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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.

Posted by Matt on 07/30/2008. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 285 comments

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.)

Chestnuts roasted by Commander Awesome @ 07/31/2008 12:37 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:41 AM

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. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 07/31/2008 12:42 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by venger @ 07/31/2008 12:43 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jim Jesus @ 07/31/2008 12:43 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 12:45 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:46 AM

Oh, and the “Mr. Hooper is dead” Sesame Street episode runs a very close second.

Chestnuts roasted by venger @ 07/31/2008 12:46 AM

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.”

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:49 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by vwarb @ 07/31/2008 12:54 AM

The barely intelligible lament/speech at the end of First Blood (The first Rambo movie). ::Hangs head in shame::

Chestnuts roasted by BMovieGeek @ 07/31/2008 12:57 AM

pretty much the entire film Dancer in the Dark is depressing.. – it’s still a beautiful movie, though..

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 07/31/2008 12:58 AM

I’m glad I’m not the only one who was kind of depressed after seeing The Dark Knight.

Chestnuts roasted by Beth! @ 07/31/2008 1:02 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by LoneStar76 @ 07/31/2008 1:06 AM

Goodbye Farewell and Amen. I always lose it.

Chestnuts roasted by Neo316 @ 07/31/2008 1:07 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryo @ 07/31/2008 1:08 AM

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.”

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Robert @ 07/31/2008 1:27 AM

The End Of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Episode Where Wills Dad Comes Back.. You Just Have to See It..

Chestnuts roasted by Anonimo @ 07/31/2008 1:29 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by LoneStar76 @ 07/31/2008 1:33 AM

I’ve seen it, and yes, it is heartbreaking.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve E @ 07/31/2008 1:34 AM

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode, I mean.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve E @ 07/31/2008 1:35 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 1:45 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by TF (aka Magic Toy) @ 07/31/2008 1:48 AM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by Delkon @ 07/31/2008 1:48 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by lorien @ 07/31/2008 2:02 AM

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