# Films or TV that make you too uncomfortable to watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209 "2009-08-03T20:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/21 "2009-08-03T22:41:45Z")
Like the OP, i have _Curb Your Enthusiasm_ on my list. It’s not so much that he makes me uncomfortable, though, as that i can’t fucking stand him even when he’s _not_ being a complete jackass. He makes me all stabby. Possibly the single most uncomfortable episode of a TV show that i’ve ever watched was in (i think) Season 3 or 4 of _Six Feet Under_, when David gets kidnapped. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/22 "2009-08-03T23:15:38Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > He makes me all stabby. Stabby? I could guess, but I’d like to know exactly, please… ? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/23 "2009-08-03T23:53:10Z")
_Family Guy_. Like being nibbled to death by unfunny ducks. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/24 "2009-08-04T01:27:07Z")
_Gilligan’s Island_ Poor Gilligan. All he was trying to do was help. He can’t help it he’s just extremely clumsy and unlucky. And he WAS flying! Why did the Skipper have to say it was impossible? Why? [sob] ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/25 "2009-08-04T01:37:37Z")
I too dislike stuff with misunderstandings, lies that must be constantly maintained, and so on. I guess it’s a similar buildup of tension, until the inevitable reveal. Also, expensive stuff getting broken. > [@Stoid](#): > > I was prompted to think of this because of the _ **Big Lebowski** _. I love Jeff Bridges, but John Goodman’s character is such a loose cannon that I cannot relax watching that film, I’m constantly tense and hiding. You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Stoid. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon. _With_ nail polish. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/26 "2009-08-04T01:37:48Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Lately, a lot of the pieces done by **Daily Show** correspondents have just made me uncomfortable. > > There’s a fine line to making a fool of someone, and being too obnoxious doing it. Jason Jones and John Oliver have crashed way over that line, just being total dicks to people they’re interviewing. Maybe other people think the correspondents have always been, but there seemed to be a delicious quasi-restraint practiced by Ed Helms and Stephen Colbert - at least they never made the interviewees hostile. Definitely, there are some interviews that are funny (Oliver at Rallies for McCain and Obama and letting them hang themselves with how terrified they were the other side would win), but others are just Cringe-worthy, like Oliver and the stupid “are we gonna heal” during Hillary’s speech was just rude, and pretty much every interview at the RNC except Bee’s little circuit where she tried to get the Republicans to say “choice” with regards to abortion. For me, it’s North, just… North. For an illustrated guide to why I can’t watch the movie, see [here](http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/7838-north). ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/27 "2009-08-04T01:41:05Z")
_Vulgar_ and _Oleanna_ will not be seen in my house any time soon ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/28 "2009-08-04T02:01:32Z")
The majority of romantic comedies make me want to look away at some point. I get uncomfortable during the inevitable misunderstandings and the climax where one (or both) of the characters has to majorly embarrass themselves or do something ridiculous to prove themselves to the other person. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/29 "2009-08-04T02:11:06Z")
I still can’t watch _Gone With the Wind_ because all the female characters are constantly shrieking. Drives me from the room every time. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/30 "2009-08-04T02:11:47Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > _Gilligan’s Island_ > > Poor Gilligan. All he was trying to do was help. He can’t help it he’s just extremely clumsy and unlucky. And he WAS flying! Why did the Skipper have to say it was impossible? Why? [sob] You may joke, but there was an episode with a giant spider that gave me nightmares for years. I also cannot watch the original _Fly_ due to my giant spider issues. (Strangely enough, I have no problem with real-life big spiders. It is just when they get to be the relative size of a Volkswagon that it sets me off.) ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/31 "2009-08-04T02:15:18Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Possibly the single most uncomfortable episode of a TV show that i’ve ever watched was in (i think) Season 3 or 4 of _Six Feet Under_, when David gets kidnapped. Oh my God… I was never so horrified by a program **ever**. I sat through murder after murder on The Sopranos - no problem. David’s kidnapping **still** terrifies me just reading about it on here. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/32 "2009-08-04T02:20:11Z")
> [@Daffyd](#): > > Oh my God… I was never so horrified by a program **ever**. I sat through murder after murder on The Sopranos - no problem. David’s kidnapping **still** terrifies me just reading about it on here. Well, it helps if you visualize David tying the kidnapper to a table with Saran wrap and plunging a knife into his chest. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/33 "2009-08-04T02:29:32Z")
Pranks, with the victim’s reactions being secretly filmed. Douchebags, please. Stop. You aren’t funny… One time David Letterman sent Rupert Jee out on the street with a secret ear phone thing, to ask people bizarre questions (that Letterman was relaying to him). He sounded like he wandered off from a mental hospital, it went on and on and ON, and I was beginning to fear for Rupert’s safety…Jaywalking segment on Leno, makes me sad and infuriated in equal parts. Anyone ever see “The Grifters”? :eek::eek::eek: Anjelica (sp?) Huston was a scumbag in that movie, but what happened to her nearly made me throw up, and to this day I cringe thinking of it… ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/34 "2009-08-04T03:42:27Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Stabby? I could guess, but I’d like to know exactly, please… ? [See Definition 1](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stabby) ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/35 "2009-08-04T03:45:25Z")
Any rape scene. A remember watching \*\*\*\*Jungle Fever \*\*\*\*and having all sorts of contradicory feelings. Any comment I made could’ve sounded racist. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/36 "2009-08-04T04:08:45Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > Any rape scene. Don’t even walk down the aisle that contains the box for **Irreversible** , much less actually see it. ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/37 "2009-08-04T04:39:49Z")
Many scenes in \*\*Bruno \*\*were painful or uncomfortable to watch, albeit hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/38 "2009-08-04T06:09:00Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > _Vulgar_ and _Oleanna_ will not be seen in my house any time soon I like Oleanna ::shrugs:: I’m made uncomfortable for characters I feel bad for more so than subject matter. I could barely finish Never Been Kissed or [Dream for an Insomniac](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116141/). I liked [The Shape of Things](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308878/), but that one has the same sort of painfulness to it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/39 "2009-08-04T06:26:25Z")
Two words: Hard Candy. Uggghhhhhhh. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209/40 "2009-08-04T06:42:59Z")
I watched the first season of _Oz_, and while it’s clearly a very good show, I found it difficult to watch that much and couldn’t bring myself to watch any more. Add me to the list of people who find _Curb Your Enthusiasm_ unbearable. I’m sure it’s good, people I know with good taste like it, but I can’t. Watch it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-or-tv-that-make-you-too-uncomfortable-to-watch/505209.md?page=3)