2017 TV Scenes We Wish We Could Unsee
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DANCING WITH THE STARS
The only thing more distracting than Frankie Muniz's subpar dancing in this jazz routine? The appalling troll outfit he was forced to wear, complete with a blue wig and textured green vest. (We can only assume the DWTS costume designer really wanted Jordan Fisher to win.)
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AMERICAN CRIME
File this under Unnecessary Close-Ups: the stomach-turning reveal of Shae's corpse, just days after the pregnant teen had been unceremoniously killed by one of her housemates.
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SANTA CLARITA DIET
Even for a show about a zombie real estate agent — which we knew going in, for the record — Drew Barrymore's vomit scene in the pilot of Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet is next-level gross, especially for those who aren't expecting it. (The scene in which she bites off Nathan Fillion's delicious fingers is a close second.)
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RICK AND MORTY
The idea of Rick turning himself into a pickle seemed funny at first, even quaint. But watching him use his mouth to kill a cockroach, break open its skull and lick different parts of its brain to operate its legs and wings was more than we were prepared to stomach. (Don't even get us started on what he did to that rat later in the episode.)
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SUPERNATURAL
It wasn't the first time in the show's history that a shapeshifter had taken on Dean's form and then shed the hunter's skin, leaving behind a gross pile of flesh. But Season 13's shapeshifter run-in upped the "Ick!" with a graphic and bloody close-up of the creature ripping off his "Dean" facade, scalp and all. We'll never be able to scrub the disturbing image from our minds... and we'll never be able to forgive the shapeshifter for doing that to Dean's beautiful face!
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
Amid the myriad oddities of the extra-trippy Episode 8, a (presumably evil!) frog-bug born of an atomic bomb explosion sneaks into the bedroom of a circa-1950s teen and wiggles its way into her sleeping mouth. [Shudder]
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GOTHAM
In the course of learning a painful lesson about choosing the needs of the many over the needs of the few (or the one), Bruce allowed Ra's al Ghul to slit the throat of the young boy he had recently befriended.
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GREY'S ANATOMY
After spying Megan Hunt's post-op surgical wound, forgive us if we tremble a bit if Timeless Season 2 ever puts Abigail Spencer in a belly shirt.
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ZOO
It was bad enough that a K-9 comrade got killed during the Season 3 finale. But to then see the virus-infected hound "spring" back to life, zombie-style?? Woof.
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SALEM
Here's one for the "No, Seriously, What Am I Even Looking At?!?" files: In the WGN America series' blood-soaked swan song, the devil didn't merely shed the skin of his host, aka the sweet-faced son of star-crossed lovers Mary Sibley and John Alden. He tore free of it in horrific fashion.
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT
Eager to stoke fear in the hearts of his future constituents, blue-haired Trump disciple/serial killer Kai got himself beaten to a pulp in the Season 7 premiere by pissing off a group of Latino men, first by hurling racial slurs, then by tossing a condom full of urine at them. A condom which, we should also note, has put us off water balloons for life.
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GAME OF THRONES
Only the knowledge that Sam was saving Jorah's life — provided he didn't accidentally kill them both — allowed us to get through the excruciating, unexpectedly gooey removal of the former knight's greyscale.
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GAME OF THRONES
Gruel or poo? The longer this humorous, gag-inducing montage of Sam's lowly duties at the Citadel went on, the less certain (and more nauseous) we were.
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OUTLANDER
Few things can diminish our unwavering love for James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser... but watching him repeatedly retch into a bucket as seasickness has its way with him comes close.
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AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.
Transported with the others through space and time by a Kree monolith, May drew perhaps the shortest straw, materializing aboard the space station with a steel pipe impaling her leg! (But what better way to account for actress Ming-Na Wen's between-seasons knee surgery?) Sure, she would intrepidly wrest herself free, but we winced with her every step of the way!
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CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND
Never try to imitate Tom Cruise in Cocktail when there's an infected pimple throbbing on your face. New bartender Josh Chan learned that lesson the hard way when he tossed a cocktail shaker in the air and it landed on his face, sending a spurt of pus shooting out... and into a poor girl's martini.
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
Lt. Ash Tyler was haunted by PTSD flashbacks to his time in Klingon captivity... including some disturbing visions of him being forced to have sex with his Klingon captor L'Rell. Does Starfleet have a mind-wipe device we can borrow?
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TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
As the revival's 18th and final hour drew to a close, we thought we had experienced it all, that were ready for anything. And yet that blood-curdling scream from "Carrie Page" still rings in our ears to this day.
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BLOOD DRIVE
We had a good sense of what Grace was snacking on — heck, she even foreshadowed it earlier in the episode — and yet still, a lesson learned: be wary of the "corn dogs" at the Pixie Swallow Diner.