Top 10 Disturbing Sitcom Moments Because of What We Know Now
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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