Silliest Episodes

[TheCafeDisco]

What's your vote for the silliest/cheesiest episode?

A few that come to mind:

-The Gold Leaf Lady

-The "Haunted" house where there was a severely overweight guy and his 16 year old bride that kept seeing a ghost. Yikes! That one was full of laughs!

But today I saw an episode online I never remembered seeing. Two boys showed their parents a large rock in the woods with markings on it. At one point one of the boys says "Maybe martians made the markings!" The family claimed that they rock was good luck and their business took off after that. This one wins for me as the cheesiest, silliest episode UM has ever put forth.

[justins5256]

Even though I haven't watched it in years, to me, this distinction will forever be the chocolate aphrodisiacs episode.

[Robert Stack, Jr.]

My vote would be for the Circleville Letters. I first saw this at 15 and was sufficiently creeped out, but watching it now at 24 it seems incredibly cheesy and unintentionally funny. The 90s sound effects and the overdramatic bad acting almost makes the segment feel like a parody when watched today. The clincher is the voiceover reading the letter Paul received in prison...the over-the-top hammy-ness of the reader's tone is flat-out comical.

"The joke...is...on...YOOOUUU. Ha...ha." Classic!!

[MegtheEgg86]

Originally Posted by Robert Stack, Jr.

The clincher is the voiceover reading the letter Paul received in prison...the over-the-top hammy-ness of the reader's tone is flat-out comical.

"The joke...is...on...YOOOUUU. Ha...ha." Classic!!

Yes!


My vote would be the tiny "healing UFO" that a woman claimed flew into her bedroom and cured her of cancer.

[SPD Yellow]

I have to give it to the Magic Rock and Gold Foil Lady.

[TheCafeDisco]

Originally Posted by justins5256

Even though I haven't watched it in years, to me, this distinction will forever be the chocolate aphrodisiacs episode.

Wow I totally forgot about the aphrodisiac episode! Was there a point to that?



I have another one.
How about the message in the bottle segment? I know you all loved that one!

[Corkys-Place]

I know I've said this before but I'll say it again.

Dumbest Episode:

Idiot Girls dancing around in the Forest claiming to see magical light shining through the trees!

[cordwainer1453]

The Minor League baseball player

[cordwainer1453]

Originally Posted by Corkys-Place

I know I've said this before but I'll say it again.

Dumbest Episode:

Idiot Girls dancing around in the Forest claiming to see magical light shining through the trees!

I think that one is sort of like the gold foil lady in that it gets a lot of criticism because they spent half the segment debunking it. They didn't usually do that, they mostly presented these type of things as the truth.

[Victoria81]

Fat man with wondering eye and his 16 yr old wife and their ghost.

Gold foil lady

Wackers reinactment and the real Wackers. Although, I believe them. I think some teenage grandson or something did this. Damn kooks.

[WishfulDreamer]

I agree with aphrodisiacs. We see some guy complaining about how things in his personal life aren't going well because of 18 hour days. Then maybe stop working 18 days if possible? He eats a bunch of aphrodisiacs, goes home, gives them to his girlfriend and things get steamy. Why is it on unsolved mysteries?! It was like watching a lifetime movie. "Aphrodisiacs are the answer to my personal problems!"

It's a hilarious episode though, plus we hear RS say some things he never would at any other time.

"Just one look at the succulent oysters provokes thoughts of sex..."

[TheCars1986]

The episode about the Jesus statue that allegedly had it's eyes opened. It was so obvious when they did a side by side comparison that the statue's eyes were always slightly open, and I'm amazed that UM even did a story on it.

[TracyLynnS]

All of the above and....

The Fertility Statues

Where, mysteriously, a bunch of sexually active young women who looked at, touched, walked past, thought about, heard about, or avoided the statues all ended up pregnant.

[UMFaninMD]

Originally Posted by TracyLynnS

All of the above and....

The Fertility Statues

Where, mysteriously, a bunch of sexually active young women who looked at, touched, walked past, thought about, heard about, or avoided the statues all ended up pregnant.

That was so goofy. I couldn't believe they even did a story on it.

Almost all the ones mentioned get my vote, but to this day The Wackers and the Circleville Letters still creep me out.

[Dr Will Hatch]

Originally Posted by Robert Stack, Jr.

My vote would be for the Circleville Letters. I first saw this at 15 and was sufficiently creeped out, but watching it now at 24 it seems incredibly cheesy and unintentionally funny. The 90s sound effects and the overdramatic bad acting almost makes the segment feel like a parody when watched today. The clincher is the voiceover reading the letter Paul received in prison...the over-the-top hammy-ness of the reader's tone is flat-out comical.

"The joke...is...on...YOOOUUU. Ha...ha." Classic!!

I couldn't disagree more. That's still one of the creepiest voices I've ever heard.


I think the "I used to be affected by this one thing, but now that I'm older, such and such is in retrospect really cheesy and fake" snark trend is annoying and only used to make the writer seem smarter than the people they're mocking.