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Notabug

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Still a shocker: Carter and Lucy on ER:

 

https://youtu.be/9AdUR_2IhzY?si=Xr3tg1-imuwZN5jy

For months afterwards, people would show up on the ER fan sites to talk about it.  Most common question?  What was the song playing?  Answer: Battleflag by the Low Fidelity All Stars.

This scene was at the end of one episode.  The opening scene of the following episode when Kerry finally finds them is also amazing.

Both episodes were stellar.  ER Season 6. Be Still My Heart and All in the Family.

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Blergh

Blergh

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One moment that came out if nowhere that wound up a total shocker:Rosalind getting the shaft in L.A. Law.

She had gone from being the firm's nemesis to being the senior partner Leland's companion but just as the two were on the verge of breaking up   ,she stepped through the open elevator door to hop on the elevator she assumed was waiting for her- only to plummet down said empty shaft. No I sure didn't see that one coming!

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Palimelon

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The Alias season 2 finale cliffhanger was one huge WTF moment. Yeah, what we ended up getting in season 3 wasn't a satisfying explanation/resolution to it, but man, a great scene building up slowly - Sydney waking up in Hong Kong with no memory of how she got there, having a scar on her torso, Vaughn suddenly wearing a wedding ring - to "You've been missing for almost two years".

Man, seasons 1 and 2 of Alias were such great TV.

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No I sure didn't see that one coming!

Neither did Rosalind.

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andromeda331

andromeda331

15 hours ago, Notabug said:

Still a shocker: Carter and Lucy on ER:

 

https://youtu.be/9AdUR_2IhzY?si=Xr3tg1-imuwZN5jy

For months afterwards, people would show up on the ER fan sites to talk about it.  Most common question?  What was the song playing?  Answer: Battleflag by the Low Fidelity All Stars.

This scene was at the end of one episode.  The opening scene of the following episode when Kerry finally finds them is also amazing.

Both episodes were stellar.  ER Season 6. Be Still My Heart and All in the Family.

My mom was a huge ER fan. She talked about that scene for weeks afterwards.

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Blergh

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12 hours ago, AgathaC said:

According to my grandparents, one of my great uncles was so upset and traumatized, he never watched that show again.

I remember watching it on TV when it was first broadcast in 1975 and I will never forget Mama literally bursting into tears in front of me over this.

Yes, we warmed up to Colonel Potter (and I was relieved that he had the backbone Col. Blake had lacked) however Mama always had a soft spot for Col.  Blake for the rest of the show's time.

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Mabinogia

Mabinogia

6 minutes ago, Blergh said:

Yes, we warmed up to Colonel Potter (and I was relieved that he had the backbone Col. Blake had lacked) however Mama always had a soft spot for Col.  Blake for the rest of the show's time.

I loved Col. Potter but Blake's death, he was such a simple guy. The thing that always struck me about MASH is that these weren't really soldier, fighters, they were doctors, healers and they were stuck in the middle of a nightmare. All Henry wanted was to go home, back to his life. The only thing that makes it bearable is knowing that he died happy, on his way home. (I know he's not a real person, but according to my uncle who was in a MASH unit back in the 70s, it was very accurate in its depiction of how these medical non-soldiers dealt with being in hell, so that makes them feel very real, in a way that, I can imagine that really having happened to at least one man coming back from war.)

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Spartan Girl

Spartan Girl

Does anyone remember the Aladdin series? Well, there was a particular episode called “The Lost Ones” that was arguably one of the darkest ones in the entire show. Aladdin has to save this street kid from being turned into the El Katib—a group of missing children that Mirage has been changing into monsters over the years, including Aladdin’s childhood friend Amal. When Amal and the rest of the monsters try to rebel against Mirage…she reveals that they’ll die by sunrise unless she takes them back to the shadow realm. Amal still refuses, and Mirage destroys the portal. And although the kid and Amal wind up surviving, the rest of the missing children turned monsters aren’t so lucky.

Quoting a Tumblr recap to stress how much of a WTF this moment is:

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Let me be more specific, here: Mirage barred the way for the El Katib to return to the Realm of Shadows, and abandoned all of them there to die. These are all children who were coerced into joining the kinship, who have known nothing but the blackness and space and whatever camaraderie could be had between the lot of them, and her – the closest thing any of them have to a parent.

These are all children, at least mentally, and she leaves them all to die.

Here’s the kicker:

THEY. FUCKING. DIE.

Mirage just murdered a bunch of children. ON THE DISNEY AFTERNOON.

 

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tearknee

tearknee

On 10/26/2024 at 9:30 AM, Blergh said:

One moment that came out if nowhere that wound up a total shocker:Rosalind getting the shaft in L.A. Law.

She had gone from being the firm's nemesis to being the senior partner Leland's companion but just as the two were on the verge of breaking up   ,she stepped through the open elevator door to hop on the elevator she assumed was waiting for her- only to plummet down said empty shaft. No I sure didn't see that one coming!

Wasn't that character played by the single season stand-in for Bev Crusher on TNG? (Though at least Muldaur got to act in a TNG ep with Nikki Cox. Also, Gates McFadden sounds like a town in the English Midlands...)

Spartan Girl

Spartan Girl

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Another big WTF moment from Aladdin was the reveal that Mozenrath’s gauntlet was hiding a hide that was nothing more than bones. He literally gave the flesh on his arm for his dark magic. Once again, this was a kid’s show.

Watching that when I was little freaked me out big time. The Disney Afternoon was not afraid to go hardcore.

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Blergh

Blergh

As long as we're talking WTF moments on kids' shows. Under the umbrella of a rather goofy Saturday morning show called The Banana Splits (that seemed more tailored for the Romper Room set) there was a teen adventure series called 'Danger Island' (which featured, of all people, the late Jan-Michael Vincent in his first notable role). Anyway, 'Danger Island' (1968-1969)was about this kidnapped professor's teen daughter (Ronne Troupe- later Chip's teen bride in My Three Sons) and his assistant (Vincent)  trying to find and free the academic from bloodthirsty pirates in a somewhat vague ocean locale. The teen quickly team up with a pair of the pirates' victims Elihu Morgan (Rockne Tarkington) and Chongo (Kim Kahana,Sr.) . Anyway, Elihu and Chongo proved to be the new Skipper and Gilligan wannabees of the motley crew with such antics as Chongo virtually wrecking their bunks when it was time to sleep (funny to watch- as long as one didn't consider how many hours this 'ritual' had to take. .every night). Chongo would usually inadvertently cause some unintended disaster which would lead to the others saying the show's catchphrase 'Uh-oh CHON-GOH!'. Alas, when having been captured by the pirates, they somehow had tortured Chongo so that he could no longer speak but could only communicate through bird and monkey sounds!

OK, the good news is that the series DID have the professor found and freed with the pirates vanquished. ..but here's where the WTF comes in. While the others are ready to go home, Elihu flatly refuses ... because he doesn't want to chance Chongo being considered a freak and outcast in the outside world and he believes that he (Elihu) must stay behind to watch out and care for Chongo! I mean it's great he wants to make sure Chongo is cared for but to isolate oneself from one's 30's onward to do so?! And why didn't anyone pipe up the possibility of them seeing if Chongo might possibly respond to some intense therapy to attempt to see if he could overcome the trauma from the pirates' torture that had left him a mute to regain his speech so he could live a productive and autonomous life?

And ALL the above was for teens who'd hung around watching their kid sibs' umbrella Saturday morning show!

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