Vote up the darkest episodes in usually pretty funny shows.
Over on Reddit, fans of small screen comedies and sitcoms are sharing the darkest episodes of their favorite light-hearted romps and sitcoms. From super sad moments in kiddie showsto scary scenes from classic '80s comedies, here are incredibly dark episodes from light-hearted shows.
The episode where Hawkeye is getting therapy for a situation where the mother had to suffocate her child because they were surrounded by NKA. He was in denial the whole episode and kept saying it was a chicken, but at the end they showed it was an actual child, I was like 12 at the time, f*cked me up
The ONLY episode of Little House on the Prairie I’ve ever seen was about a young teen girl getting [assaulted] and impregnated by a man in a clown mask, then killed.
That episode of Full House where Stephanie makes friends with a boy whose father abuses him.
There's this whole thing about whether she should keep her promise to keep it a secret or not, but then he starts missing school because of how bad his dad beats him, so she ends up telling Uncle Jesse.
Kimberly and Arnold hitch a ride from a [serial predator.]
Oh, and that episode about the [bike store owner/creep]. The shop owner lures them into the shop, and shows them some hentai, and Arnold's like "[screw] that" and leaves Dudley there with the creep.
Every year, there's an annual event to watch some beetles migration. Except, this year, no insects appear, but one, who lands in the Sinclair's household (the Sinclair's being the family the show centers around). They go to the spot where the beetles are suppose to end up at, only to find that the entire area was plowed under to make room for a Wax Fruit Company (a division of the We Say So company, which is the monolithic company mentioned throughout the series), because wax fruit is more important that a bunch of beetles habitat.
Anyway, it turns out the beetles were responsible for eating a specific type of plant, and without anymore beetles coming around, the weed grows out of control. To combat this, they spread a pesticide, which ends up defoliating the entire planet.
So, without anymore plant life around, bad stuff happens, so they decide that plants need water. And what makes water? Clouds. And what can make clouds? Volcanos erupting. So, they drop bombs in every volcano in the world, causing a nuclear winter.
Earl Sinclair, who was the head of all of this, ends up realizing his mistake, and goes to his boss, B.P. Richfield, who doesn't care that the world is ending. Next quarter's profits are going to be the biggest of all time, due to an increase of people buying heaters and hot chocolate. Earl goes back home to apologize to his family about causing the end of the world, and the final scene you see is the news anchor, Howard Handupme, saying "Goodbye".
It's the one focusing entirely on Helga as she's forced to go to counseling after getting caught punching Brainy.
Hey Arnold always tackled great issues, but an episode showing that Helga's anger stems from her neglect was so brutally real. Her parents fawn over her perfect sister and basically forget that she exists, to the point where as a preschooler, she walks by herself in the city in the pouring rain to get to school. She lashes out in anger because it's the only way she's learned how to cope, and her obsession with Arnold comes from the fact that he was the only person to show her any kindness.
It's an excellent episode, but definitely touches on some very real themes.
