By design, there is so much that the audience of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia doesn’t know about the show’s iconic side characters – hell, we don’t even know the real names of half of them.
On It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the main characters aren’t really the type of people to take an interest in the lives of anyone outside of their group. That Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Dee and Frank even know about each other’s lives prior to the start of the series is only due to the fact that they were all in close proximity to each other for most of that time pre-Paddy’s Pub, and they can all go an entire episode without being bothered to remember the names of their fellow degenerates.
As such, no one in the Gang really cares what The Lawyer’s name is, nor did they even remember their long history with the executor of the late Barbara Reynolds’ estate when they last saw him in “Mac and Dennis Become EMTs” this past Season 17.
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Brian Unger, however, has to take his character’s personal history more seriously than the Gang does, and, when he spoke to Cracked about his 18-year stint on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he revealed a little bit of his personal canon for The Lawyer that the show’s creators couldn’t be bothered to devise.
According to Unger, The Lawyer didn’t actually attend Harvard, as he once claimed to his legal peer Charlie Kelly – although he could still put one between Charlie’s teeth.
“It’s funny because, in the show, I went to Harvard, but I don’t see him as a Harvard lawyer,” Unger admitted of his character, who has been the longest-running antagonist of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia since his introduction in Season Three. “I see him more as a UCLA lawyer. I don’t know if he’s as sharp as a Harvard attorney. He’s more like a guy who wanted to go to Harvard but didn’t get in.”
But overcompensation isn’t The Lawyer’s only weakness, says Unger. “There’s a real soft, vulnerable side to him, and obviously that can be got at, yet he’s not very good at getting back at the Gang,” Unger explained, “He’s flustered a lot. He sees the Gang as completely beneath him. All of their trials, their tribulations, he doesn’t want to have anything to do with them or the McPoyles.” Nevertheless, The Lawyer’s indignant pride keeps bringing him back into The Gang’s lives for some more humiliation and disfigurement.
“I just saw him as a middle-of-the-road, Midwestern regular guy who likes to golf on weekends,” Unger explained of The Lawyer, “There’s nothing really special about him.”
That may have been true about The Lawyer before he fell eye-first into the twisted world of The Gang, but that’s not necessarily the case anymore – while The Lawyer was a healthy, happily married and successful normie before the events of “The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis,” over the course of the last 18 years, his interactions with the Gang have morphed him into a disformed, divorced and, as of his most recent appearance, incarcerated husk of a man who has been destroyed by his own quest for revenge.
Although, to Unger’s point, all that toil and misery may not actually make The Lawyer special after all – The Gang has that effect on most of the poor souls who cross their path.
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