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** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E23Sarek Sarek]]'s [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family he finally breaks down]] over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them.
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** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
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** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E23Sarek Sarek]]'s [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family he finally breaks down]] over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them. (For good measure, in the second case he's also covered in mud.)
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E23Sarek Sarek]]'s [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family he finally breaks down]] over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them. (For good measure, in the second case he's also covered in mud.)
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* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In the third season episode "The Coup," when Dwight tries to go behind Michael's back to Jan, Michael berates him until Dwight breaks down. He goes on his knees, wailing, and when he comes up he has snot running down his face. In the second-to-last episode "A.A.R.M.", Andy crashes the auditions for an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' knockoff called ''America's Next A Capella Sensation'' wearing a ridiculous old man outfit. He gets rejected after performing the Cornell University alma mater song, and, having quit his job to compete on the show, burning all his bridges in the process, bawls uncontrollably. This footage ends up getting used on the actual show and becomes a viral sensation, complete with a popular StupidStatementDanceMix video.
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* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In the third season episode "The Coup," when Dwight tries to go behind Michael's back to Jan, Michael berates him until Dwight breaks down. He goes on his knees, wailing, and when he comes up he has snot running down his face. In the second-to-last episode "A.A.R.M.", Andy crashes the auditions for an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' knockoff called ''America's Next A Capella Sensation'' wearing a ridiculous old man outfit. He gets rejected after performing the Cornell University alma mater song, and, having quit his job to compete on the show, burning all his bridges in the process, bawls uncontrollably. This footage ends up getting used on the actual show and becomes a viral sensation, complete with a popular StupidStatementDanceMix VoiceClipSong video.
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* One of Lucy's trademarks in ''Series/ILoveLucy'' is to let out an infantile like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" whenever she cries.
* Whenever Bull from ''Series/NightCourt'' cries, he makes a sound like a Godzilla with his tail caught in a bear trap.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing Sarek's [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when he finally breaks down over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them.
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** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressingSarek's [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E23Sarek Sarek]]'s [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E2Family he finally breaks down down]] over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them.
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** Jemma tends to cry like this. Notable examples include ''T.R.A.C.K.S.'' after Daisy gets shot and ''A Wanted (Inhu)man'' when she's overwhelmed during her long-awaited dinner date with Fitz.
** Fitz does this during his WhatHaveIDone moment in ''The Return'' when he remembers how he became the sadistic Doctor during the team's time in the Framework.
** Daisy also does this a couple of times, in ''Absolution'' when Mack forgives her for what she did while under Hive's influence, and in ''Ascension'' when Lincoln sacrifices his life to save the world.
* Invoked in the last pre-Netflix episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', when Michael chokes up in the middle of a speech about keeping his family together.
-->'''Narrator:''' And that’s when Michael finally cried...it wasn’t exactly a turn-on.
* ''Series/AshitaMamaGaInai'': Donki wailing for her mother at the end of the first episode is what a child breaking down in tears would realistically sound like, as opposed to Post's quiet (and faked) crying earlier.
* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', after [[spoiler: Starbuck - who he considered a daughter - is seemingly killed,]] the normally stoic and steely Commander Adama gets completely hammered and dissolves into a snot-and-drool puddle on the floor of his quarters.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Normally calm and controlled, Margaret becomes a hysterical wreck by the end of "A Man, a plan". Finding [[spoiler:your lover, with whom you intended to elope, murdered and delivered to your house in a box]] does this to people...
* A RunningGag in early episodes of ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' has receptionist Carole constantly in tears over her divorce, sometimes making her [[TheUnintelligible hard to understand]].
* In one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', after being asked to be the officiant of someone's wedding, Terry writes a wedding speech that manages to provoke buckets of messy, inelegant tears... from Terry himself.
-->'''Terry:''' Darlene and Lynn, I want you to remember the words of Music/LutherVandross: "A thousand kisses from you..." ''[Begins to break, but forces himself together]'' "A thousand kisses from ''you''... ''is never... too... much.''"\\
''[Terry dissolves into tears; Gina stares incredulously]''\\
'''Holt:''' Every time he reads it, he breaks down.\\
'''Gina:''' Terry, I thought you had done this before.\\
'''Terry:''' Yeah, but that was just workout metaphors! You told me to get gorgeous with it, and it took me to some very real places.
* Willow was a pro at this on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Confessions" when she's weeping in the bathroom over Xander and Faith sleeping together, in "Wild at Heart" when [[spoiler: Oz leaves her]] and especially in "The Gift" where [[spoiler: Buffy dies]]. Another one is "Passion" where we get a BigNO and she collapses gasping in Joyce's arms when she hears [[spoiler: Jenny has been murdered]].
* Billie does this in the series finale of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' after [[spoiler: she's forced to kill her sister]]. Most fans noted how she sounded uncannily like a seal -- yet the scene is still very sad.
* Debra Morgan in ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', when she returns to the spot where [[spoiler: Frank Lundy was killed.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a few of these, all with fairly good reason.
** Rose at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]] — the Doctor is [[SingleTear fairly composed]]; she's bawling her eyes out.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: John Smith -- the Doctor in human form -- does this while breaking down over the decision of whether or not to die to bring back the Doctor.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: [[https://youtu.be/o6k5Qc1Qb4I?t=2m45s The Tenth Doctor]] when [[spoiler:the Master dies]]. Unlike the other examples — instead of sobbing, he just lets out a long, agonized ''[[TheScream scream]]''.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]] has Eleven [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/388093811e3e1c1b852aa14cbcd26781/tumblr_ml7cu5JlQN1qjqq3uo1_500.gif a blubbering mess]] due to [[spoiler:losing Amy and Rory to the Weeping Angels.]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Given that Josh is ProneToTears, it is natural for him to pull these. One time, when he ends up missing an important test because Drake thoughtlessly abandoned him at the house to make out with his girlfriend, he starts to cry rapidly. Turns into BerserkerTears when Drake gives off a [[DefensiveWhat smug comment]] as Josh is pointing at him, prompting Josh to nearly tackle Drake in a fit of rage.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Aeryn is a pro at this when she's hugely grief-stricken - in "Relativity" when [[spoiler:Crais kills her mother Xhalax ([[FakingTheDead or so she believes at the time]])]] and at the end of "Infinite Possibilities, part 2: Icarus Abides", complete with a running nose, when [[spoiler:Crichton dies of radiation poisoning.]]
* In the Filipino family drama ''Flordeliza'', Liza undergoes a crying fit, complete with a running nose, when Crisanto smashes her cell phone for [[PlayingSick lying about her blindness]] in an attempt to rid Flor and Gener from her life. She undergoes another when Beth throws her to the ground, throws her packed bag to her, abusively declares that [[IHaveNoSon she is no longer her daughter anymore]], and [[StayingWithFriends sends her away to her grandparents]].
* ''Series/{{Friends}}''
** This happens with Monica and Rachel when they are saying goodbye because Rachel is moving to Paris. Her blubbering becomes so unintelligible that Monica can't understand [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dw_pXzXTMg what she's saying.]]
** Monica is quite prone to this. When Rachel is about to move out, Monica gives a speech to Phoebe about how great a roommate she was. It begins seriously but becomes comedic as Monica blubbers "I have to live with a BOY!!!"
** Again when she's proposing to Chandler, she can barely get the words out because she's crying so hard. She even lampshades it saying "there's a reason girls don't do this."
* In ''Series/{{Glue}}'', resident [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan sensitive guy]] James sheds ManlyTears about once per episode - but he erupts into helpless sobs [[spoiler:when he's arrested on suspicion of murder after hallucinating his dead ex-boyfriend during an acid trip]], and later when [[spoiler:he's kidnapped by the real murderer, beaten and almost killed]].
* In ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', there was one episode where Erica was brokenhearted by her first love, that not even her parents could comprehend what she's saying while she's crying. Only Barry does, as he, himself, has experienced what she's going through.
-->'''Murray''': How the hell did you understand her?
-->'''Barry''': As most of you know, I've uh, spent the majority of my life hysterical and emotionally out of control, I speak the language.
-->'''Erica''': (tearfully squeaking)
-->'''Barry''': She'd like some hot tea with a little bit of honey.
* A pivotal scene in Season 2 of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' involves this trope, as a way to show that [[spoiler: Michael]] really does care about [[spoiler: Team Cockroach]].
* Lilly in ''Series/HannahMontana'' is all about this trope when she cries.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}''. When Duncan [[spoiler: accidentally kills Richie]] at the end of Season 5, Joe Dawson literally breaks down crying on Methos' shoulder. Duncan is slightly more subdued (probably due to shock) but is still whimpering pretty hard as he walks off. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as it's really emotionally painful to watch and hammers in the impact of the scene.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', "The Frogs and the Lobsters":
** In the Duchess and the Devil Horatio is confined in an oubliette as punishment. There’s no food, water, or space to turn around, but what brings Horatio to (ugly) tears is a rat crawling on him.
** The usually stoic Horatio sheds somewhat inelegant ManlyTears, with mucus and everything, when he contemplates the results of British participation on side of the Royalists in the French Revolution. He's also a bit shattered as his French lady friend died a vain death.
* Marshall from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' does this hilariously in "The Chain of Screaming" after being yelled at by his boss. The others have a ''very'' hard time not making fun of him for it.
** Also, Ted is notorious for doing this during toasts at all his friends' weddings, which earns him a lot of flack [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube and a YouTube video.]] However, when he's being mocked for it at Punchy's wedding in the 7th season premiere, Marshall stands up and furiously admonishes everyone at the reception, pointing out that Ted's only crying because he's overcome with joy after Lily announced she was pregnant.
* Three words to describe Rocky Lockridge's loud bawling in ''Series/{{Intervention}}'': [[MemeticMutation Best. Cry. Ever.]]
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** In ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', [[EmotionalBruiser Gentaro]] cries inelegantly after JerkJock Shun Daimonji breaks down in tears and tells him about [[WellDoneSonGuy how much pressure and stress his father puts on him to be the "King" of the school]]. [[NarmCharm It is hilarious]].
*** Gentaro also cries again in the Hyper Battle Video DVD when he thinks Series/KamenRiderAmazon stood him up.
*** Used much less humorously in the penultimate episode. After [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kengo]] breaks down crying over [[spoiler: having to leave Earth and his friends behind]], [[AllLovingHero Gentaro]] and [[GenkiGirl Yuki]] try to cheer him up but similarly burst into tears themselves, to the point where they can barely even speak.
** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'':
*** [[AllLovingHero Emu]] gets himself some alone time to ugly cry after failing to save the then-current BigBad in [[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp23ToTheMaxDeadOrAlive #23]], who only died because Emu's effort to stop him in a nonlethal way gave his co-villain all the means needed to [[TheDogBitesBack stab him]] in the back.
*** The co-villain in question devolves into a sobbing mess pleading for forgiveness after being finally pushed into a HeelRealization [[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp40DestinyReboot #40]].
** Episode 13 of ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'', period. [[spoiler: Kento is dying, in pain, and attempting to tell the others to go on without him and save the world. ''Everyone'' is crying, even [[{{Keet}} Ren]] and emotion-repressing Tetsuo Daishinji, Rintaro is trying not to but obviously is, Touma is sobbing, Ryo Ogami is angry-crying, and hell, even Kento himself is crying because he doesn't want to leave Touma.]]
* A recurring sketch in ''Series/ManStrokeWoman'' is a man whose girlfriend has just dumped him, causing him to blubber incoherently while his friends hazard increasingly bizarre guesses as to what he's trying to say.
* Al Bundy on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is a master of this. As he pours his heart out to Peg of another day at the shoe store:
-->'''Al:''' This humongous woman in a short dress sits down in front of me. I saw underwear. It said "Saturday" on it.\\
'''Peg:''' So?\\
'''Al:''' Today's Wednesday!! (''loses it'')
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Happens with some frequency -- lots of [[ManlyTears really red eyes]] and folks breaking down completely.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':
** A fleeting example in 3x05 -- after Arthur is shot and Merlin thinks he won't be able to save him, he's briefly shown in tears, complete with running nose, as he washes the blood off his hands.
** Guinevere in 4x09. When Arthur confronts her about [[spoiler:kissing Lancelot on the eve of her wedding to Arthur]], Gwen is on the verge of hysteria considering she was under a spell at the time, didn't understand what she was doing, and can't provide Arthur with a coherent explanation.
** Merlin in "A Lesson in Vengeance", once again because it appears that his spell has failed to heal Arthur. Partially done to contrast with Gwen, who was brainwashed the episode before and has spent the entire episode crying CrocodileTears to get everyone to follow her.
** Merlin [[spoiler: revealing his magic to Arthur]] in the series finale almost doesn't come to pass since Merlin is crying so much.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In the third season episode "The Coup," when Dwight tries to go behind Michael's back to Jan, Michael berates him until Dwight breaks down. He goes on his knees, wailing, and when he comes up he has snot running down his face. In the second-to-last episode "A.A.R.M.", Andy crashes the auditions for an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' knockoff called ''America's Next A Capella Sensation'' wearing a ridiculous old man outfit. He gets rejected after performing the Cornell University alma mater song, and, having quit his job to compete on the show, burning all his bridges in the process, bawls uncontrollably. This footage ends up getting used on the actual show and becomes a viral sensation, complete with a popular StupidStatementDanceMix video.
* Belle in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' collapses into a heap of hysterics during the Season 3 Winter finale when [[spoiler: Rumpelstiltskin sacrifices himself]].
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' in episode 2 after getting back to his trailer home - Peacemaker has a breakdown on his bed - sobbing hysterically, yelling how everyone hates him and they're right because he's a terrible person and also several times he punches himself in his maimed clavicle.
* Gus in ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has a tendency towards being an inelegant, undignified weeper when sufficiently frightened or upset.
* In the mini-series ''Rhodes'', Cecil Rhodes collapses on the ground in tears at the funeral of a friend, implied to be a homosexual lover of Rhodes.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' -- resident primadonna celebrity Johnny La Rue (John Candy) goes into pathetic blubbering, pleading fits when station higher-ups deny him his perceived perks.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': Mr. Conductor does this in the episode "Does It Bite?" when he is about to tell Tanya and Matt "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E3TheSadStoryOfHenry The Sad Story of Henry]]". He ends up sobbing hysterically as he warns the children that it's a very sad story. He does this again before he tells [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry the second half]].
-->'''Mr. Conductor:''' I have some time. I'll tell you a story about Henry, the big green engine. But I must warn you... ''(voice breaks)'' It's a very sad story! ''(he begins sobbing hysterically)''
* Jax Teller does this a couple of times on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', once in "Laying Pipe" when he watches his best friend beaten to death and once in "A Mother's Work" when [[spoiler: he finds his wife dead on their kitchen floor]]. His face turns bright red, tears smeared everywhere, full body shaking, the whole deal.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing Sarek's [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when he finally breaks down over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them.
* Sam from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is an ugly crier and gets much fewer crying scenes compared to his brother (Jensen Ackles, who plays his brother Dean, is a master of "the single perfect tear"). When he does, he dissolves into this. See the beginning of Season 2 [[spoiler: when his dad dies]] or the end of season 3 [[spoiler: when Dean dies]].
* ''Series/That70sShow'': Played for laughs in "Eric's Depression". After breaking up with Donna, Eric is depressed, leaving his parents wondering what to do. Kitty asks Red how he handled his first breakup, he insists "I took it like a man.". [[GilliganCut We go to a flashback which shows young Red]] ''[[GilliganCut not]]'' [[GilliganCut "taking it like a man", weeping inelegantly]]. In spite of that, present-day Red still says [[BlatantLies "Yep, took it like a man"]].
* Happens on ''Series/{{Titus}}'' when the titular character finally breaks down over his mother's death... in an airplane bathroom.
** And, according to Christopher Titus's stand-up, [[TruthInTelevision based on real events,]] as smelling turkey on a flight sparked memories of [[SupremeChef his mother's Thanksgiving dinners]].
--->'''Titus''': Now I'm lying on the floor in a fetal position and I'm crying. And I don't mean "crying", I mean "snot-coming-out-of-my-nose, booger-bubbles bursting all over the place..."
* Ianto from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' is a rather ugly crier.
** Gwen also cries like this when Rhys [[spoiler: dies in the Season 1 finale.]]
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has perhaps one of the most brutal examples ever in its Season 7 premiere. After smashing in the skulls of [[spoiler: Abraham and Glenn]] with a barbed-wire baseball bat, Negan literally has the entire group shaking and sobbing on the ground. And then, just to further show everyone how helpless they are, Negan tells Rick that he'll have to [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Carl's arm]] if he doesn't want the remaining group members to die equally horrible deaths. It's this threat that [[BreakTheHaughty finally breaks Rick down]] to the point where he's nothing more than a blubbering, runny-nosed mess at Negan's feet.
* Grace from ''Series/WillAndGrace'' is a champ at this, complete with incoherent high-pitched talking.
* In ''Series/WinterSonata'', a [[DrowningMySorrows drunk]] Oh [[SmugSnake Chelin]] loses it [[spoiler: after she proposes that "the jilted ones" (she and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Sang-hyuk]]) [[PairTheSpares start dating]].]] She's the sole blubbering mess while [[TenderTears everyone else]] in the series [[ManlyTears cries]] so [[TearfulSmile carefully]].
* One clip on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' features a guy who's blubbering because his football team lost an important game. When he's brought into the studio several months later, he's ''still'' sobbing.
* Whenever Bull from ''Series/NightCourt'' cries, he makes a sound like a Godzilla with his tail caught in a bear trap.
* One of Lucy's trademarks in ''Series/ILoveLucy'' is to let out an infantile like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" whenever she cries.
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** Jemma tends to cry like this. Notable examples include ''T.R.A.C.K.S.'' after Daisy gets shot and ''A Wanted (Inhu)man'' when she's overwhelmed during her long-awaited dinner date with Fitz.
** Fitz does this during his WhatHaveIDone moment in ''The Return'' when he remembers how he became the sadistic Doctor during the team's time in the Framework.
** Daisy also does this a couple of times, in ''Absolution'' when Mack forgives her for what she did while under Hive's influence, and in ''Ascension'' when Lincoln sacrifices his life to save the world.
* Invoked in the last pre-Netflix episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', when Michael chokes up in the middle of a speech about keeping his family together.
-->'''Narrator:''' And that’s when Michael finally cried...it wasn’t exactly a turn-on.
* ''Series/AshitaMamaGaInai'': Donki wailing for her mother at the end of the first episode is what a child breaking down in tears would realistically sound like, as opposed to Post's quiet (and faked) crying earlier.
* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', after [[spoiler: Starbuck - who he considered a daughter - is seemingly killed,]] the normally stoic and steely Commander Adama gets completely hammered and dissolves into a snot-and-drool puddle on the floor of his quarters.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''. Normally calm and controlled, Margaret becomes a hysterical wreck by the end of "A Man, a plan". Finding [[spoiler:your lover, with whom you intended to elope, murdered and delivered to your house in a box]] does this to people...
* A RunningGag in early episodes of ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' has receptionist Carole constantly in tears over her divorce, sometimes making her [[TheUnintelligible hard to understand]].
* In one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', after being asked to be the officiant of someone's wedding, Terry writes a wedding speech that manages to provoke buckets of messy, inelegant tears... from Terry himself.
-->'''Terry:''' Darlene and Lynn, I want you to remember the words of Music/LutherVandross: "A thousand kisses from you..." ''[Begins to break, but forces himself together]'' "A thousand kisses from ''you''... ''is never... too... much.''"\\
''[Terry dissolves into tears; Gina stares incredulously]''\\
'''Holt:''' Every time he reads it, he breaks down.\\
'''Gina:''' Terry, I thought you had done this before.\\
'''Terry:''' Yeah, but that was just workout metaphors! You told me to get gorgeous with it, and it took me to some very real places.
* Willow was a pro at this on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Confessions" when she's weeping in the bathroom over Xander and Faith sleeping together, in "Wild at Heart" when [[spoiler: Oz leaves her]] and especially in "The Gift" where [[spoiler: Buffy dies]]. Another one is "Passion" where we get a BigNO and she collapses gasping in Joyce's arms when she hears [[spoiler: Jenny has been murdered]].
* Billie does this in the series finale of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' after [[spoiler: she's forced to kill her sister]]. Most fans noted how she sounded uncannily like a seal -- yet the scene is still very sad.
* Debra Morgan in ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', when she returns to the spot where [[spoiler: Frank Lundy was killed.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a few of these, all with fairly good reason.
** Rose at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday "Doomsday"]] — the Doctor is [[SingleTear fairly composed]]; she's bawling her eyes out.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: John Smith -- the Doctor in human form -- does this while breaking down over the decision of whether or not to die to bring back the Doctor.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]]: [[https://youtu.be/o6k5Qc1Qb4I?t=2m45s The Tenth Doctor]] when [[spoiler:the Master dies]]. Unlike the other examples — instead of sobbing, he just lets out a long, agonized ''[[TheScream scream]]''.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]] has Eleven [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/388093811e3e1c1b852aa14cbcd26781/tumblr_ml7cu5JlQN1qjqq3uo1_500.gif a blubbering mess]] due to [[spoiler:losing Amy and Rory to the Weeping Angels.]]
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Given that Josh is ProneToTears, it is natural for him to pull these. One time, when he ends up missing an important test because Drake thoughtlessly abandoned him at the house to make out with his girlfriend, he starts to cry rapidly. Turns into BerserkerTears when Drake gives off a [[DefensiveWhat smug comment]] as Josh is pointing at him, prompting Josh to nearly tackle Drake in a fit of rage.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': Aeryn is a pro at this when she's hugely grief-stricken - in "Relativity" when [[spoiler:Crais kills her mother Xhalax ([[FakingTheDead or so she believes at the time]])]] and at the end of "Infinite Possibilities, part 2: Icarus Abides", complete with a running nose, when [[spoiler:Crichton dies of radiation poisoning.]]
* In the Filipino family drama ''Flordeliza'', Liza undergoes a crying fit, complete with a running nose, when Crisanto smashes her cell phone for [[PlayingSick lying about her blindness]] in an attempt to rid Flor and Gener from her life. She undergoes another when Beth throws her to the ground, throws her packed bag to her, abusively declares that [[IHaveNoSon she is no longer her daughter anymore]], and [[StayingWithFriends sends her away to her grandparents]].
* ''Series/{{Friends}}''
** This happens with Monica and Rachel when they are saying goodbye because Rachel is moving to Paris. Her blubbering becomes so unintelligible that Monica can't understand [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dw_pXzXTMg what she's saying.]]
** Monica is quite prone to this. When Rachel is about to move out, Monica gives a speech to Phoebe about how great a roommate she was. It begins seriously but becomes comedic as Monica blubbers "I have to live with a BOY!!!"
** Again when she's proposing to Chandler, she can barely get the words out because she's crying so hard. She even lampshades it saying "there's a reason girls don't do this."
* In ''Series/{{Glue}}'', resident [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan sensitive guy]] James sheds ManlyTears about once per episode - but he erupts into helpless sobs [[spoiler:when he's arrested on suspicion of murder after hallucinating his dead ex-boyfriend during an acid trip]], and later when [[spoiler:he's kidnapped by the real murderer, beaten and almost killed]].
* In ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', there was one episode where Erica was brokenhearted by her first love, that not even her parents could comprehend what she's saying while she's crying. Only Barry does, as he, himself, has experienced what she's going through.
-->'''Murray''': How the hell did you understand her?
-->'''Barry''': As most of you know, I've uh, spent the majority of my life hysterical and emotionally out of control, I speak the language.
-->'''Erica''': (tearfully squeaking)
-->'''Barry''': She'd like some hot tea with a little bit of honey.
* A pivotal scene in Season 2 of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' involves this trope, as a way to show that [[spoiler: Michael]] really does care about [[spoiler: Team Cockroach]].
* Lilly in ''Series/HannahMontana'' is all about this trope when she cries.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}''. When Duncan [[spoiler: accidentally kills Richie]] at the end of Season 5, Joe Dawson literally breaks down crying on Methos' shoulder. Duncan is slightly more subdued (probably due to shock) but is still whimpering pretty hard as he walks off. A case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, as it's really emotionally painful to watch and hammers in the impact of the scene.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', "The Frogs and the Lobsters":
** In the Duchess and the Devil Horatio is confined in an oubliette as punishment. There’s no food, water, or space to turn around, but what brings Horatio to (ugly) tears is a rat crawling on him.
** The usually stoic Horatio sheds somewhat inelegant ManlyTears, with mucus and everything, when he contemplates the results of British participation on side of the Royalists in the French Revolution. He's also a bit shattered as his French lady friend died a vain death.
* Marshall from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' does this hilariously in "The Chain of Screaming" after being yelled at by his boss. The others have a ''very'' hard time not making fun of him for it.
** Also, Ted is notorious for doing this during toasts at all his friends' weddings, which earns him a lot of flack [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube and a YouTube video.]] However, when he's being mocked for it at Punchy's wedding in the 7th season premiere, Marshall stands up and furiously admonishes everyone at the reception, pointing out that Ted's only crying because he's overcome with joy after Lily announced she was pregnant.
* Three words to describe Rocky Lockridge's loud bawling in ''Series/{{Intervention}}'': [[MemeticMutation Best. Cry. Ever.]]
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** In ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', [[EmotionalBruiser Gentaro]] cries inelegantly after JerkJock Shun Daimonji breaks down in tears and tells him about [[WellDoneSonGuy how much pressure and stress his father puts on him to be the "King" of the school]]. [[NarmCharm It is hilarious]].
*** Gentaro also cries again in the Hyper Battle Video DVD when he thinks Series/KamenRiderAmazon stood him up.
*** Used much less humorously in the penultimate episode. After [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kengo]] breaks down crying over [[spoiler: having to leave Earth and his friends behind]], [[AllLovingHero Gentaro]] and [[GenkiGirl Yuki]] try to cheer him up but similarly burst into tears themselves, to the point where they can barely even speak.
** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'':
*** [[AllLovingHero Emu]] gets himself some alone time to ugly cry after failing to save the then-current BigBad in [[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp23ToTheMaxDeadOrAlive #23]], who only died because Emu's effort to stop him in a nonlethal way gave his co-villain all the means needed to [[TheDogBitesBack stab him]] in the back.
*** The co-villain in question devolves into a sobbing mess pleading for forgiveness after being finally pushed into a HeelRealization [[Recap/KamenRiderExAidEp40DestinyReboot #40]].
** Episode 13 of ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'', period. [[spoiler: Kento is dying, in pain, and attempting to tell the others to go on without him and save the world. ''Everyone'' is crying, even [[{{Keet}} Ren]] and emotion-repressing Tetsuo Daishinji, Rintaro is trying not to but obviously is, Touma is sobbing, Ryo Ogami is angry-crying, and hell, even Kento himself is crying because he doesn't want to leave Touma.]]
* A recurring sketch in ''Series/ManStrokeWoman'' is a man whose girlfriend has just dumped him, causing him to blubber incoherently while his friends hazard increasingly bizarre guesses as to what he's trying to say.
* Al Bundy on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' is a master of this. As he pours his heart out to Peg of another day at the shoe store:
-->'''Al:''' This humongous woman in a short dress sits down in front of me. I saw underwear. It said "Saturday" on it.\\
'''Peg:''' So?\\
'''Al:''' Today's Wednesday!! (''loses it'')
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': Happens with some frequency -- lots of [[ManlyTears really red eyes]] and folks breaking down completely.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':
** A fleeting example in 3x05 -- after Arthur is shot and Merlin thinks he won't be able to save him, he's briefly shown in tears, complete with running nose, as he washes the blood off his hands.
** Guinevere in 4x09. When Arthur confronts her about [[spoiler:kissing Lancelot on the eve of her wedding to Arthur]], Gwen is on the verge of hysteria considering she was under a spell at the time, didn't understand what she was doing, and can't provide Arthur with a coherent explanation.
** Merlin in "A Lesson in Vengeance", once again because it appears that his spell has failed to heal Arthur. Partially done to contrast with Gwen, who was brainwashed the episode before and has spent the entire episode crying CrocodileTears to get everyone to follow her.
** Merlin [[spoiler: revealing his magic to Arthur]] in the series finale almost doesn't come to pass since Merlin is crying so much.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': In the third season episode "The Coup," when Dwight tries to go behind Michael's back to Jan, Michael berates him until Dwight breaks down. He goes on his knees, wailing, and when he comes up he has snot running down his face. In the second-to-last episode "A.A.R.M.", Andy crashes the auditions for an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' knockoff called ''America's Next A Capella Sensation'' wearing a ridiculous old man outfit. He gets rejected after performing the Cornell University alma mater song, and, having quit his job to compete on the show, burning all his bridges in the process, bawls uncontrollably. This footage ends up getting used on the actual show and becomes a viral sensation, complete with a popular StupidStatementDanceMix video.
* Belle in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' collapses into a heap of hysterics during the Season 3 Winter finale when [[spoiler: Rumpelstiltskin sacrifices himself]].
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' in episode 2 after getting back to his trailer home - Peacemaker has a breakdown on his bed - sobbing hysterically, yelling how everyone hates him and they're right because he's a terrible person and also several times he punches himself in his maimed clavicle.
* Gus in ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has a tendency towards being an inelegant, undignified weeper when sufficiently frightened or upset.
* In the mini-series ''Rhodes'', Cecil Rhodes collapses on the ground in tears at the funeral of a friend, implied to be a homosexual lover of Rhodes.
* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' -- resident primadonna celebrity Johnny La Rue (John Candy) goes into pathetic blubbering, pleading fits when station higher-ups deny him his perceived perks.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': Mr. Conductor does this in the episode "Does It Bite?" when he is about to tell Tanya and Matt "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E3TheSadStoryOfHenry The Sad Story of Henry]]". He ends up sobbing hysterically as he warns the children that it's a very sad story. He does this again before he tells [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry the second half]].
-->'''Mr. Conductor:''' I have some time. I'll tell you a story about Henry, the big green engine. But I must warn you... ''(voice breaks)'' It's a very sad story! ''(he begins sobbing hysterically)''
* Jax Teller does this a couple of times on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', once in "Laying Pipe" when he watches his best friend beaten to death and once in "A Mother's Work" when [[spoiler: he finds his wife dead on their kitchen floor]]. His face turns bright red, tears smeared everywhere, full body shaking, the whole deal.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]], [[spoiler: Aamin Marritza]] finally breaks down like this when telling the truth about his experiences as [[spoiler: a Cardassian file-clerk working in a death camp on occupied Bajor.]] And then Kira loses it herself when [[spoiler: he's randomly stabbed to death by a vengeful Bajoran drunk.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Jean-Luc Picard is twice reduced to this: once while expressing Sarek's [[TheStoic repressed anguish]] and a long Vulcan lifetime of regrets, and once when he finally breaks down over [[MindRape what the Borg did to him]], and how he wasn't strong or good enough to stop them.
* Sam from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is an ugly crier and gets much fewer crying scenes compared to his brother (Jensen Ackles, who plays his brother Dean, is a master of "the single perfect tear"). When he does, he dissolves into this. See the beginning of Season 2 [[spoiler: when his dad dies]] or the end of season 3 [[spoiler: when Dean dies]].
* ''Series/That70sShow'': Played for laughs in "Eric's Depression". After breaking up with Donna, Eric is depressed, leaving his parents wondering what to do. Kitty asks Red how he handled his first breakup, he insists "I took it like a man.". [[GilliganCut We go to a flashback which shows young Red]] ''[[GilliganCut not]]'' [[GilliganCut "taking it like a man", weeping inelegantly]]. In spite of that, present-day Red still says [[BlatantLies "Yep, took it like a man"]].
* Happens on ''Series/{{Titus}}'' when the titular character finally breaks down over his mother's death... in an airplane bathroom.
** And, according to Christopher Titus's stand-up, [[TruthInTelevision based on real events,]] as smelling turkey on a flight sparked memories of [[SupremeChef his mother's Thanksgiving dinners]].
--->'''Titus''': Now I'm lying on the floor in a fetal position and I'm crying. And I don't mean "crying", I mean "snot-coming-out-of-my-nose, booger-bubbles bursting all over the place..."
* Ianto from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' is a rather ugly crier.
** Gwen also cries like this when Rhys [[spoiler: dies in the Season 1 finale.]]
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has perhaps one of the most brutal examples ever in its Season 7 premiere. After smashing in the skulls of [[spoiler: Abraham and Glenn]] with a barbed-wire baseball bat, Negan literally has the entire group shaking and sobbing on the ground. And then, just to further show everyone how helpless they are, Negan tells Rick that he'll have to [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Carl's arm]] if he doesn't want the remaining group members to die equally horrible deaths. It's this threat that [[BreakTheHaughty finally breaks Rick down]] to the point where he's nothing more than a blubbering, runny-nosed mess at Negan's feet.
* Grace from ''Series/WillAndGrace'' is a champ at this, complete with incoherent high-pitched talking.
* In ''Series/WinterSonata'', a [[DrowningMySorrows drunk]] Oh [[SmugSnake Chelin]] loses it [[spoiler: after she proposes that "the jilted ones" (she and [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Sang-hyuk]]) [[PairTheSpares start dating]].]] She's the sole blubbering mess while [[TenderTears everyone else]] in the series [[ManlyTears cries]] so [[TearfulSmile carefully]].
* One clip on ''Series/WorldsDumbest'' features a guy who's blubbering because his football team lost an important game. When he's brought into the studio several months later, he's ''still'' sobbing.
* Whenever Bull from ''Series/NightCourt'' cries, he makes a sound like a Godzilla with his tail caught in a bear trap.
* One of Lucy's trademarks in ''Series/ILoveLucy'' is to let out an infantile like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" whenever she cries.
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