The most memorable thing I've ever seen on television is probably the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Jan. 28, 1986. It is my version of the assignation of President Kennedy. If anyone ever asks what I was doing when I found out about the explosion, I will be able to say, "I walked into my dorm room after a class my freshman year at college, turned on the TV, and it was all over the place. I was totally shocked and saddened." It is a day I will never forget.

Tie for second, the last episode of Cheers, Seinfeld, and second to last show of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Kevin, 32
Sugar Hill, GA

The challenger blowing up. I remember it cause I was in 5th grade and the whole class was watching it. I probably also remember it because people were talking about it for weeks after that.

Socrates One
Lowell, MA

I remember the Challenger exploding in the sky.  I was at college walking into my dorm on a very snowy day.  The pictures on the TV seemed surreal.  It just never occured to me that accidents of that sort could happen.  The American Space program was infalliable,  wasn't it? 

Picture of the Berlin Wall going down are also in my mind.  It never occured to me that the political world map could change so quickly.

And finally in a typical girly fashion I remember waking up to see the wedding of Princess Di to Prince Charles and the announcement of Princess Di's death struck me as unreal.  In fact I thought it was a Saturday Night LIve skit at first.

Felicia, 34
Somerville, MA

I remember when Reagan won his race. . .I guess it would have been the second one. No, it had to be the first. I don't know. I was about 4. It's easy to remember political things and stuff like the whole OJ incident because people still talk about them. I also remember some movies from when I was little, though.

Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames, IA

During the Blizzard of '96, some pipes in Downtown Norfolk exploded & left one of the local news stations in the dark. Rather than cancelling their 6pm newscast, they went on the air in their regular clothes (jeans, sweats. etc), in the dark, with a hand-drawn weather map on a piece of cardboard. I never laughed so hard at the news!

Lindsay, 21
Harrisonburg, VA

Joe Montana on Saturday Night Live saying "I'll just be upstairs masturbating" in a skit where you hear what all of the characters are thinking.

Shayna, 28
Somerville, MA

Wow, this is a hard but interesting question. I have to mention the X-Files because it is just genius writing and I've probably seen every episode at least once. I've seen some of them up to five or six times. Another thing that I thought of was an Oprah episode that featured biracial kids...it kind of opened my eyes. Not that I was racist or ignorant before, but something really clicked with me during that. The last thing I think of is all the movies that are played on Saturday afternoons. Breakfast Club, various scary movies from the 70s and 80s like Halloween and Poltergeist, things like that.

Elizabeth, 18
Rochester, MN

When the Challenger blew up.

Laura, 35
Lowell, MA

I don't watch much television. The last time was for the coverage of the Gulf War and I was more interested in information than entertainment.

Jill, 59
Saylorsburg, PA

Myself on the local news.
It doesn't happen often, you know.

Amy, 23
Baton Rouge, LA

The Challenger explosion. America's reactionairy loss of faith in our future expansion into space. and Bill Clinton lying with every turd-like word that has come out of his mouth for 8 years. I believe more that I see on Pokemon cartoons than what that sex-offender spouts.

Anthony. 24
Baton Rouge, LA

The most memorable thing I saw on television would probably be a tie:
Between when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986, and when the Berlin Wall came down. Those were two major happenings in my lifetime.

Ernest, 28
Washington, DC

when Shawn Michaels threw Marty Janetty's head through a part of a stage set when they were in the middle of a close embrace to supposedly reuite and re-establish The Rockers as a tag team in the WWF. . . (this was about 1991 or so. . . .) . . . I knew as I was watching it that it was staged,  however, I was really upset by the coarseness and brutality of the betrayal and fell in love with the deep surreality of it all. . .

mothmc, 35
Pensacola, FL

Ozzy Osbourne and Conan O'Brien walking through the streets of Amsterdam sniffing flowers.

Alias Irrelevante

This may sound a little weird, but I watched Princess Diana's funeral when it happened, and I can't seem to forget how powerful that was.

Nicole
Elk Grove, CA

When Kennedy was shot.

Janet, 42
E. Brunswick, NJ

People using their bare hands to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Nikki, 27
Kirkham ENGLAND

It felt like a part of history in the making when I watched the first main character of a TV sitcom come out as a lesbian. Congrats, Ellen!

Eric, 18
Beverly Hills, CA USA

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