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.

Chestnuts roasted by ATD @ 07/31/2008 2:05 AM

---

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

Chestnuts roasted by Precursor @ 07/31/2008 2:08 AM

---

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.

Chestnuts roasted by TF (aka Magic Toy) @ 07/31/2008 2:14 AM

---

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

Chestnuts roasted by Precursor @ 07/31/2008 2:23 AM

---

Anybody remember the last episode of Dinosaurs? Talk about a depressing way to end one of my favorite shows as a kid…

Chestnuts roasted by BengalRyan @ 07/31/2008 2:42 AM

---

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

Chestnuts roasted by Leanne @ 07/31/2008 3:00 AM

---

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

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/31/2008 3:13 AM

---

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.

Here is a good song for ya

Here’s another good song for ya

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 07/31/2008 3:37 AM

---

Every time I watch I am legend I cry when Sam dies,
Every fucking time…

Chestnuts roasted by Lordie @ 07/31/2008 3:44 AM

---

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jy Harris @ 07/31/2008 4:31 AM

---

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.)

Chestnuts roasted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 4:46 AM

---

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kittygirl @ 07/31/2008 4:57 AM

---

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).

Chestnuts roasted by kittygirl @ 07/31/2008 5:19 AM

---