J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Before there was the movie, Alien, there was the Space:1999 episode, Dragon's Domain. I was mentally scarred for months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I've got tons of these. To start, the camp counselor episode of Mr. Belvedere: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Henry Blake's death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Henry Blake's death If you are going M*A*S*H, the chicken on the bus episode. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I also have a vivid memory about a Buck Rogers episode where he becomes a werewolf which doesn't really exist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 This scared the crap out of me back in the day, as well as its sequel. . . . http://youtu.be/_ItrHSLIZ5U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I've got tons of these. To start, the camp counselor episode of Mr. Belvedere: Weird because literally the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was the Different Strokes episode where the child molester gives Arnold the bike. Also, I can't quite explain why but the Wolf In The Fold episode of Star Trek gave me nightmares for weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 Three words... Zuni... Fetish... Doll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 The first time I watched the Batman movie (the Adam West one), there was one shot of a door that started to open... and then the show was interrupted by breaking news about the Falklands War (which was happening at the time). So I spent the whole time of the news broadcast (which felt like 30 minutes but was probably actually five minutes tops) totally scared and worried about who was going to come through that door and what was going to happen and how would Batman possibly survive when that door opened... (I was 7 years old at the time). And when the news ended and the movie resumed, the door opened and Alfred walked in like it wasn't even a thing. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 I've got tons of these. To start, the camp counselor episode of Mr. Belvedere: I used to hate the "very special episodes" of prime time programming. The two part special on Good Times with Penny and her abusive mother totally kicked my ass. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Unfortunately Janet Jackson could pull upon her life experience to do some method acting. ETA: Good god, that's unnerving even now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 An episode of Hill Street Blues where there's a guy holding a hostage with a shotgun. And he's telling the guy to beg, while the cop tells the victim not to beg. Eventually the hostage begs and gets blasted with the shotgun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 When I was really young, an episode of Ba Ba Black Sheep where a fight breaks out between navy guys and marine guys (I think). One guy pulls a straight razor on another and slices his neck. That freaked me out, big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 This may seem weird, but the ending to The Late Mr. Kent episode of Superman: The Animated Series had me shook, despite being an adult. They ended a cartoon on this note: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 I will see you one better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I think I slept underneath my bed for a week after that Riddler episode. The stuff of nightmares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 I think I slept underneath my bed for a week after that Riddler episode. The stuff of nightmares. Who'd have thought that with The Joker as your arch-nemesis, the most traumatizing episodes of B:TAS would feature The Riddler and Clayface? The ending of Mudslide fucked me up big time despite being an adult. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Skip to 5:35 on the first video. I honestly didn't watch a whole lot of scary stuff as a kid... Hogan Family and Star Trek: Next Generation aren't where I would've expected to see this sort of thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Anything narrated by Robert Stack This week on Unsolved Mysteries 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 Oh, X-Files, how you were so awesome when you abandoned alien bullshit and went totally fucking Kolshack: The Night Stalker. Yeah, I wasn't sleepy anyway. I will just stay up all night clutching this steak knife to my chest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Who'd have thought that with The Joker as your arch-nemesis, the most traumatizing episodes of B:TAS would feature The Riddler and Clayface? I know we had a conversation about this when we were reviewing B:TAS a couple of board explosions ago, but Timm and Co. pushed nearly every button possible. They had suggestions of prison rape (at the end of The Terrible Trio), Poison Ivy plant babies (House & Garden), and Scarecrow's transformation in the final season. We children/young adults of the 1980s/1990s never had a chance. We were scared witless from the womb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 Yeah, been revisiting some B:TAS eps and newly discovering just how subversive the writing really was. Forgot all about the super duper creepy ending to The Terrible Trio. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Henry Blake's deathIf you are going M*A*S*H, the chicken on the bus episode.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjy7uUn7fc I was 13, so thought that fell out of range for "as a kd." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I also have a vivid memory about a Buck Rogers episode where he becomes a werewolf which doesn't really exist. The buck rogers episode for me is when mark lenard took off his head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 The Vorvon was totally the fucking nightmare fuel episode of Buck Rogers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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