Unusually Wacked Out TV Episodes from the 70s and 80s

It’ll be hard to top this one.

Whoa R1. I heard about that one but never saw it.

I vaguely remembet one from Small Wonder with a girl who finds her own face on a milk carton.

Diff'rent strokes had a couple of them including the episode at R1. There was also the episode where Kimberly became bulimic and was throwing up in the bathroom.

Monroe gets raped

^ That is indeed a good one.

Found this discussion about it...

The Brady Bunch episode where Mike teaches the boys how to jerk off.

C'mon people - this is the whacked out episode that created an expression used widely in the English language

The Partridge Family episode where Reuben Kincaid allows Danny to take a shower with him.

Good Times - “The Judy Cohen Story”

Somehow JJ becomes business manager to a short fat Jewish cabaret performer. She sings a clown show tune medley and the black audience goes wild. I still remember waking up to this episode when I was sick on the couch once and honestly thinking I was hallucinating

The Facts Of Life episode where Jo fucked Blair with a strap-on.

The Clown Mask Rapist on Little House

Wesley gets molested by Grady Fletcher on Mr. Belvedere

OP, I remember in the Cinnamon episode that while she was singing, Tootie is just there in the background staring longingly(?) at her and it's so awkward. They always had her fangirling out, like on the Jermaine Jackson episode where she makes a ridiculously-looking bust of him (a la Lionel Richie's "Hello" video) and when she sneaks backstage to his dressing room, JJ's security throws the fake head in the sink (I think) or destroys it, because they think it's a bomb!

Any FOL with Tootie losing her shit was whacked out. Or when Natalie was assaulted while dressed as Charlie Chaplin.

The voodoo doll episode of Designing Women is pretty strange. Delta keeps talking about Con-sue-ay-luh. Jean Smart looks like she forgot to put on pants in the latter half of the episode.

^^ ridiculous-looking

Stacey Q as Cinnamon appeared on two episodes of “Facts”. The first when she and Tootie are auditioning for the same role and then when Cinnamon appears in Peekskill on the run from a national tour.

And yes, she looked disgustingly anorexic.

Whatchu talkin' bout, Mrs. Reagan?

Stacey Q looked grotesque.

The El DeBarge episode was pretty bad, too

The episode of Too Close for Comfort where Jm J Bullock gets raped.

[quote]And we produced a sitcom in which a clearly gay actor played a dimwitted straight guy who gets raped by two fat women. Y’know, for laughs.

"Come Back to the Truck Stop, Natalie Green, Natalie Green" was whacked out in the best possible way!

In a word: CHARO

So many of those "wholesome" family shows were loony as hell

Well, when you have 24 or more episodes in a season, there's a lot of filler. Might as well get weird.

Omg. I got curious to see how Stacey Q is doing these days. Time has not been kind 😟

Catherine O'Hara could play her.

R26 that's nuts. She aged so poorly. She looks like she's 76.

R22 As mentioned at R5 & R6 .

Boy George guest starred on The A-Team; TV Guide had an ad promoting it

Alex P. Keaton gets addicted to speed

Jessie Spano also gets addicted to speed, er, I mean to No-Doz. I guess that's by the 90s, so maybe it doesn't count.

Any number of "Love Boat" episodes, especially those with animals and nobodies that they tried to turn into stars. Louanne, anyone?

Any of the seemingly annual “Doris Day Show” fashion show-themed episodes with Doris spotlighting the catwalk in her psychedelically filmed and designed outfits. Very bizarre!

And that was just the opening credits r34. We all laughed at that gigantic braid. My grandmother said it looked cretinish.

Tootie’s mom ironing Janet Jackson’s face.

That kid getting AIDS. From Mr. Belvedere

“Night Court” was a whacked out show on purpose. When it was humming on all cylinders, wow. The episode where the courthouse caught on fire and they end up in the morgue comes to mind. Especially the mortician eating cheese out of Petri dishes.