# Scariest moments in funny series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193 "2007-07-26T04:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/41 "2007-08-03T05:15:25Z")
[QUOTE=installLSC] I know everyone will laugh at me, but a couple of Flintstones episodes really upset me as a kid. One had Fred and Barney fall into the clutches of a femme fatale. In the episode, they nearly fall into a bottomless pit–a very scary idea for young kids. Another involved Fred dreaming Pebbles and Bam-Bam would get married as older children. He tries to stop the wedding, but he can’t ever catch up with them. For whatever reason that really unsettled me. [/QUOTE] Right bad dream, wrong groom. Fred was worrying that Pebbles was going to grow up and marry the newspaper boy who always hit Fred on the noggin with the evening edition… Can’t remember the newspaper boy’s name, but he liked to think of Fred and himself as being best buds. Like Dennis the Menace and Mr. Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/42 "2007-08-03T05:24:06Z")
[QUOTE=This is just…] In an Simpsons episode Homer becomes Flanders best friend but Ned becomes fed up with Homer hanging around. I found it unsettling how persistent Homer was at wanting to hang out with Flanders and the length he goes to. Of course I understand it and I think they meant to make Homer unsettling but it still felt a little weird. [/QUOTE] The part where Homer appears through the hedge and then walks backwards back through it after Ned tells him he’s busy is perhaps the most unsettling moment ever on the Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![Soapbox\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Soapbox\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapbox_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/43 "2007-08-03T05:26:16Z")
Oh my god here it is: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDfbAYiQ6o) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/44 "2007-08-03T06:32:34Z")
\*The Simpsons \*episode “Duffless” I think has the show’s creepiest moment. Lisa is mad at Bart for ruining her science project so she takes to giving him electric shocks at inoppurtune moments. Bart reaches for the cupcakes and is then reduced to falling to the floor and going into a fetal position through her aversion therapy while that creepy _Clockwork Orange_ music plays. The scene only lasts about ten seconds before Homer breaks it up, but it was brilliant. _Seinfeld:_ Crazy Joe Davola. I always found him just a tad too violent to be considered funny. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/45 "2007-08-03T06:34:49Z")
[QUOTE=Soapbox Monkey] The part where Homer appears through the hedge and then walks backwards back through it after Ned tells him he’s busy is perhaps the most unsettling moment ever on the Simpsons. [/QUOTE] I think that was supposed to be a reference to the sci-fi/horror flick [The 4-D Man](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0052530/). ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/46 "2007-08-03T07:05:29Z")
[QUOTE=Soapbox Monkey] The part where Homer appears through the hedge and then walks backwards back through it after Ned tells him he’s busy is perhaps the most unsettling moment ever on the Simpsons. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sublight] I think that was supposed to be a reference to the sci-fi/horror flick [The 4-D Man](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0052530/). [/QUOTE] I always thought it was a reference to **Terminator 2** (especially later when Homer tries to chase down Ned’s Geo). ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/47 "2007-08-03T12:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Right bad dream, wrong groom. Fred was worrying that Pebbles was going to grow up and marry the newspaper boy who always hit Fred on the noggin with the evening edition… Can’t remember the newspaper boy’s name, but he liked to think of Fred and himself as being best buds. Like Dennis the Menace and Mr. Wilson. [/QUOTE] Arnold, the paperboy. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/48 "2007-08-03T13:48:21Z")
What? No one remembers the horror of Bobby & Cindy getting lost in the Grand Canyon? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/49 "2007-08-03T13:54:58Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo] _Seinfeld:_ Crazy Joe Davola. I always found him just a tad too violent to be considered funny. [/QUOTE] Was it he who dressed up like Pagliacci and saw them outside the opera? Or was that another of their crazy acquaintances? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/50 "2007-08-03T17:17:39Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] And sort of a comedy- there was a Fantasy Island that I think had Roarke batttle the devil that scared my pretty damn good as a kid in the 70’s. [/QUOTE] I came in here to mention Fantasy Island, but not the episode you refer to. There was one (I think it was a 90-minute special) that involved a woman having a very scary, surreal dream about being in a house that burned down–it was a flashback from her childhood of something that she couldn’t remember. There were scary clown dolls involved, which made it worse. It freaked me out, but I loved it. I wish I could find the episode so I could see that sequence again and see if it was really as scary as I remembered it. I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the tunnel scene in _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_ yet. Not a series, true, but definitely a scary scene in an otherwise fairly lighthearted movie. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/51 "2007-08-03T17:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Was it he who dressed up like Pagliacci and saw them outside the opera? Or was that another of their crazy acquaintances? [/QUOTE] [The same guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Crazy%22_Joe_Davola) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/52 "2007-08-03T19:35:35Z")
There was another episode of the Jeffersons where the focus is on the NYC gangs that were growing at that time. They somehow befriended a very young ganster (barely a child) and shortly thereafter found out that he was killed in some sort of gang inititaion ritual that required him to start a fight with a rival gang. That is how I remember it over 25 years ago but it was very upsetting. Any supporting details are welcome. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/53 "2007-08-03T19:40:35Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] There was another episode of the Jeffersons where the focus is on the NYC gangs that were growing at that time. They somehow befriended a very young ganster (barely a child) and shortly thereafter found out that he was killed in some sort of gang inititaion ritual that required him to start a fight with a rival gang. That is how I remember it over 25 years ago but it was very upsetting. Any supporting details are welcome. [/QUOTE] It that the one where George got stabbed? He was trying to track down some kid, got surrounded by gang members (for some reason I remember them being all girls), and one of them stabbed him in the stomach. The episode ended with him laying on the ground bleeding. The next episode started with him walking around the apartment yelling into a phone, so he must have survived. ---
**Author:** ![Zambini57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4491bb/32.png) [@Zambini57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zambini57)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/54 "2007-08-03T20:02:48Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] There was another episode of the Jeffersons where the focus is on the NYC gangs that were growing at that time. They somehow befriended a very young ganster (barely a child) and shortly thereafter found out that he was killed in some sort of gang inititaion ritual that required him to start a fight with a rival gang. That is how I remember it over 25 years ago but it was very upsetting. Any supporting details are welcome. [/QUOTE] I remember that episode. The kid talks about how he can’t wait to win some “medals”, which turn out to be knife wounds, battle scars. Later, the kid’s older friend shows up at the Jefferson’s place and says: “Well, he finally got his medals.” “Oh, no, is he badly hurt?” “He’s dead.” ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/55 "2007-08-03T20:25:12Z")
[QUOTE=Zambini57] I remember that episode. The kid talks about how he can’t wait to win some “medals”, which turn out to be knife wounds, battle scars. Later, the kid’s older friend shows up at the Jefferson’s place and says: “Well, he finally got his medals.” “Oh, no, is he badly hurt?” “He’s dead.” [/QUOTE] That’s the one. I is good to hear that my long-term memory is still with me. I found it a pretty chilling episode. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193/56 "2007-08-03T20:32:41Z")
Anyone remember the “Full House” episode where DJ volunteers at a retirement home, and ends up taking one of the old guys back to her house for the afternoon (his name was Eddie), and it turns out he has Alzheimer’s? Did anyone else get kind of creeped out by that? I’m not sure why…he was a nice guy, not his fault he was getting a bit demented. He just sort of gave me a funny feeling. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-moments-in-funny-series/413193.md?page=2)