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** Lolly staring at an unknowing Alex while writing down Alex's schedule while creepy music plays in the background.
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** His way of getting back at Red by peeing in the thanksgiving gravy she made. Also {{Squick}}. And how he threatens her afterwards for drugs.
** Pornstache's attempts to extort Sophia into sex for her hormones, and she refuses despite the personal hell waiting for her when she goes through withdrawal and then a complete lack of hormones.



* Piper scaring a girl straight without acting, exaggerating, or threatening her. All she does is give an honest, disturbingly calm assessment of what prison can do to your emotional well-being and sense of self-worth, and it's enough to render not just the girl she's talking to but all the other students, inmates, and staff members in the vicinity completely speechless.



* When you find out why Claudette is in prison. She killed the man who was abusing the girl who worked as his maid.



** Or in season 3 when she gets some guys to go to Christopher's house and beat him up in revenge for humiliating and rejecting her.



** Her last scene of the season is her giving herself a tattoo of the infinity sign she mentioned earlier with ''barely'' a hint of pain on her face, as she declares it "fucking awesome" with a sadistic smile on her face.

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** Her last scene of the season is her giving herself a tattoo of the infinity sign she mentioned earlier with ''barely'' a hint of pain on her face, as she declares it "fucking awesome" with a sadistic smile on her face.face.
* After several occasions when a (sometimes well-meaning) Alex screwed Piper over, Piper finally gets a pretty twisted revenge: she gets a freed Alex thrown back into prison with her. She says this is because she doesn't want to be without Alex. On the one hand, this is very decent revenge for Alex coercing Piper into perjuring herself while Alex made a deal and was set free, and on the other hand, Piper can justify it by claiming that she was saving Alex's life by getting her out of reach from a man who wanted her dead, which is in fact true.
** Adding to the CMOA is that Piper enlists Polly and Larry into getting Alex thrown back into prison. Larry rightly guesses that part of Piper's motivation is to get Alex back in with her, and it's not quite a reconciliation between them, but Piper points out that it gives them a chance to screw over someone they don't like.
* Lolly's obsession with Alex Vause when she is caught staring at Alex. Alex also caught her sneaking around in her bunk. Alex becomes so paranoid from this that she looks through Lolly's bunk and finds a notebook containing notes about Alex's daily routine.
** Lolly and Alex's fight in the bathroom.
** She and Lolly are doing maintenance work when Lolly 'accidentally' breaks a Greenhouse window and hides a piece of glass. When Alex answers what happened to the glass Lolly says she doesn't know and she tries to use it on Alex in the above fight.
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* Bennett snapping on the inmates in "40 Oz of Furlough", tearing up apart the beddings of Taystee, Poussey, and Janae in a fit of stress and rage. It's so bad that Pornstache has to cool him down and drag him out, and he actually ''apologizes'' to the inmates for Bennett's behavior.
* In "Little Mustachioed Shit" Piper [[spoiler: after sleeping with Alex]] is left alone when the latter makes a phone call. As she's laying in bed, [[spoiler: a hooded figure stands at the door before lunging for and assaulting a screaming Piper.]] It turns to be [[spoiler: Alex's new girlfriend, Sylvie, whose frightening rage (albeit [[YourCheatingHeart justified]] nearly drives Piper out of the place.]]
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--> Piper: I don't fuck around. Let the people know.

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--> Piper: I don't fuck around. Let the people know.know.
** Her last scene of the season is her giving herself a tattoo of the infinity sign she mentioned earlier with ''barely'' a hint of pain on her face, as she declares it "fucking awesome" with a sadistic smile on her face.
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* Morello begs Sophia to do her hair for her in "Mother's Day" because she wants to feel better and she admits that she throws up often now and it's the only thing that kind of makes her feel better.

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* Morello begs Sophia to do her hair for her in "Mother's Day" because she wants to feel better and she admits that she throws up often now and it's the only thing that kind of makes her feel better. Also counts as a {{Tearjerker}}.
* Piper taking revenge on Stella for stealing her money by filling her bunk with contraband. And then placing a tip in with the guards, ensuring that she gets sent to Max. It's a vicious and cold-hearted move and Piper's unemotional stare while showing her new "Trust No Bitch" tattoo really sells it.
Piper: I don't fuck around. Let the people know.
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* The final scenes of the season finale are heartwarming in a way, with [[spoiler: the inmates charging into the lake outside the prison and enjoying themselves. But while this is going on, Alex has just been confronted by one of the associates of her former drug-dealing partner disguised as a CO who she has been in constant paranoia over the entire season, thinking he would send someone to kill her. Now he actually has, and it isn't [[AmbiguousEnding shown]] ''what'' has happened to her. Is she dead, is she alive? We don't know.]]

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* The final scenes of the season finale are heartwarming in a way, with [[spoiler: the inmates charging into the lake outside the prison and enjoying themselves. But while this is going on, Alex has just been confronted by one of the associates of her former drug-dealing partner disguised as a CO who she has been in constant paranoia over the entire season, thinking he would send someone to kill her. Now he actually has, and it isn't [[AmbiguousEnding shown]] ''what'' has happened to her. Is she dead, is she alive? We don't know.]]]]
* Morello begs Sophia to do her hair for her in "Mother's Day" because she wants to feel better and she admits that she throws up often now and it's the only thing that kind of makes her feel better.
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** And her seeming treatment of this in the next episode as being her fault and that [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization she "wasn't ready for it"]]. Even Miss {{Squick}} herself, Big Boo, can't help but [[PrecisionFStrike be disturbed by this]].

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** And her seeming treatment of this in the next episode as being her fault and that [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization she "wasn't ready for it"]]. Even Miss {{Squick}} herself, Big Boo, can't help but [[PrecisionFStrike be disturbed by this]].this]].
*** They manage to [[spoiler: eventually get Pennsatucky off driving duty.]] The celebration doesn't last long when they see [[spoiler: Maritza now has the position, a terrifying Cliffhanger above any.]]
* The final scenes of the season finale are heartwarming in a way, with [[spoiler: the inmates charging into the lake outside the prison and enjoying themselves. But while this is going on, Alex has just been confronted by one of the associates of her former drug-dealing partner disguised as a CO who she has been in constant paranoia over the entire season, thinking he would send someone to kill her. Now he actually has, and it isn't [[AmbiguousEnding shown]] ''what'' has happened to her. Is she dead, is she alive? We don't know.]]
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** And her seeming treatment of this in the next episode as being her fault and that [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt she "wasn't ready for it"]]. Even Miss {{Squick}} herself, Big Boo, can't help but [[PrecisionFStrike]] be disturbed by this.

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** And her seeming treatment of this in the next episode as being her fault and that [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization she "wasn't ready for it"]]. Even Miss {{Squick}} herself, Big Boo, can't help but [[PrecisionFStrike]] [[PrecisionFStrike be disturbed by this.this]].
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* The ending to "A Tittin' and a Hairin'", where [[spoiler: Coates rapes Pennsatucky in the back of the prison transport van. What makes this so bad is not so much the rape itself, but rather Pennsatucky's detached, bored look- as an earlier flashback shows, it's not the only time it's happened, and also, her look seems to suggest that she's accepting this as her destiny in life- she'll only ever be used and abused by someone she loves.]] Doubles as a TearJerker in context.

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* The ending to "A Tittin' and a Hairin'", where [[spoiler: Coates rapes Pennsatucky in the back of the prison transport van. What makes this so bad is not so much the rape itself, but rather Pennsatucky's detached, bored look- as an earlier flashback shows, it's not the only time it's happened, and also, her look seems to suggest that she's accepting this as her destiny in life- she'll only ever be used and abused by someone she loves.]] Doubles as a TearJerker in context.context.
** And her seeming treatment of this in the next episode as being her fault and that [[ItsNotRapeIfYouEnjoyedIt she "wasn't ready for it"]]. Even Miss {{Squick}} herself, Big Boo, can't help but [[PrecisionFStrike]] be disturbed by this.
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* Flaca's backstory, at least for one moment. She starts selling fake LSD tabs, but then one of her customers [[spoiler: jumps off the roof of their school and lands on the sidewalk below, and the last we hear of him is that he's in critical condition. All because of the placebo effect.]]

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* Flaca's backstory, at least for one moment. She starts selling fake LSD tabs, but then one of her customers [[spoiler: jumps off the roof of their school and lands on the sidewalk below, and the last we hear of him is that he's in critical condition. All because of the placebo effect.]]]]
* The ending to "A Tittin' and a Hairin'", where [[spoiler: Coates rapes Pennsatucky in the back of the prison transport van. What makes this so bad is not so much the rape itself, but rather Pennsatucky's detached, bored look- as an earlier flashback shows, it's not the only time it's happened, and also, her look seems to suggest that she's accepting this as her destiny in life- she'll only ever be used and abused by someone she loves.]] Doubles as a TearJerker in context.
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** Also in the same episode, Cesar's reaction to his son not eating his chips, [[spoiler: He pulls a gun on him]].
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* Crazy Eyes' mental state continues to worsen from the spell that Vee has put her under. It even goes so far in "Finger in the Dyke" as to have her [[spoiler: start dressing as her]].

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* Crazy Eyes' mental state continues to worsen from the spell that Vee has put her under. It even goes so far in "Finger in the Dyke" as to have her [[spoiler: start dressing as her]].her]].
* Flaca's backstory, at least for one moment. She starts selling fake LSD tabs, but then one of her customers [[spoiler: jumps off the roof of their school and lands on the sidewalk below, and the last we hear of him is that he's in critical condition. All because of the placebo effect.]]
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* Bennet's flashbacks in "Bed Bugs and Beyond," which show his tour in Afghanistan. The last one [[spoiler: has the Afghan soldiers throwing grenades around the FOB]].

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* Bennet's flashbacks in "Bed Bugs and Beyond," which show his tour in Afghanistan. The last one [[spoiler: has the Afghan soldiers throwing grenades around the FOB]].FOB]].
* Crazy Eyes' mental state continues to worsen from the spell that Vee has put her under. It even goes so far in "Finger in the Dyke" as to have her [[spoiler: start dressing as her]].
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* In the season 3 premiere "Mother's Day", we get a look at the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] childhood Healy lived: [[spoiler: having to deal with his mother who was either schizophrenic or maybe even worse, who full on throws a filthy ashtray at him just for bringing her breakfast, and rambling about the lord]]. In fact, it's even worse when you consider one of the inmates he as to deal with when he starts working at Litchfield.

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* In the season 3 premiere "Mother's Day", we get a look at the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] childhood Healy lived: [[spoiler: having to deal with his mother who was either schizophrenic or maybe even worse, who full on throws a filthy ashtray at him just for bringing her breakfast, and rambling about the lord]]. In fact, it's even worse when you consider one of the inmates he as to deal with when he starts working at Litchfield.Litchfield.
* Bennet's flashbacks in "Bed Bugs and Beyond," which show his tour in Afghanistan. The last one [[spoiler: has the Afghan soldiers throwing grenades around the FOB]].
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** It's not just the meth. In Season 3, she proudly proclaims to Boo that she doesn't need to brush her teeth.
--> Boo: Your parents just didn't try at all, did they?
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* "Thirsty Bird", the premier episode of Season 2, is an hour-long journey into the institutionalized hell of the prison system that would make Creator/FranzKafka proud. After spending a month slowly going insane in the SHU, Piper gets released in the middle of the night with no explanation, then driven halfway across the state by bus and flown to a hellish detention center in Chicago--all without ever being told why she's there or how long she has to stay, and absolutely sure that [[spoiler: she murdered Pennsatucky]]. And when she's at the detention center, she has to share a bunk with a crazed woman with an astrological fixation who casually admits to biting off her ex-girlfriend's tongue, she's forced to catch roaches to survive, and she ends up selling her panties to a hit-man for a favor. And the lovable characters and BlackHumor that you've come to expect from this show? Gone. Piper has to face the horrors of the prison alone, and you genuinely think that she might lose her mind by the end.

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* "Thirsty Bird", the premier episode of Season 2, is an hour-long journey into the institutionalized hell of the prison system that would make Creator/FranzKafka proud. After spending a month slowly going insane in the SHU, Piper gets released in the middle of the night with no explanation, then driven halfway across the state by bus and flown to a hellish detention center in Chicago--all without ever being told why she's there or how long she has to stay, and absolutely sure that [[spoiler: she murdered Pennsatucky]]. And when she's at the detention center, she has to share a bunk with a crazed woman with an astrological fixation who casually admits to biting off her ex-girlfriend's tongue, she's forced to catch roaches to survive, and she ends up selling her panties to a hit-man for a favor. And the lovable characters and BlackHumor that you've come to expect from this show? Gone. Piper has to face the horrors of the prison alone, and you genuinely think that she might lose her mind by the end.end.
* In the season 3 premiere "Mother's Day", we get a look at the [[SarcasmMode lovely]] childhood Healy lived: [[spoiler: having to deal with his mother who was either schizophrenic or maybe even worse, who full on throws a filthy ashtray at him just for bringing her breakfast, and rambling about the lord]]. In fact, it's even worse when you consider one of the inmates he as to deal with when he starts working at Litchfield.
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* Piper's full-on breakdown in "Can't Fix Crazy". Not made better by Healy ''ignoring Piper and leaving her to die''
** Not to mentions she's beating Pennsatucky to a pulp to ''Christmas carols sung by children''

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* Piper's full-on breakdown in "Can't Fix Crazy". Not made better by Healy ''ignoring ignoring Piper and leaving her to die''
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** Not to mentions she's beating Pennsatucky to a pulp to ''Christmas Christmas carols sung by children''children.
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*** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-methamphetamine-can-make-you-new-person/ That's what happens when you have a long history of using meth]]. It causes users to a) stop caring about hygiene and b) to grind their teeth.

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*** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-methamphetamine-can-make-you-new-person/ That's what happens when you have a long history of using meth]]. It causes users to a) stop caring about hygiene and b) to grind their teeth. It's popularly called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meth_mouth "meth mouth."]] Still...ewwwww...
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* Even though he [[LaserGuidedKarma totally deserved it]], seeing [[spoiler: Gloria's abusive boyfriend die in that fire]] was ''terrifying''.

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* Even though he [[LaserGuidedKarma totally deserved it]], seeing [[spoiler: Gloria's abusive boyfriend die in that fire]] was ''terrifying''.''terrifying''.
* "Thirsty Bird", the premier episode of Season 2, is an hour-long journey into the institutionalized hell of the prison system that would make Creator/FranzKafka proud. After spending a month slowly going insane in the SHU, Piper gets released in the middle of the night with no explanation, then driven halfway across the state by bus and flown to a hellish detention center in Chicago--all without ever being told why she's there or how long she has to stay, and absolutely sure that [[spoiler: she murdered Pennsatucky]]. And when she's at the detention center, she has to share a bunk with a crazed woman with an astrological fixation who casually admits to biting off her ex-girlfriend's tongue, she's forced to catch roaches to survive, and she ends up selling her panties to a hit-man for a favor. And the lovable characters and BlackHumor that you've come to expect from this show? Gone. Piper has to face the horrors of the prison alone, and you genuinely think that she might lose her mind by the end.
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** Not to mentions she's beating Pennsatucky to a pulp to <i>Christmas carols sung by children</i>

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** Not to mentions she's beating Pennsatucky to a pulp to <i>Christmas ''Christmas carols sung by children</i>children''
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** Not to mentions she's beating Pennsatucky to a pulp to <i> Christmas carols sung by children </i>

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*** [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-methamphetamine-can-make-you-new-person/ That's what happens when you have a long history of using meth]]. It causes users to a) stop caring about hygiene and b) to grind their teeth.
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* Vee is terrifying on numerous levels. Considering that her introduction shows her business model of manipulating vulnerable children with a conditional promise of family that turns into literally making them sleep on the streets if their profits are too low and she just gets ''worse''? If Mads Mikkelsen is ever busy, Lorraine Toussaint has more than proven she could be the next Hannibal Lecter.

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* Vee is terrifying on numerous levels. Considering that her introduction shows her business model of manipulating vulnerable children with a conditional promise of family that turns into literally making them sleep on the streets if their profits are too low and she just gets ''worse''? If Mads Mikkelsen is ever busy, Lorraine Toussaint has more than proven she could be the next Hannibal Lecter.Lecter.
* Even though he [[LaserGuidedKarma totally deserved it]], seeing [[spoiler: Gloria's abusive boyfriend die in that fire]] was ''terrifying''.
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* In "40 OZ of Furlough", a flashback to when Red gets the shit beaten out of her. It's cringe-worthy, to say the least.

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* In "40 OZ of Furlough", a flashback to when Red gets the shit beaten out of her. It's cringe-worthy, to say the least.least.
* Vee is terrifying on numerous levels. Considering that her introduction shows her business model of manipulating vulnerable children with a conditional promise of family that turns into literally making them sleep on the streets if their profits are too low and she just gets ''worse''? If Mads Mikkelsen is ever busy, Lorraine Toussaint has more than proven she could be the next Hannibal Lecter.
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Anything by Jenji Kohan is bound to have some NightmareFuel in it, but with this show being set in a prison, well, there's more to it than that.

*Mendez's interrogation of Lorna. He spends most of the series a Large Ham, but he's in full-on Soft-Spoken Sadist mode here.
*Pennsatucky toward the end of the first season. At first, she was a harmless annoyance, but became increasingly dangerous and disturbing over time. She honestly tried to murder Piper' while giving semi-coherent rants about "God's plan". Earlier, she cornered Piper in the shower, cut her own hand with a razor, and smeared the blood on Piper's chest, only to be stopped by Taystee. Her flashback of storming into an abortion clinic and gunning down a nurse without remorse is also extremely unnerving.
** Her Teeth. [[{{Squick}} Ewwwww]].
* Piper's full-on breakdown in "Can't Fix Crazy". Not made better by Healy ''ignoring Piper and leaving her to die''
*Lorna's crime. Throughout the first season, she goes on and on about how she's going to marry "Christopher" and furiously insists he is real. In Season 2, it is revealed that Christopher is real...and they went on only one date...after which, Lorna started stalking him, even after he insisted he wasn't interested, changed his phone number, moved, until finally she planted a bomb under his actual fiancee's car.
** And then there's the scene where she breaks into Christopher's house and takes a bath wearing the fiancee's wedding veil.
* In "40 OZ of Furlough", a flashback to when Red gets the shit beaten out of her. It's cringe-worthy, to say the least.

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