Always Sunny is one of the cleverest comedies going, showing up classic sitcoms by fully demonstrating how dangerous naive non-self-aware characters and their comic-hijinks would be in the real world. 14 seasons in, the show has subverted nearly everything there is to subvert and has mastered playing with fire when it comes to political correctness and current affairs.
The show has racked up quite a kill count since it first aired in 2006, as the morally bankrupt characters we all love lurch from one selfish scheme to the next, either oblivious to or not at all bothered by the lives they ruin in the process.
s1e6 Lionel Keane
The gang finds an old man dead in the bar one morning.
s2e5 The Thundersons
Frank knocks out Bobby Thunderson and accidentally breaks Bobby’s daughter Brianna’s neck in the process.
s2e9 Frank’s Business
A man shoots himself dead in the first round of Russian Roulette in the pub basement. Also apparently a lot of good men died in the sweatshop Frank opened up in Vietnam in 1993.
s3e3 Death in the Family
Barabara Reynolds dies of a botched neck lift.
s3e7 Hawky
80-year-old “Hawky,” a member of Frank’s “gang,” dies of a heart attack when attempting to threaten the pub’s potential buyer.
s4e1 Animals
Frank shoots a dear right between its soulful little eyes. He also tricks Dee and Charlie into eating a dead raccoon he found by the side of the road. Dee and Charlie also visit 2 dead men in the morgue.
s5e4 Uncle Max
Barbara Reynolds’s sister’s husband dies and the gang attends the funeral.
s5e8 Ernie
David Zdunich a.k.a “Ernie” sadly passed away in 2009 and was honored in the end credits.
s5e9 Catfishing
No, not that episode. I’m talking the one where Dee ties a bird to a string and feeds it to a cat in an effort to lure 2 cats out her wall.
s6e5 Jamie Nelson
We find out the old diving pool was closed because Jamie Nelson drowned in it back in the day.
s6e10 Genocide
Charlie claims to have just killed around 200 rats and reveals he has slaughtered generations of them during his time at the bar.
s6e11 The Wonders of Nature
The gang finds a dead crow in the wilderness. Peter Peter Nickeleater – the ballsy and enigmatic rabbit – gets murdered by an eagle.
s7e1 Roxy
Frank’s hooker girlfriend Roxy dies from crack.
s7e2 The Situation
Dennis and Dees’ new Jersey friend Bobby shoots a doctor in the head who aided them following a liquor store robbery gone awry.
Classic sitcom shenanigans…
s7e4 Fraudulent Funeral
The gang finds a dead dog in the alley behind the bar and honor it with a fraudulent funeral.
s8e1 In the Doghouse
A German Shepard gets put down at Cricket’s new workplace.
s8e4 Semantics
We find out Mac’s uncle possibly drowned but mostly likely burned up in a Taftco Enterprises vat of molten steel.
s8e5 Pigeons
Charlie inadvertently kills at least 2 of them.
s8e6 Making Sure
So Barbara Reynolds is definitely dead.
Also apparently Barbara’s dog Bruiser died at some point, though the grave was empty. Let’s just take their word on that one…
s9e5 Badass
Country Mac dies of head smack after falling off of his chopper without a helmet.