2022 In Review: The Scenes We Really, Really Wish We Could Unsee

If you don't remember the scenes we've chosen as most disturbing from 2022 TV, there's a good reason: You likely blocked them, because that's how your brain protects you after a trauma.

But we're bringing it all back to the surface, because if we have to recall incidents like 9-1-1-: Lone Star's massive worms or The Peripheral's eyeball extraction, well, then, so do you. So join us, won't you, in reliving 26 of the year's most unsettling scenes?

A few quick reminders before you scroll down (if you dare) — the images below are kinda graphic, and some contain spoilers for your favorite shows. If you're behind on any of the following, you might want to return later: 9-1-1; 9-1-1: Lone Star; American Horror Stories; Animal Kingdom; The Book of Boba Fett; The Boys; Dancing With the Stars; Euphoria; Evil; Family Guy; Gaslit; House of the Dragon; The Midnight Club; Pam & Tommy; The Peripheral; Reacher; The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City; The Rehearsal; The Righteous Gemstones; SEAL Team; Servant; Severance; South Park: The Streaming Wars, Part II; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; Stranger Things or Yellowjackets.

Now for the fun (?) stuff: Scroll down for 26 of the year's most disturbing moments. When you're done, hit the comments to make your own additions to this list. Which 2022 TV moments do you wish you could unsee?

We're pretty sure the look on Bobby's face sums up every viewer's reaction to the discovery of these exposed femur bones. (Is that the correct terminology? We have trouble concentrating when we're this grossed out.)

For the record, you're looking at one of roughly 10 enormous worms extracted from this woman's body during the course of this scene... which is roughly 10 too many for our liking.

What's the only fate worse than catching smallpox in 18th-century New England? Why, that would be having to watch an episode of television about infected milkmaids who offer to let men taste their "pustules" as a means of curing the disease.

It was gnarly enough when Pope sliced open his gut to implant a tracker in it. But when he made another cut in the series finale, dug in there and pulled the thing back out? Let's just say we almost spilled what was in our guts.

What, you thought your COVID swab was uncomfortable? Try taking a small, wriggling lizard up the nose, to serve as your "guide."

The third season certainly opened with a horrific bang — in more ways than one. We're still traumatized by the sequence of Termite shrinking himself down to go up... another dude's penis. As if that visual weren't disturbing enough, Termite then sneezed, causing him to return to his regular size and blow up the other guy into bloody bits.

No shade at all to Dancing's remarkable hair and makeup department, which outdoes itself every season. But Mark Ballas' transformation into Homer Simpson for Disney+ Night — complete with yellow skin and just a tuft of hair glued to his bald cap — still haunts our nightmares.

Yep, the look on Cassie's face here is pretty much the same expression we had upon watching Sydney Sweeney's character projectile-vomit into a hot tub full of her friends. "I'm sorry, I ruined everything!" a drunken Cassie wailed — and we can add our appetites to the list of things she spoiled.

From the way Sheryl gagged as The Manager disgustingly devoured the cookies she'd brought him to curry favor, we're never going to be able to think about Biscuits With the Boss the same way again. (Sorry, Ted Lasso.)

Considering how many immediate Griffin family members (including the dog) have hooked up with one another, it was only a matter of time before things got Oedipal between Stewie and Lois. Cut to this utterly depraved episode of television, during which Stewie was so turned on by his mother's "hot" new physique that he indulged in a full-on fantasy sequence during mommy-and-me class. When it comes to incest, Westeros doesn't even hold a candle to Quahog.

We get that Starz' political drama wanted to paint a grungy portrait of Washington, D.C., in the early '70s, but we have just one question regarding the photo above: WHY DID THEY HAVE TO SHOW US THIS?!

"It's all right," King Viserys kept reassuring Queen Aemma during her long, painful and ultimately unfruitful labor. But she — and we — knew that wasn't the case, particularly when the maesters went in for a gushingly bloody, definitely un-anesthetized Caesarian section that ultimately killed her.

As if these terminal kids weren't suffering enough, poor Spence got the gnarliest of cuts in the series' second episode. But did we really need this gory close-up of his stitches? We think not.

We will, of course, spare you the disturbing visual of Tommy Lee's anthropomorphic penis, with which the rocker had an entire conversation upon meeting and falling for Pamela Anderson in the Hulu miniseries. On one hand, it's a delight to hear Jason Mantzoukas' voice in any capacity. On the other, all of that writhing and curving? Pass!

Yes, the above scene did happen within a simulation, but it was still disgusting AF. An assault on an eyeball will forever remain one of our worst nightmares.

We shared Roscoe's reaction/amazement at seeing how Reacher "fit" a stiff, dead body into a car trunk, by playing what she described as human "Tetris."

Considering Justin lost his job shortly after this episode aired, we know we aren't the only ones who wish we could unsee his and Whitney's nude painting sesh.

Now this one is more emotionally harrowing than visually revolting, but we're still scarred from the moment Nathan Fielder's bizarre social experiment went sideways, when a child actor named Remy, whom Nathan hired to play his son, dissolved into tears when he had to drop the act and say goodbye. (The poor boy didn't have a dad and grew attached to Nathan.) In an instant, The Rehearsal went from weirdly fascinating to seriously heartbreaking.

When Tiffany emerged from a Porta-Potty in the HBO comedy's sophomore finale, announcing to Baby Billy that she'd just delivered their newborn son directly into the toilet, we so hoped we wouldn't have to actually witness the retrieval. Alas, the show relished every gross squelching sound as Baby Billy reached in and rescued the infant, covered in blue goo and who knows what else.

Lest you have any doubts about the extent of the injury Clay sustained in the Mali ambush, this moment from the season premiere depicted it in in detail so grisly, even Bravo 6 had to hurl after seeing it.

We're not going to say that Sylvia deserved to get her finger cut off, per se, but how dare she yell at our boy Tobe like that! Even grosser: After the digit was completely severed, it was promptly ground up in the garbage disposal.

The number-crunchers on Apple TV+'s sci-fi thriller worked hard all season long to earn the coveted prize of a waffle party, and when Dylan won it, he did get to enjoy some waffles — but he was also subjected to a bewildering, BDSM-y dance sequence with scantily-clad strangers wearing weird masks and undulating to tribal beats. Um, next time, we'll just take the waffles.

Look, we're glad that 10-year-old Eric Cartman's breast implants were able to solve his hometown's water shortage crisis (it's a long story), but that doesn't mean we needed to see his large unnaturals in all their glory.

Yes, we've all seen Alien. But that didn't make this darkly disturbing scene — in which poor alien Buckley fell ill and had a bloodthirsty litter of sharp-teethed Gorn babies burst out of him and scatter throughout the ship — any easier to, um, stomach.

Our reaction to the scene in which Hawkins High cheerleader Chrissy's body was brutally pretzeled by Vecna mirrored that of traumatized witness Eddie: Aaauuuggghhh! Enough said. 

Poor Van, having to have her mauled cheek sewn up by freaked-out amateurs with nothing on hand to dull her pain! Poor us, having to watch the slapdash surgery unfold!