Stepsibling incest. Teachers dating high school students. Police officers dating high school students. Parents sleeping with police officers to get their children out of trouble. Fathers blackmailing their daughters' best friends. Bodies disappearing from bell towers. Disappearing parents. Dressing rooms filled with snakes. Cannibalistic birds. And Adam Lambert.

For the past four seasons, Pretty Little Liars fans have seen innumerable absurdities, from the simply ludicrous to the truly abhorrent and criminal. Of course, the ABC Family hit drama, based on the young adult book series of the same name by Sara Shepard, is exactly that: a soapy television drama. And one that centers on four high school friends who are being blackmailed by an unknown person (or persons) named "A" who knows all their secrets, including the fact that their believed-to-be-dead friend Ali (Sasha Pieterse) is actually alive. So yes, some suspension of disbelief is necessary in telling such a fantastic tale. But the Feb. 18 episode of Pretty Little Liars really went too far.

Since August of last year, when the show's Season 4 summer finale ended with Ezra's outburst in "A's lair," viewers have been waiting for the Liars, as they're called, to catch on.