Saddest tv moments

Janet · #1 03-21-2005, 01:18 AM

We all have our favorite tv shows. What are your favorite tear jerker moments?

I just dowloaded the Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamama....I don't know the rest of his name. It was supposedly on 50 First Dates, Meet Joe Black and other movies.

Well I remember it from ER, when Doug Green dies of cancer. In the end, when his daughter admits that she remembered him singing it to her...and they show everything while the music plays...so sad!

Also a scene from X Files. It was called Exsistence, when Scully has a baby and and her and Mulder stand face to face as he holds their child and they kiss.

There are many...

wondergirl9847 · #2 03-21-2005, 01:26 AM

When Leland Palmer dies on Twin Peaks. It's sad because he realizes what he did to his daughter and family. His life was pretty much stripped away from him thanks to the evil BOB. It's also uplifting because Laura forgives him.

He would have been the perfect dad, had he not been overtaken by BOB.

Can't think of any others right off the bat. It's too dang late. LOL

thepoetinmyhear · #3 03-21-2005, 02:11 AM

Here are my top 10 saddest TV moments (left vague for those who haven't seen them, but hopefully descriptive enough to be recognized by those who have seen them):

"Everwood" - "home" in which Colin goes back for surgery and the brilliant Treat Williams lets you know what happened without any words or any sad music cueing the audience. (actually most of everwood season 1 is sad)

"Wonder Years" when the buses go in opposite direction to the sounds of "God Only Knows."

"My So-Called Life" - the christmas episode with the homeless.

"Party of Five" - the seson 1 finale involving Bailey's (Scott Wolfe's character) girlfriend.

"Angel" - The ending of "You're Welcome." Seeing a character that has grown soo much from his/her first appearance die so young affected me quite a bit (especially for a TV character).

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" - Mary shutting the lights off in "It's a long way to Tipperary"

"Babylon 5" - Ivanova's monologue in "Sleeping in Light"

"Murphy Brown" - the episode where Avery (her mother) dies.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - Dawn's reaction in "The Body".

"ER" - the aforementioned episode involving Dr. Corday's letter.

Michael

Janet · #4 03-21-2005, 02:17 AM

"My So-Called Life" - the christmas episode with the homeless.

I think most of that show made me cry. It was the perfect show at the perfect time of my life. I watch it now, 10 years later...it still makes me cry!

thepoetinmyhear · #5 03-21-2005, 02:28 AM

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"My So-Called Life" - the christmas episode with the homeless.

I think most of that show made me cry. It was the perfect show at the perfect time of my life. I watch it now, 10 years later...it still makes me cry!

"My So Called Life" really was a great show that hasn't failed to remain relevant. I should mention an honorable mention is the "Muppet Show" Special after Jim Hensen died and they have the image of Kermit hugging the empty director's chair.

Janet · #6 03-21-2005, 03:01 AM

That is the saddest thing I have ever heard

I remember Jim Hensons death and that was just so untimely. He was such a good person for giving everyone those Muppets, who just brought joy to people's lives.

SuzeQuze · #7 03-21-2005, 08:23 AM

Last night's "Boston Legal" where Spader's character did everything he could to save a man on death row (black man with an IQ of 80) but in the end they executed him anyway and the execution was part of the show.

A memorable quote from Spader, "Whether you're for the death penalty or against it, you should know what it is."

Sugar · #8 03-21-2005, 08:49 AM

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I should mention an honorable mention is the "Muppet Show" Special after Jim Hensen died and they have the image of Kermit hugging the empty director's chair.

OMG I remember that! So sad! The muppets spend the whole thing talking about how great "this guy Jim Henson" is and "find out" he's dead at the end! So sad but wonderfuly creative for a wonderfuly creative man. (Says the girl who owns all the episodes of The Muppet Show)

I remember this one ER with an elderly guy and his elderly wife who dies and they end up waiting in the hallway for hours...him with his dead wife...Jeeze...brings me down just thinking about it...

GODDESS6 · #9 03-21-2005, 08:50 AM

the last M*A*S*H* as hawkeye was flying off in the helicopter he saw that honeycutt had spelled out "goodbye" in white rocks~ was sooooo very sad!!!~

hayley · #10 03-21-2005, 09:31 AM

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Last night's "Boston Legal" where Spader's character did everything he could to save a man on death row (black man with an IQ of 80) but in the end they executed him anyway and the execution was part of the show.

A memorable quote from Spader, "Whether you're for the death penalty or against it, you should know what it is."

Oh, man, yeah. That was just awful. I was sitting there staring at the TV completely frozen. That was some of James's best work, too- his argument with the Texas high court judges.

The saddest thing I've ever seen on TV was in the pilot of Alias. Her fiance's died, and they do this terrific sequence of the funeral to Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood," which is the saddest song in the world. They show her in her bedroom, listening to her answering machine tape with him- one of those embarassingly cute couples' messages- and they show her taping over it with a new message. It made me cry like a baby, and it was the first thing I ever really loved about the show. It was just so sad, and hearing her try and fake cheerful, while her voice is cracking with grief- oh, man.

mondaymornin1 · #11 03-21-2005, 10:30 AM

This is gonna sound cheesy, but for me a big tear-jerker moment was the last episode of Friends when the camera panned around the empty apartment and finally focussed in on the six keys lying on the counter. I cried my eyes out. That show was one of my all-time favs.

Pretty much any episode of ER leaves me at a loss/depressed, etc. So...I don't watch it anymore.

catinthedark · #12 03-21-2005, 10:37 AM

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I should mention an honorable mention is the "Muppet Show" Special after Jim Hensen died and they have the image of Kermit hugging the empty director's chair.

Oh my God. I was sobbing. Also, when Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street died, and they had to explain to Big Bird that he was never coming back.

More recently, when Zoe was kidnapped on The West Wing, and Josh and Donna walk out of the White House to go home that night and come upon a spontaneous candlelight vigil for her, and Dead Can Dance's Sanvean is playing... That song will forever be known to me now as "the saddest song in the world.'

Also - the final episode of Mary Tyler Moore. I was, like, 7, and I bawled. Final episode of MASH. I could go on...

SuzeQuze · #13 03-21-2005, 10:59 AM

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Oh, man, yeah. That was just awful. I was sitting there staring at the TV completely frozen. That was some of James's best work, too- his argument with the Texas high court judges.

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Spader really was excellent, I thought the same thing. Then, the look on his face at the very end, wowza.

I will have to catch Alias on DVD because it is one of those shows that is difficult to get into if you haven't watched all along. It just looks like a one woman costume party to me.

skcin · #14 03-21-2005, 11:06 AM

There was an episode of ER in the first or second season where a woman dies giving birth & the last scene is her husband rocking the baby ( who was fine) in a rocking chair.

It was just brutal to watch, cried my eyes out.

When Gary died on thirtysomething. Go ahead & laugh, you bastards. Why it was one of my favorite shows at the age of 16, I have no idea. But my GAWD when they killed him off I was inconsolable. I came upstairs crying & my mom's like "what happened? Are you alright?" And I'm sobbing "Gary died, he didn't even ride his bike cuse is was dangerous & he died anyway" and she's like "Gary who? Do I know him?" And I say "NO! Gary from thirtysomething! ON TV!" and she rolled her eyes & walked away.

China Beach had several tearjerkers, but the one that sticks out is the time Dana Delany & Chloe Webb put on the "Supremes" show in the bar & a bomb hit. Lots of people were hurt, and Dana was a nurse on the show so she was running all over the place trying to fix everyone. Chloe was an entertainer, sent to cheer up the troops. She hated hospitals & medical stuff. One soldier was critically injured & Chloe sat, held his hand & sang to him while he died. Oh. My. God. Gut-wrenching.

mondaymornin1 · #15 03-21-2005, 11:24 AM

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When Gary died on thirtysomething. Go ahead & laugh, you bastards. Why it was one of my favorite shows at the age of 16, I have no idea. But my GAWD when they killed him off I was inconsolable. I came upstairs crying & my mom's like "what happened? Are you alright?" And I'm sobbing "Gary died, he didn't even ride his bike cuse is was dangerous & he died anyway" and she's like "Gary who? Do I know him?" And I say "NO! Gary from thirtysomething! ON TV!" and she rolled her eyes & walked away.

Omigod, someone else watched that? I, too, was inconsolable when Gary died! I can't remember the exact details, but I do remember that the preview for that episode led us to believe that something was gonna happen to someone who was in the hospital (can't remember now who that was), and then Gary was the one who actually died. I was heartbroken! I was in high school at the time, and none of my friends watched the show, so I had to be all upset alone.

Damn, the internet back then woulda been nice, huh?