Top 30 Most Shocking Sitcom Moments

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Sandy's death is even harder to watch now, after Matthew Perry's untimely passing.

For me, it was that moment in the M.A.S.H. finale when Hawkeye, brilliantly acted by Alan Alda, broke down in the mental ward, revealing that the Korean woman had not killed a chicken on the bus to keep it quiet, but had in fact strangled or smothered her own baby so the North Koreans wouldn't discover them. And his anger at Dr. Sydney Freedman for forcing him to remember what really happened. It's a horrifying thing to conceive of doing or witnessing, which made it so much more emotional to watch. Not sure if he won an Emmy for that, but he should have if he didn't.

Will’s “How come he don’t want me man?” still hits so hard.

Fun fact: Jessie was originally supposed to become addicted to methamphetamine but due to it being a show aimed at children, the drug was changed to caffeine pills

Fun fact: Blake's death was kept a secret from most of the staff, so the reactions in the show are genuine. You can even hear a surgery tool drop

The Golden Girls was such a groundbreaking show on so many levels. RIP to all four incredible ladies.

For those of us alive when MASH originally aired on CBS, the death of Colonel Blake will always be the most shocking moment in scripted television.

Finale of Dinosaurs. Granted it was inevitable, but still, Baby's innocent question about "What's gonna happen to us" and the reply "I'm sure we're going to be okay. After all, Dinosaurs have been around for 150 million years. Its not like we're just gonna....disappear."

Edith almost getting sexually assaulted at her own party is heartbreaking, and something that nobody expected to happen in a usually light hearted sitcom. The actor who played the creep must have gotten a lot of hassle afterwards, but it just goes to show how convincing his acting was.

That scene with Will & uncle Phil was the precise moment a lot of us realised Will Smith was capable of a lot more than acting for laughs (which he also did amazingly well) - such a great actor 👏🏽

Definite Honorable Mention is Joyce Summers' (Buffy's mom) death on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Hearing Buffy saying "Mommy?" like a scared little girl was rather gut-wrenching.

IMO the most shocking is the Episode of MASH when Hawkeye is having flashbacks of being amongst civilians hiding from enemies and a mother couldn't get her newborn baby to stop crying... I still think about that decades later

A bit of trivia: Edith Bunker was such a beloved character that the actor who had portrayed that fake detective had to be sneaked out after the taping because the audience was so mad at him they were afraid they would do him bodily hsrm.

I'm surprised that James's death on Good Times wasn't one of these. Florida's breakdown was always upsetting to see

Another scene from Fresh Prince is when Carlton and Will get robbed at the ATM. The guy aimed at Carlton but Will got in the way to protect Carlton and got shot instead. Carlton gets a gun and goes to the hospital to see Will and shows it to him. Will gets upset and tells Carlton, "I saved your life! Now give me the gun!". The series finale of Alf. I was young when the show aired but it was so sad that the ship left him but he was apparently to be taken by the military. Of course we can imagine why. Two episodes on Punky Brewster, the episode about the Challenger explosion. That one hit hard too because at my school, we were watching it live as well in our class. Another episode when Cherie accidently gets stuck in the fridge while playing hide and seek. Punky and Margo end up performing CPR on her, because they had just learned it in school, and saves her life.

One thing that isn't mentioned here that should have been was an episode, I forget in it was in All In The Family or Archie Bunker's Place, in which perennially racist Archie Bunker, goes to the hospital to get a blood transfusion and learns that the donor was a black woman nurse and realizes he has black blood in him now Later, he unknowingly attends a kkk meeting and reveals that he reveals that he won't be a member as he had the blood transfusion from a black woman He was never racist after that I haven't seen that show in about 50 years ago but I still remember the impact that it had on me

8 simple rules hit me harder cuz I started watching the show and his death was all of the sudden, the acting is top notch for every actor in it, specially the daughters and wife

For me, the chicken episode of MASH and Colonel Blake dying were equally traumatizing.

I feel like the episode that gets overlooked the most from this category is the episode from Fresh Prince where Carlton and Will get thrown in jail. The scene with Uncle Phil at the station is moving.