10 TV Moments Everyone Misunderstood As Kids

6. Grandpa Boris Wants To Die - Rugrats

Another Nickelodeon classic now with Rugrats, a show that so brilliantly depicted the chasm of understanding between the focal babies and their adult family members.

There are tons of great gags to this effect, many of them cheeky enough to ensure that lapsed fans watching the series as adults will find plenty new to laugh about.

But surely the series' darkest joke ever shows up in the third season episode "Home Movies", where Stu Pickles bores the other adults almost to death with his extensive array of home video footage.

This prompts an exasperated Grandpa Boris to pick up the phone and make a call to Dr. Kevorkian, a seemingly innocuous name to kids, yet not so much to older viewers.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a real-life physician better known in the media as "Dr. Death", due to his extreme euthanasia advocacy, to the extent of assisting at least 130 patients to commit suicide.

Grandpa Boris being so tortured by the relentlessly dull home movies that he wants to end it all is about as messed up as it gets, but mercifully, it's so fleeting and so subtle kids wouldn't have a clue.