Disturbing TV Moments

[Smilla]

What's so disturbing about playing with dingo puppies?

Well, they were pretty good sized ones. And much to my surprise, dingo puppies aren't all that cute. And right before he did it he blathered something like "dingo puppies--they'll bite your face off!" Then he scooped one up and started making kissy-noises. Ach. Disturbed man.

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Smilla said:

Well, they were pretty good sized ones. And much to my surprise, dingo puppies aren't all that cute. And right before he did it he blathered something like "dingo puppies--they'll bite your face off!" Then he scooped one up and started making kissy-noises. Ach. Disturbed man.

Aren't dingoes related to the Australian Cattle Dog? I ask because I have one and he looks amazingly like the dingo's I have seen on tv. And if they are, word to not being cute. I love my Archie but as an 8 week old puppy he was anything but cute. That's why I adopted him from the pound. I knew between his ugliness and his obnoxiousness that nobody else would take him. Thankfully even though he is still the most obnoxious creature on the planet, he has grown into his looks.

[Smilla]

You have an Australian Cattle dog? My family had one when I was growing up! And yes, they are related to dingoes (or so we read when I was in middle school). Which is why our dog was psycho. And she definitely wouldn't have won any beauty pageants in her younger months. Also, our dog had some lengthy teeth on her--scary, that. So, once again, I think Steve Irwin is unbalanced. I really fear for his kids.

[january]

Speaking of Unsolved Mysteries, they did an episode once about psychics and their predictions for the end of the world. This one guy was on there talking about how the world was going to end in the year 2000, and he had all these Bible verses and other things to prove it. I was about eight years old at the time, and I totally believed what this guy was saying. I got so upset about it, I starting sobbing because I thought I was never going to have a chance to grow up or have a life because the world was going to end when I was 18. My parents had to calm me down for days after that.

Yeah, thanks, Unsolved Mysteries.

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I was watching the Dutch version of a show about missing persons, and I think it was last December or so, they did the following reconstruction:

A man had gone missing after supposedly going to the store. Witnesses claim they saw him standing on the side of the road, and later they noticed two men walking in his direction. Not so scary when reading it, but when they re enact it, and they don't give the reconstruction actors legs (they were faded out), it gives a totally new creepy meaning to the story.

[veronicamars]

Anyone remember V? Remember the 2nd half of the miniseries when the teen girl gives birth to twins and one is "human" and the other is lizard? *shudders*

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Or when the lead alien eats the rat in one gulp?

[Smilla]

I remember V--and being so traumatized by it that I've completely forgotten about those two moments. Yikes.

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Here's a review of V - complete w/ pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund, a Holocaust survivor who looks so much like Willard from this season's Survivor (coincidence?) that I had to convince myself I didn't fall into a differnt dimension, and (drum roll, please) an animated GIF of the live rat mastication. Disturb on, V!

[vacationland]

*sigh* I loved V! However my devotion to it did not save me from being utterly squicked out by Diana eating the large live rodent. Aiiiiiieeeeeeeee!

Thanks for the link, BagOfBones! Good times, good times. Totally agree that the old Holocaust guy looks eerily like Willard, too.

One of the most disturbing things I've ever seen on TV was the 1984 BBC British nuclear winter drama Threads. Freaked me out beginning to end; so much scarier than the US TV movie The Day After (well, except for seeing Steve Guttenberg in makeup simulating radiation poisoning, that is!). Part of that was that I was living there at the time, and it seemed so much more immediate than a drama happening thousands of miles away, but still...ugh, Threads was so freaky...everything from people eating dead irradiated sheep to a teenager giving birth to a mutant baby. Plus, of course, lots and lots of people getting vaporized in huge nuclear blasts, something my generation was raised to both fear and anticipate. If you can find it on video or DVD, and want to experience a little Cold War freak-out, rent it! For the kids...hmm...it's sort of like 28 Days Later, but with more mushroom clouds and fewer blood-spitting zombies.