  • She's also this to fellow alumni Brad Fischer, another unattractive teen who also grew up to be attractive but chose to use his looks to get revenge on the people who mocked him in high school rather than move on as she did.
• Formerly Fat: The reason her nickname in high school was "Fatty Magoo."
• Good Counterpart: She's similar to Dee in that they were both mocked in high school only to become attractive after graduating, but rather than stew in rage over her awful high school experience and cling to the past, she chooses to move on and become a happy and successful person.
• Nice Girl: She maintains a cheerful disposition. When Dee told her that she herself was gonna grow up to be an actress to rub it in her face, it instead inspired Ingrid to run her own clothing store. And she personally thanks Dee for this upon seeing her in her store.
• Non-Indicative Name / Ironic Nickname: "Fatty Magoo" has since become one, as she is now thin and beautiful. Since the Gang are all childish idiots, though, they still exclusively refer to her by it.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: The Gang never once calls her by her real name, despite it now longer making sense when applied to her.
• Only Sane Man: Along with Tim Murphy, as far as the Gang's high school acquaintances go, at least. The cool kids (barring Tim, who's happily married) remained childish bullies even as adults, the Gang is, well, the Gang, Cricket became a depraved vagrant, the Waitress became a spiraling alcoholic, Brad Fischer became a hornet-scarred, emotionally-stunted misogynist, and the Ponderosas became walking disasters. Fatty Magoo is the only one among them who has managed to mature into a happy, functional adult and stay that way even after reuniting with the Gang multiple times.
• She's All Grown Up: A fat, shy and awkward girl in high school, she is now thin, confident, mature and successful as an adult. This is highlighted in "The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty Magoo", where, though both she and Dee have become outwardly more attractive since high school, it is her mental maturation that is the true secret to her success.

Brad Fischer

Brad Fischer

Played By: Nick Wechsler

Debut: "The Waitress is Getting Married"

A high school acquaintance of the Gang known for his terrible acne.

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Introduced as a cool, charismatic guy who comes across as the ideal romantic partner. We eventually learn that he's a petty, emotionally stunted creep who chooses to use his looks to take revenge on the women who rejected him during high school rather than move on to bigger and better things.
• The Chew Toy: Brad brings it on himself, but he does have a bad time of it. He's stung to shit by hornets, and when he tries to gain revenge on Charlie via a wedgie, Charlie's revolting underwear disintegrates in his hands, disgusting him and robbing him of cartharsis.
  "I've been waiting a long time for this — euuuggghhhh, GOD!"
• Disproportionate Retribution: He's a broken enough human being that he, as a grown man, seeks out revenge against those who supposedly wronged him in high school. The only two people he's seen attempting revenge on are Dee and the Waitress, both of whom broke up with him because his his acne so it's not like he's going after his actual bullies, just former girlfriends who rejected him when they were teenagers.
• Everyone Went to School Together: He went to school with the Gang, save for Frank, of course.
• He Is All Grown Up: He was a pizza-face in high school, but grew up to have clear skin and a chiseled jaw.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Brad uses his good looks for evil after struggling with severe acne in high school, so it's nicely karmic that his inability to move past his teenage years result in hornets stinging him so aggressively his resulting scars look just like acne.
• Manchild: He is fixated on getting revenge on the women who rejected him in high school and displays no interest in doing anything else with his life.

Maureen Ponderosa

Maureen Ponderosa

'"I like to be comfy and current."'

^{After her plastic surgeries}

Played By: Catherine Reitman

Debut: "Mac Fights Gay Marriage"

Dennis' high school girlfriend and ex-wife, and the sister of Bill Ponderosa. Known for her foul-smelling dead tooth and obsessive personality. Following their divorce, she has spent all of Dennis' alimony checks on frivolous surgeries for herself.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: When she's not tormenting Dennis she's usually trying to get back together with him.
• Ambiguous Situation: Her death. Officially, she fell off a roof while moving around like a cat. However, several episodes since her death have implied Dennis murdered her.
• Animorphism: The Running Gag of her using Dennis' alimony payments for unnecessary cosmetic surgeries ends up with her trying to turn herself into a cat.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Uses some of Dennis' alimony checks to give herself breast implants, which end up drawing a lot of focus from other characters. Although she eventually has them removed in place of having face injections to make her look more cat-like.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She literally spends ALL of her alimony money on cosmetic surgery just so she appears cat-like.
• Crazy Cat Lady: Literally. Her obsession with cats has evolved to a point where she has had multiple surgeries to make herself look like one.
• Cute and Psycho: She's an attractive lady, but she's also incredibly mentally unstable.
• Fourth-Date Marriage: Played With. She and Dennis knew each other in high school. They met up again fifteen years later, and get married after one more date. Dennis falls out of love with her the next day.
• Killed Off for Real: Breaks her neck and dies falling off of a rooftop before the beginning of "Making Dennis Reynolds a Murderer".
• New Old Flame: Dennis' sudden remembrance of her brings out an uncharacteristic amount of nostalgia in him, which pushes him into reconnecting with her. Of course, he comes to regret doing so immediately afterwards.
• Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: A classic example to Dennis, though in this case she's his ex-wife.
• Sanity Slippage: It's unclear what began to send her down the path of insanity, but she's firmly down that yellow brick crazy road. It's likely it began with her discovery of her father's corpse after he committed suicide, and from there on she grew increasingly unhinged by she starts thinking herself as cat.
• Trans Nature: Starts identifying as a cat later on, to the point of getting cosmetic surgery to resemble one and demanding that others treat her like one, and making feline noises during serious conversation:
  The Lawyer: Maureen, you are the sister of Bill Ponderosa, and it was at your wedding that Liam got attacked?
  Maureen: Meow.
  Lawyer: Your Honor, nothing represents the tragic aftermath more than the dramatic transformation of this woman.
  Maureen: Cat.
  Lawyer: ... excuse me?
  Maureen: As I transition from woman to cat, I must insist on being referred to as a cat.
  Jack: Objection. She's not a cat, Your Honor.
  Maureen: [hisses aggressively at Jack]
• Womanchild: Maureen is so childishly impulsive that she quickly marries Dennis after just reuniting with him since high school and she's so obsessed with cats that she ends up getting surgery to look like one and wishes to be identified as a cat.
• Yandere: Randomly switches between loving and hating Dennis.

Bill Ponderosa

Bill Ponderosa

"I spiked the milk with methylenedioxypyrovalerone. It's bath salts."

Played By: Lance Barber

Debut: "Mac Fights Gay Marriage"

"It's like there's this tiny, little soul-man in my body driving me around. That little soul-man's ready to power ol' Bill down and move on to the next party monster."

Dee's high school crush and the brother of Dennis' high school girlfriend Maureen Ponderosa. He has put on a lot of weight since high school and grown into an awful and hedonistic man.

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• Abusive Parents: Flat out told his son that he doesn't love him, and told his daughter she "was too fat to be a slut". Neither of them seem older than 12.
• Affably Evil: Bill is a very jovial fellow who's always willing to share his drugs with people... who don't want his drugs. Bill cheats on his wife, frequents prostitutes, snorts up whatever drug is closest and lies to women that he had a vasectomy to avoid wearing a condom. Even the Gang find him super shady.
• At Least I Admit It: Probably the only aspect of him thats better than the Gang; he doesn't have any delusions that he's better than he is.
• Beard of Evil: Sports a beard in his later appearances and is in the running for biggest scumbag in the series. May overlap with Beard of Sorrow since he's suicidal.
• Big Fun: Bill is noticeably heavyset and a jovial self-described "party monster."
• Birds of a Feather: Gets along better with fellow hedonist Frank than he does any other member of the Gang.
• Catchphrase: He is fond of taking on seemingly stupid and/or suicidal situations with a "Let's rage!".
• Death Seeker: Has casually tried to kill himself multiple times.
• Fat Bastard: Was in pretty good shape in high school, but has gained a lot of weight since. Plus he's a bastard.
• Formerly Fit: He was handsome as a young man, but is now sleazy and overweight.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: While he's consistently one of the more pleasant supporting characters towards the Gang, Frank is the only one who isn't completely disgusted by him.
  Frank: Goddamit Pondy's the coolest!
• Functional Addict: He appears pretty well-adjusted upon first meeting him, and then he starts casually using drugs.
• Future Loser: Was apparently rather handsome and popular in high school, but is currently an overweight alcoholic and one of the few people who may even surpass the Gang in sheer awfulness.
• The Hedonist: Gluttony, lust, drugs. Yep, sounds about right.
• In-Series Nickname: Frank starts calling him "Pondy" by the later episodes.
• I Was Quite a Looker: He was attractive enough for Dee to crush on him back in school, but is now fat and gross.
• Jaded Washout: Was the stereotypical handsome jock in high school, now a sleazy, fat wreck with pretty much every addiction humanly possible, and a family broken beyond any repair.
• Jerkass: He's a horrible person all around, and lacks almost any sympathetic traits.
• Stepford Smiler: Despite being The Hedonist, he is also a serial Death Seeker who has casually made numerous attempts at killing himself.
• Suicide as Comedy: Although he's yet to go through with it, he was seriously threatening to kill himself at the thought of being the father to Dee's baby and has attempted to drink himself to death.
  Dennis: What are you celebrating, Bill?
  Bill: I'm gonna kill myself! Yeah, I botched it — life, you know?
  • By his later appearances, his first instinct at the sight of trouble is to try and kill himself, with the Gang being the only things stopping him from going through with it.
  [Bill is chased out of children's establishment by group of angry fathers, rushes to his car, and pulls a gun out of the glove box]
  Bill: (to Frank) Somebody's gonna die today! [puts gun to own head]
  Frank: Pondy no!!
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: With the exception of Frank, who practically idolizes him, the Gang are completely put off by the transcendent levels of depravity he's willing to stoop to.
• Toxic Friend Influence: A mutual example with Frank. He ensures that Frank continues to sink into kinds of depravity that the Gang are incapable of doing while Frank (his AA sponsor) makes sure that Pondy never gets his life together.

Schmitty

Peter Schmidt AKA Schmitty

"What's going on? You guys gonna try to bang me or something?"

Played By: Jason Sudeikis

Debut: "The Gang Gets a New Member"

A former member of the Gang from back when they were in high school. Mac and Dennis kicked Schmitty out of the Gang (and a moving car) to make Charlie happy. Charlie and Schmitty used to be roommates and Charlie always feels upstaged by Schmitty.

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• The Ace: Schmitty is good at a lot of things, though this is really only in comparison to the Gang.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Schmitty would be a pretty stereotypical "asshole friend from high school all grown up" character if it weren't for the fact that the Gang are all infinitely worse than him in every possible way. He's essentially an "asshole" character from a typical network sitcom: kind of dickish, but with a heart of gold. Within the world of Always Sunny, Schmitty actually comes off as both the Token Good Teammate and The Ace when alongside them.
• The Bully: Part of Charlie's hatred of him stems from his tendency to aggressively make fun of him and then playing it off as just him joking around. He does this to the rest of the Gang as well, but they all think he's cool for doing it.
• Everyone Has Standards: He's obnoxious, but even he can see that the Gang's co-dependant, bizarre rituals are utterly unhealthy.
  "This is weird as hell. You guys see that, right?"
• Fun Personified: He comes across this way, endearing himself to the gang anew (with the exception of Charlie), refusing to hold grudges, being overly friendly and generally having a great deal of positive energy.
• Handsome Lech: Schmitty's a handsome guy, but seemingly gets most of his action from preying on women who are too drunk to know better.
• Hidden Depths: Taking care of his dying mother, and selflessly dedicating most of his time to that.
• Jerkass: Generally comes off as an obnoxious dude bro who constantly picks on others under the guise of "just kidding around". Unlike the Gang, though, he's just a jerk, and is distinctly put off by their usual behavior.
• Oblivious to Hatred: Charlie hates him and considers him a threat to his position within the team, but Schmitty seems oblivious.
• Only Sane Man: For the short time when he returns to the Gang. He's very quickly put off by their strange habits and rituals, to the point of telling them outright how weird he thinks they all are. They ultimately exclude him from the gang because he doesn't take their strange rituals and ceremonies seriously enough for their liking.
• Token Good Teammate: Only in comparison to the Gang. He's smug, tends to casually bully his friends, and, as shown in "The High School Reunion", acts predatory towards women by taking advantage of them when they're drunk. Despite this, the Gang is just so terrible, that Schmitty almost manages to come off as a paragon of virtue in the brief instance when he rejoins them.

Adriano Calvanese

Adriano Calvanese

Played By: Sasha Roiz

Debut: "The High School Reunion - Part 1"

A jerk who went to high school with the Gang, and gave Dee her nickname "Aluminum Monster".

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• The Bully: He was a bully in high school, and he's a bully well into his thirties, complete with juvenile humor.
• Hypocrite: He declines to fight the Gang on the basis of maturity, despite having spent the entirety of his screentime acting like a swaggering teenage douchebag, bullying people relentlessly to the point of giving them wedgies.
• Jerkass: Adriano is a thoroughly nasty piece of work, and always has been.
• Karma Houdini: He ends his appearance on the show the same way he entered: a superior asshole adored by everyone.
• Manchild: For all of his talk of how pathetic the Gang is and how much better he's doing than them, he's really not much better than them despite being far more successful than they are, as he is still the same smug, cruel, remorseless bullying scumbag he was back in high school.
• Mirror Character: Adriano was a very prolific bully in high school and had a number of rackets going on the side, and has seemingly taken that mentality into adulthood to become a successful businessman. He's basically what Mac wanted to be.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: He's homophobic and misogynistic.
• Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: He was a piece of shit back in high school and he's no less of one well over a decade later.
• Teens Are Monsters: Adriano was an especially mean and sadistic bully back when he was a kid. He never grew out of his bad habits, it seems.

Tim Murphy

Tim Murphy

Played By: Ian Reed Kesler

Debut: "The High School Reunion - Part 1"

One of the popular kids from the Gang's high school, who slept with Dennis' prom date. Except he didn't. Mac slept with her and said Tim did.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: He's very easy-going and seems to view Dennis with bewilderment rather than rivalry, but once Dennis starts trying to seduce his wife and accusing him of things that he didn't do, he doesn't mince words in calling him out and breaking his delusions that he was one of the cool kids. It's probably the heaviest humiliation delivered to anyone in the Gang in an episode rife with them. He also calls Mac and Charlie by their insulting nicknames of "Ronnie the Rat" and "Dirtgrub", but then again, everyone else was, and he wasn't actively bullying them during the reunion (nor back in high school, presumably).
• Happily Married: To his wife, who he brings to the reunion and is excited to introduce to his high school friends.
• Nice Guy: As we now know, Dennis was seen as a weird megalomaniac by the cool kids. Tim's gracious enough to assume Dennis has matured and eagerly introduces him to his wife, only speaking ill of him when he's gone out of his way to antagonize them.
• Only Sane Man: He and Ingrid are the only classmates at the reunion who aren't scheming, brooding, or behaving like high schoolers.
• Token Good Teammate: Of the popular kids. There's no evidence he participated in Adriano's bullying, he definitely didn't take part in it at the reunion, and he didn't sleep with Dennis's Prom date; he's by all accounts the nicest and most well-adjusted of his clique.

Psycho Pete

Peter AKA Psycho Pete

"Uh... dude, that was psycho... I-I don't feel good about that stuff."

Played By: Dominic Burgess

Debut: "Psycho Pete Returns"

A high school friend of Mac and Charlie and leader of their gang "Freight Train". The two saw him as a harmless Cloudcuckoolander, but at their high school reunion Ingrid Nelson tells them that he is in an asylum for cutting up his family and eating them for Christmas Dinner. It's later revealed in "Psycho Pete Returns" that he actually didn't; he was institutionalized to cope with his social anxiety and depression, and the rumors about him were mostly spread by the Gang.

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• Ax-Crazy: Subverted; it turns out that he was institutionalized for anxiety and suicidal tendencies, and was "more of a danger to himself than others."
• Bad People Abuse Animals: A "psycho" who used to make dogs and cats fight for his, Charlie, and Mac's entertainment. [[Spoiler: He's not actually a bad person, but he himself acknowledges this wasn't a good thing to do and he only did it out of peer pressure.]]
• Big Fun: How Mac and Charlie remember him. Everyone else remembers differently.
• The Dreaded: Mentioning his name is enought to instill a sense of fear into the listeners. He finally appears in Season 10 and turns out to be a Gentle Giant undeserving of his terrible reputation.
• The Eeyore: Mac and Charlie are disappointed that he's such a "downer" when they reunite. (He has clinical depression)
• Future Loser: In the eyes of manchildren Mac and Charlie, he's lost all his wild and fun traits and become a bummer of a man. In reality, he might not be doing great in life, but he's taking care of his mental health and is nicer than he was in high school.
• Gentle Giant: When he finally appears in Season 10 he turns out to be a large, timid man.
• Good Counterpart: To Bill Ponderosa. Both are heavyset high school friends of members of the Gang who struggled in their adult life, and are implied to be suicidal. But Pete was a delinquent and became a better person after high school and never wants to hurt people, while Pondy was a handsome jock who just got worse after graduation.
• Heel–Face Turn: In his return episode, he says he regrets the "psycho" stuff he actually did, like screaming at babies and making animals fight; and he's actively trying to be better.
• He Who Must Not Be Seen: Until "Psycho Pete Returns" in Season 10, he's only ever mentioned in rumors and horror stories.
• Horrible Judge of Character: His true greatest flaw; the few Jerkass things he actually did were because Charlie and Mac preassured him into them, and they created his reputation as a psycho that shaped how all his high school peers view him; yet he still seeks out the Gang thinking they can be his emotional support system.
• I'm a Humanitarian: He murdered and ate his family. Except he didn't - this was just a rumor blown out of a proportion.
• Insanity Defense: He got it. He's a psycho, you know. Except he's not.
• "Just Joking" Justification: The Gang naturally assumes this after Ingrid tells them he threatened to blow up the school, but she tells them that he is legitimately Ax-Crazy.
• Karma Houdini: He got the Insanity Defense, and he was able to threaten to blow up the school, forcing Ingrid to hire extra security. In "Psycho Pete Returns," he gets set free after his institute shuts down. It's later revealed that he never actually ate his family, it's just one of the many rumors that were started in response to the bad reputation the Gang got him.
• Kick the Dog: Literally abused cats and dogs back in high school, and screamed in baby's faces for no reason.
• Knight of Cerebus: Subverted. After all the build up of him as a monster, it turns out he's a soft-spoken Gentle Giant, who hung out with the Gang because they were accepting of him.
• Nice Guy: In reality, he's a rather even-tempered man who's struggled with mental health problems, as opposed to the crazed killer the Gang made up. He's more a danger to himself than others, and seems like a pleasant if boring guy to hang out with.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Ingrid tells them that he is literally Ax-Crazy, and that he literally ate his entire family for Christmas Dinner
• Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: He never killed and ate his family, but he did pull some inconsiderate stunts in high school. This was revealed to be because doing so got Mac and Charlie's approval.
• Power Trio: He, Mac, and Charlie formed one back in high school, and the latter two (who are perpetually stuck in the high school mentality) are always excited when they think they can bring it back together.
• The Reveal: He never killed or ate anyone, the worst he ever did was yelling at some babies and making stray cats and dogs fight. He also only did these things for the Gang's attention, and isn't proud of it.
• Terrible Trio: The leader of the gang "Freight Train" back in high school, with Mac and Charlie.

The McPoyle Clan

In General

• Ax-Crazy: These people are so deranged, chaotic and unstable that they do sometimes make The Gang look rational in comparison.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: All the family members have one.
• Brother–Sister Incest: And brother-brother incest.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Every McPoyle is really depraved and mentally unbalanced and the entire Creepy Family have extremely strange traditions.
• Commuting on a Bus: While heavily featured in the earlier seasons, the characters were phased out due to the actors playing the twins landing work on other shows. Currently, they appear once every couple of seasons.
• Creepy Family: An entire clan of Ax-Crazy, chaotic, disturbing freakshows.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They're a very close family, sometimes a little too close.
• Evil Counterpart: Big stretch to call the Reynolds any form of good, but while they try and pretend to be classy and never talk about how terribly bad they are with sexual boundaries or the twins’ enjoyment of raping others, the McPoyles are fully mask off, being as awful as they want with centuries of inbreeding behind them.
• Freudian Excuse: After learning that the McPoyles have only bred with other members of the family for a thousand years, is it any wonder why so many of them turn out so messed up?
• Massive Numbered Siblings: In "The Gang Gets Invincible", many many siblings are shown together.
• The Rival: Probably the only characters who actually match (or rather, surpass) the Gang in depravity, as well as some of the only antagonists who consistently engage in mutual rather than one-sided competition with them.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Milk. They always drink lukewarm milk...they drink it instead of beer, have it instead of punch at a wedding and use it on their wounds.
• Villainous Incest: It is actually a family tradition to sleep with and marry off other family members to prevent others from tainting their gene pool. Liam, however, convinces Ryan that after years of incest, it won't be them getting their gene pool tainted by others, but them tainting the gene pool of other families.

Liam & Ryan

Liam & Ryan McPoyle

"Hey, man. Bump it." "Where do you keep your Pledge?"

Played By: Jimmi Simpson & Nate Mooney

Debut: "Charlie Got Molested"

Creepy former elementary-school classmates of Mac and Charlie.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Liam does seem to have a bit of a creepy crush on Dennis.
• Big "NO!": Liam, the hammier of the twins, often exclaims a massive no in conjunction with Suddenly Shouting.
• The Corrupter: The McPoyles believe it's wrong to dilute family blood, but Liam (and eventually Ryan) choose to believe he's polluting the blood of outsiders.
• Depraved Bisexual: They not only "bang each other" (in the words of Mac), but Ryan is also sexually involved with sister Margaret (Liam seemingly enjoys watching them) and Liam later gets engaged to Maureen Ponderosa.
• The Ditz: Ryan isn't particularly intelligent, especially compared to Liam. When Liam commands him to stab someone, he stabs Liam.
• Eye Scream: Liam loses an eye during "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre." He now uses a flesh-colored patch that is very off-putting. When the Gang tells him how disturbing it looks, he draws a cartoon eye on it.
• False Rape Accusation: When they are first introduced, they are accusing their old gym coach of molestation because they hated his guts. Charlie rats them out.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Despite their generally hostile relationship with the Gang, they drop by Paddy's every so often to hang out (i.e. at the Halloween party) and are rather friendly (if bizarre as usual) to them at the bowling alley.
• Jerkass: They're both vicious, aggressive and more than a little unpredictable.
• The Leader: Liam generally appears to be the leader of the trio he forms with Ryan and Margaret.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: They show up at a video store in "The Gang Squashes Their Beefs" and later, after the video rental bubble burst, they take over a bowling alley for "The Gang Goes Bowling."
• Only Sane Man: "Sane" is pushing it, but Liam is noticeably more intelligent than the rest of his family.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Liam is a Large Ham while Ryan tends to only speak when he needs to.
• Suddenly Shouting: Liam has a tendency to do this.
• Twincest: A pair of fraternal male twins who are sexually involved.
• White Sheep: Downplayed significantly, but Liam is consistently shown to be slightly more normal than the rest of his family, if only barely.

Margaret

Margaret McPoyle

Played By: Thesy Surface

Debut: "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass"

The sister of Liam and Ryan.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: She shows a recurring interest in Dennis and even Mac, who are both openly disgusted by her. Despite this, they still slept with her.
• Alliterative Name: Margaret McPoyle.
• Beauty Inversion: The hideous Margaret is played by the very attractive Thesy Surface under a lot of makeup.
• Character Tics: Has a tendency to quickly lick her lips in what's assumedly meant to be in a flirty manner but it just makes her all the creepier.
• Girlish Pigtails: Low pigtail braids.
• Gonk: She has a unibrow and an androgynous-looking face.
• The Speechless: She is a deaf-mute.

Pappy

Pappy McPoyle

Played By: Guillermo del Toro

Debut: "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre"

The patriarch of the family.

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• Author Appeal: Del Toro's playing a corrupt hick from a family of the same, like every other H. P. Lovecraft story.
• Black Speech: The first thing that comes out of his mouth while high on milk laced with bath salts is foreign gibberish.
• Eats Babies: In his ramblings, he mentions that every McPoyle springs "fully formed" from his loins, and that he ate one of his babies so it wouldn't eat him first.
• Evil Laugh: Belts one out when he commands his bird, Royal, to peck out the lawyer's eyes.
• Evil Old Folks: He's the McPoyle counterpart to Frank, as in simultaneously old and evil.
• The Patriarch: Pappy is the main authority behind the McPoyle family.
• Shifting Voice of Madness: Del Toro modulates his Mexican accent into one of these, lapsing into bellowing and deranged sobs for no clear reason; it serves to make Pappy's origins even more incomprehensible.
• Shout-Out: Oddly enough, his mentioning his descendants sprung from his loins fully formed and how he ate one of his babies so it wouldn't eat him first is a reference to Cronus eating his own children and how they burst from his stomach as full grown adults thanks to Zeus.
• Talkative Loon: An extreme example.
• Unintelligible Accent: Half of his dialogue is rendered incomprehensible due to an exaggerated version of his actor's Mexican accent.

Doyle

Doyle McPoyle

Played By: Bob Rusch

Debut: "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century"

• I Coulda Been a Contender!: He had a pretty promising future in football, but it's brought to a halt by the Gang.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Downplayed and lampshaded. He doesn't look exactly like his relatives. However once he says his name is "Doyle McPoyle", Mac and Dennis start to notice some similarities.

Other Characters (in order of appearance)

Artemis

Artemis Dubois

"Oh, hit me with your best shot, you stupid bitch."

Played By: Artemis Pebdani

Debut: "Charlie Has Cancer"

Dee's hedonistic and uninhibited friend from her acting classes. Artemis is overly serious about her craft and displays bizarre habits and outbursts. She is very open about her sexuality, openly proclaiming she has a "bleached asshole" and eventually hooking up with Frank in food-fetish-based trysts, and enjoys numerous recreational drugs. She is also notable for being the closest thing to a friend the Gang has, often joining and/or being recruited into their schemes.

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• The Alcoholic: She can't remember how she spends "most evenings."
• All There in the Manual: A DVD extra on the Season 5 set reveals she's been in sexual relationships with men and women and is allergic to latex.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Of the "completely over-the-top and exaggerated" variety; her extremely sexually aggressive version of the Coyote Ugly monologue targeted at Dennis, and her version of the Glengarry Glen Ross "always be closing" scene, from "Dee & Artemis at an Audition," which out-hams Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino combined.
• Big Beautiful Woman: She's notably curvy compared to the rest of the female cast, but she's shown to be plenty desirable and sexually active - in addition to her on-and-off relationship with Frank, she has sexual encounters with both Charlie and Dennis, briefly dates Ben the soldier, and can be spotted flirting with other bit characters such as Z and Pepper Jack.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She is extraverted, friendly and personable, but also extremely selfish and scheming.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Artemis is more bizarre than genuinely evil.
• Commuting on a Bus: A recurring character in early seasons, her appearances have grown increasingly more sporadic over time. She currently tends to appear once per season.
• Fetish: Like Frank, she has a food fetish.
  Frank: Deandra, you got any bacon bits? We like to put 'em in Artemis' hair, and they rain down on me when we bang!
  Artemis: I feel like a cobb salad. It's amazing.
• The Hedonist: Artemis likes to have fun, whether it means banging in public or getting insanely high at a Halloween party.
• Hidden Depths: She's somehow able to translate Charlie's hieroglyphic scribbles into an entire written musical. She also seems to have a rich inner life outside of the Gang - she's close with her family (as seen when she's sitting Shiva in "Being Frank"), runs a successful business (even if it's just grifting), and has a bowling team with The Waitress and Gail the Snail.
• Informed Judaism: "Being Frank" reveals that she's Jewish, which is not mentioned in any other episode.
• It Amused Me: The driving force of her lifestyle. She takes part in many of the Gang’s most bizarre, depraved schemes seemingly just for a good time, and always manages to come out of them unscathed.
• Large Ham: When she starts confessing her poor financial state, Dee can't tell if she's still doing some sort of performance.
• Lost in Character: Artemis is quite the method actress. In "The Gang Goes Bowling," she's playing the role of Donna Brunswick, a high-school-aged bowling champion (which is how she manages to bowl a strike) who is also "a giant whore" (which is why she ends up ditching the game to go hook up with Frank).
• Power Dynamics Kink: Artemis mentions that she's slept with a lot of paraplegic guys because she "likes the power".
• Really Gets Around: She introduces herself to men by telling them she has a bleached asshole, arguing that they're "going to find out anyway."
• Sixth Ranger: She's basically the only recurring character to have any sort of positive relationship with the Gang, and occasionally joins in on their schemes in some capacity. This lampshaded when they get her to run a soundboard for their child beauty pageant; Dee questions if Artemis can even work it correctly and Mac retorts they don't have a deep bench of associates to call on for help.
• Snake Oil Salesman: Sold New Age merchandise to gullible women in "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies Edition."
• The Stoner: She frequently smokes marijuana and hash, and has tried unsuccessfully to smoke it with Dee. She also once made out with Charlie while tripping balls on mescaline, and drugged an entire flight with ayahuasca tea.
• Too Much Information: She has a habit of loudly announcing vulgar things in public, such as telling a crowded club that she's going to "take off [her] bra, blast [her] nips," then telling multiple men in said club she has "a bleached asshole," or assuming the Gang wants tips on her "interesting and innovative" dumpster sex with Frank.

Carmen

Carmen

Played By: Brittany Daniel

Debut: "Charlie Has Cancer"

A trans woman who was dating Mac. She keeps Mac interested in her with promises of undergoing sexual reassignment surgery and with constant flattery of Mac's physique.

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• Appeal to Flattery: Carmen is able to keep Mac interested in her by complimenting his physique.
• Babies Ever After: Nick and Carmen revealed their plan to have a baby with Dee as their surrogate.
• Beta Couple: She and Nick are the most loving, stable relationship on the show.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Has yet to have her life ruined by the Gang... so far. In fact Dee actually helped Carmen achieve her dream of having a child by being her surrogate.
• Easy Sex Change: Possibly averted she most likely kept saying she would lose her penis 'soon' due to how expensive it is. She also disappeared between the end of Season 3 and the Season 6 premiere, so the time frame isn't quite as compressed as it usually is in TV.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Dee comments on her impressive implants in her first appearance.
• Happily Married: Eventually, to Nick, following the completion of her surgery.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Like Psycho Pete, her biggest flaw is thinking that she can have a healthy relationship with a member of the Gang (Mac, specifically).
• If It's You, It's Okay: For a while there, Mac and Carmen who dated while she was still pre-op. It stopped when she completely transitioned because Mac missed her bulge.
  • Carmen and her husband Nick who love each other regardless of the circumstances.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: It is discovered later that Nick cannot have children and that Dee offered to be a surrogate mother for the couple's son. Carmen had her sperm frozen sometime before her operation and they used an anonymous egg donor and then used Dee as the surrogate. Both parents are thrilled
• Morality Pet: For a time, she served as one to Mac. The montage we get to see of them spending time together while they were dating is genuinely sweet, and there's a small glimmer of hope that he'll rise above his usual awfulness to be with her. Unfortunately, this is not that kind of show.
• Nice Girl: Carmen is very sweet and kind.
• No Accounting for Taste: Sure, Mac is cute but that's about all he has going for him; he disrespects Carmen, hides the relationship from his friends, and in general is an immature asshole. It's amazing she put up with him as long as she did.
• Trans Equals Gay: Averted with Carmen, who is now a woman and shown to be exclusively interested in men.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Carmen is very attractive compared to her obese husband Nick. It's more justified than most examples, as he's also kind, smart, willing to stand up for her against bigotry, and confident in the face of criticism; so it's easy to see his appeal as a partner.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Plenty with Mac when he discovered her bulge and still continued to date her. Averted with her husband who loves her.

The Lawyer

The Lawyer

Played By: Brian Unger

Debut: "Dennis and Dee's Mom is Dead"

An attorney who has had several run-ins with the Gang. Like the Waitress, his real name is unknown.

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• The Ace: Much more capable than the Gang and outwits them with ease during each conflict. Until Season 11, where he not only loses the McPoyle vs Ponderosa case but also gets his eye pecked out.
• Amoral Attorney: Averted. He starts out as a decent person until he's had enough of the Gang duct-taping his secretary and constantly bothering him. In fact, he seems weirded out by Dennis suggesting that he could "make love" to his soon-to-be-ex-wife while she sleeps as an act of good faith.
• Ascended Extra: Originally, he was just the lawyer assigned to read Dennis and Dee's mother's will. Since then, he has frequently been at odds with the Gang in unrelated legal situations.
• Break the Haughty: Throughout most of the series, he manages to remain two steps ahead of the gang in whatever zany scheme they have (intentionally or not) involved him in. This winning streak is broken when he loses the McPoyle vs Ponderosa case to them. He doesn't take it well.
• Crazy-Prepared: Makes 50 copies of the contract he gives the Gang knowing they'd destroy them. Also keeps a gun in his desk in case someone busts in wanting to kill him.
• Deadpan Snarker: He always has a witty put-down.
  Lawyer: It is just so nice to see you again, Mr. Reynolds, I see that you're still... just horrible.

  Lawyer: You know, I don't think I'm going to do anything close to that and I can clearly see you know nothing about the law. Seems like you have a tenuous grasp on the English language in general.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Like the Waitress, no one ever calls him by name and is only known by his job title.
• Eye Scream: His right eye is pecked out by Royal McPoyle.
• Guile Hero: A rare Hero Antagonist version.
• Hero Antagonist: Amoral Attorney aspects aside, he does work within the law and try to genuinely protect his clients from the Gang's insanity, and does so without being pulled down to the Gang's level like most of their enemies. Probably the closest thing to a hero the show's got.
• It Amused Me: The only reason the Lawyer got involved in Dennis' divorce was to spitefully give him a hard time.
• It's Personal: Not so much at first. His early appearances portray him as the Only Sane Man who wanted nothing to do with the gang. Over time, however, he has developed his own petty vendetta against them.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He says some very nasty put downs pretty much every time he appears, but since we only ever see him when he's dealing with the Gang, who he immediately recognizes as a group of depraved morons, this shouldn't be too surprising.
• Karmic Trickster: He has some shades of this. In "The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis", Charlie challenges him to a duel, and the Lawyer accepts, without missing a beat, just to scare him. He also gets them to sign a restraining order (that never gets enforced) and forces Dennis to take on all the debt of his ex-wife. Because he can.
• Manipulative Bastard: He got the Gang to unknowingly sign a contract that also acts as a restraining order and gives him all the profits from their merchandise and makes about 50 copies, knowing that Mac will just eat the original.
• Never My Fault: Despite usually having a good reason to antagonize the Gang after all they put him through, he also shows in the McPoyle vs Ponderosa case that he blames them for his failed first marriage and his struggling second marriage. The Gang only tried to get involved with the first one after his wife already started the divorce process, and never got involved with his second marriage at all.
• No Name Given: He's yet to be given a name.
• Omnidisciplinary Lawyer: The Gang and their adversaries use his legal advice no matter what situation.
• Only Sane Man: The only recurring character who is intelligent, rational and successful in life. Subverted in that later seasons portray him as a spiteful Sitcom Arch-Nemesis rather than the well-intentioned Hero Antagonist that he started off as.
• Revenge Before Reason: One of his few character flaws. While he initially would only become involved with the Gang through sheer coincidence, over time the Lawyer has developed a tendency to antagonize the Gang purely out of spite when he could just leave well enough alone. This makes their rivalry with him one of the few that's actually mutual, and ultimately ends up biting him in the ass in "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: Trial of the Century", since association with the Gang almost inevitably goes bad even for people with good intentions.

Geoffrey Owens

"Donovan McNabb"/"Tiger Woods"/"Don Cheadle"

Played By: Geoffrey Owens

Debut: "The Gang Gets Invincible"

An actor who impersonates various celebrities.

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• Adam Westing / As Himself: Implied to be a fictionalized version the real Geoffrey Owens; they recognize him as the "guy from the Cosby show", and he's portrayed as a somewhat sleazy guy with a foot fetish. Dennis even refers to him by his Cosby Show character’s name.
• Blatant Lies: A midddle-aged, heavyset man showing up to the Eagles tryout claiming to be Donovan McNabb; then later claiming to be Tiger Woods and Don Cheadle.
• Fetish: Pays prostitutes $500 a pop to let him massage their feet.
• Hidden Depths: When he takes over the production of Lethal Weapon 7, he retools it to be a documentary about the Gang's latent racism, white guilt, and white savior complex; showing an understanding of and interest in the complexities of race relations. (Either a genuine interest or just knowing what the public would want and exploiting it).
• Only Sane Employee: On the set of Lethal Weapon 7.
• Running Gag: Him claiming to be a Black celebrity he looks nothing like.

Ernie

Ernie the Barfly

Played By: David Zdunich

Debut: "The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty Magoo"

• Recurring Extra: He's a barfly who shows up in the background multiple times.

Korean Busboy

Korean Busboy

Played By: Maxie J. Santillan Jr.

Debut: "The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation"

A Korean Busboy who works at Mr. Kim's restaurant.

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• The Bus Came Back: He returns three seasons after his debut as one of the men invited to the Gang's party to figure out who got Dee pregnant.
• Sexual Extortion: He offers to give Dee Mr. Kim's secret microbrew recipe if she sleeps with him. After the fact, it turns out he doesn't even know it.
• You No Take Candle: Speaks broken English, but inexplicably in a flawless American accent.

The Corporate Executive

The Corporate Executive

Played By: Richard Ruccolo

Debut: "The Gang Sells Out"

A businessman who's also on city council.

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• All Gays are Promiscuous: Averted, to the Gang's confusion. He's exclusively attracted to men, but this doesn't mean he's attracted to every man (as Frank finds out when he tries to seduce him) or that he wants to hear Dennis go on a tangent about bears, otters, and power bottoms.
• Bad Boss: His frustration at the Gang is understandable, but firing the Waitress over the mistake of hiring them was a dick move.
• The Bus Came Back: His reapperance as a counselman was one of the continuity nods in "The Gang Recycles their Trash".
• Honest Corporate Executive: Just wants to grow the Oldies Cafe chain, and isn't shady or underhanded about it.
• Honor Before Reason: It's understandable that he doesn't want to reward the Gang for their awful behavior, but how they act doesn't change the fact that Paddy's is in a great spot for the business and he wouldn't have to deal with them anymore after handing them the check. Yet he sticks to his guns taking the offer off the table.
• Straight Gay: The Gang assumes he's straight by default, because he doesn't have any stereotypical camp or feminine mannerisms, and take him to a strip club. He comes out to them there much to their surprise.

Lil' Kev

Lil' Kev

Played By: Kyle Davis

Debut: "Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person"

A local rapper who dates Dee, who dumps him after finding out from Dennis he’s mentally retarded.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: He's goofy, cheerful, and seems to legitimately like Dee, until she asks him if he really is retarded - when he performs a freestyle rap eviscerating her in front of a large crowd.
• The Bus Came Back: Returns in "Dee Gives Birth" at the Gang's party with all the other men Dee had slept with, where he ends up smoking crack with Rickety Cricket.
• Does Not Drive: Which Dennis believes is evidence toward him being mentally disabled.
• Manchild: Regardless of whether he has a developmental disability, Kevin is rather immature for his age - he lives with his mother, wears his shirt backwards, and laughs uproariously at children's cartoons (which he refers to as "movies").
• Nice Guy: Despite his quirks, he's a pretty pleasant guy. Even after insulting the Gang at the end of his first appearance, he comes back to party with them and seems to have a positive relationship with Charlie in particular.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: He's a rather exaggerated, though still sympathetic, portrayal of a white rapper.

Pepper Jack

Pepper Jack

Played By: Malcolm Barrett

Debut: "Mac is a Serial Killer"

A pimp who encounters Dennis and Dee.

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• The Bus Came Back: After not being seen since Season 3, he returns twelve seasons later as the person the Gang hires to play Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon 7.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: "Badass" might be questionable, but he's undeniably intimidating and unafraid of violence, yet is dressed to the nines in his first appearance.
• Faux Affably Evil: He seems like a personable enough guy, but he's still a pimp and a criminal who threatens Dennis and Dee at knife point.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: While he can be quite charming, Pepper Jack will turn to violence at a moment's notice.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out Pepper Jack is a big fan of Fraggle Rock.
• Third-Person Person: Constantly refers to himself in the third person.
• Verbal Tic: Seems to refer to every single woman he encounters as "bitch." Even children.

Rex

Rex

Played By: TJ Hoban

Debut: "America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest"

A local male model. Introduced as one of many attractive people vying for the position of the Paddy's Pub billboard model, he has been repeatedly rehired by the Gang whenever their schemes require some sex appeal.

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• Brainless Beauty: He's a male model. But he did things like eat a whole bowl of cockroaches before Frank told him to, just so he can be on a billboard (not so he could get paid, he just wanted to be on a billboard).
• Closet Key: If it counts for anything, he’s the first man that Mac openly lusts over, while also telling Dennis that he’s in decline.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Eating a bowl of cockroaches simply because you think it would impress someone is Charlie-level logic.
• Determinator: Let’s reiterate, he wanted to win the billboard competition so badly, he ate an entire bowl of cockroaches unprompted just to impress the judge.
  "I wanna win, Bro."
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: "Dee Gives Birth" reveals that Dee is able to semi-regularly convince him to sleep with her by browbeating him into submission. While it's clearly framed in a way that makes Dee a terrible person for doing so, it's also Played for Laughs.
• Fanservice Extra: Rarely does anything significant to the plot when he appears, and mostly just stands around looking handsome.
• Formerly Fit: By Season 13, he has gained a large beer gut as a result of falling for the Invigaron pyramid scheme. Ironically, Season 13 also prominently features Mac acquiring the same chiseled physique that Rex was previously known for having.
• Hunk: Rex is very muscular. The Gang describe him rather accurately as a beefcake.
• Lust Object: Mac is heavily implied to have a thing for him pretty much every time he appears.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's a model, and is regularly shown in various states of undress.
• The Quiet One: Tends to have very few lines when he appears.
• Shirtless Scene: Well, he is a model.

Gladys

Gladys

Played By: Mae Laborde

Debut: "The Nightman Cometh"

A senile old woman Charlie got to play music for The Nightman Cometh. Dennis later recruited her to play his grandmother as part of a scheme.

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• Been There, Shaped History: She and her family, if her stories are to be believed; she was a close friend of Calvin Coolidge and her grandmother was a lover of Susan B. Anthony.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She hardly knows what's going on around her, but she's still quick and talented on the piano.
• Non Sequitur: Due to her advanced age, she was prone to these. She randomly brings up that her grandmother had an affair with Susan B. Anthony in her second appearance.
• Scatterbrained Senior: She seems to have very little understanding of what's going on in both of her appearances.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She made two appearances before her actress, Mae Laborde, passed away in 2012.
• Zany Scheme: She is at the center of one in both appearances.

Da Maniac

Da' Maniac

Played By: Roddy Piper

Debut: "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops"

A washed-up, unstable Professional Wrestler. The Gang hires him to wrestle for the troops. He is later involved in the Gang's timeshare scheme.

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• Ax-Crazy: Da' Maniac is well-named; even out-of-character, he's forever on the edge of intense violence. He terrifyingly blows his top over a small amount of money, and in his second appearance he smashes a lamp for no other reason than "Sometimes loud noises make the squirrels go in my head".
• Cloudcuckoolander: Years of competing in poorly-regulated wrestling matches seem to have rendered him batshit insane. Or perhaps he was always like that.
• Crazy Homeless Person: He appears to live out of his car and is clearly mentally ill. He even has chestnuts in his car, like he's getting ready to hibernate for winter.
  Charlie: Look at this, dude. That's just a bucket of chestnuts.
  Mac: What? Is he just foraging for his food!?
• Expy: He's one for Randy "The Ram" Robinson from The Wrestler.
• Garbage Wrestler: When the Gang suggests that he use some "traditional" wrestling, he opines that nobody wants that "old school bullshit" anymore. They want blood.
• Hidden Depths: He shows some surprising skill as a salesman in his second appearance. Of course, he might just be so intimidating that fear was a good sales technique.
• Noodle Implements: Has a bucket of chestnuts in his car, to the Gang's bafflement.
• Noodle Incident: He eerily claims to have had kids, but "not anymore", after which he just trails off with a haunted look in his eyes. Whether this means he's estranged from his kids or they're literally dead isn't specified.
• Racist Grandpa: When Mac's back is turned, he seemingly cannot stop calling him the N-word.
  Mac: He was calling me the n-word?!?
  Charlie: Every time you turned your back!
  Dennis: He was like, "You stupid 'n', go get me grease, 'n'...
  Charlie: "N" this, "N" that...
  Mac: Why??
  Dennis: I don't know, maybe he has a problem with black people...
  Mac: Or does he have a problem with me?!?
• Ring Oldies: Although his age is never established, it's clear he's been wrestling a long time and is presumably around the same age as Roddy Piper, who was in his fifties at the time.
• Trauma Button: As demonstrated in his second appearance, loud noises are a violent trigger for him. It's not explained what happened to him that causes this.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Da' Maniac only made two appearances before the untimely death of his actor, Rowdy Roddy Piper.
• Wrestling Doesn't Pay: He makes very little money wrestling and only charges the Gang fifty bucks for his services.

Ben Smith/ "Ben the Soldier"

Ben Smith

Played By: Travis Schuldt

Debut: "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops"

Dee's online chat buddy "soldier of fortune". He served as an American soldier in Iraq.

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• Brainless Beauty: Quite handsome, and is also dumber than a brick.
• The Ditz: He's shown to be somewhat of a lovable idiot.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: "Dee Gives Birth" reveals that Dee is able to semi-regularly convince him to sleep with her by browbeating him into submission. While it's clearly framed in a way that makes Dee a terrible person for doing so, it's also Played for Laughs.
• Extreme Doormat: He was so nice and innocent that Dee would tell him to sit and wait for her in the car, in blistering 100 degree weather, for hours on end, with the windows rolled up simply because she didn't mention to roll down the windows. Though he does eventually leave her when it's made clear that she's "a mean person."
• Good-Looking Privates: A handsome soldier. Both Dee and Artemis take turns Eating the Eye Candy.
• Iconic Item: His jorts. First given to him by Frank in his first appearance, he has yet to appear in the show without them.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: Dimwitted but also one of the most genuinely nicest people in the show.
• Nice Guy: Ben is just a sweet guy who's very considerate and pleasant to be around. He was very nice to Dee until he realized she was a jerk. At one point, he offered to help her when she had some trouble walking after falling down by giving her boots instead of the high heels she was wearing, even though she had just convinced herself that Ben was in the middle of emotionally manipulating her by setting up a surprise picnic for the two of them and was constantly yelling to him about it and took his offer of boots as another manipulation tactic.
• Too Dumb to Fool: He's yet to ever have his life wrecked by the Gang, in large part because he can't follow along with their confidence tricks, so he'll politely decline, walk away, and stay out of the scheme.

Brian McIntyre

Brian McIntyre

Played By: Dave Foley

Debut: "The Gang Gets a New Member"

The high school principal who hires Dee as a substitute teacher and Charlie as a janitor.

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• Butt-Monkey: The few times the Gang shows up to his school, there's always trouble. Especially the second time.
• Extreme Doormat: A ridiculous pushover who is incapable of asserting himself in the face of Dee and Charlie, the Gang's preeminent punching bags.

Duncan & Z

Duncan & Z

Played By: David Gueriera & Chad L. Coleman

Debut: "Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats"

Frank's bizarre friends that he met under a bridge.

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• Affably Evil: Z, who's quite friendly and cool. Not so much with Duncan.
• Beard of Evil: Both of them have beards, and both are criminals who are seen beating the hell out of a couple who destroyed their wall (which is just a plastic sheet held up).
• The Bus Came Back: Kind of; he's not seen, but in season 16 Frank greets him offscreen.
• Hyper-Awareness: Somehow, Z is able to determine that Dee is pregnant before she's really showing.
• Scary Black Man: Z, as played by the intimidatingly large Chad Coleman.
• Toxic Friend Influence: Dennis considers them this for Frank, although Frank doesn't really need anyone's influence to be awful.

Chase Utley

Chase Utley

Played By: Himself

Debut: "The Gang Gets Stranded in the Woods"

A professional baseball player and Mac's personal hero.

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• As Himself: He's the real-life Chase Utley reacting to Mac and the Gang.
• Not So Above It All: He initially comes across as a sane, reasonable athlete responding to the Gang's eccentricities. However, in his second apperance, he swipes Mac's monkey paw fully believing it to have magic powers.

Jackie Denardo

Jackie Denardo

Played By: Jessica Collins

Debut: "The Storm of the Century"

A local Philadelphia weatherperson with whom Dennis is deeply infatuated.

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• Buxom Beauty Standard: She is extremely gifted in the chest area, which causes Dennis to fall in love with her. When she goes into a coma during Dennis' fantasy in "The Gang Saves the Day", Dennis euthanizes her when he learns that her breasts didn't survive the car accident she was in.
• Hospital Hottie: She shows quite a bit of cleavage when she's featured as a nurse in "The Gang Saves the Day".
• Leitmotif: Every time Dennis (and later Frank) encounters her in person, she does a slow-motion walk to the tune of "Alone" by Heart.
• Lust Object: Seemingly Dennis' ideal woman. He can't even talk straight when around her.
• Ms. Fanservice: Despite being seen in a professional setting during most of her appearances, she shows off her large breasts pretty liberally.

The Waiter

The Waiter

Played By: Michael Naughton

Debut: "The Gang Dines Out"

A waiter who constantly runs into the Gang. They antagonize him for no reason and never seem to remember him.

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• Butt-Monkey: Every time he appears, the Gang is rude to him for no reason and they love to publicly humiliate him.
• The Caretaker: He takes care of his mother, who is in a vegetative state. He put aside his life goal of becoming a pilot to do so.
• A Day in the Limelight: We find out more about his home life in "The Gang Chokes".
• The Dog Bites Back: In "The Gang Beats Boggs Ladies Reboot", after years of getting abuse heaped on him by the gang, the Waiter has his moment when he writes Dee’s score on her forehead before kicking her off the flight in North Dakota.
• Doom Magnet: He somehow runs into the Gang at random moments, whether he is working at the Super Bowl halfway across the country or working as a flight attendant. These constant coincidences make his life miserable.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Like the Waitress, his real name is never given and he is only referred to by his occupation.
• Forgettable Character: None of the characters ever remember meeting him.
• Nice Guy: He is a rare example of a character with morals on this show.
• No Name Given: Much like The Waitress, he's never given an actual name since he's just known as his occupation.
• Only Sane Man: He's rather sane and normal compared to almost every character in the show. Unlike characters like The Waitress or Rickety Cricket, his sanity never goes away or gets questioned in any of his later appearances and he continues to come across as an entirely ordinary man.
• Running Gag: The Gang forgetting who he is and playing pranks on him.
• Spear Counterpart: To The Waitress, they are both people without names recognized by The Gang and frequently treated like crap.
• Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip: The Gang pranked him multiple times by doing this, causing him to spill spaghetti all over himself.

Old Black Man

Old Black Man

Played By: Wil Garret

Debut: "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs"

An old black man who Mac, Dennis, and Dee have been sharing a bed with ever since losing a bet with Frank.

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• All Just a Dream: The entirety of the episode "The Gang Turns Black" was simply a dream Old Black Man was having.
• Ascended Extra: Has made several appearances in Season 12, after being little more than an ending gag in Season 11.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's simply called "old man" or "old black man", though the Gang try not to call him the latter to avoid coming across as racist. Apparently his real name is Carl.
• Hidden Depths: His dream about the Gang reveals that, as out-of-it as he seems, he's hyper-observant of their personalities and nuances (painting them in a sympathetic but also critical light in his fantasy), he has strong convictions about racial inequality, and he also has a wife he may be looking for.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unknown what became of him after Dennis and Mac moved out of Dee's apartment in the Season 12 finale. With his actor's death in 2021, it's doubtful we'll ever know.