Artemis Dubois is a recurring character in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She is introduced as Dee Reynolds' friend from her acting class, eventually becomes Frank Reynolds' "booty call," and is an occasional contributor to the Gang's schemes.
Personality[]
Artemis is an aspiring actress extremely dedicated to her roles, practicing roles and characters off-camera. She is very open about her sexuality and often offers to perform in the nude, even when it is unnecessary.[1x4]
Artemis takes great interest in many of the Gang's doings. She hangs around because she is either actually concerned about their objectives or simply entertained by their absurd antics.[4x7]
Much like the Gang, she is known for her frequent substance use, claiming she doesn't "remember most evenings" [6x7]. She smokes marijuana.[7x3] , having tried unsuccessfully to smoke it with Sweet Dee[2x8], and has tripped on mescaline [6x7] and ayahuasca [13x3].
Artemis also tells Dee that she dates handicapped men because she "Likes the power" which is why she agrees to date Ben the soldier after Dee sees him in a wheel chair. ("The Gang Wrestles for the Troops") She has shown interest in Dennis, has an on/off relationship with Frank, and once made out with Charlie to make Frank jealous.
Biography[]
2005[]
Artemis is first seen in Dee's acting class, where they perform a scene together and she then breaks down because she lost her job at the Wawa and won't be able to pay her bills anymore. Dee is unsure whether she's still performing or being sincere. To help her out, and also since the gang assumes Charlie is going to die of cancer, Dee brings Artemis in to audition to be a "Coyote Ugly"-style bartender for Paddy's. Dennis is immediately upset at seeing her appearance and attitude, but she continues to perform her acting routine on top of the bar, ending with licking Dennis' face. [1x4]
2006[]
Dee recruits Artemis to join her in a street theatre piece outside Paddy's, which is brought to a crashing halt when Charlie runs off the crowd who has gathered to watch. [2x8]
2007[]
Frank sees a vision of Artemis in the toilet of the McPoyle family's RV while he is tripping on acid. In reality, he's standing in a trash can with the real Artemis gawking at him. [3x2]
2008[]
Artemis joins Dee and The Waitress on a "Sex And the City"-night out on the town, but her behavior isn't quite what Dee was hoping for, as Artemis keeps ordering drinks with "bomb" in the name rather than the Cosmo that Dee thinks she should get, announces that she is going to "take [her] top off and blast [her] nips", and then, as a capper, tells a couple of "hotties" that come to their table the immortal line: "Name's Artemis. I have a bleached asshole" (she defends herself by noting "They were gonna find out anyway"). When the three women make it back to Paddy's, Artemis decides she'd rather help the guys in figuring out who pooped the bed than go back out with Dee, and soon gives her own, rather complicated, theory of who pooped in Frank and Charlie's bed. [4x7]
Artemis assists Charlie in directing his play, and transcribes the play from the bizarre series of images that he "wrote" to actual words. [4x13]
2009[]
Artemis is a guest at a bachelorette party Dee throws for The Waitress. At the party, she and Frank -- who are involved in a sexual relationship based on food fetish play -- engage in very public displays of affection, feeding each other out of Dee's refrigerator. When Frank asks if Dee has any bacon bits he can put in Artemis' hair "so that they rain down on me when we bang", Artemis says it makes her feel "like a Cobb salad". Later on, during the party itself, Artemis talks about how Brad had a "pizza face" during high school, which led both Dee and The Waitress, among others, to dump him. Later, Frank and Artemis leave the party to go "get sweaty in a Wendy's bathroom", but Frank later reveals that "something I did with the onions to myself" bummed Artemis out and has, presumably, ended their relationship for a while. [5x5]
When Dee sees that Ben, the soldier she has been corresponding with as "Desert Rose", is in a wheelchair, Dee denies that she is Desert Rose, and tells him that Artemis is actually a Desert Rose (though she was dressed rather as the "Desert Grape"). When it turns out that Ben was in a wheelchair temporarily, due to a knee injury, Dee tries to get him back. [5x7]
2010[]
After the rest of the Gang leaves Dee tied to Charlie and Frank's bed, meaning she will miss the Josh Groban concert she so desperately wanted to see, she hears a message Artemis is leaving for Frank, saying "Tell Dee to get her ass down here" and that "Groban is feeling frisky." [6x6]
In Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth, the gang shows high school students their homemade movie "Lethal Weapon 5." Artemis plays a prostitute that gets arrested by Riggs (Mac) .After a heated interview, and an offer to "suck" the two main characters, Riggs and Roger Murtaugh (Dennis) "good," she gets dragged along side a moving car, bashed into telephone poles along the way. This scene is only available with audio in the actual 14 and a half minute cut of Lethal Weapon 5, but Artemis is visible in the background for just a few frames in the actual episode.
Artemis was a guest at the Halloween party where the Gang thinks Dee got impregnated. Frank and Artemis have apparently resumed their food-fetish based relationship by having sex in a dumpster behind a Wendy's (and both of them start to describe something that they did with a hamburger bun, which no one else wants to hear). She claims to "not remember most evenings." At the party, she makes out with Charlie after he punches a random woman, originally believed to be so Frank would get jealous, but actually because she was "insanely high on mescaline." In her retelling of the events of the party, Artemis says that she heard Mac and Dee having sex, which makes Mac reluctantly confess he banged Margaret McPoyle. [6x7]
2011[]
Artemis works the sound board at the "Frank's Little Beauties" pageant (when Dee questioned why her, Mac says she's about the only one they can get, and "we don't have a very deep bench"). Artemis smokes pot throughout the entire pageant. When Benjamin's father comes over objecting to the shirtless dance he is doing for the pageant, Artemis rather brusquely shoos him away. It becomes all too clear that she doesn't actually know how to run the board, however, when she cannot figure out how to keep Frank's musings on how he doesn't care what happens to his body after he dies off the PA. [7x3]
2012[]
Artemis applies makeup to Bonnie Kelly before she gives a speech at the "beef & beer" that The Gang is having to raise money for her treatment for cancer, attempting to make her look sicker than she actually is to play on the sympathy of the crowd. When Charlie admonishes Artemis for smoking around his mother even though she (supposedly) has lung cancer, Artemis points out that she is not smoking tobacco. It's not actually said what she is smoking, but you should be able to figure that out for yourself. She soon leaves to "go house some beef." [8x6]
2013[]
As part of their effort to win an award for Paddy's, Frank and Artemis decide to put on a "burlesque show" at Paddy's. All we see of this show, however, is Frank straddling Artemis' lap and yelling at her to "get the bottle out." It's not explained where the bottle is. [9x3]
Artemis plays the priest at the wedding of Riggs and Murtaugh's daughter, complete with fake beard.[9x9]
2016[]
When Frank needs a rug for one of the Gang's schemes, he rushes to Artemis' apartment. She and her family are sitting shiva for her aunt. He rushes into her bathroom, takes numerous drugs from her medicine cabinet, then she appears to him in a drug-induced hallucination. He then runs back out, stealing her rug and causing commotion at the shiva. [11x6]
2018[]
Artemis participated in Dee's female reboot of the Boggs game. After becoming bored of the challenge due to Dee's lack of originality, Artemis began trying to sell some of her moon rocks and special tea. At the end, it was revealed Artemis spiked everyone on the plane (including herself) with ayahuasca, resulting in the game being ruined, and only Mrs. Mac and Mrs. Kelly making it to Los Angeles.
2020[]
2023[]
Artemis appears as a member of the "Fridge-it Bitches" bowling team with The Waitress, Gail the Snail, an unknown fourth member who didn't show up, and later Dee Reynolds. During the bowling competition against the male members of the Gang, Artemis is deep in character as 'Donna Brunswick,' a high-school-aged bowling champion. Despite Artemis self-admittedly not being able to "bowl for shit," she gets numerous strikes due to Donna's bowling prowess. She later takes a break from bowling to have sex with Frank in his car, angering Dee, but she admits that her character is also "a giant hoor," which drew her to the role in the first place. Toward the end of the episode, she loses interest in the bowling match and sneaks off to have a three-way in the bathroom with Frank and Gail. [16x7]
Appearances[]
- Season One: "Charlie Has Cancer"
- Season Two: "Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass"
- Season Three: "The Gang Gets Invincible"
- Season Four: "Who Pooped the Bed?", "The Nightman Cometh"
- Season Five: "The Waitress Is Getting Married"', "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops"
- Season Six: "Mac's Mom Burns Her House Down" (voice only), "Who Got Dee Pregnant?"
- Season Seven: "Frank Reynolds' Little Beauties"
- Season Eight: "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer"
- Season Nine: "The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award", "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6"
- Season Eleven: "Being Frank"
- Season Thirteen: "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies Reboot"
- Season Fifteen: "The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7"
- Season Sixteen: "The Gang Goes Bowling"
- Other: Big Breasted Violence, Dee and Artemis at an Audition, Going Back to Philly (music video), The Nightman Cometh Live!, The Gang's Dating Profiles (Phindin' Love in Philly), Lethal Weapon 5 - extended cut (extra on the Season 6 DVD), Artemis Tours Philadelphia
- It’s Always Sunny: Gang Goes Mobile
- The Gang Writes A Self Help Book (transcribing for Charlie)
Trivia[]
- "Dubois" - is the last name of Blanche from "A Streetcar Named Desire". Also, it's the last name of the main character from Jean-Claude Van Damme's movie "The Quest".
- Artemis reveals her last name of Dubois in the second episode of It's Always Sunny on TV, Big Breasted Violence. She also reveals her surname in The Nightman Cometh: Live!.
- In her first episode, Artemis acts out scenes from Coyote Ugly, which featured actress Kaitlin Olson in a minor role.
- Artemis is sexually attracted to both men and women. She reveals to have been in relationships with multiple women in The Gang's Dating Profiles and asks if it would cost her extra to have the video sent to all genders. She later has a threesome with Frank and Gail the Snail. [16x7]