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"Sylvia," Little House on the Prairie

If there's a step beyond shark jumping, it's got to be mime rapists. This shocking two-episode arc in season 7 saw victim blaming reach its ugliest possible conclusion when Sylvia, the voluptuous new girl in Walnut Creek, attracted the attention of peeping Toms and a Harlequin-masked rapist. Think things couldn't get darker? Add on a pregnancy, a failed scheme to run away and elope, and a tense showdown that ended in the deaths of both Sylvia and her attacker. Sex = death, y'all.

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10 'How'd That Air?!' 'Very Special Episodes'

By Lanford Beard | Feb 16, 2013

Remember ''Sylvia,'' which brought a mime sex crime to ''Little House on the Prairie''? More edgy TV plots where you'd have least expected them...

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