18 Times TV Shows Crossed The Line

Sorry, Ross, kissing your cousin is never okay.

We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the moments they thought TV shows went too far. Here's what they said.

1. When Walt killed Mike in Breaking Bad.

AMC

"For me, it was the point where Walt's character truly became the villain. Every other 'bad' decision he previously made had some sort of reasoning behind it...but killing his friend/mentor/business partner was too much."

—daisyheadailsa

"After that, I gave up on Walter and on the entire show. It was just too much."

—karolinaewelinadabrowska

2. The whole storyline in Brooklyn Nine-Nine where Jake dated a mortician who liked to role-play having sex with dead bodies.

Fox

"Jake had a brief but very disturbing fling with a mortician who liked to simulate sex with dead bodies with her living partners. There was a really gross scene where Jake 'role-played' as a corpse and they talked about the temperature of dead bodies and the state of decomposition all while making out. The show has never made such gross jokes before or since. It was a really bad episode in an otherwise great series."

—kamcalste

3. When Freddie was beaten to death in Skins.

E4

"Everything about that show was over the top, but that scene went a little too far, especially since it was supposedly a relatable show about teenage life. It was hard for me to even be sad about him dying because it felt so unnecessary and ridiculous."

—averykate

4. And while we're on the subject of Skins, when Alo had sex with a girl who turned out to be 13 years old.

E4

—SophiaNL

5. When Deb started to have repressed sexual desires for her adoptive BROTHER in Dexter.

Showtime

"She GREW UP with him. They were treated as siblings. I stopped watching. It was gross and a total 180 from how I saw their relationship in the early seasons. I guarantee no one saw that shit coming."

—cocopa

6. When Clarke used a shock collar on her adoptive daughter, Maddi, The 100.

The CW

"It was under the guise of protecting her, and she got called out for it in the next season, but before that, it's a weirdly justified moment of child abuse."

—kamcalste

7. When the Farm harvested organs on Riverdale.

Netflix

"Kevin lost a kidney, and it’s never really been addressed. Betty was so rude to him after the brainwashing, too. It still bothers me how disturbing it was and how they just glazed over it like it was nothing."

—christenm

8. In Scandal, when Fitz almost went to war because Olivia — his girlfriend — was kidnapped.

ABC

"How can a country go to war just because the president's girlfriend is kidnapped? Were there no other sensible people around that would've put a stop to it? They just included it for the drama...useless."

—s4bb472acb

9. The storyline of Aria dating her teacher in Pretty Little Liars.

ABC

"The storyline continued throughout the entirety of the show. So unrealistic — that would not fly in the real world."

—heather

10. When Ross tried to kiss his cousin in Friends.

NBC

"That just was not okay."

—HVerre04

11. The infamous "Scott's Tots" episode on The Office.

NBC

"Michael had promised kids scholarship money that he didn’t have, and they had a party for him when they were graduating from high school where he had to break the news to them. I’ve never seen that episode the whole way through."

—sweetcookie51

12. When the mother was killed off just episodes after getting introduced on How I Met Your Mother.

CBS

"The whole series was about Ted finding the mother, then they killed her off so they can have Ted marry Robin. It was made clear many times throughout the series that they shouldn’t be together."

—dsfr4hm

"It just seemed a little bit too hasty."

—tsac0304

13. When Mindy ended up with Danny in The Mindy Project, despite all the dodgy things he'd done in the past.

NBC

"He tracked her ovulation and tried to trick her into getting pregnant, made her feel like a bad mother because she didn't want to quit her job, strung her along and then refused to marry her, catfished her, interfered in all of her other relationships, told her she should lose 15 pounds, tried to induce her labour, and called her a coward for wanting a C-section...AND THEN SHE ENDED UP WITH HIM."

—nicolem4dc590154

14. And when Turk spiked Carla with birth control in Scrubs.

NBC

"Turk sucks. Fight me."

—kthomas8836

15. When Tyler was attacked in 13 Reasons Why.

Netflix

"Honestly, who thought showing that on a TV show was a good idea?"

—anitar411db647a

16. When George's fiancé, Susan, was suddenly and unexpectedly killed off in Seinfeld.

NBC

"The way they did it was a) obviously not funny and b) clearly a cop-out to get her off the show. The way George reacted in the hospital after was so cringey because they were trying to make that part funny and it clearly wasn’t landing!

“Don’t get me wrong, I love the show, and they did soooo many things great, but that was too far."

—gms89

17. When Sue — a teacher — trapped Blaine and Kurt in an elevator in Glee.

Fox

"It was really creepy and weird."

—ILitterallyLoveThis

18. When Patty revealed she actually enjoyed killing in Insatiable.

Netflix

"It suggests that she’s going to start killing more people because she likes it. I really don’t know what the writers were thinking."

—lilithstormgoddess

Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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