Yea or Nay-The X-Files episode "Home"

Most disturbing TV show episode ever to be aired in television history?

Definitely a yes.

But I voted "no." Although, I can't tell you what would beat it for most disturbed episode.

Even though I did find it pretty disturbing. But at least it was intelligently written and acted. I find a lot of the stupid crap that people watch a lot more disturbing. Mostly because it *is* stupid crap, and people watch it anyway.

thats a whole nother class of disturbing

Far be it from me to praise FOX, but I loved that show, and "Home" was utterly horrifying.

...how your boys would do anything for their mother"

Brrrrr...

I really can't think of any other episode of an ongoing television show as twisted as that was. Sure, there are many others that are more disturbing, but not intentionally.

the MOST disturbing scene I ever saw on television was from Chris Carter's other show, Millennium. It was in an episode about some kind of hemorragic virus spread by birds. It aired on Mother's Day weekend, and the scene starts with a couple ringing a doorbell and holding a floral arrangement that has a "Happy Mother's Day" card on it. They come in and there's a happy family gathering, like some sort of holiday commercial. They're barbequeing (chicken) and there's light, happy music playing. The family sits down at the table to eat and suddenly, one by one, they start bleeding out their body orifices. They start thrashing around and screaming and then they all fall down dead. It takes about two minutes from beginning to end. It was the most shocking thing I've ever seen on network television.

:scared:

I think I've blocked out a lot of Millennium, but that was seriously darker than The X-Files ever was.

Horribly mutated sons of a mother who slept with her brother and begat them. Mother was in car crash and left a quadruple amputee. Sons keep mother on a "tray" under bed and wheel her out to have sex with her. This portrayal is very graphic. Oh yeah, mother can't chew own food so sons chew it up and spit in her mouth for her.

shocked I was at the time. The other thing that really stuck with me from that one was the phrase "war of nothern aggression".

in that episode

talking about.

Definitely most disturbing ever.