The 6 Most Terrifying Things That Literally Came Out of TV Screens

In drama, there’s a thing called the fourth wall. It’s the imaginary wall that separates the audience from the action they’re watching. You see it all the time on shows like The Office, where Jim Halpert mugs to the camera, as if to tell the viewers at home, “Gee, they’ve been shooting this documentary about a low-level paper company in Pennsylvania for an awful long time now, huh?”

Well, there’s another way the fourth wall can be broken: literally. Usually reserved for horror flicks and anything intended to scare people who enjoy such things like that out of their movies or TV shows, things that shouldn’t be able to crawl out of the cathode ray tube and into the “real world” are a time-honored, though not frequently used device. With that, here’s Topless Robot’s tip-of-the-hat to this freaky convention. And if you don’t like it, I’ll crawl through your monitors and give you a heartfelt apology and drink all your soymilk. And I’m bringing Betty Boop with me, you hentai-watching weirdo.

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