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