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Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds, is the bartender at Paddy's Pub, Dennis Reynolds' twin sister, and one of five main characters in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Dee, followed by her twin brother, Dennis, three minutes later,[10x9] were born some time in 1976 to Barbara Reynolds. Growing up, both Dennis and Dee believed Frank Reynolds to be their biological father, however, the twins were actually the children of Bruce Mathis, a man whom Barbara had an affair with.

Neither Barbara nor Frank took an active role in raising their children, thus Dee was primarily raised by various nannies and maids.[2x2][10x9] Frank was away conducting business abroad, and Barbara was an addict[2x10][5x13] commonly high on amphetamines.[2x2] Barbara's abuse and belittling attitude towards Dee throughout her childhood[1x3][3x3] and further continuing into her adulthood[2x2] eventually caused Dee to begin hating her mother.[1] Every Christmas, Frank would find out what she wanted most, and buy it for himself, allegedly in an attempt to teach her a lesson.[5x13]

Dee's grandfather was a decorated officer in the Nazi Party[1x6] and enrolled both Dee and Dennis in a neo-Nazi camp when they were five years old.[8x1]

Dee attended the Academy of Notre Dame, where she was unpopular due to her severe scoliosis, which forced her to wear a back brace and earned her the nickname "The Aluminum Monster"[3x5] courtesy of Adriano Calvanese. She dated Brad Fisher, but eventually dumped him because of his acne. Dee's best friend in high school was Ingrid Nelson, nicknamed "Fatty Magoo". Dee frequently bragged about how she would one day become successful to "keep [Ingrid] down", which in turn motivated Ingrid to open a successful clothing shop. Dee's one "successful" moment was playing Frankenstein's monster with encouragement from her drama teacher, Dr. Larry Meyers. Dee attended intensive physical therapy twice a week after school, where she met Matthew Mara. Matthew developed a crush on Dee, who used this to her advantage, making him eat horse excrement and getting him to do menial tasks for her.[2x9] She wore her back brace until she turned twenty, and even attempted to fit it under her prom dress, prompting her to stay home after her mother called her fat.[1x3]

After failing to complete her psychology major alongside Dennis at the University of Pennsylvania, Dee decided to become an actress. During this time, she was institutionalized for lighting her roommate on fire in apparent retaliation for wearing her clothing and "copying her".[9x2] She also slept with her professor, Dr. Gainer.[1x7]


Appearances[]

Episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Season 13
Season 14
Season 15
Season 16

Trivia[]

  • Dee was originally portrayed by Jordan Reid (Rob McElhenney's girlfriend at the time) in the unaired pilot (shot in Jordan's apartment). After breaking up with Rob McElhenney, Reid was fired and replaced. [2] [3]
  • According to creator and star of the show Rob McElhenney, the name "Sweet Dee" was the nickname of one of his friend's girlfriends. He liked the nickname and later thought of it while creating the character of Dennis' sister.
  • Dee wears a size thirteen shoe [4x7].
  • Although Deandra was originally written as a female voice of sanity to contrast with her ill-intentioned co-stars, the character quickly became an equal participant in the gang's illicit and morally questionable activities.
  • Rob McElhenney stated that making Dee the "voice of reason" was abandoned because it would have been a waste of Kaitlin Olson's talent, and also they realized that the rest of the world can act as "the voice of reason" when necessary (as an example, he's mentioned the character of the loan officer in the episode "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis").
  • Dee is often ridiculed for her resemblance to a bird by the rest of the Gang, especially Mac and Dennis (since 02x06). This began in the episode "Mac is a Serial Killer," when the gang starts comparing her to the former professional basketball player Larry Bird, because of their resemblance in appearance. This devolved into the gang comparing her to an actual bird. In the episode "Who Got Dee Pregnant?", in one of the flashback sequences, Dee is "played" by an actual ostrich.
  • Dee has had several cars over the course of the series.
    • Charlie and Mac steal her car and crash it to fake their deaths [4x5].
    • Dee purchases a new car, but it is stolen by a hitchhiker she picks up and allows to drive so that she [5x2].
    • Bill Ponderosa gives Dee a car, but it turns out the car really belonged to another one of Bill's mistresses who stole it back from Dee [6x2].
    • Charlie and Mac end up crashing yet another of Dee's cars, while attempting to flee from "zombies" at Maureen Ponderosa's wedding [8x3].
  • During "Chardee MacDennis", Dee endured two hours of deeply personal insults from Mac and Charlie, and after holding it together "without a single tear", cried for a month and tried to commit suicide by overdosing on pills.
  • There is only one episode in the entire series where Dee is absent [4x4].
  • Kaitlin Olson is married to Rob McElhenney, who portrays Mac.
  • Dee is left-handed.

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