Janet Jackson & Justin Timberlake was pretty scandalous at the time.
Malice in the palace. It just progressively got worse and worse. To this day, I can’t find the full footage online that I saw live on ESPN. This shows part of it: https://youtu.be/FPJqMjAM1-I
This is so stupid, but I was a youngin’ when it happened. A guy was holding up a sign on the Today show (or some national morning TV show) that said “Marry Me Julia” (or something like that)
Willard Scott or Al Roker or someone went up to the guy and said “Tell us a little about Julia!” and the guy was like “Nope, I’d rather marry Steve” and started making out on camera with the guy next to him. The host booked it and was like ooooookayyyyyyy onto the weather!
Prior to then I’d never even heard about being gay, let alone seen anything like it. I’m not sure why that image stuck with me though it was pretty shocking at the time.
When I was a kid TV shows were interrupted all the time for high speed chases and police standoffs.
One time a helicopter was tracking a guy who was driving through a field. The driver hopped out of his van(?) with a shotgun. The reporter was telling the helicopter to pan away from the shot but they didn’t. The driver then put the shotgun in his mouth and blew his head off on live TV. The camera cut and came back to the in studio reporter who had a defeated wtf look on his face.
I swear this led to less situations like this being shown on TV.
I saw the Max Headroom signal intrusion the night it happened, I was hanging with some friends smoking hash and watching Doctor Who, it was so bizarre and we were so high that we weren’t even sure we had actually seen it until a couple days later when it started showing up in the news.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking