# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [January 13, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/81 "2006-01-13T18:45:31Z")
> [@TV time](#): > > So I am lying in bed looking up at my television (I had it mounted on the top shelf of my bookcase) and I notice Paul Simon doing some sort of stand-up. Then he is joined by basketball great Bill Russell. Then I notice that Simon (5-5 maybe) challenges Russell (almost 7 feet tall) to a game of one-on-one basketball. They begin playing and Russell gets the first couple of points, but Simon starts winning. He ends up winning. The program then breaks for a commercial and the commercial starts talking about rock based breakfast cereal. This reminds me of an episode of either _Arsenio_ or _MadTV_, which had Ice T and Tupac sitting on barstools, singing (not rapping) the classic duet, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore.” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/82 "2006-01-13T18:58:37Z")
> [@well he's back](#): > > The other big one I can think of was from “Blake’s 7”, wherein the main character disappears but the show goes on for two more seasons. Hmnn, somehow mention of “Blake’s 7” made me think of what was probably one of the biggest WTF? reactions from british tv viewers in the 1960s: the first regeneration of the title character in “Doctor Who.” Given that the show routinely employed cliffhanger endings, I imagine that the audience who saw William Hartnell transfom into Patrick Troughton in the final minute of one episode didn’t get too agitated, expecting it all to be explained away and the ‘real’ Doctor to reappear in the next episode; only to tune in next week and realize that this ‘was’ the Doctor and that William Hartnell wasn’t coming back. Possibly another major WTF? moment would be the first post-Diana Rigg episodes of “the Avengers.” For several years, Steed had been paired up with classy, earthy babes Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman) and Emma Peel (Rigg) respectively, only then have to see him ‘teamed up’ with buxom, bubble-headed Tara King. I’m sure folks were saying _WTF? Where the bloody 'ell is Mrs. Peel??_ ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/83 "2006-01-13T19:36:34Z")
Two _Farscape_ moments for me - the final moments of the last episode (pre-Peacekeeper Wars) - when John and Aeryn were crystallized by the Eidelons. Granted, they had planned to come back for another season, but for fans of the show, that moment freakin’ SUCKED, especially when we had no idea if we were getting the miniseries for closure. And in one episode of the third season after the crew had been reunited (and one of the Johns had died) - I can’t remember who John was talking to, but Aeryn was in a snit, stalked off, and John turned to whoever he was with and said “You think she’s bad? You should’ve met her mother.”. Errr…THAT John never met her mother. The OTHER John was with Aeryn when she first met Xhalax. I’m sure it was just an overlook in the script, but I did a doubletake and had to wrack my brain to remember if this John had ever met Xhalax. E. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/84 "2006-01-13T23:20:34Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > The cliffhanger ending of season one of _The Pretender_ has all the main characters trapped in a basement of a building with a bomb. They don’t even know it’s there. The bomb goes off. Cut to the building collapsing. End of show. > > Eagerly anticipating the clever things they must have done to escape the bomb, I tune it next year. Nothing. No explanation. There’s one throw-away line about escaping the blast, and that’s it. > > I never watched the show again. That sounds a lot like the end of season 2, and beginning of season 3, of **24**. But that show is way too good to stop watching just because they completely ignored a huge plot development from the previous season. Besides, if I stopped watching, Jack would probalby get Kim to shoot me in the head. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/85 "2006-01-14T22:22:08Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Hehe, yeah, that was classic Whedon. Like in the first episode of Angel, with the vampire CEO guy who is OBVIOUSLY too wealthy and powerful for Angel to hope to take down (thus, a perfect Big Bad)… > > Can you fly? _kick_ _crash__FWOOFSH_ Guess not." Speaking of Angel, it was something of a WTF moment for me when in the season 5 episosode “Time Bomb”, Illyria kills Spike, Lorne, Wes and Angel in the space of about eight seconds. We almost immediately find out that it didn’t actually happen, but it was a jaw-slacking moment. ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/86 "2006-01-14T23:05:03Z")
People, this whole thread is a WTF moment! Nobody remembers a little show called **Dallas**? A man named Bobby? A shower scene? _Hel-lo?_ ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175/87 "2006-01-14T23:52:59Z")
I’ve been watching reruns of _The Gilmore Girls_ and here’s something that’s always bothered me. During the time when Rory was dating Dean and was attracted to Jess, Dean was definitely showing some pathologically jealous behaviors. He was extremely manipulative. Kind of scary. Lorelai would take Dean’s side instead of saying, “Dude, you’re scaring me, you’ve got to back off.” (Well, it took a long time for this to happen anyway.) It just surprised me that everybody seemed to think Dean’s behavior was normal. Lorelai is usually so protective of Rory. She is so independent, I would think she’d want the same thing for her daughter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-moments-from-your-favorite-tv-programs/339175.md?page=4)