As promised, here I am wrecking the cracker challenge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov_pYM9JcA4

Saddest TV moment is from Home Improvement, I think the next to last episode when Jill is standing in the hallway looking down into the living room, reflecting on when her kids were young. I was always kind of the same age as Mark, so it made me think my mom was always super sad too. Plus I was just sad the show was ending.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/30/2008 11:42 PM

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How about when Tommy the Green Ranger lost his powers. Rita, the self-serving bitch she was, constructed a special candle that was linked to Tommy’s Ranger powers.

When the candle burned out, poof, Tommy’s powers were gone.

As a naive 4th grader at the time, I was certain somehow, someway the Rangers would overcome and save Tommy’s powers. But alas, the candle burned out and Tommy was no longer the Green Ranger.

The episode ended on a happy note, however, as Tommy scored his first kiss with Kimberly and asked her to the school dance. Double whammy, baby.

God, I was so sad because of this episode. This is back when they aired Power Rangers at 7:00 in the morning, so I would watch it before going to school.

I was crying so hard that my mom actually let me stay home half a day, and I didn’t go in until around 11:00, right in time for lunch.

Then one of my friends asked me if I saw what happened, and, in my fragile state, I burst into tears. Eventually, I ended up with a nurse’s excuse to go home for the rest of the day.

When I got home, I cried…a lot.

It was just so damn emotional. God…

Chestnuts roasted by natefnalbright @ 07/30/2008 11:47 PM

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NintendoMan: I know what you mean! That commercial gets to me BIG TIME!!! I’m serious! I’m the text book closed off alpha male who’s in full control of his emotions at all times, but when that commercial comes on for those poor critters, it just grabs my hear strings and REALLY pulls on them like it’s playing tug of war. Thats the saddest TV moment and saddest moment period to me. I actually pray to God to help those poor critters. I got a soft spot for em. =( My pick for saddest movie moment? I guess probably when Prime died. To be a kid and see that, holy crap talk about pyschological scaring .

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 07/30/2008 11:53 PM

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When E.T. dies. Gotta be the saddest movie moment, then when he lives again most joyous. Boy Speilberg sure knew how to mess with your emotions back then.
But I still cry at that death scene and I’m frickin 35 and have had real life people I’ve been close to die. Sheesh!

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Sarcasm @ 07/30/2008 11:58 PM

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You ever see that documentary, “People of the Forest” by Jane Goodall? There’s this one part where the mama chimp is found by her youngest chimpling, dead, and face-down in a stream. You see him there, mourning for the mama chimp, along with the rest of the family. Then the chimpling climbs into the tree branches above her body, and builds a nest and just lays there. Doesn’t move. The rest of the family stays for a while, but then moves on, leaving him there. He died of grief a couple days later.

Uber sad…uber.

Chestnuts roasted by Tom @ 07/30/2008 11:59 PM

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Count me in for Jurassic Bark. Also, The Muppets Take Manhatten when they all split up and sing that “Saying Goodbye” song. I tear up just thinking about it.

Chestnuts roasted by pureval @ 07/31/2008 12:06 AM

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“Dr. Pepper is much better than Mr. Pibb, because the dude didn’t even get his degree!”~Mitch Hedberg.

Saddest moment? All of the above Futurama eps. I’ll add the ending to “Time Keeps on Slippin’.” And if any of you saw “Bender’s Big Score”…you know exactly what happened to Seymour.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 07/31/2008 12:11 AM

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Total agreement with everyone on Jurassic Bark and the ASPCA commercial. Also I found the season finale of House pretty hard to watch. Being woke up to say your last goodbyes and told you are going to die in a few hours is pretty depressing.

Chestnuts roasted by AdamB @ 07/31/2008 12:15 AM

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I agree with the Plague Dogs, it’s the saddest thing ever.

Chestnuts roasted by WesGrotesk @ 07/31/2008 12:17 AM

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Saddest tv moment: probably all those damn My Wish segments on ESPN. That and when I found out George Harrison died

Chestnuts roasted by PeterE @ 07/31/2008 12:22 AM

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For me, it’s gotta be E.T.’s death, and then the very end where he has to go home. It’s probably the only movie that makes me teary-eyed, although I got a bit choked up the first time I saw the end of the original “Frankenstein,” when the Monster gets trapped in the burning lighthouse and dies.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremy Whatsisface @ 07/31/2008 12:24 AM

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-The end of Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner plays catch with his father. I can NOT get through that scene without losing it each and every time.

-Jurassic Bark

-Luck of the Fryish

-The Eddie Guerrero Tribute RAW

-The Owen Hart Tribute RAW

-I cried when watching the ending of the Chris Benoit/Triple H/Shawn Michaels match from WrestleMania XX: Where It All Begins…Again when it aired on the Chris Benoit Tribute RAW, but after I found out that Chris Benoit was a murderer, I felt dirty.

-The Ric Flair Tribute at the end of the RAW after WrestleMania XXIV

-Here’s one that I doubt anyone else will have ever: I cried watching the final episode of Disney’s Brand Spankin’ New Doug. I had been watching Doug since I was 4 or 5, and I felt like I had a connection with him since we had so much in common: we both liked to draw, we both had active imaginations, we both were always shy towards the girls we liked. It was like Doug was me in cartoon form. I was 11-years-old when the finale aired. In the last scene, Doug runs out of pages in his journal, but Porkchop gives him a new one. Doug is all happy that he will now have a place to write his new adventures…adventures the viewers won’t be able to see it. Then his theme song starts playing, we see his house, and Doug says, “So long everybody! It’s been fun! Your friend forever, Doug.”

At that point, I LOST IT! I still remember it. I was bawling like a baby! My mom thought it was the strangest thing. I kept crying ALL DAY…yet, I kept rewatching the final scene, which in turn caused me to cry some more! Here I am, 11-years-old, on the verge of puberty, and I’m crying over the end of a cartoon show! But DAMNIT! THAT WAS *MY* SHOW! NOT ANYONE ELSES! MINE!

Err…anyway, my mom had to talk to me that night. She told me, and I’m not making this up, that Doug is in “cartoon heaven” now. She was talking to me about Doug the way you talk to a child when their dog dies. I’m pretty sure deep down my mother couldn’t believe that she had to do this. It worked…eventually. Still, I get choked up anytime I watched the finale now (if I ever can, darn Toon Disney not playing Disney’s Brand Spankin’ New Doug anymore!).

Anyway, this is further proof that my parents should have taken me to see a psychologist alot sooner than they did. lol

Chestnuts roasted by Steve E @ 07/31/2008 12:27 AM

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When Jackie tells May she shouldn’t get attached to Manaphy ;_;;

I bawl so hard

Chestnuts roasted by Neg is not kidding at all @ 07/31/2008 12:35 AM

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