# 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:** 4
**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 16, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/61 "2024-09-16T13:47:42Z")
The _ER_ when they show you Luka’s backstory. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/62 "2024-09-16T14:29:37Z")
Tara’s death on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_. The double whammy of it is, “Seeing Red” was the first episode in which Amber Benson had a spot in the opening cast credits montage rather than a guest starring credit. Well played. _Hannibal_ seemed to have one every week, if only for what was now passing the censors to be shown on network TV. Beverly Katz being killed may have been teased, but being sliced up and mounted into an elaborate Body Worlds-type display wasn’t. I can’t remember the episode, but at one point Lector kills a doctor by slicing his head open between the teeth like a _Saw_ trap. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/63 "2024-09-16T19:42:46Z")
_The Boys_ has had more than I can remember, but the one that really stands out for me involves illegal drugs and some…stimulation. That’s all I shall say on this thread as it is very much NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/64 "2024-09-16T19:46:38Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > Welk’s? Yep. even Welk’s band knew what the song was partly about. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/65 "2024-09-16T20:29:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Lawrence Welk celebrating the modern spiritual, “One Toke Over The Line”. > “Sweet Jesus” indeed. > [@Sylvanz](#): > > OMG, I hated that show, but I seriously wished I’d seen that. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > You can! Right here. (I’ve actually heard it on Muzak.) The thing we’ve all overlooked is that number was introduced by Myron Floren. That means it’s likely part of the syndicated revival that featured clips from the original show, made after Welk retired in 1982. In other words, the producers had YEARS to figure out what the song was about. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/66 "2024-09-16T20:31:17Z")
All the videos seem to be from that era, so my bet is that that particular moment was not syndicated. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/67 "2024-09-16T20:52:45Z")
According to an article I read about the murder of the Lennon Sisters’ father by an obsessed fan, Lawrence Welk only paid the talent union scale (and expected them to live in the [company town in Escondito](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welk_Resort_Group)) They were supposed to be grateful for the exposure and make a living from performing in their off-hours. That may have resulted in some surreptitious mischief ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/68 "2024-09-16T22:30:36Z")
Confession: When I was a grade-schooler in the early 1970s, I wanted to be an astronaut, and be on the Lawrence Welk Show. I refused to admit it until someone else confessed the same thing to me as a young adult. Hey, we didn’t have MTV, and they wore colorful costumes and looked like they were having fun, so why not? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/69 "2024-09-16T22:38:13Z")
The ending of the Babylon 5 two-part episode _War Without End_, when Valen’s identity is revealed. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/70 "2024-09-16T23:13:27Z")
I sure felt that way when I saw the YouTube screening of “Turn On”, a “Laugh-in”-esque program that lasted one episode, or less, in 1969. Its creators said it would never see the light of day, but at least one of them changed his mind. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sDpum0Jp7Gw/maxresdefault.jpg "Turn-On | Episode 1 | Official George Schlatter Release") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDpum0Jp7Gw&t=450s/) ---
**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 17, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/71 "2024-09-17T01:21:09Z")
Isn’t this thread supposed to be for watching a program in real-time on TV? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/72 "2024-09-17T01:36:06Z")
No, that’s how the thread started by Czarcasm eventually evolved. [Most jaw-dropping/WTF! television moment you've seen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-youve-seen/1007238/1) This thread was started specifically for scripted TV shows. Doesn’t matter whether you saw them when they first aired, or later on. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/73 "2024-09-17T02:09:14Z")
“Where do you think we are?” Ben’s story arc on _Scrubs_ and that gut-punch moment. I definitely didn’t see it coming. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/74 "2024-09-17T02:10:12Z")
Oh gods, yes. That was a sucker punch. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/75 "2024-09-17T02:38:54Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The Brady Bunch group dressed as characters from The Wizard Of Oz while doing a song and dance from the title song from _Carwash_. It gives “white soul” a whole new meaning. 🤨 There is an equally bad moment (in my opinion) involving Donny and Marie doing “The Time Warp” from _The Rocky Horror Picture Show_…and it looks like nobody had seen the show at all. The got the music mostly right, but all the dance moves were wrong and the costumes…He was dressed like Dracula, she was dressed as a witch, and all the dancers looked like they went to the nearest cheap-ass costume shop and said “I’ve got 15 minutes to find a costume so what do you have?” ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/76 "2024-09-17T02:48:23Z")
In _The Walking Dead_ season 3 episode “Welcome to the Tombs.” The good citizens of Woobury go to war against our heroes and arrive at the prison. Finding it mostly empty, the Woodbury army enters the prison and is drawn into an ambush set up by Rick & Friends. Despite having set up a killzone, our heroes don’t actually kill anyone as the citizens of Woodbury flee in a confused panic. This is a WTF moment for me because it was such a poorly executed scene that could have been a good moment of drama. The people of Woodbury weren’t hardened veterans of the zombie apocalpyse and they were essentially duped into thinking Rick & Company were bad guys, but still, Woodbury was there to kill our protagonist. The writers obviously didn’t want the “good” guys to kill a bunch of mooks from Woodbury, but they wrote themselves into a corner and were afraid of making the protagonist look like a bunch of heartless jerks. So they didn’t allow Rick & Company to kill anyone from Woodbury. Instead the Governor of Woodbury killed them on the road back home. Just bad, bad writing. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/77 "2024-09-17T03:05:48Z")
Well now that you’ve brought it up, it really [has to be seen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhYaJ0Tvx0) to be believed. Naturally, there’s no insanity inducing pelvic thrusts. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/78 "2024-09-17T03:29:29Z")
The audience had a “I’m a Donny and Marie fan…but what the _fuck_ was that??” look on their faces. They were stuck between dancing it properly and dancing it the way it was being done on stage. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/79 "2024-09-17T03:44:52Z")
something must have drove them insayayyayane… Hey - lets do that again! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-jaw-dropping-wtf-television-moment-you-ve-seen-scripted-division/1007283/80 "2024-09-17T03:47:51Z")
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