Top 20 Worst Things the It's Always Sunny Gang Has Ever Done
#20: Setting Dee on Fire
“Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire”
In an effort to create real news, Mac, Charlie and Frank get a camera and take to the streets to break an interesting news story. Frank suggests they create heroic situations to get on tape and this leads to some pretty reckless behavior. They concoct a scenario where kittens are trapped in a burning building and Dee is sent in to rescue them. The result is Dee is slightly charred from the resultant fire. They next have Dee rescue kittens from the bottom of a well which they also proceed to set on fire. The gang is more disappointed that Dee ruined their shots by throwing the box of kittens than the fact they created such dangerous situations.
#19: Exploiting Abortion to Meet Women
“Charlie Wants an Abortion”
Abortion is a contentious issue in political discourse so of course Mac and Dennis are not concerned about it in any meaningful way but will use it to try to pick up women. Due to his strong religious convictions Mac is pro-life but still only joins an anti-abortion rally to hook up with Megan. Similarly Dennis attends a pro-choice rally to hit on the women there. Of course he’s rejected by everyone he talks to for his scuzzy behavior. He was even going to go to the pro-life side for the same reason but ended up getting pelted by eggs. It’s definitely not a good look for either of them.
#18: Pulling a “Million Dollar Baby”
“Hundred Dollar Baby”
Things aren’t off to a great start when Mac, Charlie and Dennis ditch Dee when a mugger threatens them. She decides to take self defense classes but when Frank learns this he offers to train her as he was a former boxer. Unfortunately for Dee, Frank’s training is horrible and she’s convinced to take performance enhancing supplements resulting in her becoming extremely aggressive. She gets into a sparring match against Brianna, the daughter of Frank’s rival Bobby, but is arrested before they can face off. Frank and Bobby decide to face off but Frank suckerpunches Bobby, who falls into Brianna, who in turn smashes her neck on a stool. Frank does the cowardly thing and runs. We hope she’s okay.
#17: The D.E.N.N.I.S. System
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“The D.E.N.N.I.S. System”
Dennis likes to think of himself as the ultimate ladies man. While there’s nothing wrong with being a generous or considerate lover, Dennis’ approach to relationships with women is far from considerate or even healthy, for that matter. This is best demonstrated by his D.E.N.N.I.S. system, a method by which he manipulates into sleeping with him. When he unveils his system to the rest of the gang, minus Dee, fail to see anything wrong with this kind of thinking. In fact everyone adopts the system for themselves much to Dennis’s chagrin as they fail to implement it properly.
#16: Mistreating the Waitress & Ruby Taft
“Charlie and Dee Find Love”
Charlie’s interest in the Waitress borders on obsessive to say the least. She makes it quite clear that she wants him out of her life completely. He agrees and then meets Ruby. She is completely enamored by Charlie which Dennis believes is a ploy so, along with Frank, he plans to get the Waitress to want Charlie back in her life. This results in her being poisoned, having her apartment broken into and Frank accidentally hitting her with his car. When she tells Charlie she wants him back in her life, he publicly humiliates Ruby by revealing he was only using her to make the Waitress jealous and berates her for sleeping with him. It’s unnecessarily cold and cruel.
#15: Dee’s Diabolical Plan
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“PTSDee”
Dee is usually portrayed as the more sympathetic of the gang even though she’s just as bad and in this case possibly worse than the others. She meets an exotic dancer, Mike, and they hookup which to Dee felt like a profound emotional connection between the two. He reveals the experience made him realize that he’s hit rock bottom and wants to turn his life around. Understandably she’s upset by this and sets out to show that being with her isn’t rock bottom. She orchestrates a plan to have Mike unknowingly grind in his daughter’s face. So, yeah, that’s rock bottom but being twisted and deplorable just to prove a point isn’t much better.
#14: Watching Frank Choke
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“The Gang Chokes”
Not everything bad the Gang does is the result of petty revenge and intricate planning. Sometimes it’s a lot more simple. When they’re out of a restaurant Frank begins choking. While there’s no need to immediately start panicking, there should be a sense of urgency to help him out and dislodge the obstruction. As Frank desperately motions for help, the gang just sit there staring blankly at him while commenting on the fact that he’s choking. It’s not until a waiter comes and does the Heimlich maneuver. It’s pretty low to be able to just calmly watch someone possibly die in front you and do absolutely nothing.
#13: Holding a Fake Baby Funeral
“Sweet Dee Gets Audited”
Losing a child is a horrible tragedy so faking a funeral to cover up a tax scam is a whole other level of shameful behavior. Dee was a surrogate mother and now becomes flush with cash from the arrangement. She plans to claim the baby as a dependent to qualify for tax breaks over the next 18 years. Defrauding the government also isn’t great but it’s far from the worst thing ever. She’s audited by the IRS as she has no documentation for her child. Dennis proposes the way to solve this problem is to show the child has passed. They hold a mock funeral to convince the auditor of the situation. The gang admits that this is the darkest thing they’ve done.
#12: Dennis Puts “The Implication” Into Action
“The Gang Goes to Hell”
Back when the gang was looking to buy a boat, Dennis wanted to make such a purchase so that he’d be able to bring women to it and coerce them into being intimate with him or as he described it, “the implication”. Already this is terrible behavior and when he received pushback by Mac, he insisted there was no malicious intent on his part. Later on a cruise, Dennis comes across an attractive woman and tries to use the implication. The fact he would even attempt to intimidate someone unwilling is beyond disgusting. Luckily she’s able to get away and Dennis is put in the brig with the rest of the gang.
#11: Trying to Manipulate Ben the Soldier
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"Mac and Dennis Buy a Timeshare"
Charlie and Dee become involved in a pyramid scheme and think Ben would make an easy mark.
Ben politely declines their pitch. Similarly, stuck with a timeshare, Mac and Dennis also target Ben thinking they can easily dupe him by triggering his PTSD, but he also politely declines them. Even worse Mac/Dennis and Charlie/Dee both break into Ben’s apartment at the same time to try and frighten Ben into buying their products. They obviously see nothing with their devious manipulation but wholesome Ben cheerfully reveals that he doesn’t even have PTSD and enjoyed his time in the army as a programmer.
#10: Kidnapping a Critic
“Paddy's Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia”
Critics can be cruel, but calling Paddy’s Pub the worst bar in Philadelphia is a pretty spot-on statement. Nevertheless, the Gang doesn’t take kindly to these harsh words and smash up the critic’s office when he refuses to reconsider his review. It only gets worse from there, as a drunken Charlie kidnaps the critic with his neighbor and cat also getting roped into the mix. After an uncomfortable trip to the bathroom and a bottle to the head, the critic writes another piece that epitomizes why the Gang are such miserable human beings. And since they are indeed horrible people, the Gang further harasses the long-suffering critic, demanding he use their names in the article.
#9: Breaking Dee
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“The Gang Broke Dee”
While every main character on this show is terrible, Dee is perhaps the most sympathetic since her friends and family constantly gang up on her for no reason. After eight seasons of being the butt of the joke, Dee is finally sent into a downhill spiral of self-loathing. Seeming empathetic, the Gang encourages Dee to give her standup career another shot. Grey skies finally start to clear up for Dee, but it turns out to be an elaborate prank and the Gang pulls the rug out from under her in the most hilariously mean-spirited way possible. While this reignites the spark in Dee, she still hits a new low and drags Dennis down with her.
#8: Pretending to Be Terrorists
“The Gang Goes Jihad”
In an episode that’s offensive to virtually anyone living in a post-9/11 world, the Gang learns they need to vacate the bar when an Israeli businessman purchases the land it’s on. In a scheme to get the bar back, the guys decide to disguise themselves as terrorists and send the new owner a threatening video. Between their stereotypical outfits and Dennis’ unbelievably vulgar impression, the Gang realizes that the video is too dark even for them. Dialing it back a notch, they figure that a flaming bag of poop will get the job done instead. This literally backfires, however, as the bag causes an explosion due to a gas leak.
#7: Attempted Cannibalism
“Mac and Dennis: Manhunters”
To get back at Charlie and Dee for eating his steak, Frank tricks them into thinking they ate human meat. Eventually falling for Frank’s prank, Charlie and Dee decide they need to eat human flesh to see if they’ve become cannibals. Make sense? When eating a dead guy at a morgue doesn’t pan out, they set their eyes on a homeless kid who they lure back to Charlie’s apartment. After the kid wisely flees, Charlie and Dee learn they merely ate raccoon meat, which prevents them from attempting cannibalism once again. Tying into the episode’s unusual theme of eating the homeless, Dennis and Mac also set out to hunt Cricket, but more on him later.
#6: Doing Blackface
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As merchants of bad taste, it was only a matter of time until somebody on this show did blackface. Although it’s acknowledged that blackface is incredibly racist, that doesn’t stop the Gang from making “Lethal Weapon 5” with Dennis as a whitewashed version of Danny Glover’s Roger Murtaugh. As if that’s not bad enough, Dennis eventually switches roles with Mac, who dons blackface to portray the African American character. On top of all that, the Gang shows their fan film to a classroom and Charlie convinces one student to do blackface in order to fit in. Never learning their lesson, Dee later does blackface for “Lethal Weapon 6.” Way to make Mel Gibson look PC.
#5: Digging Up a Dead Body
“Charlie's Mom Has Cancer”
It came as a surprise to everyone when Dennis and Dee’s mom suddenly died in Season 3 due to a botched neck lift. Five seasons later, however, Frank leads everyone else to believe that his “dead whore wife” might be alive. As the evidence begins to pile up, it appears Barbara Reynolds is still kicking with money hidden all over Philly. It isn’t long until the Gang digs up Barbara’s grave, expecting to find a coffin of cash, but instead stumble upon a decomposed corpse. As Dee and Dennis gaze upon their mother’s dead body in horror, Frank reveals that this was all a hoax he orchestrated just because they said he was losing it.
#4: Extreme Makeover: Hell Edition
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“The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition”
Even when the Gang is trying to do a good deed, they somehow manage to make things infinitely worse. Wanting to give the Juarez family the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” treatment, the Gang dresses in all black and kidnaps the family. While holding them hostage, they aim to remodel their home, but instead turn it into a demolition zone. The family not only ends up losing their house, but all of their furniture as well. With nothing but a pile of rubble left, a Judge gives the family Mrs. Reynolds’ old house. It may seem like a happy ending for the Juarezes, but they’re ultimately forced to sell the mansion due to the property tax.
#3: Making Money Off a Dumpster Baby
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“The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby”
Holding a funeral for a baby who never existed is one thing, but finding a dumpster baby and using him to make a profit is another. Rather than calling the authorities, the Gang debates whether to keep little D.B. or to put him back where they found him. Realizing that he’s cute enough to be a Gerber Baby, they try to book him some commercials. While there isn’t a high demand for white babies, casting agencies are on the lookout for Hispanic babies. Further endangering the child, Mac and Dee try taking D.B. to a tanning salon. Fortunately, child services comes to the rescue before they can completely paint him with shoe polish. Blackface strikes again.
#2: Trapping Their Enemies to Burn Alive
“The Gang Squashes Their Beefs”
Having committed so many unforgivable deeds, the Gang has naturally made their fair share of enemies over the years. Wanting to squash their beefs, the Gang invites the McPoyles, Cricket, Gail The Snail, and others they’ve wronged to Thanksgiving dinner. The signing of a peace treaty soon evolves into a food and hatchet fight, however, as Mac’s bedroom breaks out in flames. Although they could easily alert the others of this fire, the Gang unremorsefully decides to seal everyone else in the apartment so they don’t have to ever face their problems. It’s a good thing there’s a fire escape or else the Gang likely would’ve been wanted for murder.
#1: Ruining Cricket’s Life
“The Gang Exploits a Miracle”
Before he was hunted for game or left to burn alive, “Rickety Cricket” had already been sent down a dark path thanks to the Paddy’s Pub Gang. Exploiting Cricket’s affection for Dee, the Gang motivates him to leave the Catholic Church. Of course, Dee immediately rejects Cricket, who’s unable to return to priesthood. Turning to a life of sin, Cricket appears more sickly, desperate, and homeless every time he encounters the Gang over the next ten seasons. While you could argue that Cricket is technically responsible for his own poor choices, it’s safe to say that his life would’ve turned out much better if the Gang wasn’t constantly acting as the devils on his shoulder.
