It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: 10 Worst Things The Gang Has Ever Done
The foulest deeds from TV's most terrible people.
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is a show built around bad behaviour. Barely an episode goes by in which one - and usually all - of the main characters commits a litany of dreadful deeds that, if they weren’t taking place in a sitcom, would lead to their incarceration in a prison or asylum.
Shocking acts of delinquency are the name of the game, then - but some episodes go a lot further than others. Always Sunny has never been afraid to push boundaries and go to dark places as a show, and over 14 seasons we’ve seen the gang sink to some truly heinous depths.
Sometimes their sins are in pursuit of their latest ill thought out scheme for wealth or prestige; sometimes the gang are looking to settle scores or prove a petty point. More rarely, they’re actually looking to do a good deed (in such a way that’ll leave the recipient of their favour in a worse predicament than they started).
Whatever the reason, the gang have developed a rap sheet a mile long. It’s a show about dreadful people, but the sheer depth of their depravity still has the capacity to surprise.
10. Hunting/Eating Man
“Mac And Dennis: Manhunters” offers a juicy two for one on dreadful behaviour. First of all, you’ve got the storyline which gives the episode its title. On a whim, Mac and Dennis conclude that it might be a laugh to hunt a man for sport.
While Frank urges them to reconsider, the idea has been planted, and soon they’re chasing Cricket across the city. Though they intend only on humiliating the poor guy once they capture him, Cricket runs scared around Philadelphia (demonstrating incredible parkour skills in the process) as they push him to the brink, a la the oft-cited John Rambo.
Charlie and Dee, meanwhile, embark on an even more sinister quest. After stealing meat from Frank’s private stash, they discover that they have eaten human flesh. This gives them an insatiable appetite, and they journey to the morgue to satiate their desires. When this makes them squeamish, they pick up a homeless man to dine on.
The manhunt plot fizzles out, but the last we see of Charlie and Dee is the pair chasing Frank with the intention of making him their next meal. Presumably he manages to change their minds before the next episode.