Has a television episode ever made you cry?

[queenrobot]

Yes, there have been a few television episodes that have made me cry.
I cried my eyes out when Lem died on The Shield.

 

[darkxshade]

Every season finale of Lost when I realize nothing gets answered and I'm stuck for another 6 months of eager anticipation to get punk'd again next season.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

A few Ally McBeal episodes come to mind. The one where Billy (Gil Bellows) dies in court was brutal.

And the Friends series finale ("Shall we get some coffee?" "Sure. Where?") with Jefferson Airplane's Embryonic Journey playing. Wasn't the episode itself but rather the realization that, "Aw fuck, series is over."

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: XabanakFanatik
There's a few episodes of Futurama that make me cry every time, particularly The Luck of the Fryish.

Oooo, my wife always cries at that one. Also the one with Fry's dog.

 

[SaltBoy]

Charlie Brown Christmas gets me every time...

 

[oogabooga]

Yea, Futurama Jurassic Bark is one of those moments of TV where I just have to stop. When it's on the cartoon network rotation I had to change the channel.

A couple times in band of brothers had the same effect. The end really gets to me, when one of the guys is quoting Shakespeare, and then the last guy with the story about his grandson asking if he was a hero.

 

[Lounatik]

Do you really want to cry? Watch "The First 48" on A&E and see if you can hold back the tears when some poor slob detective has to go and tell some parents that their son or daughter was murdered or some 5 year old is still in intensive care because the Sawzall blade is still stuck in his head and we can't interview him yet or better still, the 25 year old woman with two little kids whose husband was gunned down at his second or third job. Then watch as the cop swallows his/her anger and despair. Cartoons may make you sad, but this shit will make you weep.


Peace

Lounatik

 

[smitbret]

Another vote for House when Amber dies and (I'm dating myself with this one)...... the episode of Wings, when Lowell leaves the series after witnessing a murder and is placed in the witness protection program.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

The only show/movie was a rerun of MASH where the soldier dies on Christmas day shortly before midnight and they push the clock up about 10 minutes so his family won't have to remember Christmas as the day he died.

Wife and I both lost it.

Fast forward to this past June.. we visited the MASH filming location in Malibu Creek state park NW of Los Angeles. Nice hike back to the former set.

Very surreal walking around it, as I believe I've seen every episode they filmed.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: acheron2112

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
at the end of Sleeping In Light when Babylon 5 is destroyed

This.

"The Inner Light" probably got me a little teary, but not actual crying. "Sleeping in Light", though... yeah.

I'm not much of a crier, but I guess a few things have gotten me 90% of the way there? Sheridan's death in this episode is one such occasion, and the very recent episode of Stargate Atlantis "The Shrine" where McKay is dying of an Alzheimer's-like condition is another.

 

[jonks]

Jurassic Bark: not so sad!

Bender's Big Score
However, Seymour's actual fate is explained in the DVD movie Bender's Big Score. After Fry was frozen, Seymour didn't actually wait the rest of his life, as a temporal double of Fry had returned to the past and resumed his old lifestyle living above Panucci's. It is revealed that Seymour's rapid standing fossilisation ? unexplained in the episode itself ? is a result of an explosion overcoming him after Bender, who was sent back in time to kill Fry, blew up the apartment of Fry's temporal double above Panucci's Pizza.

 

[chitwood]

Didn't Frasier and ER have some touching season/show finales?

Pretty much every single time I flip to Animal Planet, I'm done for. I'm not even sure why that network is even on the air.
There was this one show on AP that was all about kids age 12-17, who adopt a pet for a summer, train it, raise it, fall in love with it and become totally attached... then are forced to give it up for adoption at the end of the summer.

I cannot even put into words how excruciating it was to watch that.

 

[Feneant2]

How can no one have mentioned the episode of scrubs where Brendan Frasier dies and Dr. Cox imagines him the whole episode.

That was the saddest thing I have ever seen on television at the end when JD asks him where he thinks he is when they arrive at the funeral.

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: middlehead
The Futurama where Fry's dog dies waiting for him

This.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: jonks
Jurassic Bark: not so sad!

Bender's Big Score
However, Seymour's actual fate is explained in the DVD movie Bender's Big Score. After Fry was frozen, Seymour didn't actually wait the rest of his life, as a temporal double of Fry had returned to the past and resumed his old lifestyle living above Panucci's. It is revealed that Seymour's rapid standing fossilisation ? unexplained in the episode itself ? is a result of an explosion overcoming him after Bender, who was sent back in time to kill Fry, blew up the apartment of Fry's temporal double above Panucci's Pizza.

That movie sucked, so therefore it is still sad.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: jonks
Jurassic Bark: not so sad!

Bender's Big Score
However, Seymour's actual fate is explained in the DVD movie Bender's Big Score. After Fry was frozen, Seymour didn't actually wait the rest of his life, as a temporal double of Fry had returned to the past and resumed his old lifestyle living above Panucci's. It is revealed that Seymour's rapid standing fossilisation ? unexplained in the episode itself ? is a result of an explosion overcoming him after Bender, who was sent back in time to kill Fry, blew up the apartment of Fry's temporal double above Panucci's Pizza.

That movie sucked, so therefore it is still sad.

Yes it is explained on the DVD, and I really did not like how they changed his fate in the movie. They even explained that at one of the conventions they had some huge guy come up to David X Cohen (or one of them) and break down in tears talking about the episode. To ruin that kind of intensity by changing the story of the dog, well, I was very unimpressed. That movie was ok, but from that point on it hasn't been nearly as good, the latest movie was awful and I love Futurama.

Anyone who has had a dog will feel this episode in their heart, it actually hurts for me, I remember saying goodbye to both of my dogs who were 13 and 15 respectively, and this brings back a sliver of that same emotion, which is quite the testament to what they were doing since it's a cartoon.

I believe at that point the writers knew the show was not going to be continued, which is why they churned out some really powerful episodes in the last season.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

the wonder years made me ball a few times.

 

[Newbian]

I cried in a few of the Star Trek Voyager episodes but only because Jeri Ryan never went topless.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Newbian
I cried in a few of the Star Trek Voyager episodes but only because Jeri Ryan never went topless.

She was topless in one episode I believe, but of course, we didn't get to partake of the view.

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: blackdogdeek
some episodes of ER, especially the death of dr. mark green. i only saw the episode once, but i am still moved when i think back on it.

EDIT: lost also gets me some times, especially charlie's greatest hits episode.

I was going to post this as well. Basically if any main character dies in that show they do some in some crazy random way and usually you feel attached to them at that point, adding to the sadness. That show can be really depressing at times, but it is really good so I keep watching it. I suspect the final episode is going to be reallly dramatic and sad, hell it looks like the first show of season 15 is going to be crazy as well.

 

[anxi80]

the closest ive came is the newsradio episode 'bill moves on'. it was the first episode of the fifth season after phil hartman's death.

 

[Reckoner]

The ER episode where Dr. Green dies while vacationing with his daughter

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Band of Brothers.

Originally posted by: Epic Fail

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Band of Brothers.

this.

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: Epic Fail

Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Band of Brothers.

this.

impossible not to.

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Last episode of Babylon 5.

And Band of Brothers.

Vomit yes. Cry? lol.

 

[thomsbrain]

This is going to sound super dorky, but I got a bit misty-eyed when the little kid got smashed by the giant trebuchet on "Little People, Big World." If I had a son and that happened, I know I'd be beside myself.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Originally posted by: Arcadio

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: IamBusby
The Futurama episode where he finds the corpse of his old dog.

Jurassic Bark. I show this to people to test them. If you do not cry at the end of this episode, you are incapable of feeling emotions. It's like Bambi times Million Dollar Baby to the power of Old Yeller. I watch it every now and then when I want a good cry, and avoid it at all other times, because, let's face it, if you watch it, you're going to cry. Writing about it is making me cry actually, so I'm going to stop.

I didn't cry when I saw that episode. No cartoon ever made me cry.

Yes, but you're not 'uman.