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There’s a great conversation taking place over on MetaFilter about “very special episodes,” and especially the ones that traumatized you as a child. It all starts with a dim memory of a “Too Close for Comfort” ep, shown only once, in which Monroe (the Jm J. Bullock character) was kidnapped and raped by two women.
Do you remember this? I don’t, but it’s evidently a faint memory for enough people to create that phenomenon of “did I really see that or am I imagining it?” Fascinating.
And then, evidently there was a “Facts of Life” in which all the girls were killed by a serial killer? And a “Different Strokes” in which the guy from “WKRP in Cincinnati” was a pedophile? Punky Brewster, stuck in a cave with kids’ faces coming out of the walls? GAAAAAHHHHHH!
My contribution to the thread is my recollection (shudder) of “Sylvia,” a two-part “Little House on the Prairie” episode in which the little girl is raped and impregnated. By a man wearing a clown/mime mask. Seriously. What the hell was up with family television in the 70s and 80s?
Watch this if you dare:
So, what dimly remembered television from your youth gives you chills to recall? What scared the crap out of you?
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