if you don't remember anything dark
happening in full house
you're probably suppressing the horror
of everything that could go wrong in the
terrifying world of 90s TV shows death
disease and sci-fi satanic visits were
the least of your worries in 1990s
primetime in each episode of quantum
leap dr. Sam Beckett jumped into a
different person's body at different
points in history once the historical
catastrophe was averted he leaped to
someone else say his famous old boy
catchphrase and begin the next adventure
along the way he was aided by his best
friend al a hologram from the future due
to its time travel format quantum leap
jumped freely between many genres in one
haunted-house episode Sam leaps into the
body of a horror novelist while he's
usually there to save lives he's unable
to prevent people from dying all around
him but then it's also revealed that
Sam's holographic buddy al has been
possessed by the devil who then tries to
murder Sam it gets intense but don't
worry
because of quantum leap things turn out
ok in the end the show even throws in a
fun Stephen King reference Stevie King
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the heart of roseanne was always the
working-class relationship between the
title character and her husband dan that
is until the final season where a
surprise lottery win
turns the family into millionaires
leading to bizarre wealthy celebrity
high jinks the series finale hits
viewers with the biggest plot twist of
the series the whole last season was a
novel written by Roseanne who never won
the lottery at all apparently Roseanne's
fiction writing habit is her way of
coping with the loss of Dan who had
actually died of a heart attack in the
previous season my writing is really
what got me through the last year after
Dan died in about two minutes the entire
run of the show goes from comedy to
tragedy for what it's worth the 2018
Roseanne revival show damn to still be
alive
of course then Roseanne herself was
written off the show due to her own
questionable comments that's a different
kind of dark from start to finish
Seinfeld was snarky and witty and
treated every situation like a joke
however in one episode from 1992 the
show got a little too real for comfort
the Opera is all about crazy Jo d'Avola
who'd seem more at home in Silence of
the Lambs than monks cafe the insanity
starts when crazy Joe phones up Jerry
leaving a message where he threatens him
now I'm gonna put the kibosh on you
crazy Joe has also been stocking Elaine
plastering countless photographs of her
face across his apartment walls from
there he spends the rest of the episode
acting like a genuine serial killer
finally disguising himself in a clown
costume and scaring Kramer the laugh
track only makes the whole thing even
more disturbing the worst part at the
end of the episode crazy Joe is still at
large
Frasier one of the most low-key sitcoms
of all time found fancy and erudite
Frasier Crane living in quiet rainy
Seattle working as a psychiatrist on a
radio call-in show and hanging out in a
coffee shop with his even fussier
brother Niles Frasier may have been
middle-aged divorced balding and
self-absorbed but none of that was going
to stop him from trying to bed as many
beautiful and intelligent women as
possible in the 1994 episode slow tango
in South Seattle an old psychiatric
patient played by John O'Hurley who
Frasier helped to conquer writer's block
has apparently lifted the story of
Frasier losing his virginity and turned
it into a best-selling work of romantic
fiction at first enraged by this
violation of privacy Frasier instead
sets out to track down his first partner
and thank her for making a man out of
him it turns out the woman was his 40
year old piano teacher and she seduced
Frasier when he was 18 I wasn't
interested in 40 year old men event and
I guess I'm still not friends is a TV
show that purported to depict the life
of single 20-somethings in well a group
of friends but it was a pretty weird
show during its first season for example
Ross had a pet monkey which is not a
normal thing people did in the go-go 90s
also there's that episode where Monica
de flowers a minor at least producers
knew they were getting weird they titled
it the one with the ick factor after all
Monica years from finding true love with
Chandler dates a younger guy named Ethan
he's a senior in what Monica thinks is
college and so she lies - it's not even
an issue I told him I was 22 she's
actually 26 they soon physically
consummate their relationship and after
the deed is done Monica tells Ethan her
real age that's when he admits he told a
lie - he's a senior in high school and
also he's 17 that's a deal-breaker for
Monica who somehow avoids prison
the Golden Girls is a cult classic about
Miami housemates Dorothy Rose Sophia and
Blanche who dated dealt with the perils
of aging sass-mouth to each other and
ate a cheesecake in the middle of the
night the show also delivered an episode
about the AIDS crisis the 1990
installment 72 hours found Rose played
by Betty White grappling with the news
that the blood transfusion she'd
received during surgery years prior may
have been tainted with HIV she gets
tested and has to wait 72 frightening
hours for the result Rose endures mental
and emotional anguish throughout and at
one point declares that she's a good
person and doesn't deserve to get AIDS
Blanche thoughtfully replies AIDS is not
a bad person's disease Rose it is not
God punishing people for their sins
powerful statement made and of course
Rose didn't get AIDS after all it was a
comedy show the 1990 full house episode
shape up nobly demonstrates eating
disorder warning signs to parents of
teens and tweens framed around DJ
Tanner's invitation to her best friend
Kimmy gibbler's pool party
realizing she'll have to wear a swimsuit
in public deejay feels some toxic body
shame and becomes obsessed with losing
weight as quickly as possible she posts
photos of rail-thin models on the fridge
to discourage herself from eating eats
ice on a stick feeds her sandwich to the
dog and then stops eating altogether the
family realizes she has a serious
problem when she collapses after working
out too hard on a treadmill rather than
seek treatment for DJs eating disorder
dad Danny Tanner talks to her how a
person looks on the outside isn't nearly
as important as who they are on the
inside because things had to wrap up in
30 minutes she's immediately cured and
announces her intention to attend the
pool party and just have fun
problem solved the 1995 movie clueless
was so popular with 90's teams that ABC
and later UPN adapted it into a TV
series Stacy - Alisa Donovan and Donald
Faison reprised roles from the movie
while Rachel Blanchard took over for
Alicia Silverstone as cher Horowitz the
movie was based on Jane Austen's Emma so
the show ran out of source material
pretty quickly but a very special
episode in 1999 tackled the perils of
drunk driving Cher's friends throw her a
huge 18th birthday party
it's
so 90s that NSYNC even shows up cher
Marie Shawn and Cher's boyfriend of the
moment Adam party hard and get drunk
everyone but cher tries to drive home
look here it's been an accident
while Murray walks away Shawn and Adam
get hospitalized in a short time later
Adam dies from undiagnosed internal
injuries and sure doesn't happen in Emma
before it became a soap opera about
young sunkissed Californians Beverly
Hills 90210 was about goofy high school
kids who happen to have excellent
haircuts and designer clothes one plot
thread involved cool and popular David
silver still hanging around with his
sort of nerdy pal Scott Scanlon during
season two Douglas Emerson who played
Scott wanted to leave the show so the
writers wrote him out in a very big way
Scott's mom asks David and Donna to plan
Scott's big 16th birthday party and they
throw a big bash but Scott ever the
misfit sneaks away and rummages through
a desk drawer where he finds a gun he
plays around with it and shockingly
accidentally shoots himself dead on his
birthday the boy of Boy Meets World is
Cory Matthews the Philadelphia tween who
learned something new about the world
each episode the sitcom series tracked
the development of Cory's relationship
with Topanga from classmate to crush to
girlfriend to wife but it's really a
series about the bromance between Cory
and his writer die best pal Shawn in one
episode Shawn gets mixed up with the
center a live in church led by the
charismatic mr. Mac we're adherents
about creepy platitudes like a hug is a
burst of pure love Shawn gets hopelessly
brainwashed into the center's way before
long Cory is struggling to find a way to
deprogram his best friend but the
universe takes care of things after
Shawn's favorite teacher gets into a
gruesome motorcycle accident he snaps
out of it perhaps the most shocking
thing in this 1996 episode of home
improvement is that bumbling dad Tim the
Toolman Taylor has to stop grunting like
a caveman in act like a sensitive modern
man for a hot minute in the longest day
Tim's son Randy goes in for a routine
medical check-up the doctor's office
calls and tells Randy's parents that
there's a possibility their boy may have
potentially fatal thyroid cancer
think I was dying the family has to wait
for test results to come in while the
two frightened parents contemplate the
death of their child and Randy worries
that he's going to die everything turns
out fine of course but the longest day
feels like the longest home improvement
episode Saved by the Bell exists in a
bizarro version of the 90s where teens
experienced zero repercussions for
constantly scamming their principal who
is also their best friend Bayside High
was a strange place to be sure but it
was nearly torn asunder by the cold claw
of addiction in the November 1990
episode Jessie's song overachiever Jesse
bites off more than she can chew trying
to balance her high level of commitment
to school and singing and hot Sunday the
cover group she's formed with Kelly and
Lisa there aren't enough hours in the
day so Jesse turns to caffeine pills for
energy in a terrifying TV moment she
experiences a panic attack and screen
sings I'm so excited a caffeine binge
would result in agitation and a headache
not a full-on freak out but it's all
because standards and practices wouldn't
allow what the writers had originally
plotted an addiction to speed still the
show does make a point about how kids
like Jesse can easily burnout trying to
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