It's very difficult to create a fan base for a show that's premise is four horrible people own a bar, but "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has garnered a cultish following from its quirky humor, encouraging fans to take a weekly, 30 minute breather from their moral codes.
Dee Reynolds, played by previously unknown Kaitlin Olson, runs with the abominable crowd comprised of her three co-owners, which include her twin brother, and her equally despicable father played by Danny DeVito. Ironically nicknamed "Sweet Dee," she is the classic definition of a guy's girl, who despite her slim figure and long brown hair, is completely de-sexualized in the man's world of alcohol.
No matter how platonic and well-intentioned, close friendships between heterosexual men and women typically contain some sort of element of sexual tension, or at least flirtation. But Sweet Dee has made the full transformation into "one of the guys." She swears, schemes and takes no crap from her co's, and the writers have shrewdly refrained from creating sexual relationships or even mistakes between Dee and the non-blood related members of her crew, even though Olson is married to one of them.
Instead of sweetly batting her eyelashes when she doesn't get her way, she fights for it, whether it's convincing her brother to sleep with his friends' moms, pretending to be retarded for a welfare check or eating homeless people.
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