What's the Most Disgusting Thing You've Ever Seen On Television?

[THUNDER HANDS]

For me it was when Lawrence Taylor broke Joe Theisman's leg on Monday Night Football. Snapped it like a twig. My father ran to the bathroom to throw up after seeing it.

What televised image nearly made you blow chunks the first time you saw it?

[sniffa]

1. hannity & coLmes

[Tom_Foolery]

2. Kathie Lee Gifford n/t

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. *'s most recent "press conference."

[Seemann For Congress]

4. You nailed it

Theisman's leg is the worst thing I ever saw.

Although the following week, Letterman had a Joe Theisman pencil sharpener on his desk. His leg was the handle. That was pretty funny.

[jpgray]

5. Well, Patti Smith in the mid seventies got on most of the band

:D

(just kidding--Patti was cute in the seventies)

[bif]

6. The Republican National Convention

[woofless]

Theisman's leg was a bad one, but he survived.

I have in mind the clip of the racehorse (name escapes me) who breaks a foreleg in the stretch and continues to run with the lower leg flopping in the breeze. Heart wrenching.

[Awsi Dooger]

57. That was Go For Wand in the Breeder's Cup, truly heartbreaking

A phenomenal filly who was racing her heart out in the Breeder's Cup Distaff vs. Bayakoa, early '90s as I recall. Your description is completely accurate, woofless. Luckily I had the clicker in hand and turned the channel almost immediately, that flopping foreleg looking like jello but the filly too proud and too fast to stop.

That incident was much more gruesome than Ruffian's life-ending breakdown in the Belmont Park match race vs. Foolish Pleasure in July 1975. Ruffian's jockey dismounted quickly and held up her shattered leg while waiting for the equine ambulance. It was one of the saddest sports moments ever on live TV. I'm surprised no one had mentioned it.

[terrya]

7. "The Glutton Bowl" on Fox.

It was a special about a group of people eating. Yes, eating. A LOT of food. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on television. Morally reprehensible.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

39. Agreed. When they started eating bowls of mayonnaise

I literally gagged and almost booted.

[Lars39]

8. I remember watching arm wrestling yrs ago and seeing/hearing

somebody's arm break. Also watching boxing when I was a child was pretty bad. Feeling queasy with the memories now...

[johnnie]

9. R. Budd Dwyer

I came home from work and was up in the kitchen eating a big plate of pasta while watching the news down in the den. I couldn't hear the sound so I didn't hear the warning. While shoving a large helping of my pasta in my mouth I caught this whole thing. All other channels stopped right when ol' Budd shoved the barrel in his mouth, but the one I saw didn't.



http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/qtclips/budd2b.htm

[terrya]

10. Wasn't he the Pennsylvania Secretary of State?

I remember reading about that in the paper. My God...to watch someone kill themselves on live television. That must have been horrible to watch.

[johnnie]

12. Yeah..he was.....

Well, it wasn't live when I watched it...the news channel just didnt cut the footage off.

[Seemann For Congress]

20. Oh, God, I forgot about Dwyer

That might be my new leader for 'most disgusting'.

For the record, "Hey Man Nice Shot" by the band Filter is about Dwyer. A lot of people think it's about Kurt Cobain, but it's really about Dwyer (Jeff is friends with a couple of guys in Filter).

[johnnie]

21. I know the guy in Filter was asked about it....

When confronted, his answer was Dwyer...but I think most people figure it is about Cobain.
As I said about this one as being disgusting...it was the food I was eating in conjuncture with someone's brains being splashed all over a wall, that I had to pick this one.

[ScreamingMeemie]

53. Sickest sight ever...

:( and very sad.

[Rainbowreflect]

11. I don't know who it was or even the team, but watching the

news one night they say "those with weak stomaches might not want to watch this". Well it was sports so I thought how bad can it be.
It was a hockey game where one player skated into the goalie and sliced his throat open with his skate blade. There was a great deal of blood. I should have listened to the sports announcer.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. I believe it was the Buffalo Sabres...

...I forget the goalie's name.

He nearly died right out there on the ice. Instead, he came back and played quite well for some time thereafter!

[Rainbowreflect]

34. Thanks, I always wonder who it was.

All I could remember was the red blood spreading all over the ice.
:puke:

[phillybri]

43. Clint Malarchuk...

:puke:

[DrWeird]

14. Similar to Theisman...

There was a pedestrian bridge that collapsed somewhere in Europe as a large throng of people were leaving some sort of sporting event, this was a couple years ago now. As the news usually does, they showed footage from a distance of people getting hurt, but you couldn't really make anything out. For whatever reason they then zoomed in and showed a bunch of people on the bank, many of them with injuries similar to Theisman's.

When you watch football you kind of expect that thing, but these people were just casually walking back to their cars when alll of a sudden their leg gets twisted backwards three times.

[asjr]

15. The Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill fiasco

before Congress. That is what turned me into a Democrat. The Repub spin on that totally disgusted me.

[Blue-Jay]

16. Boom Boom Mancini killing a guy in the ring.

That was pretty horrible. I don't think Mancini ever got over that.

[Skittles]

46. I saw that

I told my boyfriend HE IS KILLING THAT GUY. I blamed the ref - it was appalling.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. About 18 years ago in Philadelphia

A man named Bud Dwyer(?) committed suicide with a gunshot to the head live on local TV. He had set it up as a press conference. If you were watching live you saw the whole thing.

:puke:

[GOPisEvil]

18. Filter's song "Nice Shot" is about that event.

[DrWeird]

19. I thought it was about Kurt Cobain.

That's why the line "I wish I could have met you."

[SmileyBoy]

51. No, it was about Dwyer...

And I'm a HUGE Filter fan, so I know.:)

[johnnie]

23. I have a link to the video up there ^ post 9 I think n/t

[phillybri]

42. I saw that...really f*cked up...

:puke:

[flamingyouth]

49. I remember that

That was horrible. I didn't see it live, of course, but saw the aftermath and it was quite gruesome. :scared:

[Bunny]

22. A fetus in fetu.

I saw it the other day on Discovery Health. A 7 yr. old boy from Kurdistan (or somewhere similar sounding) had a growth removed from his abdomen. Turns out the growth was his twin, who had been malformed, and at a very early embryonic cell stage, was absorbed into the embryonic cells of the living boy.

This growth attached to the living twins' bloodstream, and was a parasite, continuing to grow (inside his abdomen) throughout the pregnancy and childhood.

They showed it and it had structures resembling legs/feet, a very primitive and grotesquely deformed face, and, the creepiest thing, REALLY long hair! They cut it open, and there were no internal organs or anything, just a mass of tissue.

It was truly the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen on television.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

29. That probably would be the winner.

[m-jean03]

36. Wasn't that the plot for Stephen King's

"The Dark Half"?

I've read articles about that phenomena, but never a picture.
I am morbidly curious, and would like to have seen that! Yikes. :scared:

[geniph]

24. Inauguration Day, January 2001

enough to gag a maggot!

[Catfight]

25. when I saw that clip of an elephant trampling over a man and dragging

his body down a side street. He looked like every bone in his body was broken. It reminded me of a rag doll, he was flopping all over the place behind the elephant as it dragged him.

[Catfight]

26. I forgot too....the LA riots when people were bashing in the head and

face of that truck driver. I can't remember his whole name, Reginald someone. That was horrible. Throwing bricks at his head, just disgusting.

[-..__...]

27. Reginald Denny.

[gauguin57]

33. forgot about budd

Yep ... that was in the top 3, for sure. Budd Dwyer, just to be clear, was a long-time PA pol (state house and senate; when he died he was state treasurer). He was convicted of taking kickbacks on awarding of a gov't contract. The press conference was in Harrisburg. I watched it on TV in the newsroom in which I worked at the time; he pulled a gun out of a manilla envelope -- people at the press conference were screaming, "No, Budd, NO!" ... and he put the gun in his mouth and blew his brains out and collapsed to the floor with a thud. Truly, truly disturbing.

I saw a really disgusting music video about at about 3 a.m. on B.E.T. recently. I'm no prude at all, but this was beyond the pale for basic cable, I think. Can't remember the name of the song. Lots of bikini-clad women lifting their legs and sticking their crotches right in the camera. Humping on each other's crotches and butts. Humping on the men. There was also a guy sliding his credit card between a woman's naked butt cheeks. Gross and pointless. If I had kids, I wouldn't want them seeing it.

CBS's one-time showing of the people throwing themselves out of the burning World Trade Towers on 9/11 was pretty awful.

But yeah, Dubya's inauguration made me more sick to my stomach than any of the above.

[DrWeird]

28. What was ironic...

is all the people that got upset over that but not Rodney King.

[johnnie]

31. From what I recall

A LOT of people were upset by the Rodney King beating.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. If they'd shown Seriously Dude, I'm Gay, that would've been it.

I guess I'll be judged by a jury of my queers.

[sangh0]

32. Ads for Bush*

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[Maddy McCall]

35. The Uday-Qusay trophy shots.

Got home from work, and my son turned on the telly, and there were two bullet-ridden bodies on the screen.

Not only was it visually disgusting, but it was also disturbing to me that the U.S. government was displaying dead bodies as though they were trophies--all during afternoon broadcasting hours, when many children are unsupervised.

Imagine the many children who returned home from school that day who saw those images and had no adult at home to comfort them.

Disgusting.

[Ottmar]

37. Steve O preparing an omelet. n/t

[Bertha Venation]

38. a photo of JFK's head on the autopsy table n/t

[NoPasaran]

40. Morton Downey Jr.

Any episode of his show :puke:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

41. Bush on stage "dancing" with Ricky Martin.

I still have nightmares to this day.

NOOOO MAKE IT STOP!

[MisterP]

44. that ain't tubing

nyaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!

[Skittles]

45. any "reality" TV

unbelievably tasteless and sickening

[CO Liberal]

52. The "Meals" on "Fear Factor"

The worst was when they had to eat live slugs....

:puke:

[Delano]

47. "Shock and Awe"

After weeks of disgusting pro-war hype and propagandy by ALL US media, We had to watch the bombing of Baghdad.

Also listened to the sound only on Mike Malloy's show. I never have felt so ashamed of this country.

[Taverner]

48. Back in the day one of the local stations played "Faces of Death"

On a Saturday afternoon - uncut.

Fuck me, that was crazy...

[SmileyBoy]

50. What year was that, BTW???

I asked my father if he remembered what year that was, and he didn't know...:shrug:

[daligirrl]

54. It was one of those

reality type "Animals Gone Bad" shows. A circus worker had an elephant back up on him while he was washing it. His head ended up in the elephant's ass. They showed him pounding on the elephants ass and finally someone pulled him out. He was puking all over the place afterwards. A friend gave me a copy of the video.

[Ilsa]

55. I'm a nurse, and it takes alot to make me toss cookies, but I'll

vote for Shrub dancing with Ricki Martin as well. That was puking sick!

My husband is in total agreement with you about Joe Theisman's leg-breaking being the puke-inducer of all time.

[myomy]

56. George W Bush trying to make a unrehearsed comment.

.

[July]

58. Japanese gymnast.

Olympics, some years back. The guy had broken his ankle and went ahead and did his routine on the rings, anyway. When he flipped in the air for the landing I couldn't believe it. When he landed (wincing as he came down on both feet) and forced himself to stick it and throw his hands up to complete the routine I could not believe it.