6 classic television episodes that are so bizarre
These shows risked extinguishing their audience by trying something out of the left field.
For many, watch a favorite television show Is likely to be fooled on comforting foods - something to do when you have to destroy yourself and get started, because you can always count on you by satisfying yourself, even if it does not surprise you. But, like a cheeseburger with the ketchup exchanged for a spicy sauce, these six episodes of classic television shows risked extinguishing viewers by playing with their formulas. Read the continuation for six classics Sitcom episodes It's so weird, it's shocking that they were even made.
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1 The Dick Van Dyke Show , "It can look like a nut"
The most of The Dick Van Dyke Show is a fairly standard sitcom rate after Rob Petrie ( Dick Van Dyke ) From the house, he shares with his wife Laura ( Mary Tyler Moore ) to his work as a writer in a series of fictitious comedy. But it sometimes varied from this path, including in the unusual episode of 1963, "it can look like a walnut". In this one, Rob begins to lose it after watching a scary film B before going to bed. He must then determine if he dreams, the victim of a practical joke elaborated, or stuck in the "Twilo zone" like Thuumblesness, "20/20/20 vision" and a emblematic image of the co-star Mary Tyler Moore Lounging on a bed of nuts follows.
2 MASH POTATOES , "Dreams"
Adaptation of the sitcom of Robert Altman The 1970 Oscar -winning film never hesitated to challenge viewers, whether with its mixture of comedy and drama in wartime or by attacking a plot with high concept, including an entire episode drawn from the first -person point of view of a soldier. But an episode of season 8 in particular went a little further than before. "Dreams", co-written and produced by the Star series Alan Alda , broadcast in 1980 and followed the team of field doctors of the Korean War while they deal with a brutal influx of patients, juggling 211 surgeries during 33 hours and entering the sleep they can between the Medical crises. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Stress makes them haunt by surreal and disturbing dreams that interrupt the intrigue of the episode (ostensibly on the management of overcrowding in the hospital) with a series of bizarre interludes: B.J. Hunnicutt ( Mike Farrell ) imagines himself in the dancing ball room with his wife; Father Mulcahy ( William Christopher ) Dreams it was made of the Pope and is transported around the base in a ceremonial chair; Hawkeye Pierce (Alda) is drifted on a sea filled with cut mannequins. The episode threw viewers for a loop but its efforts to illustrate the psychological assessment of war won a prize humanitas in 1981, and Alda named it among her favorites of the 256 episodes of the series.
3 The Cosby Show , "Cliff's Nightmare"
Season 6 of The Cosby Show gave viewers not one but two wild starts compared to the usual charm of the program of the show, everyone focused on what is happening when Dr. Cliff Huxable ( Bill Cosby ) ingest a hoagie sausage. Regarding laughter, episode 8 Manic Post-Halloween, "the day when the spores landed", about the eruption of a Peruvian volcano which leads to all pregnant housstable men, is a very trip more agreable. But this is episode 14, "Cliff's Nightmare" - a winding dream sequence that goes hallucinatory when the mupets take over halfway - that lets you ask you how the episode was broadcast. (The answer: it was initially filmed a season earlier to help promote NBC Jim Henson hour .)
4 Neighbors , "Dream of the bouncer"
Longtime Australian soap Neighbors is not only responsible for the launch of the star career, in particular Margot Robbie ,, Liam Hemsworth , And Russel Crowe . He also gave us one of the strangest television moments of all time. In its 1254th episode, focuses largely on Boungeur du Labrador Retriever beloved , things become super bizarre even in the standard standards of the 1990s, when one of the human co-stars of the bouncer appears on a wedding video. After a conjecture between humans on the fact that dogs dream or not, the spectator between surprisingly in the spirit of the bouncer to see that they do it - and not only on the T -Bone steaks.
No, streaming in the spirit of the bouncer to see us is a development Wedding sequence between him and Rosie , the daughter-Dog-Xe-Door to whom he passed the previous part of the Aboyer episode. Distribution Anne Charleston shared it The collective horror of distribution About the Tour with Holsoap in 2010 by saying: "The whole distribution was mortified on this subject! This reduced it to the program of a three -year -old child. It was very strange."
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5 Buffy against vampires , "Once again with the feeling"
Decades before tastes Ex-Pétite Foule And Joy , the idea of a weekly television musical was a punchline, thanks in part to the failure of Rock cop , the tune procedure-, was the procedure that was quickly canceled when viewers and criticisms turned out to be disconcerted by the idea that police singing on their feelings. But what about monster hunters? A little over a decade later, a horror drama for teenagers Buffy against vampires Bought the concept of the television musical with "Anyorhe With Feeling", an episode written and composed by the creator of the series Joss Whedon In the style of a Broadway spishy musical.
A mysterious curse brings the residents of Sunnydale in the grip of demons to sing aloud their fears and their hidden desires, which turns out to be a problem for Slayer Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) And his faithful Gang Scooby, who has so far spent most of the season to keep painful secrets from each other, all of which come out when they take their spotlight. Far from alienating viewers who could not understand why everyone suddenly sang, the episode was acclaimed critical, generated an album of the soundtrack and inspired a handful of other shows, from Gray anatomy For Supernatural , to try their own musical episodes.
6 Seinfeld , "The treason"
Seinfeld was famous "a show on nothing", but sometimes there was shine in the way it happened. He has produced many episodes at high concept - in a first classic, for example, the gang passes the full time of execution while waiting for a table in a restaurant - but no wilder than "The Betrayal" season 9, which would have been rather standard (to Seinfeld ) The farce took place around the gang's trip to a wedding in India ... except that everything takes place behind. Written by Peter Mehlman And David Mandel , the structure and themes of the episode were inspired by the Harold Pineter Player of the same name, although Jerry attempts to hide the fact that he slept with George's girlfriend plays in a resolutely lower way. All viewers did not appreciate the gadget - a retrospective critic called him The worst episode of the series and the DVD version provided the possibility of Look at it in chronological order instead.