Disturbing TV Moments

[dnt]

I'm probably the only one here still watching this train wreck of a show, but last night's "7th Heaven" just scared me. It was all about how sexy Ruthie is, and it featured Ruthie "dancing sexy" and having a conversation with her father about how he finds her sexy.

I couldn't believe it. I remember when Ruthie was a baby when this show started, blowing kisses at the camera. It just skeeved me out beyond measure to see her writhing and wriggling her hips (all with that disturbingly blank look on her face) in an attempt to look sexy. It skeeved me out even more that her father told her he thought she was sexy. What is with the incest themes on this show?

Although I did find it funny when she said she thought guys liked her because she was friendly and fun to be with. Because that's exactly how I see the character of Ruthie.

[dwanollah]

I'm probably the only one here still watching this train wreck of a show, but last night's "7th Heaven" just scared me. It was all about how sexy Ruthie is, and it featured Ruthie "dancing sexy" and having a conversation with her father about how he finds her sexy.

Creepy Pa Simpson and Jessucka have more influence than we though, eh?

Seriously, that's disgusting!

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There are so many X-Files disturbing moments. One that comes to mind is in the Never Again (the one w/ the talking tattoo). This guy gets a winking tattoo of a woman on his arm and then it starts talking to him and telling him to do crazy things. I know Jodie Foster did the tattoo lady's voice (I'm pretty sure I spotted her as an office extra early on in the ep, too), but man, was it creepy. I don't know if it was the pitch or the laugh or what, but I swear it gave me nightmares after hearing it.

Also, knowing Flukeman has been cut in half and is now regenerated into two Flukemen, w/ one safely in FBI custody and one floating around the New Jersey harbor freaked me out. Yes, I know it's only a stupid show, but the way the ending played out was disturbing. Flukeman. Gah!

On another note, I happened to catch one of those crime shows this weekend, and they were focusing on this guy who always wanted to be a doctor. He changes his name and then finds out there's an actual doctor already w/ that name, so he gets the Dr's medical license mailed to him, makes up a fake resume and begins applying for jobs at small practice offices. No one suspects him, so he just bumbles along w/ only a pharmacuetical degree. Someone catches on when Fax Doctor sends a diabetic home w/ medicine for dizzyness, and the poor guy ends up dead (when he was found, he was clutching the bottle of prescribed dizzyness medicine). Anyway, Faux Doctor goes to trial and gets a measly 3 years for writing prescriptions w/o a license. When he gets out, what does he do? Why, go back to the medical profession, of course! He gets hired by another doctor's office, only to be caught again. At one point, he's even Head of the Board of Surgery or some such thing. So, he gets caught again, goes to jail and escapes (the prison actually gave him some money and a bus pass). He hunts down his old cellmate and the guy lets Faux Doctor live w/ him for awhile, now knowing he was MIA from prison. Faux Doctor had somehow convinced everyone in prison that he was a real doctor (even the prison staff believed him) and was in jail for malpractice fraud. So anyway, when Faux Doctor escapes from prison, he gets right back into medicine. He stays free for like 6 weeks before he's caught again. The court finally smartened up and put him in maximum security. He's not set for parole intil 2018 when he'll be 84 years old or some such thing. The scariest part? The guy never left L.A. He worked, lived and went to prison there and was still hired on by doctors every time he got out of jail. can you imagine if he had been delivering babies? Makes me want to take up homeopathy.

[dnt]

My TiVo recorded a profile of Jim Jones last night and I got sucked into watching it. I knew the basic facts of Jonestown - mass suicide in Guyana - but I didn't know anything about Jones or the People's Temple before I watched this. It was really creepy. Now I know what the cult Kelly joined on "Beverly Hills, 90210" was likely based on!

[kwyett1]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned when Fox News' Greta Van Sustern went on "vacation" and came back all nipped/tucked. THAT was F R E A K Y!

[apollo]

In the last episode of M*A*S*H*, when we find out that the squawking chicken that had to be killed to save the bus load of people was actually a crying baby. Oh, God. Poor, scarred Hawkeye. I need a moment...

Oh, dear doG, that scarred me for life. I was no more than 10 the first time I saw it, and I watched it again as a young adult. Never, ever again.

[Brookie]

NEW YORK - More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much-older car mechanic and shot his wife in the face, the one-time “Long Island Lolita” and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion.

All three have signed on for the appearance, which has yet to be sold to a network, television producer David Krieff told the New York Post for Monday editions.

“It’s time to just put it behind us,” Fisher, now 31, told the newspaper. “We played this all out in a public eye. It’d be interesting to let the public see the healing process at the end. They saw everything else — why not let them see the final product?”

Fisher spent seven years in prison.

Joey Buttafuoco, who was jailed for statutory rape following the 1992 shooting, said he planned to ask Fisher to explain her actions.

“I’ve been asked about a million times by Mary Jo, ‘Why did Amy shoot me?’ I was never able to get that answer,” said Buttafuoco, now 49.

“There’s going to be a lot of shocking revelations, and that’s why I’m excited to sit down to do this,” he said.

The Buttafuocos moved to California and divorced in 2003. Mary Jo, who remains partially paralyzed from the shooting, is engaged.

Joey Buttafuoco, who has remarried, was sentenced in March 2004 to a year in jail and five years’ probation after pleading guilty to felony insurance fraud. In August, he pleaded not guilty to charges that he violated probation by possessing ammunition.

From MSNBC. Is this fucking sick or what? Or is it just me? Does Mary Jo get her chance to shoot back at Amy?

Please! Are we that desperate to be entertained?

[anne]

Dear Amy,

You're right, it is time to put that whole event behind you. The rest of us have. Unfortunately, we're forced to have it in front of us again every time one of the three of you does a TV appearance or writes a book. Please join us in putting it behind ALL of us by not doing anymore public appearances to discuss the whole thing. No one is forcing it on you. Really, you're forcing it on us.

Cordially,
Anne

[LAX]

The Death of Farfour

Politics aside, beating to death a children's TV character in the final episode is highly disturbing.

[kiwi]

BOB, crawling over the back of the couch, forever and ever amen.

And I didn't even see Twin Peaks until I was 25!!