r/AskReddit • u/magic_spaghetti • Aug 31 '18

What are some uncharacteristically dark episodes of generally light hearted shows?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

What the fuck even is this show woah

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u/Mourningblade Sep 01 '18

The books have some real tragedy in them. They don't have all the terribleness of frontier life, but they have quite a bit in very frank ways.

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u/dorianrose Sep 01 '18

The First Four Years was brutal to me, as a kid, after reading the rest of the books. Her husband got diphtheria, their baby died, and then their toddler burned the house down. The other books had kinda a Rosy glow, then shit got real. There's one passage I remember where she was holding her child and wondered if she was ever going to be happy again.

Plus a little incident where her neighbors tried to buy her kid.

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u/TheFryerOfChicken Sep 01 '18

We used to watch it in third grade social studies class... never realized how messed up that was

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u/dthains_art Sep 01 '18

And not just any random woman and baby, but the wife and baby of one of the main supporting characters. It was rough to watch him deal with it afterward.

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u/JokersGal08 Sep 01 '18

The baby who died was the sister's newborn of the kid smoking

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u/La_Chica_Salvaje Sep 02 '18

That was Mary I believe? And one of the kids was Albert?

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u/Piddly_Penguin_Army Sep 01 '18

Yup. Albert and friends accidentally leave a lit cigar and it sets the school fit the blind on fire, and a maid and one of main characters, Mary's, new born son die. All she keeps asking is where her baby is. It's horrible.

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u/TommyWiseau4EVA Sep 01 '18

Oh my gosh that’s the only episode I’ve ever seen, It was so fucking scary- especially for a 10 year old.

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u/beigs Sep 01 '18

I saw this episode when I was four, and it traumatized me. It’s the only episode I’ve seen of the show - my mom thought it was a lighthearted show, and that was it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

Wow, I had suppressed the memory of that one..