# Creepiest moments in TV shows (spoilers pretty damn inevitable) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 31, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938 "2006-08-31T16:30:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/21 "2006-08-31T19:14:44Z")
In the **X-Files** episode called **Leonard Betts**. [spoiler]Leonard is made of cancer and must eat cancer to survive. Toward the end he’s in the bathtub suffering and his mother tells him “you know what you have to do”. In the next scene Mulder and Scully discover his mother on her bed with her chest bandaged. Implying that he ate his mother’s breast/s since she had breast cancer.[/spoiler] “I’m sorry, but you have something I need”. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/22 "2006-08-31T19:19:01Z")
Another great Criminal Minds one: The crew is tracking down a guy who kidnaps an entire family, holds them hostage for a while and then kills them one-by-one, always leaving the father for last and taking his wedding band (real plausible, right?). They know he has done it twice. They track down the guy and arrest him, saving the current family. On his shelve they find a small jewerly box, which is opened and the contents tipped out EIGHT wedding bands ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/23 "2006-08-31T19:24:45Z")
The **Tales from the Darkside** episode “Inside The Closet”. HOOO boy, that was creepy. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/24 "2006-08-31T19:34:43Z")
Linda Blair’s shower rape scene in **Born Innocent** (1974) surely makes the list. If I’m not mistaken, this show led to the creation of the family hour on TV. ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/25 "2006-08-31T20:11:34Z")
The original B&W Twilight Zone called “Living Doll” with Talky Tina and Telly Savalas. “My name is Talky Tina and I think I hate you.” And yeah, the BOB lurking scenes in Twin Peaks. Yipe. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/26 "2006-08-31T20:16:22Z")
I won’t be able to get the sense of this across, because it was in the incredible line delivery of the actor. In an episode of **Law and Order** , Jack and RandomFemaleDA (can’t remember which season it was) were interviewing a mobster. Apparently, his sone had been horning in on Dad’s action, but stupidly, with a pump and dump stock scheme. Jack says something like “Did you son order the murder?” Mobster Dad cocks an eyebrow and says, “No. He doesn’t have the authority.” Then there was a scene where Jamie was interviewing a prison inmate, and he refused to give her any information unless she removed her jacket. At first she refused, but then when she realized he did have information she needed, she slipped out of it and sat across from him in her shell. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/27 "2006-08-31T20:31:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] Can I nominate any Bush press conference? Sailboat [/QUOTE] Jesus Christ, some people just can’t have a single conversation without bringing up politics. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/28 "2006-08-31T20:32:05Z")
My favorite has always been the “Eye of the Beholder” episode of the original \*Twilight Zone. \*Even though I’ve seen it umpteen times, I always react when they take the bandages off, then when we see what kind of world she lives in. And then there’s \*Lost. \*It’s pretty much guaranteed that each episode will end with an OMFG moment, with probably a few more earlier in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/29 "2006-08-31T20:33:31Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Then there was a scene where Jamie was interviewing a prison inmate, and he refused to give her any information unless she removed her jacket. At first she refused, but then when she realized he did have information she needed, she slipped out of it and sat across from him in her shell. :eek: [/QUOTE] Her shell? Is she a turtle? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/30 "2006-08-31T20:46:09Z")
The new Dr Who, S:1 I forget the episode number and title, but it’s the one set in London during the blitz, with the gas masks and the kid saying: “Are you my mommy”? It can’t be conveyed in words, but I fond it deeply disturbing. Of course it’s a kiddie show, so that’s all right, since kids think up \*really \* gory things. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/31 "2006-08-31T21:06:49Z")
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart] I’ve mentioned this one in similarly themed threads, but early in the second season of _Twin Peaks_, Laura Palmer’s cousin Maddie watches as BOB rises with a horribly leering grin from behind the Palmer’s couch, then slowly but deliberately steps over the couch, and then (as I may disremember) over a coffee table, and advances toward Maddie. In a show with a lot of disturbing imagery, that scene sticks with me. [/QUOTE] [BOB](http://digilander.libero.it/twinpeaks3/bob2.jpg) was one freaky SOB. I was in highschool during the heyday of the series, and I swear to OG I saw BOB leering in the corner of a Burger King once. FREAKY. While looking for a pic to link, I found this little nugget on Frank Silva’s IMDB bio: > [@](#): > > While Silva was working on fixing up the set for the character Laura Palmer’s bedroom in the pilot episode for Twin Peaks, Lynch decided that Silva should be Bob after accidently filming him in a reflection in a mirror which this long-haired, prematurely gray man gave Lynch himself a jolt because of his sudden frightening appearance. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/32 "2006-08-31T21:11:06Z")
[Quote=ivylass] Then there was a scene where Jamie was interviewing a prison inmate, and he refused to give her any information unless she removed her jacket. At first she refused, but then when she realized he did have information she needed, she slipped out of it and sat across from him in her shell. [/quote] [QUOTE=RikWriter] Her shell? Is she a turtle? 😛 [/QUOTE] A shell is a woman’s sleeveless blouse or sweater, especially one meant for wear under a suit jacket. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/33 "2006-08-31T21:33:44Z")
The “trinity” episodes of Quantum Leap haunted me for years… I’d need to see them again to get a characters name, but in the first episode of the “trilogy”, Sam is in ahouse which is burning down, looking for someone. He looks through the smoke into a room in which a woman is standing, nonchantley burning to death. He leaps out as she goes up in flames. I was WAY too young to see that. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Frelling\_Tralk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Frelling\_Tralk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frelling_Tralk)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/34 "2006-08-31T21:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] **Buffy:** The first appearance of The Gentlemen in [Hush](http://www.tv.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/hush/episode/66/summary.html) gives me the heebie jeebies every time. [/QUOTE] That was my first thought when I saw the thread title. When that episode originally aired, I called my friend to discuss it and said, “It was genius. And I never want to see it again.” ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/35 "2006-08-31T21:46:07Z")
**House** - the second season finale. For those who may have just purchased season 2 and are still catching up, I’ll spoilerbox it: When House is determined to snap himself out of his hallucination and cuts the guy open. Until the dead guy dropped that bullet… my husband and I were frozen in shock. _Creeeeeeepy_! Lots of other creepy moments in that episode, as well, what with the eyeball, the exploding testicle, etc. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/36 "2006-08-31T21:49:27Z")
One of my favorite creepy series of years past was “Millennium,” starring Lance Henriksen and Terry O’Quinn, two of my favorite creepy people. One of the creepiest things in “Millennium” was an episode called “A Room with No View,” in which a '60s song called “Love is Blue” is played over and over and over again as accompaniment to brainwashing and torture. I will never be able to hear this song again without a chill running up my spine. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/37 "2006-08-31T21:53:24Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] The new Dr Who, S:1 I forget the episode number and title, but it’s the one set in London during the blitz, with the gas masks and the kid saying: “Are you my mommy”? It can’t be conveyed in words, but I fond it deeply disturbing. Of course it’s a kiddie show, so that’s all right, since kids think up \*really \* gory things. [/QUOTE] Those episodes were great. I think the scripts for them just won a Hugo award. But here’s my question: _Doctor Who_ is meant to be a kiddie show? ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/38 "2006-08-31T22:23:26Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] One of my favorite creepy series of years past was “Millennium,” starring Lance Henriksen and Terry O’Quinn, two of my favorite creepy people. One of the creepiest things in “Millennium” was an episode called “A Room with No View,” in which a '60s song called “Love is Blue” is played over and over and over again as accompaniment to brainwashing and torture. I will never be able to hear this song again without a chill running up my spine. [/QUOTE] That was a creepy series. It really needed a set of action figures, heads sold separately. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/39 "2006-08-31T22:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] But here’s my question: _Doctor Who_ is meant to be a kiddie show? [/QUOTE] Of course! It’s science fiction, which is a kiddie genre, as is all animation and all comic books. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938/40 "2006-08-31T23:06:33Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] One of my favorite creepy series of years past was “Millennium,” starring Lance Henriksen and Terry O’Quinn, two of my favorite creepy people. One of the creepiest things in “Millennium” was an episode called “A Room with No View,” in which a '60s song called “Love is Blue” is played over and over and over again as accompaniment to brainwashing and torture. I will never be able to hear this song again without a chill running up my spine. [/QUOTE] A kindred spirit! “Millennium” was also one of my favorites, at least for the first couple or three seasons. Creepiness abounded there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-moments-in-tv-shows-spoilers-pretty-damn-inevitable/370938.md?page=3)