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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!



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Totally in agreement with all of the Futurama references here!

The last episode of Home Movies, where Brendon drops his camera out of the car as it’s driving away for some reason ruins me. The whole episode’s theme is Brendon, Melissa, and Jason rethinking the years they spent making movies, but the camera-out-the-window moment was the one that got me.

No references to Cowboy Bebop yet? I cried for days and days after Spike’s death–and it’s driven home with the final “You’re Gonna Carry That Weight” in place of “See You Later Space Cowboy”. Tears. Days. Everywhere.

There are a lot of Scrubs moments that had me too, but they’ve been mentioned.

(ha! I came out of lurking for this!)

Chestnuts roasted by Nyoro @ 07/31/2008 4:20 PM

Primus you’re trying to make me cry at work! Anything dog related makes me cry so easily…I have tried watching those shows on Animal Planet about the Animal Cops and one story made me never want to watch it again. I can’t even type it out b/c I’ll start crying at my desk…

Chestnuts roasted by gingela5 @ 07/31/2008 4:21 PM

Holy shit, I’m never watching the Never Ending Story AGAIN. You know what, I think that’s the first movie that genuinely made me cry. In my earlier post, I mention E.T. which I was sad as a kid to see those scenes but they made me cry more as I got older. The Never Ending story was the first time I sat and watched a film that I cried over. I’m never watching it again knowing that horse really died during that scene.

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 07/31/2008 4:25 PM

Everyone’s mentioned how sad the ASPCA commercials are and animals being harmed or killed in general. I don’t cry about it, but animals being harmed makes me cringe, especially dogs. I take this to the extreme, too: I was upset when they killed Cujo!

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremy Whatsisface @ 07/31/2008 4:27 PM

I know Matt only asked for TV/movies, but I have to add a book here…Professor Severus Snape’s final words…”LOOK AT ME!”

Chestnuts roasted by Ann Marie @ 07/31/2008 4:29 PM

Okay, I’ve cried enough reading all of yours that I’m adding my own…the scene in Hotel Rwanda when Don Cheadle finds out that the buses aren’t there to pick the *all* up, just the kids and nuns. I lost it entirely and still choke up thinking about the fact that this stuff actually happened, on any level.

TV- MASH, when Henry Blake didn’t get to make it home, and we have to find out through Radar, who was like a son to him.

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 07/31/2008 4:33 PM

Hotel Rwanda- should say “them”, not “the”, my mistake

Chestnuts roasted by Sean @ 07/31/2008 4:34 PM

I never cried during these two moments, but I definately find them poignant, even today.

Gilda Radner died and Steve Martin hosted SNL that week. They showed a sketch they both did in the 70s era where they both simply dance, no dialogue. It’s my favorite Gilda sketch.

Also, when Phil Hartman died they showed a sketch he did with Jan Hooks where they sang “Love is a Dream.” Awesome.

The Wonder Years finale never did it for me. I know they were trying for poignancy, but I just felt ripped off. I know it maybe more realistic for Kevin/Winnie not to hook up, but if I’m gonna invest years of my life to a show, you better give me what I want. I was more pissed than sad.

I’ve never seen the full movies of either, just the endings, but they both did me in. One was “The Champ.” The other was “The Death of the Incredible Hulk.” Can’t believe they had the guts to do that one.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/31/2008 4:40 PM

Nyoro I mentioned Bebop but I’m trying to be fairly oblique about really spoilie spoilers. Besides it was always Faye firing her gun into the air in frustration that got to me the most so I mentioned that scene.

If we’re bringing Harry Potter in, then Dobby, for sure. Basically the entire last half of the last Harry Potter, really.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/31/2008 4:57 PM

Growing up watching the “Incredible Hulk” TV show in syndication (I was born in ’81), I definitely wept at the end of “The Death of the Incredible Hulk” TV movie from ’90. Of course after that, I cried again when Bill Bixby died in real life.

I know there are a lot of others, but these where the first to come to mind.

Chestnuts roasted by Loneman1 @ 07/31/2008 5:08 PM

I’m not a cryer myself, but just because you don’t cry doesn’t mean you don’t care about things. In addition to the animal commercial I mention where that song Angel plays, I am affected and depressed by ANY animal commercial.

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 07/31/2008 5:14 PM

I have to agree with those who put Doomsday from Docotor Who. It was gut-wrenching to see that Rose and the Doctor where going to be separated, until The Stolen Earth. Neither the Doctor nor the audience has time to grieve when Donna suddenly drops in out of nowhere.

Chestnuts roasted by Thomas @ 07/31/2008 5:18 PM

In My Girl, when Vada is at the funeral crying and screaming “his glasses! He needs his glasses!”

Simon Birch. The whole thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/31/2008 5:24 PM

Benji the Hunted. That is the saddest damn kids movie I have ever seen. The hawk carrying off a kitten and the wolf going over a cliff were pretty bad, but the absolute worst part is when Benji watches helplessly as the search party leaves the island. I am, no joke, tearing up right now.

Chestnuts roasted by Elizabeth @ 07/31/2008 5:34 PM

My saddest TV moment was when Arnold and Dudley get molested by the bike shop guy on Different Strokes. I could never set foot in a bike shop after that. Not that there were too many bike shops around in my hood back then anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Pig Malien @ 07/31/2008 5:41 PM

When they lit a candle for Wash at the end of ‘Serenity’. Damn.

When River Phoenix disappears at the end of ‘Stand by Me’.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/31/2008 5:47 PM

The movie “Harsh Times”, with Christian Bale left me totally empty inside.

The episode of Trigun where Wolfwood dies. :cry:

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 07/31/2008 5:48 PM

OH MAN that commercial for the animals with that Angel song is playing RIGHT NOW as I type this !

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 07/31/2008 5:55 PM

The real Tarzan wouldn’t wear a shirt! Wait a minute,where are you kids going? That’s 20 bucks for the bike tire!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 07/31/2008 6:01 PM

Yes Muppet Baby! That movie makes me cry because of that and because of what happened to Book. WAH!

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 07/31/2008 6:02 PM

Soooo much of what people have said hits a nerve!

TV: Buffy’s mom. I cry every time. And Charlie on Lost. I also cried when Mr. Eko died. And the series finales of just about any show that I’ve loved. I am a total sucker for anything sad or touching. And that ASPCA commercial should have a warning, it’s so depressing.

Movies: Maybe’s it’s because I’m a girl, but the funeral in 4 Weddings and a Funeral. When he reads that Auden poem (“he was my north, my south, my east, my west”), I sob uncontrollably. And that always seems to be the scene that is on when I happen to come across it playing on TV. Also, in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, when they burn the house down with their mom inside. And Green Mile, and Shawshank, and way too many others to list.

The biggest tearjerker for me, though, is Snoopy, Come Home. My parents took us to see it in the movie theatre (I know, I’m OLD, okay?), and when Snoopy leaves, I just lost it! It was so bad that my mom had to take me out of the theatre, and I wouldn’t go back in. And I outright refuse to watch Dumbo!!!

Also, I can’t hear Kermit the Frog sing “The Rainbow Connection” without getting sad because it always makes me think of what a genius we lost when Jim Henson died.

I’m sure I could think of a kajillion others…

Chestnuts roasted by Chixie @ 07/31/2008 6:06 PM

Annette!!! OMG!!!!
I had obviously seen and loved Voltron and such as a kid,and things like Ghost in the Shell and such,but Gundam 0080 turned me into a lifelong anime fan when I stumbled across it on Midnight Run. (before adult swim was invented) When the other little kid thinks the kid’s crying because the war’s over,and he’s like “Cheer up! There’ll be another war before you know it!”
Best. OVA. Ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 07/31/2008 6:08 PM

Yeah, I remember Midnight Run. I used to watch Gundam Wing on there. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 07/31/2008 6:26 PM

Jurassic Bark for sure.
Followed by The Last of the Eskimo Curlews
A really obscure movie I caught on Cartoon Network
ten years ago.
Its all about this bird who thinks he is the last of his kind, but he’s not he finds a mate…who gets killed later.
He flies off an the narrator says how “there is one. Very soon, there will be none,”
Due the waterworks.
Then comes…
Mudslide…yeah..the episode of Batman the Animated Series where it looks like Clayface dissolves in the rain.

Chestnuts roasted by lost-lenore @ 07/31/2008 6:46 PM

I don’t know what was up with me as a child, but I just didn’t react to sad things the way most people would. They didn’t seem to faze me at all. Didn’t do a lot of crying due to T.V./movies as a kid. I am, however, making up for it now.

That pretty much describes me perfectly. My best friend was a crier and she was always trying to make me cry by showing me sad scenes in movies. I don’t think she realized that showing me isolated scenes about characters I knew nothing and cared nothing about made me even less likely to cry. She told me if I didn’t cry at Steel Magnolias, I was made of stone. I didn’t cry. She got really mad. These days, I cry at Johnson & Johnson’s commercials.

Dumbo made me sad, but the first movie I actually remember crying during was Harry & The Hendersons. I didn’t list it before because it doesn’t rank high with me these days, but that scene where they’re trying to make Harry go back to the wild and he doesn’t understand tore me apart when I was 10.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 07/31/2008 6:47 PM

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