Vote up the TV moments that made you want to skip the re-run.
"What is the most traumatic moment in TV history...?" - @russburlingame
Over on Twitter, TV fanatics are discussing their shared trauma when it comes to upsetting moments in popular shows. Kicked off by a sad remembrance of the final moments of Quantum Leap, people are recalling the saddest, most depressing, and deeply traumatic moments of their favorite shows. Vote up the moments that stayed with you long after the credits rolled.
I still think MASH is, overall, the best written TV show ever made. Consistently, deeply, richly human, and filled with many kinds of courage, plenty of laughs, and truckloads of pathos. Just exquisite.
Futurama episode Jurassic Bark. Season 4, Episode 7. Fry, one of the main protagonists, was accidentally frozen for 1,000 years, and his loyal dog, his best friend, sat in front of Panucci's Pizza, waiting for Fry to return from his last delivery.
Futurama with Fry's dog - I actually screamed at the T.V. to the writers that they were evil bastards. I'd also barely watched Scrubs, but I caught this one near the end, and I STILL began sobbing.
— Russ Burlingame, the #JosieBook guy (@russburlingame) April 7, 2022
It was shocking ... then I made peace with it, b/c it meant (at least to me) Sam *chose* to never go home. Because *he'd* made peace w/his higher calling. Though I know the ending was a $$$-saving bottle episode, its stripped-down focus on ideas & not FX gave it eerie gravitas.
