Disturbing TV Moments

[moppet]

Scariest. Buffy. Ever. The wiggiest part to me was that somehow they really appeared to be floating--that effect is rarely carried off well but Team Whedon nailed it there.

I would freak out whenever I walked by the open windows in my house for sometime after seeing that episode. I could picture them grinning at me while ghosting about.

Last night I was watching the series premiere of Nip/Tuck. I can handle operations, but seeing seeing the guy get his entire face redone was just hard to stomach.

[veronicamars]

What Mime Rape on Little House on the Prairie?

[lemons]

I believe that was Albert Ingalls' girlfriend Sylvia. I thought she was raped by the blacksmith? It's been a long time since I've seen that episode.

[slashgirl]

After seeing Al Swearengen getting bowel surgery in this week's Deadwood episode, all I can say is, OWWWWW!!!!

[dwanollah]

I was just about to chortle about Sylvia Gets Raped By a Clown. ("He wore a mask... a party mask. He held me... pulled me down... oh, Papa! *hysterical sobbing*")Woo!

LHOTP was the source of many of my childhood disturbed moments in TV viewing.

Mime rapes girl? Check.
Rat infestation in town grain supply? Check.
Nightmares about beheadings, prison torture and execution? Check.
Faith healing via a bolt of lightning? Check.
Child kept in cage and tortured? Check.
Freaky neighbors kidnap local townsfolk? Check.

But everyone sang Christian hymns in the end, so it was okay.

I was easily freaked out by things when I was little, so, like, Bobby Brady's Jesse James nightmare scared the crap out of me when I was 6. I also got heebies from shows like "In Search Of" ... even the music was a little weird to me when I was little, and when they were showing some sort of unsolved mystery about how Amelia Earhert might be living on an island in Guam, or a show on children raised by animals, that'd give me the creeps.

Of course, I got weirded out by Bee Gees & Cat Stevens song lyrics and plate tectonics, so I had issues.

[veronicamars]

Can we just talk about how unsettling any ep is of Unsolved Mysteries? Robert Stack's voiceover sure as hell didn't help.

One of the local affliates reran the infamous Home ep of the X-Files. That ep never ceases to freak me.

[foxfair]

Holy CRAP VeronicaMars you're right about Unsolved Mysteries. My sister and I used to watch that together on the couch, practically sitting on each other and clutching hands. It must have been over 10 years ago but I can STILL remember an episode about a serial killed who had left a woman for dead, when actually she had lived and had either made it home or to another person's house, and he came back and drove by her in his car as she was on the doorstep, and *made eye contact* with her. Oh, it was terrifying.

[veronicamars]

Foxfair, did they catch the loon?

There used to be a really crappy show called Promised Land with Gerald McRaney and in it, his daughter on the show-I think-was being chased by a child molester-played by Gerald's Simon&Simon co-star-in this house.

I have never seen it, but a lot of people say the 6 million dollar man ep where he battles it out with bigfoot is freaky.

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The worst Unsolved Mysteries ep was the one about the woman who was driving home at night after work, the night before she was about to leave on vacation. She had her vacation money in her trunk and she was rocking to the radio. All of a sudden, this car pulls up next to her w/ three teenagers inside who proceed to bang on her car w/ a bat and force her off the road. They drag her out of the car and start to beat her, shoot her, and I think they even ran her over. Then they set her car on fire and left her for dead. She LIVED, and she had so many things wrong w/ her - bullet holes, skin hanging off in flaps, burns and I think her eyeball may have had some kind of damage. The scariest part was they never found the creeps who did this to her (it was for the money she had in the trunk, although I'm not sure how they knew it was in there). They may have profiled these kids (two guys and a girl) on America's Most Wanted, so hopefully they'll catch them.

Speaking of AMW, the search for that child molester who was touring around Europe playing his piano car freaked me out to no end. He was an ex-band memeber of John Couga Mellencamp's band, so he used to tour around the country, getting close to who knows how many kids. When the heat was on, he ran to Europe (Alex Kelly style). People kept spotting him and getting pictures, but no one could catch him. They did finally get him (thank goodness).

That Lifetime movie about Tracy Thurman scarred me for life. Not only do we share a first name, but her ex-husband violated his restraining order so many times that the cops were sick of going to her house when she called them to report the guy, so when he finally attacked her, the cops who were supposed to be saving her had stopped at the station to take a leak before answering the call. Her ex stabbed her, and when she fell to the ground, proceeded to jump on her head until he thought she was dead. She ended up living, but having paralysis (she could feel pain on one half of her body but had no motor control, while the other half of her body was in her control, but couldn't feel anything). I have never trusted a restraining order since. Those things are worthless.

[veronicamars]

Years ago, there was a Disney tv movie about a girl who was trapped in a glass snowball or some such and a boy from the present time helped free her. the scenes in that glass prison really freaked me out.