Top 10 Most Disturbing TV Episodes Because of What We Know Now

[@WatchMojo]

Which TV episodes do you find the most disturbing in retrospect? Let us know in the comments. For more content like this, click here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZvUn2OLnNNlmNU

[@Ratkinganimation]

How was this 2days ago?

[@Ratkinganimation]

@FakeCarAccountit says 2d ago even tho it was 1 hr ago

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@Ratkinganimation he is a alt account of some one named JB. All he does is bully people from multiple accounts.

[@DremoraLord666]

5th

[@Reaperguy67]

@@DremoraLord666 go away. Your comments don't count

[@joshuawigler3687]

I remember the episode of The Sopranos where the characters stage an intervention for Christopher Moltisanti, and while he's in a state of denial about his addictions, he tells Tony that he eats so much that he will die at 52. Considering that James Gandolfini died at age 52 and didn't take the best care of himself, that moment is haunting.

[@robotorch]

I just recently learned of his cocaine and alcohol addictions. It makes sense now. Still hurts.

[@angrym0nkeysh0w]

Yes, but in the episode Christopher doesn't say specifically "at 52". He tells Tony that if he kept eating like that, he would be dead before 50

[@tanakasensei3450]

The John Belushi skit from SNL should've been on here. "They said I'd be the first to die" was the first line he said in the skit where he was visiting the graves of his fellow castmates. Sadly, he WAS the first to die of his SNL alum.

[@DanielOrme]

John Belushi, not Jim.

[@tanakasensei3450]

@@DanielOrme names aside, my point still stands. The skit should have been here

[@DesertDawg-oq5fg]

John Belushi was deemed “ comically obese” by 1976 standards when that sketch was recorded. If you were taking bets on which cast member would die first, you would bet on him it would have nothing to do with drugs.

[@BCFBreakfastClubFan]

@@DesertDawg-oq5fg So not the point.

[@DesertDawg-oq5fg]

@@BCFBreakfastClubFan that’s quite literally the point of the sketch. Obesity correlates with early death. Don’t overthink it.

[@zacharyhefner2208]

The Family Guy ep where Stewie ran naked in the Mall saying "Help I escaped from Kevin Spacey's basement!!!"

[@dimidrugg9592]

That one was foreshadowing by Seth McFarlane.

[@Henry-i5h]

Stevie😂😂😂is stewie

[@DesertDawg-oq5fg]

That one wasn’t a particular shock because it was barely a secret that Spacey was gay therefore, it’s only shocking if you don’t know how homosexuals from his era behave amongst young boys in Hollywood.

[@LiminalMan777]

Family guy definitely has some prescient moments

[@LiminalMan777]

​@@Henry-i5hI thought it was stoolie

[@lukefriesen9922]

The episode Sophias Choice of The Golden Girls has a similar eeriness, at the end when they are discussing Sophia's friend Lillian and death etc. Rose says What happens when there is only one of us left. Betty what was the last one of the 4 to die and the order they are sitting in is the order in which each cast member died.

[@wvu05]

And Sophia says, "Don't worry, I can take care of myself" or."I'll be fine" (I can't remember the exact one), but Estelle Getty was the first to die.

[@webs538]

It’s the same with friends where Matthew Perry says in one of the later episodes that he’d be the first to die

[@bup4523]

😢

[@DesertDawg-oq5fg]

9:00 the reason Chris Rock appears in this opening monologue is because Lorne Michaels was afraid Farley might OD or flake, so he had Rock waiting backstage to fill-in as emergency host just in case

[@kenterminateddq5311]

Sad but true. 😢

[@ThisIsJ.Nicole]

How sad?!

[@IlGreven]

"Murder in Small Town X" was a murder mystery reality show where contestants were given clues and tried to figure out who the killer was, and the losers were "hunted down" by the killer. That's not the disturbing part. This is: The finale aired on September 4, 2001. The winner of the $1 million prize was a man named Angel Juarbe. His occupation? New York City firefighter. He would die responding to the tower attacks when the first tower collapsed a week later.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Wheesh! That’s incredibly disturbing!

[@biancaluedeker]

I remember that. I loved that show.

[@NerdFromColorado]

Holy shit that’s awful! Imagine winning a million bucks only to die before you get to use it. Hopefully he’s joking about the misfortune in heaven

[@nicholasflanders9814]

That show was awesome!

[@melindakinnaird]

I can't remember the name of the episode, but there's an episode of the 1980s drama Hill Street Blues with guest star Dominique Dunne. Her character, who comes from a broken home, is seen with a black eye. The black eye was real. She was in an abusive relationship, and the man would, sadly, ultimately take her life.

[@ManictheMod]

Requiem for a Hairbag?

[@melindakinnaird]

@@ManictheMod yes, thank you.

[@anastasiaromanot6626]

Weird, I was just reading about her after watching The Menéndez Netflix show.

[@MegatopQuahog]

WatchMojo, I cannot believe you missed this one

[@legendaryoctober5088]

Dominique died from her stalker. He came to her house and shot her.

[@stingrey1571]

when phil hartman hosted SNL, he and farley had a moment on stage. it was sweet then. touching now.

[@JasonLohmeyer]

It was Phil Hartman's final episode as a cast member.

[@ckotcher1]

@@stingrey1571 yes… Phil and Chris are alone together on a dark stage with Phils arm around Chris who is dressed up as his Matt Foley character. Phil has a microphone in his hand and they both start to tear up. Phil says “you know Chris? I can’t think of a better way to end my time on this show. 🎶 goodbye… Goodbye… Goodbyeeeeee” 🎶💔….. so much foreshadowing

[@elizabethr.110]

​@@ckotcher1omg no, I haven't seen that. Thx I'll look it up.

[@ckotcher1]

@@elizabethr.110 your welcome girl. I wish I could remember who the host was that night.

[@patrickdoyle6201]

This is on either the best of Farley, Hartman or both and it gets me every time

[@brettbarnett3465]

The midnight sun scared the shit out of me as a kid. The idea of the sun never setting, the heat never stopping, the heat getting worse and worse each day.

[@melissacooper8724]

I've had dreams where I would look at the clock, and it would say 11 pm or midnight, and the sun would still be out! Mostly because of this episode!

[@nanasewdear]

That was the episode that most made an impression on me as well. That one and the one where the old lady gets hang-up calls and it's later the calls are traced to a phone line down on her dead fiancé's grave.

[@JusticeOuinn420]

...MENOPAUSE IS WORSE. Have you ever felt as if you were just tossed into a raging firepit??? That is MENOPAUSE in a fucking nutshell

[@nanasewdear]

@@JusticeOuinn420 Happened for me 14 years ago. Not a big deal, but yes, hot flashes can kind of suck. Get the patch.

[@biancaluedeker]

I’ve had a dream where it was October and it was still 80 degrees out. Oh wait…..

[@kaitlynmarie5545]

There's an episode of Glee where Finn (Cory Monteith) finds out his dad died from a drug overdose, alone in a hotel room. It aired about a year and a half before Monteith died the same way.

[@Luvclub30]

I was also thinking about the episode where Puck says in the future he sees himself dead, in prison or both. and then his actor ended up dying in prison.

[@denisesudell2538]

@@Luvclub30He didn't die in prison--he committed suicide to avoid arrest for child p0rn.

[@lynettebr]

​@Luvclub30 he didnt die in prison. He killed himself before he was placed into prison

[@nita409]

I think S2E3 of Friends The One Where Heckles Dies is more disturbing since Chandler worries he will die alone and sadly he did.

[@canaanzaghawski1478]

And Perry never had children or got married. So he really did die alone.

[@KathyKelly-lw2gg]

So sad 😢. Miss him!

[@thatgirlwearingglasses4133]

That’s a stretch.

[@nita409]

@@thatgirlwearingglasses4133 what’s a stretch?

[@susanjohnson5175]

Agreed.

[@chantayk]

This Cosby one at the end....😩

[@ricknelson6405]

I would have put Norm Macdonald saying goodbye to David Letterman on his last appearance as #1. Nobody knew he was sick, but he did, and he knew it was going the be the last time he saw Dave.

[@patrickdoyle6201]

I still find it humorously ironic that Norm, Alex Trebek & Sean Connery all died within a year of each other

[@adamrasmusson6976]

The bill Cosby barbecue sauce is the creepiest. Watching it again, all the signs were there.

[@martinwestern3334]

The Family Guy episode where Stewie runs naked through the mall screaming "I just escaped from Kevin Spacey's Basement"

[@williamgiesen4910]

There was also a sketch that Farley did when he was a cast member called “The Relapse Guy” it was series of occurrences where Farley is sober but then “comically” relapses and wrecks the lives of everyone around him. It was pretty much a blueprint of his life

[@kingrama2727]

SNL had so many “inside” jokes with the skits that we never knew..

[@oventi_]

Snowden's actions were positive. State surveillance needs to be known and severely regulated. Privacy is important.

[@havanadaurcy1321]

Fled to Russia the coward. Only positive is he loathes Assange for being a fool

[@kingrama2727]

What good came out of it?? Nothing..

[@kingrama2727]

@@havanadaurcy1321lol ok tough guy calm down

[@wvu05]

So, the guy who hates government secrets goes to a country run by the former head of the KGB where dissidents _happen_ to fall out of windows a lot, and he's been fine for well over a decade? No, he didn't provide Putin with something useful!

[@vikingsong2068]

He leaked the BNP membership list which resulted in a lot of people being sacked from their jobs and worse. He's scum.

[@crystalshaw8744]

The late great Phil Hartman. R.I.P.

[@billblake9665]

Man if you never saw his last snl episode as a cast member its great.

[@patrickdoyle6201]

He was around for my life up until that point (PEE-WEE, SIMPSONS, SNL)

[@usuckthereturn]

The Chris Farley episode was sad at the time not after the fact…his addiction was well known

[@ericcrane5968]

I'm surprise Watch MoJo didn't included the WWE Monday Night Raw episode back in April 2014 when the Ultimate Warrior gave a speech that overshadowed his death the very next day. What was even more strange is that in his speech he mentions (something like) when his heart beats the final time in his chest, only to die by a heart attack the very next day. That to me is very disturbing (going by the theme of this video).

[@dhenderson1810]

I think he knew something and never made it public. He had refused induction into the HoF for many years and was on bad terms with the company, yet did a 180 and embraced it. Reportedly, he had done that with other things as well prior to his death. There is a thought that maybe he was making amends and getting things in order, suggesting he knew he didn't have long. It is too coincidental if he had no idea what would happen next. I think he knew something wasn't right in his body and never let on.

[@minkhollow]

There's one episode of Mythbusters that really hits different after Grant Imahara's death - the one where they have him live-test whether trying to shrink-fit skinny jeans by wearing them in a bathtub will give you a blood clot. I have sad feelings seeing him in most episodes, but considering it was a brain aneurysm that got him, that particular one is tough now.

[@kaydwessie296]

😢

[@kl.15]

There's also a Friend's episode where Chandler says, "I'm gonna die alone." Earlier seasons, but still sad foreshadowing.

[@bloodrunsclear]

In the SNL opening where Chris says 'After the show I'll drink till I spew' is a pretty haunting beat given how he died

[@phantomrequim]

Its hard for me to watch Friends now since Chandler's his eerie prediction came true, but I do because I miss Matthew Perry.

[@jclabrador_2003]

Same, here. Same.

[@tomjohns2208]

The episode of WWE Raw immediately following Chris Benoit’s death. Which would later be revealed as not just a regular run of the mill premature wrestler death, of which there are A LOT. But rather a double murder suicide.

[@GetYourBeaks]

Yeah that went from "We miss our friend" to "A tragedy has happened" during the broadcast.

[@Hellmore94]

I recorded that episode on VHS not knowing that he had died. It was supposed to be a 3 hour "supershow" that wound up being a tribute to a murderer. I just found that VHS tape 2 weeks ago.

[@ericcrane5968]

I remember that episode. I believe William Regal was the first one to give an interview on live TV AFTER news started spreading that it was a murder/suicide. Go back and watch Regal. You can tell by his demeanor that he knew something before the world started hearing of what really happened.

[@TheoRae8289]

Someone went to do their memorial segment, and apparently overhead someone talking about how Chris might have been the killer, and you could see their body language completely change. It might have been Regal, but I can't remember exactly who it was. Either it was him or someone overhead him saying it. I remember being slightly confused when it happened. Because they clearly went from ready to tell some story to just an acknowledgment that the situation was tragic.

[@dhenderson1810]

​@@TheoRae8289 Regal seemed to be not that surprised that Chris did it, apparently.

[@connorjordan3551]

OJ debate? There is no debate. Guilty. Got away with it. The end.

[@kingrama2727]

He didn’t do it

[@donniemedlin4217]

Yes he did lol now we have a debate

[@bamacopeland4372]

Technically he's innocent in the eyes of the law.

[@ront769]

@@bamacopeland4372 He's since faced the Last judge and Johnny Cochrane wasn't there to save him.

[@KadeemG61]

Yes, it’s a debate. Yes, he is infamous for the murder, but that doesn’t mean he was acquitted. Even though he passed away, he is a hero and a villain. So I respect the black man.

[@MelissaJames-kv4cj]

All those years Redd Foxx did Sanford and Son and his character Fred Sanford would fake his heart attacks, he would years later end up dying of a fatal heart attack.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

I remember seeing someone joke, “This time it really was the big one, Elizabeth.”

[@MelissaJames-kv4cj]

@@karaoconnoraliasraidra I feel a little guilty for laughing but that was a good one!!!

[@bluelanternkitty8324]

It was during a rehearsal. He fell to the floor and at first everyone thought he was doing his old Fred Sanford schtick. But he didn't get right up. When he asked someone to get his wife, Della Reese (his co-star) called the paramedics I don't think those few seconds would have made a difference; he was resucitated and transported alive to the hospital but passed later that night.

[@BisolaAdebija]

Static shock (2000) tackles serious issues like poverty, bullying, homelessness, school shootings, crime, gang related violence, riots, etc. An episode in Static shock was about Jimmy, a nerdy and quiet boy who was always bullied, but nothing was done to prevent it. He felt that the only way for the bullying to stop was by killing his bully. He brought his dad's gun to school and pointed it at his bully. No one was hurt, but only Richie was injured. I think the episode was aired 2 years after the Columbine shooting.

[@Rocketlux]

It was a year after

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Static shock was and still is an awesome show

[@Kowalski09]

The DCAU is amazing I’ve watched Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Static, JL, and JL Unlimited, I’m about to start Batman Beyond

[@CatDaddyMane]

After....not before which means it didn't predict anything really.

[@mistermattmoose]

i remember reading a real life case like that, a very small h.s. boy was constantly bullied by this huge jock, nothing was done, so he shot and killed the kid after school one day. i think i saw it in time or people, waiting in a doctor's office. it happened in the late 80's or early 90's if i remember right. also, i think it was out west in tex. or calif. it's possible static shock episode was based on that.

[@tyrannozilla]

We still miss you, Chris.

[@TheoRae8289]

And Phil D:

[@patrickdoyle6201]

K still haven't watched SMALL SOLDIERS

[@sureshmukhi2316]

There was an episode of Mork and Mindy where Mork meets Robin Williams. This line is spoken: "When you're a celebrity, everybody wants a piece of you, sir. Unless you can say no, there'll be no pieces left for yourself. To get that, you have to pay a very heavy price. You have responsibilities, anxieties, and to be honest, sir, some of them can't take it." Knowing now that Robin Williams actually committed suicide in Aug 2014, that line sure resonates

[@revinevan87]

He had luey(sp?) body dementia.

[@sureshmukhi2316]

@@revinevan87 ...which is?

[@GiaMarieCarangi]

@@sureshmukhi2316it’s Lewy body dementia. Google it.

[@ben4054]

​​@@sureshmukhi2316 A degenerative brain disorder. He took his own life because he didn't want to wait until he couldn't make the decision for himself, anymore.

[@alec57]

He commited suicide because he had a naturally occuring disease. Not because of any of the reasons in that paragraph. Not anxiety, not responsibilities, and not from the stress of being a celebrity. Really not relevant.

[@melissacooper8724]

This wasn't on the list but there was an episode of The Monkees that was disturbing. In the episode "The Monsterus Monkee Mash" there was a scene where Michael and Micky were remaining. Peter and Davy had disappeared thanks to some vampires. Micky had mentioned that if something happened to Mike than he would go solo. I felt that somehow Micky Dolenz had predicted that he would be the last surviving Monkee!

[@TheYoungDoctor]

He sings something like "Hey, hey I'm the Monkee".

[@CandiceVidito32]

Anything with OJ Simpson is bound to end up disturbing.

[@Slayde.Wilson]

​@FakeCarAccountSilence

[@CommentBotHater]

​​@FakeCarAccountGot a life outside of trolling/harrassing others with your clearly existing alts for no reason? You clearly don't Touch grass and admit to YOUR bullying, why don't you

[@tiananesbitt7156]

😬 Cosby ew!

[@Reaperguy67]

@FakeCarAccount you have a sad existence because you find the need to bully people all day from multiple accounts.

[@Reaperguy67]

@Lucid_speed it does . He needs to stop bullying people just like black hat does.

[@JessePerez-vr7nn]

It's scary how Television foreshadows real life Actors deaths. In the golden girls they were talking about death and they were all sitting in the order in which they died in real life. Then Betty WHITE says "what happens when there's only one of us left"? And she was the last golden girl to die in real life. Then Mathew Perry, also Shannen Doherty was the first sister killed in Charmed and she died in real life.

[@billblake9665]

The riverdale episode that that was a tribute to luke perry was cool because we find out he died....shoving a girl out of the way of a car......it was shannen.

[@JessePerez-vr7nn]

@billblake9665 that's insane! I didn't know that. I've never seen Riverdale. I've heard of it though. I also heard of the episode she guest starred in, to pay tribute to him. I didn't know the plot though.

[@dhenderson1810]

​JessePerez-vr7nn While Shannen Doherty had few friends on the set of 90210, she and Perry became friends late in his life and she asked to appear in the episode to pay tribute to him.

[@KadeemG61]

Phil Hartman’s final SNL episode in 1994 was heartbreaking and sad in one segment where Chris Farley sing goodbye to Phil on his last show. After I watched the Dark Side of the 90’s episode on SNL, it’s chilling and haunting that segment was played a role in the tragic deaths of Farley (died in Dec. 1997 of an overdose) and Hartman (Died one year later in 1998 after his wife murdered him before taking her own life).

[@patrickdoyle6201]

I don't think it played a role but neither of them made it 5 more years and while Farley might not be as shocking given what we know now, it's still a 💩 ton more tragic than say watching Christopher Lee

[@BCFBreakfastClubFan]

It was technically a miniseries, but Stephen King's "The Stand" gives me chills in retrospect. Wayyyyy too reminiscent of the pandemic.

[@tsstevensts]

"I asked if the plot of my novel, hijacking planes and flying them into buildings, had been discussed. And he thought about it, looked at me and said, 'Tom, I'm not at liberty to reveal the details on such a scenario. To the best of my knowledge it hadn't been. But next time we meet it will be.'" That was Tom Clancy and he was interviewed about such a plot being rejected by his editor for being too farfetched. I was there, this was right on September 12th Australian time so the evening of the 11th, around 8-9 PM depending on your time zone. No conspiracy here. Bin Laden confessed. Nothing from the Taliban, Al Qaeda, refuting his admission. But Clancy said it, he ran the idea by one of his chiefs of staff friends, that is a fact.

[@DarkknightChris]

What's weird is my father was reading that book in a waiting room when suddenly the twin towers were attacked.

[@DukesMusic84]

What we need really is to stop being caught off guard when someone shows up on drugs like Farley or shows up drunk. Until we're willing to have tough counversations, you guys are gonna keep making videos about how we should have known better or should have picked up on XYZ. It's about doing it.

[@GetYourBeaks]

Imagine showing up at a 9-5 job blitzed out of your mind. Even once, much less being known for it. There's a lot of enablers around entertainers. And fans have some role in this too because the same people that loved Amy Winehouse were surprised she died. We all loved wacky and wild Chris Farley right? It's sad.

[@RobertGreenwald]

Homer vs the City of New York from the Simpson - the moment Bart holds up an advertisement that they could take a bus to New York City for only $9. To the right of that image of a 9 are the World Trade Center towers creating an 11.

[@DarkPhoenixSaga]

Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't mention it.

[@dhenderson1810]

You should do the same one about movies. I have a movie one. It is about a movie from 2011 called "Contagion". The premise is that a man (Matt Damon) discovers his wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) dead after she fells ill after coming back from a trip. The next day, his son gets ill and dies. Suddenly, it is revealed that a new deadly disease killed them, and others are dying now. It is a contagious deadly disease. In the movie, some of the following things happen:- (1) It is caused by touching an infected person or they touch you, or something that the infected person touched. (2) It becomes a global disease, sweeping the world and there is mass panic. (3) They have a scene of hundreds dead in the streets from the disease, which was reported happening during COVID. (4) Another character in the film is played by Jude Law. He plays a conspiracy theorist who thinks the whole thing is a hoax and it is made up by government to control people. (5) At the end of the fllm, it shows how the wife caught the disease. She got it by shaking hands with a chef who hadn't washed his hands, and he had been making food that had been eaten by a bat. It is amazing how close this film gets to predicting COVID-19. It is a fantasy film and this was nine years before COVID-19 struck the world. Eerie.

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

I remember that after a few months into lockdown in my country one channel broadcasted a grindhouse of "Contagion" followed by Dustin Hoffman's "Outbreak" (called "Deadly Virus" in my country) one after another and there were some protests from a group of people against the network for their "bad taste"

[@fuelledbylattes]

I watched it during the first lockdown in the UK, because it was at that "laugh or cry" stage of disbelief. I also watched Outbreak. Both hit too close to what actually happened to be comfortable. More especially Contagion than Outbreak, but bow HOWDY watching both one after the other was just slightly terrifying. Also, re: Jude Law's character, don't forget that he tries to peddle a drug that he KNOWS isn't a cure, because he'll make money off of it.

[@BCFBreakfastClubFan]

Watch "The Stand" if you haven't already. Wayyyy too close to covid, the disease is so similar. It's like the flu on steroids.

[@pepperjackttv]

0:11 respect Chris Farley's hops though

[@superdrawio5478]

One thing I wish was on this list: Phil Hartman's last appearance on News Radio was more iconic and...also predicted what was going to happen to him. A few episodes built up to it but a final joke predicted the future before "Bill movies on"

[@marcpower4167]

On an episode of The Dating Game one of the bachelors was Rodney Alcala. He was actually chosen for the date. However after meeting him the lady declined the date saying she picked up a creepy vobe from him. Years later it was discovered he was a notorious serial killer who had committed several murders. Talk about dodging a bullet for that lady.

[@TheoRae8289]

IIRC he was a bachelor on there at least twice

[@denisesudell2538]

Anna Kendrick just directed and stars in a movie about that whole debacle. It's called Woman of the Hour, IIRC.

[@patrickdoyle6201]

​@@denisesudell2538yes, it's in NETFLIX

[@tiffinfilion]

Lone Gunman / March 4, 2001 ?! Damn...that one was way too close.

[@XLgameBRO]

person of interest was SO DAMN GOOD.

[@jhaarbur]

One lesser known one comes from the 1990's sci-fi show "SeaQuest DSV". In the show, one of the stars of the show was actor Jonathan Brandis, who played the character Lucas Wolenczak, a super genius college student that was able to pull a few strings and become part of the crew of the submarine’s scientific department. In real life, Jonathan Brandis’ acting career stalled significantly after the show ended. In 2002, he hoped to revive his career in the WWII war movie ‘’Hart’s War’’. Unfortunately, the movie wasn’t as successful as he hoped, and it didn’t help his career. On November 12th, 2003, Brandis committed suicide by hanging himself in his apartment in LA, after being disappointed by the lack of success the movie contributed to his waning career. In season 1, episode 9, called "The Regulator", there is a scene where some of the crew is watching a news report. In the news report, a genius fakes his own suicide. At one point in the scene, the captain says: "...And he faked his own death to get away from the ridicule of his peers." Lucas Wolenczak, Brandis' character, then says "I can sympathize with that." It is followed by a few awkward moments of silence by the other crew in the scene, and he never elaborates on what he meant by that specifically. ***This episode aired on November 21st, 1993, and he himself committed suicide on November 12th, 2003!

[@AndreaDoesYoga]

😱 The real-life context truly makes these episodes chilling. 📺

[@djarthurlooby]

Many of the Simpsons episodes that predicted so much.

[@smoothALOE]

The Midnight Sun episode of The Twilight Zone is still one of the most frightening things I’ve ever watched. It’s so damn good, though. Great twist at the end.

[@chadhenry961]

So I heard back in 1984 OJ Simpson was considered to play the original Terminator but James Cameron felt that OJ was too likable and innocent to portray a killer 😂

[@aleksandarvil5718]

FR ?!??

[@patrickdoyle6201]

I heard it was a a focus group that reunited as his jury 😹

[@chadhenry961]

@@aleksandarvil5718 yes for real look it up

[@lindaouellette6656]

NO. 9 “you have been running a high fever” WELL the blankets don’t help!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheoRae8289]

back then there was a belief of "starve a cold, feed a fever."

[@marianmoore-taylor3165]

My grandmother did the same. It was used to “sweat out” the fever

[@jessicaballantyne5825]

What got me is when that girl fell to her death, in front of her friends. That is just awful.

[@667neighborofdabeast]

I was really surprised to see Grange Hill included in this but yeah Laura Sadler’s death in real life was oddly similar to her tv characters death.

[@zaphod100]

To be fair, you can watch just about any tv show episode, and find something “disturbing” in it, if you look closely

[@andyc66612]

I remember hearing about the girl from Glee that drowned and she performed on the show a song about dying young and being put in a river….its a stretch but still eerie

[@mrmusickhimself]

I remember watching that SNL episode as a kid, and I thought Chris was just REALLY sick. Technically I was right. The fact they had to have Chris Rock co-sign for him and stay on set as a possible backup host is heartbreaking.

[@pacman52280]

Glenn Quinn's final appearance on the TV show Angel was on November 30, 1999, in which his character, Doyle, died. 3 years and 3 days later, he died of an overdose.

[@daynaabel8618]

"Is that it? Am I done?"

[@evilsizer4428]

The episode of Scrubs in the mid/late 2000s, where The Janitor jokingly suggests that Bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, and it's played off for laughs.

[@kimwhiting5599]

It’s almost a year since Matthew Perry died and I’ve still not been able to watch an episode of Friends 😢

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

Every That 70's Show episode ever!

[@Dangerzone334ArchiveOfficial]

Exactly, Danny Masterson makes everything disturbing now

[@jclabrador_2003]

​@@Dangerzone334ArchiveOfficialI agree with no doubt.

[@gibbeynator]

"He got arrested for loving me!" "Oh, because you're like 12 or something?"

[@nicolamarchbank1846]

My goodness the Laura Sadler inclusion is deep cut for a North American channel. I don't know whether to applaud the researchers or curse them for being reminded of the sad waste of life and potential a young person in the prime of their life and going places in their chosen career suggests but can never quite reach, nevermind the eerie coincidence at the heart of her inclusion here.

[@Trix897]

I remember I read the story that Midnight Sun was based on in elementary school. It freaked me out then and looking back on it, it freaks me out now.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

"The Midnight Sun" actually was released in the same year as THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, a British sci-fi disaster classic that also had the Earth moving towards the sun, but as a result of simultaneous H-bomb tests by the US and USSR. Even so, it also depicted disasters caused by human activities, including droughts, storms, rising heat waves and more. It's my Top Favorite Disaster Film and one of my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time!

[@kaydwessie296]

Today I learned MLK liked Star Trek!

[@lisasharf1442]

He was responsible for Nichelle Nichols staying with the show after the first season, too.

[@TheoRae8289]

@@lisasharf1442 yup! When they met, she mentioned wanting to quit and he begged her not to.

[@justjennie7394]

He was the one who convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show when she was considering quitting

[@PatBrooks-u6w]

Only because there was a black woman who wasn't a maid or something similar. I doubt he actually gave a $h!t about it because of the stories.

[@ThisIsJ.Nicole]

No. He encouraged her because his kids looked up to her as well. He really was a fan.​@@PatBrooks-u6w

[@SEC-s6l]

There was an episode of the original Law & Order where they had an outbreak of SARS/Covid

[@HawaiiBlack]

For a long time, "Walkout" was not included in the In the Heat reruns. I didn't see it for about 10 years or more.

[@brennensanchez7692]

Dwight's comment of 'needing a new plague' in an The Office episode come to mind as well.

[@Babyboots1]

The DS9 episode is definitely similar to current events, but let's not forget that life for us was pretty shitty for thousands of years prior to around the 1900s

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

This One Doesn't Count But Death Picks Cotton from King Of The Hill (1997-2010) the one where Cotton Hill dies but with my biological Father dying In 2019 and Stepfather passing In April of this year It hits a little too close to home In my opinion

[@darkmyro]

my life has a lot of weird coincidences with adventure time obviously not like everything( like the post apocalyptic stuff), but have a lot of similar people in my life like the characters in the show.

[@justinprovideo333]

OJ Simpson showed promise as an actor?

[@tapockesci1171]

The OJ One is even more eerie when you watch the episode. in that scene there's a blues song playing in the background and one of the lines is " you know you done me wrong Baby and you'll be sorry someday ".

[@AndiSplatterpunk]

OJ is dead?? Well shit..had no idea

[@dhenderson1810]

And, in an amazing coincidence, the person who killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman died the same day.

[@Shorty_Lickens]

I dont recall seeing ANY episodes of the twilight zone but I actually remember that one. Wild. When did I see it??

[@nemorogers2290]

What is also disturbing about another Friends episode, in one of the early seasons, is Chandler finds himself comparing his life to Mr Heckles says, “I’m gonna die alone.” This so incredibly sad. So I’m also commenting on this video half way through it, but when Rose from Golden Girls asked the question, “What happens when there’s only one of us is left?” Betty White was the last of the Golden Girls to pass away.

[@walkingtalkingstevenhawkin6831]

"And then matthew perry would go on to die, just like his character chandler predicted.. 30 YEARS LATER 🤯"

[@dimidrugg9592]

The tragic irony is that he died *first,* like Chandler says in that episode.

[@dhenderson1810]

There was an episode of "Growing Pains" where Matthew Perry guest starred as Carol's boyfriend. His character ends up in hospital after drink driving, and the twist is that, at the end of the episode, he dies. Not only is it disturbing because they kill him off, but the character had an addiction (except it was alcohol, not drugs).

[@civilwildman]

@@dhenderson1810 *drunk driving

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

@@civilwildmanI think they call drunk driving “drink driving” in the UK, but I could be wrong.

[@GaddZZooks]

The SNL episode where Hartman and Christian Slater were on playing Jeopardy should be the top of this list.

[@johnathonkelly5117]

What are talking about?

[@mathewk6026]

@@johnathonkelly5117I’d also like to know

[@williamgiesen4910]

@@johnathonkelly5117 it was a sketch called “Dysfunctional Family Feud” Hartman played a verbally/emotionally abusive father, Christian Slater who hosted that week played one of his sons who makes reference to owning a gun with intent to use it on Phil

[@brandonmcallister3606]

I just love when the Twilight Zone gets it's flowers, iconic series fr

[@dhenderson1810]

So that is disturbing in "Twilight Zone" , but three people being killed onscreen for real, isn't?

[@catmanjones5881]

@@dhenderson1810 Your reply has nothing to do with what he said.

[@have_at_it_hoss]

I actually haven't heard of a few of these before.

[@BethMDowney]

I still can't really watch the Season Four episode of Glee, "Sweet Dreams," because it shows Cory Monteith's character Finn partying hard in college. His last performance was Beastie Boys' "You've Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party." It was his last episode before going into rehab, and his last episode of the series....he would die of an overdose the summer before the fifth season.

[@kl.15]

There's so much in that show! Puck singing, "Only the Good Die Young." Them asking where they see themselves in 10 years and Puck says, "Jail. Dead. Or both." Santana singing, "If I Die Young." I can't watch that show without noticing it all. I know there's more I'm forgetting.

[@danwindler9400]

I know one episode from Kids WB! Cartoon show Road Rovers, "A Hair of the Dog That Bit You", In this episode A werewolf pack attacks London and transforms several citizens, including the British royal family. include Princess Diana and Prince Charles, Round that time Charles and Diana were divorce and a year later Diana was killed in car crash which involved fleeing Photographers, The Scene was removed after the episode aired., You should added it in future Most Disturbing TV Episodes list.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

I’ve seen people claim, “People stopped watching Person of Interest because it was too intellectual!” No, it’s because it got weird. Eventually they came up with a rival computer/AI system named Samaritan that had sinister goals and was somehow capable of taking control of people. I saw part of an episode in which seizure patients (or maybe it was Parkinson’s patients) had implants to control their seizures/tremors and someone claimed, “Samaritan put implants in them! It did it to show it’s in control!” Or, you know, it could have been a regular hospital performing standard medical procedures and some supercomputer had Jack all to do with it? It would have been more interesting if the Samaritan thing was just someone’s delusion, showing that they had lost their sanity completely and the heroes had been chasing an imaginary foe, but nope, the writers really went with the “A computer is doing it! Don’t ask questions!” route. It’s like viewers started saying, “You know, it’s odd that people spying on civilians without their knowledge are being portrayed as heroes…” and the writers went, “Oh, um, well, actually there’s a big villain they have to fight!” and came up with the Samaritan nonsense to try to dodge the issue. Really they stopped being intellectual because instead of solely examining a controversial topic they did an equivalent of, “Look, a killer robot! Whee!”

[@reverbscherzo7850]

Agreed! A similar thing happened to Sliders. A really good show until they decided to have a 'war' with the Kromags. Suddenly, there were sliders everywhere doing battle in different worlds, it stopped being about the different worlds, and was just about the wars. DS9 did it too. Great show, ruined by the war with the Dominion. When will they learn to leave the so-called 'intellictual' shows alone? Not everything has to be a giant hit with constant battles and terrorist attacks raging. Let us have some shows for us, please.

[@christieburris]

RIP Mathew Perry ❤

[@Xxxero42]

1. OJ was the first choice for the terminator. But the ppl behind the scenes didn't buy him as a killer. 2. I think the scene where Chris Farley tried out to be a Chippendales dancer was even worse. Even Bob Odenkirk says that.

[@AcidCasper17]

On The Sopranos when they did Christopher’s intervention, he tells Tony that he’ll have a heart attack by the time he’s 50… James Gandolfini died oh a heart attack at 51.😢

[@obviouslytom]

"record high temperatures". Thats funny because there were a lot hotter temperatures just 100 years ago and you can clearly find all of the records on it

[@happychaosofthenorth]

I'm pretty sure that Twilight Zone episode took place in a location that didn't typically get those temperatures. It has been a while since I've seen it though. I think it was set in NYC?

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Mistaken identity - the fresh prince of bel air

[@danwindler9400]

Abyssinia, Henry should be mention in this video, 21 years after season 3 finale of M*A*S*H, Mclean Stevenson became the first cast member to passed away on February 15, 1996 at the age of 68

[@mitcho590]

The bell riots from ds9 was great. The date in the show only recently past as well. I set a reminder like 7 years ago and randomly my homepod went off lol

[@denizbozkurttube9149]

The sopranos episode where Christopher says that Tony would die of a heart attack by the time he is 50. In real life, 6 years after the series end James Gandolfini died while in Italy of a heart attack he was 51.

[@GMax17]

"Global Warming wasn't coined until 1975". Oh please, are you saying Earth is moving away/closer to the sun because of all the cars we drive? Maybe we should build large steel plates that surround Earth to keep the tectonic plates from moving?

[@sixxpoisonkiss]

Thats not at all what was said, insinuated, hinted at, nothing even close was said about global warming being from the earth moving closer to the sun.

[@dhenderson1810]

Climate change killed the dinosaurs, it isn't just man made.

[@tpgorman15]

I feel like this entire list is a mish mash of events you tried to make related. Prime example is the Matthew Perry thing from Friends. It’s almost as if you’re insinuating that a random throw away line from a 20 year old episode is immoral becuase of how Perry died. Additionally, as a recovering addict myself it does bug me how much when a celebrity dies of an overdose or some other form of drug/alcohol related illness the whole world stops to mourn and say poor them. Then it’s a with hunt to sentence the dealers & anyone involved. However, when any non celebrity dies of an overdose it’s just looked at as some low life scum that couldn’t get clean. Or if you inform on a dealer you’re seen as a snitch. I accept full responsibility for my actions, as do a good number of recovering addicts, but the hypocrisy in which we are viewed in relation to “more famous” people with similar issues is BS. Fame shouldn’t make you a martyr, and those celebrities that have managed to survive addiction and live to see another day should be the ones who advocate for better treatment of all recovering addicts regardless of your life standing.

[@AdamFeldmanNYC]

I was in the live audience for that Farley SNL episode. His voice was terribly faint and hoarse and he would collapse into a sweaty heap after every sketch. My companion at the show turned to me halfway through and said, “I think Chris Farley is going to have a heart attack on live TV.” It was hard to watch.

[@TheYoungDoctor]

"Flippin' 'eck Benny" Grange Hill getting a mention and it's not on the WatchMojoUK channel.

[@robinreality9979]

Barney Miller show, Trilateral commission "hey Ronnie, it's George, goodbye".. (This show was aired, before President Bush came in, as president)

[@nataliapola6988]

I’m surprised that Shannon Doherty wasn’t on the list who played Brenda Walsh on 90210 . There was an episode where she thought she had breast cancer because she lump one of her breast. Shannon Doherty died around a month ago due to severe breast cancer. She was battling for years and then came back.

[@richardfx27]

Family guy episode turban cowboy The Boston bombings Family guy episode baby not on bored. Robin Williams

[@chadb9270]

Look up Bill Cosby talking about his barbecue sauce on the Cosby show. Looking back now, that’s bad.

[@COMPFUNK2]

Farley also had a hoarse voice throughout the entire episode.

[@xtheflabeox8813]

And then we had the Dock Workers strike and people started hoarding toilet paper again

[@cheffanie1752]

How I miss the Twilight Zone and The Dark Side But it feels it would just be like normal life now, BIZARRE

[@sallybranson6042]

I remember watching the SNL episode where Chris Farley hosted. I was 12 but I kept thinking, this isn't right. I kept telling my mom that this isn't an act. There's something wrong with him and everyone else is concerned.