# WTF moments from your favorite tv programs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175 "2006-01-09T17:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/21 "2006-01-10T13:30:49Z")
When it comes to WTF moments in TV, the first one that leaps to mind is Serena Southerlyn’s “Is this because I’m a lesbian?” comment when she was fired on [_Law & Order_](http://www.tv.com/aint-no-love/episode/378845/summary.html). ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/22 "2006-01-10T13:47:13Z")
When _The Practice_ was swirling the drain (counter-clockwise), on one season premier all of the sudden the secretary, Rebecca, announced she’d just passed the bar and was now a lawyer. Apparently she’d been going to law school on the sly. Despite the fact she never seemed to be away from the office. Uh huh. Right. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/23 "2006-01-10T15:11:34Z")
I was really perplexed by the second season of Slege Hammer… they failed to resolve the cliff hanger at the end of season one (they just called it “Sledge Hammer-the early years” or something like that). Of course the problem with making it th Early Years was that Slege only got his partner (what was her name again?) at the beginning of season one, and yet there she was as his partner throughout the Early Years. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/24 "2006-01-10T16:10:12Z")
I remember a Season 7 episode of Buffy where the Scooby Gang talks to each other telepathically. They can do that? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/25 "2006-01-10T16:14:43Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I remember a Season 7 episode of Buffy where the Scooby Gang talks to each other telepathically. > > They can do that? Yeah…if you missed the previous episodes where Willow had developed that power, that could definately throw you. Most of the Buffy and Angel moments didn’t shock me because I am a total spoiler-whore. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/26 "2006-01-10T17:35:51Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > When it comes to WTF moments in TV, the first one that leaps to mind is Serena Southerlyn’s “Is this because I’m a lesbian?” comment when she was fired on [_Law & Order_](http://www.tv.com/aint-no-love/episode/378845/summary.html). The WTF moment from Law and Order that sticks out for me was when Claire Kincaid was broadsided by a drunk driver and killed at the end of an episode, while giving Detective Briscoe a ride home so _he_ wouldn’t drive drunk. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/27 "2006-01-10T17:50:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Yeah…if you missed the previous episodes where Willow had developed that power, that could definately throw you. > > Most of the Buffy and Angel moments didn’t shock me because I am a total spoiler-whore. 😃 it was more than that. At the end of season 4, to defeat Adam, they joined together, Buffy’s strength, Giles’ knowledge, Willow’s magic, and Xander’s heart, and tapped into the source of Slayer power. Which, in the last episode of season 4, prompted the first Slayer to invade their dreams, of which they were all in each others’, and try to kill them off, because Slayers don’t have friends ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/28 "2006-01-10T17:52:52Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > When it comes to WTF moments in TV, the first one that leaps to mind is Serena Southerlyn’s “Is this because I’m a lesbian?” comment when she was fired on [_Law & Order_](http://www.tv.com/aint-no-love/episode/378845/summary.html). That happened right when they were pushing “Committed” with a promo that had the great line “Have you _met_ me?” My friends and I adopted both statements as our “catch phrases of the year” Friend One: Is it because I’m a lesbian? Friend Two: Have you \*met \* me? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/29 "2006-01-10T17:53:01Z")
For any viewer of _Enterprise_, the WTF moment came in the form of … _ **SPACE NAZIS?!?!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/30 "2006-01-10T17:54:46Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > For any viewer of _Enterprise_, the WTF moment came in the form of … > > _ **SPACE NAZIS?!?!!!** _ \*Enterprise \* or **TOS**? ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/31 "2006-01-10T17:56:51Z")
When Gary was killed on “thirtysomething” I sat in shock for _days_. In fact, I’m still pissed at the writers. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/32 "2006-01-10T18:04:04Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > \*Enterprise \* or **TOS**? The former. If there were any Space Nazis on the original series, I wouldn’t necessarily know because I haven’t seen a whole lot of that show. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/33 "2006-01-10T18:07:24Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > \*Enterprise \* or **TOS**? Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica (original version)? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/34 "2006-01-10T18:09:34Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > The former. If there were any Space Nazis on the original series, I wouldn’t necessarily know because I haven’t seen a whole lot of that show. There was an episode where a planet adopted the efficient, organized style of the Third Reich, right down to the wardrobe, even to the point of pursecuting a group of people known as the Zayons (think Zion) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/35 "2006-01-10T18:10:47Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > . . . and then on another occasion, I wondered why Jesus was suddenly helping them fight the Shadows (What? I think Marcus looks kinda like Jesus! :smack: ). Eehhhh . . . Kindasorta. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=353300](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=353300) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/36 "2006-01-10T18:14:09Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > There was an episode where a planet adopted the efficient, organized style of the Third Reich, right down to the wardrobe, even to the point of pursecuting a group of people known as the Zayons (think Zion) But, that was no coincidence; that was the doing of an Earth-human historian who not only forgot the Prime Directive, but somehow got the idea that restructuring this planet’s disordered society along Nazi lines was the best way to help its people. For a real WTF moment on ST:TOS, see “Bread and Circuses,” where Enterprise encounters a world which is just like Earth only the Roman Empire never fell. Even worse . . . KIRK: Hodgkin’s Law of Parallel Development . . . The language here is English! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/37 "2006-01-10T18:23:52Z")
Besides the obviously What-The-Fuckiness of _Roseanne_’s final season, I always thought it was weird that Darlene was a vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/38 "2006-01-10T18:24:58Z")
I thought the space Nazis were on Voyager and it was regular Nazis on a different planet on TOS. I was never a fan of LA Law but one of the few moments I remember while changing channels was, mean lady talking to some guy and then turns and falls down an elevator shaft. I figured after I had seen that I had seen it all. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/39 "2006-01-10T18:25:45Z")
> [@percussion](#): > > Vito going down on a security guard, Season 5 Sopranos > > never saw that comming > > ditto with Ralphie being bald… Ralph’s baldness still makes no sense to me. Ralph was notable for his **thinning hair.** If it was just a toupee anyway, why didn’t he wear a toupee with thicker hair? ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/40 "2006-01-10T18:38:22Z")
How about finding out Alicia and Goliath were dating on “Gargoyles”. At the end of one episode, she just started making out with the giant, gray-skinned, bat-winged monster. I don’t think I’ve seen anything top that yet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175.md?page=3)