It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: 10 Worst Things The Gang Have Done

5. Painting a Baby with Shoe Polish

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The Gang have done some truly awful things for the sake of making money. There are no lines that they won't cross, and the episode The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby is one of the clearest examples of this.

In this chapter of Always Sunny, Dee and Mac discover a baby in the dumpster of Paddy's and decide to temporarily raise it. However, their altruistic intentions are soon tainted as they attempt to use the child (named D.B) as a ploy to gain wealth by sending him around to casting agents. However, after they are informed that only Hispanic babies get used for commercials, they decide to give little D.B a tan but are turned away by the salon. In response, they resort to new methods.

Dee and Mac genuinely attempt to paint the baby with shoe polish to change his ethnicity, and it is just as horrible as it sounds. The characters are no strangers to blackface - as can be seen in their Lethal Weapon movies later in the show - but to violate this poor child in such a manner is horrendous.

Thankfully they are caught in the act before it goes too far, although even what was shown might have still been too much.

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