# Most jaw-dropping/WTF! television moment you’ve seen SCRIPTED Division **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [September 15, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283 "2024-09-15T02:58:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/21 "2024-09-15T15:36:40Z")
In an episode of NCIS, the female lead played by Sasha Alexander had had a close call on a rooftop, almost getting shot or something, but the bad guy was dispatched and they were standing around at the end talking and laughing in relief. Suddenly, she gets a bullet between the eyes from a second bad guy sniper. I hadn’t heard anything about the actress leaving the show, which is often a spoiler for an upcoming main character death, and the ‘fakeout / relief / laying down the boom’ scene was a well played WTF moment. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/22 "2024-09-15T15:42:09Z")
Thought of another one. In the [second episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_After_Our_Own) of the BBC series _[Spooks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks_(TV_series))_, two of the agents are captured by right-wing extremists, who bring them to a commercial kitchen. In order to get the senior one to talk, one of the extremists forces first the hand and then the head of the junior agent into a deep fat fryer, and then kills her. We didn’t see anything, of course, but the implication was gruesome enough. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/23 "2024-09-15T15:45:45Z")
The final episode of Newhart. I don’t think anyone saw that coming. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/24 "2024-09-15T15:47:50Z")
There was an episode of Mad Men, where Megan was going to quit her job at the agency and was taken out to lunch by her co-workers. Later, Don pressed the elevator button, and the door opened - to find the elevator shaft empty. The elevator car was visible down below, not moving. That scene only lasted a minute or two, but it was in near silence and struck me as very eerie and foreboding. Haunting. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/25 "2024-09-15T15:58:44Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > The Season 1 finale of The Good Place. For those that have seen the show, [here’s a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bhyin0HaLU) of the cast getting the reveal prior to filming since they didn’t know it was coming. This. Holy mother forking shirt balls… ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/26 "2024-09-15T16:02:33Z")
You’re so forking right…fork…fork…why can’t I say “fork”? In hindsight, it seems I should have guessed. Also, I gained a lot of respect for Danson as an actor at the reveal; his facial transformation from good-natured angel into demon was superb. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/27 "2024-09-15T16:18:11Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > was an episode of Mad Men I think the most shocking scene in an episode of _Mad Men_ was in “Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency” where the new PP&L operations manager, Guy, gets his foot cut off by a secretary riding a lawn mower in the office, spoiling all of the plans of the new owners to change the Sterling Cooper management. It also gives Roger Sterling one of his most droll lines of the series after being informed that Guy might lose his foot: “Right when he got it in the door.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/28 "2024-09-15T17:11:06Z")
Oh, that WAS a shocker! 😱 (I was too busy thinking about empty elevator shafts to remember that one) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/29 "2024-09-15T17:29:18Z")
The ending of the pilot episode of _Hill Street Blues_ had me stunned and teary. Fortunately, after it ran, the writers changed the outcome in the next episode. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/30 "2024-09-15T17:32:14Z")
_Hill Street Blues_ was on the air like forty years ago, so it’s _possible_ that one or two people here don’t remember what happened in the ending of the pilot episode. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/31 "2024-09-15T17:33:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > so it’s _possible_ that one or two people here don’t remember what happened in the ending of the pilot episode. Wait, should I have spoilered it, or should I reveal it? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/32 "2024-09-15T17:33:35Z")
I think either would be fine. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/33 "2024-09-15T17:35:13Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > The ending of the pilot episode of _Hill Street Blues_ had me stunned and teary. > > Fortunately, after it ran, the writers changed the outcome in the next episode. - The ending was that officers Hill and Renko got ambushed (?) and Renko died. Then they brought him back. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/34 "2024-09-15T17:46:05Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Given that, more than anything i wanted Dr Pulaski to fall down a turbolift shaft. That happened in one of the novels, I think. P.S. The end of the episode of “All in the Family” in which the Jewish activist who had been helping the Bunkers was murdered by a car bomb was pretty shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/35 "2024-09-15T17:53:28Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > The ending was that officers Hill and Renko got ambushed (?) and Renko died. Then they brought him back. Similar to the first episode of The Shield. the cops we’ve followed all episode as he arranges to investigate the dirty cops gets executed by those same dirty cops, making it look like he was killed by a drug gang. Cue a completely different type of story for the whole series from what we’d expected to be watching. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/36 "2024-09-15T18:57:19Z")
I thought Serena’s “Is this because I’m a lesbian?” exit on “Law & Order” was pretty jaw-dropping. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/37 "2024-09-15T19:20:54Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > Given that, more than anything i wanted Dr Pulaski to fall down a turbolift shaft. > > That happened in one of the novels, I think. > > P.S. The end of the episode of “All in the Family” in which the Jewish activist who had been helping the Bunkers was murdered by a car bomb was pretty shocking. As a kid that was my first jaw dropping moment. Gregory Sierra was a weird casting choice. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/38 "2024-09-15T19:22:47Z")
Charlie’s final episode in _Lost_ was pretty jaw dropping ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/39 "2024-09-15T21:38:16Z")
Wasn’t that the very end of the final episode of the entire series? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/40 "2024-09-15T21:46:44Z")
Sorry I was trying to be non-spoilery but that’s harder when the show isn’t linear. When Carlie dies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283.md?page=3)