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  • Realistic and disturbing, "That's My Dog" is an entire episode of a terrifying carjacking. David picks up a "cute" hitchhiker who forces David at gunpoint to take out all his money at an ATM, beats and punches him, forces him to smoke crack, makes him suck the barrel of a gun, threatens to set him on fire after pouring gasoline on him, steals his van, and leaves him in the middle of nowhere, beaten half to death.
  • Lisa's decaying, partially shark-eaten corpse. Shown just for a brief moment, but it's a disturbing reminder of what happens to human bodies after death.
  • Many gruesome deaths that are depicted on screen:
    • A baker gets hacked into pieces by a huge dough machine.
    • One opening teaser scene featured a first person perspective of a three week-old infant lying in a crib. As the adoring parents leave the baby to sleep, the camera (serving as the baby's perspective) looks up at the roof into a rather creepy black and white baby's mobile. As the camera blurs and zooms, the shot fades to white.
      DILLON MICHAEL COOPER
      2001 - 2001
    • One man gets torn apart by an elevator.
    • One woman loses the top half of her head when she collides with a cherry picker after deciding she wanted to stick her head through the sunroof of the limo she was riding.
    • One woman bleeds to death through the nose.
    • A woman falls into a metal hand-iron which impales her eye.
    • A woman is taking a bubble bath and gets electrocuted by a hairdryer her cat accidentally knocks into the tub.
  • Keith suggests that Claire donate her eggs so he and David can have a child which is genetically related to both of them. Immediately afterwards, David has a nightmare in which an extremely creepy female puppet with red hair hands him a basket, then runs off with Keith. As pictured above, the basket contains a grotesque baby puppet, which has Claire's features (red hair, fair skin, and one blue eye) on one half, and Keith's features (bald head, dark skin, and one brown eye) on the other. The "baby" blinks and croaks, "Daddy!", whereupon David wakes with a start.

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