Well, these sitcom moments aged... disturbingly. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for sitcom scenes that take on a darker tone when you get some real-life context.
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00:00Okay, when we come back false salad mistakes plus one of the mole women gets an ambush makeover
00:05Welcome to miss mojo
00:07And today we're counting down our picks for sitcom scenes that take on a darker tone when you get some real life context
00:14At least i'm not hanging out with the girls from the office seeing how much we can eat
00:20Number 10 the robin williams comment community
00:24When abed's strange behavior becomes stranger than usual his fellow community college students gathered to stage a
00:32Psychiatric intervention if abed's sick, then we're all sick
00:36Yeah, you can't determine a person's sanity from a few amusing stories
00:41I mean if anything abed's more sane than any of us
00:45To explain the change troy compares abed to actor robin williams in his later years
00:50You have to understand about abed
00:52He's usually, you know adorable weird like morgue for morgue
00:55But since we got expelled he's been creepy weird like present-day robin william at the time
01:00It was just a cheap joke
01:02But now that we know williams was privately experiencing mental health struggles and dealing with a diagnosis of lewy body dementia
01:09The whole thing leaves a bad taste in our mouths
01:13Another drug. They don't tell you it's a drug
01:15It's a class 4 narcotic alcohol and the only warning they have on a bottle of alcohol is don't drink this if you're pregnant
01:20Bullshit, that's how you got pregnant number one
01:23Williams would take his own life just a couple of years later making the line one. We're sure the writers wish they could take back
01:31Number nine she who remains the golden girls
01:35Seeing that it's a show about a group of women facing their golden years topics like old age and death are often tackled in episodes
01:44This means that viewers watching at the time also had to confront the morality of the performers
01:49And maybe it may not be too long until
01:52We're elderly I say huffs in this scene
01:56The four make a pact to stay together as they age and rose asks what will happen when only one of them is left
02:03Oh, but what a comforting thought knowing you'll never be alone
02:07And listen, what the hell if we do have to go to a nursing home? Let's all go together
02:12All right
02:17What happens when there's only one of us left it's horribly eerie how life imitates art here
02:22Given that actress betty white would go on to outlive her three co-stars by over a decade
02:28It casts a rather disturbing shadow over a touching moment. That's hard to ignore upon rewatch. Don't worry. I can take care of myself
02:35Oh
02:39Number eight sam's eating habits sam and cat
02:43Sam puckett's eating habits became a running joke on i carly and then followed the character over to her spin-off series sam and cat
02:51Let me just eat one more meatball
02:55You said that three meatballs ago
02:58I have a problem
03:00In her memoir titled i'm glad my mom died
03:03Jeanette mccurdy revealed that sam's constant gorging on food had a profound psychological effect on her
03:10You promised me you're eating a healthy breakfast
03:14Super healthy just eating some fresh fruit
03:18As someone who was struggling with disordered eating mccurdy dreaded filming the scenes as they nod at her own insecurities
03:26Although she looks back on the scenes without anger
03:29It definitely makes them harder to revisit for the rest of us
03:33Then again with all the revelations revolving around the network many of the series in their entirety are now difficult to reckon with
03:40I'm, sorry
03:46Number seven terry's incidents brooklyn 99
03:51Lovable sergeant terry jeffords spends the beginning of the show relegated to desk duty and that's with good reason
03:58I'd like you to accompany me to a gun range. You mean drive you there and wait outside
04:03Far away from the guns his anxiety about the dangers of his job left him unable to cope in the field
04:09And in the fifth episode we get a few gag cutaways showing just how quick he was to pull the trigger when scared
04:16I haven't fired a weapon since the incident the mannequin incident i'm familiar
04:21Ah
04:26In the show terry only shoots at inanimate objects
04:30But the parallel to real life reported incidents of excessive force by police since the episode's release
04:36Makes this segment a jolting experience to watch over a decade on you're too good a cop to be shackled to a desk
04:43And you only have one hit until you get recertified. So deep breath, huh?
04:50Take the final shot
04:54Number six matt lauer's comments unbreakable. Kimmy schmidt
04:58Tina fey's whimsical comedy about a woman who broke free of a kidnapper's basement after years of imprisonment
05:05Has a bit of a retrospective jump scare in its first episode cindy
05:09You were the first young woman forced into this cult
05:12Kimmy schmidt appears alongside other kidnapped women who are all interviewed by today's matt lauer
05:19The comment he made would take on a twisted irony down the line tonight the breaking news here at nbc news
05:26Matt lauer fired after a complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior two years after the episode aired
05:32Lauer was accused of several instances of inappropriate and sexual misconduct in the workplace and was subsequently fired
05:41Instead of his character sympathizing with the victims it now appears. He knows exactly the thing to exploit
05:47I'm always amazed at what women will do because they're afraid of being rude number five
05:53expectant mother I dream of genie
05:56Most classic sitcoms as humor is based on some seemingly innocuous misunderstandings
06:02But this episode I dream of genie hits way differently when you know, what was really going on behind the scenes in season five
06:10Genie is mistakenly believed to be pregnant roger. I don't want to disappoint you, but we're not having a baby. You're not
06:17All the characters excitedly discussed genie becoming a mother only to find out it's a huge misunderstanding
06:24It can't have been an easy performance for the show's star
06:28Oh major congratulations
06:30We just found out I think it's wonderful. Mrs. Bellows. I don't call me mrs. Bellows call me auntie amanda
06:38Oh, I just love the sound of that barbara. Eden suffered the loss of a pregnancy around the time the episode came out
06:44It makes the several times the characters have to break the news that her on-screen persona is not actually pregnant
06:50Take on an almost haunting tone genie. You look marvelous
06:56positively radiant
06:58Well
06:59I do
07:00number four mean jokes growing pains
07:03Just like real life siblings on sitcoms often trade barbs back and forth
07:08One running theme of the show's dialogue was insults about carol sievers weight
07:13Uh, sorry mom no time. I got tons of work to do in my place and believe me
07:17You guys will not be disappointed. I am taken to independence like carol takes to food
07:23Given the show's feel-good family tone and despite the audience's raucous laughter the jokes already felt rather out of place
07:31Okay, okay
07:32It's beneath me to complain anything beneath you one word from you and you'll wish as I do that you had never been born
07:38Later though actress tracy gold would come forward about her experience with disordered eating at one point
07:45Producers had even ordered her to lose weight all the while handing her scripts that contained jab after jab at her character's frame
07:53Producers had called you and said you need to lose some weight and then they said I need to lose weight
07:57So I went on a diet and I didn't really think too much of it
07:59I'm, like i'll just go on a diet be done with it lose the weight and it'll be fine
08:03It really makes an already tired brand of humor seem crueler
08:08Number three the truth about finn's dad glee the quarterback episode will always be a hard watch
08:15Not just because of actor cory monteith's real-life death
08:19But also for the tragically prescient song. Naya. Rivera performs years before her own premature death
08:33The third season episode titled yes
08:35No also hits hard in it finn learns that his father was not a war hero who died in combat as his mother told him
08:43Well, my dad was a war hero. I have an obligation to him to
08:47To be a good man
08:49To make something of myself to to help people like he did he was dishonorably discharged and later passed away due to an overdose
08:57While the content itself is horribly sad the character's circumstances
09:01Mirroring the end of monteith's own life is devastating and chilling, but then he would just
09:09Disappear for a day or a week sometime
09:13One day he just didn't come back
09:15It was an overdose number two all the footstuff
09:19various nickelodeon shows
09:22the 2024 documentary and nickelodeon exposé quiet on set brought to light the rumors that had dogged some of these
09:29childhood classics for years
09:42Executive producer dan schneider's warped sense of humor was the focus of much of the documentary
09:48the repeated adult themed jokes permeating his shows were a major talking point and
09:53Reignited the discussion surrounding the inclusion of foot-based humor in many of the network sitcoms
09:59I don't believe it. They have to be the same size. Uh, almost a full size bigger
10:06See my right one's a size five and a half and my left one's a size six and a half from performers giving each other
10:11Foot massages to other more random scenes knowing what we know now makes it look way less
10:18Innocent after this we massage my feet. No gross
10:21Come on, work the heel rub it like a man
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10:42Number one cliff huxtable's barbecue sauce the cosby show
10:47The cosby show
10:48Cliff huxtable was america's favorite dad
10:51And like any great american dad, he loved to barbecue during this now unfortunate episode
10:58He brags about the effect his barbecue sauce has on anyone who tastes it due to a certain ingredient. I love your neck, honey
11:08Well, it certainly is nice to see them work things out for themselves
11:12They haven't worked anything out for themselves. It's my barbecue sauce
11:17He even makes a joke about keeping some on the nightstand. I got a cup of it. I said
11:24Left it up there breathing
11:27Why don't you give the chicken to these people that's going up and have some sauce
11:34Given his legal troubles over the past few years and the specific allegations against him that span decades
11:41This one is almost too wild to believe
11:44Hindsight makes it almost impossible to watch as the unaware audience laughs
11:50The implications are so uncomfortable. In fact that the episode was actually pulled from syndication
11:56My barbecue sauce haven't you ever noticed after people have some of my barbecue sauce?
12:02After a while when it kicks in they get all huggy buggy
12:05What sitcom moment is hardest to go back to for you? Tell us in the comments. Look. I'm just a kid. I'm not a wizard
12:15Get in between the toes. Oh
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