Rypro 525

I swear there was a thread on this topic already (and I actually thought i started it, but i couldn't find it, so oh well)
lets try to leave this to scripted programing and leave stuff like 9/11 ect out of it.

When Acerveda was raped in season 3 on The Shield
When one of the characters (I don't watch the show enough to know each characters name's) killed (and tortured to some degree) the kids in a season 1 episode of Deadwood
Ryan Chappelle's death in 24

dugan

When a certain scripted sequence in Pokemon physically caused kids to have siezures and sent them convulsing to the hospital. That was pretty disturbing.

MrX

Sleeper Cell from the other day(Spoiled for those that didn't see it)

the big train

I actually mentioned this one in the previous thread, but Deadwood has since surpassed that with Captain Turner v. Dan Dority.

They're kind of different though. One's deliberately distrubing and the other just shockingly horrific.

Lazy Bum

I cringed when Dutch choked the cat on The Shield.

Cartload

Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) beating that hooker to death outside the Badda-Bing in that Season 3 episode of The Sopranos.

As for the Deadwood episode, didn't Kristen Bell play one of those kids? It was pretty disturbing how she looked after she had been severly beaten.

Charlie Goose

M*A*S*H


Sesame Street


Hill Street Blues


Deadwood


The Shield


All in the Family

Palaver

M*A*S*H

Filmmaker

Nothing I've ever seen on fictional TV has topped the reveal of Laura Palmer's killer to the audience in TWIN PEAKS...to this day, I'll never understand how something that creepy and horrifying got past the censors.

RobCA

The X-Files: "Home"

Doc Moonlight

Morrison's rape in ST ELSEWHERE

lordwow

ER

Jimmy James

I'm shocked nobody has mentioned a single event from Oz yet. The same goes for Homicide.

lisadoris

I was just going to add my Homicide vote.

Rockmjd23

I'll second that.

Quatermass

Oooh, I hate when that happens.

wendersfan

Was that the "It is happening again" episode? That was creepy as shit.

Shannon Nutt

You hit the nail on the head. That episode (and the death of Laura's cousin) was the creepiest and scariest thing I've EVER seen on network TV.

Contest over. Filmmaker nailed it.

flagstone

Bletcher's murder in Millennium.

Super X

I always wondered how Jack Morrison stayed sane with all the rotten stuff that happened to him. Seriously, this guy was clearly the precursor to Mark Greene from ER.

Rypro 525

yeah (also ive heard rumors that she got the VM part because of her 2 episodes on Deadwood.)

also, when Mackey shoved that guy's head into a stove to make him talk was a little freaky
and one more
Matt giving himself a circumsision in like the 2nd or 3rd episode of Nip/Tuck

wergo

Not so much disturbing as funny, perhaps, but how about the 'Buffy' episode 'Doublemeat Palace', where a giant penis-monster ejactualates on her face, thereby paralyzing her? (how the mighty have fallen, huh? on the previous season when she went up against a giant snake, she jumped on its back and rode it for all it was worth) Good thing the lesbian was around to deftly avoid getting a facial (lesbians are notoriously good as avoiding penises, I'm led to understand) and managed to grind it up in a meat grinder.

As I was lying on the floor laughing, all I could think was "how did this thing get past the censors?"

dick_grayson

yep. I was 12 when I saw it live on tv with my younger sister. we both freaked out and couldn't watch the rest of the episode. good stuff

Ayre

The CW

obscurelabel

Sticks and Bones (1973)



Thirty-three years later and I still remember this as if it were yesterday. Never re-broadcast or released on home video.

edit: as I write this, the banner ad below my post is for A Scanner Darkly, featuring Robert Downey Jr., the son of the Sticks and Bones director, Robert Downey Sr. This in itself is somewhat disturbing.