The ER when they show you Luka’s backstory.
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.
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.
Yep. even Welk’s band knew what the song was partly about.
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.
All the videos seem to be from that era, so my bet is that that particular moment was not syndicated.
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) 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
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?
The ending of the Babylon 5 two-part episode War Without End, when Valen’s identity is revealed.
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.
Isn’t this thread supposed to be for watching a program in real-time on TV?
No, that’s how the thread started by Czarcasm eventually evolved. Most jaw-dropping/WTF! television moment you've seen
This thread was started specifically for scripted TV shows. Doesn’t matter whether you saw them when they first aired, or later on.
“Where do you think we are?”
Ben’s story arc on Scrubs and that gut-punch moment. I definitely didn’t see it coming.
Oh gods, yes. That was a sucker punch.
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?”
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.
Well now that you’ve brought it up, it really has to be seen to be believed. Naturally, there’s no insanity inducing pelvic thrusts.
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.
something must have drove them insayayyayane…
Hey - lets do that again!
I’m just glad they never heard of Shock Treatment.