It was real. That was from the second miniseries - V- The Final Battle. Thankfully, the lizard-kid didn’t live.
Beverly, thank you! 
Mr. Blue Sky…I hope by real, you mean fake…
Okay, I was given Buffy Season 2 on DVD for Festivus and have spent the better part of the last two days watching it, and I’m going to have to add:
The Entire Season to this list.
Yikes.
Two episodes really spring to mind. One is “Innocence”, which I elected to watch with the commentary running so I wouldn’t have to listen to all of the unbelievably awful things Angel says to Buffy. I’ve always found that scene painful to watch, and felt justified when, in the commentary, Joss Whedon says that he was surprised he was able to get all of that aired - and also that he was able to write something so cruel. He seemed disturbed by his own script! (Non-Buffy fans, two characters who are very much in love have sex for the first time, and he literally turns into a demon - a very sadistic one - as a result.)
Second, I just watched “Passions”, in which Angel kills Ms. Calendar, and then proceeds to decorate Giles’s apartment with roses, so that he would think that he was coming home to a tryst. And then he finds her dead on his bed. Ow.
Oh God, wasn’t that awful? I watched Passions yesterday, and it was just horrible. “I buried a lot of people, but never somebody I loved.”
In BtVS’ Innocence, when Angelus is watching outside while Buffy and Willow get the news on the phone from Giles about Jenny Calendar. He’s watching through the window enjoying their pain as they find out about Jenny. You hear the monologue about Passion and nothing else, but see Buffy and Willow break down. In Surprise when Buffy’s just lost her virginity to the vampire she loves, only to have him just emotionally destroy her. It’s just so hard to watch. These are both more emotionally painful than scary or physically painful.
StG
Podkayne, Mr. Blue Sky:
Bit of confusion, here. The woman (well, teenaged girl, really) that gives birth has two children. The first looks nice and normal, human all the way, it seems. Then she delivers a lizard looking thing, which looks like a really bad muppet, basically. That one dies shortly after delivery.
The first kid, all wrapped up in a blanket, turns out to have a forked lizard-like tongue that shoots out of its mouth, a few minutes later. That’s the bit that got you, Podkayne, right?
(In all fairness, I might have the sequence of events mixed up.)
I recall that the mother screams and faints at some point. It might be that the human looking kid does the snake tongue trick (accompanied by a hiss, no less) and then she delivers the mutant Kermit.
This bit was a cliffhanger ending to one episode of the series, IIRC. Have to dig out the tape and check this if someone wants a definitive answer. 
[sub]First thing I ever taped for posterity, matter of fact, on a VCR with a plug in “remote” that was only good for pausing/resume recording, to skip taping the commercials.[/sub]
[spoiler]Josh had a bandage on his hand at the beginning of the episode, and kept insisting that he dropped a glass and cut himself. Toward the end of his therapy session he finally admits that he was having a PTSD flashback to when he was shot, and put his hand through a window.
Probably doesn’t sound like much hearing it described, but the episode is really fantastic. See it if there’s any way you can.[/spoiler]
Hey, thanks, king of spain! I just saw this question, and you’ve already answered it. And perfectly, might I add? Like he says, Gravity, it’s not much to read about, but the look on Josh’s face…incredible. Also from that episode,
When Josh refers to the music as “sirens”. Catches the viewer off-guard and makes him/her realize the depth of Josh’s trauma.
I can remember one particular episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” that scared the hell out of me as a kid: “Where the Woodbine Twines.” It was one of the hour-long episodes that don’t get repeated too often nowadays.
The story has a little girl, Evie, whose parents are killed and she must go live with her aunt. The girl is attached to a special doll she calls Nooma. (The doll is black, and it’s implied that the aunt - well meaning in every other respect - is racist.) The aunt keeps seeing glimpses of Evie playing with a little girl, but Evie insists that she is only playing with Nooma. Evie suggests that sometimes Nooma becomes a real person and she becomes a doll. She also mentions that Nooma comes from the land “where the woodbine twines” – a place so far away that once you go there, you can never come back. Finally, the aunt sees a little black girl playing in the yard with a doll. She chases the black girl away and warns her never to come back. As soon as she’s gone, the aunt looks at the doll – it’s Evie! Nooma changed her into a doll! The aunt rushes after Nooma desperately, but it’s too late - Nooma has gone to the place where the Woodbine Twines and will never return, and Evie is stuck as a doll forever.
The final shot, showing the aunt sobbing and cradlling the doll Evie and saying she’s sorry still creeps me out to this day.
CSI isn’t a sitcom, though. It’s a crime drama, and they’ve been known to get pretty graphic at times. It’s a fantastic show.
The Emergency Broadcast System used to freak me out as a child, and still makes me uneasy now. I always half expect a voice to come on and announce that the missiles are on the way.
One time I was watching Friends and Ross accidentally walked in on his sister, Monica, in the bathroom. When she came out she said, “Oh! Of course, I was just…checking…that showerhead!” To this day I don’t know I’m nuts for finding that COMPLETELY DISTURBING.
FriarTed, I totally second SYBIL. That affected me for years! I was way too young to be watching it, and I still wince tothink about it!
Also, another movie - Does anyone else recall this movie Harold and Maude? It is about this young man obsessed with death. He drives hearse and has a mother who reeks toxicity. Anyway, he fall in love with Ruth Gordon, who is 80 years old, and the “sex scene” between them consisted merely of showing them in the bed together after the deed, and shit! The hairs on my arms are standing up right now! Disturbing, to say the least.
Also, every episode, EVER of Family Affair. A true warped mind came up with that show. I can’t even look at a Mrs. Beasley doll.
OH JESUS, I totally forgot about Sybil. I started watching it a year or so ago, and when it came to the scene where her mother hung her by the wrists in the barn, I had to change the channel. I was 22 or so a the time, and I was crying my eyes out! I had to go in my daughter’s room and hug her for awhile. Horrible scenes in that movie. :eek:
sulasmith, it has been over 20 years since I’ve seen “Family Affair” (that’s the one about the two kids living with their dad and butler(?)?), but I don’t recall what was so off-putting about it. Could ya please explain?
Sorry about the extra “s”, sulamith.
And there was the episode where Amy’s mom checks up on a little boy and finds him watching TV in the same bed as his dead mother.
My memories are not clear–normal baby, lizard baby, EEP EEP EEP EEP!!! young Podkayne runs and hides I was about five at the time, I think. But thanks for the clarification.
The Christmas special with Bing Crosby when he had David
Bowie on.
I thought Bowie really sold out and I was about ready to chuck
him when I found out he was just really stoned.
That made me love him all over again.
I have to agree with Crusoe - the final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth. After all the comedy, it’s suddenly so sad.