10 Most Insane TV Show Storylines Ever

2. The Horrifying Dinosaurs Series Finale

For those who don't remember, Dinosaurs was kind of like The Flintstones or Roseanne, only with anthropomorphic puppet dinosaurs as the blue collar sitcom family, the Sinclairs. Appearing in the early nineties, Dinosaurs saw traditional sitcom storylines played out for younger viewers to a laugh track. So far, so fluffy€ despite the high concept and the puppetry, it wasn't a million miles away from the family sitcoms it followed, and certainly wasn't a parody like The Simpsons or Family Guy.

Then the show was cancelled, and the series finale aired in July 1994, and families across America were traumatised for life. In the final episode, due to an environmental catastrophe caused entirely by the hubris of the dinosaur population, an Ice Age begins to set in, and everyone we've ever met during the course of the four seasons of the kiddie-friendly show freezes to death. It was genuinely that horrifying.

The last scene sees the Sinclair family huddled together in their home for warmth while the anchorman on their television wishes everyone, Goodnight. Goodbye. And then the camera pans outward to show the family home gradually covered in snow.

If you were a kid in 1994's USA, that's probably how you lost your innocence, right there.