Amy: On the episode of Futurama where the Professor puts this alternate universe in a box and everyone gets lost in it, and something about coin tosses, and they have to travel through multiple universes to find their way back, like Sliders.
Amy: pops out of one of the boxes, tether attached
Leela, Fry, and Hermes: stand to her with their backs turned
Amy: brightly Hi guys! Did you see the box?
Hermes: flat, eerie menace We never saw anything.
Hermes, Leela, and Fry: turn around, they have no eyes
Amy: gasps and ducks back into the box
Kythereia: has head buried under pillow
That was a really creepy, chilling moment–in the middle of one of the funniest episodes of the entire show. The next minute, in his own universe-hopping, Fry is talking to Bobblehead versions of everyone. It’s so utterly random and strange.
What are the other scariest moments of comedy shows?
When Michael on The Office was going to jump off the building onto the bouncy castle.
Everyone thought it was just Michael being Michael :rolleyes: but when they saw the castle they panicked and thought he was about to actually kill himself by mistake.
There was some weeeeeird episode of Punky Brewster that involved the kids being lost in a cave (not sure if it was real or imaginary) and it scared the shit out of me as a kid. I would most likely be scared by it today as well.
I cannot, however, recall if that show was funny or not. Everything is funny when you’re 8!
There was a rapist in a rabbit costume in “The Jeffersons”?! That’s up there with the clown rapist in “Little House.” (Which I didn’t see, but have heard way more than I wanted to about it. Shudder Clown rapist…)
Are you maybe thinking of the time when Cheri (or maybe Punky; it’s a been a while) was playing hide-and-seek in an old refrigerator, got locked in, and nearly died? Because that scared me so bad I wouldn’t go near a fridge for weeks.
[Hijack]Does anyone else hate when things like muppets, animals, etc…have real human hands? I like William Wegman’s weimaraner pictures, but I hate that they have human hands. It’s so wrong.[/Hijack]
There was that episode of MAS*H where Hawkeye is hallucinating and tells a Korean woman to shut up her rooster or something like that, and she kills it, but it’s actually a little child. Or was it? I don’t remember. And I think in the same episode someone hangs themselves. Or maybe it was all a bad dream.
I second, or third perhaps, the Punky Brewster episonde. I will also throw in the episode of Different Strokes where the guy takes pictures of Arnold’s friend with his shirt off.
When the Muppet Show formally introduced Uncle Deadly (as a sort of “Phantom of the Muppet Theater”), I was scared to death! I have no idea why today. He’s not really all that scary…
Oh god yes. Or how about the time Webster was playing with chemicals in his closet and burned his whole house down and nearly killed his whole family, too? I think the dad had to be hospitalized because he was so badly injured after searching for Webster in the burning house.
Do movies count ? Then I nominate Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Specifically, the scene at the end where it’s revealed that Judge Doom is both a Toon, and the killer.
“Remember me Eddie ? When I killed your brother ? And . . . I . . . talked . . . just . . . like . . . THIS ! !”
An episode of Full House where before his marriage to Rebecca, Jesse is hanging out with some of his friends from his wild-and-carefree days, they talk him into jumping a motorcycle from the roof of one building to the roof of another.
He’s actually riding the bike along the wall at the edge of the building, and it makes me want to throw up…
Nope, this is a different episode. According to IMDB it’s “The Perils of Punky” (parts 1 and 2):
Part 1 - Punky and the gang go on a camping trip. When the children get lost in a cave, Punky tells a ghost story about an evil spirit who threatens the lake.
Part 2 - The children do battle with an evil spirit, when the ghost of an Indian princess appears to tell Punky that it must be fought with love.
I’m guessing it’s the ghost and evil spirit that scared me. And, turns out I was 6, not 8 - so not only was I easily amused I was easily scared (still am!)
By the way…while browsing all the episode synopses, I noticed that most of the shows were seriously heavy! There’s so much running away and being broken up and loss of family, I see now why it took me so long to leave home. Punky made me do it!
(still am!)