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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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I forgot to mention a movie. The end of Edward Scissorhands. Though I always wondered why nobody thought to just make him special gloves to cover the blades.

Chestnuts roasted by Anonymouse @ 07/31/2008 11:05 AM

The episode of Idol Gives Back where the little African kid said he wanted to be a judge when he grew up. Had me trying to fight back tears, then finally blow up with “this damn society of ours where our kids dont know how good they have it and they want to grow up to be a rap star or some other impossible thing, and this poor little kid, so good natured, not a pot to piss in, and he wants to be a JUDGE.”

Chestnuts roasted by meepy @ 07/31/2008 11:06 AM

Six Feet Under finale? Anyone? Anyone?

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 07/31/2008 11:08 AM

Oh and by the way. Jurassic bark IS an Extremely sad episode, but there are two more Futuramas that get me. One is when Leela find out that her parents are mutants, not aliens and they show that montage of them giving her presents and stuff from the sewers. The other is the Lucky Clover episode where Fry realizes who his nephew is and it ends with him in the orbiting graveyard as Simple Minds “Don’t You(Forget About Me)” plays. Tough stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Jacob @ 07/31/2008 11:10 AM

My fiance said one of the things he loves about me is my extreme sensitivity. I feel things and I feel them intensely. Coupled with the fact that I am currentlyu pregnant and I am doubly more emotional. In other words, I am a bawl baby.

I literally have to mute the TV and go running out of the room when the ASPCA commericial comes on. I can’t stand abuse against animals and the commerical is doubly depressing because my dad wants “Angel” played at his own funeral.

Word to the poster who said the end scene in the Monster Squad. You are my kindred spirit. I am almost 25 now, but I still tear up when Pheobe yells “Don’t go!” to Frankenstein as he yells “Bye” and then she hurls her teddy at him. Sigh…. I also cry when Frankenstein sees a mask of himself and goes “Scary!”.

Yes, the Christian the Lion video had me sobbing in my fiance’s arms as he fought to hold back laughter when I proclaimed “He introduced them to his lion wife! His lion wife!”

Any Vietnam era movies. My dad was a vet and it has a double effect on me: I think about what he must of went through and I think of how old he is becoming.

Mask with Cher. The end scene…oh God the waterworks commence just thinking about it.

Any movie involving someone with a mental handicapped. Radio, Rain Man, I Am Sam, etc.

Chestnuts roasted by Ash @ 07/31/2008 11:15 AM

So many good memories on here! I love sad movies/tv shows.

Mine:

TV –
Buffy’s mom dying
Buffy dying
The last episode of Six Feet Under with the flash-forward
The last episode of Quantum Leap
Pretty much all Hallmark commercials, and a lot of those coffee commercials around Christmastime (like the one with the soldier coming home and surprising his family)

Movies -
Field of Dreams (“Dad, wanna have a catch?” and “Why don’t you introduce him to his granddaughter” get me every time, and I’ve seen that movie about 100 times)
Moulin Rouge (although on the re-watch, I don’t cry as much as I did in the movie theater the first time)
Atonement (I cried so hard in the movie theater I think I upset people)
Brokeback Mountain (“Jack, I swear…”)
The House of Sand and Fog (“I want only my son!”)

Books-
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The final book in the Dark Tower series

Music-
totally agree with “Don’t Take the Girl” and also for some reason, “Coward of the County” makes me bawl every time when he’s explaining to his dad why he has to fight for his fiancee’s honor

I’m a huge sap!

Chestnuts roasted by Silvertongue @ 07/31/2008 11:26 AM

Commander Awesome :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”

I love the Muppet Family Christmas special (and not the shitty edited one they put on VHS/DVD, but rather the full version). It has moments that completely contradict itself (i.e. Fozzy introduces Kermit to his Mom in the beginning of the show but they play a Muppet Babies home movie that shows them together as kids later) but it is still awesome. I agree, especially now, that seeing Henson at the end is incredibly sad. I felt a similar sadness when Mister Rogers died as well.

Both contributed so much to society and are missed tremendously.

What’s even sadder is the remaining Hensons sold off the company and broke apart the Muppet and Sesame Street characters into two brands that are owned by two different companies now.

Chestnuts roasted by MessiahRp @ 07/31/2008 11:29 AM

In one of those old Charlie Brown specials, I think it may have been a Valentine’s Day episode, where our titular hero was lamenting his chances with the Little Red-Haired Girl and he makes the solemn observation that people who eat peanut butter must be lonely. Then my mom turned to me and asked if that was why I loved peanut butter so much. I suppose that’s sad on two different levels.

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 07/31/2008 11:32 AM

I too am on the Jurassic Bark bandwagon of sadness.
As far as movies go, Shawshank Redemption gets me everytime. I always watch it when it’s on tv (TNT plays it all the time) and I always tear up when Brookes kills himself and at the end of the movie when Red makes it to Mexico and is reunited with Andy.

Chestnuts roasted by Sprocket @ 07/31/2008 11:36 AM

Man, I think this is the first time X-E actually has made me sad. Hrm. I think I’ll check back later tonight. These were really great comments, though.

Well, I was actually a little touched by Matt’s Halloween costume story. That made me a little nostalgic.
http://www.x-entertainment.com/halloween/2006/october17/

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 07/31/2008 11:40 AM

The song Feed the Birds in Marry Poppins. I loved the movie as a child I would watch it 5 times a day but I had to leave the room when that song came on. It was so sad, I would tell my mom the song reminded me of death for some strange reason. Still to this day I cannot watch that scene.

My saddest youtube moment is actual clips of Jim Henson’s funeral. Big Bird singing It’s Not Easy Being Green. Then when Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Richard Hunt, Steve Whitmire, and Dave Goelz sing some of Henson’s favorite songs.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 07/31/2008 11:42 AM

I would have to say that it’s in the movie “In America” when the dad is using all of his family’s money to unsuccessfully knock down milk bottles at a fair. It feels like your guts are being torn out watching that.

Chestnuts roasted by Thorzul @ 07/31/2008 11:43 AM

Disenchanted by you know who~

You’re just sad song, with nothing to say
about a lifelong wait for a hospital stay
and if you think that I’m wrong, this never meant nothing to ya

So go, go away
Just go, runaway
But where did you run to
and where did you hide
Go find another way
Price you pay~

Chestnuts roasted by Neg @ 07/31/2008 11:46 AM

Anonymouse: I don’t think so. The one I was talking about was about an old man who dies, leaving his wife behind. However, the old man seems to come back to life to romance his wife. In the end, the wife dies happy and it’s revealed her grandson (Andrew McCarthy) played his grandpa in old age makeup. It sounds creepy, but it’s really sweet. It’s one of the episodes that’s shown when USA/SCI-Fi used to show the Amazing Stories movies.

There was also another Amazing Stories episode that’s really sweet. Basically a 7 year old girl disappears/dies. 20 years later and the mother of the girl is dying and the father is depressed. The 7-Year girl then knocks on the door all of a sudden, no signs of aging. The wife dies. I think the girl is supposed to be an angel, but I’m not sure.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:00 PM

How about the ending of Terminator 2 when he lowers himself into the liquud metal and gives the thumbs up. It became even more sad when T3 came out and you realize it did no good.

Chestnuts roasted by pureval @ 07/31/2008 12:00 PM

Good call Emmy. I can’t believe all of the “Jurassic Bark” replies. I thought I’d be the only one hehe. The thing with that moment is, the song that plays in the background… “I’ll wait for you forever”. And the fact that Fry just assumes that the dog was better off in the long run. What kind of cartoon ends on such a sad note?!?

Chestnuts roasted by seign @ 07/31/2008 12:01 PM

I’ve somehow managed to never see the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama, but the episode of The Simpsons about Homer quitting the power plant to take his dream job at the bowling alley, but then has to go beg for his job back when he finds out that Marge is pregnant with Maggie absolutely kills me. It ends with the plaque Burns put up in Homer’s office (which read “Don’t forget: you’re here forever”) covered with Maggie’s pictures to read “Do it for her”. Tears. Every damn time.

Chestnuts roasted by marquess @ 07/31/2008 12:02 PM

The “Somewhere Out There” song from “American Tail” is awesome.

What about that song Eric Clapton wrote after his son died?

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 12:02 PM

When the egg rolls off the feet of the mama penguin trying to keep it from dying on the ice and cracks in March of the Penguins. OH MAN I THINK I AM TEARING UP JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.

Chestnuts roasted by Bertha @ 07/31/2008 12:10 PM

Oh shit, I forgot to use my alias. Bertha up above there is B-Dawg. Dead penguins make B-Dawg cry too.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 07/31/2008 12:12 PM

Man, a lot of mine have been said already, and reading all the posts reminded me of others.

The first thing I thought of, and this will reveal what a TV geek I am, was when Brandon Tartikoff (former programming president of NBC) died. My dad was in TV, and I grew up being told how amazing Tartikoff was. My dad even met him once and got an autograph that said, “I hear your footsteps. Brandon Tartikoff.” I was 18 or 19 when he died. NBC did an amazing tribute to him, and I cried like a little girl. I think it was even more poignant, because he was responsible for so much of what I watched in my childhood, and his passing at that time in my life kind of signified the death of that part of my life. I have it on tape and I’ve been tempted to watch it again when I wouldn’t be so emotional, but I’m not sure I wouldn’t just bawl again.

For movies, I have to say, and I’m really surprised no one has mentioned this, “Father of the Bride”. The first time I watched it, I was in my early teens, and I got a little weepy thinking of facing that in the future. My dad actually cried hard when we watched it then. I watched it again a few months ago, now that I’m on the other side of it, and I seriously wept. I especially cried at that part where they’re playing basketball and it starts snowing and he says to her – OK, crap, now I have tears running down my face thinking about it – how he’ll always remember that moment for the rest of his life. Oh, and at the end, when she calls from the airport…OK, have to stop. This is killing me. My dad just happened to call me when the movie came on and I mentioned I was watching it, and he decided to watch it too. So, at the end, when I was already emotional, my dad called me, and we choked back tears together.

I’ve taken up a lot of space here, so I’ll just quickly mention a few of my others. I’m really sensitive to baby stuff since we’ve been unsuccessfully trying to start a family for a couple of years now and have suffered some losses along the way. I always tear up at that Pampers commercial with the babies of the world smiling at that woman for choosing Pampers so they can have better lives. It sounds stupid when I type it out like that… Also: The John Ritter death episode of 8 Simple Rules, the end of Big Fish, the scene in Click where he’s laying out in front the hospital trying to call for his kids and they can’t hear him…these are all things that make me continue to cry even after they’re over. Kind of like this blog post.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 07/31/2008 12:26 PM

I was watching some random show on Animal Planet where this leopard had given birth in captivity. When her cubs are about 1-2 weeks old some lady comes and takes them away (something about how they have to be raised by people). This lady then proceeds to go back to the mother leopard and says “don’t worry, I’ll take good care of your babies” and the leopard is just going frantic. She’s yowling, pacing back and forth and just in misery because her babies are all the suddnen gone.
It just killed me because I couldn’t imagine losing your children so soon. And the poor leopard mother doesn’t even know why. Just *poof* and they’re gone.

Yea, I was bawling like a baby after that. And so pissed off at the lady who took them.

Chestnuts roasted by lafftaff @ 07/31/2008 12:26 PM

JLAJRC, you mean Tears in Heaven? That song makes me sad not because it’s sad, but because it reminds me of the Oklahoma City bombing. They played it on one of those memorials that we watched in school, and hearing it always makes me feel somber.

Here’s a sad one: Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, when Bernie gets blown up in the end, and his little friend Al stands there and watches it happen. ;___; Bernie was a “bad guy” who got himself killed trying to do the right thing, and that makes his death doubly powerful. I hate to have spoiled it, but I doubt anyone will watch it anyway, haha.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 07/31/2008 12:33 PM

The intro for WWE WrestleMania 22: Big Time. They show the wrestlers the way they looked in the past, and then the picture fades into how they look today (well technically 2006) while this sad song plays. It chokes me up because I realize how long I’ve been watching and that I have seen these guys get old. Really puts a perspective on things. And it makes me realize that I’m not a child anymore either, but a young adult. Pulls at the heartstrings, it does.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve E @ 07/31/2008 12:50 PM

And the song “100 Years” by Five For Fighting gets me down everytime. The message of the song is basically “Life goes by so fast that 100 years seems like nothing.” And there are alot of days when I feel that way and that terrifies me. Fox used that song as background music for a video package on the history of the Boston Red Sox’ “Curse of the Bambino” the night they won the World Series back in 2004. As a Yankee fan, having to listen to that song while watching clips of the Red Sox coming back from being down 3-0 made the song 100 times more depressing. Atleast the song was later used in this great Mastercard commercial, so I now have something good attached to it.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve E @ 07/31/2008 12:58 PM

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