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No content tonight, as I must get a shitload of paperwork done to avoid being shot to death tomorrow morning.Â 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!

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And I always had fond memories of Unico (haven’t seen it since I was a wee lad.)

Don’t forget Trigun’s sad history, although Vash always had such a positive outlook.

Chestnuts roasted by BoddahBoom @ 07/31/2008 5:25 AM

Chalk up another one for Ric Flair’s retirement match. I was with a group of friends, one of them not a wrestling fan at all, and -everyone- was in tears when it ended. I’d like to thank WWE for the most emotional TV moment, ever.

Also, props to whoever mentioned the Full House episode were Jesse’s grandpa, Papouli, died. Gets me every time.

And the last episode of All in the Family. The one where Edith falls ill and almost dies. I’ve yet to see the one where she actually does die (a bit later, when the series was retooled into Archie Bunker’s Place), but I imagine it’s a tearjerker too.

Chestnuts roasted by Second-Rate Dracula @ 07/31/2008 5:29 AM

Adaptation.
I’m a twin, so the part where his twin dies is very personal to me (the car crash is over-the-top realistic as well). It’s impossible to understand what it would be like to loose your twin unless you are one. It would be an entirely unique, unbareable pain. And then they sang that ludicrously sad song they used to sing with their mother right as he’s dieing.
Offically the saddest moment in history.

Chestnuts roasted by yooki42 @ 07/31/2008 5:45 AM

The Simpsons episode ‘Round Springfield….Bleeding Gums Murphy dies, and Lisa is absolutely guilt ridden that she never told him that he was her hero….at one point she asks Homer “Oh dad,why did he have to die?”…it’s such an innocent question that I tear up every time….

Chestnuts roasted by Mike83 @ 07/31/2008 7:02 AM

The saddest Christmas special is a now rarely shown animated version of “A Christmas Carol”. The voice of Scrooge was done by the famous Alistair Sim, who played Scrooge in real life in an earlier movie. It has the spookiest, and coolest effects a kid could ever see in a 1970′s animated Christmas special. And the fact that they didn’t hold back with the theme of looming death and potential redemption added to the episode. If you’re not sure if you’ve ever seen this version of CC, you have not seen it. See it once and you’ll never forget it. The saddest part is with the Ghost of the Future, where Scrooge is being shown hos own death and how everyone in town is saying mean things about him. He looks at the spirit and says something to the effect of “Oh Spirit, is there no death that is shown with tenderness?” And instantly (keep in mind this is the future) the Spirit shows Bob Crachitt, Tiny Tim’s dad, kneeling near a bed, crying, and saying, “Oh my son! My little Son!” Like a giant “Fuck You, Asshole Scrooge”. The dramatic timing of the camera cuts totally snaps the message in your face.

You guys were mentioning “I Am Legend”. I almost don’t want to go see that because the earlier version of that story, i.e. “The Omega Man”, totally put the whack on my head. They ran it on the afternoon movie back when I was 8 years old, and, Dear God, what a study in psychological shaping. For better or for worse, my attitudes to this day shaped by that movie. Yes, I was so sad when Colonel Neville (presumably Will Smith’s/Sam’s counterpart) died at the end.

The World War 2 movie, “The Bridge at Remagen” with Telly Savalez, when the Americans come to the German village, and the mayor tells them there will be no resistance, but the 12 year old, idealistic Hitler Youth kid decides to be a hero, and he opens up on the Americans with the submachine gun. Of course, the combat tested soldiers shoot back and kill him, but the icing on the cake is Telly going into the room to take a look at who was shooting, and they do a close up on the dead kid’s face with his eyes partly opened. Something about that scene, maybe can be called gratuitous. But it did kind of show the sadness and waste of war. Being 10 or 11 myself, it really upset me on the surface, but did make me think.

Ultra Man. The whole premise that Ultra Man shared his life with Hyata, because he accidentally killed Hyata with his space ship, that makes me all misty. But one of the las episodes where Ultra man has to go back to his home in M-78, and although h wasn’t coming back, he assured Hyata would still have life. (pause/tears welling)

The movie “Gettysburg”, toward the end where General Armistead thinks his best friend, General Hancock got killed in the recent battle. One of the best death soliloquys ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Alexander @ 07/31/2008 7:17 AM

I think one of the saddest and well acted TV moments was at the end of the 2 episode story arc of The Fresh Prince when Will finally meets his dad. There are too many sad movie moments to mention, if you want to bawl like a baby while reading check out Marley & Me….especailly if you are a dog owner and lover.

Chestnuts roasted by Gregor @ 07/31/2008 7:35 AM

The cemetary scene in the movie Finding Graceland. Byron says to “Elvis”, “How could something so beautiful be taken away from me?” And then he buries his wedding ring in the grass above his wife’s grave.

Chestnuts roasted by JillS @ 07/31/2008 7:37 AM

The Ultraman episode “My Home is the Earth” where the monster turns out to be an astronaut,and the science patrol doesn’t want to attack him.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 07/31/2008 7:51 AM

I just thought of a REALLY sad movie moment. The ending to Forrest Gump. When he’s standing at Jennys grave and he just flat out breaks down is sad. Whats really sad about it is that after finally reuniting with her after all those long years, she dies just after introducing him to his son. Plus she couldv’e had a great life with Forrest and not died from a deadly disease,if only she’d stayed with him. Such a pity.

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 07/31/2008 7:55 AM

The final execution scene in “The Green Mile”…gets me crying every damn time!

Goob: I remember “I know my first name is Steven”. That movie was pretty sad. I felt bad for Steven and his family trying to adjust to family life after 7 years of him doing what he wants.

Chestnuts roasted by DC @ 07/31/2008 8:17 AM

My saddest TV moment is at the end of ‘The Snowman’ where the boy wakes up the next morning, excitedly runs outside only to find the snowman melted away. I first saw it when I was about 4 and cried my eyes out.

In more recent years (well, ish – it’s a ten year old film), at the climax of ‘The Truman Show’, where Truman sails to “the edge of (his) world”, only to find he can’t go any further.

Emmy: The ‘Jurassic Bark’ episode of ‘Futurama’ (the one about Fry’s dog) is another good (or rather, sad) one, as is ‘Luck of the Fryfrish’.

And there was me thinking I didn’t get upset by much. Then again, I was upset when they said that Boss Hogg had died in the ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ reunion, and Uncle Jesse at the end of ‘Hazzard in Hollywood’!

Chestnuts roasted by Jay Firestorm @ 07/31/2008 8:27 AM

Mine would have to be the made-for-tv movie The Electric Grandmother based on the Ray Bradbury story. I was never close with my family, and the whole thing gets to me every time.

Chestnuts roasted by MysteryD8 @ 07/31/2008 8:50 AM

How could I forget the last two episodes of “Lost” season 3? and Jessie singing “When She Loved Me”? and John Coffey’s execution?

Chestnuts roasted by Ann Marie @ 07/31/2008 8:55 AM

BengalRyan, yes! That episode of Dinosaurs episode totally had me depressed as a kid.

I didn’t even know it was the final episode. I turned it on and caught the last 10 minutes of it, hoping for some laughs…and then everybody dies! And then the show stopped coming on. I couldn’t believe it.

The Futurama episodes mentioned above are also on my list, but Dinosaurs tops it just for how unexpected it was.

Chestnuts roasted by Casual Jeff @ 07/31/2008 9:44 AM

A Lassie movie I caught on tv when I was with my older sister and brother in law (I was unable to resist crying and was embarrassed about it all at the same time). Also, Dances with Wolves when everything starts going to crap towards the end (animals dying, people dying).

Chestnuts roasted by Rizz @ 07/31/2008 9:51 AM

I have to admit that I tear up pretty easily at sad/touching TV shows and movies. I think it’s my punishment for making fun of my mom for being that way when I was a kid. Now I’m just a big, totally emotional guy.
I think one of my all time sad moments was sitting in a theatre watching “My Girl”. A close friend of mine had died just a couple of weeks before and it was still a pretty raw wound for me, so when Macaulay Culkin dies from the bee stings, I just bawled right there in the middle of the theatre.

Chestnuts roasted by Saint @ 07/31/2008 9:59 AM

“We Are Marshall” featured several emotional scenes, including (1) Red Dawson’s return home during a rainstorm when his wife believes he has died in the plane crash; (2)Nate Ruffin’s interaction with Coach Lengyel and his “That was my team…” line; (3) the scene where Coach Lengyel (Matthew McConaghy excels here)gives a pep talk to his new Young Thundering Herd at the gravesite memorial to the people who had died in the November 1970 plane crash; and (4)Nate Ruffin’s return to Huntington at the end of the film. Maybe it’s a local, West Virginia thing, but this film was like a punch in the stomach.

Chestnuts roasted by torgo34 @ 07/31/2008 10:00 AM

Oh boy, I have a few.

When Coach died on Cheers.

Batteries Not Included: Old people always make me a little sad. That and the black guy with his dog whistle.

Big Fish: The ending always makes me leave the room or do push ups. Anything to keep from getting a tissue.

Michael Scott always makes me a little sad during a few endings on the Office. The one were he is impressed with Pam’s art and says “we sell paper” and the Halloween episode when he is handing out candy to Trick or Treaters. It’s touching.

The end of The Muppets Christmas Special when Jim Henson is washing dishes with the Sprocket, the dog from Fraggle Rock. Always makes me a little emotional.

The McDonald’s commercial with the old people. Matt’s right, it’s safe to say that they are all dead by now. Oh yeah, and Hard-nose Mrs. Hatcher.
http://www.x-entertainment.com/thanksgiving/macyparade/1987/commercials2/index.html

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 07/31/2008 10:10 AM

Movie – “The Mist” When the tank comes out of the fog.

TV – Bleeding Gums dying.

Chestnuts roasted by Cambot @ 07/31/2008 10:33 AM

Bill – how about “When I grow up I want to have a hundred kids so I can have a hundred friends, and nobody can say ‘no’ to being my friend.”

Chestnuts roasted by Ann Marie @ 07/31/2008 10:42 AM

I did NOT know that about Neverending Story!!! I’m really glad I didn’t know about that as a kid, would have been totally traumatized.
Bill, the end of that Halloween episode of The Office always gets me. There are some amazingly poignant moments from the original UK Office too, starting with “She said no, by the way”.
BoddahBoom, I did not know they were planning on doing a live action Bebop! That could be reasonably decent, or a total disaster.
Somewhat relieved to know I’m not the only person who may have cried like a bitch all through the last three hours of LOST season 3. Besides what happens to Chah-leee, the idea of Jack being so miserable and finding out just when he’s so miserable was a real mindfuck. This season it was the episode “Ji Yeon” and the moment in the finale when the helicopter takes off for the last time…yeah, that kills me.
Another Simpsons moment that always without fail makes me get all misty is the one where Bart is struggling to avoid getting held back, but even though he really tries he still fails the test and starts to lose it. I always cry, no matter how many times I’ve seen it.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/31/2008 10:45 AM

Ann Marie: Yeah, that one was a little tough too. You just feel for the guy. I’d be his friend.
And you are right, Planes, Trains and Automobiles was really tough. Especially since John Candy is dead.

Crap! All Dogs Go To Heaven. Charlie.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 07/31/2008 10:53 AM

I totally forgot about that Dinosaurs episode. That may even be more depressing than Jurassic Bark.

I was kinda upset at the last episode of Roseanne when she revealed that Dan died.

How about when Mew “dies” in “Jim Henson’s Christmas Toy.”

How about when Mowgli gets taken away at the end of Gremlins?

Or when gangsters kill Mel Gibsons girlfriend/fiance in “Lethal Weapon 2?”

Am I the only one that finds it kinda interesting that alot of the sad moments we’re mentioning happened in comedies, kids shows, sci-fi, etc instead of straight-up dramas?

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 10:55 AM

JLAJRC, was the episode of Amazing Stories you posted about that Ghost Train one?

Recently I got all teary eyed during this episode of the old Twilight Zone. It was the one about the old lady afraid of letting death inside her home. Damn old lady reminds me of my grandmum who is also on her last legs. It just makes me sad to think she’s gonna die.

Chestnuts roasted by Anonymouse @ 07/31/2008 10:59 AM

Three movies I refuse to watch because I WILL cry like 25 year old baby. One – the Land Before Time, when mommy brontosaurus dies, Two – the end of The Fox and the Hound, and Three – when Burt Reynolds dies in All Dogs Go to Heaven

Chestnuts roasted by Jacob @ 07/31/2008 11:03 AM

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