# TV Moments That Scarred You For Life **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051 "2006-05-09T12:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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 11, 2016, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/261 "2016-08-11T05:24:39Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Are you referring to “One for the Road” (I think that was the title of the episode)? I don’t remember that happening at all; IIRC, Saunders shielded the baby with his own body when they were shelled. The child was still alive at the end. > > That episode is on YouTube. I’ll have to watch it again when I have time. Maybe, but only if my memory is screwed up. In my memory, he and a young mother were hiding from some German soldiers. The baby was fussing, and he put his hand over its face so the Germans wouldn’t hear them. And the baby suffocated. Also, thank you for making me relive that memory! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/262 "2016-08-11T11:00:24Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > In my area, growing up (I’m 43), that was a trend with sodas. Tear off the tab and drop it into the can. I’d do this all the time… but only when I was done drinking. Same thing with the straws that came with Tetra Pak packages. I liked to think that those little items were safer inside than all alone and lost in the trash can :D. Safety tabs ruined that fun. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/263 "2016-08-11T12:26:39Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > I learned when I was 5 from educational TV 😉 Perhaps you are older than I. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/264 "2016-08-11T14:12:33Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Advance to young teenage years and it was a black and white movie about a haunted house. The director used every trick in the book to ramp up fear of the unknown. At one point there was “something” on the other side of a door tearing into it like an 800 lb Grizzly. The hinges were buckling. The noise of the scraping against wood. The way the director steered the viewer into focusing on it was outstanding. This would probably be _The Haunting_: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/) The director, Robert Wise. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/265 "2016-08-11T15:34:37Z")
> [@Shockaholics](#): > > And you had no reaction to the creepy alien in the credits? Nah. That was clearly a puppet. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/266 "2016-08-11T16:09:18Z")
The first season of Game of Thrones when there was a jousting tournament and the loser suddenly pulled out his sword and chopped off his horse’s head. I told my husband he was on his own watching that show from now on. I still watch a little when he’s watching it though. The next most traumatic scene was when King Joffrey made the one prostitute beat up the other one while he watched. Come to think of it that entire show is traumatizing. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/267 "2016-08-11T16:13:35Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > The first season of Game of Thrones when there was a jousting tournament and the loser suddenly pulled out his sword and chopped off his horse’s head. I told my husband he was on his own watching that show from now on. > > I still watch a little when he’s watching it though. The next most traumatic scene was when King Joffrey made the one prostitute beat up the other one while he watched. > > Come to think of it that entire show is traumatizing. Ooh, that reminded me. Sometime early in the first season of _Shameless_, the drunk dad head butted his 10-ish son. This is a _comedy_? I never watched it again. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/268 "2016-08-11T16:50:43Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Ooh, that reminded me. Sometime early in the first season of _Shameless_, the drunk dad head butted his 10-ish son. This is a _comedy_? I never watched it again. My husband loves that show. I think the Gallaghers are horrible people and can’t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/269 "2016-08-11T17:06:18Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > I remember the episode, and agree about the creepiness factor. What bothered me more, though, was this: Why would the alien ship (which presumably had an FTL drive) take so long to get to Earth that the passengers needed to be put into suspended animation, while the moon (which was accidentally blasted out of orbit by an atomic explosion) left there only a few weeks earlier? > > Of course, that was the major problem with the whole series. Every week, the rogue moon would wander into a new solar system (meaning it had to have been traveling much faster than light), slow down long enough for the crew to have some sort of adventure, then apparently speed up again in order to escape the gravity of that sun and head for a new one. The series had a lot of silliness. I’m not defending it, the show had quite a lot wrong with it., and I never liked it much even as a child. But this problem was addressed, at least. The Moon is travelling slower than light, but fast enough to experience time dilation. The episodes are years or decades apart, but it seems like a few days to the residents. There was an episode where the Moon came back to Earth, briefly, and hundreds of years had passed. I know, it doesn’t quite work. But at least they thought about it. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/270 "2016-08-11T17:13:34Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > My husband loves that show. I think the Gallaghers are horrible people and can’t stand it. I don’t know about the rest of the family, but I drew the line at physical child abuse. ---
**Author:** ![Rudiger\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rudiger\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rudiger_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/271 "2016-08-11T18:40:00Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > Rescue 911 hosted by William Shatner, which aired in the late 80s and early 90s. Real 911 calls with reenacted scenes of people getting into accidents or injured in terrible ways. I vividly remember one kid getting several fingers cut off when his buddy carelessly chops an ax or hatchet down on a log without looking, and people running around on fire after mishandling gasoline. Really shocked me and made me realize that bad shit can happen if you’re not careful. I, too, vividly remember the kid getting his fingers chopped off (and the shot of them laying on the log afterward), but it wasn’t traumatizing to me. It was practically reassuring; the kid ran and showed his bloody stumps to his mom almost as a curiosity because he didn’t feel a thing. I was relieved that if somehow I cut off any digits with an ax in an old barn, at least it wouldn’t be painful. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/272 "2016-08-11T19:07:07Z")
> [@Rudiger\_Simpson](#): > > I was relieved that if somehow I cut off any digits with an ax in an old barn, at least it wouldn’t be painful. You, Sir, are the most optimistic person whom I have ever met. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/273 "2016-08-11T19:27:34Z")
Pretty much every _Lassie_ episode ever made. I eventually got so hysterical at the doggie-kitty-Timmy-whatever-in peril plots that my mom forbade that I watch it at all (I was six-ish when the ban was put into effect). I think _Where the Red Fern Grows_ and _Old Yeller_ might count, as they played ad infinitum on one of the four antenna channels we had. Inexplicably, my elementary school showed one of these films at least once a year on “fun day.” Mom would let me stay home on dead dog days. :eek: I still blanch whenever it seems an animal is being introduced only to be lost/maimed/killed. _Blip_ Channel changed! ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/274 "2016-08-11T19:29:27Z")
> [@tenacious\_j](#): > > How have I never seen this thread? I still cringe when I even think about Emergency!, which my normally protective, overcautious mom considered appropriate family viewing with the kindergartner.e-balance-beam-131070/ > [http://www.tv.com/shows/emergency/election-131056/](http://www.tv.com/shows/emergency/election-131056/) Ooh! Ooh! Just remembered an Emergency ep that scared the crap outta me. A kid is swimming in a backyard pool and his her(?) arm gets stick in the drain. I’m pretty sure I didn’t hallucinate this one . . . anyone else see this one? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/275 "2016-08-11T19:38:17Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Ooh! Ooh! Just remembered an Emergency ep that scared the crap outta me. A kid is swimming in a backyard pool and his her(?) arm gets stick in the drain. > > I’m pretty sure I didn’t hallucinate this one . . . anyone else see this one? That ought to be about a sixty second episode. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/276 "2016-08-11T19:45:40Z")
You put the tab from the can into the can of your _previous_ beer. Well, at least that’s what I’d do back when cans were made that way. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/277 "2016-08-11T19:52:11Z")
> [@Rudiger\_Simpson](#): > > I, too, vividly remember the kid getting his fingers chopped off (and the shot of them laying on the log afterward), but it wasn’t traumatizing to me. It was practically reassuring; the kid ran and showed his bloody stumps to his mom almost as a curiosity because he didn’t feel a thing. I was relieved that if somehow I cut off any digits with an ax in an old barn, at least it wouldn’t be painful. When I was a child, my mother cut off one of my fingertips in one of those heavy apartment doors. It ripped the fingertip off at the joint right at the bottom of the nail. I vividly recall the trip to the hospital. It didn’t hurt (which could have been shock, I suppose). And I remember just watching the blood flowing down my arm, in a kind of morbid fascination. The fingertip has been reattached. They had me in a cast from my fingertips all the way up over my elbow. There’s a scar and some slight disfigurement, but you wouldn’t notice it if I didn’t point it out. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/278 "2016-08-11T20:02:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > That ought to be about a sixty second episode. > :dubious: Nope, it was a full storyline. Unless, of course, it didn’t really happen :p:p ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/279 "2016-08-11T20:09:02Z")
FOUND IT!!! It’s the “Dinner Date” episode – girl gets hand stuck in swimming pool and suffers an asthma attack: [http://www.nexxie.0catch.com/Captures/Episodes/Dinnerdate/Dinnerdate\_4.html](http://www.nexxie.0catch.com/Captures/Episodes/Dinnerdate/Dinnerdate_4.html) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051/280 "2016-08-11T20:11:16Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Ooh! Ooh! Just remembered an Emergency ep that scared the crap outta me. A kid is swimming in a backyard pool and his her(?) arm gets stick in the drain. > > I’m pretty sure I didn’t hallucinate this one . . . anyone else see this one? I remember where they had to get a pretty young woman’s big toe unstuck from a bathtub spout while she was in the bath. That… did not scar me for life. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-moments-that-scarred-you-for-life/356051.md?page=15)