07/30/2008: X-E’s ‘08 Summer Megaparty: Dr. Pepper.
No content tonight, as I must get a shitload of paperwork done to avoid being shot to death tomorrow morning. Instead, a survey, and one sure to depress you: Talk about the saddest TV/movie moments you’ve ever seen.
1. The “Sesame Street” episode where Big Bird learns about Mr. Hooper’s death … and about death in general
2. The end of the Muppet Holiday Special where Jim Henson walks in and makes some comment about washing dishes with Sprocket, the dog puppet from “Fraggle Rock”
3. The Andy Griffith episode where Barney returns to Mayberry and learns that Thelma Lou has married someone else in his absence. She was his true love, people! (They later got hitched in the ’80s reunion movie, though.)
Ghosted by Commander Awesome @ 07/31/2008 12:37 AM EDT
There was a Night Court episode where a character called Leon who Harry wanted to adopt ran away. Harry sits in the courtroom crushed.
Also, Harry’s fiance broke up with him because she had to enter witness protection.
Brendan Frasier did an episode of Scrubs where he dies of cancer that still gets me.
There was an episode of Tales From the Darkside called “Saying Goodbye” where a little girl who could predicts peoples death ends of predicting her own death because her sister plans to kill her. I didn’t cry, but I was upset. She didn’t deserve that.
Owen Hart/Eddie Guerrero RAW tribute shows.
Death of Buffy’s mom.
The last episode of “Mary Tyler Moore” still works.
Death of Edith Bunker on All in the Family.
That Youtube video of the Lion and his former owners. It’s the Whitney Houston music video that gets to you.
Zack and Kelly broke up on an episode of Saved by the Bell.
The episode where Rose leaves Dr. Who.
There was an episode of Amazing Stories called “Granpas Ghost” or something that got to me. Andrew McCarthy is in it.
When Denny Duqette died on Greys Anatomy.
The episode of Silk Stalkings where they killed off Robs’ character and his pregnant wife left the force. That was the last episode for both of them.
When they killed off John Amos’s character on Good Times.
The episodes of “Eight Simple Rules.” dealing with John Ritters death.
The Newsradio episode dealing with Phil Hartman’s death.
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:41 AM EDT
IHAQ
I don’t know how old I was(probably six or seven), but when I saw the end of All Dogs Go to Heaven, I was hysterical.
The end of the episode of Pete and Pete when Artie goes away.
Ghosted by Denise @ 07/31/2008 12:42 AM EDT
An 80’s Church Of Latter Day Saints commercial where this obviously depressed and lonely woman lies on top of her single bed in her little apartment and cradles herself as she begins to cry, all to the soundtrack of “What The World Needs Now”. Meanwhile, outside of her window, the rest of the world is happily moving along without her. Watching this ad at that time in my childhood meant growing up = being alone, uncared for, and completely forgotten.
Ghosted by venger @ 07/31/2008 12:43 AM EDT
Count me in for the Flair vs. HBK match at this year’s WrestleMania. Greatest moment of all time: Flair picks himself off the mat and sees HBK crouched in the corner. Flair, tears in his eyes, tells Michaels to just do it and bring it on. Michaels stares at him for a moment before saying “I’m sorry, I love you” and then nailing Sweet Chin Music. Michaels crumples on top of Flair, gets the three, and then hugs him on the mat, both men crying their eyes out. HBK leaves and Flair gets the most passionate and respectful standing ovation of all time. We have WrestleMania parties every year and every single person in the house was in tears and clapping like we were there in person.
Ghosted by Jim Jesus @ 07/31/2008 12:43 AM EDT
Anyone else seen Pan’s Labyrinth? Yeah I know there are subtitles, but crap, basically the whole movie is trying to give you hope, for the little girl, her unborn brother her mom, the people of Spain under fascist rule. Then her step-dad shoots her in the heart. So that pretty much did it for me.
Are these posts to dark for X-E? I was just being honest.
And I think Mr. Pibb has a doctorate in flavor-ology, he just doesn’t get a big head about it.
Ghosted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 12:45 AM EDT
Yea, the ASPCA commercials get me too.
How about the Pokemon episode where Charizard has to leave Ash.
I think I cried when Flower died on Meerkat Manor.
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:46 AM EDT
Oh, and the “Mr. Hooper is dead” Sesame Street episode runs a very close second.
Ghosted by venger @ 07/31/2008 12:46 AM EDT
There is a PSA on poverty/hunger where a mom grabs ketchup packets from restaurants and makes tomato soup using them trying to feed her kid. She encourages him to eat it but he softly says “I don’t like it.”
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:49 AM EDT
how about at the end of the original rollerball when he finally kills someone and falls to the corporation, and as he walks away, with his bloody helmet in hand, it freezes and the creepy organ music starts to play as the credits roll. hurts everytime i see it
Ghosted by vwarb @ 07/31/2008 12:54 AM EDT
The barely intelligible lament/speech at the end of First Blood (The first Rambo movie). ::Hangs head in shame::
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was kind of depressed after seeing The Dark Knight.
Ghosted by Beth! @ 07/31/2008 1:02 AM EDT
The Golden Girls episode with Phil’s funeral. Phil was Dorothy’s cross-dressing brother.
At the end, Sophia starts to cry. The Band
Of Brothers episode, “Why We Fight”, when
they find all those dead and dying people.
When they see the true evil of the Nazis.
Gandalf falling after his fight with the
Balrog. Though he was resurrected later
on. And Padme’s funeral.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 07/31/2008 1:06 AM EDT
Goodbye Farewell and Amen. I always lose it.
Ghosted by Neo316 @ 07/31/2008 1:07 AM EDT
First time commenter here, just couldn’t resist.
Jurassic Bark gets me every time. I like Fry as a character but I always hated him for not having faith in Seymour.
Ghosted by Ryo @ 07/31/2008 1:08 AM EDT
I don’t think anyone else has mentioned it yet, but the ending of “Grave of the Fireflies” really got to me. And all though all my friends laugh at me for feeling this way, I always tear up at the end of “the Iron Giant.”
Ghosted by Dr. Robert @ 07/31/2008 1:27 AM EDT
The End Of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Episode Where Wills Dad Comes Back.. You Just Have to See It..
Ghosted by Anonimo @ 07/31/2008 1:29 AM EDT
Spock dying. And Kelly was stupid to break up with Zack. When she found out that son of a
bitch was cheating on her, well what goes
around goes around. Didn’t his brain get eaten
by the Brain Bug in Starship Troopers? Sorry,
comes around. Kirk’s son’s death, when Baker
had to tell a woman that her husband was dead
in one episode of CHIPS. And Frodo leaving
Middle Earth for the Undying Lands.
There was an episode of Full House where Jesse’s grandpa dies. I think they also did a dead pet episode.
The only episode of NYPD Blue I ever watched was the one where Jimmy Smits character dies.
Ending of Iron Giant. Wish they would do a sequel.
There was an episode of “Life Goes On” where Kelly’s boyfriend dies in a car accident.
Ray Liotta was a guest star on ER as a drunk, dying father trying to make up to his family before his death.
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 1:45 AM EDT
Years ago I was watching a show called Trauma: Life in the ER when they told the story of a mother who was taking her young daughter (around six or seven years of age) on a vacation to Disney World. Well, on the flight down to Florida the little girl began to experience a severe headache and the mother decided to immediately bring her to the nearest emergency room after they landed. They performed tests on her and determined that she had an aneurysm in her brain that needed to be operated on immediately. The change in air pressure due to the flight had triggered the symptoms.
The mother of course gave them permission and waited with bated breath. The surgery did not go well and the young girl died on the operating table due to the bleed in her brain. It was heartbreaking to see her reaction as they told her the fate of her daughter.
It was sobering to imagine the about-face that her life must have taken. In the span of twelve hours she went from an excited mother, bringing her beautiful young daughter to Disney for the first time, to a woman grieving over the unexpected death of her child.
I was living in a college dorm when it aired and I cried like a baby. To this day it is still the saddest individual story I have seen on television. If nothing else it was a great reminder that nothing in life is guaranteed and we should try to take advantage of the time, and opportunities, we are given.
Ghosted by TF (aka Magic Toy) @ 07/31/2008 1:48 AM EDT
Two of the scenes in television that always get to me are 1) On the episode of Night Court, when Christine goes out with Art (!) to his lodge dinner, and 2) The episode of Magnum P.I. about Magnum treading water in the ocean and having flashbacks to when he was learning how to tread water by his dad and what happened during the very last flashback..
In terms of Movies, I’ve seen the ending of the Terry Gilliam movie, Brazil, and I’ll never watch that movie ever again…
Ghosted by Delkon @ 07/31/2008 1:48 AM EDT
I tend not to cry during sad TV moments, but I do bawl quite uncontrollably at touching moments. Which means that I can’t get through a single episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition without using up an embarrassing about of tissues.
Oh wait, there was one sad TV moment that got to me. The episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Oz (the werewolf) realizes that he was too dangerous to be around Willow, and drives off in his in van, leaving her sobbing in his room. I mean, the whole episode had Oz and Willow’s relationship being tested by the arrival of another girl and instead of it ending with some kind of resolution…he leaves her. My love of Seth Green and bummed-outness at seeing him leave the show might have contributed to the sadness.
Ghosted by lorien @ 07/31/2008 2:02 AM EDT
When Sophia Petrillo torched her nursing home, again.
When Jessica Fletcher confessed to murdering half the town.
When Jo Polniaczek knifed Edna Garrett.
When KITT stopped being a Firebird.
Ghosted by ATD @ 07/31/2008 2:05 AM EDT
In the original cut of 1954’s Godzilla, after the second attack, Orderlies in a hospital take away a dead woman, and her five year old daughter starts shrieking for her mom over and over again. Without Raymond Burr to fuck it up, that scene is intense.
And at the end of Taegugki, when the younger brother sees the 50 year old bones of his older brother and starts yelling at him for breaking his promise to come back home during his last stand in a battle on a hill between North and South korea.
a number of “Scrubs” episodes but namely
– My old lady
– My screw up
– my lunch
-Def that Jurrasic Bark episode
-Ending of “Click”
- And lastly the ending of “Suicide Kings” which was an amazing movie that few people have seen
Ghosted by Precursor @ 07/31/2008 2:08 AM EDT
Gotta throw down a vote for “Jurassic Bark.” I was stunned after that one finished.
Ghosted by Zischkale @ 07/31/2008 2:09 AM EDT
OK, to add something a bit lighter than my post from a few minutes ago… and I apologize if I missed someone posting this already…
1. When we find out that Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper do not end up together on The Wonder Years. Sure it was a pretty realistic ending, and probably the right choice for the series, but it still crushed my soul. Funny thing, it gets more poignant as the years go by.
Also…
2. I know the survey specifically states “TV/Movie” references, but is music that far off? (Hope not) I have a soft spot for Tim McGraw’s song “Don’t Take the Girl”. I am not even a country fan, but listening to the lyrics of this song gets to me every time.
Ghosted by TF (aka Magic Toy) @ 07/31/2008 2:14 AM EDT
Oh man, Don’t Take the Girl is epic ;_;;
Ghosted by Neg @ 07/31/2008 2:18 AM EDT
I can’t believe I forgot and feel entirely stupid for doing so since it was so sad i must have rewatched it literally close to 20 times
– The “LOST” season 3 ending where charlie dies to save the people on the island
Ok, when I was 8, I would regularly watch Punky Brewster each Sunday night. Well one Sunday, the episode had Punky’s dog Brandon get hit by a car and was in peril of dying! Meanwhile, awaiting Brandon’s fate, Punky befriends an old lady who is having her little dog Angus go through surgery. Brandon looks like he needs to be put out of his misery so by the time Punky goes in to say goodbye, I’m holding back tears. However, Brandon pulls through at the last minute. Relief, right? Well, suddenly joy turns to sadness as the old lady makes an appearance, big sad tears on her face as she says “Angus…. has died, he lived a full life.” UGH! It was all I could do not to burst into tears watching that poor lady walk out the door alone without her little dog, crying!
I remember feeling screwed for having to sit through a tear jerker during Punky Brewster. lol.
BTW – 20 years later I watched that episode on DVD and I’ve since had to put my cat down, and I still tear up each time that old lady walks out the door after Angus has died. UGH
Ghosted by Leanne @ 07/31/2008 3:00 AM EDT
The Doctor Who episode Doomsday. I have never ever felt emotional over a TV show in my life, and that ending just did it for me. I guess I’ve never felt so attached to characters in a TV show before, even as much as I liked shows like Star Trek TNG or X-Files. It’s just so well written and acted. At any rate, this year’s Journey’s End did it for me again, although because it was because it was the happy opposite to Doomsday. Sort of…
But now I’m really apprehensive of Jurassic Bark! I thank you all for the warning. I have the DVD set but I haven’t cracked it open yet. Now I’m tempted to skip that episode and save myself the agony!
I didn’t want to spoil it, but the Lost S3 finale for sure. I bawled all the way through “Greatest Hits” because I knew what was coming and then the finale still killed me.
-Shakespeare and Flower on Meerkat Manor
-Children of Men, when Theo just sort of quietly drifts away in the boat
-The first Pokemon movie, at the end when Pikachu just refuses to fight
-Life is Beautiful, when Roberto Benini marches playfully to his death so his son won’t be scared
-The Mist, not just when Big Bill looks up at his dad, but afterwards when the short haired woman drives by with her kids
-The scene in the last Cowboy Bebop where Faye basically begs Spike not to go but he does anyway
-The end of Kill Bill 2 when Bea tells Bill that Pei Mei taught her the Exploding Heart Technique
Squee, good calls, Meerkat Manor was a real tear-jerker, Life is Beautiful (of course.) Cowboy Bebop was full of tragedy… (did you hear there’s going to be a live-action flic now?) And The Mist, which my gf loves, for some reason, the final shouts where the soldiers are marching by wondering wtf?
Ghosted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 3:25 AM EDT
To everyone that gets choked up because of the Sarah McLaughlin ASPCA commercial they show that commercial alot on Vh1 classic. Like very break.
Commander Awesome I have the clip with Jim Hansen in it on my youtube channel. My name on there is Goobian. Interesting that you mentioned it. I also find it touching and funny.
Anonimo I saw that episode of Fresh Prince just about 4 months ago or so. Nick at nite aired a marathon. His speech at the end is on youtube, the next day I looked it up. It just shows how great of an actor Will Smith is. I still haven’t seen him in six degrees of separation I really want to. I saw the True Hollywood story of him a couple of months ago they mentioned it. I didn’t even know he was in that movie until they mentioned it.
TF (aka Magic Toy) Yes that is a great song. I was into country music at the time that single was released. Let me defend myself lol my older sisters were into it and I looked up to my oldest sister so I wanted to listen to country music too then. Fortunately it didn’t stick and I started listening to pop music and then slowly alternative rock and that is my taste of music now. Lots of Garth Brooks songs are great too. And Johnny Cash.
I wrote a blog article fairly recently about movies that are sappy and touching. If you have some time to kill you might like to read it, just click on my name.
Here is my list -
I have been known to cry during Jessie’s song in Toy Story 2. I know how it feels to be left behind
The last episode of full house when Michelle falls off the horse and gets amnesia. Even though it wasn’t intended to be a last episode I think it made a really good one because it showed how ridiculously loving everyone was and the stereotypical characters everyone played. It was like they were making fun of themselves.
The episode of Blossom where she sends the tape to her mom. I find it upsetting at the end where we see the back of her mom’s head while she is watching the end of the tape. Blossom tried so hard.
Lots of Family Ties episodes. Lots.
Lots of Wonder years episodes.
Everytime on Freaks and Geeks when one of them is humiliated. I was teased a lot in school.
One movie I want to mention is a made for tv movie that was released in 1990 called I know my first name is Steven. I am obsessed with it and I mention it in my blog article. Fortunately someone put it on youtube in it’s entirety a few months ago and I watched it once. Unfortunately it’s not up anymore I would LOVE to get a copy of it and I should of recorded it off of youtube (I use camcastia it records whatever is on the screen) but I thought it would be too much of a pain in the ass especially because it was broken up into 19 parts. I loved the memories of watching it coming back to me. Also the kid from the Wizard is in it and the guy from Parker Lewis can’t lose so that means it’s gotta be good.
For anyone that doesn’t ring a bell for it’s a movie based on a true story about a person named Steven Stayner he was kidnapped when he was about 7 and then he came back at about 14 to his family after running away from the man that kidnapped him. He did it because the man Ken Parnell kidnapped another little boy and Steven either didn’t want the boy to go through what he went through which is what the movie says and according to the book from what I hear he was jealous of the attention. But either way it’s such a great story and a great movie if you can tolerate the cheesiness. Unfortunately right after the movie aired for the first time on tv Steven got killed in a motorcycle accident. Ken Parnell died in January of this year. Fucker.
Hi, first time poster, long time reader. Thanks for what you do with this website Matt, it truly is a testament to people who use their resources wisely.
As for this Blog:
- Jurassic Bark.
- The Death of Optimus Prime.
- Band of Brothers Final Episode.
- Lemansky’s Death from The Shield Season 5.
- Harry and the Hendersons Movie when Harry is reunited with the other Harry’s.
- Owen Hart Tribute.
- Batman and Robin (Mainly tears of anger, that’s how pissed I was when I left the theaters).
Every time I watch I am legend I cry when Sam dies,
Every fucking time…
Ghosted by Lordie @ 07/31/2008 3:44 AM EDT
The end of About Schmidt gets me everytime
Ghosted by Ibugu @ 07/31/2008 4:06 AM EDT
I apologize to all, but the saddest movie moment I am about to toss down is
UNBEATABLY sad.
The Neverending Story. The scene where Artek the horse is sinking in the quicksand, in the Swamps of Sadness. Atreyu tries in vain to pull him out, but he ends up drowning anyway. Sad enough on it’s own, right? Well what you are watching is the horse ACTUALLY DYING. The hydraulic lift they were using to raise and lower the horse into the mud broke, on the first take. The poor horse died on film. They had to stop production for two weeks as the actor, Noah Hathaway, went through grief counseling.
The horse’s owner/trainer requested that they used the shot to honor the horse’s life.
Neverending Tears. I CANNOT watch that scene. Instant fast forward.
I win.
Goodnight.
Ghosted by Jy Harris @ 07/31/2008 4:31 AM EDT
The Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama does it for me too. The first time I saw it I cried for a solid thirty minutes, just hiccupy sobs with occasional angry bursts of “that’s the worst thing I have ever seen!!” sob sob cry some more…
It just really really got to me. Poop on all those people that say that animation cannot be a powerful artform.
Also, Care Bears the Movie II, the ending song “Forever Young” just rips out my heart and stomps on it. When I had moved away from my parents it made me think of how much I missed them and how I wished I was still young. Now it makes me sad because of my own children growing up and still wishing I was a youngster, gah Im tearing up just thinking about it now. Goshdarnit.
The last episode of Wolf’s Rain – the OVA one that is basically a mass slaughter. That was completely depressing.
Ghosted by kittygirl @ 07/31/2008 4:42 AM EDT
Okay, JH, I think you win. I’d never read that about The Neverending Story.
Maybe this thread should be switched to sob stories about the toys we lost or got broken (not the G.I. Joes that we tore apart or torched for fun, but the true MIAs and wounded in action.)
Ghosted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 4:46 AM EDT
*ACK* kittygirl, I’m totally over-posting on this forum (I’m bored) but Wolf’s Rain… dang, that was harsh.
This one will walk.
Ghosted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 4:48 AM EDT
Jy Harris:
OMG I can NEVER watch Neverending Story again now.
Here’s another “real life” dead horse moment:
Kentucky Derby, 2008, Eight Bells dying.
I just could not get over the fact that the TV personalities were just shrugging this off and some of the idiotic comments made about her death ie: “she was glad to do it”. What the…???
For me it was the fact that one moment she was alive and celebrated for her accomplishments and the next moment she was being “put down”. From a promising future to death. In a matter of moments. It still depresses me.
Ghosted by kittygirl @ 07/31/2008 4:57 AM EDT
- The Jurassic Bark episode, of course.
- The show down of the first Pokemon movie. I still cry so hard everytime I see it. All these pokemon fighting gets me everytime.
- The funeral scene in the 1997 “The Love Bug” TV movie. I love Herbie and tear up even thinking about it “dying” and being buried.
- The Ending of “The Mist”
- The last Unicorn, I basicly cry throughout the whole movie.
- The end of the episode of Fresh Prince of Bel Air where Will’s father leaves him once again.
Ghosted by Kapprika @ 07/31/2008 5:17 AM EDT
BoddahBoom:
I think Im posting too much too… glad to hear someone else shared in my Wolf’s Rain sorrows. LOL
Here’s some other anime moments that got me:
Fushigi Yugi when Tamahome goes home and his entire family is dead. I watched it with a friend and we both just came apart because of it.
The Fantastic Adventures of Unico:
At the very beginning, when he is taken away from his family because the gods were jealous of his ability to make everyone around him happy… and the fact that everytime he finds peace and friends he gets taken away again… the very end shows him being carried away by the Westwind once again….argh.
SAIKANO. Period. The whole series was just one series of depressing events.
Gunslinger Girls: seeing these little girls turned into killing machines and how some of them are poorly treated by their “masters” is just depressing.
Fulle from Scrapped Princess.
He wasn’t one of the major characters, but he watched after her and then ending up dying for her. I kept waiting for them to bring him back, but they didn’t. In fact, he wasn’t mentioned again that I remember… it was as if his sacrifice and love was for nothing.
Momiji in Fruits Basket, when its revealed that his mother doesn’t know he exists (even though he sees her daily) because she “rejected him” and had her mind erased so she could cope with the realities of life because he was born as part of the Zodiac (and thus considered by many as somewhat of a freak).
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1. The “Sesame Street” episode where Big Bird learns about Mr. Hooper’s death … and about death in general
2. The end of the Muppet Holiday Special where Jim Henson walks in and makes some comment about washing dishes with Sprocket, the dog puppet from “Fraggle Rock”
3. The Andy Griffith episode where Barney returns to Mayberry and learns that Thelma Lou has married someone else in his absence. She was his true love, people! (They later got hitched in the ’80s reunion movie, though.)