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Wisteria Lane was never as peaceful as it looked! Join us as we count down the most jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing moments from one of television's most deliciously dramatic series. From shocking deaths and devastating diagnoses to explosive secrets and unforgettable betrayals, these are the scenes that kept us glued to our screens. Which moment left YOU speechless?
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00:00I hope all this is giving you a little perspective on our situation.
00:03She told us not to talk.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06And today, we're taking a trip down Wisteria Lane
00:10and counting down our picks for the drama
00:12that defined one of television's most intense neighborhoods.
00:16Get in!
00:18Hang on! Hang on to this!
00:22Number 30.
00:23Porter is the father of Julie's baby.
00:26When Julie returns to Wisteria Lane pregnant,
00:29of course, the big question is, who's the father?
00:32Is there something wrong with the guy?
00:34I'm gonna hate him, aren't I?
00:35No, because you're not gonna meet him.
00:38She refuses to tell her mom,
00:41leaving Susan to do a little snooping of her own.
00:43And it turns out, Julie had a pretty good reason
00:46for wanting to keep this little detail private.
00:49After all, who'd want to reveal that they're having a baby
00:52with someone they used to babysit?
00:54Oh my God!
00:56You're the guy!
00:58I...
00:59Porter Scavo is the father of my grandchild.
01:03Sharp-eyed viewers may have spotted an earlier hint
01:05when the twins overhear Susan and Lynette discussing it.
01:09However, whether you spotted that detail or not,
01:12there's no denying that the first time we watched this episode,
01:15we were just as shocked as Susan.
01:17You better get used to it.
01:19This snot-nosed kid, the boy who got his head stuck in our fence,
01:24is the father of your baby.
01:25Number 29.
01:26Lynette and Tom separate.
01:28The Scavos had been through so much throughout the series
01:31that it felt like nothing could break them apart.
01:34Even when their marriage became more strained than ever,
01:36we were sure they'd work through it.
01:38We have survived five kids, a failed business, cancer.
01:46Why can't we pull out of this one?
01:49However, A Weekend Away proves to be the straw that breaks this marriage's back.
01:54Lynette doesn't seem to realize just how fractured things have become
01:58until the following episode.
01:59Why are you keeping your suitcase packed?
02:02The company has an apartment near the office.
02:07I think I should move in there for a while.
02:09Rather than unpack after their disastrous trip,
02:12Tom decides he'd rather unpack his suitcase elsewhere.
02:15We'd seen the ladies' relationships collapse plenty of times before,
02:19but we watched this marriage unravel with the same disbelief as Lynette.
02:23We can't give up.
02:25We have to keep fighting for this,
02:28and we're just fighting to save our family.
02:30Are we fighting to save it, or are we just fighting?
02:32It happens.
02:33Lynette!
02:36Leave the suitcase where it is.
02:38Number 28.
02:39Catherine Plans to Frame Mike.
02:41Mike and Susan's divorce certainly took us by surprise,
02:45as did Mike's relationship with Catherine.
02:47It takes drastic measures to reunite this family,
02:50but Catherine isn't ready to let go.
02:52He used to love my sauce.
02:55Of course.
02:57He used to love me, too.
03:03Okay, enough with the sauce.
03:04I want my dress back, now.
03:06In fact, we watch her break down over several episodes.
03:09The most dramatic moment comes when she tries to use MJ to reach Mike,
03:14prompting him to lash out at her cruelly.
03:16The whole time I was with you,
03:19all I thought about was Susan.
03:21Every time I held you,
03:23every time I kissed you,
03:27all I was thinking was,
03:29God, I wish you were Susan.
03:31After he leaves,
03:32she calls 911 before picking up a knife that has his fingerprints all over it,
03:37and does the unthinkable.
03:39It's a difficult storyline to watch,
03:41but it shows just how deeply grief,
03:43heartbreak,
03:44and denial can affect someone when they feel like they're losing everything.
03:48I just heard the cops say that someone stabbed Captain Wright in the gut.
03:51What?
03:52Who would do that?
03:59You've got to be kidding me.
04:02Number 27.
04:03Mike is Zack's father.
04:05This reveal brings the series full circle to its catalyst.
04:08We finally uncover the dark history of the Youngs,
04:11or rather the Forrests,
04:13revealing Mike's unexpected connection to their tragic story.
04:16You knew Deirdre?
04:19Yeah.
04:20And I know what you did to her.
04:22As Mike holds Paul's life in his hands,
04:25the final piece of the puzzle clicks into place.
04:27Suddenly,
04:28everything we assumed about these characters is upended.
04:31The creepy kid next door is not merely a random threat.
04:34He's Mike's biological son.
04:36Deirdre had a baby.
04:44Let's get this over with.
04:46Now he's holding Susan hostage,
04:48seeking revenge for the father he thought he had,
04:50at the expense of the father he never knew.
04:53This moment finally exposes the tangled,
04:56long-buried secrets that have haunted them all season long.
04:59Zack is your son, isn't he?
05:02Yeah.
05:03I'm pretty sure.
05:05Number 26.
05:07Alma's return.
05:08A year earlier,
05:09Orson's first wife,
05:11Alma,
05:11vanished without a trace.
05:13So it was a massive shock when she returned to reveal it had all been a calculated gone girl setup.
05:19Where have you been all this time?
05:20In Canada.
05:21My aunt lives there.
05:22Well, you should have told someone.
05:24People thought you were dead.
05:26Some even thought that Orson killed you.
05:28Well, that's sort of what I wanted them to think.
05:31We learn that Alma trapped Orson into a loveless marriage,
05:34and as soon as she offered him an exit, he took it.
05:37So she orchestrated her own disappearance,
05:40fully aware of the suspicion it would cast upon him.
05:42Orson hurt me very badly.
05:44He cheated on me.
05:46Yes, I know.
05:47With Monique Poulier.
05:48And I thought, if I disappeared, she'd get scared and leave him, like he left me.
05:55In a chilling twist, the very disappearance meant to frame him became the psychological shackle she used to anchor him
06:01back to her.
06:02Her return ignites a firestorm of drama, as she, alongside his mother, resorts to desperate, depraved tactics to win him
06:11back.
06:11I remember drinking the scotch, and then Alma suddenly sitting up, but after that, nothing.
06:18Number 25, Karen's Husband.
06:21Karen McCluskey is the sharp-tongued, nosy neighborhood watchdog whose prickly exterior hides a fiercely loyal heart
06:28and a surprising capacity for selflessness.
06:31But one of the most unexpected things we learn about her is that she still lives with her husband.
06:36And the loneliest of all are the ones who talk to people.
06:40You know what I think, Gilbert.
06:42People who are no longer there.
06:44Well, he passed away before the events of the series even began.
06:47Throughout the episode, Karen continues to speak to him.
06:51But it isn't until the end that we discover her freezer isn't just stocked with popsicles.
06:56Yes, of all emotions, passion is the one that gives us a reason to live.
07:02Episodes later, a now-isolated Karen reveals why she made that choice.
07:07And sadly, it reflects the harsh financial burdens that many elderly people still face today.
07:12I not only lost my Gilbert, but I was about to lose everything.
07:17So I, um...
07:21I, um...
07:22You put him in the freezer and kept cashing the checks.
07:28Well, what else was I gonna do?
07:29Number 24, Brie confronts Matthew.
07:32Season 2's plotline revolves around the Applewhites, a new family with a big secret.
07:37Betty and her son Matthew have been keeping her other son Caleb,
07:41a person with an intellectual disability,
07:44locked in their basement after he was accused of murder.
07:47Or wrongfully accused, as we later find out.
07:49Because he said it was okay for me to kiss her.
07:54What did you say?
07:56He said Danielle liked me.
07:57And that she wouldn't fight me if I gave her a kiss.
08:01Your brother told you that?
08:04Matty said that she was waiting for me.
08:06And that she wanted a really big kiss.
08:13What else did your brother tell you?
08:15Matthew attempts to frame his brother again,
08:17this time with his girlfriend Danielle as an accomplice.
08:20When Brie finds out about Matthew's past,
08:23she races to save her daughter from becoming another victim,
08:26doing whatever it takes to keep Danielle out of harm's way.
08:29What are you doing?
08:30Move away!
08:32Danielle?
08:35I want you to get out of the house now.
08:38He's a killer.
08:39Shut up!
08:39Don't point that at my mother!
08:41It's an intense standoff,
08:42proving the extreme, dangerous lengths Brie will go to
08:46to protect her daughter.
08:48If that's what it takes...
08:50to get my daughter...
08:52Stop it!
08:53...to see who you really are...
08:55Stop pointing that at my mother!
08:57Then fine.
09:01What are you doing?
09:03Do it.
09:04Stop!
09:05Number 23.
09:06Susan gets trampled.
09:08After his release from prison,
09:10Paul Young returns to the neighborhood
09:12and plans to turn several properties
09:14into a halfway house,
09:16sparking outrage among the residents.
09:18Good afternoon, everybody.
09:20It's a pleasure and an honor to be here.
09:22I thought you said the neighborhood was behind this.
09:25Did I?
09:27I appear to have been wrong.
09:29Their anger reaches a boiling point during a protest,
09:32but it's an unexpected misunderstanding
09:34that sends everything spiraling out of control.
09:37When Brie fires a warning shot to defuse the chaos,
09:40frightened neighbors panic and run for safety.
09:43Susan!
09:44No!
09:45No!
09:46It's cheating!
09:47Susan!
09:48Ow!
09:49Stop pushing!
09:51Susan!
09:52Ow!
09:53Ow!
09:54Ow!
09:54Ow!
09:54Ow!
09:55Ow!
09:55Ow!
09:55Ow!
09:55The whole riot is shocking to watch,
09:58but the moment that truly left us gasping
10:00was seeing Susan get knocked to the ground
10:03and trampled in the stampede.
10:05The shocking incident wasn't just a terrifying close call.
10:08It also left Susan facing serious long-term consequences.
10:13So what are you saying?
10:15Do I need a transplant?
10:17Eventually, but we need to get you on dialysis.
10:22Number 22, Gabby and Carlos' Baby Switch storyline.
10:26In season seven, we were unexpectedly hit with a storyline
10:29that felt like something straight out of a telenovela.
10:32Eight years later, you're telling me this.
10:33I've spent eight years loving someone else's daughter.
10:36As if that wasn't surprising enough,
10:38things only get more complicated
10:40when the Solises track down their biological daughter, Grace.
10:44Just when it seems like they've run out of twists,
10:46another one comes along.
10:48Whether it's Gabby seemingly ignoring Juanita,
10:51getting the Sanchez family into trouble with immigration,
10:53or even trying to have Carmen deported
10:56so she can keep Grace,
10:57the drama never lets up.
10:59Perhaps the wildest part of it all is that,
11:01while Gabby is shown struggling
11:03with the separation for a little while,
11:04Grace is seemingly forgotten soon after.
11:07From that day on,
11:09Princess Valerie never left the palace.
11:14Her real mother kept her hidden away
11:17so no one would take her.
11:21And they were never separated ever again.
11:28At some point,
11:30people seemingly stopped moving to Wisteria Lane
11:32unless they had a secret to hide
11:34or a vendetta against one of its residents.
11:36In season five, that person is Dave Williams.
11:39Throughout the season,
11:40we gradually learn more about his past
11:42and his connections to the Delfinos.
11:44He destroyed what I love the most.
11:48And I want him to feel bad hurt.
11:51I want him to lose.
11:53Although he received treatment for his grief and anger,
11:56Dave remains hell-bent on making Mike pay.
11:59The tension peaks when he plans
12:00to use sweet little MJ and Susan
12:03to carry out his revenge.
12:05Try not to scare MJ when you bring him here.
12:08Actually, change of plans.
12:11What?
12:12MJ's staying with me.
12:13The suspense lasts until the final moments
12:15when we finally discover
12:17whether Dave actually follows through.
12:19We barely breathed,
12:21hoping for the best
12:22while expecting the worst possible.
12:24Mama!
12:27Oh God.
12:28Are you okay?
12:30He told me to get out of the car.
12:32Number 20.
12:33Beth dies.
12:35I don't want to mess this up.
12:38It's the most important thing I've ever done.
12:41Introduced in the show's seventh season,
12:43Beth Young was later revealed
12:44to be the daughter of the vengeful Felicia Tillman.
12:47Beth was only a pawn in her mother's plot
12:49against the villainous Paul Young.
12:51A sequence of events finds her out of a husband,
12:54out of a home,
12:55and with seemingly nothing to live for.
12:57Desperate and searching for some meaning,
12:59Beth goes to the hospital
13:00where Susan Delfino is in need of a kidney.
13:03She signs a few forms
13:04and then takes her life
13:05in front of the nurse's station.
13:07Beth's last desperate act
13:09is as tragic as it is shocking.
13:12Number 19.
13:13Plane Crash.
13:14Affairs, shootings, fires, tornadoes.
13:17A lot of things have happened on Wisteria Lane,
13:20but a plane crash wasn't on our bingo card.
13:23Turn this thing on.
13:24Somebody help!
13:26I don't know how to fly!
13:27This season six episode is pretty standard stuff
13:30until the last few minutes.
13:32One couple reveals their secret affair.
13:34Another couple is expecting twins.
13:37Someone is about to be blackmailed
13:38over a horrible secret from their past.
13:40Then a small aircraft plunges out of the sky
13:43and crashes right into the neighborhood's
13:45annual Christmas gathering.
13:46In just a matter of seconds,
13:48whole storylines are completely upended.
13:51Relationships are torn apart.
13:52A few characters even die.
13:54It's completely random in the way
13:56that some of the best
13:57Desperate Housewives moments are.
13:58You can run, but you can't hide!
14:02Number 18.
14:04Lynette Breaks Down.
14:05When it first premiered,
14:07Desperate Housewives promised to bring the drama.
14:10But early on, it won many viewers over
14:12with its frank depictions
14:13of how difficult parenthood can be.
14:15I love my kids so much.
14:17I'm so sorry they have me as a mother.
14:20Lynette Scavo spends most of the early run
14:22adjusting to being a full-time housewife.
14:25What starts as a darkly funny look
14:27at Lynette's desperate attempt
14:28to balance motherhood, work,
14:29and everything in between
14:30soon becomes something far more serious.
14:33Her reliance on her son's ADHD medication
14:36spirals until she reaches a breaking point,
14:39collapsing in tears on a soccer field.
14:41I used to get so upset
14:43when Andrew and Danielle were little,
14:45I used their nap times to cry.
14:50Why didn't you ever tell me this?
14:52The heart-to-heart she shares with her friends
14:54probably made a lot of people feel seen.
14:57Number 17.
14:58The Bomb in The Detonator.
15:00Angie Boland's past as a reformed bomb expert
15:03and eco-terrorist on the run from the FBI
15:06unfolded over the show's sixth season.
15:09In the season finale,
15:10she's finally tracked down by Patrick,
15:12her ex and the leader
15:14of her former eco-terrorist organization.
15:17You got what you wanted?
15:19You gonna let us go now?
15:21Not yet.
15:22Patrick holds her hostage
15:24and compels her to make him one last bomb.
15:27With the detonator in his hand,
15:29Patrick reveals that he planted that bomb
15:30in the house with their son.
15:38But the crafty Angie turns the tables on him.
15:41Her real bomb is the detonator in his hand.
15:44Bye-bye, Patrick.
15:46With this kind of spunk and ingenuity,
15:48it's sad Angie didn't stick around for another season.
15:51Number 16.
15:53Lynette Confronts Art Shepard.
15:55Now, kid, who's been good this year?
16:02Wisteria Lane resident Art Shepard is hailed as a hero,
16:05but Lynette soon comes to suspect
16:07the unassuming man living with his sister
16:09who uses a wheelchair might be a secret predator.
16:12Although the storyline doesn't last long,
16:15it leaves a lot open to interpretation.
16:17When Art's sister dies,
16:19and Lynette begins to be sorry
16:20for casting so much suspicion on him,
16:23his last conversation with her chills her to the bone.
16:26He all but comes out and says she was right about him.
16:28See, I always knew that I had to take care of Rebecca
16:32so I could never let myself slip
16:36and do something that would hurt her.
16:38The most horrifying things,
16:40we're not actually sure if he's being honest
16:42or if he's just taunting her to get back at her
16:45for inadvertently causing his sister's death.
16:47Number 15.
16:49McCluskey Confesses.
16:50Your Honor, I'm not sure what we're getting from this.
16:53Well, you will in a minute, honey.
16:54When viewers first met Karen McCluskey,
16:57she was the real archetype nasty old neighbor.
17:00By the end of the series,
17:01she and the other housewives had become like family.
17:04Terminally ill with lung cancer,
17:06Karen decided to do some good
17:08with the time she had left.
17:09When Brie ended up on trial
17:11for the murder of Gabby's violent stepfather,
17:13Karen threw herself under the bus for her
17:15by confessing to the crime on the witness stand.
17:18I followed him in,
17:19I picked up the candlestick,
17:21and I killed that son of a bitch.
17:24Like the best plot twists,
17:26this one shocked us just as much
17:28as it did the characters.
17:30It was also a fitting end for a fantastic character.
17:33Number 14.
17:34Lily is taken away.
17:36Mrs. Solis.
17:38Yes?
17:38We have a court order
17:39to take the Collins baby into custody.
17:41Gabby and Carlos Solis
17:43were not always the perfect pair,
17:45but they went through a lot together
17:46over those first two seasons.
17:48What they wanted more than anything
17:50was to complete their family with a baby.
17:52Viewers watched as the couple struggled to conceive.
17:54When they were finally able to adopt
17:56a baby girl named Lily,
17:58their happiness was short-lived.
18:00Lily's mother reneged on their adoption agreement
18:03and took the baby back.
18:04Gabby's heartbroken pleading with the cops
18:06as they returned the infant to her mother
18:08is something viewers aren't likely to forget anytime soon.
18:11And my husband, my husband, he sings to her.
18:15He sings, so you can't take her away.
18:18It's too late.
18:19We've already fallen in love with her.
18:22Number 13.
18:23Andrew runs over Carlos's mother.
18:26Juanita Solis never liked her daughter-in-law,
18:28and the feeling was mutual.
18:30When she caught Gabby in a compromising position
18:32with her gardener,
18:33she raced out of the house with the proof,
18:35only to be run down by difficult teenager,
18:38Andrew Vandekamp.
18:45Nothing brings a family together
18:46like vehicular manslaughter.
18:48Even more shocking is how quickly
18:50and efficiently his parents take action.
18:52Mama?
18:57Andrew?
18:59Estranged couple, Bree and Rex,
19:01continued their run of great parenting
19:03and hid the evidence from the police,
19:05saving their son the burden
19:06of having to be accountable for his actions.
19:08The whole storyline was peak-privileged,
19:11middle-class nonsense,
19:12and we couldn't look away.
19:14Number 12.
19:15Catherine tells the truth.
19:17Like most of the new arrivals on Wisteria Lane,
19:20Catherine Mayfair came to town
19:22with a metaphorical closet full of skeletons.
19:25But her secret was one of the more heartbreaking
19:27and tragic ones.
19:28Dylan.
19:29I'm sorry.
19:30I had a choice.
19:34Dylan!
19:35All is revealed in the season 4 finale
19:37when her vengeful and abusive ex-husband
19:40holds her at gunpoint.
19:42The girl she's raising as Dylan
19:43is not their daughter.
19:45Years ago,
19:45their biological child was killed
19:47in a horrible accident.
19:49Catherine has been raising the new Dylan
19:51in her place ever since.
19:52As I looked into those big blue eyes,
19:54I knew right then
19:56she needed me as much as I needed her.
19:59It's a devastating revelation,
20:01especially given how plausible it is
20:03compared to some of the other stuff on this list.
20:06Number 11.
20:06Rex dies.
20:08Is there such a thing as a tragedy of errors?
20:10George,
20:11an obsessive pharmacist,
20:13poisons Rex Vandekamp
20:14so he can have Brie to himself.
20:16Rex finds out he's being poisoned
20:18and assumes it's Brie's revenge
20:20for his infidelity.
20:21Who prepares your meals?
20:31Brie?
20:32Many viewers were shocked
20:33that the storyline
20:34didn't end with George being found out
20:36and Brie and Rex
20:37continuing to mend their marriage.
20:39Instead,
20:40it ends with Rex accepting his fate
20:42and writing Brie a note
20:43saying he forgives her.
20:45Watching actress Marsha Cross
20:47process the news of his death
20:48as she completes her daily chores
20:50is truly something to behold.
20:58Number 10.
21:00Felicia's revenge.
21:01The first season's mystery
21:03involved a mysterious,
21:04threatening letter
21:05which led to Mary Alice
21:07taking her own life.
21:08Quietly polishing the routine of my life
21:11until it gleamed with perfection.
21:17That's why it was so astonishing
21:19when I decided to go
21:21to my hallway closet.
21:22After discovering
21:23that his neighbor Martha
21:24was responsible
21:25for his wife's tragedy,
21:26Paul fatally took matters
21:28into his own hands.
21:29Her sister figured out
21:31what my husband had done.
21:35So she decided
21:37to frame him for murder.
21:39As if this web of revenge
21:41wasn't enough,
21:42Martha's sister Felicia
21:43cooked up a sinister plot
21:45to fake her own death
21:46and frame Paul for her murder.
21:48After sneaking into his house,
21:50she staged her own disappearance,
21:52creating a fake crime scene
21:54and leaving behind evidence
21:55designed to make him
21:56look responsible.
21:57Paul would ultimately
21:58be arrested
21:59as Felicia went into hiding
22:00under her sister's identity,
22:02not to resurface
22:03for another five seasons.
22:05What is it?
22:06Put your hands
22:07where I can see them.
22:08Number 9.
22:09The Tornado.
22:10As if the drama
22:11plaguing the residents
22:12of Wisteria Lane
22:13weren't enough,
22:14our protagonists
22:15had to endure a tornado
22:16in the middle
22:17of the fourth season.
22:18Get in the house!
22:20Now!
22:22Just as several storylines
22:24were coming to a climactic head,
22:26the disaster shook up everything.
22:28The tornado would cause
22:29the deaths of Victor
22:30and Sylvia
22:31while also rendering
22:32Carlos blind,
22:33destroying Bree's house,
22:35and indirectly causing
22:36Catherine to learn
22:37of her husband's affair.
22:42The episode's ending
22:43left the fates
22:44of Lynette's entire family
22:45and Ida up in the air,
22:47resulting in a tortuous
22:48month-long cliffhanger.
22:50It's episodes like these,
22:51where the show wears
22:52its soap opera influences
22:53on its sleeve,
22:55that allows us to eat up
22:56every dramatic moment.
22:58And some had learned
23:00the hardest lesson of all.
23:08that life is always fragile
23:11and very often unfair.
23:16Number 8.
23:17Bree abandons Andrew.
23:19Can you see my pants?
23:20I can't...
23:27Now we're even.
23:29As much as Bree
23:30has always wanted
23:31the perfect domestic life,
23:33her misbehaving son Andrew
23:34was always a thorn
23:36in her side.
23:36Though on the exterior
23:38she seems like one
23:38of the sweetest housewives,
23:40her dark side
23:41really came out
23:42in this moment.
23:43Wait, why did we stop here?
23:44We have half a tank left.
23:46There's so many things
23:47I want to say to you, Andrew.
23:49After Andrew hooks up
23:50with the man she's seeing,
23:52she decides to take him
23:53on a college road trip.
23:54Thing is,
23:55she stops at a gas station
23:56and abandons her son there.
23:58Wait, you're gonna leave me
23:59out here in the middle of nowhere?
24:02I noticed a bus stop
24:04about a mile back.
24:07You can go anywhere you want.
24:09This brutal moment
24:10may be one of the series' darkest
24:11and Bree seeing Andrew
24:13disappear in her rear window
24:14is absolutely heartbreaking.
24:16Fortunately,
24:17they would later patch things up,
24:19but it would be a long road
24:20to forgiveness for Bree.
24:22Number seven,
24:23Lynette's Diagnosis.
24:24Though Lynette and Tom
24:26have one of the show's
24:27most consistently stable relationships,
24:29one of its major tests
24:30came when Lynette began
24:31to have feelings
24:32for an employee,
24:33Rick.
24:34You had lunch with Rick.
24:37You're damn right I did.
24:38I saw the security tape.
24:40What was I supposed to do?
24:41Pretend that nothing was going on?
24:43Nothing was going on.
24:44When this escalates
24:45into an explosive argument,
24:47the two visit the doctor.
24:48And just as they're about
24:49to start a major fight,
24:51the doctor drops a bomb on them.
24:53Lynette likely has lymphoma.
24:55It could be lymphoma.
24:57We're hoping the biopsy
24:59will rule that out.
25:00It's a fleeting
25:01but beautiful moment
25:02as Tom decides
25:03to let go of their petty arguments
25:04and support his wife
25:06in her diagnosis.
25:07This also sets off
25:08one of Lynette's
25:09most dramatic storylines
25:11as she examines
25:12the true value of life
25:13while fighting
25:13to keep her own.
25:15Will I be around
25:16to watch my children grow up?
25:19Number six,
25:20Carlos kills Alejandro.
25:22Oh my God.
25:24Are you all right?
25:26That's my stepfather.
25:27In the show's seventh season,
25:29Gabby faced her
25:30most personal storyline yet.
25:32After revealing
25:33that her stepfather
25:34had been abusive,
25:35the menacing figure
25:36returns to her life.
25:37I'm not the little girl
25:38who doesn't know
25:38how to defend herself anymore.
25:40What's going on here?
25:42I'm trying to think
25:42of a reason not to kill you.
25:44Just as he approaches her
25:45at a vulnerable moment,
25:46Carlos sneaks up
25:47and gives him a good whack
25:48with a candlestick.
25:50Though he didn't intend
25:51to kill the villain,
25:52he drops dead.
25:53Oh my God.
25:56As it turns out,
25:57he never actually had a gun,
25:59meaning Carlos killed
26:00an unarmed man.
26:01Along with the rest
26:02of the housewives,
26:03Gabby agrees to help
26:04Carlos cover up the killing,
26:06an event that sets in motion
26:07the main plot
26:08for the final season,
26:10sending each of these characters
26:11to a very dark place.
26:12I killed a son of a b****
26:14and hurt my wife.
26:15If I have to go to prison,
26:16I will.
26:21That's not gonna happen.
26:23Number five,
26:24the shooting.
26:24After Carolyn Bigsby
26:26discovered that her husband
26:27was having an affair,
26:28she made a decision
26:29that rocked Wisteria Lane.
26:31Everybody down.
26:33Nobody goes anywhere.
26:35Upon shooting her husband
26:36at his grocery store,
26:38she proceeds to hold
26:39the rest of the store,
26:40including Lynette,
26:41Edie,
26:42Nora,
26:42and Julie hostage.
26:44The terrifying situation
26:45occupies the second half
26:46of the episode
26:47and is highlighted
26:48by impeccable performances
26:50from Laurie Metcalf
26:51and Felicity Huffman.
26:52She tried to seduce
26:53my husband,
26:54so she put the moves
26:55on your husband?
26:56Why didn't you say so?
26:57In the end,
26:58Nora and Carolyn
26:59end up dead
27:00and each of the housewives
27:02are left with hefty baggage
27:03to grapple with
27:04in the wake
27:04of the harrowing encounter.
27:06As an all-too-real situation,
27:08the comedy takes a backseat,
27:10resulting in a disturbingly
27:11effective episode.
27:13You was the only good thing
27:14that I've ever done
27:16in my whole life.
27:21I need you to really take,
27:23really, really share
27:26of me.
27:29Number four,
27:30Time Jump.
27:31Just as the show
27:32was hitting a narrative lull
27:33in its fourth season,
27:34the writers made the bold choice
27:36to jump five years
27:37into the future.
27:38What the hell are you doing?
27:40Hey, Mommy,
27:41we're playing fashion models.
27:43This breathed new life
27:44into the storylines
27:45by putting the characters
27:46in unfamiliar territory
27:47while also resulting
27:49in the show's
27:49best season finale cliffhanger.
27:51Gabby has two kids now.
27:53Porter and Preston
27:54are troublemaking teens.
27:56Again?
27:57I am so sorry, officer.
27:59We have talked to Porter
28:00till we're blue in the face.
28:02It's like he's determined
28:03to go back to Juvenile Hall.
28:04Honey, it wasn't Porter this time.
28:07They arrested Preston.
28:09Brie is semi-famous.
28:11I've also got the woman
28:11from the New York Times
28:12on the phone.
28:13She wants to do the interview now.
28:14And where the hell is Mike?
28:15And we had to wait all summer
28:17to get these questions answered.
28:19This moment was
28:20Desperate Housewives
28:20at its best,
28:22teasing us with future storylines
28:23and leaving us
28:24with burning questions.
28:26Honey, I'm home.
28:31Did you miss me?
28:33You know I did.
28:35Number three.
28:36Mary Alice takes her own life.
28:39Normally, there's never
28:40anything newsworthy
28:41about my life.
28:42But that all changed
28:43last Thursday.
28:45This was the moment
28:46that started it all.
28:47In the very first scene
28:48of the pilot episode,
28:50Mary Alice narrates
28:51her seemingly ordinary day
28:53before making the shocking
28:54decision to end her life,
28:55leaving the people around her
28:57searching for answers.
28:58No, if Mary Alice was having
28:59some sort of crisis,
29:00we'd have known.
29:01She lives 50 feet away
29:02for God's sakes.
29:03This kicked off
29:04the intriguing and dark mystery
29:05that carried the show
29:06through its first season
29:08and made it clear
29:09from the get-go
29:09that the perfect little street
29:11of Wisteria Lane
29:12was all a facade.
29:15It was soapy, dramatic,
29:17and everything we would
29:18come to expect from a show
29:19filled with crazy twists
29:21and turns.
29:22What does this mean?
29:24Number two.
29:25Mike dies.
29:25Mike had always been
29:27one of the show's
29:28more complicated characters,
29:29struggling to smother
29:31some of his darker tendencies.
29:33Hello.
29:34Is that a gun in your pocket
29:36or are you just happy
29:37to see me?
29:39Oh my God.
29:40It is a gun.
29:41This makes it fitting
29:42that his anti-heroic qualities
29:44are what led to his ultimate demise.
29:46When it was teased
29:47that a major character
29:48would die in one
29:49of the series' final episodes,
29:50there was a grave feeling
29:51that Mike could go down
29:52after violently confronting
29:54a loan shark.
29:55Hey.
29:57One more thing.
29:58Delfino!
30:01In the end,
30:02he shares one final
30:03poignant moment
30:04with Susan
30:05before being shot
30:06and dying in her arms.
30:08After years of
30:09will they, won't they,
30:10the end of their love
30:11ended up being
30:12even more tragic
30:13than we could have imagined.
30:15What?
30:17What?
30:19What?
30:20What?
30:20What?
30:22What?
30:22What?
30:23What?
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30:27What?
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30:43number one 80 dies this moment may not have been so shocking if you were following the series
30:49production drama as nicolette sheridan didn't have the greatest relationship with showrunner
30:53mark cherry nobody gave it to me i did research you think i'm too stupid to do research still
31:00the killing off of one of the main housewives remains one of the biggest tv deaths in the early
31:0521st century after discovering the truth about her new husband and frantically escaping the house
31:11a perfect storm of events causes eddie to crash into a pole and electrocute herself
31:16as she steps into the puddle below her car
31:24as the other residents look back on her life they realize that as pesky as she could be
31:29she had a lot of heart and made all of their lives richer with all my neighbors surrounding me
31:34i took my last breath the good news i died just like i lived as the complete and utter
31:44center of attention which desperate housewives moment left your jaw hanging wide open let us know in the
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