The Worst Thing Every ‘It’s Always Sunny…’ Character Has Ever Done

At least for now, anyway...
The Worst Thing Every ‘It’s Always Sunny…’ Character Has Ever Done

Every character in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia deserves to rot in a rat-infested prison for the rest of their lives, and thats why we love them. Trying to determine the worst thing each of them has done would be a fools errand, considering that every episode contains more heinous crimes than a full season of Law & Order: Heinous Crimes Unit. Still, lets give it a shot anyway... 

Charlie: Faking Cancer (Season 1, Charlie Has Cancer)

After everything the Gang has done over the years, Charlies (Charlie Day) worst moment goes all the way back to the pilot, which was made with a few bucks and a dream — a dream of a show in which an asshole fakes having cancer to get a date.

In whats still one of Charlies most elaborate plans, he tells Dennis (Glenn Howerton) he has cancer so that Dennis will tell The Waitress (Mary Elizabeth Ellis), and shell agree to go out with him. Of course, Charlies friends arent exactly victims here since they end up using Charlies cancer to garner secondhand sympathy and have sex with other women, including The Waitress. As for The Waitress herself, she did have to put up with Charlie for a day, but at least she got $250 and some Dennis action out of it. 

Five years later, Charlies mom (Lynne Marie Stewart) pulled a similar stunt when she pretended to have cancer to raise money to fix a Virgin Mary statue she ran over. When Charlie asks where she got the idea, she says, I learned it by watching you.

Dee: Kicking Off Rickety Cricket
s Downward Spiral (Season 2, The Gang Exploits a Miracle)

Matthew Rickety Cricket Mara (David Hornsby) has to be the worst casualty of the Gangs depravity, having gone from a fresh-faced priest to a badly-scarred, drug-addicted homeless man who openly shacks up with dogs throughout the series. And it all started with Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson), his high school crush, who once promised shed kiss him if he ate a turd, then turned him down because, well, he ate a turd.

When they meet again in adulthood (or what passes for adulthood in this show), Dee seduces Cricket while trying to get him to bless a water stain shaped like the Virgin Mary. After some initial resistance on his part, she convinces him to quit the priesthood, only to turn him down again when he does.

A year later, Dee gives Cricket another little push toward corruption when she and Charlie get him addicted to drugs so that hell help them sell some on the streets that he now calls home. After that, Cricket didnt really need any more assistance from the Gang on his journey to monsterhood, but they still help him every once in a while because theyre nice like that.

Mac: Feeding His Dead Dog to Dennis (Season 11, Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs)

 

One of the most tragic characters in this series is little Dennis Jr., the dog Dennis buys Mac (Rob McElhenney) when they move to the suburbs together. But what begins as a happy family slowly devolves into a living nightmare as Mac and Dennis start losing their sanity due to the unnatural isolation of suburban life. Sadly, or perhaps mercifully, the living part doesnt apply to Dennis Jr. for too long since the increasingly deranged Mac neglects the dog into an early grave. He then goes full Titus Andronicus, mixing Dennis Jr.s body into a plate of his famous mac and cheese and feeding it to Dennis Sr.

Oh, and it wasnt even his famous mac and cheese — it was store brand. And they say Dennis is the psychopath.

Dennis: Talking a Man into Setting Himself on Fire (Season 10, Mac and Charlie Join a Cult)

 

In the Ass Kickers United episode, Dennis, Dee and Frank (Danny DeVito) start a fake cult and compete to see whos the best at manipulating its members, which include Mac and Charlie. Frank convinces someone to eat a turd sandwich (in case you had any doubt who raised Dee), Dee gets the cultists to rebuild Dennis and Macs burnt-down apartment while making them think theyre going to another dimension, and Dennis tells them to kill themselves. As theyre arguing over whos the winner, one of the cultists actually lights himself on fire on Dennis orders, thus re-igniting the apartment. 

Note: The first time the place burned down was due to the Gang’s botched Thanksgiving dinner, which ended with them trapping all their enemies in the apartment as it was engulfed in flames, also on Dennis suggestion. 

Frank: Making Dennis and Dee Dig Up Their Mom
s Corpse (Season 8, Charlies Mom Has Cancer

Determining Frank Reynolds lowest moment is a challenging task. Is it his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein? When he opened a Vietnamese sweatshop a lot of good men died in, by his own admission? The time he pimped out his son? The time he waterboarded his daughter? When he set her on fire? All those times he gleefully ruined Christmas for them over the years? 

We could do this all day, so lets limit this to reprehensible things weve actually seen Frank do in the show. In that case, the winner has to be the time he went to the trouble of hiring a fake psychic and burying money in a dogs grave to manipulate Dennis and Dee into believing that their mother was still alive and had hidden millions of dollars all over town, including in her supposed coffin. When the Gang cracks open the casket, expecting to find a fortune inside, Franks laughs his ass off as his kids scream at the sight of their mothers actual remains. Even Dennis seems to think this is going too far, judging by his traumatized weeping.

So there you go: Every character in this show is definitely going to hell, and so are all of us for enjoying it. Hope they dont serve mac and cheese there.  

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