10 Family Guy Characters Killed Off For Good

Horace, the original owner of the Quahog gang's favourite haunt, The Drunken Clam, is one of those characters you never really paid attention to where he was there, but oddly felt the absence of once he was gone.

As the bar's grouchy and impatient bartender, Horace doesn't seem to care much about anything, and despite seeming to have a pretty miserable life that you only hear tiny snippets of, the man-of-few-words' jaded and world-weary attitude makes him little more than a background character in the Family Guy canon.

In the episode, 'Save the Clam', the Clam's patrons, along with Horace, take part in a fundraising softball game against Goldman's Pharmacy, and when Mort Goldman's stand-in ringer, Jerome, takes his turn, the ball ends up hitting Horace so hard that it kills him on the spot.

After Glenn Quagmire makes quite a scene at his funeral, Horace is then immortalised by the incredibly guilty Jerome, who assumes ownership of The Drunken Clam and proceeds to run it just like his predecessor did.