The title may be a desperately futile attempt at staying culturally relevant, but at least it was also relevant to the episode. Sort of.

No, they're still planning on killing off an actual character in 2014.

HEY DON'T DOWNVOTE MY COMMENT YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT

Well, it wasn't exactly on fire, I doubt they would've had the budget for special effects necessary to realistically show a cat on fire without breaking animal cruelty laws (it was a 1984 made-for-television BBC effort). But it was in the midst of a huge firestorm and was clearly meant to be in pain.

I imagine that if I'd been around during the 1980's, lived in America, and watched The Day After, I'd have been fairly terrified. Hell, if I watched The Day After before I watched Threads instead of vice-versa I'd be pretty disturbed by it. The acting in The Day After was arguably superior, and Threads was only…

THERE WAS A FUCKING KITTY CAT IN THE FLAMES WRITHING IN AGONY AND A FUCKING UNGODLY BURNING ANIMAL SKELETON ENGULFED IN FLAMES THAT RESEMBLED E.T. MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

THAT FUCKING BURNING CAT

Threads is downright brutal. The bit where the lady is holding her burnt baby and staring directly at the camera is probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on film. I actually watched The Day After immediately afterwards and it had virtually no impact on me whatsoever.

are you mad bro…

Actually, my bad. I partially misread your comment. Just forget I said anything.

nice comment bro, very alpha

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nice name bro…

UGH

That's a tad harsh, don't you think?

you're not funny dude