A lot of movies give us disturbing, upsetting, and/or disgusting moments. TV has a lot more limitations due to censorship. Still, sometimes, truly unnerving moments will arise:
Twilight Zone: Lots of 'em here, but the one that got me the first time I saw it was the epsiode “Eye of the Beholder” when the doctors and nurses were revealed.
Twin Peaks: Second season episode “Demons” in which Laura-lookalike cousin Maddie meets her untimely demise at the hands of Leland/BOB. This STILL creeps me out ten years later.
Archie Bunker’s Place: First show of the second season where Archie finally breaks down and comes to grips with Edith’s death. We were so used to him being an obnoxious bigot that we forget he really did love his wife.
At a young age, I was very disturbed by the “nightmares” episode of MASH, especially the one in which Hawkeye had his arms pulled off for falling asleep during a demonstration.
Battlestar Galactica when Apollo was “killed” by this evil devil character. My sister cried for Boxy. My mother said we shouldn’t watch the show any more.
I guess the network heard her?
The nightmares episode of MASH freaked me out too. . .
BUT, nowhere near as much as the last episode of MASH. Thw whole ordeal with the chicken that turns out to be a baby etc (I don’t want to give too much away if you’ve never seen it). IS HORRIBLE!!! I felt personally wronged when I saw it for the first time. :eek:
Finding out that Kevin Arnold’s father died a few years after the final episode of the Wonder Years. My father had died a year earlier, and I realized Kevin and I would have been the same age at that point.
When Buffy’s mom died. The whole episode was pretty upsetting, but the worst part is when Buffy goes to her sister Dawn’s school. She pulls Dawn out of class, and the scene is shot through a window, so we can’t actually hear what is said, but we can see Dawn’s reaction. It’s very sad.
Oh, yeah. This episode of the show is worth watching even if you haven’t ever seen a single episode of Buffy. The opening when Buffy finds her mom’s body is amazingly well done.
Last season’s final episode of JAG, when Bud Roberts gets his leg blown off in Afghanistan, and they cut to an overhead view of him lying there mangled. Hell of a scene to leave us with for the summer.
The most disturbing thing I ever saw on televison was a sketch on “Kids in the Hall” where one of the castmembers was seen making love to himself dressed in drag. I thought I was gonna puke.
That was my understanding as well. She was almost raped. Scary enough though.
How about that episode of Law and Order where the wife and two daughters are kidnapped by a Serbian um…erm…collection agent and the elder daughter is raped by him while the other two were blindfolded and forced to listen? I think that was SVU, but heck, with so many L&O flavors out there, who can remember?