History NightmareFuel / ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia

-->'''Pappy:''' ''(Stands up and starts pointing)'' [[SuddenlyShouting ALL THE MCPOYLES SPRUNG FROM MY LOINS!]] FULLY FORMED! One of them babies tried to eat me - [[EatsBabies I ATE HIM FIRST!]] ''(Sobbing)'' ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I ate him first!]]''

-->'''Charlie:''' Alright, it's time to get out of here. I mean, look at that guy.
-->'''Pappy:''' ''(Stands up and starts pointing)'' [[SuddenlyShouting ALL THE MCPOYLES!]] SPRUNG FROM MY LOINS! FULLY FORMED! One of them babies tried to eat me - [[EatsBabies I ATE HIM FIRST!]] ''(Sobbing)'' ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I ate him first!]]''

-->'''Dee:''' Whoops. That just took a turn.

* Not shit-your-pants scary, but pretty unsettling. When Dennis and Dee have to decide whether or not to take their grandfather (who they know used to be a Nazi) off life support, they visit his apartment and find some old movie footage of them hanging out with Pop-Pop when they were kids. They look on fondly at the child versions of themselves smiling in the backseat of his old car, getting hot dogs, and all's well and good while they think this confirms that he came to America and left his Nazi past behind him... until they see themselves being brought to a Hitler Youth camp, Pop-Pop telling them they need to take the country back from "these n*ggers and Jews," and gleefully doing the Hitler salute. Did they really just not remember that or did they block it out? Either way, seeing the child version of yourself cheerily yelling "Sieg Heil!" would be disturbing to anyone.

** Dennis' idea of love is a woman's head in a freezer. Who's to say it wasn't Dennis who did it?

*** Made ten times worse if you understand that it's a [[Myth/ClassicalMythology reference to Kronos devouring his sons.]]

** Related to that is the VR game that he and Frank play that portrays the war in Iraq a [[WarIsHell little too realistically,]] where they both end up killing an insurgent [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes in front of his son.]] You can be forgiven for thinking that they were playing [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine Spec Ops: The Line.]]

* During the episode "It's A Very Sunny Christmas", Charlie tells Mac that he shouldn't get all worked up about his parents stealing other people's gifts, posing it as a holiday tradition. Then he says to Mac that he handled the news about his mom whoring herself out to a bunch of "{{Santa|Claus}}s" on Xmas day quite well and then proceedss to bite the MallSanta's neck, asking him if he fucked his mom. Despite being a funny scene, it's still kind of scary (and sad) to see a guy biting a mall Santa's neck so hard that he bleeds and repeatedly yelling "Did you fuck my mom?" and "Did you fuck her?" without any evidence to support that he ever did, especially since the acting is very believable. Poor, unfortunate mall Santa.

--->'''Charlie:''' (armed with a straight razor; over the strains of "Stuck in the Middle with You")'' Well, you may be a man. You may be a leprechaun. But only one thing's for sure: you're in the ''wroooong basement''. ''(menacingly approaches the leprechaun with the razor)''\\

--->'''Charlie''': (armed with a switchblade; over the strains of "Stuck in the Middle with You") Well, you may be a man. You may be a leprechaun. But only one thing's for sure: you're in the wrong basement. ''(approaches the leprechaun)'' I'm gonna see if you bleed green...

-->'''Pappy:''' ''(Stands up and starts pointing)'' '''[[SuddenlyShouting ALL THE MCPOYLES!!]] SPRUNG FROM MY LOINS!!''' FULLY FORMED!! One of them babies tried to eat me - [[EatsBabies I ATE HIM FIRST!]] ''(Sobbing)'' ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I ate him first!]]''

* "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer" ends on a [[NauseaFuel pretty gruesome note]]. Dee has been led to believe that her mother, [[KilledOffForReal Barbara]], is still alive, and has stashed a large amount of money in her grave. In the end, the gang digs up said grave, only to find her decomposed corpse. Everyone reacts with revulsion, and Dennis is especially traumatized. The worst part is that Frank set this whole thing up, as revenge for Dee saying that his mind is slipping. RuleOfFunny redeems this somewhat, but it's at least as horrifying as it is funny.
* An overlooked bit but still very nightmarish in a sense. Most sitcoms go on an episode by episode format, meaning after thirty minutes, the problem is solved and the day is saved for the most part, but the downside is that there is no continuity. ''Sunny'' is all in the same continuity, even if there is an adventure every episode, meaning any and all amoral choices the Gang makes has last longing effects on their characters and their world. Need an example? Look at poor [[http://i.imgur.com/lRhgBqv.png Rickety Cricket]].

** Given the killer's [[spoiler: obvious crush on Dee, and her constant use and abuse of him, and that all the victims look like Dee, it's enitrely possible that Dee]] is what '''drove him to murder in the first place'''.

** Frank's inclusion of "Round 4" sees the Gang needing to remove a key ''from their arms '''with tweezers'''''' in a messed up Franchise/{{Saw}}/"Operation" deal. Hell, Charlie winds up being the only one to go through with it... and almost ''bleeds out''.

** After Mac leaves Charlie alone with said "leprechaun", things take a turn for the '''Film/ReservoirDogs'''.
--->'''Charlie''': (armed with a switchblade; over the strains of "Stuck in the Middle with You") Well, you may be a man. You may be a leprechaun. But only one thing's for sure: '''you're in the wrong basement'''. (approaches the leprechaun) ''I'm gonna see if you bleed green...''

* In "The Gang Goes To Hell", when Dennis is trying to proposition a young woman on the ship. Despite him thinking it's totally normal and (as per infamous Implication) insists that he will obviously back off if she says no, he comes off as extremely threatening, and the girl runs away screaming like a bat out of hell.
** In "The Gang Goes To Hell", when Dee actually understands Dennis's rapey implications and admits to threatening guys who don't sleep with her by saying she will file a false rape report if they don't do anything with her.

* What, no love for the sequence that follows Dennis getting ''shot in the head'' (in '''his own fantasy''' no less) in "The Gang Saves The Day"?

** In the same episode, we get to witness [[MoralEventHorizon the darkest deed that Deandra has committed.]] In the guise of helping him overcome his post-traumatic stress disorder, Dee convinces a male stripper to give a lap dance to a young woman for her birthday despite his reluctance. Both he and the birthday girl discover that they are actually '''father and daughter.''' Yes, "Sweet" Dee Reynolds just pressured a ''traumatized exotic dancer into unknowingly pressing himself against his daughter.'' '''AND LAUGHS AT THEM FOR IT.'''
* In "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell", 1776!Frank accidentally shoots Colonel Cricket '''''with a musket.''''' And we see all the gory details. Not even in the realm of ''fantasy'' can [[ButtMonkey Rickety Cricket catch a break.]]

*** Also shout out to Maureen Ponderosa's psychological breakdown following her marriage to Dennis and sleeping with Dennis at her wedding to Liam McPoyle which leads to her getting several plastic surgery operations to make her look like a cat. This can be first seen in "Mac Kills His Dead" in which it is revealed she has moved her breast implants from "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre" into her cheeks and when we next see her in her final appearance prior to her death in "McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century", Maureen has went full cat wearing cat eye contacts, a full costume complete with ears and only answering with meows and hisses. The final straw is when Dennis uses a laser pointer to show she is not mentally competent to receive his alimony.
* When the rest of the Gang insults Frank for 'losing it' after losing his shoes in "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer", Frank leads the Gang on a wild goose chase staging the possibility of Barbara Reynolds faking her death and leaving a treasure hunt for her kids. This all culminates into the Gang digging up Barbara's grave to find the jewels, only to find her rotting skeleton. The usually stoic Dennis who earlier in the episode claimed he couldn't remember the last time he had feelings, immediately bursts into tears screaming "I feel too much" and "My mommy's a skeleton" whilst Frank celebrates getting one over on the gang whilst the rest of them are freaking out.
* "The Gang Escapes" shows that [[SerialRapist Dennis']] room is not only soundproofed, but has locks on the outside.

* "The Gang's Still in Ireland:" After 15 seasons, Dennis finally turns murderous when, in a COVID-induced fever state, he comes after Dee with an axe.

* "Charlie's Home Alone" becomes increasingly unsettling as the episode goes on, with Charlie getting his leg snapped in a bear trap, his head clobbered by paint cans, bleeding profusely across the bar, and going into some extensive hallucinations.

** In the same episode Frank and Mac ended up lost at sea with their liferaft on the verge of sinking. Sure, they were saved when the party boat filled with ''Jersey Shore''-style guidos happened to pass by, but that whole scene was a definite ParanoiaFuel. The only member of the crew that came out with nothing really bad happening was Charlie, save for the fact that the Waitress being nice to Charlie was the result of her being high on ecstacy.
* During the episode "It's A Very Sunny Christmas", Charlie tells Mac that he shouldn't get all worked up about his parents stealing other people's gifts, posing it as a holiday tradition. Then he says to Mac that he handled the news about his mom whoring herself out to a bunch of "{{Santa|Claus}}s" on Xmas day quite well and then procedes to bite the MallSanta's neck, asking him if he fucked his mom. Despite being a funny scene, it's still kind of scary (and sad) to see a guy biting a mall Santa's neck so hard that he bleeds and repeatedly yelling "Did you fuck my mom?" and "Did you fuck her?" without any evidence to support that he ever did, especially since the acting is very believable. Poor, unfortunate mall Santa.

** Later on in the episode, we get a Rankin-Bass pastiche where an elf sings to Frank about how much of a jerk he's been during christmas. This culminates in an absolutely brutal scene where the elf sings exactly how The Gang will kill him, including gouging out eyes, and hanging Frank with his spinal cord. While it's [[BloodyHilarious insanely funny]], especially with the cute Rankin-Bass style, it also is genuinely distressing, [[BloodyHorror with the amount of gorey detail the scene gets into.]]

* In "The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell", 1776!Frank accidentally shoots Colonel Cricket '''''with a musket.''''' And we see all the gory details.

* "The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre": The ColdOpen for this one starts with a FoundFootage-style video of Dennis, Mac, Charlie and Frank running away on Friday the 13th, who are soon arrested and interrogated on what happened during that day. Dennis tries to ruin the wedding of his ex-wife, Maureen, who's planning to get married to Liam [=McPoyle=], the wedding soon devolves into a bloodbath with Maureen going missing and wedding guests start attacking Charlie, Mac and Frank like in a zombie movie. And Dee went nuts because Charlie and Mac ruined her car. The fact that the wedding guests acted like zombies because [[spoiler:of drinking milk that Bill spiked with bath salt]] doesn't make it any less horrifying.
* Psycho Pete's poor, unfortunate teenage years. [[spoiler: He was Charlie and Mac's friend and was sent to an institution because of a rumor that he killed and ate his parents. It turns out that he went away to be treated for depression and social anxiety. The fact that people legitimately thought that about a nice, soft spoken guy, and the fact that the Gang probably partially started the rumor, is horrible and could definitely happen]].

* "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer" ends on a [[NauseaFuel pretty gruesome note]]. Dee has been led to believe that her mother, [[KilledOffForReal Barbara]], is still alive, and has stashed a large amount of money in her grave. [[spoiler: In the end, the gang digs up said grave, only to find her decomposed corpse. Everyone reacts with revulsion, and Dennis is especially traumatized. The worst part is that Frank set this whole thing up, as revenge for Dee saying that his mind is slipping.]] RuleOfFunny redeems this somewhat, but it's at least as horrifying as it is funny.

** While that's all well and good, you seem to be neglecting that the episode is implied to have ended with [[spoiler:the Gang ''killing him'' (with Frank revving up his chainsaw)]].
** Just the shot of the refrigerator being opened, [[spoiler:showing all of the severed heads]], still manages to be shocking.

** Frank's inclusion of "Round 4" sees the Gang [[spoiler:needing to remove a key ''from their arms '''with tweezers'''''' in a messed up Franchise/{{Saw}}/"Operation" deal]]. Hell, [[spoiler:Charlie winds up being the only one to go through with it... and almost ''bleeds out'']].

** From the same episode, Mac [[spoiler: kills the ridiculously cute dog that Dennis got for him and feeds its remains to Dennis in their evening meal as a cry for attention, which is somehow made even worse by the fact that he named the dog "Dennis Jr." and promised to raise it "like their own son"]]. The fact that he manages to out-crazy Dennis is terrifying enough on its own, and his manic laughter after he reveals what [[spoiler: Dennis has been eating]] is just downright unsettling.

** In part 2, the Gang going through the DespairEventHorizon when they believe the ship is sinking. What is especially startling is when Charlie suddenly claims they are already dead and the brig is some sort of purgatory and tries to prove it by [[spoiler: ''casually shooting himself in the head with a flare gun'']], thankfully he quickly comes to.

** Dennis' fantasy ends with [[spoiler: him "mercy killing" (smothering with a pillow) Jackie Denardo after an accident ravages her body, but specifically, destroys her breasts]]. Made worse by the fact he appears to be getting off on it.

* "The Gang Chokes" has Dennis and Dee looking calm when Frank is choking. Worse, Dee actually looks interested in what was going on and she got a sick thrill over it.

** Worse still, the character who died in flames is shown to have “ascended” to a higher plane of existence of sorts, where he’s slowly floating through a psychedelic space on the back of a turtle while weird music plays. Imagine an eternity of that.

** Later on in the episode, we get a Rankin-Bass pastiche where an elf sings to Frank about how much of a jerk he's been during christmas. This culminates in an absolutely brutal scene where the elf sings exactly how The Gang will kill him, including gouging out eyes, and hanging Frank with his spinal cord. While it's [[BloodyHilarious insanely funny]], especially with the cute Rankin-Bass style, it also is genuinely distressing, with the amount of gorey detail the scene gets into.

* "A Very Sunny Christmas": Charlie going apeshit and biting the mall Santa in the neck. We don't even know if the guy survived. Only the [[SoundtrackDissonance sunny stock music]] somewhat alleviates what is otherwise a ''very'' dark scene.

* Charlie tells Mac that he shouldn't get all worked up about his parents stealing other people's gifts, posing it as a holiday tradition. Then he says to Mac that he handled the news about his mom whoring herself out to a bunch of "{{Santa|Claus}}s" on Xmas day quite well and then procedes to bite the MallSanta's neck, asking him if he fucked his mom. Despite being a funny scene, it's still kind of scary (and sad) to see a guy biting a mall Santa's neck so hard that he bleeds and repeatedly yelling "Did you fuck my mom?" and "Did you fuck her?" without any evidence to support that he ever did, especially since the acting is very believable. Poor, unfortunate mall Santa.

* The ending to ‘Mac Is A Serial Killer’.

* A little FridgeHorror, regarding the last few scenes of "Mac is a Serial Killer" revealing that the actual murderer is [[spoiler: a skittish neighbor of Dee's, who has a very obvious crush on her.]] Consider that all of his victims were confirmed to be [[spoiler: young, blonde women,]] and just think about the implications of where this probably could have led...

* Dennis' DaydreamSurprise in "Mac & Dennis Move To The Suburbs." After Wally tells Dennis about the weather, Dennis [[FullFrontalAssault strips nude]] & threatens to punch Wally so hard his heart stops. [[HellIsThatNoise Then Dennis lets out a scream right from the bowels of Hell.]] It turns out that Wally was not there. [[FridgeHorror Wally isn't seen for the rest of the episode, and it's implied that]] [[UpToEleven he never existed]] ''[[FromBadToWorse period.]]''