TV show? Yeah, the clown rape. Brrrrrr.
Movie I happened to see on TV? I was about 6 or 7 and there was this cheesy movie about some scientist turning into a snake. I think the flick was called Sssssss. Anyway, the scenes of the guy actually transforming (half man half snake with flippers and scales and whatnot) totally freaked me out.
“My name is Talking Tina, and you are a bad man.”.
I’m just glad I never saw Little house on the Prarie!!
I have two:
The first is a movie called (I think) “Land of the Giants,” about a bunch of teenagers who eat this stuff that looks like pink canned cranberry sauce and turn into giants or bugs or something icky. I don’ t know why this one got to me so much when I was a little kid, but it did.
The second one didn’t scare me, but rather really upset me. It was a kids’ special about a young boy who found a stray kitten in an abandoned building and began taking care of it secretly. At some point near the end, a couple of young bullies find the kid and the kitten. There’s a scuffle, and somehow the kitten is either frightened or tossed out into the street, where it’s hit by a car. I was devastated. Even though the kid ends up getting a whole litter of kittens at the end, that poor kitty’s death haunts me to this day. I discovered the show while channel-surfing a few years back and it had the same effect (albeit not as strong because I knew it was coming).
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Oh, here’s another one: Family Flight. In it, a family flying in a Navion is forced to land in the Mexican desert. They have to clear a runway so that they can take off and escape death by heat and thirst. At night the two teenagers tune the ADF to hear some music and fall asleep with it on. In the morning when they’re ready to take off, the battery is dead. The father has to hand-prop the airplane. The engine catches, but a propeller blade hits him in the shoulder and he’s bleeding badly. He yells to whoever is in the cockpit to keep the engine running. They have to take off from their makeshift runway and find a hospital – quickly. And they don’t know exactly where they are.
So it’s not much later. My mom flew me and my sister to my dad’s place in the Mojave Desert. It was growing dark. Mom discovered that there was no oil pressure and no lights in our rented Beechcraft Musketeer. Since the engine was still running, she deduced that the the reading on the oil pressure gauge was caused by the same electrical problem that left us in the dark. We landed without incident. But…
When it was time to go home again, the airplane wouldn’t start. Dead battery. So, my memory of Family Flight still in my head, dad went to the nose to hand-prop the engine. :eek:
You know, zombies, mummies, and shambling un-dead corpses who have clawed their way out of the grave to feast on the warm flesh of the living really get a bad rap from TV shows, and as long as you realize that your aversion to them is irrational you can get treatment.
One of the saddest, depression inducing children’s shows I ever saw.
But really well done. (as I recall)
For me it was definitely the Jackie Gleason full-frontal nudity scene from The Honeymooners: Lost Episodes.
This reminds me of the devastation I felt when the house Almanzo built Laura when they first got married burned down. She had described in wonderful detail all the things he had crafted in the kitchen, special drawers for sugar and flour, etc., and then to read of it burning down was so sad.
We didn’t have TV when I was growing up, but one of the moments I remember being bowled over by was on The Real World- Seattle. The girl whose dad had died was best friends with a guy whose dad had also died and they counted on one another. When she got the call that he had committed suicide: :eek: 
In the '70s t.v. movie Trilogy of Terror, the scene at the end of the story with Karen Black and the voodoo doll. You all know the one I mean, right?
When Robin had the creepy green alien baby on “V.” I think I was only 4 and it totally freaked me out.
Waking up to the live news coverage of a plane that had apparantly crashed into a building. As they were airing it, another plane crashed into the building next to it.
Yes, I’m referring to 9/11 and the WTC.
Yep, that Karen Black is spoooooky!
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The episode of MAS*H where Hawkeye has a nervous breakdown. In the episode he is talking to the shrink and recollecting what caused his breakdown.
He was on a bus with some S. Korean civilians and I don’t remember if the bus stalled or they deliberately stopped it in forest but in any event they were all trying to remain quiet on the bus so the N.Korean soldiers wouldn’t find them and kill them. He recalled a woman smothering to death a chicken that would not stop clucking.
Then Hawkeye reveals it wasn’t a chicken she smothered into silence. It was her baby.
That, with Hawkeye’s emotional torment in that episode never left me. I was so young when it aired and it literally sent me into a tailspin for days.
That was the final 2.5 hour episode, Chao.
I thought of that. But I can’t say it scarred me for life. I have no fear of flying. I’m not worried about hijackings. While I’m saddened by the loss of life, and while I was angry at the terrorists, it’s not something I live with every day.
These two concepts merged in my head.
I now am haunted with horrible visions of decaying, Undead Hell-Kittens.
And I’m posting from work, in a scary photo darkroom. :eek:
I was not happy about the episode of Xena where they show cannibals roasting a skewered person on a spit.
Saw Aliens on TV when I was in elementary school and I was not too thrilled about that, either.
Ooh – forgot about this one! I was about 10 or 11 when “V” was on. Didn’t the lady have twins – the first looked out-and-out reptilian, and then
the second one looked like a normal human infant and all of the doctors in the delivery room breathed a sigh of relief … until it opened its reptilian eyes, stuck out it reptilian tongue and hissed?
This scene had me jumping out of my chair.